When the prince went to the wild and primitive New World to prove himself, and was also transformed by the difficult environment of the New World, the Ming Empire, the most powerful empire in the East Asian continent, also continued to play that game of chess in the world.

Compared with his son, who played very well at the beginning, Mao Jue, the old man, fell a big heel as soon as he raised his hand.

Time returned to the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty, the summer when the prince had just left the old continent by boat.

In Southeast Asia, the ancient capital of Annam is Champong.

Originally, because the port city with developed industry and commerce fell into a depression almost overnight, a few months ago, the scene of the Great Depression in Wenzhou was re-staged here, a shop has closed its doors, and the inn door that was originally crowded with people can be crowded, if this is in the Central Plains, it can also be explained by the past few years, but in the Champa Kingdom, this is a real economic crisis.

Precious sandalwood, mahogany, sea yellow and other precious woods harvested from the deep mountains are thrown into the harbor to rot like broken wooden boards, and the precious South Sea pearls are covered with a layer of dust in the store, as well as all kinds of medicinal herbs, jewelry, spices, and a large number of unsalable in the warehouse, and all the sought-after Nanyang specialties are unsalable.

The nobles at the top can still close the door and continue to enjoy the glory and wealth by plundering them for many years, accumulating the wealth they have collected, but those small businessmen below, as soon as the capital chain is broken, they are facing the dilemma of bankruptcy immediately.

However, the damage caused by bankruptcy is still the lightest, those who rely on these industrial chains, the people, the people, the people, the workers, etc., but they immediately lost their jobs, in just one month, the entire city of Zhancheng is only a few hundred thousand people, the unemployed have reached hundreds of thousands, no jobs, no land of their own, these real proletarian citizens immediately faced the dilemma of starvation.

Businessmen are always the scapegoats of the turmoil of the times, and there are no treacherous businessmen! Especially when the Ming merchants were still outsiders, even the Champa royal family was secretly fueling the troubles, and soon, the Ming and British United East India Company became the target of public criticism!

Garbage, stones, and all kinds of sundries were thrown over, and the pieces of plate glass that originally symbolized wealth and beauty of the East India Company were smashed and smashed in a sparse manner, and the fragments were smashed down, and a thick layer of broken glass was piled up at the bottom of the building, and a large number of people shouted slogans and frantically surrounded the gate of the company, screaming and attacking fiercely.

"These bastards have robbed us of our silver and our food! Get them out of the city!"

"Let them spit it all out!"

"Burn these vampires !!"

Fortunately, before the construction of this place, Mao Jue had already considered the security problem, the main body of the company building is better than the city wall, both sides are also thick courtyard walls, the company's armed mercenaries vigilantly hold muskets to block the gate, and there are specially raised big wolf dogs roaring there, in the port, more than a dozen armed sailing ships are ready to go, for a while and a half is not afraid of these chaotic people rushing in.

The originally busy company's settlement hall was already in a mess at this time, and the business accounting managers packed up their materials and luggage in a panic, and evacuated to the port under the order of the mercenary officers.

In the sound of the uproar, the Luo family's business genius Miss Luo Yu was still hurriedly flipping through the transaction documents page by page, she read it seriously, and she was so anxious that the accounting girl Chu Tian was like a nine-year-old ant Huabei, her little face was chirping, and she was constantly urging there.

"Sister Luo Yu! Now is not the time to work hard, if you don't leave, the chaos will come in in a while!"

"Can't get in!"

His eyes didn't lift from the document, while hurriedly scanning the data, Luo Yu said casually: "The Zhancheng Department is the headquarters of the five companies in Central and South China, and if the mercenaries of a regiment equipped with regular army weapons can't even stop this bit of chaos, they are not worth the company spending so much money every year to raise, let the staff evacuate first is the province, they make me upset!"

With a bang, he put down another company document, looked at the next one in his hand, and Luo Yu, who breathed a sigh of relief, asked hurriedly.

