Fuzhou.

Nan'anhou Mansion is brightly lit.

"Everyone, let's drink this cup for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty!"

Yang Qing raised his glass and said.

A table of officials, generals, and village sages raised their glasses in various words to express their praise for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, their loyalty to Her Majesty the Empress, and their praise for protecting the country and governing the country......

The reason why Yang Qing came to Fuzhou is simple......

It's that he never cared about this province before.

I really didn't care.

In the past, his attitude towards Fujian was very simple, that is, to lose it to the Zheng family, just like the Mu family town in Yunnan, or the current Shu Gong to guard Sichuan, let the Nan'an Hou family guard Fujian. Except for the Huangzhuang reform of the Fujian Xingdu Division and the various health offices under the Fujian Metropolitan Division, he never interfered in anything in Fujian, and all the management of Fujian was left to Zheng Zhilong to solve by himself. Even local officials such as the governor of Fujian, the political envoy, and the envoy were appointed after consulting Zheng Zhilong.

This province has a special situation, if it does not rely on overseas trade and Taiwan's development, then Fujian can only eat sweet potatoes if it wants to feed itself.

Therefore, the Zheng family must be supported.

Only the Zheng family could lead the Fujian merchants to really get rich through overseas trade, and the Zheng family was also the only one who could organize more Fujianese people to cross the strait and cultivate land on a large scale in the eastern plains of Taiwan opposite. Then use the grain there to supplement the gap in Fujian, and in the local mountainous areas of Fujian, a large amount of tea is planted in exchange for silver, and finally form a complete complement on both sides of the strait.

That's all there can be.

But the result of this is to make the Zheng family and those gentry bigger and bigger.

After all, overseas trade is controlled in their hands.

Although they were all included in the Nanyang Company, from the top of the Nanyang Company to the admirals, almost more than half of the Fujian people, even the Beiyang Company and the Beiyang Naval Division, the number of Fujian people is still more than one-third, and the Ming Navy is almost the Fujian Navy in the late Qing Dynasty.

In the past, Yang Qing didn't care about this, he needed these de facto allies.

How did Nanyang sail to Egypt and East Africa in less than a decade? Why did the Ming Navy build the strongest fleet in the Pacific in less than ten years? The reason is very simple, Zheng Zhilong's pirate group, countless ancestors along the coast of Fujian have sailed to East Africa, and a large number of sailors have also gone to Southeast Asia before, mastering the best shipbuilding technology and controlling the merchants of the complete maritime trade chain that already exists. Their solid foundation has already been laid, and even because of many inappropriate policies of the imperial court, they are still like small grass pressed by stones, unable to really grow, and can only find cracks to drill out.

Then Yang Qing moved the stone all at once.

And poured a basket of fertilizer, so the rest is crazy growth.

If you don't have this foundation......

Yang Qing wants to develop everything to the present, then it will take at least ten more years, not everyone can sail far away in this era, Huang Fei's Denglai sailor can only sail close to the coast, even the Black Water Ocean, that is, the deep water area in the southeast of the Yellow Sea, does not dare to enter! But Zheng Zhilong's fleet dared to run rampant in the vast ocean from the South China Sea to Japan.

And now......

Now it's time to unload the mill and kill the donkey!

Yang Qing raised his wine glass and drank it all, and then the donkeys drank the wine in their glasses.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have discussed with Nan'anhou that the Fujian Railway Company will be established to completely solve the problem of land transportation in Fujian, and the first phase will first build three short-distance railways from Zhangzhou to Xiamen, from Fuzhou to Mawei, and from Quanzhou to Anhai. In order to solve the problem of sea congestion in the three prefectures of Fuzhang and Quanzhou, the Quanzhou customs were reopened, and the exploration and investigation routes were also begun to build railways from Fuzhou to Nanping, from Xiamen to Nanping, and from Nanping to the north to Jiangxi. The first phase of the construction in five years, the second phase in ten years, and the railway out of Fujian in fifteen years, at that time, the railway from Nanchang to Ningbo, and the railway from Nandu to Nanchang can all be repaired, and you can take a train from here to reach Nandu at a speed of 100 miles per hour, one day and one night. ”

He said with an exaggerated expression.

There was an exclamation including Zheng Zhilong.

They didn't know at all that the Protector had drawn in front of them that all the railways in Fujian had been planned into a big pie for more than half a century from the Guangxu year of the Qing Dynasty to the fifty-ninth year after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

They are fully convinced that it is true.

Most of them have visited the Thomas train in Nandu, which is still in operation today, and even has special passenger cars and even luxury cars for all those who experience it to ride for free, and has also built a small train station to stop for maintenance or something. In short, Yang Qing has already perfected it into a miniature railway transportation system on the square in front of the Great Hall of the Four Peoples, and is even repairing the extension line......

In fact, it is a real railway.

It was repaired from the Shimonoseki wharf to his steel mill.

After all, I always run in Nanjing, and I can't stand the soot after a long time, and this thing is not electric, so the air pollution in Nanjing has begun to worsen, and Yang Qing has to quickly get this thing out of the city.

