Nanhai County Ya Shen Xi and the three divisions of the Yamen, if it were not for the strong support of the envoy Lin Tingxuan, Zhang Yuan, the political envoy of Guangdong, would have been forced by Shen Xi to return to his hometown. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But Shen Xi was not without gains, he was supported by the Dusi Yamen, and the two sides were tied.

Most importantly, Shen Xi established prestige among the people of Guangzhou, which was of great help to him in his subsequent extermination of pirates and pirates.

As for mobilizing 600 officers and soldiers to serve as his personal guards in the post house, the main reason was that Shen Xi wanted to use the men and horses of the capital commander to form a temporary governor's yamen, otherwise he would be just an empty governor in the city of Guangzhou, and no one would listen to him no matter what he said or did.

But with these 600 personal guards, if the people of the Political Envoy Department and the Inspectorate Department want to compete with Shen Xi again, they have to weigh whether they will be used by Shen Xi and oppose the guest.

He had the experience of directly pulling down Shang Yingkui, the right-hand political envoy of Fujian, in Fuzhou, and now that Shen Xi has military power in his hands, he is likely to take the opportunity to attack the matter of collusion between the political envoy Si Yamen and the Japanese Kou.

On the surface, the two sides of this public trial are half a catty, but in fact, Shen Xi took a big advantage. After the public trial was carried out, as the presiding judge, Shen Xi formally established that he had the authority to govern the yamen of the three provinces and three divisions, and no longer had the tragic situation of no one to take care of him when he first arrived in Guangzhou Mansion.

Shen Xi set up the temporary governor's yamen in the post house, and after he had an office space, he officially raised the matter of suppressing bandits. In order to solve the problem of money and grain, he took the lead in starting with the Salt Division, checking the situation of the Liangguang Salt Class in the past few years, and preparing for the use of Hui Niang and Li Jin to buy salt to attract official salt.

In the Ming Dynasty, buying and selling official salt is a profitable business, and without an official background, businessmen cannot sell official salt. However, salt has a regional nature, and the salt of Liangguang can only be sold in Liangguang, Fujian, and southern Hunan, and cannot even be sold to the Jiangjiang region, which is also a regional monopoly policy, and the imperial court has clear regulations.

However, in addition to buying and selling private salt, the local government will also transport some official salt from other regions with relatively good condition to sell, such as Guangdong salt and two Huai salt, which are two kinds of salt with very good condition in the Ming Dynasty, which are called "Southern Salt" and "Huai Salt" by the local people.

After Shen Xi's court tried the case, there was no movement on the side of the political envoy and the prosecutor's envoy for a few days, and Shen Xi did not go to visit, and they would not take the initiative to come to disturb them, and the two sides were safe.

However, when Shen Xi interrogated Jiang Baifu in court, he accidentally learned that Guangdong Xia Salt had been lucky, and he secretly sent someone to investigate and learned that some merchants had begun to use salt to extract salt in the major salt farms along the coast of Guangzhou Prefecture.

Salt merchants need to pay two sums of money to extract salt from the salt farms, one is to collect taxes and the other is to introduce salt itself. In Guangdong, the tax is levied on the basis of two silver coins or two pieces of cloth for each salt induction. A salt introduction is not a fixed number, a salt introduction of Guangdong salt in the Hongzhi period is about 200 catties, and the discount is 226 coins of silver.

That is to say, salt merchants need to pay 228 yuan of silver for every 200 catties of salt, and the exit price of one catty of salt is 14 wen, but they need to pay some more benefits to the government, apportioned to the capital, a catty of salt needs about 20 wen, and the salt merchant then transports the salt to the local area to sell, plus the transportation costs, the cost is 223 wen, but the price of a catty of salt is often as high as 40 wen to 50 wen.

In the first year of this year, a strong laborer could earn almost five or six hundred yuan a month, which was the result of doing coolies every day, which was more than the money earned from farming. Strong labor is basically equivalent to the "white-collar workers" of later generations, and the monthly income of "white-collar workers" can only buy more than a dozen catties of salt, which can be seen how expensive salt is.

Daming salt field is basically based on boiling salt, mainly because the salt is too affected by the weather, coupled with the backward conditions of the salt field, the quality of the salt is not high, so that the stove can only rely on the stove to cook salt.

The output is low, naturally expensive, illegal salt is popular, and the coastal areas are forbidden to the sea, and ordinary people boil sea salt, which is to risk killing their heads.

In addition to sending people to track down the strongholds of a generation of pirates and pirates along the coast to prepare for the subsequent suppression of bandits, Shen Xi is also studying the distribution of salt farms along the coast of Guangdong and tracking down salt merchants who pick up salt without permission.

Before the introduction of Xia Yan, the salt quotations used by salt merchants were obtained through some informal channels, and the three yamen of the Salt Division, the Salt Dispatch Division, and the Chengxuan Political Envoy Department were all involved, involving corruption and bribery.

