Lao Mu has installed Kule on Lin Run's boat. The cabin is cool and pleasant, allowing the two of them to close the window and speak with peace of mind.

"Okay, don't be angry." Lin Run poured a cup of tea for Zhao Hao: "Tell me what you think?"

"Aside from the theory of character, Yinbutang is still very skilled, especially the first and third ones, one hits the point and the other sets the victory." Zhao Hao said seriously: "These two are just a lot higher than his exes."

"So, do you have some opinions on the second one?" Lin Run smiled slightly.

"Of course! What do you say, "moving people who are banished to the mainland to the mainland?" Zhao Hao raised his tone and said, "Is this going crazy? The country has been in 200 years, and the coastal garrisons in Guangdong have always been the main destination for mainland prisoners to guard the border. These people have reproduced and lived in coastal prefectures and counties, and some villages are descendants of these people. And the gangs who are everywhere along the river and the sea, should they also move away? These people are not good people, so how can they be at the mercy of the government? If they really follow this line, the coastal areas of Guangdong must be in chaos immediately!"

"Well, this is the lice on the bald man's head - it's obvious." Lin Run crossed his hands on his chest and nodded, "It's just such a simple truth, as wise as Yinbutang, wouldn't he understand?"

"If you understand, you will definitely understand. Either you are full of confidence and don't take it seriously at all; or if you do this, what are the benefits for him, or both." Zhao Hao frowned and thought.

"Yes, I think so too." Lin Run smiled and said, "I heard that I just heard that Yinbutang has a very close relationship with a sea merchant named Lin Hongzhong."

"The surname is Lin again..." Mr. Zhao couldn't help but whine, reader... Oh no, I will mess it up.

"What's wrong with the surname Lin? I just introduced it to you. Our Lin surname is the largest surname in Fujian, so there are many in Guangdong." Lin Run said with a blank look.

"Uh, okay." Zhao Hao laughed dryly, "I mean, this name sounds familiar, and I seem to have heard it somewhere."

"He made his fortune in Southeast Asia and had always settled in Macau. The former Yinbu Hall suppressed the rebellion in Guangxi. He donated a lot of military funds and has since become a guest of honor in the Yinbu Hall." Lin Run said lightly: "The former Yinbu Hall also included him on the list of merits and asked him for a dismissal position as a doctor in the training."

"Oh, I remembered it." Zhao Hao slapped his head and said, "My grandfather went to Haojingao to negotiate with Folang Jiren, as if he was the middleman."

"To be precise, he is the representative of the Red-haired man." Lin Run said slowly: "I had a book that attacked Baietan in the previous episode, and he brought the news that the Flanger was willing to assist in defending the city. Later, the Flanger warship joined the foreign army system and obeyed the government's dispatch to wipe out the pirates, which was also completed under his operation. However, the Flanger was so enthusiastic, of course, had some intentions. With this person's lobbying, the officials in the city successfully agreed to turn the annual trade of the ragtag ships into twice, and the tax collected did not increase but decreased."

Mr. Zhao called him a good guy, isn’t this his first generation comprador?

"Will you be clearer when you look at this memorial now?" Lin Zhongcheng tempted slowly.

"It's really clear." Zhao Hao couldn't help but smile bitterly. He hated these officials the most, so he couldn't say anything.

~~

But it is indeed a long story.

The Portuguese never stopped coveting the Ming Dynasty. After all, this is the original intention of the red-haired ghost to sail thousands of miles away.

After the Battle of Tuen Mun in the 16th year of Zhengde and the defeat of Xicao Bay in the first year of Jiajing, the Portuguese gave up the delusion of head-on struggle and attacking the Ming Dynasty by force.

They first formed a mission to pay tribute to Beijing, hoping to establish trade relations. After being rejected, they began to engage in smuggling trade and piracy activities along the coast of Guangdong.

In this process, they encountered the Ming and Japanese maritime pirate groups, which were also engaged in smuggling along the coast. Because the Portuguese owned trade resources in Southeast Asia, India, Africa and even Europe, especially advanced weapons such as muskets and artillery. They soon merged with the Sino-Japanese armed smuggling group represented by Wang Zhi.

He followed Wang Zhi north to Fujian, established an international trade center - Shuangyu Port on the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He even arrived at Seed Island and found many teachers' seeds... Oh no, he discovered Japan, the teachers' motherland. He thus established a golden triangle trade channel connecting the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, Japan and Southeast Asia. The Froji people bought pepper and spices from Southeast Asia, and transported them from Manraka to the coastal port of Fujian and Zhejiang, exchanged silk, silk and porcelain with Chinese merchants, and then transported them to Hakata and Sakai City in Japan for silver for the next round of trade.

The 100,000 taels of principal invested by the Portuguese would turn into one million taels after a round of trading in this golden triangle. There is no more profitable transaction in the world!

Anyone who has played in the era of HNA knows that Li Huamei made her fortune by this trade line. When she breaks out of East Asia, her passion for trade will plummet. Because other trade routes are too poor, Sister Huamei, who is used to making a lot of money in East Asia, is not interested in trading in wilderness.

However, the good times did not last long. As the armed smuggling gangs of Portugal become bigger and stronger tomorrow, the people of the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty provided supplies, supplies, informed them, and even sent their children directly to join. At the most arrogant time, the maritime pirates could show off their wealth on the Wulinmen Street in Hangzhou openly, and then take a boatwoman from West Lake to learn from Su Dongpo’s prostitutes to parade, and the local officials pretended not to see it.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Ming government's rule in the southeast was on the verge of collapse. Therefore, no matter how hard the protectors of maritime interest groups such as Zhao Wenhua and Yan Shifan tried their best to stop them, they could not change the ruling class to treat the smuggling groups along the southeast coast as the number one threat that was more deadly than the Mongols.

