The arrival of Mysore gave Li Shouhan's naval fleet an excellent window facing the Arabian Sea. The fine weapons that the Arab princes liked, all kinds of fine gold, silverware, porcelain, silk, tea, spices, were more and more convenient to transport. And the strong slaves they imported into Nanzhong, the bewitching female slaves like snakes, and a large number of gold, silver, gems and other things, also flowed into Nanzhong through the channel of Lin Kun, the largest licensed slave trader. It provides fresh blood for the plantations, workshops, mines, and shipyards in Nanzhong.

Today, represented by Li Huamei, Shi Lang, Zhang Xiaohu and other naval generals, there is already a very high demand in the Nanyue Army, calling for the scale of the naval division to be expanded again, and those facing India and Tianfang in the west will be unified into one large fleet, and those facing the Japanese Kingdom and Fuso's hometown in the east will be organized into a large fleet. At the same time, it manages the sea route in the direction of the ten states.

With this port, it will undoubtedly extend the line of control of the Nanyue Army to the west by thousands of miles! In the eyes of others, all dynasties and dynasties felt that being thousands of miles away was a great burden on the finances, but only the generals and officials of the Nanyue Army knew that these tens of thousands of miles of sea frontier were not only flowing with sea water, but also gold and silver like the sea!

"My father's mind has been decided. For the sake of Fengtian to rebel and maintain the royal road. Although Charles, the king of England at that time, had many disobedient words and deeds to his father. However, the royal way cannot be changed. England rebelled against the party, extorted extortions, and hindered trade activities. This duke proposes to implement a punitive tariff system on English ships and merchants in the territory under the rule of our Nanyue army, and at the same time, prohibit English ships from docking and replenishing. Brother Zong, you are proficient in the art of Tao Zhu, go back and discuss with the people below, and come up with a list of goods that are prohibited from being imported into England. ”

"Your Majesty obeys!" Li Peilin took the opportunity to push Li Shouhan up again, revealing a little information in front of many envoys and deputies.

"Penalty tariffs, ban on docking, trade embargo. These are just the attitudes of my Nanyue Army's family, what do you think? Li Shouhan kicked the ball back at the feet of the delegates present. Didn't you just say that everything is the only thing to look forward to? Didn't you say to follow Jiwei? Good! I have now proposed sanctions. It's up to you guys to make a statement!

"Ryukyu follow His Highness! From then on, English ships were not allowed to enter the port! Unless there is a will of His Highness! ”

"Mysore would like to be your most loyal servant! Unless you will, if the ships of the English traitors dare to enter our harbor, we will let them taste the cannonballs of thunder and fury! ”

"On behalf of the Shogun, I hereby assure Your Highness that if a port under the rule of a daimyo dares to supply and trade with an English ship that does not possess His Highness's decree, my Tokugawa Shogun, who is trusted by my family, will raise the army of the whole country to fight against him!"

"The Netherlands is your most loyal friend as always! We will fight the arrogance and rebellion of the rebels of England on the seas and in the harbors! ”

"The Portuguese are your most faithful servants! Only your orders can allow us to fill in the oceans and tear down the mountains! ”

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"Spain...

On the commercial and trade routes between the East and the West, almost all the powerful regimes along the route have stood up and made a statement. Everyone knows very well that if this opening is opened in England, then everyone will not be able to do business in the future. Especially in a country like the Netherlands, which is famous for its sea coachmen and engaged in transportation and commerce. The combined trade volume and tonnage of ships between the Dutch and the Nanyue Army are in a controllable position in today's world. What's more, Nanyuejun is also a strong producer.

"In order to highlight our determination to trade and commerce, we have decided." Li Shouhan slowly opened his mouth.

