The sea breeze whistled across the water, and a full moon in the sky reflected the hidden waves beneath the calm sea level.

Today, a huge recruitment ceremony is taking place here.

Because the coastal area of Fujian has basically been blockaded by the Dutch fleet, merchant ships do not come out, and even the Daming Navy Division cannot get close, so this recruitment ceremony was selected in Wenzhou, Zhejiang.

After receiving the order, the Wenzhou government quickly made a basic mobilization.

The government issued a notice, and the local newspaper office in Wenzhou Prefecture, which had the right to publish the "Beijing Daily", was also "invited" to cooperate with the government and actively publicize the fact that the Zheng family was going to be recruited by the imperial court.

In order to expand its influence, the Yamen of Wenzhou prefect stipulated in a notice that on the day of the Zhao'an ceremony, all the people who came to watch, with more than three households, would be subject to various taxes for the whole year of the three years of the Apocalypse.

Maritime merchants with 20 or more merchant ships in their hands, who sign after viewing, will have the priority right to transport goods in the port of Wenzhou in the next three years.

What is the Right of First Ref?

Because he was born in Haikou, what Zheng Yiguan asked for from Nan Juyi, the governor of Fujian, was nothing more than the right to trade among maritime merchants since ancient times.

The above right of commerce is the so-called right of priority for the transportation of goods that all maritime merchants are concerned about.

The maritime merchants who have this right will become the "imperial merchants" of the imperial court in the next three years. At present, among the maritime merchants, the most troublesome for the Dutch and the most profitable for the maritime merchants is silk.

Since the first year of the Apocalypse was canonized as the queen, Li Shi, the celebrant and eunuch who went to various places to select the queen, made great contributions, and was sent by Zhu Youxiao to Suzhou Weaving, which was making trouble at that time, as the admiral eunuch.

So far, two years have passed, Li Shi has developed the first batch of Ming imperial merchants in Suzhou Prefecture, and the value of the existence of the imperial merchants is to control the direction of silk circulation in various places for the imperial court.

During the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian was in charge of the government, and the so-called "eunuch party" claimed by the Donglin party people rose, and gradually spread all over the world, except for Suzhou weaving, which was personally sent by the emperor.

The rest of the weaving bureaus in the provinces of Nanzhili were all controlled by the eunuchs.

These eunuch party members openly acted for the so-called eunuch Wei Zhongxian to make profits, but their secret role was to develop a large number of "imperial merchants" who relied on imperial power.

The local manufacturing bureaus and supervision departments have joined forces to control the whole process of silk from planting to output, and ordinary businessmen have only two options to get.

First, pay a high price, and second, become an imperial businessman.

Once they became imperial merchants, they would have the support of the imperial court, it would be easier to resell silk, and they would also be escorted by local sailors when they ran to the sea to make deliveries.

Of course, the navy division is basically unable to do it at the current imperial court, because the combat effectiveness of the navy division is very weak, and the coastal area can still contain the inferior equipment of the pirates a little.

After leaving the territorial waters, not to mention the colonizers and marauder fleets of the Westerners, even some slightly stronger pirates, will cause a lot of losses to the imperial navy.

After the initial attempt to escort the whole process, the local government suffered a lot of losses, and soon gradually changed its policy and turned it into a symbolic coastal escort.

This is also where Zhu Youxiao is committed to development.

However, everything needs to be done step by step.

Most of the silk in the south of the Yangtze River, as long as there is the priority of the imperial court, others monopolize three trips, and they may take one trip, and they can obtain considerable profits.

The imperial court can extract tariffs and control goods, which can be described as a win-win situation.

Now the maritime merchants in the southern ports wanted to transport silk to the West, and they had to buy silk from the imperial merchants.

Of course, since the second half of the second year of the Apocalypse, the conditions for becoming an imperial merchant have become more and more stringent, not that anyone can become an imperial merchant and get privileges.

This time, the large-scale absorption of imperial merchants in Wenzhou Mansion quickly caused a great shock in the Haishang circle, and many people did not even ship the goods, and came to the port of Wenzhou Mansion to watch the Zheng family's recruitment ceremony.

