In the jingling of sail bells, the heavy double-ten-masted Pangu-class treasure ship was surrounded by more than ten armed merchant ships, and left the warm Hangzhou Bay in a mighty way, and the parting was always full of sadness, some businessmen were forced to wave their hands with pleasure, shouting and bringing back something, on the shore, some of the old couple were leaning on the cast iron pole tied to the anchor, this farewell, and even whether they could see each other again in their lifetime was not necessarily.

However, in the crowd, a high-nosed red-haired Dutch old man was also looking at this scene with straight eyes, every time he saw it, he had to be intoxicated by the powerful power that burst out of this ancient oriental country, and was impressed, Napoleon once described Huaxia as a sleeping lion, this lion woke up three hundred years earlier!

But after the shock, the old Dutch man's expression turned into smugness again, he snorted coldly with a smile, and turned his head into the crowd with a crutch, and disappeared without a trace.

Now Hangzhou Port has definitely become an international metropolis, and there are even more British, French, Dutch, and Portuguese Yankees who come here to survive and work than Macau, and he is a little old man, who is really inconspicuous in the crowd.

Leaving the port, next to the big warehouse on the edge of the harbor, there are four-wheeled trucks are unloading boxes and boxes of raw silk, seeing the little old man come back, one of them is holding a notebook in charge of the delivery of the big Ming fat businessman happily put down the pen that was recording Rufei, waved his hand high at him.

"Mr. Cohen, here!"

"Thank you, merciful Mr. Dai!"

It was also that warm smile on his face, holding his helping hand, that the little Dutch old man jumped on the rack in front of the horse-drawn truck, took out a pipe, took two puffs, and made a small joke with the owner.

If you look at it alone, I am afraid that it will never be possible to associate this kind little old man like the grandfather next door with the mastermind behind the murder of the natives of the entire Spice Islands, and the support of the seven small lowland provinces, and the iron-blooded man who fought the Spanish in the brutal Eighty Years' War for most of their lives.

This batch of raw silk is quite a lot, more than 100 Korean porters unloaded it for a morning, and then the goods were unloaded, piled up in the dock warehouse, the little old man held a pipe, while spitting circles, followed by the big truck and galloped out of the bustling streets of Hangzhou.

The destination of the truck is not too far from Hangzhou, and it is still one of the base camps of the Jiangnan Shi clan, Shaoxing!

Speaking of Shaoxing, people's first impression is that the daughter is red and the budget-conscious master of Shaoxing, the land was highly annexed by those big landowners in the south of the Yangtze River, forcing the vast majority of Shaoxing people to study hard for a way out, but the road of the imperial examination is so narrow, many scholars and literati who are higher than those children of the Jiangnan Gate Valve do not know how much can only be depressed to do the staff master of the shop Yamen, but indirectly, it also makes the style of business here greatly rise.

Five years ago, Shaoxing had suffered a catastrophe, that is, Mao Jue's famous official reform plan, Shaoxing a place of low-level scholars almost moved away, through Yuhang to take a boat north to take the examination, to now, nearly 100,000 public officials in the Northern Ming Dynasty, Shaoxing nationality also occupies more than 10,000, the East India Company also has a high-paid Shaoxing manager, but the Southern Dynasties have not paid attention to the loss of talent, so that Shaoxing is so barren, until March this year, this ancient city of humanity has a trend of revival again.

The carriage came in from the north gate of Shaoxing City, here is also like last year's Wenzhou, there is a clanging sound of construction everywhere, leaning on the main street low and dilapidated, the abandoned people were demolished one by one, and the traditional wooden shops with two or three floors of high and bright intrigue, intrigue and intrigue, but unlike last year's intrigue of various maritime merchants, a swarm of shipbuilding to the south, this time the southern businessmen are all sensible, and finally know how to unite together.

In the center of the ancient city of Shaoxing, next to the Governor's Yamen, the door of a towering three-story wooden building, with gold lacquer written bright and bright five big characters, Daming General Firm!

If it weren't for the spring of this year, the university scholar Zhang Pu cheekily went to Hangzhou to beg for hardship, Luo Zhen forced Luo Ning to raise the purchase price by fifty percent, signed out a large order of forty or fifty million taels, and regained the funds.

lost at least 30 million taels, and committed suicide to destroy nearly 100 companies, and the bloody lessons made these southern businessmen also begin to face up to their opponents and analyze production according to the market.

First of all, most of Southeast Asia cannot go, and the North Ming East India Company has taken deep roots in various places, and it is to send meat to pay compensation if it goes to keep it.

Then the industrial mass production of goods such as iron tools, clay pots, stoneware, cotton garments, and even the low-end silk market were all abandoned, and the steam looms buzzed a few times a piece of cloth, and their hand weavers worked tirelessly and tiringly every month to make a piece of cloth, which was incomparable.

But the handicraft industry also has the advantage of handicraft industry, that is, the fineness of the people, and the artistic sense of the people are incomparable to large-scale industrial production.

The low-end output of Nanshang only outputs raw silk, and then recruits master craftsmen, high-end output with the famous Suzhou embroidery to occupy the market, porcelain also takes the high-end line, Jingdezhen's official kiln is snatched by these Nanshang from Qian Qianyi and other big landowners, with a large number of fine porcelain to occupy the high-end market of Beiming.

