Lin Youde and Chen Mo stayed in Thonburi for a while, and the actual transaction had already been completed, although Siam was small, but with only one shipload of goods brought this time, the trade volume was close to two million Tang Yuan, which means that the huge profit of this cargo ship was enough for the Tang Navy to purchase a Freedom Wind class frigate. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The iron pots, which could not be cheaper in Datang China, were sold twice as much in Siam, such as ordinary aluminum blocks, which were much more expensive than silver. As for some of the manufactured industrial products produced by Datang, the value is even higher. In the case of arms, for example, the profits are unimaginable.

Datang International Trade Company has been committed to developing Far East trade routes, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is the largest trade object, accounting for 60 to 70 percent of Datang's foreign trade, and now Lin Youde, as the business representative of the International Trade Company, hopes to help the International Trade Company open up some new trade objects.

In East Asia, there are also Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Siam, Vietnam and other countries, among which Vietnam is still a pot of porridge, and it is not easy to do business, but it is good to plunder and buy and sell people from the local area. The Philippines belongs to Spain, and Spain has signed a trade agreement with Datang, only allowing Tang people to trade in Mexico, Peru and Chile, but Lin Youde plans to transfer Datang goods to Borneo's overseas territory, and then smuggle them by pirates. Japan now only does business with the Dutch and the Chinese, but the Shimazu clan has never been a good bird, as long as it is disguised as a Qing merchant ship, Shimazu will not have much of a problem to cover it up. The DPRK side still needs to open up, and there are no signs to see now.

Siam is a relatively smooth new trading object, and a ship transports some Datang goods every year. Plus sulfur, metal or something. You can also make a lot of money. The Tang Dynasty hoped to obtain population from Siam and supply Borneo with local agricultural products. In addition, Siam is also a tin mining area, and after Lin Youde thought about exploring the way, he cooperated with local nobles in Siam to mine tin ore.

However, this time the recruitment of immigrants from Siam was not successful.

By the time Lin Youde and Chen Mo left Thonburi, there were only more than 70 immigrants on their boat, and half of them were Thai. However, these Thai people are mainly women. is still a good-looking Thai girl, but they didn't take the initiative to sign up to immigrate, but Zheng Xin gave it to the Tang people as a gift.

It seemed that it was not very good-looking to have few people, so Zheng Xin ordered his subordinates to get a group of prisoner of war slaves from Laos, numbering more than 300 people, and stuffed them into Lin Youde's ship.

On the boat, Chen Mo said: "I think that in fact, many overseas Chinese in Siam are interested in coming to our Datang, generally those who have just come to Siam. There is no property, and there is no family. There is no fear of breaking through, and it is not surprising that the older ones who have already taken root in this place are reluctant to move. But we only got a few dozen immigrants this time, and I think it has something to do with the Siamese authorities' disobedience. Although they verbally said that they would help us recruit immigrants, they secretly ordered their people not to come to us, we don't know Thai, so I don't know if they said hello to the people, but looking at the looks of interest and hesitation on the faces of those people, this is the case. ”

Lin Youde sighed: "I was a little careless, I thought that Zheng Xin would be better at talking than the Manchu government, but I didn't expect it to be like this." In fact, if you look at the situation in Thonburi, you can also know that the population of Siam is actually not large, less than that of Vietnam and Myanmar, and they need to make great use of overseas Chinese in their own countries, so how can they be willing to give up overseas Chinese to us? After Zheng Xin ascended the throne, the status of the Chaoshan people in Siam was not low, and the Chinese were exempt from poll tax, and even Zheng Xin had Chinese generals under him, which shows that we are too naïve. ”

Chen Mo saw that Lin Youde was not interested, and encouraged him: "It's okay, these tasks of ours have successes and failures, just look at them plainly." It is true that we have at least opened up the route to Siam, and in the future, it will be an important way for our country to make money. ”

Lin Youde nodded, and thought: "In addition to breaking the situation in Borneo, it seems that it is difficult for us to recruit Chinese immigrants in other places, and this matter will fall on the 'Cuckoo Plan' planned by General Counselor Bai in the final analysis, only if we hold the Manchu Qing in our hands, can control Hong Kong and Shanghai, and the Yangtze River becomes our sphere of influence, we will have the ability to send millions of Chinese refugees to North America." ”

"Hehe, thinking about General Counselor Bai's calculation before, it's really scary. But the more we got back, the more we realized that we had to do this. Those of us who have come from the 21st century always feel that Datang is really backward and has nothing, pushing Datang forward, obtaining new resources, and with labor and chassis, we can promote the development of science and technology and social development. Most of the people in the Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China also have a heart to fight for profit, everyone either wants to make a contribution, or wants to be promoted to become rich, anyway, no matter what kind of mind they have, everyone's strength falls on the ground, and it has become a direction - forward, and then forward. In this way, there will inevitably be a lack of resources, a lack of labor, the lack of labor is a key, so a large number of people are inevitably needed, and the new immigrants can not turn back to change the lives of our traversers, and they must be able to meet our expected social development direction, then we have to get people from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which returns to the original intention of the Cuckoo Project. At that time, everyone objected to this matter, but now the more I go on, the more I feel that the cuckoo plan is imperative. ”

Lin Youde sighed: "So sometimes I wonder if General Counselor Bai has already seen through everything. ”

Chen Mo smiled: "That's not true, I think General Counselor Bai is an expansion maniac in his bones." ”

Lin Youde said: "Now the cabinet's mind is basically on the three southeastern states and the North American Revolutionary War, and a considerable part of the country's transportation capacity has been transferred, but it is said that if we can get enough European sailors from the east coast, then it will be obvious for us to improve." We will soon be able to support military operations in the Far East. ”

Chen Mo nodded: "The three southeastern states are already in their hands at this time, and now it is mainly a matter of governance and development, the British do not have the ability to invade on a large scale, and our participation in the North American War of Independence is also a battalion-scale experience, even if the East Coast is still participating in the War of Independence, the cabinet has the ability to distract others, and even concentrate the forces of the army and navy to implement the Cuckoo Plan in the Far East." ”

Lin Youde thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid it's a bit risky in this way." ”

Chen Mo smiled: "Don't forget, our strength is also increasing day by day." (To be continued.) )