"Have the assessments for the remaining seven divisions been delivered?"

"It was delivered this morning, after the analysis of the manager's group, only the situation of the Haiphong branch is good, there is no impact, Bangkok and other other branches are similar to the situation of Champong, in addition to the Luzon company headquarters There is also news from the other end, many buyers and marketing businessmen gathered in Manila to protest to the headquarters, but the head is mostly our own people, there is no conflict, the company is also mediating!"

After answering competently, Chu Tian immediately covered his head and complained anxiously like a loser who couldn't receive express delivery on Double Eleven.

"Why are these guys so good, and suddenly they are about to rebel?"

These words made Luo Yu, who was reading the document in a hurry, couldn't help but stiffen, and after a while, she shook her head with difficulty.

"What's wrong with the company this time?"

As early as three months ago, when he got the import and export distribution report for this quarter, Luo Yu had already expected today's situation! The economic turmoil that has affected most of Southeast Asia is really the blame of the Ming Ying United East India Company!

In a few years, with the full support of Mao Jue, the company is like the water hyacinth that invaded China in later generations, blooming everywhere, and its tentacles have almost penetrated more than a dozen countries in Southeast Asia, and nearly controlled the circulation of seven or eight percent of the goods.

But in the spring of this year, the company's orders for purchasing special products from all over Southeast Asia suddenly exploded, less than one-fifth of previous years, but the export volume was explosive, 10% more than the same year, even if the dumping and plundering are not so ruthless, it is simply exhausting and fishing! In an instant, merchants of all countries who relied on trade and export with the company, and even those large spice plantation owners in the Luzon colony were dealt a near-devastating blow, which was equivalent to the destruction of the market that the company had raised for several years!

The report also sent more than ten letters back to the Hangzhou headquarters in a row, but one by one it was like a mud cow entering the sea, and there was no response at all! No wonder Luo Yu was distressed.

Looking at her frowning appearance, Chu Tian was helpless to persuade: "Sister Luo Yu, you don't have to worry too much, after all, we have Your Majesty behind us and the Ming Empire!" With these mobs, you can't turn the sky upside down, and it's a big deal to wait for Your Majesty to send a large army! ”

But these words once again made Luo Yu shake his head anxiously.

"Wrong! The reason why Your Majesty fully supports the company is because the company can expand in place of the empire and earn a lot of money for the empire, instead of being a drag, if the company is useless, Your Majesty will not hesitate to find someone to replace us! We must find a way to solve the situation ourselves!"

In Chu Tian's stunned, he finally finished reading the last data and threw those things on the table, Luo Yu stood up suddenly.

"On the other side of the palace, there is no news from the palace minister Pau Gasol?"

"Don't mention that old guy, he has been pretending to be sick three days ago, and he has visited Shopkeeper Liu several times with gifts, but he hasn't seen him!"

"Let Shopkeeper Liu go again, no need to bring gifts! It doesn't matter if the old turtle doesn't show up, leave him a message, give him another three days, if he can't solve the chaos in Champa Port, the company will evacuate immediately!"

There was an incomparably cold on that pretty face, Luo Yu was unusual, gloomy and full of endless murderous intent, and her beautiful eyes looked at the chaotic people downstairs, and she commanded sharply.

"Send someone in the name of the subordinate headquarters of the five countries in Central and South China, order the Haiphong Branch Li Da Cabinet to give up this year's receipt plan, the company will be fully contracted immediately, and let people prepare a ship to Qinghua, Miss Ben will personally go to meet the Minister of Annam, Ruan Viet Lian!"

"The Haiphong branch also stopped receiving goods?"

This order made Chu Tian's mouth open wide in surprise, and he asked in astonishment: "Sister Luo Yu, the Seven Divisions of the Five Kingdoms are still operating in the coastal defense division, but once the activities are stopped, the coastal defense side will also be chaotic!"