At Li Shouhan's suggestion, the people present heard what made them jaw-dropping, and some even pinched their thighs to see if they were in a dream. Some people even whispered to ask their own affairs, "If the interpretation is wrong, Lao Tzu will kill you immediately!" ”

"You are all friends who have known me for many years, and we have been in constant trade with each other. In order to perpetuate this relationship of our affection in the form of law, I propose that the tariffs between us be uniformly fixed at 100 percent. That is to say," Li Shouhan patted Van Basten on the shoulder, "My Excellency Basten, the Dutch goods you trafficked enter the territory of my Ming Dynasty, or my Nanyue Army, and my Ming goods are transported to your Netherlands, and we only charge ten percent of the tariff, and we only collect it once, and we can't double the tax!" ”

"Chinese goods sold to the Netherlands only have to pay a 10 percent tariff. In the same way, Dutch goods to China only need to pay a 10% tariff in Malacca or Guangzhou, we are a free trade country, absolutely do not engage in tariff barriers. ”

Li Shouhan's words suddenly made Van Basten and the others feel like they had been hit by the dense artillery group and the golden cannonballs fired by the entire naval fleet. This sudden sense of happiness made them a little dizzy.

"Your Highness, what did you say? Do you mean, do you mean, that from now on the trade between us will be subject to only one tariff, and moreover, no more re-collection? Basten stuttered. In the face of huge interests, he stammered when he was eloquent and witty, and he could make the princesses, princesses, princesses and ladies of the royal family and nobles in Europe wet with one mouth.

"Not bad! However, "

Li Shouhan was about to continue, when someone next to him suddenly shouted, "Father, no! ”

Everyone looked fixedly, but it was Liang Guogong's son-in-law who rode the dragon, the prince of the big county lord Li Huamei, and now Shi Lang, the commander of a detachment of the naval division.

Shi Lang almost burst into tears.

"Father! For example, when he first ascended to the throne today, he was going to make great efforts to restore the capital division, expel the Tartars, and pacify the rebels. Everywhere there is a place where money and food are needed. Salaries, rations, instruments, ships, horses, knives and guns, which is not a heap of silver? But if the father lowers the tariffs, a major source of salary for our Nanyue army will be exhausted, how should you raise troops and how to fight? Please think twice! ”

"Father! Our Nanyue Army has millions of soldiers and horses on land, thousands of ships of all sizes and tens of thousands of artillery pieces! Once the salary is insufficient, how will the father maintain his boss? Do you want my father to continue to use the money and grain from the inner government to raise soldiers? The son-in-law asks his father to think twice! ”

"Foolish thing! Darn! How do you have a voice here? Come on, tie me up! The marching law will deal with you in a moment! Li Shouhan's face suddenly darkened, and it was obvious that Shi Lang's behavior made him lose face in front of this group of red-haired Yi people, Ryukyu, Japan, Tianzhu, Tianfang and other barbarians.

"Commander Shi, let's say a few words, go down and rest first." At this time, naturally Shi Lang couldn't be tied up and taken down. Several officials rushed up and sent Shi Lang outside the lobby with persuasion.

Along the way, Shi Lang kept shouting all the way, persuading Li Shouhan not to be hot-headed for a while, so he abolished the tariff, an important source of military salary.

Seeing that Shi Lang was half-pushed and half-persuaded by several officials to knock out of the lobby, Li Shouhan's black face looked a little better.

"The princesses are going to laugh. It's also to blame my father, who is not strict in discipline on weekdays, and spoils and indulges these children too much, which is what happened today. Hugh! Hugh! ”

"Then, Your Highness, what you just said 。。。。。" Van Basten didn't care much about Li Shouhan's tutoring, they only cared about their own gold and silver.

"As long as the list is willing, we can sign it right away! Come! ”

Dozens of soldiers held a tray with a tariff contract that had been drawn up, and as long as the names of both parties were filled in the blank space, and then the seal was used, the matter was declared legally completed.

