On the way back, Huang Cheng regretted it.

After working hard and working hard, he saw that he was about to get the first batch of trade rights in the Spice Islands, but he didn't think that he would stumble at the last moment, and said the wrong word, and he was reacted by the cautious Nan Juyi and blocked his way.

At present, although the imperial court has vigorously developed a number of so-called "imperial merchants" through the weaving bureaus of Suzhou and Hangzhou, it has successfully controlled the trade of silk to the West.

But at present, people with a discerning eye can see that the trade of the Ming Dynasty to foreign countries is actually a pool of stagnant water, and the vigorous development of silk goods cannot drive the national trade.

This also shows that the middleman of the Ming trade with the West has not yet appeared, and more than half of the goods to the West have to be sent to the Spice Islands and Southeast Asia.

This whole piece of cake has not been touched yet.

Unlike the Imperial Merchants of the Weaving Bureau, this intermediary won the right to trade in the Spice Islands, which was equivalent to using trade to open the door to the Western world.

If it is done properly in the future, it may even become the first person in the Ming Dynasty's trade with the West!

Merchants can't afford to be early, and those who are maritime merchants sail on the ethereal sea for many years, and they can't go home a few times a year, and they are more tired, more dangerous, and looked down upon than ordinary merchants.

He Huang Cheng is not the first person to see this opportunity, and many other large-scale maritime merchants have also seen it.

Now this Emperor of the Apocalypse, although he is young, has an extremely vicious vision and a long-term vision.

From the continuous restructuring of the Weaving Bureau in recent years, anyone who is a little shrewd can find that the imperial court will not be limited to the current silk trade, and will definitely vigorously develop the trade in the future.

Silk, tea, porcelain, etc., all kinds of oriental goods, will be continuously shipped to the west!

At this time, just like the situation in the world at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, every day cannot be wasted, and in the last ten years, there must have been a merchant in the Ming Dynasty who was selected by the imperial court to dominate the entire trade between the East and the West.

Huang Cheng hopes that this person will be himself!

He has never been so close to his dream, but just because of the improper handling of a sentence, it is another dream, and he missed!

It may be that Nan Juyi's joy made Huang Cheng forget the Fujian governor in front of him for a while, and it is not as simple as it seems.

After Huang Cheng left, the smile on Nan Juyi's face froze suddenly, and he silently took a sip of the tea on the table, which was already cold, and asked:

"This Huang Cheng, what does Yang Qianhu think?"

Ying Sheng walked out of the dark shadow in the room, with a hooked nose, a square face, and a token of the Fujian Governor's Department hanging from his waist.

The so-called Yang Qianhu deliberately stroked the token on his waist, and then sat down on the stool where Huang Cheng had sat without any one around him, and said:

"How about him, Futai knows better than me."

The two looked at each other and smiled, but Nan Juyi's smile clearly revealed a deep fear of the person in front of him and an indescribable fear.

Yang Huan, ranked third in the history of the "Five Biao" of the Eunuch Party, is now a thousand households in Jinyiwei, under the cultivation account of Fusi Tianer in Beibei Town, and served as the chief supervisor of the Zhangzhou Supervision Department under the Fujian General Supervision Department.

After laughing for a while, Yang Huan's face suddenly turned cold, and he said:

"It seems that we have to find another candidate."

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Huang Cheng and Fujian Governor Nan Juyi hit it off at first sight, and with the speed of a tornado, they swept through the Haishang circles in the south half of the Daming River.

Some people who don't know why, generally only jealousy and envy, when they are just idle talk after cooking.

Some people can see through the "sinister" intentions of Huang Cheng and Nan Juyi's friendship at a glance, and naturally their sense of crisis has doubled, and they have begun to look for a way to rely on their relationships everywhere, wanting to take a step ahead of Huang Cheng and win such a cake.

Here, there is such a maritime businessman who is still unknown at the moment and has a little capital, called Xu Xinsu.

Xu Xinsu, a native of Tong'an, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian, was a representative of maritime merchants and pirates at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Dan, a Japanese Chinese maritime leader, was a sworn brother and had a long-term friendship.

When Li Dan was working hard in Japan, Xu Xinsu had been building a supply network in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places, and then transported the silk and other commodities needed by Li Dan to Taiwan, and then transferred them to Li Dan.

Therefore, although Xu Xinsu is unknown and little known in the southeast sea, he has become one of the maritime merchants in the Taiwan Strait trade.

