"Anchor!"
As the shouts of the sailors sounded, the Confucian merchant delegation represented by the imperial merchant Du Shouchang officially left Ningbo Port by boat.This time, in the name of the emperor, they went overseas to find suitable partners to invest and build factories."
Looking at the whole world, there are still too few countries that believe in Confucianism and Taoism, and in the Nanyang area, the kings are mostly called sultans, and the colonial countries established by the Western countries do not mention, but also have their own cultures, so it is still difficult for me to find compradors who have a common culture at the beginning."
At this time, in the cabin of the steamer, Du Shouchang told Zhu Zhiyu and others about the difficulty of finding a partner comprador.After Zhu Zhiyu glanced at the endless blue waves outside the cabin, he couldn't help but sigh: "How difficult it is to preach Confucianism and Taoism!"
”Saying that, Zhu Zhiyu walked over to Du Shouchang and said: "Du Gong is right, compared to my Ming Dynasty, the tolerance and acceptance of foreign cultures is also respected by us for those who have true learning, such as Matteo Ricci and others in the West, who are all regarded as Taixi Confucians, and His Majesty also gave them Confucian official positions, in fact, the sultans of the Nanyang countries and the governors of the West do not have the mind of our emperor, they are more conservative and reject foreign cultures. ”"Your Majesty once said that the Western Ocean is a maritime civilization, and in its bones it is a bandit culture, and it preaches "love" to the whole world on the surface, but in fact it slaughters and loots, and does all kinds of evil, and cultural expansion is also barbaric, so it is very difficult to make them obey our civilized order!
It is better to open factories in Korea, the Ryukyus, and the Wakoku than to go to places like Nanyang, so my advice is not to go to Nanyang, but to go to the East. ”Zhu Shunshui, who was walking with him, replied."
Yes!
But in the area of Nanyang Manila, I heard that it is now densely populated, and I will not go there to investigate, if Your Majesty asks, will you not blame us for our ineffective work?
”Du Shouchang Road."
It's better to go to Ryukyu first and find a few merchants to inquire about the attitude of the Governor of Manila to my Ming business trip."
Zhu Zhiyu suggested.After hearing this, Du Shouchang nodded and said, "This is a solution." ”......
"The merchant Huang Dawei, who refused to carry out the governor's tax increase order, has committed the crime of betraying my Franco!"
”"He is hereby sentenced to be hanged, and his daughter will be made a slave, and his family property will be used as a fine for resisting taxes!"
Manila.Outside the town hall.A Francophone official read the verdict aloud.At this time, Huang Dawei, a businessman of the Ming Kingdom who was tied to the gallows, looked helplessly at the sky and wept.The Ming people who were watching below were also very angry.Like Huang Dawei, they are all Ming expatriates whose ancestors or fathers moved here from the land of Fujian and Guangdong.There are many Ming expatriates in the Manila area.Since the beginning of the Wanli period, due to the sharp contradictions between people and land in China, a large number of Ming expatriates have migrated here without permission.And now after the Ming Dynasty has completely opened the sea, coupled with the frequent domestic disasters, more Ming people have migrated to Southeast Asia without permission.It can be said that now, most of the residents of Manila are Ming expatriates.As mentioned earlier, the Ming Dynasty is the most advanced country in the world.The Ming diaspora who moved here were much more advanced in terms of culture and science and technology than the Western people who still stayed in the main way of plundering.Therefore, the Ming diaspora brought advanced agricultural technology, advanced commercial civilization, technological innovation, and cultural innovation here.The Han culture, which has accumulated thousands of years of civilization, has a strong ability to survive and assimilate in this region, so that many native people have begun to accept Sinicization.However, the colonists of the Franc machine, who were the rulers of the place, were very troubled by the arrival of the Ming diaspora.On the one hand, they relied on the taxes and benefits provided by these Ming diaspora, and on the other hand, they resented the rejection and contempt of other civilizations by the Ming diaspora.For this reason, the colonists of the Francophone kept raising taxes, using tax increases to increase their own interests, and then make up for their dissatisfaction with the Ming diaspora.And the unrestrained tax hike naturally attracted the dissatisfaction of more and more Ming expatriates.Huang Dawei was just one of the more radical Han Chinese who expressed dissatisfaction.And now he is going to be hanged for it."
AhhAs the noose rope tightened, Huang Dawei felt more and more pain as a result.Cattersi, the governor of Franc (Spain), watched this scene with great satisfaction, and ordered: "Anyone who refuses to raise taxes will be hanged to death, and every Ming person who resists taxes must be hanged!"
”"In addition, next year's tax will be increased by 10%!
Report to the king, it means that the price of goods in the country is low, and these merchants can make a lot of money by bringing goods here, and I can use the tax to obtain the benefits in the Far East!
Let the gold and silver flow to me Spain!
”"Your Excellency the Governor, things are not good, our merchants have sent back news from Ryukyu that the officials and merchants of the Ming Kingdom are inquiring about our situation in Manila, and I am afraid that they will annex our Manila in the same way that they annexed Goa and Haojing in the past, and now annex Burma."
A Franco-general named Droz suddenly came to Cattersy and said suddenly.Cosolo, the adjutant beside Catssy, looked solemn and said, "In this way, we have to prevent them from instigating the Ming people in Manila to rebel first!"
”"In this case, we must first get rid of the Ming people in the entire Manila to prevent accidents."
Cartesi said to Corsolo."
But what if the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom raises troops on a large scale because of this?"
Delon asked."
We explained that it was these Ming merchants who launched a rebellion, we had to suppress it, and then imposed heavy bribes on the Ming Emperor and officials, and the Ming Emperor was afraid that he would not be held accountable, not to mention, the Ming Kingdom should understand that their goods also need our help to sell, if they really want to be ruthless to us and kill us, then he will cut off the trade line of this thing himself!"
Cosolo said, "Your Excellency, I support the killing of all the Ming expatriates in Manila first!"
”Seeing this, Delong had no choice but to say: "That's it!
Anyway, Manila can't fall into the hands of the Ming people in vain anyway!
I have a suggestion, just like more than forty years ago, before killing the people of the Guangming Kingdom, we can take advantage of the greed of these Ming expatriates to buy the iron weapons in their hands at a high price, saying that we are going to conquer the Netherlands and need a large number of iron tools to be smelted into weapons, so that the Ming expatriates will not be able to resist our military suppression!
”"This is an idea, first buy iron from our merchants at a high price, the city hall can't buy it directly, because these Ming expatriates don't believe us, they are still willing to believe our merchants, when the time comes, our merchants will buy iron from the Ming expatriates at a high price, and then resell it to us at a high price, and take out all the tax money in the treasury to buy!
Spend the money now, and in the future, you will take back the lives and wealth of these Ming people!
”After Governor Katsi spoke, he added: "When the time comes, I will directly order all the officers and soldiers to hang every Ming person they see!"
”"Yes!"
Cosolo waited for a reply......."
The price of iron in Manila has skyrocketed, and some Franco merchants buy iron at a price five or six times higher than usual. ”When Du Hongyin read the secret reports of the brocade guards from all over the world, and read it here, Zhu Youxiao suddenly shouted: "Slow!"
Give me the copy of the secret report you just read!
In addition, the Minister of the Legacy Hall has come to see me!
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