Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture.

"This is the red-haired man?"

Wang Fuzhi sat in the restaurant and looked with interest at the bank of the Huangpu River, where a few ghosts were walking off the boat on a sea boat that had just docked. And a few local businessmen suddenly greeted them as if they had seen their relatives, and those ghosts were like the people of the Ming Dynasty, and those merchants saluted each other.

"They were all Dutch ships from the Wakoku country, and they had a place to live in Nagasaki."

Xia Yunyi next to him said.

Of course, the Songjiang switch can't be in Songjiang Mansion, at this time, the Fuzhi Huating, in Songjiang District, the final customs must be Shanghai County, and the switch almost in the blink of an eye made this originally very inconspicuous small county into a prosperous place. Merchant ships from all over the world can be said to come one after another, such as the Japanese and the Ryukyus, and especially the Dutch merchant ships, which have a number of merchant ships of the East India Company coming every month, after all, it is easier to trade than all other customs, and the goods that Europeans want can be transported here through the Yangtze River.

It has an incomparable advantage over other customs.

Yang Qing's five-port trade ......

Well, it's actually a family of four.

Because the five mouths are Songjiang, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou and Guangzhou, but at this time Guangzhou is the capital of King Gui! The Ming Dynasty controlled only the remaining four, and Fuzhou and Zhangzhou could only be covered regionally among the four mouths, especially Zhangzhou Yuegang had been in decline for a long time. Ningbo is slightly better is only part of the goods brought by Fuchunjiang, thanks to the fact that Hangzhou cannot enter the sea vessels, Ningbo's customs in Zhoushan undertakes all the export of goods shipped out of Fuchunjiang. Shanghai has the support of the entire Yangtze River, and at this time, even the goods from Sichuan can come here, and the Dutch on the opposite island will come to trade immediately after Shanghai is switched.

"Aren't we at war with it?"

Wang Fuzhi said suspiciously.

"You said it was a war in Taiwan? That's not a big deal, it's a big deal, but the silver still has to be earned, since the Marquis of Zhongyong didn't say that they were not allowed to come over to trade, then continue to do business! ”

Xu Fuyuan said with a smile on the side.

In fact, Yang Qingcai wouldn't do that!

The Dutch who left the island were not only the main maritime trading partners of the Ming Dynasty, but also brought a steady stream of various goods to Europe, and also brought him a large amount of vital copper from the Japanese state.

In the year of the switch, 4,000 tons of copper were imported from the country alone.

Yang Qing, who knew very well that the Japanese would quickly control the export of copper, took what could be called a frenzied raid this year, and as long as all the copper coins or copper utensils were used to purchase goods in the Ming Dynasty, he was exempt from tariffs. The vast majority of this copper came from the Wa Kingdom, and then the merchants who got the copper coins went to the bank to exchange them for silver in the form of additional subsidies, and eventually these copper coins became a bronze cannon of the Ming Army and Navy.

At such a time, Dutch merchant ships were refused to enter the port?

Yang Qing's brain has not yet entered the water.

Just like Xu Fuyuan said, business still has to be done.

Anyway, it won't be long before the Tokugawa family comes to their senses.

Originally, the Fan family, as an imperial merchant, also imported an average of 4 million catties of copper from the Japanese State every year to our Qing Dynasty, but soon the Tokugawa family came to their senses and mandated the amount of copper exported to China and the Netherlands every year. Otherwise, the Japanese people would have no copper money to use, and in fact, they would have begun to trade rice as currency in the later period, even if the Japanese accumulated for thousands of years, they would not be able to stand this blood drawing method! From 1685 to the early days of the old dog, an average of four million catties per year for decades! This kind of trade even made the Kuanyong Tongbao of the Japanese State become a circulating currency in our Qing Dynasty, which made the old dog look confused, and thought that wherever there was a bold rebellion, he could rebel to the point of minting copper coins, but he didn't know it, and later he didn't know the truth after the governor of Jiangsu explained it.

Yang Qing knows this very well.

So he had to take advantage of the Tokugawa family's sloth-like reaction speed and import as much copper as fast as he could before they could react.

It's a baby!

This thing is more precious to him than silver.

Silver can't be cast into cannons, but copper is still the main artillery raw material of the Japanese army until the First Wu Dynasty, and people use 60 steel-chambered bronze tube field guns to beat the gorgeous Krupp 75 cast steel camp guns of our Qing Army.

For Yang Qing, even in the next fifty years, the bronze cannon will not be outdated.

Looking at the red-haired man outside, Wang Fuyi smiled.

At this time, the food was served, and the guy brought over a jar of wine, and Xu Fuyuan's face immediately sank.

"You give the old man sweet potato wine?"

He shouted to the shopkeeper who was waiting beside him.

"This dog thing, don't you know Master Xu of Huating?"

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect such a mistake to happen, whether it was the Huating Xia family or the Xu family, they were all big families, and then he slapped the guy angrily and scolded.

"Don't go for a good wine yet!"

He shouted.

The man hurried to take the jar away.

"Wait, stay, I'm quite a fan of this wine!"

Wang Fuzhi stopped him, and then said to Xia Yunyi.