In the 26th year of Jiajing, the court sent Zhu Wan as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang and to the southeast to clear out the Japanese tragedy. After Zhu Wan took office, she vigorously rectified local officials and the army, strictly enforced the ban on the court, strictly enforced the baojia system, and carried out a large-scale clearance of armed smuggling. It was destroyed less than a year after taking office. Shuangyu Port, the East Asia International Trade Center, which had been operated by maritime merchants for many years.

Then Zhu Wan went south to chase and eliminated all the smuggled strongholds along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, and killed a large number of maritime merchants and pirates in the Three Kingdoms of Tomorrow, almost destroying the entire East Asian maritime trade network.

During this large-scale military strike by the Ming government, the Flangji people suffered heavy losses. Almost half of the Portuguese in East Asia were killed or arrested, which directly led to the dismissal of the Governor of Malacca.

The second battle with the Ming Dynasty ended in failure, which made the newly appointed Governor of Malacca completely realize that in the East Asian waters, the Ming Dynasty's military strength was much higher than that of them and even higher than other forces. Especially on land, losing the protection of the sailboat, the Portuguese were like tigers with their minions, pitiful and weak and helpless, and were no match for the Ming army at all.

So they began to change their thinking, take a more realistic attitude, and use softer means to penetrate the Eastern Empire.

They first used the excuse of tribute ships hitting the reef and stole the dead and stole the Haojingao. They then used bribes, wagging their tails and begging for mercy and other methods to remove the defense of Guangdong officials bit by bit, and finally got the legal trade rights they had always dreamed of, and then expanded their share bit by bit. At the same time, smuggling on the southeast coast never stopped for a moment - because they were surprised to find that as long as the money was given enough, Ming Dynasty officials would turn a blind eye to their smuggling behavior in the cloak of legal trade. Even if they gave more, they would serve as a protective umbrella to help them fight against their competitors.

In the whole process, the guidance of compradors like Lin Hongzhong was inseparable from the guidance of compradors. After helping the ghost man obtain legal residence rights, he simply opened a Wuyangtong Trading House in Macau. As the general manager of the Tongshang Store, he was fully responsible for the Portuguese who had no language and looked scary, and took charge of the business and residence affairs.

The General Officer Lin also had superb skills. He was well aware of the face-saving problems of the Ming officials, actively guided the Portuguese to show kindness to the Ming Dynasty, and even directly helped the Ming Dynasty to deal with the former accomplices, the sea lords between Fujian and Guangdong. Naturally, he continued to increase the favorability of the officials to Folang Jiyi. He believed that although these red-haired ghosts were a little ugly, they were all familiar fans who could be used by the court like the coyote soldiers in Guangxi. Finally, under the oppression of the sea lords, they gritted their teeth and included them in the foreign army system to enrich their weak maritime power.

Then, Lin Hongzhou used silver bullets to open the way and pulled many officials into the water, allowing them to eat dry shares at the Wuyangtong Trading Hall, get bonuses, and act as the Portuguese and their backers.

The Portuguese got the safe colonial sites and trading stations they had always dreamed of, and finally restored their triangular trade and made a big profit. The Wuyangtong Trading Hall monopolized all the import and export trade of the Portuguese in Guangdong, so they naturally made a big profit!

Seeing that Lin Hongzhong made a fortune, all the merchants in Guangzhou joined his business, making Wuyangtong Trading Hall a dominant force in Guangdong, especially in the Pearl River Delta!

However, people in the Cantonese have always looked down on Chaoshan people in the "Sanwei Guojiao", so Wuyangtong Trading Hall has almost no influence in Chaozhou Prefecture.

~~

The waning moon is like a hook, hanging high in the sky, illuminating Han Jiang’s pale whiteness, just like Shu Tong’s heart...

After dark, he was waiting outside Lin Zhongcheng's cabin door. He planned to wait for Zhao Hao to come out, so he went in to report his work on the excuse and became familiar with Lord Zhongcheng to see if there was any chance that the salted fish could turn over.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhao had not come out until this time.

At this time, footsteps sounded outside the cabin. Lin Zhongcheng's eldest son, Lin San, was carrying a teapot and preparing to go in to add water. Seeing him squatting in the shadow, he couldn't bear to say, "Don't you, if you have something to do, go in and report it, right?"

"Hey, thank you very much..." Shu Fu hurriedly thanked him, but then he thought, it was midnight, what should I say when I went in? Ask Zhongcheng what to eat tomorrow morning? Is it against my wishes? Let Lin Zhongcheng be an idiot?

So he squeezed out a smile that was even worse than crying and said, "But the officials are fine, I'm just afraid that if the Chief Secretary has an order, he will respond outside the door."

"Don't worry, there will be no more orders." Lin San yawned and said, "Zhongcheng is the most considerate and will not crow in the middle of the night. Go back and rest."

As he said that, he waved his hand and knocked in the door and went in.

"Okay, you'll take a break sooner." Punishment Shu Tong wanted to take the opportunity to open the door and arouse Lin Zhongcheng's idea so that he could ask himself, it would be good to know his stupidity.
Chapter completed!