"Then our tea is convenient!"

An old rich man said.

"This morning, it was fried in the tea field, and it was sent to the deep-water port in Mawei for loading without getting dark, and then the rice that was loaded by train from Taiwan by sea ship could be transported to the tea farmers in Wuyishan without waiting until tomorrow morning. In fact, without Taiwan's rice, Jiangxi's rice can be transported, and even all the goods shipped out of the Yangtze River can be transported to Fuzhou Port by train. When our national railway network is completed, your tea will not only be sold to Europe, but even the Western Regions will be able to drink your tea, and at that time, you will not sell tens of thousands of quintals a year, but hundreds of thousands of quintals, millions of quintals. Ladies and gentlemen, railways run through land, fleets cross sea, and railways plus ports are the future! ”

Yang Qing raised his right arm and shouted.

Then the whole living room, along with the wine table outside, burst into cheers.

Speaking of the fact that he has to protect the country now, it is a bit like a pyramid scheme, using his acting talent to promote railways one province after another, using his sci-fi future, and railways that only exist on paper, fooling those landlords and old fortunes to take out real money to buy his various railway stocks. The whole Ming Dynasty was in a frenzy for this, after all, the people of this era still lacked experience, they only saw the light of wealth brought by the railway, but they did not know the difficulty of building the railway. Maybe they also trust the protector too much, after all, the protector is a last resort, and over the years, he has been like turning a stone into gold, leading the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to open up sources of wealth, and then quickly make a lot of money.

Those landlords and old fortunes only know that they will definitely make a fortune with the protector, and the products produced by the protector must be high-quality.

But they neglected to do the ......

What about the protector deliberately deceiving people?

"Brother Feihuang, how many ships are still in Hong Kong from Nanyang Company, and how many ships will return to Hong Kong in the next six months?"

In the cheers, Yang Qing asked Zheng Zhilong.

"At present, there are more than 30 ships in Xiamen and here, as well as Zhoushan and Shanghai, and there should be more than 30 ships returning to Hong Kong within half a year. If it is urgent, there will be twenty new ships in the dock within half a year, and the sailors will be easily equipped. ”

Zheng Zhilong said.

At present, there are nearly 100 merchant ships of Nanyang Company.

However, it is still inferior to the Dutch, the Dutch East India Company's merchant ships and merchant ships add up to more than 200, but slightly more than the British East India Company, which has less than 100 ships because it entered the industry too late. The Chinese companies in France had the least number of merchant ships, because they had no colonies, the nearest trading post was on Reunion Island, and neither the British nor the Dutch would have welcomed them, so the French-Chinese companies were trying to march on India in the same way. In fact, at present, the main competitors in the South China Sea are the boss Netherlands, the second Daming Nanyang and Guangzhou's Zhenla two major companies, the third British East India Company, but the Zhenla company is only Malacca, they are mainly Annam, Zhenla, Siam and Luzon trade.

As for Spain and Portugal, they were already in decline, especially Portugal, which at this time was completely submerged in the surging southward fleets of the Nanyang and Chenla companies.

You can only survive in the cracks.

Fortunately, Spain also has an American route, after all, no one else can grab it, and the goods they shipped from Daming are directly sent to the Americas, or sold locally or transported by land to the Caribbean coast for shipment to Europe. Then silver was brought from the Americas, and the Portuguese were now increasingly attached to the Spaniards, who were the least popular in the Ming Dynasty, while the Portuguese were the most popular with the Cantonese gentry.

That's how ocean freight is today.

To the west of Malacca is the South Seas, where the two East Indies of Britain and the Netherlands compete.

But Nanyang is no more than the Cape of Good Hope.

Although competing with the other two in India, the other two did not dare to offend Yang Qing, so they could only acquiesce to reality, and the two British and Dutch trade-oriented, that is, they were really like fire and water, and it was common for each other to pretend to be pirates at sea.

"If my estimation is correct, Britain and the Netherlands should be on the verge of war."

Yang Qing said.

It was September 1651.

Historically, Cromwell officially passed the Navigation Act the next month, prohibiting foreign merchant ships, mainly Dutch, from transporting goods from any British colonies, and likewise all British colonial goods were only allowed to be exported to the British mainland or other colonies, and goods from other countries were not allowed to be shipped directly to British colonies......

The Dutch finally had enough of it.

In May of the following year, warships of both sides met in the Strait of Dover and opened fire on each other over ceremonial issues.

The First Anglo-Dutch War broke out.

"Understood, I will make all the preparations, as soon as they fight, we will take the opportunity to occupy the Dragon's Tooth Gate, it is useless for the Sultan of Johor to ask the Dutch for help, and the Dutch who are at war with the British will definitely not have the courage to provoke us again."

Zheng Zhilong said with a smile.

"It's not just there, but Medan has to be taken down by the way."

Yang Qing said.

"Medan?"

Zheng Zhilong was a little dazed. ()

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