Seeing that the Mazu Temple in the place was still simple, he donated 2,000 silver dollars on behalf of the Southeast Prefecture and told the temple to renovate the Mazu Temple and make it look good.

Those Chinese businessmen who came with him immediately responded, you have 1,000 and I have 500, and I have made up enough 10,000 silver dollars at once!

Then Gan Hui visited Hoi An City, accompanied by Chinese businessmen, and saw that the market was quite prosperous, and the merchants of Guangdong and Fujian were mainly engaged in intermediary business, dealing in traditional Chinese medicine, cloth, spices, honey, silk and silk fabrics, etc., which was the only source of Chinese raw and cooked silk in Annam, and began a seven-month trading season during the New Year every year. Local residents brought silk, ebony, ashen, sugar, musk, cinnamon, rice and other local products; Chinese merchant ships brought in porcelain, paper, tea, silver bars, weapons, saltpeter, sulfur, lead, and other goods.

There are also many red-haired people, including Portuguese, Dutch, and British who set up trading houses here and trade in silk.

Among them, there are a large number of Chinese businessmen, who have reached more than 4,000 people, they are industrious and intelligent, basically manipulate the commercial trade of Hoi An, and make Hoi An known as "Little Chang'an" by Chinese businessmen! ”

Gan Hui has gone to various Chinese chambers of commerce to sit down, with the most majestic and magnificent building of the Fujian Hall, Jin Bihui is panicked, and some of the halls are average, but Gan Hui does not despise them because the other party is small, but is very polite, seems to respect them very much, and makes the other party like a spring breeze.

That night, the leaders of the Chinese businessmen invited Gan Hui to a banquet, and at the banquet, Gan Hui talked about a few things and asked them to think about them.

It must be united!

"We have an important law in the southeast province, which says that unity is strength!

"If you are away from home, you can't do anything if you don't unite!" He said loudly: "Tear down each other, vicious competition, and provoke outsiders to laugh at us Mingren......" His words caused repercussions, and everyone nodded frequently.

Some people are even more ashamed because that's what they did!

"I propose to set up a local 'Chinese Entrepreneur Association'! If there is anything, talk about it in the Chamber of Commerce, and everyone will negotiate to solve it, don't hurt the harmony! ”

"You must know that we soldiers speak with cannons, and you businessmen are harmonious and wealthy!" Gan Hui's words aroused everyone's unanimous approval, and they all said that Gan Vice Seat said it well.

"As for the constitution of the Chinese Entrepreneur Association, I have a draft here, you can refer to it!" Gan Hui sent out a draft text, which is nothing more than voting, negotiating on something, caring for compatriots, etc., and said that you can explore it yourself in the future.

"Besides, I heard that some of you have already received the Water Banner of my Southeast Mansion, which is not an ordinary thing!" Gan Hui said: "If you encounter something unhappy, you can hold this flag and go to our place to complain!" ”

This is also said in the Chinese businessmen in the country to receive the water to lead the flag, but the power of the southeast province has not been projected to Annam, the local Chinese businessmen are skeptical, today I heard the high-ranking and powerful Gan deputy seat of the southeast government personally promised, all of them were in high spirits, sat up straight, and listened carefully to Gan Hui's words!

What surprised them even more was that Gan Hui said: "In the future, we will come often on this route and send cruisers, which is your confidence!" ”

All the Chinese businessmen clapped their hands again and again!

According to their business experience, Hoi An trade is determined by the monsoon, mainly in the two seasons of northeast monsoon and southeast wind, September to January is the cold season with many typhoons and floods, and April to August is the dry and cool season. From September to December every year, the northwest monsoon blows over the Hoi An Ocean; From January to March every year, the northeast monsoon blows; From April to June, the summer monsoon blows.

