Chapter 337: Turning a corner

Jiang Feng knew that when he arrived in Incheon, North Korea, the imperial court had not made any big reaction so far, and the Jingshi merchant group and the masters behind them really contributed a lot.

On the one hand, the economy of the Ming Dynasty had a prosperous commercial and handicraft industry, and on the other hand, the local land annexation became more and more powerful, and the consequence of this land annexation was not to produce a large number of vagabonds, but to change the bankrupt peasants into their own tenants and serfs, and strengthen the relationship of personal dependence.

After the establishment of the reclamation manor outside the Guan, although the profit inside was huge, the amount of labor required was too huge, and if the migration from the Guannai to the Guanwai was a very taboo for the displaced people, and the reclamation manor is still a semi-public situation.

Moreover, peasants with a strong sense of the countryside would not consider going to the Guanwai to earn a living outside the Guan, which is still described as a bitter cold land, without going to the last resort, so slaves became the greatest demand. The imperial court's ban on the sea is there, and it is still okay for all wealthy families to go to sea to do some business, if they send troops to plunder slaves everywhere, they think they will live a long time, and if they are sued, it is not too much to kill their heads and exterminate the clan.

However, Jiang Feng's anomaly appeared, and he was bold, and in the eyes of these people, he ran from Dengzhou, which was very well run, to the poor countryside of North Korea for no reason, thinking that after being there, he would be a mountain king or something, and no one thought that this person would continue to do things at sea, and he also expanded the big business of slave trade, which was almost set up for the purpose of cultivating manors.

Although the Jingshi Merchant Group and Jiang Feng also have such and such conflicts of interest, but for the sake of this source of slave labor, the nobles and eunuchs behind the Jingshi Merchant Group are also trying their best to cover up, anyway, for the Ming Dynasty, the most important thing is always the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and everything overseas is a minutiae.

The above things can also be said in reverse, Jiang Feng now also needs the existence of the Jingshi Business Group, many things still need to be transported by inland people, there is such a relationship, at least it can be obtained through silver and trade, rather than forming a closed state for himself after a complete falling out, since this is the case, Jiang Feng also has to be a little polite to those people in the Jingshi Business Group, so these high-level businessmen are not afraid of Jiang Feng, but dare to argue a few words.

Xia Qingjiao's residence on the island has now been cleaned up by Jiang Jiajun's guards and used as a meeting hall, but it is not a discussion at all, but a quarrel, although Chen Lei looks like a teacher, he almost slapped the table with Jiang Feng at this time, Zhang Liang and the guards on the side actually forgot to get angry, but they felt a little crying and laughing, the thing of wealth is so invincible, these businessmen are not afraid of anything.

Now Jiang Feng felt a very headache, he was angry for a while, so he sent someone to deliver the letter, but when he came to Damen Island, he found that he could sell about a thousand people, and the people of the Xia family were also valuable naval resources and manpower base for themselves, of course, they couldn't just let it out, and now they couldn't go to Zhejiang to grab some poor people to give the merchant group a boat, although Jiang Feng knew that his morality was not a good person, but if he really captured innocent Han people as slaves, it was a beast.

On the wall of the conference hall, according to the rules of Jiang Jiajun, there are charts, after the continuous improvement of the maritime merchants and whites, now the charts in East Asia have a similar outline, Jiang Feng's eyes are focused on it, but he sees an area.

pondered there, and suddenly reached out and slapped the table fiercely, and shouted there:

"Don't make any noise!"

The room immediately fell silent, and at this time, those unwilling businessmen came to their senses, remembering that the person in front of them was a murderous star who did not blink an eye, could it be that he was angry and ready to kill! Individuals are drumming in their hearts.

Jiang Feng first said something to his guards, and then asked:

"Guys, have you brought enough money this time?"

Everyone was relieved in their hearts, and nodded again and again, this time they all thought that there would be a large number of people, and each family brought a lot of silver, Jiang Feng saw the reaction of the people around him, and said with a smile:

"Then please replenish Jiang's fleet supplies, I will definitely give you sufficient manpower, and I will never let you return empty-handed!"

After saying this, the merchants were a little confused, but replenishing supplies was a simple matter for them, and they were not embarrassed, but Jiang Feng's fleet was all warships, and there were no legal ingredients now, so they could only replenish on the spot on Damen Island, and they did not dare to go directly to the mainland to replenish.

Seeing that the businessmen agreed, Jiang Feng just hugged his fists and promised:

"Everyone, at most, it's only a day, I'll give you a reply, send off!"

