Four coins of silver and one stone of polished rice? It's not a joke, is it? The court of Quang Nam has fried the pot, and everyone is incredulous.

The price offered by the Ming Dynasty was so high that the civil and military generals and king Nguyen Phuc Yuan of Quang Nam suspected that he had misheard, because the price of a stone of polished rice in Quang Nam never exceeded three coins of silver.

This is not surprising, thinking that in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, four stones of polished rice in the south of the Yangtze River were only worth one or two silver.

Guangnan country is a tropical climate can be three cropping, the cost of rice planting is much lower than that of the south of the Ming Jiangnan, so the price of rice is now less than three coins of silver and one stone.

Huang Yong didn't know the price of Guangnan international rice, but he made a joke by reducing the bid by half based on the price of polished rice purchased from the Japanese country.

The ministers of Quang Nam have been shocked by the Ming fleet with too many artillery, and they only hope that the Ming army will leave as soon as possible, in order not to give the Ming army an excuse to go ashore and rob, even if the Ming army does not give silver, they have to do it.

The mobilization capacity of the Great Viet Kingdom was still good, and the officials and army hurriedly organized people to transport rice to Fei Phu Port.

What made the military and people of Guangnan overjoyed was that the Ming Dynasty was very creditworthy, and after inspecting the rice, he used a bucket of rice, and he paid on the spot for one stone of rice and four coins of silver.

After the news spread, the road to Phet Phuoc Port was full of rice caravans carrying on their shoulders, pushing carts, and leading large animals, more than half of which were not organized by the Quang Nam official organization, but were spontaneous acts of merchants and landlords.

It took seven days for Huang Yong to really buy 400,000 stone of rice, and it is impossible to buy it again, because Guangnan Kingdom simply did not have so much surplus grain, and he did not expect that rice would be sold to foreign countries.

This time, 400,000 stone of rice was suddenly bought, and I don't know how many people want to eat wild vegetables and insects, but as long as the farmers here hurry up sowing seeds, the new rice will be put on the market again in four or five months.

Huang Yong followed the example of his elder brother Huang Han in the Wa Kingdom, and wrote an agreement ordering the minister in charge of communication in Quang Nam to hand over the seal to the lord of the country, and the content was very simple, buying rice from Quang Nam for four coins of silver and one stone every year.

The amount shall not be less than 400,000 stones, and the Ming Dynasty will leave a deposit of 30%, if it is not satisfied before the end of May each year, Guangnan State will compensate ten times the deposit.

When he received this trade agreement imposed on Quang Nam, the hands of the Minister of Quang Nam were trembling, not because of grief and humiliation, but because of the excitement in his heart that caused him to tremble.

Daming gave this price means that the manager can get 30% of the net profit, which means tens of thousands of taels of snowflake silver, in the poor Guangnan country, with such a profitable business, it is rich to rival the country!

Not only the ministers who contacted him were excited, but when he came back with a deposit of 42,000 taels of silver, all the civil and military officials of Quang Nam were stunned, and the lord of the country, Nguyen Phuc Yuan, couldn't stand the joy and sorrow, and suddenly fell down, and he couldn't afford to fall ill.

Not long after Nguyen Phuc Nguyen died, he grabbed his son's hand tightly before he died, and told him to get along with the Ming Dynasty of the Celestial Empire and strive to make the trade of Quang Nam's specialty rice for a long time.

Prince Nguyen Phuc Lan succeeded to the throne as the fourth ruler of Quang Nam, and immediately issued a decree to increase the sown area and increase the production capacity of rice.

It is still a principle that the fleet of the Longwu Navy Division sailing north along the coastline of Dayue Country is still a principle, as long as it is a merchant ship or a warship, it will be turned into a trophy.

Sail for four days to reach the Han and Tang Dynasty when the port of Jiaozhi, now here is an important port of the Hou Li Dynasty of the Great Yue Kingdom, to the west of one hundred and dozens of miles is the former Ming Jiaozhou capital city, now occupied by traitors for more than two hundred and twenty years, become the "Tokyo" city of the Hou Li Dynasty.

At this time, before the time to eliminate the thieves and restore the political envoy of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Yong still adopted the mode of paying silver to buy rice and trade with the Dayue Kingdom.

The Later Li Dynasty is now the fourth-generation leader of the Zheng regime, Zheng Jie, who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and has been fighting with Ruan Fuyuan in the south, how dare he provoke the Ming Dynasty at this juncture?

Huang Yong's conditions were not slackened, and the fleet also purchased 400,000 stone of rice, and also paid a deposit to negotiate the minimum transaction volume for next year.

The 500 Lumi guns and dozens of six-pounder Hongyi cannons that were dismantled from the captured armed merchant ships collected after the robbery became commodities, and the Zheng family bought them at a high price.

In the middle of June, nearly full of more than 200 warships and merchant ships returned to China with full sails, Liu Xiang took his team to the east, he made a fortune this time and obtained many ships, and could not wait to go back to run his lair.

When Huang Yong went south, he had 100 warships and merchant ships, and now the number has doubled, but the tonnage has not doubled, only increased by three or four percent.

Because the merchant ships that went south to trade were all new ships built in recent years, they were all old lock ships produced by the Huang family, with a displacement of more than 500 tons, and more than a dozen ships with a displacement of 800 tons or even 1,000 tons.

Only a dozen or so Galen ships were captured, and three of them had a displacement of eight or nine hundred tons, while the displacement of the rest of the merchant ships and warships was generally about 300 tons.

At the end of July, Huang Yong's fleet unloaded 300,000 stone of rice purchased in Nantong Prefecture and continued northward, returning to southern Liaoning in early August.

After more than four months at sea, he signed trade agreements with the Spaniards in Manila, the Portuguese in Port Fifford, and the Da Yue Guo Hou Li Dynasty in Cochin Port.

In the future, such a business trip will be completed once a year, and the goods carried will exceed two million taels of silver, and the net profit earned back will not be less than five million taels of silver.

According to the agreement, a total of 1 million stones of rice could be bought back, and the price of each stone was four coins of silver, and the copper ingots and other mineral products were all negotiated at the transaction price, all of which were delivered at the port without exception, and the Ming caravan picked it up by itself.

The Portuguese and Spaniards would buy a large number of copper ingots from the South American colonies, and the Ming caravans bought as many as they could.

Piracy at sea is rampant, and the risks of transportation are uncontrollable, and the Xiyi compradors in Manila and Port Fifu are able to deliver goods on the spot, without having to bear the risk of delivery, and are happy to do so at lower prices.

After all, the copper mines in South America are rich minerals, easy to mine, and the copper ingots obtained by the slaves after rough processing are cheap, and the sale of mineral products in exchange for silk fabrics, tea, porcelain and other Ming products that sell well in Europe is very profitable.

The trip to Nanyang was pleasant, with a profit of more than 7 million taels of silver, 870,000 stone of rice, 30 million catties of copper ingots, 20 million catties of pig iron, 10 million catties of lead and many other mineral products.

The purchase of copper ingots for the Japanese people is also delivered at the port, and the price of one tael of silver is seventeen catties, and the price of copper ingots of origin in South America is one tael of silver and thirty catties.

The cost of copper has dropped by nearly half, and in the future, the thickness of the nickel white copper plate below the waterline of the battleships of the "Red Banner Army" will increase a lot, and the service life and life of the ship will be doubled.