Yang Qing brazenly ordered to increase the tax on rice wine by 50 percent under the slogan of saving grain, and forced all the restaurants to sell sweet potato wine and sorghum wine. Not only that, but also send an anti-smuggling team to investigate the illegal brewing, not prohibited, after all, it is very common for ordinary people to drink their own home-brewed wine, but they can drink it at home, and they have to pay taxes whether they sell it or not.

In the end, it got a piece of sweet potato roast and sorghum Daqu wine flavor in Nanjing.

Apparently, Shanghai was not spared.

"Anyway, the Marquis of Zhongyong is too strict to even manage this!"

Xu Fuyuan said somewhat dissatisfied.

"This is not a bad thing, rice wine consumes millions of stones of grain every year, so it can not only kill the extravagance, but also save food, and this sweet potato wine and sorghum wine are not bad."

Wang Fuzhi said with a smile.

At this time, Chen Zilong and another scribe of the same kind came together.

The three of them hurriedly got up to greet each other.

Wang Fuzhi knew Chen Zilong, and the other was introduced by Chen Zilong, and he soon learned that it was Gu Xianzheng, a native of Kunshan, the former governor of Yan'an Mansion, who was captured by the Shun army when the city of Xi'an was broken, and was not able to escape until the year before last, but he was at home.

Of course, what Wang Fuzhi didn't know was that this person was killed in history because he conspired with Chen Zilong to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, and at that time, Hong Chengchou ordered him to be escorted to Nanjing to threaten him to know the results of Shi Kefa? He replied, then do you know whether Hong Chengchou is dead or not? His family of three brothers and two sons all died because of the resistance to the Qing Dynasty. And Xu Fuyuan also participated in the resistance to the Qing Dynasty, and after the defeat, he followed Zheng Chenggong to Taiwan, and it must be explained that the gentry in the Susong area resisted the Qing army resolutely, and it is another matter to lack ability.

The five of them quickly took their seats.

"Wozi is not in Beijing, how can I get it?"

Xia Yunyi asked.

They actually invited Gu Xianzheng.

Wang Fuzhi is a famous scholar in Huguang, the first among the literati of Huguang of the same generation, he was invited by the Xia family, of course, he also invited Su Songwen friends to come, Kunshan here is nothing more than a hundred miles of Wusong River downstream.

But Chen Zilong's arrival was an accident.

Chen Zilong is in the middle of the military department, although at this time, let alone the military department, even the military department is about to become an ornament, but he has nothing important and cannot return to his hometown.

"It's already happening!"

Chen Zilong said lightly.

"Then Li Zicheng can really let His Majesty come back?"

Xu Fuyuan was stunned.

"It's a release, but you have to get fifteen million stone of grain back."

Chen Zilong said.

Obviously, the negotiations in Chang'an have finally yielded results, and the original 20 million has been reduced to 15 million.

"Fifteen million stones? Even if Jiangnan has a good harvest this year, it is impossible to raise these 15 million stones, this is grain, and they have to be transported. At the beginning, the entire Jiangnan was only a few million stones exported to Beijing every year, which was already the power of the country, not to mention that he was fifteen million, and there was no shipping to pass, only the Yellow River, which was unstable in shipping, which was simply a fantasy! ”

Xu Fuyuan exclaimed.

"You can fold silver!"

Chen Zilong said.

"The grain only needs thirty percent, and the rest is converted into silver!"

He continued.

"That's nearly 10 million taels! He is a lion with a big mouth, and we want the emperor to return to Nanjing! However, the household department and the inner treasury should be able to come up with it, and if it is not enough, it can also issue bonds to raise. ”

Xia Yunyi said.

The bond has already been thrown out by Yang Qing.

He had just issued two million five-year treasury bonds in the first phase, which was almost sold out at this time, and the gentry were very enthusiastic about buying it, saying that whether those gentry opposed him or not, they knew very well that the safety of the Ming Dynasty was no problem. Now that the reorganization is completed, the various departments have added up to more than 300,000 new troops, and although such a powerful strength cannot be said to be very safe in dominating the world, it is absolutely no problem to protect itself. This is a government loan, not a private loan from Yang Qing, even if Yang Qing steps down one day, his successor, whether it is the emperor or Donglin Qunxian, will not fail to pay it back.

"Did Gong Yu think that Yang Qing would pay for himself to buy shackles?"

Chen Zilong said.

"Well, he's not really going to pay for it, is he?"

Xia Yunyi said very innocently.

Of course he won't pay it, it is said that after the household department gave Li Zicheng the money from the autumn tax last year, the rest was used to convene the Four Peoples Assembly. Thousands of representatives of the four people came from all over the world, and together with the compensation prepared for them, all the money left by the household department was spent, and now the household department is all dependent on loans from the Imperial Bank and the sale of treasury bonds to support the summer tax this year. ”

Chen Zilong said.

"What about Neku?"

Xu Fuyuan said.

"The inner library has repaired the Wanshou Palace for the Empress Dowager Yi'an!"

Chen Zilong said.

"That Neku has accumulated more than 10 million since the first emperor, and the income from just copying the family is more than 10 million, how much can be used to build a longevity palace?"

Xu Fuyuan was stunned.

"Then Yang Qing said that he had repaired the Wanshou Palace for the Empress Dowager Yi'an, what can we do?"

Chen Zilong spread his hands and said helplessly.