Everyone couldn't think about why Li Shouhan put forward such an idea on the front foot, and he could immediately prepare so thoroughly. They were only worried that no more Shi Lang-like figure would pop up and jump out to block the progress of this good deed. So, as soon as they rushed up, they each grabbed a contract, and asked Mr. Scrivener to write his name on it, and then, taking out the seal of the envoy or plenipotentiary from his waist, he stamped it very hard. Then, he respectfully handed it to the officials of the Nanyue Military Household Division. These officials, like Shi Lang, maintained their opposition to the tariff agreement, and they all looked like dead Lao Tzu Niang.

Only Li Peilin was alone and snickered in his heart.

"The Lord is getting more and more clever at dominating the sheep! This method is very good! If I hadn't known the reason for this, I would have thought that this was a decision made by the lord on a whim, and it was true that my aunt came out to dissuade him. ”

pierced this layer of window paper, in fact, it was full of routines!

All of this was decided last night by Li Shouhan, Li Peilin, and Shi Lang in one place, and in order to make Shi Lang able to act more brilliantly, Li Shouhan also specially ordered people to put forward two swindlers who specialized in slaughtering sheep on the street from the prison of the Terracotta Division of Nanjing Five Cities, and asked them to show in front of Shi Lang how they sold the worthless goods in their hands, even fake antiques, as rare treasures to the rich people who entered the city from the countryside at a high price, not only let the other party buy them at a high price, but also let the other party beg to buy. Crying and shouting to buy it at a high price.

So, Li Shouhan and Shi Lang, the two sons-in-law, acted as swindlers who sold fake antiques, fake ginseng, and stolen all kinds of valuable things on the streets of Nanjing, and Yang Mu was naturally the group of guys from the East and the West led by Van Basten on the scene.

Shi Lang's role is almost equivalent to the young guy in the cross talk "Selling Cloth Head", "Shopkeeper!" Don't let it! If you let it go again, you will lose it! "He cried and shouted hard to admonish, and it was the source of military salaries, and it was a big set of restoring the Central Plains to expel the Tartars, so that these barbarians were tricked by the marketing routines of our Chinese kingdom. I just feel that this great opportunity to take advantage is fleeting, and I don't take advantage of it. So, they rushed up one after another, grabbed a contract in their hands, and signed and drew a seal without looking at it.

"It's not good for this group of sheep to think about it, if the tariff is low and the tariff must not be repeated, is it beneficial to the seller or the buyer? Is it so easy to take advantage of my father-in-law's advantage? Are you going to lose your wife to him or your daughter to him? Li Peilin's face was as usual, and his eyes were just looking at the envoys who were happily signing the contract of sale.

As Li Peilin, who has been in charge of the business and trade system of the Nanyue Army, he naturally knows where the advantages of the Nanyue Army are in the business chain.

Unlike the Hongmaoyi people led by the Dutchman Van Basten, they are also different from the Jinshang Group and the Huishang Group in the Central Plains. Most of them are engaged in logistics and circulation, while the Nanyue Army is from the raw material link, the production link to the circulation and trade link, a complete set of industrial chain and trade chain there. How can the advantages of such a system be comparable to those of the coachmen of the sea?

As a producer with strong productivity, it can obtain the most favorable price supply of raw materials through the preferential treatment of tariffs and no longer repeated collections, thereby reducing production costs. As a trader, through such preferential policies, they can export a large number of their high-quality and cheap goods, quickly occupy the markets of other countries, and completely strangle the industry and handicraft industry of the country where the market destination is located! Just as historically, the British textile industry turned the Ganges plain white with the bones of Indian cotton spinners.

It is conceivable that the commodities of Nanzhong, which have a production advantage, whether it is agricultural products such as rice and oilseeds, necessities such as cotton cloth and tea, luxury goods such as spices, silk, porcelain, and military materials such as gunpowder, weapons, firearms, and armor, will rush through Manchuria, Tianzhu, Tianfang, and Europe like a tide under the premise of having a tariff advantage. Let those turtles get more help in the process of fighting, and fight better, more advanced, and more bloody and fire.

