Beiyang new warlord

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Just like the long-distance freight transport of large trucks in the later generations, sailing also has costs. More than 100 sailors on the three ships work to eat, drink, and pay salaries, and there are unpredictable things, and people have good fortune. God knows if a storm will destroy the ship. .

This also involves a problem of first opportunity. Even if the new ship built by other houses is invested, it will take more than two months to deliver and receive the goods. The Sumu purchase is complete, and you can still make money when you go back, but instead of earning money from overseas that the court expected to earn money from your own people, can you be a businessman? If you are addicted, you can earn it yourself, who cares about you? !

However, the second cabinet will always be the second cabinet. When Qian Zeng, the big cabinet, spoke, he could only raise his voice and yell sadly.

"Didn't you listen to the big shopkeeper? Pull the sails and head south!"

With an order, the four-coin flag that had already faded was slowly put down, and the hard sails divided into grids were raised, and the three big blessing boats turned their bows, and went along the winding Zhongnan River again. The coast of the peninsula goes south.

But the girl from the Luo family in Champa was not bragging. When the fleet arrived in Chiang Mai around the corner of Cambodia, the first thing that came into view was the golden three-story building of the Chiang Mai East India Company branch in the port.

Qian Zeng turned around and left without relying on the shore.

But then Songkhla, Jeep, and finally turned back to Bangkok. However, the small building of the East India Company and the later Wanda Plaza, as long as there are people who have business, there is one.

Just like the youth of the North Piao in later generations, there is no small corner of his own in the huge city, sitting in the port of Bangkok, holding his chin, Qian Zeng sucking his teeth in a very literary way, holding his already long beard and thinking.

"Damn it, why is the North Barbarian's East India Company so impermeable?"

He did not go to Southeast Asia for four years, but the reform of the Donglin Party was actually only two years, which means that Jiangnan Maritime Merchants gave up Southeast Asia for a total of two years, and when they came back, the changes have been turned upside down. The company simply runs the business here in a weather-tight manner.

The first is the collusion between officials and businessmen. Not only the officials within the Ming Dynasty, but also the officials of the five central and southern countries were infiltrated by the East India Company. They came from later generations. Mao Jue understood the principle of win-win situation. The goods were sent from the East India Company headquarters in Tainan, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, etc. After arriving in the five southeast countries, most of the lower-level management rights were delegated to the local dignitaries, who formed branch companies and borrowed their power network to disperse the goods exported by Beiming to the huge market of tens of millions of people in the Indochina Peninsula. Among them, if the price is expensive and the price is cheap, these local tyrants will set their own prices, and the profits will also belong to them.

First of all, Beiming's technology is much higher than that of this continuation domain, which ensures the best-selling of bright goods, and the iron itself is hard. The local tyrants and nobles in these areas are naturally willing to cooperate with the East India Company.

The second is the big data on the supply volume. In every East India Company stronghold, there are market analysts like Ms. Champa Luo. How much is the sales of Champa’s steel tools, horse-drawn carriages, and cotton cloth this quarter? These are data, plus some political influences, emergencies, natural disasters and other factors, to report the market forecast for the next quarter to the headquarters in Hangzhou, and then the headquarters will place orders for the country to follow Mao Jue to set up factories and develop according to this demand. Get up and place an order with the company.

It not only ensures that the local market will not be in danger of falling prices due to oversaturation, but also nearly occupies the entire market. Every store that Qian once went to is not out of stock. The things he sells have advantages except porcelain, regardless of the price. There is no advantage in terms of technology or quality, so it would be strange to be able to sell it.

However, porcelain is something that, apart from the local tyrants of the Ming Dynasty who know how to appreciate it, the Fanbang barbarians will appreciate it too little. If you have a large vase with a height of one person fired by a small kiln factory in Xuzhou in the Northern Ming Dynasty and a vase fired by the imperial kiln in Jingdezhen in the Southern Ming Dynasty Flower and bird Wenshan vases, the dignitaries in Central and South China will definitely choose the big ones, because of the atmosphere!High-end! As for the extremely fast content of art bacteria contained in the imperial kiln, they can't see it at all.

And this third point is also extremely important, military deterrence!

The whole of Southeast Asia has been turned into a bathtub by Mao Jue. The Imperial Royal Navy deployed nearly 150 primary and secondary main sailing battleships in Southeast Asia. Even the pirates belonged to the Ming Dynasty. In Malacca, Zheng Sen, who made a fortune on the Spanish treasure ship, established There are more than 100 pirate ships that can be called ocean-going ships.

Last year, relying on the Annan separatist regime in the south, the Ruan family marched troops to attack Zhancheng to clear the territory. Generally speaking, the East India Company does not care about political disputes in Southeast Asia, but this Ruan Xiaoer has no eyesight and robbed the East India Company. Carriage and food.

Good guy, under the rage of Zuozhen Taiwan's huge sea, ten gunboats directly hit the coast of Vietnam, bombarding cities one by one from north to south, and smashed a 3000-man Ruan army on the way. Gan crying for his father and mother sent a mission to Tainan to apologize, bought the robbed vehicles and food at double the price, and compensated 100 taels of shock expenses for each injured person in the company, and paid 1 taels of military expenses to the East India Company.

In this battle, the East India Company shocked the South China Sea.

Times have truly changed!

Time went back to the streets of Bangkok, under several moss-covered statues of Monkey Buddha, the sound of bitter voices kept ringing.

"We have been out here for a month and a half. On the other side of Wenzhou, the caravans of the Zhang family, the Wang family, the Li family, and the Liu family should also come to the door. If it doesn't work, let's return! Ms. Zhanchengluo can make a lot of money. Let's hurry up after collecting the things. Go back to Wenzhou!"

