The tide is rolling, and merchants from the West, with products from Africa, South Asia, Europe and other parts of the world, appear in Keelung Town, Hongmen.

Since Hongmen drove the Spanish fleet out of the Luzon Islands, the center of trade between the Westerners and Asia gradually moved from the Luzon Islands to Keelung, making the trade in Keelung more and more prosperous.

This is an undoubted thing, not to mention that among the various goods pursued by Westerners, the specialties of the Ming Dynasty are the most admired commodities by Westerners, as well as specialties from the Eastern War, Ryukyu and Korea, all of which make Westerners flock to them.

Since the Tokugawa shogunate came to power, the ruling Tokugawa nobles began to gradually implement policies such as closing the country to the country, and with the Jesuit revolt of the Tokugawa people who had just been suppressed two years ago, Westerners were not treated well by the Toshiwa nobles, and it can be said that it is difficult to move an inch in the Toshiwa.

Only the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, the monarchy of the Eastern Wa, could barely trade in the Eastern Wa, and the Hongmen Qixintang, which had a good relationship with the Eastern Wa, was fortunate or inevitable to become the most important trading group in the Eastern Wa.

As for the Korean Kingdom, which was suffering from post-war reconstruction and recovery, it was needless to say that the merits of Hongdang's sailors to help each other were enough for Hongmen Qixintang to obtain an extremely high share of trade from their rulers, far from being comparable to ordinary stragglers.

The enlightened and open policy of Hongmen itself has made countless maritime merchants willing to come to Keelung Town to purchase or sell their goods, and for a time, it has become a distribution center for all kinds of goods from all over the world, and its financial trade cannot be developed.

"Alas, shopkeeper Feng, is there any new goods coming up this time?"

When you come to Keelung Town, as long as you are a businessman who is familiar with the road, the first time you find a first-class businessman, it will inevitably be the business name of Qixintang in Keelung Town, and now the person who is sitting in the business store of Qixintang in Keelung Town is a young Hongmen disciple who is only twenty-five or sixteen years old, Feng Sihai.

"Hey, don't say it, this time our firm just shipped a batch of fifty bicycles from Bengang, I don't know if you're interested?"

Feng Sihai greeted people with a smile and greeted warmly.

"What else? Are there any other good things? ”

"Rubies from Africa, wool carpets from Persia, spices from India, I wonder what you like?"

Feng Siyang sprinkled a large number of varieties of goods orally, eloquently and clearly, and at the same time his expression was extremely proud.

"Well, I mean, did you have any artillery and bird guns this time?"

The businessman who came to inquire intermittently asked about the original purpose.

"Hey, you said this, of course there must be, but the caliber of this cannon is not large, the maximum caliber is only eighteen pounds, and the words such as the bird gun are just ordinary goods, not the flintlock pistol that my Hongmen spontaneously fired."

Feng Sihai didn't care at all, since Hongmen began to expand the arms trade, there was an endless stream of merchants who came to inquire about the price, but behind these buyers were their own proprietors, such as the Ming Dynasty, Dongwa, Korea and other countries, and even representatives of Westerners, representatives of the peasant army of King Li Zicheng, etc.

For these visitors, Hongmen has always been a refusal to come, but most of the arms and equipment sold by Hongmen are obsolete models of Hongmen, or they are not powerful enough to threaten the status of Hongmen itself, even if Hongmen itself does not sell, as long as there is a heart, it can be bought from Westerners.

Like an eighteen-pound cannon, it seems that it is not large in size and is conducive to carrying and transporting, but in this era when solid bullets are used as the main ammunition, even if an eighteen-pound cannonball is smashed in the crowd, except for the extremely unlucky individual soldiers, its coverage is even less than that of Hongmen's own grenades.

The real battlefield killer, Hongmen naturally will not stupidly take it out and sell it, but even if it is Hongmen's eliminated products, it is still sought after by the surrounding groups and has become the best-selling and most profitable commodity in Hongmen Qixintang.

"Okay, then I'm going to order ten eighteen-pound guns and a thousand birds, I don't know when your firm will be able to deliver them?"

This businessman who purchased arms in large quantities was not very outstanding in Feng Sihai's communication, but now that he has purchased so many arms, Feng Sihai's expression on his face remains unchanged, but in his heart, he has marked an important mark on this person.

"Well, this firearm needs to be picked up from our Bengang and transported a lot of time compared to other goods, so I'm afraid it will have to be delivered in a week, I don't know what the guest thinks?"

Feng Sihai remained silent, although he was nervous, but he did not refuse the sale, but inadvertently postponed the sale of the goods.

"Okay, no problem!"

As a guest of the Daming maritime merchants, he categorically agreed with Feng Sihai's opinion, and decided on a transaction involving tens of thousands of taels of silver in a word.

"Okay, please pay a deposit of 10% first, this is the purchase contract, do you need to watch it in detail?"

Feng Sihai also did not have the slightest special joy, such a purchase technique is no surprise to Qi Xintang, and there are not a few people who handle Feng Sihai with a larger value purchase transaction.

After greeting the guests and sending them out of the hall of Qixin Hall, Feng Sihai turned his head and called the guys around him to his side: "Go and report a message to Lao Cao, and ask him to check the origin of this guy and who is the owner behind it?" ”

"Yes!"

The guy sneaked out of the back door of the store and went straight to report the situation to the person in charge of the Hongmen guard in Keelung Town.

Relying on Hongmen's powerful intelligence system and the cooperation of internal and external guards, the merchants who suddenly changed their temperament and purchased arms on a large scale were soon thoroughly investigated.

And this kind of situation happens every month in Hongmen, and many shrewd merchants even become professional brokers, specializing in other groups that are interested in purchasing arms from Hongmen, but because of their improper relationship with Hongmen, it is difficult to personally appear in Keelung to purchase arms, such as Westerners, Satsuma and other forces.

Although the Hongmen did not care about the flow of their arms, they needed to give a definite understanding of their goals such as arms sales, and use this to re-estimate the strength of the surrounding forces and other relationships.

As expected by the Hongmen intelligence system, the real force that came to purchase Hongmen's arms this time was the Qing Dynasty from the far northeast.

Relying on the secret remnants of the influence of the Jin merchant families who defected to the Qing Dynasty, the intelligence system of the Qing people not only penetrated deeper into the interior of the Ming Dynasty, but also had commercial tentacles that could still do something for them, just as they were now purchasing arms in Keelung, Hongmen.

(End of chapter)