Japanese and Chinese merchants take advantage of the northeast monsoon to bring silver, porcelain, paper, tea, silver bars, weapons, saltpeter, sulfur, lead and other goods during the New Year every year, and local residents bring silk, ebony, agarwood, sugar, musk, cinnamon, rice and other local products to start the seven-month trading season.

It is necessary to understand all kinds of information, Gan Hui remembered the information of the Ruan Dynasty that he had seen before, compared with the first-hand information he got now, it was not detailed enough, and he felt that the intelligence agencies of the previous side were still lacking, especially the local military strength was incomplete, so he had an idea, that is, to set up a military intelligence bureau!

At present, there is a large intelligence bureau in the southeast province, and there should be a special military intelligence bureau to further collect military intelligence and actively spy on the military situation in various localities.

Then Gan Hui asked the Chinese businessmen, did they encounter any difficulties in operating here?

"Everything else is easy to say, mainly because the taxes are very high!" Shi Tong'an, who has the rank of Tongzhi, said.

"Their tax costs us eight thousand taels of silver a year for a large ship, five thousand taels of silver for a medium ship, and three thousand taels of silver for a small boat!" Shi Tongan said.

This tax is very high, you must know that Yan Changwu's water guide flag only charges 2,000 silver dollars from the Chinese (any ship is the same)!

"Besides, even if you pay taxes, you still extort money, and your words don't count!" Shi Tongan said indignantly, for example, last year Hoi An officials signed a contract with Chinese merchants from the Wa Kingdom, on the condition that each sailing ship would give their Nguyen lord 1,000 taels of silver and 500 taels to the prince every year, and he would not interfere in their business, and the Chinese merchants had paid according to the amount that year, but the Hoi An official saw that their silk was good, so they changed their fortune and forced the two silk sailing ships to pay 10,000 taels and the prince 7,000 taels.

There are many similar things, and Chinese businessmen have repeatedly appealed to this kind of illegal extortion to no avail.

"Good, I wrote it down!" Gan Hui thanked them.

……

After he went back, he took a boat to the flagship to report to Yan Changwu, and Yan Changwu said with deep feelings: "It's not easy for Chinese businessmen to be outside!" ”

Those Chinese businessmen just said some aspects, and many grievances were not mentioned!

It is not easy for the people of a country to make a living abroad without the strong support of the mother country, just in terms of some information that Yan Changwu has, the most prominent one:

In the thirteenth year of Chenghua, Guangdong Zhuchi was honored by Chen Yu: The citizens of Nanhai County were blown to Annan by the wind and were incorporated into the army and castrated more than 100 people. In Chenghua, Wu Rui, a native of Wenchang, Hainan, and 13 people, including fellow villager Liu Qiu, went to Qinzhou to do business.

It means that a certain official of the Ming Dynasty said that my Ming people were blown away by the wind to Annam, but they were arrested by the Annam people and asked them to plow the fields (the natives were too lazy to die), afraid that they would escape, and castrated them! (So I'm embarrassed to go back to my hometown)

……

Yan Changwu summoned the officers and asked them to listen to them too.

"Externally, our strategy is to walk on two legs, civil and military! The people are actively developing trade, and our military is the one who provokes us, and we will take the opportunity to start a war! Yan Changwu said in front of all the senior officers: "Our battleships are not for viewing, they are to be used for war, we can't use all kinds of force, but within the scope of our strength, we must keep fighting foreign wars and grab benefits for our people!" ”

"If I don't start a war and teach them how to respect people, there will never be peace abroad!" Yan Changwu said with a strong will.

The officers nodded knowingly, the army is a terrifying monster fed by war, and only by war can the army thrive and reflect their value!

We respect ours, and we respect them.

If we don't respect us, we will teach them to know whose hands the truth is!

The word "truth", Yan Changwu created the "Truth 1 gun" (shotgun) and "Truth 2 gun" (sniper rifle), and they are still coming.

Over time, the senior officers understood what the truth was, and often shouted that the "truth" was in the hands of our Southeast Prefecture!