When Chang Wei saw the head, Yan Siqi was still staring, as if he still couldn't believe that he was dead. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"This person has a meritorious role in developing Bengang, and he has a meritorious role in recruiting Han people to reclaim the land," Chang Wei sighed and said, "Put his head and body together, and find a coffin to bury in a place." ”

"Yes, political affairs."

A clerk of the marching division agreed to come down and take people to do it.

Chang Wei turned to Zhang Xuwen and Li Pingzhi and said: "As soon as the two of you came, they made a breakthrough in the situation in Taiwan, and they have made great contributions, and I will report to the military department for credit." ”

"Thank you for the political affairs." Li Pingzhi and Zhang Xuwen thanked each other together.

Li Pingzhi said: "The next step is to receive the ships that Yan Siqi left in the port, the sailor part, the Li family can take it away, and the rest will be guarded and educated, and slowly differentiated and used." Those who are on the Fujian side, of course, must ask the military gate to take care of them, and wait for us to send someone over to sail the boat back. ”

Yan Siqi's biggest legacy is not the land and camps on the shore, these things are not looked down upon by Yusheng's people, the most important things are the people on the shore and the ships on the sea, which is the most important thing.

Zhang Xuwen said: "To appease the hearts of the people on the shore, slowly put it in place, I'll do it, right?" ”

"Pingzhi ran to Fuzhou." Chang Wei said with a smile: "He is cocooning himself, and he is waiting to see if there is a Tang report from the military department to reply, it has been more than ten days, maybe there is." Our business here, tonight overnight out of the section, cross the sea to Fuzhou to hand over to Tangma to bring back. The governor's military gate is also from Pingzhi, and the continuation is responsible for pacifying the ...... of Shizhai"

Chang Wei groaned and said: "With Xu Xinsu of the Zhongzuo Institute, it is best to meet Pingzhi." Tell him, don't tie up with Yan Siqi, we are supported by Li Dagongzi, not to kill allies, and tell him that Yan Siqi and the Dutch buy raw silk for as much silver as a load, and we will also have a load of silver. Fujian Iron has been squeezed by us very badly in the past two years, and told him that we will not sell iron to merchants here in Fujian, which is the condition we offered. ”

Li Pingzhi nodded and agreed.

Xu Xinsu and the Li family have a very close relationship, and the relationship with Yan Siqi is also very good, in the history of Zheng Zhilong unexplained black death Yan Siqi, and then took over the foundation of the Li family, Xu Xinsu and Li Guozhu have been standing together and Zheng Zhilong fight, as a result of Zheng Zhilong's assassin stabbed to death, this person is also a sea tycoon, a hero, the maritime merchants in the left area and the raw silk merchants in Fujian are under his control, to Taiwan and then to Japan most of the raw silk is purchased from Xu Xinsu, and later the Dutch after the construction of the city in Taiwan, gradually had its own cargo channels, and it got rid of the pattern of buying from Xu Xinsu at a high price, but the triangular trade route from Taiwan to Japan, the mainland source of goods, before Xu Xinsu died, has been firmly controlled in the hands of this person.

Prior to this, the Dutch also secretly bought goods along the coast of Zhangzhou, but because of the secret trading, the pressure was very high, after taking Xu Xinsu's line, the trade volume was normal to about 10,000 quintals a year, which was very profitable, just raw silk is the same as a million a year's benefits, for He Yusheng, Xu Xinsu's line can not be broken, otherwise even if Zheng Guochang has the backing, Zheng can not order trade with the generals of the sailors, and be played by the patrol, Zheng Guochang, a governor who is not treated by the imperial court, must not be able to eat and walk.

After Li Pingzhi nodded, Zhengse said: "Although we can eat Yan Siqi's trade profits, the profits of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year will make Taiwan's economic pressure less." There is still some distance from us letting go of our hands and feet to build ships and recruit troops, the military department is very nervous, let's not think about finding the military department to reach out, it is best to help the military department to reduce the pressure on Datong. ”

Chang Wei said a little angrily: "Of course I also want to, Pingzhi, do you have any suggestions?" ”

"Absolutely." Li Pingzhi said calmly: "But I want to ask first, if we have Yan Siqi's ship and people, will our strength go up to a higher level?" ”

"Of course!" Chang Wei sneered: "There are seven ships in Fujian, and there is also a red-haired ship, our people can repair it, Zheng Junmen also said that we should tow it back, these are eight modified warships, and there are six more here, plus our original five warships, this is nineteen warships, and fifty-seven small merchant ships that can go to Japan, we have eight of our own, equipped with two guns, as long as there are qualified sailors who dare to fight, our strength will be strong along the coast." ”

Li Pingzhi thought for a while and said, "It seems that it is still inferior to the Dutch and the Daming Water Master, and it is not as good as the Li family." ”

"It's not as good as Liu Xiang." Chang Wei said with some frustration: "Our strength ranks fifth. ”

"But on the coast of Fujian, as long as we don't go over to harass," Li Pingzhi said: "The Daming Sailor won't cross Penghu, right?" ”

"Of course." Chang Wei said: "The sailors are mainly shore defense, and when they go to Penghu to the sky, they don't really care about the things at sea." Moreover, it is estimated that within this year, the Dutch and the sailors will be trapped......"

