Mao Wenlong is not a fool. Of course, he knew that the origin of the so-called business organization Funado Trading Company was unknown.

The ship can be equipped with artillery, and there are private soldiers under it. This was the standard maritime merchant and pirate in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. As an official of the Ming Dynasty, Mao Wenlong knew that it was very taboo to engage in trade with such a complex maritime merchant.

But then again, this taboo isn't a big deal these days. Isn't it taboo to trade with maritime merchants, and isn't it also taboo to trade with the Tartars on the steppe? However, I didn't see any influence on the Jin Party members who had a Shanxi merchant background in the court.

Wang Chonggu, the secretary of the military department in the Jiajing period, and Zhang Siwei, the first assistant of the cabinet in the Wanli period, these people were all from well-known merchant families in Shanxi. The Jin merchants relied on foreign countries to engage in grassland trade to obtain great wealth, not to mention these things that officialdom people like Mao Wenlong knew, even those ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty also knew clearly.

Zhang Siwei claimed that he was rich because he "met a god at night and gave money". This kind of thing has been made up into all kinds of jokes by ordinary citizens from all over the country for many years to ridicule and joke.

Therefore, for Mao Wenlong, even if Fuxing Trading Company is too "domineering", he doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with doing business with Fuxing Trading Company. The key is that Mao Wenlong is really a little confused about the trading principle of exchanging population for daily necessities and products insisted on by Fuxing Trading Company.

You know, in this day and age, population is not a scarce resource. For Dongjiang Town, the more than 100,000 refugees from southeast Liaoning that they have collected only have two roles: being coolies and cannon fodder.

In fact, even coolies and cannon fodder, Dongjiang Town can't use so much at all. At the beginning, Mao Wenlong didn't expect that Dongjiang Town would gather so many people. However, the process of de-Hanification was too cruel for the Later Jin Jurchens to make a big **, so that a large number of Han people in southeastern Liaoning knew that the days in Dongjiang Town were very hard, but they still ran to Dongjiang Town.

It is true that Mao Wenlong is a selfish feudal bureaucrat, and it is not true that Mao Wenlong is a warlord who divides the localities, but he is a normal human being. For these Han refugees who ran to southeast Liaoning under his rule to escape national oppression, Mao Wenlong is not a Houjin Jurchen, and he will definitely not ** them, and he has to take care of them more or less.

Several small islands, two or three pieces of land, and now the Xiaoice climate is erupting, and the climate environment is seriously abnormal, making it difficult for these 100,000 people to grow and eat themselves on several small islands in Donggang Town and those few pieces of land in northern Korea.

Therefore, for the entire Dongjiang Town, the more than 100,000 people are now an out-and-out burden.

According to the demographic point of view of Malthus and Hong Liangji. Population growth will always push the limits of productivity. Therefore, under the conditions of an agrarian society, there was a serious surplus of population at the end of the feudal dynasty. It was only after the devastating reduction of the population by means of famine and war that a stable feudal dynasty could be re-established.

In other words, population was always a burden on the regime of an agrarian society, especially the feudal regime at the end of the dynasty, in the context of the constraints of productivity.

In fact, the situation in Dongjiang Town is a microcosm of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Backward productive forces, highly concentrated land, a large number of relatively surplus labor, and a completely bankrupt finance, the Ming Dynasty has irretrievably come to an end.

Although Dongjiang Town does not have the problem of land concentration, Dongjiang Town also does not have the land resources that can allow more than 100,000 people to engage in production. These more than 100,000 laborers who cannot produce anything are the heaviest burden on Dongjiang Town at present.

Mao Wenlong knew this very well, but it was because he knew this that he knew that it was impossible for Fuxing Trading Company, which was also intellectually normal and strong, not to know this. In such a situation of labor surplus, it is so strange to exchange a worthless population for valuable supplies.

Mao Wenlong's position determines that he thinks about many more things than ordinary people. But as a local warlord, Mao Wenlong's control over Dongjiang Town was very limited. In the warlord system of soldiers, Mao Wenlong's influence on his subordinates is also limited.

For example, the generals stationed on various islands in the Dongjiang Town system can lead the army alone. They suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Dingmao in 1627. They were all in desperate need of the sophisticated weapons provided by the Fuxing Trading Company and a large amount of food, clothing, and other materials to rebuild the troops.

So before Mao Wenlong could clearly express his attitude. Privately, they started doing business with Fuxing Trading Company.

The vast majority of those who were able to escape to Dongjiang Town and survive so many harsh years were young adults. Therefore, after the generals at all levels in Dongjiang Town had left enough of their troops and reserves, the population used to trade with the Fuxing Trading Company was also young and able-bodied.

The Fuxing Trading Company was not very generous when it came to selling weapons, and they had to do business with a lot of money. The generals of all levels in Dongjiang Town could not take advantage of a copper plate from the Fuxing Trading Company, and they all had to exchange silver for silver dollars from the Fuxing Trading Company before they could buy weapons.

However, in terms of the exchange of population and food materials, Fuxing Trading Company was much more generous.

In these transactions, such as a grain brick (one catty) for one person, a pack of instant noodles for two people, a canned meat or canned fruit for three people, a honeycomb coal stove for ten people, and so on, Fuxing Trading Company often does not care whether the group of generals in Dongjiang Town has added some old, weak, sick and disabled characters to the crowd, anyway, as long as it is a person who is panting, even if he has a high fever and a large piece of skin and flesh is festering, the Fuxing Trading Company will change things for Dongjiang Town according to the head.

However, when the generals of Dongjiang Town secretly mixed those half-dead wounded sick numbers into the exchange population, they discovered other good things about the Fuxing Trading Company. That is the medicine of Fuxing Trading Company.

Many generals in Dongjiang Town have seen that those who were already dying, after the doctor (health soldier) of the Fuxing Trading Company, wiped the potion and took the pills, and then used a crystal bottle to put a series of (saline and glucose) on this person, the guy who was about to breathe quickly recovered.

Kong Youde saw with his own eyes that a sick number that had been exchanged was treated by the doctor of Fuxing Trading Company, and it took less than three days to be alive.

Fuxing Trading's medicines are really good, and they are not too expensive. It only costs ten people to take an anti-inflammatory pill, and it only costs ten people to take an antipyretic pill, including things like saline, glucose, and iodine wine, and these officers in Dongjiang Town, who are not bad for money, also buy them in large quantities.

However, although they bought a lot, when Wu Hongjie heard several cadres of the Commerce Bureau discussing the problem that the medicines purchased by the officers in Dongjiang Town were obviously not enough for the troops, he snorted coldly and took the matter to the fleet party committee to discuss.

On this issue, the understanding of the party committee of the fleet is very unanimous. The words of Fleet Commander Xu Yuanzhi at the Party Committee are very representative:

"The feudal army treated the warrior as a consumable. How can an army of this nature value the lives of its soldiers as precious as our Revival Army! They didn't buy those medicines to treat ordinary fighters at all. They buy medicine to save their lives. ”