"Master, Mr.
Gu is back.
When Chen Yue was looking at the price list of various goods in Nagasaki that Sima Nan had inquired about, Chen Yan came in to report.
Chen Yue pushed the name card and said hurriedly: "Let him in quickly."
"Mr.
Gu, how was your conversation with Zheng Cai?"
Chen Yue asked, signaling Gu Junen to excuse himself.
"It has been agreed that our two raw silk companies will advance and retreat together at the same price.
No one is allowed to compete maliciously to lower the price."
Gu Junen said with a smile.
Chen Yue nodded: "It's natural.
When the price goes up, it's good for everyone."
Think about the price of raw silk that we have learned about, and the thousand tons of raw silk loaded in the fleet.
One shipment of raw silk alone can be sold for four to five million taels of silver, plus the goods loaded on more than 20 sea ships, This transaction can sell at least two to three million taels of silver.
Expand your army, build big ships, buy and craft weapons, everything is enough "My lord, Zheng Cai has a bad eye and may have ill intentions towards us."
Gu Junen said again.
"Well, Mr.
Gu, please tell me in detail."
Chen Yue came back from his joy and said to Gu Jun'en calmly.
"Everything is normal for us, but from what he said, Zheng Cai is very wary of our Qiyun."
Gu Junen explained the conversation with Zheng Cai in detail, and said: "We are now more than 20 ships.
However, only five of the Zheng family's fleet arrived safely.
It would be fine if our more than 20 ships were owned by various maritime merchants in Zhejiang.
However, they all belong to our Qiyun family.
The Zheng family dominates the sea and only has five ships coming to trade, but we are.
They are four times bigger, how can they not be frightened and fearful?”
Chen Yue nodded.
As the saying goes, there is no way to allow others to sleep soundly next to the bed.
The Zheng family is used to dominating the sea.
It is inevitable to be frightened by the sudden appearance of such a huge force as the Qiyun.
The key is what kind of measures Zheng Cai will take and whether he wants to attack Qiyun Company.
"Although the Zheng family is powerful, there are only five ships that come to Japan.
Even with their affiliated forces, they are not as many as ours.
We don't need to be afraid of them in Japan, we are only afraid of returning to Zhoushan."
Gu Junen analyzed.
After returning to Zhoushan?
Chen Yue smiled.
By the time he returns to Zhoushan, the three Galen ships should be built.
Together with the more than 20 three-masted ships now, it will be enough to form a huge fleet.
Even if the Zheng family is not as powerful as the Zheng family, it will not be easy for them to deal with Zhoushan easily, unless Zheng Zhilong dares to risk the risk of rebellion and attack with his entire army.
However, offending the Zheng family would be a great obstacle to his attack on Dongfan.
Chen Yue couldn't help but feel worried.
But all this cannot be avoided.
Although the Ming Dynasty's coast is vast, there cannot be two forces.
Sooner or later, there will be a day when they will confront the Zheng family.
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"Thank you for your hard work, sir."
Chen Yue said with a smile.
Only Gu Junen could see the subtleties.
He could distinguish so many things just from the conversation with Zheng Cai.
It would never be possible for anyone else.
"It's just a small matter, but what are your plans, Duke of Qi?"
Gu Junen looked at Chen Yue with interest, wanting to see how he would do in the face of such a powerful enemy from the Zheng family.
"The Zheng family dominated the sea and made huge wealth from maritime trade.
They earned millions and tens of millions of silver each year, but they never paid a single tael of silver to the national treasury.
It can be said to be the cancer of the Ming Dynasty.
If this kind of force is not eliminated, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to rise.
Chen Yue is not talented, and is willing to eliminate this cancer for the Ming Dynasty, so that the revenue from sea trade can be returned to the national treasury, and the trade proceeds can feed back the Ming Dynasty.
Only in this way can the financial crisis of the imperial court be solved, and the burden on the people of the world can be relieved. " Chen Yue said with enthusiasm.
There were too many problems in the Ming Dynasty, such as maritime trade.
Although the imperial court opened Quanzhou Yuegang as a trade port and set up a municipal shipping department to manage foreign trade, by the Chongzhen period, hundreds of ships went out to sea for trade every year.
There are also several ships that go to sea through the Yue Port.
Without passing through the Yue Port, they naturally do not pay taxes.
This also causes a large amount of tax revenue to be lost.
The annual tax revenue from Yue Port is only less than 10,000 taels of silver.
Compared with such a large-scale sea trade, it is simply It's a drop in the bucket.
If all ships going out to trade can pay taxes according to regulations, the annual tax revenue of the imperial court alone can reach millions of taels.
Where will the national treasury be empty, and where will all the pressure need to be passed on to the powerless common people?
The current situation is that the coastal gentry rely on their wealth from sea trade, which has given birth to the Zheng family, a deformed force that is extremely wealthy and powerful.
"I admire Duke Qi's boldness and loyalty," Gu Junen said with a wry smile.
It was obviously because of selfish motives that he colluded with Dinghai Lu Tai and brazenly did such a bold thing as plundering all the maritime merchants in Ningbo.
But now he is acting with such a righteous look.
Could it be that the money you earned from this maritime trade will be turned over to the court?
"Those who know me say that I am worried, but those who don't know me say that what do I want?"
Chen Yue shook his head, knowing that a traitor like Gu Junen said that loyalty to the emperor and patriotism was in the wrong person.
But as long as the person is willing to do things for himself, it doesn't matter whether he is loyal to the Ming Dynasty or not.
Knowing that even though Zheng Cai was wary of him, there was nothing he could do about it, Chen Yue ignored the matter.
What he had to do now was to sell the goods as soon as possible and exchange them for money.
Except for the raw silk and Zheng Cai who formed a united front, Chen Yue could handle the other goods at will, because the Zheng family's other goods had already been sold out.
Since there are far fewer seagoing ships from the Ming Dynasty than in previous years, the market is now completely a seller's market.
Businessmen from Japan are rushing to contact Qiyun Company, hoping to grab the goods.
However, more than 20 sea-going ships arrived at once, which also caused the price of goods on the market to drop a lot.
Chen Yue entrusted Fu Chun, Sima Nan, Guo Linfeng and three others to be responsible for selling the goods, but they kept the most valuable raw silk in their hands.
Porcelain, tea, poria, rhubarb, mercury, lacquerware, bulk goods carried on the ship were sold one after another, bringing large sums of money to the Qiyun every day, making everyone smile.
At noon that day, a three-masted sea-going ship suddenly sailed into Nagasaki Port.
The tattered side of the ship and the large hole in the sail showed that the ship had just experienced a tragic battle at sea.
As soon as the three-masted sea ship entered the harbor, the small boat was lowered from the sea ship, and then the small boat quickly rowed towards the five islands.
"Two ships of the Lu family in Jiaxing were robbed by the Dutch.
Only one escaped and asked us for help."
Zheng Cai frowned when he heard the report from his men.
"The Lu family's ship was robbed by the Dutch.
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Tell him what happened to our Zheng family.
It's gone," Zheng Cai said impatiently.
If it were in the past, the Zheng family would usually come forward to mediate when encountering such a thing.
At worst, they would put pressure on the Dutch to release the captives.
After all, the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty paid tolls to the Zheng family.
In theory, Under the protection of the Zheng family.
But now, Zheng Cai is worried about half of his ship sinking and the sudden rise of Qiyun Company, and he can't care about such things
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