Although according to the edict of Emperor Hongguang, the port of Quanzhou has been leased to Zheng Zhilong, the "King of Anping", and the lease period is as long as 99 years, but the streets of Quanzhou have not changed much. The prefect's yamen is still the original prefect's yamen, and the prefect's lord in the prefect's yamen is still the original prefect's lord. Of course, it would be inaccurate to say that there is no change. At least there's some change on the port side.

In the port of Quanzhou, many wharves were originally the property of Anping Wangfu, and now, the people of Anping Wangfu are buying land there on a large scale. The officials of Quanzhou Mansion, as well as the teeth of the Yaxing, and even the thugs of the Xingxing were busy, and soon the entire vicinity of the port became the Anping Palace.

However, after all, Anping Wangfu is a local, and it is also a village sage, so naturally it will not let the villagers suffer, let alone fish the people or anything, so those other people's properties, Anping Wangfu also spent real money to buy. Of course, the silver of the Anping Wangfu is also silver, so naturally it cannot be spent indiscriminately, and now that the prince of Anping is in the king, this silver will naturally be used to avenge the previous emperor...... Therefore, in fact, there is not much money really taken out by the Anping Palace, and most of the demolition households simply took their own properties and served the Anping Palace. In this way, it can also be regarded as serving the country, and secondly, there are many economic benefits to serve the Anping Palace, not only is it a lot easier to purchase goods, but also the Anping Palace, no matter where it is in the future, it is not too likely to suffer losses when it comes to trading. It's a win-win situation.

Of course, there are also some small businessmen who are not open-minded, and must guard the little things left by their ancestors and refuse to move away. As a result, some officials of Quanzhou Prefecture colluded with the teeth of the industry and the thugs of the industry, did some not very good things, and engaged in some forced demolition. However, King Anping knew about it and immediately sent people to the scene to stop this practice. King Anping let people say: "This is the ancestral family property, and the descendants of the family are willing to keep it, what's wrong?" How can you force people to move out? The lonely king is also from Quanzhou, and if the lonely king wants to do such a thing, he will be pointed at by the villagers. Although this house is small and broken, it is always someone's house, without the permission of the owner, the wind can enter, the rain can enter, and the mice can enter, but the people of the lonely king cannot enter! Otherwise, what is the difference between a lone king and a beast? When the people of Quanzhou heard this, they praised Zheng Zhilong as he was really a virtuous king. Of course, there are also some crazy people who are stupid and stupid to read and whisper behind their backs, "Prince Zheng was doing murder and arson to be recruited, and I don't know how many other people's houses he has brought people into, but now he says this, this is really in response to Zhuangzi's sentence 'The door of the princes, benevolence and righteousness'" and other strange words, but no one paid attention to him.

These small businessmen, as well as their houses, were retained, but most of these people were not very good at trading, and then soon because the business was not good, they closed down at a loss, as for their land, it was naturally reasonable and legal to fall into the hands of the Anping Palace, but this is their own inability, but it is not the people of the Anping Palace.

After acquiring the port of Quanzhou and the large land adjacent to it, the people of the Anping royal palace began to build a large number of Quanzhou, and more, bigger and more hungry wharves were built, and the messy houses next to the wharf were basically demolished to widen the road and build huge warehouses. The road was widened enough for three four-wheeled carriages to travel side by side (a width that may seem unremarkable to people today, but in those days it was surprisingly wide). And the continuous warehouses stretched for miles one after the other. In fact, the reason why the small merchants who stuck to their ancestral business closed their doors soon afterwards is also related to the fact that their surroundings have been transformed from residential areas into warehouses. In the Zheng family's plan, it will become an important transshipment center in the future.

According to the general idea, as soon as the Son of Heaven ascends the throne, it is not good to immediately lease the land to others, even if it is his own courtiers. And I, Daming, am rich in all kinds of trolls, even if these people are fine, they have to find something to spray. Especially the Donglin Party, which has contradictions with King Fu, who has become the Son of Heaven, should seize this opportunity to scold the Son of Heaven and traitors. However, this time it is very strange, for such a move, the opposition in the southeast is not too loud, even if a few people say that they muttered two sentences in private, someone will immediately stand up and say that the most important thing now is to eliminate the Liukou and avenge the first emperor. Compared with this major event, what is the land leased by the imperial court? And this kind of voice has unexpectedly become mainstream.

