"I have a plan, I don't know if I should talk about it or not......"

"What's the sale?"

"Don't talk about it!"

"Don't listen!"

"Oops! I said no, yet? That's right, let's find a way in advance, and then buy these thieves ......."

"I know, isn't it just to lure others to rob you, and when people come, as soon as the ambushes come out, and then rob others to earn a double share, is that what it means?"

"You know this? I thought it was my own development......"

"Are you fishing law enforcement in disguise, and don't you want to see who we are? You get it! ”

"But you say, what about my plan?"

"Okay, okay, your plan is not bad, but now I still listen to Brother Zhu talk about history!"

Zhu Beiguo smiled and praised this fishing law enforcement action and said, this strategy is okay, it is poisonous enough! But we don't have any extra ships to do this business now, maybe we can in the future......

Then Zhu Beiguo continued with the topic just now:

"In this era, those who play Nanyang Maritime Trade are all capable and ruthless, because it is really a business that licks blood from the knife edge, and those who can live are all big guys!

For example, the Zheng family in Fujian! By the way, the order of trade in the coastal seas of Europe, or at least the inland seas, was much better in this era.

For example, in the North Sea and the northern Mediterranean, trade is generally relatively free as long as the two countries do not declare war. Although mercantilism is now prevalent in European countries, and the "Navigation Regulations" of the Cromwell era in England also led to a war with the Dutch, on the whole, the business environment is much better, the legal system can be spoken, there are places to reason in case of disputes, and the environment is conducive to business for the whole people, so Europe has developed relatively quickly compared to other regions......

"Really?"

"It seems to be different from the general impression......

"Wasn't there a time when pirates were rampant?"

Seeing that everyone began to question, Zhu Beiguo waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said slowly, this is not nonsense, there is an important historical evidence here.

You know, the Dutch started by sea, and they are called sea coachmen, but do you know what kind of ships the Dutch used to transport in Europe?

It was a two- or three-masted wooden ship, called the North Sea Galen or whatever it was called, and it usually had only a dozen or so crew members, and some smaller ones even had only four or five crew members.

And the Dutch relied on such wooden boats to start the business of sea transportation, because the ship was thin and stuffy, and the crew was small and the cost was low, so they made more money.

The Dutch sailed first off the coast of Northern Europe, then gradually extended their routes to France, then to the Iberian Peninsula, and finally became competitors to Genoa and the Venetians.

You see, the Netherlands, the tiny Dutch low-country country, started out on such ships, and eventually became the sea coachman who dominated the seas.

So if we don't have a relatively safe environment for maritime transportation and trade, is this low-cost mode of transportation possible?

In other words, if anyone came to the South Seas in such a thin-skinned ship, wouldn't it be like death?

Not to mention pirates and pirates, if you dare to drive such a ship to the South Seas, the villagers on the nearby island will dare to drive a canoe to rob you to the point where you don't have any pants left!

So what is the situation in the seas outside of Europe, of course, Europeans also understand, for example, the Caribbean, which is a lawless sea, and Caribbean pirates are also famous.

But the Europeans in the South Seas did not know very well, at least when they first arrived, the Europeans still suffered a lot of losses, and later, as pioneers, the Portuguese and Spaniards, as pioneers, made the galleons stronger and stronger, and the force became stronger and stronger, and only in this way did we see that the Europeans seemed to have finally gained a firm foothold in the South Seas by relying on the strength of their ships and guns.

However, how could such a costly seafaring trade be supported without the lucrative profits of the trade?

Therefore, mercantilist monopoly trade is bound to prevail.

However, monopoly will inevitably create contradictions, which is inconsistent with the nature of human beings to pursue freedom and equality, and then, the more contradictions accumulate, the more fierce the competition becomes, so the more it is necessary to use mercantilist monopoly to protect their own trade interests, and this vicious circle accumulates to a critical point, and it is war.

In the end, all industries withered and the economy collapsed.

So people reshuffle and redevelop on top of this ruin, until history enters the next cycle.

"So there is an intrinsic truth to the saying that history is strikingly similar......"

Zhu Beiguo finally concluded.

"But here we are, we should and can break this cycle of history!"

I don't know when Li Junming appeared in front of everyone and said this to everyone.

"Mr. Li, how should we break this historical cycle?"

"Raise the banner of free trade!"

Li Junming said to everyone with blazing eyes at this time.

"Easier said than done......"

"Those East India Companies who do not have their own monopoly in the neighborhood, and have reached some balance, and if we want to break this balance, we will offend all the powers."

"But it's clear that this is the trend of the times......"

Li Junming said with a serious face.

"Brother Li, of course we know the general trend you always said, there is a fashionable word called globalization, but that is three hundred years later, and it is unrealistic to put forward this kind of slogan now, right?!"

Someone in the crowd retorted.

But you can't deny that this is a concept that is beneficial to the country and the people, and is conducive to the progress of mankind! It's a good thing! ”

Li Junming is still sticking to his ideas.

"Of course we admit it, but ......"

"But the conditions and people's perceptions don't allow it, right? I know you'll say that! As far as I'm concerned, I stick to a point of view, 'But do good deeds, don't ask about the future.' Ladies and gentlemen, I am not a pure idealist, at most just an idealist with a sense of reality.

Since we have come to this new world, we should bring a little civilization progress to this world, and the banner of free trade occupies the moral high ground and can attract people's hearts, especially for those who are struggling to fight against those powerful forces and struggle to survive in the cracks of the major powers, we are liberators! ”

"Lawyer Li means that we can use this banner to call for allies?"

"That's right! Mr. Li is so right! Unity can unite the forces to fight against power and create a free market community without trade barriers. ”

Someone in the crowd suddenly thought of this layer, so some people began to nod their heads in agreement with Li Junming's statement.

"So what's the current situation in Nanyang? Do we really have what it takes to build a free-trade market community? ”

Someone in the crowd asked another question.

"Overall, there are three major forces in Nanyang today!"

At this time, Zhu Beiguo took over the conversation and said:

"The Europeans, with the East India Company as the main body, and the indigenous kingdoms' maritime trade and privateer fleets, which were often closely associated with the Arabs and Indian maritime merchants. The third force is the maritime trade group composed of Chinese maritime merchants as the main body, plus Japanese ronin and sea people from other countries, which is also a merchant and a thief, and the most typical is the maritime power represented by the Zheng family in Fujian.

However, in the gap between these forces, there are a large number of small and medium-sized merchants, they are not attached to the major forces of maritime merchants, these people belong to the middle power, sometimes dependent on one side, sometimes dependent on the other, of course, often the two sides do not rely on, after all, there are countless routes in the vast sea, there are also long coastlines for landing, these maritime merchants are doing extremely high-risk maritime trade in various evasions, theoretically speaking, these large number of small and medium-sized maritime merchants are our natural allies. ”