Then there was Wuyi Tea, West Lake Longjing, Shaoxing Daughter Hong, and commercially, these Nanshang began to stratify strategically.

More importantly, the export distribution share system has allowed the Nanshang companies to reduce their internal friction and will not lose money because of the price reduction of a swarm of bees, and they have begun to make profits!

However, if you look closely, it is an impossible miracle to be able to complete such a short period of strategic transformation, with the arrogant and stubborn Jiangnan Shi clan, which is full of the shadow of the Dutch, and it is completely borrowed from the Dutch East India Company while fighting the Eighty Years War, while relying on export trade to maintain the national fortune, and the bloody experience is propped up, and even in the Ming Chamber of Commerce, there are many old Dutch managers hired directly from Batavia.

Hitchhiker here, Cohen got out of the car with a pipe, and said goodbye to the shopkeeper, and then the shopkeeper Dai entered the Ming Chamber of Commerce to report, he was swaying, directly into the side of the governor's yamen, the guard at the yamen did not stop it, but was very respectful and bowed, and sent him into the house.

Before the old guy could reach the backyard of the Governor's Yamen, a burst of fierce gunfire came out again.

In the spacious backyard racecourse, ten straw men have been beaten to the ground, unrecognizable, there, Zhang Pu, who has always been a scholar's weapon, actually aimed at a musket with unprecedented interest, and pulled the trigger suddenly, and with a bang, the huge recoil pushed him as a scholar to stumble, but it was a clumsy coincidence, and the bullet that originally hit the foot came to a headshot.

However, this musket is completely different from the previous Daming bird gun, first of all, the butt of the shoulder shot is added, the appearance is basically the same as the rifle made in the first year of the Beiming Hai Guokaihong, and the ignition method is also abandoned.

This is also thanks to the business opportunities that Qian Zeng discovered, he imported a large number of Beiming kerosene lighters in Zhancheng, all of which were sold to the government, and the ignition sand wheel in the shape of a spoon handle on the kerosene lighter was removed, which was the ignition device of the flintlock pistol!

As soon as this shot was fired, the soldiers around him immediately handed over a reloaded musket, raised his hand and was just about to fire, when he suddenly saw Cohen walking in with a small crutch, Zhang Pu couldn't help laughing and greeted him.

"Mr. Cohen, you're here!"

Since the last time, the running boat brought by Lu Feili shined in the Yangtze River estuary, at least the attitude of the Fushe towards these "foreign barbarians" has taken a 180-degree turn, in the Northern Ming Dynasty, the most popular crooked nuts are the British who cooperated with Mao Jue to run the East India Company, in the Southern Ming Dynasty, it is these Dutch, now Wenzhou only retains one overseas trade route, that is, Batavia, a large number of Dutch people are also under the political protection of the Fushe, get the opportunity to preach and do business.

It's just that there is no love for no reason in the world, Beiming is close to the British, because Mao Jue wants to borrow the British to exert influence in Western Europe, and the Netherlands is fully supporting Nanming, but also wants to set up a strong enemy for Beiming, at last year's Dutch East India Company shareholders' meeting, Cohen raised an extremely important topic.

"The Chinese are smart, strong, hardworking and hardworking, and God has given them almost all the advantages, leaving only a fatal shortcoming, the Chinese are too good at infighting!"

"Once the Southern Ming Dynasty is raised, those greedy landlords of the family are estimated to be the first to roar and blow the battle horn to the terrible lion in the north, and when the time comes, it will be their chance for the Dutch!"

Use India to attract the attention of the Northern Ming, when the two empires went to war, the interests of the French, the Spaniards and the Portuguese were inevitably involved, almost making the Northern Ming enemies in the entire Western Europe, and even the Southern Ming did not need to fight with the Northern Ming to fight so fiercely, as long as a few ceded ports were brought back, it was enough to hit the overseas forces of the Northern Ming Dynasty, once the Ming Dynasty shrank, the vacant interests of the Dutch East India Company could be eaten in one bite!

Looking at the flintlock pistol in Zhang Pu's hand, Cohen's slightly dim eyes first showed a wave of jealousy, but immediately, but he greeted happily.

"The most knowledgeable lord of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that you have used the new weapon well!"

"The ignition is so hard to build! Such a small thing, the workshop under the Wang family imitated it for more than half a month, and only made ten payments! ”

At the mention of this, Zhang Pu couldn't help but have a sense of chagrin and helplessness on his face, but after only a moment, he said with a happy smile: "But through the line of Lord Luo, in the name of imported lighter accessories, it will not be long before my Ming musket is still an energy product, and when the time comes, it will be the end of those thieves!" ”

Zhang Pu said with a murderous atmosphere, listening to Cohen's dizzy old eyes, but he couldn't help but show a deep smile again, and the profound oriental etiquette bowed slightly, Cohen said with a big laugh.

"Then the old man wishes the adults a victory in advance!"

"Haha, it's easy to say!!"

In the whole courtyard, hearty laughter suddenly sounded!