Chapter 181: Zheng Family Trade
When you have a goal, you will naturally get things done faster. The next day www.biquge.info the big library and the industrial design institute began to work together, and the drawings of the free wheel were quickly found, and the industrial design institute was required to redesign and disassemble the design drawings of the new free wheel within a month.
During this time, the guards of the lumber mill had found some naturalized carpenters sneaking into the workshop to carefully inspect and even map Rolls-Royce parts, and they reported the situation to Xiao Jing and also to the police headquarters. But Xiao Jing simply rejected Shen Bin's offer to be arrested and interrogated. Shen Bin was very curious, and when asked about this doubt, Xiao Jing just smiled, "These natives entering the workshop will not pose any threat at all, they just want to learn the manufacturing method of Rolls-Royce." But they can't learn, first, all the parts we produce are standard parts, industrial assembly line type, with their current level, it is impossible to learn how to process into such a shape; Second, although most of the parts of our cars are made of wood, there are some key components that do not belong to this time and space, such as bearings. With the technical level and metallurgical conditions of this time and space, it is impossible to manufacture this thing, even if they map the parts of the entire car, it will be in vain and cannot be made. Besides, we are still just beginning to popularize metric units, and if the natives don't understand these metric units, they can't survey and map some parts that are accurate to the millimeter. ”
Shen Bin was quite speechless, but what Xiao Jing said was also true, these natives had no way to imitate these vehicles that they looked like they had demon magic. So I gave up.
Xiao Jing also did not say that in order to reduce the tonnage of the wood equipment carried by the public, the equipment of the wood mill did not carry CNC wood processing equipment at the beginning, but in the later processing work, it was found that there was no such equipment, and many wooden parts processing took more than ten times the time. Therefore, the heavy industry laboratory has improved the existing ordinary processing equipment by bringing some "high-precision" accessories of the old time and space, although these CNC equipment that can be shocked in the old time and space is almost slag, but it can process the equipment accurate to the millimeter and the angle accurate to the minute. This is simply a god-like miracle for the naturalized people of this plane, so much so that some old carpenters are no longer hiding their secrets. Because they found that their little tricks were like scum in front of these magical devices of the patriarchs, and instead of continuing to maintain their ridiculous skills, it was better to follow the leaders honestly, and the future was brighter.
Xu Wei's trade group left the port of the East on January 15, bringing with them some things that they had traveled through before, such as special products from this time and space, and real money. There was no way to pass through these things before, in fact, there were a lot of things that could be poured before the crossing, and it was still very easy to collect treasures such as Yuan Qinghua in this time and space, although the names were a little different, but the appearance could bluff people and still make money. But there are still defects in these things, mainly because the country name has changed from the Ming Dynasty to the Wu Dynasty, and all the cultural relics of the Ming Dynasty have become the Wu Dynasty, and it is difficult to realize it successfully after returning to the old time and space. In the end, the traversers sadly found that all that could be realized in their hands was gold and silver. Although the purity of gold and silver in this time and space is not high, there are only these that can be smoothly converted into RMB at that time, and it is still being realized through the channels of the old time and space gold store, otherwise the black heart price of 151 grams of gold will also dare to open.
In addition, the trade group also brought some unexpected special goods, chicken and duck. In this time, because the speed of the ships at sea was too low, at an average speed of three to six knots, it took almost two months to travel from Fujian to Dongfang Port, so they brought some chickens and ducks at sea to lay eggs on the ship as food supplements. After Zheng Zhihu found out that eggs could not be bought in the Dongfang Port market, he quickly sold the chickens and ducks brought on the ship as commodities to the traversers.
Gu Qingqian was reluctant to agree to this deal, but I don't know how this situation reached Sun Wenbin's ears, he rushed to the venue directly with a few veterans of poultry breeding, and directly made a decision, the price was almost ten times higher than the sale price of chickens in the region. In the price of chickens and ducks alone, the Zheng family earned at least nearly forty taels of silver and a one-percent discount on the purchase price of snow salt.
