Bai Nan came up with this bad idea, so he immediately sent a message to the country. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Fortunately, the electromagnetic environment in this era is not so complicated, Bai Nan came all the way from Datang, and successively set up radio base stations on Oahu, Wake Island, and Mariana Islands in Hawaii, plus the transceiver power is enough, so it is enough to transmit to the other side of the ocean, but the degree of reliability still needs to be a question mark, and it is not effective.

The cabinet supported Bai Nam's idea, and Bai Nam's target was mainly Vietnamese women, which would be very helpful in alleviating the local gender imbalance.

Bai Nan wouldn't do this bad idea by himself, so he said it to Chang Bin. When the Marine Company Commander heard this, his whole face burst into laughter, and he said, "Lieutenant Colonel Bai, leave this matter to me, give me a month, and even if I can't get eight hundred and one thousand Vietnamese girls, I can get one or two hundred." ”

Bai Nan is also helpless about Chang Bin, this thing seems to be born to talk about things extremely obscenely. Of course, Bai Nan also knew that the bad idea he was thinking about was indeed not above board.

So Bai Nan stayed in Guangzhou, and Chang Bin returned to Hong Kong, taking sixty marines and taking the frigate Mao Wenlong, to Vietnam for human trafficking, oh no, immigration recruitment. On the other side, Lin Fang, who had become desperate for the Tang Dynasty, took his subordinates to Jiaying Prefecture to recruit Hakka immigrants.

However, he said that although Bai Nan knew that Vietnam was now in the war of the Tay Son Uprising, and that the domestic separatist forces and the peasant army were fighting happily, Bai Nan did not know what the specific progress was, after all, he only knew a general idea of the history of Vietnam, and could not be as familiar as Chinese history. Therefore, Chang Bin's side is more troublesome and faces some unpredictable difficulties.

Fortunately, Chang Bin can be regarded as able to let go of his hands and feet in Vietnam, unlike being controlled everywhere in the Qing State, and the control of the people in Vietnam in the war is far less than that of the Qing State in the prosperous era of Kangqian, even if Chang Bin recruits immigrants on the land of Vietnam, his government will not stop it if he knows about it, and he can also take the ships and soldiers back to stop Chang Bin.

In the Qing Kingdom, Bai Nan had to hold back a vicious breath, and this time he had to complete the trade mission, collect relevant information, and understand the reality of the Qing Dynasty. If it is said that it will be fought, not to mention that even if it is fought, it is impossible for Bai Nan to occupy Guangzhou with a hundred marines, so that the four ships of goods brought by Datang will not be found. Together with the scourge of war, the Qing people would instinctively resist the Tang Dynasty as the "invader", which would bring more difficulties to the subsequent actions. In this way, Bai Nan's desire to take more immigrants is even more unrealizable.

Bai Nan had been brewing a war against the Qing Dynasty since before the Migratory Bird Plan was launched, although the Tang Republic with 140,000 people planned a war against the Qing Dynasty, which had the taste of swallowing elephants, but Bai Nan was convinced that this kind of war could be won. However, the war between countries is not a street fight, nor is it something for the indignant youths of later generations to knock on the keyboard to relieve their anger, even if we ignore the casualties of the war, consider it from the perspective of pure realism, the motive for the outbreak of the war, the logistics and cost input of the war, and the various effects of the war.

Of course, the experience in Guangzhou made Bai Nan even more convinced of one thing, and there was only one way to use the resources of the Qing State from the outside - war.

However, Bai Nan will not provoke a war now. He wanted to give the Tang Dynasty enough time to prepare, and let the cabinet make a full argument to consider how the war should be carried out, and how the Tang Dynasty would develop and use the Qing State after the war.

Bai Nan stayed in Guangzhou for a month, and his movement was restricted. Although the people from the government did not directly stare at him, this task was performed by the people of the Pan family of Tongwenxing. No matter what Bai Nan does, he will be followed by people from the same literary line, nominally obeying the call, but in fact he is a monitor.

After all, Bai Nan himself is Chinese, there is no problem with Chinese, he can understand Cantonese, and he will not have problems acting on his own in Guangzhou. There is also a thing that Bai Nan has to endure, that is, because the Tang people do not have braids, they must wear hats when they go out, and it seems that these Qing people think that men without braids are very unsightly.

After going out for a few days, I can't go here, I can't go there, Bai Nan has already put out his mind to collect intelligence, and this matter still has to be left to his subordinates. At least Lin Fang, who was from this era, was very well connected in the local area, and he might get more information from them.

Bai Nan, who didn't go out, stayed in the Pan family to cultivate himself, but he collected a lot of good things, all of which were not very valuable, but rare in later generations. He picked out a few items and prepared to go back and give them to Xu Xin as a gift.

Bai Nan was sitting in the guest room of the Pan family's compound drinking tea, Pan Youdu came with joy, he said: "Bai Daban, the goods you entrusted, Pan has already purchased them for you, this is a list, you can take a look." ”

Pan Youdu presented a list, this Pan family is extremely delicate, it is a list of goods, and it is also made of high-quality paper and ink, and it is even framed into a scroll.

