After the establishment of Huaxing Company, it raised a total of more than 7 million taels of silver.This can be called a behemoth, the company is extremely wealthy, in the past six months, Huaxing company is in urgent need of expansion, the acquisition of the silk weaving industry, but also invested in the construction of leather production, cigarette factories and other new industries, as well as the acquisition of Japanese raw silk, spending a huge amount of money.In half a year, Huaxing Company spent nearly half of the funds, but did not achieve much profit, which made many shareholders worry and become depressed.The shareholders, as little as tens of thousands of taels, more than hundreds of thousands, silver is not easy to come by, seeing that nearly half of the money has been spent, it has not been effective, the company has suffered serious losses, and it is inevitable that the heart will be shaken.This made Zhao Ming feel huge pressure, and the key to success or failure was the expo, so Zhao Ming attached great importance to the expo.In order to calm the minds of shareholders, not only businessmen from all over the world came to the expo, but also shareholders and exhibitors.Recently, the most abundant content in the Fuxing Newspaper is the introduction of the expo, and there are often reports of Zhao Guogong and the high-level officials of Donghai Town inspecting the expo, and the length is even longer than that of a major battle between the Ming and Qing dynasties that recently occurred in Jingzhou.After Emperor Longwu moved to Changsha, he changed Changsha to Xijing and set it up as a temporary line, while Longwu was in Changsha, living in Huxiang, and there was a favored minister He Tengjiao on the left, and there was a plug Yinxi who set up the line in Changde on the left, and Ganzhou Wanyuan Ji on the right, and Su Guansheng in Guangzhou behind him, all of which were forces that supported Longwu.This gave Emperor Longwu finally the opportunity to display his ambitions, and what neither Zhao Ming nor the Manchus expected was that Longwu launched a campaign to recover Jingzhou soon after moving to Changsha.Longwu, like Zhao Ming, knew that the Manchus occupied a vast territory, and if the Manchus were allowed to rest, it would only open up the strength of the Ming and Qing dynasties.In this case, Zhao Ming chose to reform the society, improve productivity, and use the improvement of productivity and technology to shorten the gap, and even surpass the Manchu Qing.And Longwu didn't have Zhao Ming's knowledge, he could only see that with the same cultivation, the Ming Dynasty would only be distanced by the Manchus, so he chose another way, like the Shu Han non-stop Northern Expedition, taking advantage of Manchuria's unpreparedness, launched the campaign to recover Jingzhou.Of course, in this battle, the Longwu court did not fight blindly, but had its own strategic purpose.Jingzhou is in the middle of Chu, the north bank of the Yangtze River, the south of Xiangyang, and the upper reaches of Wuchang.Since the Qing army moved south, there have been many major battles around Jingzhou City, and the city has changed hands several times.Now the Ming army of Huguang and the Qing army are held on the front line of Yuezhou, if the Ming army goes out of Yuezhou to take Wuchang, the enemy of Jingzhou will inevitably outflank the rear of the Ming army, so that the Ming army can only be on the defensive.After discussing with the ministers, Emperor Longwu decided to take advantage of the death of Daishan, Duoduo and others, and the unstable heart of the newly defeated army of the army, to launch a campaign to recover Jingzhou.Jingzhou is located in the upper reaches, if the Ming army gets Jingzhou, it can take Yiling in the west, guard against the Qing army in Sichuan, take Xiangyang in the north, resist the people in Henan, and finally be able to build a wall to capture Wuchang and reverse the offensive and defensive situation.In the battle of Jingzhou, Plug Yinxi gathered Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, Liu Tichun, He Zhen, Sun Shoufa, Ma Jinzhong, Hao Shaoqi and other 18 general officers, 100 generals, 150,000 troops, will attack the city of Jingzhou.On the Manchu side, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming also raised troops from Wuchang, Xiangyang and other places, and the two sides fought fiercely in Jingzhou.This battle that took place in Huguang, Zhao Ming was beyond the reach of the whip, but he sent someone to transport a batch of munitions to the Huguang front, who knew that two months later, that is, on the eve of the start of the expo, the imperial court sent someone to come, saying that the firearms sent were quite useful, and Zhao Ming needed to provide a batch.Zhao Ming did not agree immediately, saying that he needed the imperial court to allocate funds to order, so that Donghai Town would have the strength to continue to build firearms.This incident made Zhao Ming make another decision temporarily, and put the firearms produced in the workshop on the expo, but only the towns of the Ming army were allowed to bid and order.Under the report of the "Fuxing Daily", the entire southeast coast knew about the expo, and the merchants who participated in the exhibition, the merchants from various countries who purchased goods, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty came to the Tamsui Port one after another.After four years of development, the Acropolis of Tamsui has changed from a shantytown with earthen walls and wooden fences to a big city.However, the Acropolis of Tamsui, unlike the Central Plains City, does not enclose residential and commercial areas, and the city has no borders, which can be conducive to the expansion of the scale of the city, and saves the cost of building the city wall, and spends the money on building the city wall in other aspects.In this regard, many of Zhao Ming's subordinates have opinions, the city without a city wall, always makes people feel uneasy, sleep is not steady, this is also the habit of the Chinese, like comfort, with the wall to fence themselves, you can sleep at home with peace of mind, Zhao Ming does not build the city wall, one is expensive, not cost-effective, the other is to change this like to repair the wall map stable mentality.The Acropolis of Tamsui is not large, like the Honmaru in Japan and the castle in the West, but below the castle is a planned residential area and a shopping area.The main goods in northern Taiwan are concentrated in Tamsui City, which is already very prosperous with many shops, hotels and inns.In order to welcome the arrival of the merchants, Zhao Ming ordered the good inns and inns of Tamsui Wei to be chartered, and sent officials to meet the settlement, which surprised and flattered many merchants.On December 11, the eve of the opening of the fair, businessmen came to the port of Tamsui one after another.At dusk, five armed Dutch merchant ships sailed outside the port of Tamsui to participate in the fair.The Netherlands and Donghai Town have a trade treaty, and the merchant ships of both sides can enter each other's ports for trade, and Zhao Ming did invite the Dutch to participate in the fair."
Guogong, the Dutch have come outside the harbor in five armed merchant ships, will they be allowed to enter?"
Guo Zhong hurriedly ran over and reported to Zhao Ming.Zhao Ming was discussing the matter of the expo with Chen Mingyu and others, and when he heard this, he raised his head and sneered: "Five five-loaded merchant ships, the Dutch are showing off their force and intimidating me."
Let them in, or you'll think I'm afraid of them. ”Outside the harbor, the Ming ships came to pick them up, but the Dutch merchant ships did not enter the harbor, but only cruised outside.On a merchant ship, the Dutchman Kawu frowned, "Your Excellency, Zhao Guogong has a lot of confidence!"
I've heard that many merchants have come to Tamsui and the situation is not good for us!
”Moss on the ship didn't expect that after so long, Huaxing Company not only did not give in, but its attitude became tougher.Moss said with a calm face: "I have to admit that Zhao's strength is very strong, and we can't clash with him head-on, but those merchants are not our opponents, the company's ships are cruising here, I see who dares to buy the goods of Huaxing Company." ”(Thank you for your support, ask for a monthly pass, recommend, subscribe) ()