"Grandpa, Mr. Gu is back."

Chen Yue was looking at the list of prices of various goods in Nagasaki that Sima Nan inquired about, when Chen Yan entered the report.

Chen Yue pushed the name post and said busily: "Let him come in." ”

"Mr. Gu, how did you talk to Zheng Cai?" Signaling Gu Jun's grace to be exempt, Chen Yue asked.

"It has been negotiated, our two raw silk unified prices advance and retreat together, and neither party is allowed to maliciously compete to lower the price." Gu Junen smiled.

Chen Yue nodded: "This is natural, the price goes up and it is good for everyone." ”

Thinking about the price of raw silk that I heard about, and the 1,000 quintals of raw silk loaded in the fleet, raw silk alone can be sold for four or five hundred thousand taels of silver, plus the goods loaded in more than 20 sea ships, this trade can sell at least two or three million taels of silver. Expand your army, build ships, buy and craft weapons, and you're all there!

"Guogong, Zheng Cai is not kind to him, and he is afraid that he will have bad intentions towards us." Gu Junen said again.

"Well, Mr. Gu, tell me in detail." Chen Yue came back to his senses from the joy and said to Gu Junen calmly.

"Everything is normal with us, but from the words, Zheng Cai is very wary of our Qiyun." Gu Junen explained the conversation with Zheng Cai in detail, and said: "We have more than 20 sea ships now, but only five of the Zheng family's fleet have arrived safely in the Wa Kingdom. The Zheng family only has five ships to trade on the sea, but we are four times as many as them, how can they not be afraid and jealous? ”

Chen Yue nodded, as the saying goes, it is not allowed to sleep soundly next to the couch, the Zheng family is used to dominating the sea, and the sudden appearance of such a huge force as Qi Yun is inevitable. The key is what kind of means Zheng Cai will take, and will he think about attacking Qiyun Firm?

"Although the Zheng family has a lot of power, there are only five sea ships that come to the Wa Kingdom, and even if they add their subsidiary forces, there are not as many people as our ships, so we don't need to be afraid of them in the Wa Kingdom, just after returning to Zhoushan." Gu Junen analyzed.

After returning to Zhoushan? Chen Yue smiled, when he returned to Zhoushan, the three Galen ships should also be built, plus the current more than 20 three-masted sea ships, it is enough to form a huge fleet, even if it is not as powerful as the Zheng family, it is not easy for it to deal with Zhoushan easily, unless Zheng Zhilong dares to risk rebellion and attack the whole division.

However, provoking the Zheng family is a great obstacle to his attack on Dongfan. Chen Yue couldn't help but feel a little worried. But all this cannot be avoided, although the coast of the Ming Dynasty is vast, there can be no two forces, and sooner or later there will be a day against the Zheng family.

"Sir, it's hard work." Chen Yue smiled, and only Gu Junen could see the subtleties, just from the conversation with Zheng Cai, he could distinguish so many things, and it was absolutely impossible to change others.

"It's just a trivial matter, but what are your plans for Qi Guogong?" Gu Junen looked at Chen Yue with interest, wanting to see how he would do it in the face of such a strong enemy of the Zheng family.

"The Zheng family dominates the sea, earns a lot of wealth from sea trade, and earns millions of taels of silver every year, but has never paid a tael of silver to the treasury, which can be said to be the cancer of the Ming Dynasty.

If this kind of power is not cleared for a day, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to rise for a day. Chen Yue is not talented, and is willing to remove this cancer for the Ming Dynasty, so that the income of sea trade can be owned by the treasury, and the income from trade can be fed back to the Ming Dynasty, so as to solve the financial crisis of the imperial court and reduce the burden on the people of the world. ”

Chen Yue said angrily.

There are too many problems in the Ming Dynasty, such as sea trade, although the imperial court opened Quanzhou Yuegang as a trade port, and set up a city shipping department to manage foreign trade, but in the Chongzhen period, hundreds of sea ships go to sea for trade every year, and how many are going to sea through Yuegang? Naturally, there is no tax to be paid through the moon port, which also makes a large amount of tax revenue lost, and the annual tax revenue of the moon port is only less than 10,000 taels of silver, which is a drop in the bucket compared to such a large-scale sea trade.

If all the ships that went to sea to trade could pay taxes according to the regulations, and the annual tax revenue of the imperial court alone would reach millions of taels, where would the treasury be empty, and where would it be necessary to transfer all the pressure to the powerless common people?

In the current situation, it is the gentry on the coast who rely on the flow of oil from the sea trade to give birth to the abnormal situation of the Zheng family, a rich and rival country.

"I ......admire the courage and loyalty of the Duke of Qi Guo," Gu Junen smiled bitterly. Obviously because of selfish collusion with Dinghai Lutai, he brazenly did such a bold thing as robbing all the maritime merchants in Ningbo, but now he has made such a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, can you not hand over the silver earned from the sea trade to the imperial court?

"Those who know me say I'm worried, and those who don't know me say what I want?" Chen Yue shook his head, knowing that he was loyal to a thief like Gu Junen and found the wrong person to be loyal and patriotic. However, as long as this person is willing to do things for himself, it doesn't matter if he is loyal to the Ming court or not.

It was expected that even if Zheng Cai was wary of himself, he had nothing to do with himself, so Chen Yue would no longer pay attention to the matter, and what he had to do now was to sell the goods as soon as possible and exchange them for silver.

Except for raw silk and Zheng Cai formed a united front, the other goods were disposed of by Chen Yue at will, because the other goods of the Zheng family had already been sold out.

Since there were far fewer ships from Daming than in previous years, the market was now a completely seller's market, and the merchants of the Wa Kingdom rushed to contact the Qiyun firm, hoping to grab the goods. However, more than 20 sea vessels came at once, which also made the price of goods in the market fall a lot.

Chen Yue entrusted Fu Chun, Sima Nan, and Guo Linfeng to be responsible for selling the goods, but he held the most valuable raw silk in his hands.

Porcelain, tea, poria, rhubarb, mercury, lacquerware, and the bulk goods carried by the ship were sold one after another, bringing a large amount of silver to the Qiyun every day, and everyone who watched it smiled.

......

At noon that day, a three-masted ship suddenly sailed into the port of Nagasaki, and the tattered side of the ship and the sail that had been knocked out of the hole indicated that the ship had just experienced a tragic battle at sea.

As soon as the three-masted ship entered the harbor, it lowered the boat from the boat, and then the boat quickly rowed in the direction of Goto.

"People from the Lu family in Jiaxing? Two sea ships were robbed by the Dutch, and only one escaped, asking us for help? Zheng Cai's brows furrowed when he heard the report from his subordinates.

"Their Lu family's sea ship was robbed by the Dutch, what does it matter to our Zheng family? Tell him, no! Zheng Cai said impatiently.

In the past, the Zheng family would generally come forward to reconcile when encountering such things, and at worst, it would also put pressure on the Dutch to release the captives, after all, the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty had paid tolls to the Zheng family, and theoretically they were protected by the Zheng family.

But now, Zheng Cai is worried about the sinking of half of his ship and the sudden rise of the Qiyun business, and he doesn't care about such a thing.