Bai Nan roughly browsed it and said, "That's it, thank you Shopkeeper Pan." ”

Pan Youdu feels that although Bai Nan behaves like a Westerner these days, he is still Chinese in essence, and it is much easier to communicate than those golden retriever ghosts, so Pan Youdu said: "It's a minute, Pan is a little older than Bai Daban, it is not as commensurate as my two brothers, I call you Peng Xi Xian brother, you can call me my words." ”

Bai Nan said with a smile: "Brother Xianchen is one of the most influential merchants in the Thirteen Lines, so the little brother is almost cheeky about this." ”

Pan Youdu said modestly: "Brother Yu doesn't have much talent in business, and everything in Tongwenxing today is made by my father." Besides, among the thirteen elements, there are many capable people, such as the Cai family and the Chen family, who are better than the foolish brothers. The foolish brother relied on his father's shadow to barely be able to compete with the rest. ”

Of course, Bai Nan didn't believe what Pan Youdu said, this time the Pan family, as the guarantor of Datang merchant ships, took over the majority of Datang's goods. Originally, in the rules of the thirteen lines of Guangzhou, no foreign merchant ship could be monopolized, and at most half of it could be occupied. But the Pan family was shrewd, they chose the highest value of the goods, such as glass, weapons, leather goods, etc., and the remaining half was shared among the other families.

But even so, so many merchants in the Thirteen Banks of Guangzhou almost didn't take Bai Nan's goods, because their value was too huge. In the past, when Western merchants came to Guangzhou, most of them were sailboats with limited cargo. The cargo ships brought by Bai Nan carried thousands of tons, and there were four of them, and the value of the goods was high, so the natural value was huge.

The thirteen banks in Guangzhou scraped together almost all the working capital in their hands, and even sold their land to buy Tang goods. And the Pan family is also determined, they eat the most goods, the value is also the highest, the money in their hands is naturally not enough, if it is not for the government regulations, foreigners can not buy the land and houses of the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that Pan Youdu will mortgage some land and mansions to Bai Nan. Pan Youdu finally discussed with Bai Nan, and after understanding Bai Nan's needs, he first went to get a batch of goods to settle Bai Nan's account.

The repatriation goods requested by Bai Nan were mainly tea, and the quantity was so staggering that it even alarmed the entire tea market in Guangdong. There are a group of serious Chinese living in Datang, and the demand for tea among the Chinese is astonishing. After a whole year, with the consumption of tea, people thought about tea day and night, and even when Bai Nan left Los Angeles, he heard that some people were happy to finally be able to drink tea.

There are many types of tea purchased by Bainan, and the tea purchased by Westerners is mainly black tea, with Wuyi black tea being the majority. The Chinese in Datang have a diverse demand for tea, green tea is the mainstream, black tea is also good, and there are tea bricks from Yunnan. Moreover, there are many places on the Bainan ship, open to load tea, and the purchase volume is huge, which makes the price of tea in Guangdong rise for a time, and the tea merchants in Fujian and Jiangxi are moved by the wind and begin to transport tea to Guangdong along the waterway.

In addition to tea, Bai Nan also purchased a large amount of silk, silk is also a strategic textile, the previous cannon firing needed to use silk to charge the propellant, but the technical level of Datang is slightly higher, and silk is not needed. Despite this, silk is still an extremely high-end material, and Datang has more advanced textile and garment manufacturing methods, and these silks are made into clothes, which can be sold locally at a high price, and exported can be very profitable.

In addition to tea and silk, the second largest cargo is medicine, although the Tang Dynasty is still a Western medicine, but the Chinese prefer to use traditional Chinese medicine to solve some not particularly serious diseases, later generations of Chinese patent medicine is a big seller, it seems that people feel that hearing the name of the herb, there are no side effects.

Then there are scattered goods like camphor, pig hair, and musk, the quantity is not very large, and Bai Nan bought them because he thought it might be useful. Of course, what made Bai Nan think that it was more valuable than bulk tea was that he specially entrusted Pan Youdu to collect a large number of plant seeds and seedlings for him.

Some of these seeds and seedlings are vegetables, and many of the domestic vegetables in Datang are still brought by the fleet, and there are not many types, and many commonly eaten vegetables are not available, such as cucumbers. There are also some medicinal herbs, although it is not clear whether these medicinal herbs can be planted alive, anyway, they can be grown and earned. The seeds of grain crops are more difficult to manage, such as corn and sorghum in the north, and there are few crops in the south, so I can only ask Pan Youdu to pay attention to it on his behalf.

After this calculation, Bai Nan found that due to the high value and large quantity of Tang goods, he bought Qing goods after they were sold, and there was a large surplus, so that Bai Nan had to pull a boatload of silver on the return trip. In fact, he brought with him a lot of silver coins, which he could barely spend. Bai Nan also wanted to buy a batch of grain, but Pan Youdu told him that the Qing government restricted the sale of grain, especially to foreigners like him. In addition to the necessary rations, the government forbade grain merchants to sell them in quantities above a certain amount. China has always been concerned with food tightness since ancient times.