At the beginning of the second year of the Apocalypse, the conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands along the coast of Fujian intensified, and as the Dutch invaded Penghu and enclosed land to build forts, this obvious act of aggression, the attitudes of the two sides began to exchange aggression rapidly.

The newly appointed governor of Fujian, Nan Juyi, in order to force the Dutch to withdraw from Penghu, promised to trade in the port of Zhangzhou.

But the ambitions of the Dutch did not stop there, they refused to negotiate, and constantly sent delegations to make false peace talks, but secretly dispatched fleets, blockaded the coast of Zhangzhou, and plundered merchant ships.

The local Fujian reported the seriousness of the situation to the Beijing Division, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse attached great importance to it and ordered the Fujian Naval Division to intervene in the matter and never take a step back.

Since then, the trade conflict between the Ming and the Netherlands has evolved into a war of aggression and resistance to aggression.

One of the main reasons for the Dutch occupation of Penghu is that the silk obtained after the silkworm cocoon is reeled, also known as raw silk, which is one of the luxuries that are extremely favored by the upper class of the Western aristocracy.

The Dutch East India Company, under pressure from the royal family and nobles, began to purchase silk vigorously, but since the first year of the Apocalypse, the eunuch Li Shi, was appointed as the governor of the Suzhou Weaving Bureau.

The domestic silk output of the Ming Dynasty was gradually controlled by the imperial court, and the Dutch wanted to buy silk or silk from the Ming Dynasty, and only a small part of the maritime merchants sold wool.

The vast majority of the supply of goods was in the hands of the "imperial merchants" who cooperated with the imperial court, which caused the Dutch East India Company to start cooperating with the imperial merchants.

At the same time, in the 48th year of Wanli, the tariffs increased by the superintendent not only dissatisfied the domestic maritime merchants, but also really damaged the profits obtained by the Dutch merchants after transshipment.

Due to the limited funds of the Dutch East India Company, and the current purchase of silk, which was completely fixed by the Ming court, was ridiculously expensive, they had to reduce the amount of silk they bought.

At the beginning of the second year of the Apocalypse, members of the Dutch royal family and nobles once again put pressure on the East India Company, hoping to buy more silk from the Ming Dynasty and make it into various luxury goods to meet the circulation of the upper class.

This is the reason why the Dutch East India Company invaded Penghu earlier than in history.

Not only that, they also made a blockade of Zhangzhou Port and sent a fleet to reinforce it, which is unique in history.

Compared with the historical intention to open the port for trade and occupy Taiwan, the Dutch are menacing this time and want more benefits.

To put it bluntly, this war is equivalent to the Netherlands using force to force the Ming Dynasty to relax the export of silk and give them more favorable prices and tariffs.

However, did Zhu Youxiao agree?

The answer is definitely to let them fuck off!

It took two years, little by little, to finally control the domestic silk output, which is to make wedding dresses for you Dutch?

Don't even think about it!

Even, Zhu Youxiao also wanted to take this opportunity to study the composition of the Dutch fleet, and if he couldn't build a strong ship and a cannon in the short term, he would not be able to imitate it if he gave full play to his ingenuity?

In this battle of Penghu, we must not miss it, we must play the prestige of the Ming Dynasty in the world, we must beat the Dutch hard, and by the way, study their strong ships and artillery.

In the future, they can use their own strong ships and cannons to blast open their country!

Speaking of which, I have to mention this Xu Xinsu.

After the Dutch invaded Penghu, they quickly noticed the largest "Ming-Japanese" trading leader at this time, Li Dan.

However, Li Dan often saw the head and the end, married a wife and had children in Japan, and basically lived in Japan all the time, and Dongchang always wanted to arrest but couldn't find anyone, let alone the Dutch "invited" him to talk about trade issues.

What to do?

Soon, the Dutch thought of a good idea, that is, Li Dan's good brother, the current maritime merchant in Taiwan, Xu Xinsu.

Xu Xinsu was also unlucky, as soon as he arrived in Penghu, he caught up with the Dutch invasion, and successfully became a hostage of the Dutch who forced Li Dan to lead trade to Penghu, and was detained.

But sometimes, you don't understand a person's brain circuits.

This experience of everyone watching jokes, put here in Xu Xinsu, but it became an opportunity for him to break away from Li Dan and connect with the Dutch.

Li Dan's righteousness is worthless in his penny.

During the days when he was imprisoned by the Dutch in the Penghu fortress, Xu Xinsu was not idle at all, and actually used his identity and experience as a trader on both sides of the strait to gradually gain the trust of the Dutch.