But in fact, this is not surprising. Because most of the gentry in the southeast now have common interests with the Zheng family. In the past few years, the Zheng family has controlled the sea and eliminated almost all pirates, which has allowed the sea trade to be further developed. Silk and cotton cloth from Xiajiang, porcelain from Jiangxi, and tea from all over the country brought more wealth to the local gentry in the maritime trade, and the grain brought by the Zheng family from overseas enabled them to further reduce their grain fields and increase mulberry and cotton fields. Especially the gentry in Jiangnan, they deal with the Zheng family more often, and in many cases they are business partners. They naturally knew that after the Zheng family leased Quanzhou, it would definitely bring them a bigger business and more income.

Since the Zheng family's lease of Quanzhou can bring more income to the gentry in Jiangnan, how can the Donglin party, who take the benefit of Sangzi as their own responsibility, oppose good things that can bring benefits to the Jiangnan gentry? What's more, there is also good news that is spreading privately among the gentry in Jiangnan.

The news is that King Anping will order more silk and cotton cloth from them next year, and the quantity may increase by fifty percent on the basis of this year!

"King Anping needs more silk so that he can sell it to the Taisi people and make money to come to King Qin and avenge the first emperor. Naturally, we should support it! Lady, I think that the silk of King Anping is to be sold to the Tessians. He is now renting Quanzhou, and I have heard that he is building a wharf and a warehouse in Quanzhou, and his business is getting bigger and bigger. Nowadays, most of the goods in and out of the east to Japan and the south to the Nanyang Taixi are transported to Quanzhou first. These goods were then transported from Quanzhou to other places, either by the ships of the King of Anping, by the ships of the Taixi themselves, or by the ships of the small boat owners in the Fujian and Cantonese areas......"

Zhou Bofu was talking energetically, but he heard a coquettish reprimand in his ear: "It's long-winded, I have said so much, but I haven't talked about the topic!" Where does the old lady have time to listen to your nonsense! Tell me, what are you going to do? ”

When Zhou Bofu heard this, he couldn't help but tremble, he habitually shrunk his neck, and then said with a smile: "Lady, I want to buy some boats for my husband." ”

"Buying a boat?" His wife frowned, thought about it, and didn't seem to find any major problems, so she asked, "Why did you suddenly remember that this happened?" ”

"Madame." Zhou Bofu replied with a smile on his face, "Madam, you think, whether it is silk, cotton cloth, or grain, these goods must be transported by ship." Whether it is the boat of the Taixi people or the boat of His Royal Highness King Anping, most of them are sea boats, and when they enter the Yangtze River, they are inaccessible, and it is even more difficult to enter those smaller rivers, and they are not easy to use. And the world's silk or something, but not all on the seaside, to be shipped out, it must first be sent to Wusongkou by waterway, and then transported to Quanzhou by sand boat, and then replaced by a sea ship. In the past, these boats were enough, but since King Anping said that he would buy more silk, and it would be fifty percent more than this year, most of the boats on the inland river would not be enough. For the husband, most of the other people at this time are thinking about how to change the grain field into mulberry field, how to make more cotton fields, more looms, but they may not be able to think of this thing. If we buy more boats in advance and wait until next year, then we won't be sitting and collecting money? ”

"Well, there's some truth to what you say." Mrs. Zhou said with a smile, "This matter, just order your subordinates to do it tomorrow." Let them buy back all the boats that can be bought and used in these ten miles and eight towns as soon as possible. ”

"Madam, this matter is not something that a few subordinates can do, and our ship here is not easy to use, if you want to buy it, you have to go to the shipyard of His Royal Highness King Anping to buy it. The ships from King Anping's shipyard are not only of good quality, but we also take care of the prince's business, and when the time comes, when transporting goods, their people will help a little, and our ships will be able to earn more than others. Besides, the husband and the king of Anping and the prince of Anping are all friends, and now that people are soaring, we should contact others so that the flies can be attached to the tail......"

"Humph! You're a green-headed fly! Mrs. Zhou snorted. She knew that Zhou Bofu had been at home for so long and was uncomfortable, so she wanted to find a reason to go out and play happily, but she didn't break it, she just said: "Listen to what you mean, are you going to Quanzhou in person?" ”

"Madam, I will go to Songjiang first, visit Mr. Zheng Cai, and then go to Quanzhou, and then maybe I will go to Dayuan Island - Madam, Prince Zheng's shipyard is on Dayuan Island. Madam, along the way, the scenery is not bad, if Madame is interested, it is better for us to go together as husband and wife......"

Mrs. Zhou stared at Zhou Bofu's eyes, as if she wanted to see how sincere he was. Zhou Bofu naturally looked at his wife with a sincere face.

"Forget it, it's hard for you, pretending to be like this. Go by yourself, go early and come back early! I don't want people to gossip, I haven't seen anyone who goes out with his wife. Mrs. Zhou's heart softened, so she said so.