Qian Zeng thought about life there literaryly enough, but his subordinates didn't have that patience anymore, their faces turned into bitter faces, and the second cabinet Qian Xueli was there to persuade him sadly.

"Big cabinet, talking about business!"

To be honest, Qian Zeng is quite regretful now, delivering the goods to Miss Luo, he still made money anyway, but the present is good, as Qian Xueli said, if he delays any longer, he will really lose money completely.

Going back now, I guess it is certain that Miss Luo will lower the price again, and she will be ridiculed again. He Qiang Zeng is a man, can he bear a little girl?

Can bear it!

It costs several 10 taels a trip, and it’s not like the children of other families have fame! If he pays him, he will be worthless and poor, won’t he just be buried?A man who can bend and stretch, made up his mind, Qian Zeng finally stood up happily.

"Get on board, return journey!"

I still want to persuade a few more words, but I didn't expect that it was me who got through it. I was stunned for a long time, and the second cabinet could be regarded as reacting, and shouted excitedly.

"Didn't you listen to the shopkeeper's orders? Hurry up and sail, let's go back to Champa! Then we will go home!"

Who said businessmen value profit over parting?That's just forced by life! As soon as they heard that they were going home, the work of Qian's family became excited, and they were busy pulling sails and anchoring.

Sitting on the bow of the boat, looking at the flags of the four coins that were drooping down, Qian Zeng himself sighed. He has all the long-term and near-term worries. What he regrets now is why he made this trip. ?He lost thousands of taels of silver in vain, but his foresight was even deeper. Now that the Beiming forces are so tyrannical, how will they do business in the future?

To say that when people are unlucky, drinking cold water will stuff their teeth, and seeing that Qian Zeng is about to leave, at this time, a whole team of Thai soldiers in rattan armor came striding out of the river mouth in Bangkok, holding spears, and screamed. He immediately surrounded the three boats, and the bows and arrows behind them were raised high. A group of handy sailors were almost scared, and they raised their hands high without a teacher.

Following behind the team of Thai soldiers, two leaders came out. One was big and thick, carrying two melon hammers, and he was like a crab. With his head covered, he was wearing a white gown, and his lower body was a rag, which directly wrapped his legs like a silk skirt. This man was fat enough, and his exposed belly was full of oil, and he swayed as he walked.

The most important thing is that Qian Zeng still knows this person. The Siamese rich businessman Paramahon, when Qian Zeng went to Nanyang before, he had to meet him in person in Champa, shouting at each other, but this time it is good. Qian once visited his house, but didn't even go in.

"Oh, Mr. Pa, this little one went to the house to visit you. Why did you come here by yourself? This military master, Mr. Pa and I are old acquaintances. Is there some misunderstanding here? ?”

Seeing Qian Zeng wearing a typical Han Chinese crown, General Crab Myanmar was also a little apprehensive, turned around and muttered something hastily in Thai, while Napalamahon nodded affirmatively.

"Tera, don't worry! I will never admit this person wrong! The Qian family of Nanming is the deadly enemy of the East India Company of Beiming, and the East India Company cannot stand up for him!"

With this reassurance, the crab immediately "joyed" and just waved his hand when he went up. The Qian Zeng was still nodding and bowing with a small face, and was suddenly pushed down to the ground by two Burmese soldiers, and tied up with the straw rope.

"Hey, what are you doing! I'm the Qian family! These are the products of the great scholars of the Ming Dynasty. Prime Minister, are you waiting? Be careful that you can't eat and walk around!"

Angrily yelling, Qian Zeng was still kicking his legs, he looked like a Malaysian monkey, but the two Thai soldiers dragged him like a Malaysian monkey, and the rest of the Thai soldiers rushed like wolves. On the deck, they went into the cargo hold to pick up the boxes and moved them. A few sailors from the Qian family wanted to stop them, but they were immediately kicked aside by a few electric guns. Seeing the cargo hold getting more and more empty, the second cabinet Qian Xueli sadly followed the old lady They sat on the ground sadly and cried loudly.

"God, what is this for!!!"

Chapter 7 Seventeen. Shop around and throw it away!

Staring straight ahead, his eyes had lost focus, Qian Zeng was sitting on the bow of his big blessing boat in a daze, followed by the second shopkeeper Qian Xueli in a daze.

They no longer have to worry about unsalable iron tools and porcelain, because besides the boat, even the moldy steamed buns on the boat have been removed. If it is not that this typical Ming-style boat is too conspicuous, it is estimated that there are three boats left. No more.

But it doesn't make any difference if there are any leftovers, anyway, both of them have a big word written in their heads.

Dead!!!

There is no reason to say, the robber is the government, where do you go to sue?In Ming Dynasty, Qian Zeng also used to bully others. Now, he has experienced this feeling to the fullest. There is nothing to say. The cloud has been gloomy for a long time, and Qian Zeng sighed deeply.

"At this point, let's apologize with death!"

Also sighed, Qian Xueli gestured his thick elbow respectfully forward: "Boss, please first!"

I don't know if it's the Qian family's fault that the water is cold. First, I lowered my head to look at the turbid color of the Chao Phraya River estuary, and shivered tremblingly. Qian Zeng immediately put on an ugly smile, and followed suit. .

"You are the elder, you come first!"

Why don't you think that the old man is an elder when you share the money?Cursing inwardly, Qian Xueli gestured his sleeves forward again: "The best is the first, please first!"

"you first!"

"you first!"

"You jump first!"

"Why don't you jump first!"