The queen agreed with Tang Ming's statement, but the real purpose of her trip was to get the commercial tax of overseas trade, so she put aside these irrelevant things and only talked about business. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Weihaihou, don't go around in any circles with the mourning family, just give a price!"

The queen's simply made Tang Ming laugh, politically she was less than one-ten-thousandth of the queen's, but in business, Tang Ming had absolute confidence stronger than anyone else. This is Tang Ming's strategy, and if you use your own strengths to deal with the opponent's shortcomings, you can be invincible.

Tang Ming stretched out three fingers and said, "Sancheng, the tax revenue of the queen's overseas trade should be at Sancheng." And it should not only be collected from the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, but also from those merchant ships outside the territory. ”

"Are there many merchant ships from my Ming Dynasty in this territory?" The queen who has lived in the palace for a long time does not know what the outside world has become now. Maybe this will be Zhu Di who comes to talk to Tang Ming, so he won't let Tang Ming take the initiative like this.

"Many, and a lot." Tang Ming didn't know how many merchant ships there were outside the territory, but from his understanding of history, after the opening of the Silk Road, many surrounding countries already knew the existence of the Ming Dynasty, and merchants who had the ability to walk on the sea would switch to the sea route to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

Especially after the rampant pirates on the sea were defeated by Zheng He, the sea route is now even smoother. The sea route is not only cheap, but also the time of each journey is greatly shortened, which is many times better than when taking the land route.

The queen didn't say anything, just thought for a moment, stood up, patted the chair when she left, and said, "This chair is good, you kid will make a few for the mourning family and send them to the palace, and you will take the mourning family first." ”

Such a robber act is shameful, but the family is the queen, even if Tang Ming is not satisfied in his heart, he can't say anything. had to pretend to be flattered, licking his face and letting his subordinates personally carry him to the queen's carriage.

Zhu Gaochi was embarrassed by his mother, and in order to prevent Tang Ming from settling accounts with him afterwards, he had already slipped back to the carriage first. His foresight allowed him to escape, and as soon as Tang Ming saw the queen away, he turned around and wanted to settle accounts with him, but he couldn't find anyone, only to see Zhu Gaochi in the carriage waving his hand to him from the window.

"Bandits."

Tang Ming raised his middle finger at Zhu Gaochi fiercely, and was about to go back to the mansion angrily, when he ran into the queen, a bandit, who came to ransack him, Tang Ming could only reluctantly admit that he was unlucky.

But as soon as he turned around, he heard someone shouting behind him, and when he turned again, he saw a fast horse roaring towards him. In the blink of an eye, it was in front of him, and before the horse could stop, the man on the horse jumped down first.

"Lord Qiqi, the little steward of the king has come to inform you that the caravan going to sea has arrived at the dock of the treasure shipyard, and I ask you if you want to go there in person now?" The person who came was a middle-aged man, and with a black face, it was easy to tell that he was a man who was exposed to the wind and rain on the sea.

Tang Ming's face was happy, the reason for staying at home these days was to wait for Li Ba and them to return, so he would naturally have to go to the dock to see it in person.

With the order of the subordinates in the mansion to prepare horses, with the middle-aged people who came to report the news, they went to the treasure shipyard.

The wharf in the afternoon is the quietest time, but it is full of merchant ships, and more than 300 porters are busy going back and forth between merchant ships and warehouses. In ancient times, international trade was generally bartered, so the merchant ships went out with the goods of the Ming Dynasty, and when they came back, they were also full of the whole ship of goods.

Without modern machinery to carry it, it would take a long time to do it manually. But this has also indirectly brought a lot of jobs, especially when the farm is slack, as long as there is a strength, I like to come to the dock to find a porter.

Although it is very tiring to do the porter, the corresponding reward is also very rich, and the salary after a day is enough for a family of four to pounce on the people, and a month's living expenses. Such a high profit is naturally due to the fact that there are so many people who enter the dock as porters.

The current situation is that there is less porridge and more monks, so there is fierce competition, and smart businessmen can always quickly find business opportunities inside. Therefore, all the maritime merchants were soon united to form a trade union, and those who wanted to come to the dock as porters had to get their union to sign up and pay some dues.

It's equivalent to a ticket, and the money is not much, but there are too many people who come to sign up every day, and the income in this month is still very considerable.

The civil wharf was used by merchants, while the official wharf was a place where idle people and others stopped. Li Ba had already gone ashore, and this time the escort went smoothly, but he encountered a small group of pirates on the way, and the other party gave up the idea of robbery when he saw that their team was huge.

Li Ba didn't even have a chance to fire a shot, and originally wanted to take this opportunity to train his troops, but naturally he returned in defeat.

The hundred dead soldiers who followed them were all brought back safely, and this trip was considered to have increased their knowledge. Li Ba can be regarded as having successfully completed the task, and he can finally send these 100 people away.

Another person who came with Li Ba this time was Fei Xin, and now there was a shortage of sailors and soldiers in the escort team, and Tang Ming urgently needed him to come back to help with training. Jeju Island is now on the right track, and the men he has trained have been able to take over the defense affairs well, so he can get out of the way.

When Tang Ming arrived, Li Ba and Fei Xin were chatting, and Tang Ming, who hadn't seen Fei Xin for a long time, gave him a big hug when he met, and said with a smile: "Brother Fei, everything is fine on Jeju Island." ”

Tang Ming's enthusiasm greatly exceeded Fei Xin's expectations, and he was a little flattered, and he hurriedly nodded and replied: "It's all good, it's just that Mr. Fang and your newly built technical school have been full of gunpowder recently, which is a headache." ”

"Where did this begin?" Tang Ming asked in a daze.

When asked about this, Fei Xin couldn't help but have a smile on his face, and only after a moment did he explain to Tang Ming: "Old Mr. Fang is very angry now, his academy is almost out of students. There are only a few illiterate children left who are still studying at the academy, and those who are literate have gone to the technical school to attend classes. ”

Tang Ming smiled suddenly, from the beginning of that academy battle, he had already guessed that there would be such an ending. Now that he learned that Fang Xiaoru was in such a situation, he didn't feel strange at all.

Putting aside these trivial matters, Tang Ming asked Fei Xin how the development of the sailor is now? Fei Xin proudly said that his sailors are now unmatched among the surrounding countries. Many of the pirates who had been captured in the past had also joined the Sailors, and the Ancient Dynasty had recruited some men.

The sailors of Jeju Island are already approaching 10,000 people, plus the few treasure ships that Tang Ming asked Li Ba to bring over this time, a sailor of this scale is indeed enough to sweep any surrounding country. (To be continued.) )