Hongyangtang and they can be regarded as temporarily rooted in Fandi, and how they will develop next depends on their own choices.

The same situation happened one by one in the military attache system of the Ming Dynasty and the peasant army, and no one knew that these military attachés, who were brave and good at fighting, or well-trained, or cunning as foxes, were from the same place, Hongmen.

After the Humen incident last year, the British took the initiative to show weakness to Li Tianyang and showed enough respect, which allowed them to get on the relationship with Hongmen and start trading in Keelung Port, which belongs to Hongmen, which is also a blessing in disguise.

In the middle of the trade in Keelung Town, the British unconsciously began to deal with the members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and established a closer relationship.

After having a relationship with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, the British got the coveted possibility of trading in the Ming Dynasty, which really fulfilled the sentence: Seon lost his horse and knew whether he was blessed.

At the time of the first month of this year, the engineering department sent a letter to Fu Yuanchu to ask for the beginning, and set up a tax supervision and pass the city of Zuo, and the Chongzhen Emperor, who originally held the idea of retreat at the time of the financial difficulties of the Ming Dynasty, finally opened the Fujian sea market, and re-opened the Fujian sea market, which had been suspended for several years.

However, at this time, the central position of foreign trade in Keelung Town, Hongmen was already deep-rooted, and due to Hongmen's influence and control in the South Seas, there were very few Ming Dynasty trades that reopened the Yuegang Sea Ban.

However, for the British, Dutch, Western and other foreigners, they were willing to set foot in the Moon Port again and trade with the Ming merchants in the interior.

Because of this, the maritime trade, which has been monopolized by the Hongmenhe Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, finally exposed a crack in the northern trade system such as the Jin Merchants and the Hui Merchants.

Many Jin merchant groups from the north came to Yuegang to pan for gold, wanting to establish trade relations with Westerners, and for a while, Yuegang once again had a bit of the prosperity of the foreign port.

Fan's family, Wang's family, Jin family, Chang's family and other firms are the most active among the Jin merchants, and they are also the most powerful among the Jin merchants.

These firms have always been rumored, saying that in these years, the border closure policy is that they are operating behind the scenes, and at the same time, they secretly smuggle countless money, grain, iron and other military materials out of the customs, and traffick them back to the customs, and a large number of gold and silver have been looted by the Qing people from the entry activities, and their strength is comparable to that of the national treasury.

Affected by the peasant uprisings in Shaanxi and Gansu, the Jin merchants' trade activities in the north were repeatedly interrupted, and the trade risks increased dramatically, although they controlled the monopoly trade with the Qing people, but they also coveted the peaceful and prosperous trade channels in the south of the Yangtze River.

This time, the policy of canceling the sea ban also included these Jin merchants who contributed to it.

Because of the lack of strength at sea, several major families of the Jin merchants have secretly exchanged hands with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce several times, and they have a lot of advantages on land, but because of the gap between the strength at sea and Hongmen, even if they go to sea, they have to be forced back by Hongmen.

Looking at such a big piece of fat on the ocean that could not be eaten, the Jin Shang families were not without resentment in their hearts, so after Fu Yuanchu wrote the book in the first month of this year, several of their firms began to operate, and a cadre of officials supported by them echoed it, which saved countless troubles for Fujian's ban on opening the sea.

The strength of the sea is not as good as Hongmen, it is the strength of several of them, but after the sea ban was opened, the foreigners themselves came to Yuegang to buy materials and spices.

British Captain Weddell received severe criticism from the British East India Company after his last unfavorable trip, and then he made peace between the British and Portuguese merchants, and finally reconciled with the Hongmen and Ming governments.

Whether it was the British, the Spaniards or the Dutch, they all had disputes with Hongmen, so after the opening of the Fujian sea ban in the Ming Dynasty, they went to the Ming Dynasty to trade, in order to get rid of the restrictions imposed on them by Hongmen.

After all, Hongmen is the dominant player in the eastern seas, and Westerners who want to trade here must follow the rules set by Hongmen, such as prohibiting the other party from plundering in the Daming Sea, prohibiting the other party from attacking Ming Dynasty ships for no reason, abiding by the prices set by Hongmen, and so on.

For Westerners to come to trade, the strongest Jin merchant faction headed by the Fan family and the Wang family gave a warm welcome, and all kinds of Jingdezhen exquisite porcelain, cinnamon agarwood and other unique spices continued to pass through the hands of the Jin merchants and transported to Yuegang.

"Welcome, guests from afar!"

Fan's firm welcomed their first customer today, and when they saw the exotic customs that were completely different from those of the Orientals, the shopkeeper on duty suddenly raised his mind and greeted him enthusiastically.

"Oh, listen to our companions, your firm's porcelain is the most beautiful and the price is favorable, I wonder if you can introduce me to one or two!"

The middle-aged foreigner, with blond hair and blue eyes and two curly beards on his lips, looked around at the furnishings of Fan's firm, asking his entourage to translate his words to the other party.

"Okay, please come here!"

As soon as he heard this tone, the shopkeeper of Fan's family knew that he was afraid that there was another big deal.

"This is the porcelain we purchased from the official kiln in Jingdezhen, which is divided into five styles and eighteen fancy ............"

Since the reopening of the Moon Harbor to the outside world, the early business activities seem to have been closed to the news and not have much effect, and then after the spread of the people, to April began to this trade is getting better and better, more and more foreigners came to the Moon Harbor to do business with the Ming Dynasty merchants.

Especially in the past month, Fan's firm has received several large orders, not only emptied their inventory, but even placed a deposit with them to purchase a large number of various materials, so that the Jin merchants had to quickly transfer goods from the place of origin.

“…………”

After greeting this guest for half a day, I had a time-consuming and laborious price negotiation with the other party, and finally completed a purchase list of more than 30,000 taels.

"Lord Brooke, please rest assured, our Fan Clan firm will definitely prepare the materials you purchased before the end of July, and you can just pick up the goods from my firm when the time comes!"

Originally, the Fan's Chamber of Commerce did not do this, but more according to the way of paying with one hand and delivering goods to trade, but who made their business really good in this month or so, and then they wanted to transport materials from the chaotic Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, and had to prevent the suppression of Hongmen, and did not dare to go by sea, but in the end it was according to the business model of Westerners, let them pay a certain deposit, and then their business will send the goods to Yuegang before the scheduled time for trading.

(End of chapter)