"It's just messed up!"

Hearing this, the cold smile on Luo Yu's face became even more aggressive, and she snorted coldly, her good-looking starry eyes were dead behind the iron gauze, the glass shattered by the stone, and she clenched her fists murderously.

"It's not messy, how can you let the pigs in the palace know that the company is powerful?"

…………

When another lady of the Luo family started to do her best to save the time, the headquarters of the Mingying United East India Company in Hangzhou was also in a mess at this time.

Luo Yu can see that the chaos that will break out this quarter will break out, and the members of the company's executive board who can be mixed with it are not the business community of Daming, and even many of them can't adapt to Mao Jue's reformed officialdom, and the old fritters who have abandoned their official positions and become businessmen are among them, how can they not see the impending disaster?

It's just three or four months, the restlessness of the board of directors has been suppressed by Luo Ning, the executive director, and she also has an ambiguous relationship with Mao Jue, and it is rumored that His Majesty will marry her, a well-known businessman in Hangzhou, to strengthen the connection between the royal family and the local family in Hangzhou, as well as the first family of the East India Company, so the board of directors has been waiting forbearantly.

But now, the whole of Southeast Asia has rioted, and every day, what is lost is their white money! It's their stock price that depreciates! The company is facing a collapse situation, and these directors can't hold back any longer!

Now this group of directors is not only the group of local businessmen in Hangzhou who suffered heavy losses when the East India Company was first formed, but the leader is Ruan Dacheng, the leader of the Wild Eunuch Party who was forced to flee to Hangzhou in the Donglin coup.

"Miss Luo must give an explanation today! If it is on the orders of His Majesty, to win over those bastards in Wenzhou, the old man will have no complaints if he goes bankrupt! But if not, then we have to explain why we want to pull Zhang Pu's group of cattle who forget to be the son of man! Even if it goes to His Majesty, the old man will not hesitate to do it!"

"That's right!"

At this time, the ruthlessness of these capitalists is really exposed! Although it has not yet reached the point of walking with the royal family against that group of Brits, he dares to show his head to fight for his rights, and behind Ruan Dacheng, a group of executive directors are all imposing, and Ruan Dacheng is hands rolled up his sleeves and shouted.

Hundreds of major shareholders were murderous and killed directly from the board of directors conference hall upstairs, and gave the little girl Luo Xin, the assistant to the executive chairman, stupid, threw the documents she was holding on to the ground, and directly grew her arms, holding up her bulging little breasts, and stopped in front of her in panic and shouted

"You can't go in! The eldest lady ordered, she has important copywriting to do today, and she can't be disturbed ......, ah!!"

But now that her patience has run out, who cares about her? didn't even say a word of theory, in her exclamation, Ruan Dacheng actually pulled her aside directly, and then his fat body slammed into the door, and with a click, the gate of Huanghuali from Nanyang was directly knocked down.

The documents in the office in the wind-blown office were splashing all over the ground, however, to the director's shock, the huge office was actually empty, and he broke in unbelievably, and then pushed open the door of the lounge regardless of it, Ruan Dabeard returned to the many directors who were looking at each other with a gloomy face, and suddenly, he stretched out his hand violently.

"Take this girl down!"

With his roar, several of the company's bodyguards who were mobilized pressed Luo Xin, who was afraid of retreating, to the ground, and in her exclamation, she pulled her delicate little hands behind her back, and the pair of slender and sturdy jade legs were also wrenched together, and in the loud sound, the strong and heavy handcuffs directly handcuffed her back.

The delicate ankles dragged the shackles that were only ten centimeters, and the female assistant was full of fear with her hands on her back, and was pushed and shoved by several bodyguards and escorted to the security room downstairs. Glancing back at the scattered large desk, Ruan Dacheng was finally annoyed and helpless and hugged his fist again.

"Ladies and gentlemen, in any case, this matter must be reported to Your Majesty!!"

(End of chapter)