The Zheng family also tried to take over the franchise of cool oil and toilet water, but the Ministry of Commerce still refused after discussion -- not that they were afraid that the Zheng family would not give money, the senate had technology, and cool oil and toilet water were not high-tech. The problem is that the Zheng family discussed the sales model with the Ministry of Commerce, and the Zheng family said that in the future, it will still focus on the luxury sales model, and as for opening up sales channels at a cheap price, it is absolutely undesirable for the Zheng family.
This did not exceed Gu Qingqian's expectations, what did the Zheng family do? is a big pirate in the South China Sea, even if he is now recruited by the Wu Dynasty to become a guerrilla general, Zheng Zhilong's pirate nature has not changed at all, but he couldn't go home before, but now he is glorious overnight. The Zheng family alone took over almost all the routes from the South China Sea to the north, especially the routes to Japan.
In 1623, Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa family, took office, and when he came to power, he strengthened the national closure order, retaining only Nagasaki and Kai as external ports, and even the ships of the Maidno were not allowed to dock. Ships that were able to enter these places to trade were required to hold a seal issued by the Tokugawa shogunate, also known as a seal.
However, the Zheng family did not have a vermilion seal, and there was a famous person named Li Dan among the people of the Wu Dynasty, who was a merchant from the Wu Dynasty who obtained the seal in 1615 through the wealthy Japanese merchant Murayama and other An, and began to trade with Japan in large quantities. At this time, because Japan had just ended the Warring States Period, it was in ruins, and everything from the Wu Dynasty mainland was waiting for it with its pockets wide open. For the merchants of the Wu Dynasty, these Japanese did not eat meat because of the country's belief in Buddhism, and their stature was thin, and as Japan, where the agricultural population was the main part, the peasants' taxes were also very heavy. However, Japan has a large number of gold and silver mines that are not available on the mainland of the Wu Dynasty, and the purchasing power of the Japanese ruling class is quite strong. Not to mention the Japanese red copper, which is mixed with a certain amount of silver, and just refining this silver is pure profit. As a result, Li Dan made considerable gains through trade with Japan.
The Zheng family did not have a seal and could not directly enter the Japanese ports for trade, but Zheng Zhilong made his fortune in Hirado Castle and married the Tagawa clan, the daughter of Tagawa Nanazaemon, the local owner of Hizen Hirado Island, so that he could gain a channel for trade with Japan. At the same time, Zheng Zhilong began to sell his order flags in large quantities. On the routes of the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Tsushima Strait, where the Zheng family fleet was rampant, the Zheng family flag was like a pass, and any merchant ship without the flag would be sacked by the Zheng family's fleet. This kind of flag is quite expensive, costing as much as several hundred taels of silver a year, and for the maritime merchants who trade with Japan, this increases the cost of trade with Japan out of thin air, directly divides part of their income, and raises the threshold for trade with Japan.
Although a big businessman like Li Dan is usually a businessman and a bandit at sea, if he encounters a businessman who is stronger than himself, and if he encounters a bandit who is weaker than himself, he will definitely not be able to compare it with a big pirate who is serious from the beginning. Especially after the death of Li Dan, the business group of Li Dan's forces gradually began to fall, and now at this time, they all began to switch to Zheng Zhilong, and those who were not qualified to vote in the past had to directly purchase the Zheng family Lingqi in order to continue to carry out trade with Japan safely and steadily.
Although Zheng Zhilong, who monopolized the trade with Japan, does not seem to be short of money, this is only the surface of the glamour, and now although the Zheng family is powerful, it is quite fragile. In addition to the Zheng family's Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Zhiguan, Zheng Zhifeng, and Li Dan's son Li Guozhu, Yang Liu, Yang Qi, Zhong Bin, Liu Xiang, Li Kuiqi, He Bin, Guo Huaiyi and other pirates who had been rampant on the sea.
However, Li Kuiqi openly rebelled in 1628 and took with him most of the Zheng family's warships, including Zhong Bin's fleet. In addition, Liu Xiang was dissatisfied with Zheng Zhilong's defection to the Wu Dynasty in 1628, so he also became independent from the Zheng family fleet and is now active in the Guangdong Ocean.
