Chapter 70: The Arrogant Zheng Family (1)
Billy Zhou's departure made Australia paralyzed in the Ming intelligence work in a short period of time, and the safety and training of many personnel were not even in a hurry, Billy Zhou hurried to Batavia, compared to Australia's commercial interests in the Ming Dynasty, the security of the homeland is indeed greater than it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After considering the security situation in the homeland, Wu Zhengdao and others discussed and decided to leave him, and let him find more intelligence officers with training value in the homeland.
Since Billy Zhou's departure, the information obtained by the Hong Kong Overseas Consulate has mainly relied on rumors from inquiries between businessmen from various places and the second child of the restaurant, and it is basically difficult to judge whether these news are true, but if you analyze carefully, you can still analyze some useful news.
There are fewer and fewer maritime merchants coming in to Hong Kong, and there is a trend of more mainland businessmen, which seems to be a bit wrong.
Yan Jianye, the grandson of the founder of Taiwan, who has been influential in Macao for a long time, personally went to Hong Kong to meet Yang Yuzhou.
He has made careful inquiries in Macau, Guangzhou, Fuzhou and other places, and it is said that the Zheng family has begun to pay attention to the business of Australians.
The Zheng family, the leading warlord in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, is said to have 100,000 private soldiers, and by monopolizing the trade of the Japanese shogunate, they earned millions of taels of silver every year.
This has to be said to be a miracle, which shows the huge profits and huge profits of maritime trade, which is why many people at sea have to take risks even if they risk being killed.
However, the Zheng family is different from other maritime merchants, other maritime merchants may be serious business, but the predecessor of the Zheng family was a pirate, and has always been accustomed to doing business without capital, for example, if your ship wants to be safe in the East China Sea, you must buy a small flag issued by them with the Zheng family logo, without this flag, you will encounter various situations at sea.
In fact, this is a disguised collection of protection fees, but they are still a bit of a discipline, at least after you buy the flag, you can ensure that you are not troubled by pirates, you know, even the Dutch and Spaniards in the entire East China Sea have to give the Zheng family three points of thin noodles, not to mention other pirates.
Since Yan Jianye inquired about this news, it would definitely not be wrong, the people of the Zheng family have not come, which is also what Yang Yuzhou has always been curious about, there is no reason why they will not see how much profit is in it, there is definitely a reason why they don't come.
When Yan Jianye explained the situation, he realized that the emotional family was waiting for him to send him to the door, and he seemed to be a little ignorant of the rules, so he never went, so he came.
The relationship is like this, I understand, this is to collect protection money, and at the same time to negotiate business with us, but looking at this posture, how much benefit we want to get, I'm afraid no. Wu Zhengdao looked at Yan Jianye with an indifferent expression.
Although the old Zheng family is the overlord of the East China Sea, the Australians are not afraid of him, even if you come to a fleet, it is useless, if you meet the Perfect, you just wait to be beaten.
There is only one perfect formal battle at sea, and now if the Zheng family dares to provoke, the navy guys probably don't mind teaching them a lesson.
"The artillery bombarded the country, forcing them to sign a non-stop treaty." Yang Yuzhou smiled, "It's a little interesting, but we still value peace, everyone is doing business for money, if the Zheng family gives face, everyone will talk about it." ”
"Well, that's right, there's no need to do it, we are civilized people, and we don't pay attention to it." Zhou Yang raised his hand in agreement.
The conversation between several people made Yan Jianye embarrassed, did these Australian elders hear what they were talking about, the Zheng family wanted to collect protection money, and even asked for unconditional agency rights for Japan and Southeast Asian coastal areas, including the two Guangxi generations.
In the face of such a powerful giant as the Zheng family, Yan Jianye was still a little timid in his heart, after all, his little power was not enough to play with others, so he naturally thought that Australians would be as afraid as him, but the reaction that the other party gave him was an attitude that it was not his own business.
Your sister!
You guys are so hanging, I don't want to play with you anymore, I didn't expect that I came to report the situation kindly, but the other party didn't care at all.
Mr. Yan doesn't need to worry, it's true that the Zheng family is the hegemon of the East China Sea, but my Australian Federation is not a vegetarian, if we sit down and talk about it, we can still be friends and do business, and have money to earn together, if they dare to use any tricks, we don't mind destroying the entire Zheng family fleet.
Yang Yuzhou looked at Yan Jianye very seriously and said, it seems that he is really sure to do this.
No matter what the Australians were, Yan Jianye came to report the situation anyway, but he didn't want to have a bad relationship with the Zheng family at this time, after all, he still had a lot of business to do, so he then took a boat back to Macau overnight.
Three days later, the Zheng family came, the Zheng family sent no one else, it was his fifth brother Zheng Zhibao, as one of the main figures of the Zheng Group, he was able to send him to negotiate, it seems that Zheng Zhilong still attaches great importance to the Australians, after all, the Australian goods have been sold out of stock in just two months, in this case, he will never rest assured if he does not send a trustworthy person to negotiate.
"Lord Zheng has worked hard all the way from afar, please forgive Zhou for being busy with official affairs and not being far away, please include it." Zhou Yang did not bow to Zheng Zhibao.
Now the highest decision-making of the entire Hong Kong overseas consulate is Zhou Yang, so Wu Zhengdao did not come forward as the main task of the person in charge, but stood aside as an escort.
Zheng Zhibao snorted coldly, originally wanted to give the Australian old man a dismount, but the other party left him on the dock for an hour and did not send anyone to greet him, and finally had to come over with his entourage.
"Hmph, the barbarians just don't know how to be polite, is this the way to be hospitable, and you don't have a cup of tea." Zheng Zhibao Shuangmu Yuandeng, looked at Zhou Yang coldly and asked. Judging from this momentum, the other party is indeed a little angry, but it doesn't matter, the important thing is to make the other party's way Australia not afraid of him.
"Lord Zheng said with a smile, how can the tea be reluctant, it will be here soon, please take a seat." Zhou Yang's temper is good, even in the face of Zheng Zhibao's temper, it can be seen that he did not get angry on the spot.
"You heard that people from Macao come to their country called Australia, selling strange things, Zheng came this time not for anything else, just for this matter, in the future, the southeast coast, including the two Guangzhou, the agency rights will belong to the Zheng family, how many of you we want, as for the price, it must be fifty percent lower than the current selling price."
Good guy, this time I want something, and I have to win the agency at less than half the price, so strong.
Zhou Yang frowned, with a hint of displeasure on his face, "Lord Zheng, I'm afraid this is a little inappropriate." ”