When the merchants walked out of the courtyard in a daze, they saw a few foreigners wearing the uniforms of the Jiang family's army and navy hurrying towards the house.

The current Daming Jingshi, the household yamen is known as the world's wealth and wealth gathered here, and it is the most oily department, and the officials who are on errands in it are all oily and comfortable. However, in the past six months or so, they have been a little anxious, and the various yamen of the Ming Dynasty are basically following the rules, there is nothing original, and the officials do not have much innovative spirit, if there is no great eunuch and cabinet chief assistant who want to innovate - such as Liu Jin and Zhang Juzheng, these officials will definitely not have any initiative to innovate and improve efficiency.

The reason why it has not changed is mainly that there are no new changes, and for more than 100 years, except for the increasing taxes provided by the world's industry and commerce, the rest is according to the practice of a few decades ago.

However, the officials in charge of grain knew that Jingshi and Beizhili were much less dependent on Cao Yun, because for some reason, there was a large amount of grain for sale in the Tianjin Wei Center, and the price was actually cheaper than that transported from the south, and they also knew about the reclamation of manors.

However, no one expected that there would be such a situation, and the various products of the reclamation manor quickly formed a price advantage, and the quantity was not low.

The canal alone could not meet the actual needs of the north, and the shortage could only be solved through purchase, and many grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River made a living from it, and a large number of private grain evaded tax cards in the name of Cao Yun, and at the end of the canal, merchants in Tongzhou distributed it to various places.

However, the same large amount of grain outside the customs took the shipping route and landed in Tianjin, which had a considerable advantage in price, and the influence of the power group behind the reclamation manor on the grain merchants in the north was more direct and greater.

Some grain merchants in Jiangnan have gone bankrupt, and some officials in Jiangnan are full of complaints, and the interests generated by Caoyun have long formed an interest group in the DPRK and the local government (such as the officials who eat the loss of Caoyun), and it is a rather large interest group, but the grain (known as Hailiang) from the Tianjin Guard, the Xungui group behind it is not a vegetarian figure, and public opinion offensive has risen in the court and where they can exert influence.

Of course, using slaves as labor, the crops that rise in the fertile soil of the northeast have almost no cost except for the price of seeds, and relying on the natural water system transportation system outside the customs, the cost of shipping is lower than that of water transportation.

Now the officials above the court are faintly divided into two factions, but this is not a political faction, but the so-called "southern grain" and "northern grain", also known as the dispute between the river and the sea. The Shanghai faction is basically the faction of the Jingshi merchant group, and the He faction is a staunch supporter of Caoyun.

Both sides are deep-rooted powerful eunuchs, and no one can afford to offend, and the household department is caught in a dilemma.

In addition to the food matter, the officials in charge of horse administration were a little surprised to find that some horses began to flow into the customs outside the customs, and the horses that had always been embarrassed began to ease up.

The problems encountered by the various yamen of the Jingshi are strange, for example, the officials of the Yamen of Shuntianfu and the relevant personnel of the Wucheng Terracotta Division, found that the proportion of Korean slaves in the homes of the nobles and eunuchs of the Jingshi has increased, and it is also the fashion, who does not raise a few Korean slaves, and the proportion of Koreans in the city outside the west city is also gradually increasing......

The hierarchy of the Shinong businessmen began to loosen somewhat, and the officials began to quarrel over the interests of the businessmen in the front and back of the house, and began to divide into factions.

The port of Manila in Luzon is a natural harbor, since the Spanish established a colony here, although it is too far away from Europe, the Spanish soldiers and residents who came here are self-deprecating and honorably exiled, but the position here is quite important, and a large number of Spanish ships carrying South American supplies are using this place as a transit point.

Then either the goods on the ships were shipped back to Spain, or the gold and silver captured in the Americas were exchanged for Chinese goods in the South Seas, and then trafficked back to Europe.

Therefore, the Spanish also kept nearly 1,000 soldiers here, five gunboats of about 200 tons, and also built batteries on the port of Manila as a defense. The figure of 1,000 people can be regarded as a negligible number in the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Mongols.

However, the Spaniards felt that this was enough, knowing that in the fifteenth century, the Spanish 500 men defeated the troops of the Inca Empire in South America with tens of thousands of people, and the natives in the South Sea would not be much stronger in combat power.

In November of the thirteenth year of Jiajing, the Spanish soldiers on the fort in the port of Manila looked at the sea in the distance, opened their mouths wide, and could not speak a word for a long time......