"Then our chance has come." Li Pingzhi: "The change is here. Our strength has risen all of a sudden, and it will be digested in two months at most, I know that there are still a few big ships under construction in the shipyard, all of which are large ships with a displacement of 100 tons, and they are the kind of Galen ship style of Hongmaoyi, each ship has more than a dozen guns, these ships are out of the water, our strength must surpass Liu Xiang, and he is far away in Guangzhou. The Li family is now cooperating with us, our next step is to attract more people to vote for us, Li Guozhu's vision and skills are far worse than Li Dan, and his subordinates will slowly centrifuge and lose to all forces. In this way, our strength will soon surpass Liu Xiang and Li Guozhu, and the loose sailors of the imperial court will not have much strength, that is to say, our strength will only be under the Dutch and other Hongyi in a short period of time. In offshore places, only under the Dutch. ”

"What exactly do you want to say?" Chang Wei stared at Li Pingzhi and said, "Don't sell Guan Zi again." ”

Li Pingzhi smiled and said: "What is the way of the world to make money quickly? Ironware? Raw silk? Chinaware? No, a business with no capital comes the fastest. In the past few days, I have observed in the Fujian area, every day there are ships going to sea in Zhangzhou and other places, although these big forces are the strongest, but there are also quite a lot of small and medium-sized maritime merchants who buy ships and ships on their own and buy goods to go to the South Seas or Japan. Fujian province alone has a large number of sea vessels, and there are even more from Nanzhili and Zhejiang. The number of maritime merchants in the north is small, but the number of places added up is also considerable. If we choke an important sea lane, and passing ships have to pay silver to pass, how much can we earn in this year? ”

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

Chang Wei and Zhang Xuwen both opened their mouths wide, and they couldn't speak for a while.

This suggestion seems absurd, but with Li Pingzhi's foreshadowing before this, there is still a certain amount of truth in it.

In the future, the strength of Heyusheng's sailors will only get stronger and stronger, but the trade quota will not increase too much.

The trade with Japan and Manila and Batavia had their own mysteries, and each had its own territory, and sometimes the means of competition were fierce.

For example, now the Dutch are blocking the trade routes of the Spaniards, blocking the sea lanes for Chinese merchants to Manila, and using various methods such as buying at high prices and persuading and threatening Chinese merchants to attack the trade volume of the Spaniards. A few decades ago, trade with China and South America was monopolized by the Spaniards and was extremely profitable, but in recent years, under the blow of the Dutch East India Company, Manila's trade volume has shrunk sharply, and the Dutch have been left far behind.

The Portuguese didn't have much ambition in Asia, but they occupied Malacca, the golden waterway, and on that alone they were very profitable.

The Dutch had always adopted strategies such as cooperating with Chinese merchants and squeezing out the Portuguese, and they had a tacit view of their market share and defined each other's general spheres of influence.

In addition to a few powers, a large number of small and medium-sized maritime merchants also need a certain share.

Sooner or later, there would be a war between Yusheng and the Netherlands and other maritime powers, and before that, Japan's trade and trade in various parts of the South Seas were both competitive and cooperative, and the state was very complicated.

But on the coast of Fujian, because the Dutch angered the Ming court and faced the siege of the Fujian sailors, the forces of both sides were consumed in Penghu, and Liu Xiangyuan was in the sea of Humen and Guangdong, and the trade route was also biased towards the South Seas. In this way, it is true that he and Yusheng will form a dominant situation within a few months.

"Aren't we robbers?" Zhang Xuwen's heart first felt ridiculous, and then he also felt that this matter was feasible, but the awkwardness in his heart was very strong.

Li Pingzhi chuckled lightly and said, "That's how it is on the sea, the strong one is king." Wang Zhi back then, Li Dan, Liu Xiang now, Li Guozhu, which one is not? The Li family is not an official of the imperial court, but all the maritime merchants in the Nanyang area are going to their doors, their family is equal to the daimyo in Japan, Nagasaki is also enough, Hirado is equivalent to the Li family's port, at most Li Dan has 100,000 people, and Wang Zhi back then, I and Yusheng's strength has arrived, and naturally I can choose my own path...... I think if we inform Li Guozhu of his intentions, not only will he not object, but he will also negotiate with us, and after fighting for his own interests, he will not care about the lives of others. Especially those small and medium-sized maritime merchants, maritime merchants from the south of the Yangtze River, Li Guozhu and Fujian sailors will not care about their life or death. ”

Chang Wei suddenly laughed, and then couldn't help laughing.

Zhang Xuwen was stunned, Li Pingzhi's expression remained unchanged, and he smiled.

"Brother Li." Chang Wei said: "Your age and experience, I never expected you to come up with such an idea. It was simply a clever move, and the situation in Taiwan was completely broken all of a sudden. ”

"I don't believe that Chang Zhengshi has never thought about this before." Li Pingzhi smiled and said: "It's just that I didn't have the strength before, if I came here next year, I wouldn't mention this idea even if I thought of it, and if I didn't have the strength to just have an idea, or do something that my own strength couldn't reach, I could only bring humiliation on myself." ”

Chang Wei didn't mind Li Pingzhi's modest words, he frowned and said, "In what name?" ”

"The name is casual." Li Pingzhi said: "Let's call it peace." ”

Zhang Xuwen said: "What is the standard of fees? ”

Chang Wei said with a smile: "This is easy to do, just collect it according to the big ship and the small boat, the big ship cargo is more profitable and big, a boat less than 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, collect them 3,000 and one form, and keep them safe." The boat is small, and most of the boats are from Fujian, which is considered to be some incense, and the boat is good to collect 1,000 to 1,500. ”