Just when Wu Qixian took down the Fan merchant that Wufeng and they were guarding, the scene was almost the same in the jungle and official roads within a radius of dozens of miles and hundreds of miles, and it also happened in the caravans of Jin merchants and Hui merchants.

The only thing these caravans that were suddenly robbed was that the supplies they were transporting were all to be delivered to the same destination, Moon Harbor.

This is a big chess game, and now the flag bearers in the Jiangnan area who can play such a big chess game, in addition to the current Ming Dynasty officials, only Hongmen and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce led by them can have this ability.

In fact, the reopening of the port of Yuegang has always been valued and concerned by the people of Hongmen and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and similarly, for the southward movement of the northern Jin merchants and Hui merchants, the members of Hongmen and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce are also in the eyes.

As a commercial rival, the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce controlled the rich Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian regions, while the Jin and Hui merchants firmly controlled the upper field in the north and the Qing Dynasty land in the northeast.

Limited by the fact that the central king of the Ming Dynasty is in the north, the overall economic strength of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce is on par with the Jin merchants and Hui merchants, but the strength of the officialdom is much weaker, so when the Jin merchants and Hui merchants affect the reopening of the government, although the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce knows the other party's intentions, it can only watch the other party stretch its tentacles into its pocket.

Li Tianyang's ambition gradually became more ambitious with the expansion of their dominant power in Hongmen, if it was before, although he did not have a good impression of this Jin merchant, he might not be willing to have too much conflict with the future Qing Emperor Shang, and it was more likely that he would turn a blind eye and secretly support the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce against him.

Now that he has a farther vision, under the judgment of relatives and relatives, enemies and friends, Li Tianyang can no longer watch the Jin merchants and Hui merchants appear in the Hongmen area, where the strength is the most powerful to the south of the Yangtze River.

Perhaps others thought that after the opening of the Moon Port, the demand of the Xiyang Yi people for Hongmen Keelung Town, one of the few ports that could purchase the specialties of the Ming Dynasty, would decrease, but what they didn't know in the north, or what they didn't want to fight, was that Hongmen's control over the various routes in the South China Sea was far beyond their imagination.

As long as Hongmen is willing, they can make the Ming Dynasty's huge sea frontier anytime and anywhere, and no sea ship can go south or north.

sharks and flying fish departments around the waters of Qiongzhou; The Whale Division, the Leopard Division, the Penghu Naval Division, and Wu Daofu's Ryukyu Naval Division in the northern seas controlled the entire Ming Dynasty's maritime frontier impenetrable.

After fighting with the Dutch, Spaniards, and the British again and again, Hongmen's maritime supremacy in the Far East, even the arrogant and arrogant Western navy had to admit that Hongmen was a formidable opponent, until they Westerners could not mobilize too many local troops to encircle and suppress Hongmen, and if they wanted to obtain various special spices from the ancient Oriental country, they could only pinch their noses and admit Hongmen's dominance.

The reason why the port of Yuegang, which had been reopened at the end of January of the 11th year of Chongzhen, has not improved, is that the forces on the sea, especially the Westerners, did not dare to risk provoking Hongmen, and went to the port to purchase goods with a small difference in actual prices.

Until one day, Li Tianyang suddenly issued an invitation to introduce a Western merchant who came to Keelung Town to purchase goods into his capital to supervise the yamen secretly, but the final result was that more and more Westerners were called to Keelung Town, until this June and July, a swarm of flocks poured into Yuegang, and then there was the prosperity of the previous Fan family business Tong shopkeeper.

So far, after Wu Qixian and the others have made a move, if they look at it from God's perspective, in fact, things are already very clear and clear.

Westerners, Ryukyu people, and Japanese people poured into Yuegang in droves, but in fact, it was the big pit dug by the Hongmen and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce for the Jin and Hui merchants, pushing them into the trap.

These outsiders from Tiannan and Haibei came to Yuegang to purchase, the most important thing is to make the shrewd businessmen of all parties let go of the precautionary psychology in their hearts, and no matter how shrewd businessmen could not have imagined that these incumbent groups, which originally had contradictions with each other, would eventually become daggers in the hands of Hongmen and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, stabbing at themselves and others.

Of course, the price paid by Hongmen and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce is not small, although the status of Hongmen is self-evident now, but as businessmen, Westerners, or other Japanese and Ryukyu merchants, what they pursue is naturally interests, if there are not enough interests, even if Hongmen succeeds in getting the other party to promise to help them, they dare not guarantee that the other party will not tell them about their plans.

Therefore, on the one hand, Hongmen promised to give certain tax reductions and price reductions to these merchants who helped them in the next few years, and on the other hand, most of the deposits paid by merchants from all sides to the Jin and Hui merchants were paid by Hongmen and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.

Moreover, after Hongmen dispatched manpower to secretly loot the goods purchased by the Jin merchants and Hui merchants, when the Jin merchants and Hui merchants were unable to complete the transaction according to the contract within the agreed time, most of the money they compensated to these purchasing merchants would become the remuneration of these merchants for helping the Hongmen and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce complete this strange trap, and the substantial gains obtained by the Hongmen and Nanyang Merchants were minimal.

Seeing that the delivery time promised by the merchants in Yuegang was getting closer and closer, but until now, even the goods of a single firm did not appear within the geographical scope of Yuegang, and at this time, including the shopkeeper of Fan's Yuegang business, Detong, began to get anxious.

Every day, many errands were sent out of the Moon Harbor, and only came back with a disgraced face and a tired face when it was dark, but none of the errand runners could receive any information from the caravans from afar, as if these caravans had disappeared into the barren land.

The shopkeeper Tong sent the book to the Suzhou merchant several times, and the reply they got was that the caravan had already set off, and it was on the way to come, and so on.

Westerners, Japanese people, and Ryukyu merchants gradually began to appear on the ground of the Moon Harbor for flash marriages, needless to say, naturally for the goods they purchased, and even a few anxious merchants came to the door early to ask them how the goods were ready.

In addition to lying and getting everything ready, the only thing they could do was to use the deposit they had collected to start planning for the worst.

However, I don't know why, when they approached the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and the Chaoshang merchants, proposed a purchase price higher than the market price, and purchased and ordered a batch of goods from these merchants, the reply was that they had no goods left!

(End of chapter)