Taking advantage of the Dutch's refusal to provide shipping services, China Merchants Shipping Company took advantage of the east wind of the expo to solicit a large amount of transportation business, which made the Dutch lose half of the shipping business in the Far East at once.This was intolerable to the Dutch, but the Dutch could not resort to force because of the strength of Tokai Town, so they could only start competing with Tokai Town again, using ships and control of shipping routes to fight a price war to regain share.The emergence of the China Merchants Shipping Company shook the foundation of the Dutch in the Far East, and it became clear that Huaxing Company would become his greatest threat in East Asia.This made the Dutch, who were big people, begin to be wary, and regarded Huaxing as their biggest competitor in the Far East.The expo ended successfully, and while the military workshop in Donghai Town received a large number of orders, the merchants who came to participate in the exhibition also sold their goods at the best price.In addition to the traditional export of silk, cloth, porcelain, and tea, there are also several new items, which also have good sales.The first is camphor, Zhang Yida and several other firms that sell camphor have received a total of 200,000 taels of orders, which has shocked many people.The second is cigarettes, which were transmitted from the Americas to Luzon and then to China.Since the introduction of tobacco to China, North Korea, Japan and other places, the trend of smoking has risen immediately, and whether it is the Ming Dynasty or Japan, the attitude towards smoking is prohibited.In order to prevent the impact on grain production, the Ming Dynasty and Japan have banned smoking, but although the imperial court has banned it, the folk smoking style has not changed, and there are not a few secret growers.The cigarettes produced by Huaxing Tobacco Factory are uniform in length, packaged in cartons, and printed with a flying horse, which is considered a brand of cigarettes.As soon as the expo was launched, it was sold out by businessmen from all over the world and won an order of 100,000 taels.In addition, when it comes to cloth orders, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands will eat two million taels, plus merchants from other countries, a total of three million taels.In the warehouse of Huaxing Company, the inventory is only 500,000 horses, and at least 500,000 horses need to be produced to meet the needs of various countries.At present, the production and sales prospects are very good, with the production scale of Huaxing Textile Factory, it can produce more than 30,000 pieces of cloth per month, and export it at an average price of three taels per horse, there are 100,000 taels in January, excluding costs, the profit is about 60,000 taels.The shareholders, who had been a little shaken about the company, unanimously decided after the expo that the remaining funds and profits would continue to be used to expand production.However, nowadays, there are still many conditions that restrict the company's expansion, the first is the lack of raw materials, and the second is the lack of manpower.The town of Donghai urgently needs a larger colony to grow raw materials such as cotton and tobacco for Huaxing, as well as a larger population.In addition to textile mills, China Merchants Shipping, Huaxing Cigarettes, Huaxing Insurance and other branches, also have a lot of profits, it is foreseeable that it will not take long for Huaxing Company to turn losses into profits, and the prospects are very good.The southeast businessmen who participated in the expo also received a lot of orders, and the success of Huaxing Company also stimulated coastal businessmen and forces.The Zheng family's strength was greatly damaged after Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, especially the savings in Anping City were swept away by the Qing army, which made the Zheng family a great businessman, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse.In order to prevent the Zhejiang forces from controlling the whole of Fujian, Emperor Longwu left Zheng Chenggong in Zhangquan and reorganized the old Zheng family, and many people in the Zheng family also agreed that Zheng Chenggong was the best person to be able to revive the Zheng family.After Zheng Chenggong saw that Zhao Ming established Huaxing Company, he also reorganized the five merchants of Zheng's mountains and seas, like private fundraising, to make up for the dilemma of Zheng's lack of money, and opened Nanyang Company.After Zheng Chenggong was in Zhangquan, he began to clean up the Zheng family's existing industry, as well as the surplus money and grain.Because Anping City was sacked by the Qing army, the Zheng family's savings were completely taken away by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and later Zheng Hongkui recovered more than one million taels, but after a few people, plus tens of thousands of troops consumed, the Zheng family, which was rich enough to rival the country, only had more than 100,000 taels of silver left.This amount of capital can not be compared with the capital of Huaxing Company of seven million taels, but there is a successful case of Huaxing Company in the past, coupled with the success of the Zheng family in sea trade, Zheng Chenggong raised share capital in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and even Fuzhou under the control of Zhejiang, and it was a great success.Some of the gentry and businessmen who missed the Huaxing Company chose the Nanyang Company of the Zheng family, Zheng Chenggong was originally only ready to raise 500,000 taels, but the land of Fujian was subscribed enthusiastically, so that it had to implement purchase restrictions, and even Zhu Yulu, the Tang King of Ganzhou, wrote a letter saying that he wanted to be attached, and Zheng Chenggong was able to reserve a share of 20,000 taels.The goods that the Zheng family traded before were mainly silk fabrics, tea, and porcelain, of which silk fabrics came from Jiangnan and porcelain from Jiangxi, both of which were not produced by the Zheng family, only tea was produced in Fujian, and the Zheng family owned a large amount of land and estates.When Zhao Ming learned that Zheng Chenggong had founded Nanyang Company, he gave up the tea trade, which was regarded as a gesture of goodwill to Zheng Chenggong.Zheng Chenggong took advantage of the east wind of Huaxing Company to solve the problem of lack of money very smoothly, and in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places, businessmen were stimulated, and a number of companies were established one after another.For a time, on the southeast coast, commerce flourished, and with the development of commerce, access to a larger source of raw materials, as well as the demand of the market, gradually emerged.In 1650, the sixth year of Longwu and the seventh year of Shunzhi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.More than a year has passed since the last battle in Fujian.During this time, the situation changed rapidly, and the Ming and Qing dynasties entered a stage of confrontation.Except for the two armies, which were inseparable in Huguang, there was basically a truce in other places.On the side of the Ming army, resuming production, developing commerce, manufacturing weapons, and training the army, the Manchu side was not idle.At this time, it had been seven years since the Manchu Qing entered the customs, and all parts of the north were stable, and production was resumed one after another, and gradually the Manchus could be provided with money and food, and Dolgon spent a year restoring the strength of the Eight Banners and reorganizing the green battalion, and there was also some progress.At the beginning of 1651, the Manchu Qing Dynasty completed the statistics and replenishment of the Eight Banners, although the Manchu Banner only had more than 53,000 bannermen, which could not be replenished, but the Mongolian and Han military flags, after replenishment, were already full.Although the newly replenished troops cannot be compared with the previous Old Eight Banners, they have finally recovered a certain strength.Bauhinia City, Beijing.Outside the regent's mansion, Hong Chengchou led a group of Westerners to the outside of the palace hall and emphasized the etiquette of meeting the regent through translation.The Dutchman Mousse, when he heard that he was going to kneel down for the Tatars, showed displeasure on his face, "Your Excellency, we are the ambassadors of the Netherlands, not vassals of the Qing State, we are here to seek cooperation, not to pay tribute, I think you should know this." ”The rise of the Huaxing Company seriously threatened the Dutch East India Company, especially the China Merchants Shipping Company, which seized the shipping business of the East India Company.At present, China's coastal shipping to Japan, Korea, Annam, and other countries is occupied by the Huaxing Merchants Shipping Company and the Nanyang Company, and the East India Company is squeezed out of China's coastal waters and can only engage in ocean-going trade from China to the Nanyang Islands, as well as India and Europe.This caused the East India Company to lose a lot of business and its income to be greatly reduced, which made the top management very dissatisfied, and they began to contact the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing.
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