After directing the ships all the way into the Huangpu River according to the prescribed route, Guedes found that there were many ships in the Huangpu River, most of which were traditional hard-sailed boats, but some were Galen or even carat ships like his ships.

After the opening of the port of Shanghai, a large number of ships began to gather here, including merchant ships running along the coast of China, as well as ships from East Asian countries, and European ships naturally also have, of course, more are all kinds of small and medium-sized inland waterways, offshore ships, fishing boats, etc.

And the closer to the port of Shanghai, there are more and more ships, which makes Guedes sigh a little, the port here is not long, although the ships are still not as good as the port of Guangzhou, but the ships here are not inferior to the port of Lianzhou, than the other two second batch of ports open to trade: Ningbo, Quanzhou is much better.

The Tang Dynasty has two batches, a total of five treaty ports, basically each has its own advantages, and they are all carefully selected by the Tang Dynasty.

From south to north, Lianzhou Port, although this place has no special products, but its geographical location is too superior, it is the southernmost treaty port in China, and many ships to and from Southeast Asia depart from here, or arrive at this place first.

After all, most of the voyages in these years are along the coastline, and the ships often need to dock for supplies, so although Lianzhou Port's own special advantages are not obvious, the geographical location is very important.

In addition, the Tang Dynasty promoted the development of industry and commerce, and in Guangzhou it was not only able to purchase a large number of traditional Chinese specialties, but also glass, soap, soap, cheap cloth and other emerging industrial products.

At the same time, Guangzhou also has a huge demand for all kinds of materials transported by sea, such as cotton from India and other regions, spices, precious wood, sails, saltpeter, sulfur and many other raw materials from Southeast Asian countries.

The maritime merchants were able to reap handsome returns after transporting their goods to Canton for sale, and then purchasing large quantities of Chinese exports.

The newly opened port of Quanzhou is dominated by tea, and the tea production in Fujian is very large, and it is also the main export commodity of the place.

Ningbo, is both tea and silk, in the northern part of Zhejiang, is the traditional raw silk production area, good quality, at the same time the place is also an important tea production area, the special advantage is great.

In Shanghai, tea and raw silk resources are also abundant, and at the same time, it is backed by the prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, the market is huge, and this port is also the intersection of the north and south, the starting point of the Yangtze River route, and the transportation advantages are quite huge, so Shanghai has also become the most promising treaty port.

Therefore, in the second batch of treaty ports, the development of Shanghai is far more than that of Ningbo and Quanzhou.

When the Ministry of Commerce planned the Shanghai Business Zone, it covered an area that even exceeded the Guangzhou Business Zone, and used extremely valuable funds for the Ministry of Commerce to build the business zone, level the land, build wharves and so on.

Even in the construction phase, a railway was laid to connect the dock area with the warehouse area and the commercial area.

When Guedes' ships docked at the dock, according to the rules, they were not allowed to enter the core of the trade zone, but stayed in the quarantine zone first.

In these years, people carry a large number of germs, and Westerners do not like to bathe, so in order to prevent outsiders from bringing infectious diseases in, strict quarantine measures have been implemented in every business district.

Once ashore, they must be washed and quarantined for a few days without any obvious symptoms before they are allowed to leave the quarantine area and enter the heart of the business zone.

However, many Europeans think that they can't take a bath, so it is also a special arrangement for these people, that is, they are not allowed to enter the core area of the trade zone, but this does not prevent them from doing business, because in the quarantine zone, they can directly complete a series of affairs such as the sale of goods, purchases, etc.

They didn't even have to get off the ship to close the deal.

Guedes was naturally bathed, and after this freshening up, he waited for another two days before he was allowed to leave the quarantine area with his entourage and enter the trade area.

However, after he entered the trade zone, he went to sell the goods himself, but handed over this task to his deputy, and as for himself, he found the officials of the trade zone with his entourage.

So this time, as he did the previous times, he also brought a special kind of goods: craftsmen!

And this is not the first time Guedes has done this, but he has done it three times, and the first two times he has brought a total of more than a hundred craftsmen to the Tang Dynasty.

And this time, he brought more craftsmen, more than 100 people.

Originally, he was going to deliver the goods in Guangzhou, but the officials of the Ministry of Commerce in Guangzhou asked him to ship them to the port of Shanghai for delivery, and the Ministry of Industry was building a factory in the Jiangnan area, and the demand for all kinds of technical personnel was very huge.