They don't know why the imperial court attaches so much importance to this matter, anyway, they don't need to pay anything, and they can get the right of first refusal to monopolize silk, why not?

"Yiguan, look." Zheng Hongkui walked behind Zheng Yiguan, his eyes solemn: "It's just an official position of the garrison of Zhangzhoukou, Fujian, why are there so many people?" ”

"I'm afraid it's the ghosts of the imperial court who want to tie me up." Zheng Yiguan also saw it, and in his expression, he couldn't see any joy in getting Zhao'an:

"I wanted to try to keep a low profile as much as possible, and such a fuss was known all over the world, and I, Zheng Yiguan, abandoned Li Dan and was recruited by the imperial court."

"Li Dan is small, so he should turn against me because of this..."

"The hand of the court is really clever, this is to press us on the stove to roast." Zheng Hongkui nodded and wondered:

"Could it be that Nanju Yi's idea?"

"I don't know."

Zheng Yiguan is very honest, he is not very old now, but he is very old, his eyes look at the deep sea, and he has thoughts that many of his peers do not have:

"This time Zhao'an, our Zheng family has benefited, and the imperial court has also come to such a hand, and it is a draw to make a dumb loss to us."

Zheng Hongkui has an indecisive personality, and at this time, when he saw many maritime merchants and people waiting on the shore to watch jokes, when the matter came to an end, he suddenly became a little hesitant and retreated, and asked:

"Then, are you still recruiting?"

"Why don't you recruit An?"

Zheng Yiguan seemed to wonder why he asked such a stupid question, glanced at it, but also turned around and patiently explained:

"The court has made such a big move, even if you turn around and go back now, Li Dan is bound to ask me for guilt, the court and Li Dan, we must always take a side first."

"Makes sense..."Zheng Hongkui thought thoughtfully.

The Zheng family's fleet soon approached the port, and it was not a local official from Wenzhou Prefecture who came to greet him, but a Fujian coastal defense guerrilla under Yu Zisoo, called Wang Mengxiong.

Wang Mengxiong, born in Jiangmen, Shaowu Mansion, Fujian, his ancestor made meritorious service with Emperor Yongle Jingnan, and was the hereditary official of Dajin coastal guard of thousands of households.

His father, Wang Tao, was a well-known general in Fujian, and was Yu Dayou's right-hand man's subordinates, and he made many military exploits. Later, Qi Jiguang moved troops to Fujian, continued to clear out the Japanese invaders, and cooperated with the Qi army to fight under the order of Yu Dayou.

In the battle of Hengyu Island, when the outflanking troops of the Qi family army had not arrived, they accurately judged the day of the high tide, and led the troops to gallop day after day, breaking the Japanese Ono Mishiro.

Qi Jiguang also commented that Wang Tao, who was a guerrilla general in coastal defense at the time, had gained sufficient time for him to arrange the battle situation and annihilate the Japanese invaders.

Wang Tao was blessed in his later years, gave birth to a son, named Mengxiong, and died at home in the early years of Wanli, and became the deputy chief soldier of Fujian, the commander of Zhendongwei, and the governor of the five armies.

He couldn't have imagined that he had fought all his life, and successively annihilated the Japanese with Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang, and his own son, but he had to continue to fight with Yu Dayou's son and Western colonists.

After Wang Tao's death, there was no fluctuation in the government and the opposition, but in the end, Emperor Wanli issued an edict, and one of his sons added brocade clothes and guards to thousands of households when he became an adult, which was considered to be a consolation in Tianyingling.

This son is the Wang Mengxiong in front of him, and now Yu Dayou's son Yu Zisoo's right-hand man was ordered to come to contact Zheng Yiguan.

Yu Zisoap didn't come by himself, which was also unexpected by Zheng Yiguan.

This time, the imperial court can be said to have made Zheng Yiguan break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, the scene was quite big, and the news spread widely, but it turned out that it was only a local guerrilla general in Fujian who came to pick up people.

This is equivalent to a slap in the face...