The morning sun slowly rises over the sea, covering the azure waters with a layer of glittering golden armor.

Countless people with bright smiles gathered on the spacious pier, because today is a special day.

The merchants left with the hope of Nanzhou and went to a foreign land on the other side of the sea, and today, a month later, they are returning.

Perhaps in the past, the affairs of the merchants had nothing to do with the common people.

But now it's different.

If the goods produced by the Nanzhou Development Zone are recognized by the Nanyang countries, it will be a huge wealth in an endless stream, and the people involved in it will become direct beneficiaries.

Fan Jinyan, like the common people, gathered at the wharf early in the morning with officials of all sizes in Nanzhou, with only one purpose, to welcome the return of the caravan.

In the Ming Dynasty and even later in the Qing Dynasty, merchants were as cheap as prostitutes. Even if you have a lot of money, you can't dress well when you go out, and even your descendants can't get fame, and you will always be the lowest type of person.

As a person in the future, Fan Jinyan doesn't even need to think about it to know that the goods will sell well, and he is undoubtedly doing it for others to see, so that they know that the merchants on Qiongzhou Island will also be respected, and they will also have the opportunity to be superior. Allowing more people to do business is to speed up the pace of monopolizing the economy of the Nanyang countries.

Soon, a row of dense small black shadows appeared on the sea, and Fan Jinyan, who had already received the news in advance, of course knew that this was his caravan, so he ordered the lion dancers, gongs and drums, and music to all move, making the entire wharf extremely lively.

As the caravan approached the wharf, dozens of merchant ships slowly entered the port in turn, docking at the slender unloading waterway in order, making both sides of the originally empty waterway instantly lively.

According to local custom, Fan Jinyan ordered the soldiers to light the firecrackers prepared in advance, signaling that the people on the boat could disembark.

"Papa"

The people on the ship would never have imagined that they would be welcomed with such a high standard, and many of the people who had previously scolded them as profiteers and did not welcome them also gathered at the dock to greet them. Even Lord Zhizhou came, what kind of scenery is this?

The merchants knew that their status was humble, and they did not dare to slack off in the slightest, so they hurriedly ran down from various boats, and without having time to exchange opinions, they ran to Fan Jinyan, who was standing at the end of the waterway, knelt down obediently, and shouted, "The grass people meet the adults, the adults are so loving, it is really tormenting the villain." “

"Hahaha." Fan Jinyan looked up to the sky and laughed, stepped forward to pick up the businessman closest to him, and then said to the businessmen who were still kneeling behind him: "Everyone has worked hard and deserved, deserved, deserved, please get up quickly." ”

After finishing speaking, looking at the merchant ships docked neatly on both sides of the waterway, he couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, "You guys did a very good job, when you left not long ago, there were only twenty, ten of which were still escort ships, and after a trip, there were more than thirty more, General Ben was very pleased!" Tell General Ben about it, can this trip go well? ”

Fan Jinyan was a general, and the businessmen who listened to it were in a fog and didn't know what he meant.

However, at this time, they did not dare to disturb Fan Jinyan's interest and began to explain Annan's trip.

Originally, they had traveled all the way south to land at Hoi An Harbor, but they heard that there was a rebellion going on there. So I had to go all the way south and go around to the largest port city in the south of Annam, Champong. When they got there, they learned that it had been occupied by the Dutch, and the fleet was surrounded by the Dutch fleet. When they learned that they were the caravan of the Daming Qiongzhou Prefecture, I didn't know what the Dutch governor of Champa thought, so he actually let them go, and even the taxes were exempted.

In fact, the merchants didn't know that because of the pirate alliance's attack on Guangzhou, the Ming Dynasty, which had never had a good relationship, reached an alliance with the Netherlands. If it had been a few days earlier, the caravan might have been swallowed by the Dutch, and as for them, if they were lucky, they might have returned, but if they were unlucky, they would have become a delicacy in the belly of the sea fish.

The novelty soon won the reputation of the merchants and common people of Champa, and the goods of ten ships were sold out in a single day, and they had countless more orders in their hands.

They had seen a whole shipload of silver.

After some deliberation, they bought more than 30 merchant ships from various sources, and several of them were bought from the Dutch governor.

And when they came back this time, because they didn't know that Nanzhou was developing so fast, they didn't bring anything, and most of the boats came back empty. However, a few boatloads of Annan's giant wood were still loaded, which were intended to be given to Fan Jinyan for shipbuilding.

Fan Jinyan may not pay attention to the things to be sent away, but the giant wood used for shipbuilding really makes Fan Jinyan happy. After all, although Qiongzhou is mountainous and tree-based, there is not much timber used for shipbuilding, and most of it is still in the growing season, which is not suitable for logging.

The unintentional actions of the businessmen gave Fan Jinyan a bold idea.

That is, while dumping a large number of commodities into the South Seas, they also bought a large amount of timber from the South Seas, vigorously built a shipyard in Qiongzhou, exchanged more advanced warships from the system, and then sold them to the South Seas and even Europe.

If he succeeds, won't he become the world's largest shipping tycoon?

As long as there is a little more allocation, so that countries are caught in a melee, their own orders will be more and more. And their local shipbuilding industry will also be devastated, so the future American continent, will it be the world of the Chinese?

No, it's my world?

The more he thought about it, the more likely Fan Jinyan felt, after all, he had the biggest advantage in his hands, that is, the system.

Although there are not many systematic traversers, Fan Jinyan has not heard of anyone like himself in the South China Sea.

The success of the first batch of businessmen made more people want to go to the sea to do business. Fan Jinyan also introduced more concessions, the first was to transfer 50 warships from each of the two navies to rent them to the merchants at a low price, and then transferred 100,000 taels of silver from the treasury to the merchants for interest-free loans, so that they had no worries at all.

Fan Jinyan's only condition was to dump Nanzhou's goods into the Nanyang countries, and then buy a large number of logs suitable for shipbuilding and hire local shipbuilders with high salaries.

Fan Jinyan not only wanted to earn the silver of the South Seas and crush the economies of the countries, but also plundered their craftsmen, so that after a few years, they would never be able to build a decent ship again.

At the same time, Fan Jinyan built several new shipyards in Nanzhou Bend, recruited a large number of craftsmen, and officially started construction after he chose the ship type. (To be continued.) )