"The next step is to cultivate a group of my own people in the various ports along the way? Buying a group of locals to be the compradors that the lord often says? Let them act as pawns for us, go to the striker, and take out the crafting yard near the port. Li Peilin's mind was spinning rapidly, perfecting the details for the follow-up plan.

Over there, Li Shouhan is also doing his job.

He handed Van Basten a handwritten document with an autograph, "Old Fan, this is your contract document." As an old friend of the Nanyue Army, this is what we give to our old friend. ”

There is something peculiar about the letterhead of this instrument, as the name of B B is not the United Province of the Netherlands, but the Christian name of Van Basten, a long list of Latin.

"Lao Fan, take a look, did the children below write Taifu wrong?"

Van Basten has been dealing with the Nanyue Army for a long time, and has a home in Nanzhong, and he also has some understanding of borrowed pronouns such as "Taifu" and "Taishan", so even after reviewing it, he returned the contract to Li Shouhan with confidence, "Your Highness, there is no mistake." Do you intend for me to sign the paperwork as the representative of the United Province of the Netherlands? ”

"Nope! Our tariff preferences are not for the United Province of the Netherlands, but for you! ”

Such a small difference made Van Basten a little grateful. In his eyes, this thin contract document was several times more than all the wealth he currently possessed in the world combined. Don't forget, he is not only Van Basten of the United Province of the Netherlands, but also a figure in France, Italy, Germany and other Central and Southern European countries, even in front of His Holiness the Pope and the Ottoman Sultan. In such a large territory, he has a preferential tariff treatment, what kind of weight does this have?

"Perhaps, the Habsburgs and the Spanish royal family will send someone to discuss the marriage with me. Should I ask them to follow the rules of the East, the system of wives and concubines, or to set a hierarchy for women in the home, like the emperor of China? ”

While imagining the good times when the princesses of the Habsburgs, the Capets, the Spanish royal family, and the Ottoman royal family married him as concubines and mistresses, Van Basten, as an outstanding businessman, knew that there was no such thing as a pie falling from the sky. It's business to have dealings. With a slight turn in his mind, he found a way to express his friendship.

"Your Highness! His Royal Highness is so benevolent that he has lowered the tariff rate, and it is not long before a large number of orders will arrive. At that time, there will definitely be a shortage of labor in His Highness's workshop. As your most loyal old friend, Basten naturally wants to share your worries. When I returned, I wrote to the countries of Europe, asking them to sell me the prisoners of war that had been supplied. I will give it to Your Highness! ”

Van Basten's words were gentle and aristocratic. However, the officials of the Nanyue military system from Li Shouhan to the south were stunned. What the? Prisoners of war born in war? Resold to the Southern Yue Army as a slave labor in the workshop? My Mr. Basten, your discipline is so deep that it is much deeper than the Pacific Ocean! In Europe, where both sides have to fight their brains, it's good not to slaughter each other, so how can you distinguish who is a prisoner of war and who is a civilian? It is impossible to say that after the next town, all the inhabitants of the town, regardless of gender, old and young, will become prisoners of war. They were then escorted to a port controlled by Mr. Basten for delivery in exchange for the arms and supplies they needed to continue the war. And these poor people will wander thousands of miles on the sea in the turmoil and danger, and go to Nanzhong to serve as slave laborers.

"Good! Sir is really an old friend of mine! Li Shouhan was quite appreciative of Van Basten's suggestion. Damn! You white-skinned pigs plundered gold ivory slaves in Africa, slaughtered Indians in the Americas, sold piglets along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong in China, and then engaged in Chinese exclusion bills. Now these are just Lao Tzu asking for some interest! ”

"What His Excellency Basten said, we in the Ottoman Empire can do it too!"

"We in the Spanish Empire can do the same!"

The representatives of the Ottoman Empire's Coplulu family and the Spanish Empire, who had signed a bilateral tariff agreement with the Nanyue Army, approached with a green light in their eyes like sharks smelling blood.