"Don't worry," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Our Daming products such as silk fabrics, porcelain, and tea are indeed popular in the South and Western Seas. ”

Mu shook his head: "I just ask him to be safe and secure, and I want so much money to do." It's still my sister-in-law's maiden brother who fights for anger, and my brother is stupid to death, and his head is not bright at all. Since I can't stop him, I still think that the next time your brother's ship goes to Nanyang, I will also take my unsuccessful brother with me, and let him follow him to get some gold. ”

"Let's take a few trips to adapt to the route," Zhang Zhaohua revealed his plan a little bit: "I have long thought of setting up Qingyuan Trading Company in Guangzhou and Nanjing, and in the name of the royal family, please invite private ships to become shareholders and join hands to make a big deal." ”

"If you want to take a private ship into the royal fleet, why do you want to divide the profits?" Webster didn't know anything, but Mu still had a brain.

Zhang Zhaohua explained: "Look farther away - the sea is so big, it can't be swallowed by one family. ”

Mu Shi was even more surprised: "The royal fleet, isn't it Zheng He's fleet, isn't the city ship company you are talking about?"

Of course not, in fact, Zhang Zhaohua felt that the Municipal Department was a state agency, a department that belonged to the so-called customs in later generations. And the trading company is a private business alliance, and today's maritime private trade is too risky, especially for the Japanese Kou, except for Zheng He's fleet, there is nothing to be afraid of. If a trading company is established, it can integrate large and small ships, go to sea together to reduce risks, promote the development of private trade, and at the same time borrow the name of the royal family and give them huge benefits, such as private ships that have shares in the royal fleet, and the city shipping company can not levy ships.

After the establishment of the market shipping system, fees can be charged under various names. The first is taxation, that is, the government levies the money. The so-called foot of the ship is the tax on the ingot under the port that should be paid by the Lei ship, which is the customs tariff.

"Ah-" Webster was surprised: "Such a great benefit, and it was distributed to them?"

"Don't worry. I'm not done yet. Zhang Zhaohua said: "There is no tax, but they have to pay a sum of money to the royal family every year." In the name of the royal family and foreign trade, the benefits are naturally great, and there is no tax - only two million taels of silver are collected every year, and there must be many maritime merchants who rush to it. ”

Maritime merchants have not yet formed a scale at this time, and it will be in Zhang Sheng's hands to form, and he can form an interest group headed by the Zhang family and the huge wealth of the southeast family through such a trading company.

This is the formation and accumulation of capital, what Zhang Zhaohua has to do now is to promote the evolution of businessmen into a bourgeoisie, such a class is the greatest help to disintegrate the land and population of the vassal king, as for how far such a bourgeoisie will emerge and grow, Zhang Zhaohua hopes to be sooner, and can see before she closes her eyes.

Why is Zhang Zhaohua sure that once such a trading company is established, there will definitely be large and small civilian ships flocking to follow the sea - because at this time, the jurisdiction of the Municipal Shipping Department is very strict, and it is not very easy for civilian ships to go to sea, because there will be quotations for going to sea, only a few dozen quotations every year, and later there are too many people who request to go to sea, and the number of people who are sent to sea is increased to 110. But it was still not enough, so the officials on the side of the city department stopped issuing them - the magistrates did not dare to distribute additional citations privately, so it was very difficult to find a citation.

But Zhang Sheng's fleet is a special case, no matter how many ships his fleet goes to sea in the city, all of them have been distributed, so there are countless civilian ships and merchant ships who want to follow the Qingyuan to sea, and all of them go to Zhang Sheng's way, which is the basis for the formation of the trading company.

The reason why Zhang Sheng is so bullish is because the emperor remembered his merits during the Jingjing disaster, and not only allowed him to trade with the Tatars - this was also Yongle seven years ago, at that time, the relationship between the Tatars and the Ming Dynasty was not too tense, but now since the emperor went north, Zhang Sheng no longer traded with the Tatars, and lost a huge amount of money, but this is also a helpless thing.

However, in the sea and the canal, the Zhang family was still compensated, especially in the fourth year of Yongle, Zhang Sheng asked to open a port in Zhangzhou, Fujian, for him to go to the sea to do business, Zhang Zhaohua was sweating for him at that time, but he didn't expect the emperor to agree, this is the origin of Yuegang.

Yuegang is located at the mouth of the Jiulong River, the port road is open to the sea tide, and the mountain stream is connected inside, which is an excellent port of ships, just like Zheng He every time he sets off from Liujiagang in Taicang, where the scale of ships is huge.

"Ten years," Zhang Zhaohua calculated, "the good thing of not taxing is to encourage non-governmental maritime trade and make this golden road prosperous." Ten years later, the city will definitely reconsider, and the amount of tariff set at that time will be calculated based on the value of the goods. ”

She is now absorbing some nobles to enter and add a little insurance to the trading company, such as the princess Mu in front of her, she is more interested in participating, but she still has some doubts, I don't know if there will be any taboos - Zhang Zhaohua told her that the private sale of goods to the sea, except for those few kinds of iron and firearms, nothing else is harmful. And there is another one, official ships and private ships can go to sea, can go to the West, go to the South Sea, but can not go to the East, because the Ming Dynasty's trade with Japan is still prohibited, and all ships going to sea are not allowed to go to Japan. If you go without permission, you will be punished with the crime of "forbidging the widow".

However, Zhang Zhaohua hadn't even finished speaking, when he saw Yishuha hurriedly coming in from outside, and said, "Niangniang, Jinyi Wei has seized the Qingyuan!"

Zhang Zhaohua was also stunned for a moment before reacting: "What is the reason?"

The specific reason is that when Pingjiang Bo Chen Xuan was arresting the Japanese on the island in eastern Zhejiang, he found that the Zhang family's ships were trading with the Japanese invaders, and in the evening, the latest news came, saying that on the two large ships, there were a batch of newly made firearms made by the Ordnance Bureau, and there were 200 of them.

Zhang Zhaohua didn't believe that Zhang Sheng would trade with the Japanese and sell the fire gun to the Japanese Kou, this is impossible, if Zhang Sheng didn't even have this awareness, then the Zhang family would have been finished long ago. What's more, where can he get the firecracker, the Weapons Bureau's firecrackers are all fixed, and the jurisdiction is strict, if Zhang Sheng can get it casually, then others can also use the means to get it.

Zhang Zhaohua would never believe it, but he didn't expect that the Zheng family would enter the palace overnight, and he was so frightened that his face turned pale and his soul was not possessed, because according to her, Zhang Sheng was indeed involved with the firecracker.

"Niangniang," Zheng said: "The second brother really concealed the fact that there was a fire gun on the ship!"

Zhang Sheng's Qingyuan went to sea, and originally relied on Chen Xuan's sailors to help expel the Japanese invaders, but later Zhang Sheng felt that the coastline was too long, and it was impossible to meet the sailors every time, so he could only rely on himself when he went to sea - he tried his best to get a fire gun from the Shenji Battalion.

"The fire gun is an old gun eliminated by the Shenji Battalion!" Zheng said: "It is also a good relationship with the deputy general Tan Guang, so that he can get it, the Shenji Battalion has a lot of guns, and they are updated quickly, and the old guns are not all taken back, so they are privately given to our family! The second brother used the old gun that was eliminated - that gun is also fifty or sixty percent new, equipped with our Qingyuan ship, and in the past few years, when going to sea, he has relied on the fire gun, so that he is not afraid of the Japanese Kou!"