Although Shen Xi couldn't bring down Zhang Yuanying from the matter of the political envoy's collusion with the Japanese Kou, on the issue of salt introduction, he could let Zhang Yuanying walk around without eating.

But he has not yet found conclusive evidence.

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At this time, the fleet of the Francophiles arrived in Guangzhou.

After gaining the right to trade with the Ming Dynasty, Almeida, the commander of the Franc fleet, led the fleet and once again went to Guangzhou Mansion to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

The size of the Franc robot fleet was quite large, with twelve Galen ships of 4,000 stone forming a long column, and the ships were equipped with Franc machine guns, and they were not afraid of being targeted by pirates and pirates. In fact, seeing such a huge fleet from afar, pirates and pirates had to hide.

However, the Franc machine people seem to be powerful, but only paper tigers, they have a certain awe of the Ming after the fiasco in Quanzhou, after landing, first with the city of the ship to raise the person to submit the credentials, and then dock at the dock to unload the goods, through the city of the ship division and the Ming business, rather than directly with the port of business.

Although the Franc machine people came with a full load, their goods were not transported from distant Europe, because the distance was too far, and there were not many special products worth buying in Europe at this time.

The goods brought by the fleet were mainly snatched from Southeast Asia, South Asia and other countries, and most of them were jewelry, spices, medicinal materials, pancloth, sulfur, etc., which were very popular on the side of the Ming Dynasty, and were sold in exchange for porcelain, tea, silk and other goods of the Ming Dynasty, and shipped back to Europe for sale.

For the Franc machine people, this business model has brought them huge wealth, and it can basically be regarded as a business without capital, which is simply a huge profit.

You can make a lot of money so easily, why take a huge risk to start a war with Daming?

In less than a year, the fleet arrived in Canton for the second time. I thought that this time I would return with a full load without danger or danger, but I didn't expect Shen Xi to arrive in Guangzhou Mansion, and he was also the highest official on the ground in Guangdong.

After Almeida learned the news, she did not dare to slack off, and personally brought a few boxes of gifts into the city to ask to see Shen Xi, and by the way, discussed the previous exchange of crop seeds.

Almeida led the people to the yamen of the political envoy, and was told that this was not the governor's yamen, so they went in the direction of the post house.

When he arrived at the post house, Shen Xi did not go out to greet him, because as the governor of the Heavenly Empire, Shen Xi wanted to maintain the national body.

If he changed to someone else, Francophone would definitely turn his face on the spot, but knowing that it was Shen Xi inside, Almeida was quite jealous, respectfully took people in, put down the gifts, and took the lead in saluting after seeing Shen Xi, and did not dare to be presumptuous in front of Shen Xi at all.

Different from the previous meeting, now that I see the Francophone again, Daming Guangzhou Bosi already has a translator who can directly translate, and what to say, there is no need to translate through a third country, so that the dialogue is much more convenient.

Shen Xi was most concerned about corn, potatoes, and sweet potato seeds, but he couldn't bring them up directly, lest the Franc machine lion open his mouth.

Unexpectedly, the gifts sent by the Francophile included many seeds, including two of the three high-yielding crops that the Ming directly requested - corn and sweet potatoes, which were important crops that achieved the rapid increase in the population of China in the early and middle Qing Dynasty, and before the hybrid crops, there were no crops that could compare with the yield of these two crops.

Shen Xi inquired, only to know that the Franco machine man did not know the existence of potatoes, that is, potatoes. Shen Xi recalled carefully, vaguely remembering that the origin of potatoes was the Andes Mountains in South America, and now both the Portuguese and the Spaniards have only opened up colonies in the coastal areas of the American continent, and have not yet penetrated into the continent, and it is estimated that this high-yield crop has not yet been found.

Fortunately, now that there is corn and sweet potatoes, it is not in vain to associate with the Francois decades in advance.

From the seeds brought by Almeida, Shen Xi also found a treasure, which may not be a good thing for the Chinese people, but it contains great economic value, and it is the crop that became popular in later generations - tobacco.

It seems that the Franc machine man does not know how to cherish himself, perhaps the Franc machine man thinks that since he has made a lot of profits from the Ming Dynasty, he must show enough sincerity, not to mention that this is still Shen Xi's strong advocacy, so Almeida took out all the family funds, in order to curry favor with Shen Xi and the Ming court.

“…… A few people who have come from afar should have stayed with you as guests, but because you are from a foreign land, it is inconvenient to stay in the city. You should go back to the port outside the city and rest for the night, and tomorrow, the official will send someone to discuss trade with you. ”

Shen Xi got the crop seeds he wanted and couldn't wait to send people. He didn't want the Franc machine man to stay in the city, because the Franc machine man not only brought the Franc machine gun and high-yield crops to the Ming Dynasty, but also brought something that left a disaster to the Chinese people, that is, syphilis.

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