So Guedes simply came to the port of Shanghai directly with goods and people.

Soon, with his special status, it was easy to meet with the local officials of the Ministry of Commerce, and then negotiated the price, and this special batch of 'goods' was seized on the spot.

The source of this batch of goods is more complicated, and it was obtained by Guedes in various ways throughout Southeast Asia, some because of the favorable conditions offered by Guedes, and some were directly threatened and lured by Guedes's sailors, or simply kidnapped directly.

There are Francos, there are Spaniards, there are Dutch, there are even Arabs, in short, there are all kinds of messy people.

But they all have one thing in common, that is, craftsmen who have mastered one or more technologies, many of whom are still artillery craftsmen who are urgently needed in the Tang Dynasty.

In order to get these people on the ship, Geddes spent a lot of effort and a lot of money, but although the price of selling them to the Tang Dynasty in the end was not cheap, if you calculated carefully, he actually didn't make much money.

In these years, the sea has been running for a long time, the risk is high, the cost is very high, and the profit is not several times, so it is embarrassing to say that it is profitable.

But Guedes didn't care, he did this artisan business not to make money, but to get permission for naturalization.

Without these craftsmen, he would not have become the first naturalized, and at the same time the only foreigner who was naturalized in the Tang Dynasty.

Taking advantage of this identity, Guedes's business has been doing quite well recently, and in Guangzhou and Lianzhou, he has already opened his own company: Guedes Trading Company.

His company said that it was trade, but it mainly played the role of a middleman, collecting all kinds of goods from the Liangguang area, and then directly selling the former compatriots who came to trade in Guangzhou, the Franc Jiren or merchants from other countries, or directly purchasing goods from foreigners and maritime merchants, and then transporting them to various places in Guangzhou.

At the same time, his merchant ship is not idle, every year to Guangzhou, Malacca, because his goods are directly purchased from other parts of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, cheaper than other merchants in the trade area, so the profit is also greater.

Rather than dealing with local Chinese, those foreigners prefer to do business with him.

This kind of second-hand dealer's business has made him very profitable, and this year he has ordered a third merchant ship, ready to expand the size of his fleet.

After handing over all the goods and craftsmen on the ship, Guedes did not rush to purchase goods and prepare to return to Guangzhou, but asked his subordinates to continue to purchase goods in Shanghai, while he himself was preparing to go to Jinling City with his entourage.

He is not an ordinary foreigner, but a foreigner with a legal household registration in the Tang Dynasty, and a decent citizen of the Tang Dynasty, so naturally he will not be restricted to the trade zone like other foreigners and cannot enter other regions.

However, he also knew that his appearance was very different from that of the Chinese, in order to avoid being killed as a demon on the road, he specially took the relationship with the Ministry of Commerce, contacted the navy, and prepared to take a navy patrol ship from Shanghai Port to Jiangyin, and after arriving in Jiangyin, he would also follow the transport team of the army logistics department to Jinling.

Because Yangzhou was occupied by the Ming army, and a fort was built and a large number of ships were arranged, the Yangtze River channel here was basically blocked, even if the navy's Yangtze River fleet wanted to force it through, it was a good time, and at the same time it needed to bear certain losses.

However, the Yangtze River basin east of Yangzhou is under the supervision of the Tang Navy, and many warships and batteries have been deployed in Jiangyin, so the Yangtze River basin east of Jiangyin is safe for the Tang Navy.

After arriving in Jiangyin, many transport ships unloaded their cargo, and then transported them by land and dense water networks to transport supplies to Jinling City and other places in the south of the Yangtze River.

Guedes was able to contact the Navy to take him for a ride, naturally not because he gave money or anything, even if he gave a lot of money, the navy would not take him to the warship!

Mainly because the navy saw that he had brought hundreds of craftsmen this time, and this time there were several craftsmen brought by Guedes who were skilled in the technology of manufacturing large-caliber artillery.

For the army and navy, the value of these artisans is very great, especially those who can make large-caliber artillery.

After all, the navy and the army also didn't want to see that this businessman who worked hard to recruit artillery-making craftsmen for the Tang Dynasty was killed by people who didn't know the truth on the road because of his strange appearance.

That's why I took Guedes with me!

After staying in Shanghai Port for a few days, Guedes waited until the ships on the navy side were ready to depart, and he was also picked up by the navy with a few retinues, and then went straight to Jinling!