Zheng Zhilong was disgraced by Li Kuiqi's rebellion, and once there were only dozens of merchant ships left, and there were more than 1,000 troops on land, but fortunately, Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, attached great importance to the pirates he had recruited with great difficulty, and he had always vigorously supported them, so he regained hundreds of ships and tens of thousands of sailors at the end of 1628. After this rebellion of Li Kuiqi, there are not a few of the eighteen Zhi under the Zheng family, but it is not a good thing, the remaining eighteen Zhi members are all high loyalty after the big waves, and now Zheng Zhilong commands his fleet is far more comfortable than before. In 1628, Zhong Bin became independent from Li Kuiqi's fleet, led the fleet south, and fought fiercely with Liu Xiang's fleet, defeated Annan, and was captured by Dongfang Port. Liu Xiang completely disobeyed Li Kuiqi's command, although Li Kuiqi still had a large number of ships left, but now he was no longer as hand-eyed as he was in the early days of the rebellion, and was suppressed by Zheng Zhilong's fleet and gradually withdrew to the south of Fujian, trying to avoid a confrontation with the Zheng family's fleet.
And although Zheng Zhilong has Xiong Wencan's support, he still has to pay for the silver, which is not hard for more than ten years, and once he returns to the pre-liberation period, if the foundation is weak, maybe he will die this time. That's why this time he sent a trading fleet to venture through the sphere of influence of Li Kuiqi and Liu Xiang, and went deep into Annan, who was not particularly familiar with him, to find the legendary "American maritime merchant". After all, those "American seafood" some time ago were not only good and cheap, but also rare and strange goods, and the silver earned reduced a lot of economic pressure on him.
However, this trip to Dongfang Port opened Zheng Zhihu's eyes, at first he just thought that this group of Chinese maritime merchants were just some ordinary maritime merchants, and wanted to use the huge power of the Zheng family to suppress it and grab more benefits for the Zheng family. Who knew that before he arrived at Dongfang Port, he met the Chinese "coast guard", and he did not know how this group of Chinese learned the news that a ship was coming dozens of miles away at night when they could not see their fingers. When he arrived outside the port, the coast guard had to board the ship for inspection, which made Zheng Zhihu angry, he was the only one in the Zheng family who bullied people all along, how could anyone be bullied to the head? But it had only just begun, and there was a burst of "warning shots" from there. He had never seen such powerful artillery, and what was even more terrifying was that the barrels were unbelievably small, but they were extremely powerful. Not to mention the continuous beads, a "tom" sound, you can see the water column on the sea sky, there is no falsification. So he wanted to see what these maritime merchants were capable of, so he deliberately made a fuss after landing on the shore.
His Zheng Zhihu's bravery is one of the best in the Zheng family's fleet, and he is known as the second master of the python. But this python second master in front of this group of maritime guards did not get the slightest benefit, just knocked over a shield, but was overturned by this group of guards rushed up to the ground, and the younger brother behind was arrested before he could even catch up. Although he suffered a lot of losses, Zheng Zhihu didn't feel angry at all, but the two dark circles under his eyes made him feel a little depressed. Originally, he was very dissatisfied with Zheng Zhilong for letting him follow a merchant fleet to Annan, thinking that as a military general, he should fight on the front line, how could he send himself over because Xu Wei said something to Zheng Zhilong that sounded like a cloud and a mountain of fog? But after suffering a few losses in a row, he slowly realized that his brother must have seen that these maritime merchants have thaumaturgy, and they are not just ordinary maritime merchants who produce strange goods.
After Du Yande took out the black oil stone in the business talks, he keenly felt that this kind of stone must be of great use to these maritime merchants, and when he blurted out the origin of this oil stone, he couldn't help but regret a little, these maritime merchants valued these oil stones so much, they knew that they kept it a secret, and sent a fleet to the Nanban territory to mine these oil stones and send them in exchange for sea goods.
However, he has a lot of peace of mind, at present, although this group of Chinese is strong, but only a few ships, and they are all foreign ships that cannot sail far, although the steel giant ship seems to be able to go to the sea, but I heard the "turtle people" say that since the Chinese landed, this ship has not moved its nest there, and it is estimated that it is unusable. The Chinese also asked if they could bring some "elders" to the Nanban territory to explore the oil stones, and said that this action could be rewarded with a one-year monopoly of Fujian snow salt.