Huang Fu's visit established the intimate relationship between Australia and the Guiwang regime of Liangguang to a certain extent, and it can be regarded as a formal confirmation that the Guiwang regime was supported by the Australian government.

Although the visit was only conducted in the name of a commercial exchange and did not involve the relationship between the two military allies, it still worried Zheng Zhilong and the Manchu government.

In particular, Dolgon paid special attention to the influence brought about by this incident, and due to Huang Fu's visit, the unstable factors of the people in Liangguang and Guangxi have also calmed down a lot, which is very rare.

In addition to discussing the establishment of industrial parks and reforms, Huang Fu's main purpose this time was to open up channels for the import and export of tea and silk.

Because after some areas in the south of the Yangtze River were occupied by Haoge's army, there was a lot of resistance to the export of tea, and the original tea merchants and tea farmers either ran away to avoid the scourge of war, or they did not dare to export tea easily, for fear of being condemned by Haoge as a collaborator.

Tea is one of the largest daily necessities consumed in Australia, and almost every household will have the habit of drinking tea, but since the war in the south, the price of tea has been rising, especially the tea produced in Wuyishan, Fujian.

Zheng Zhilong had to triple the price of tea in order to raise military expenses, and in order to compete for tea, the main export industry, Haoge's army marched directly into Wuyishan, Fujian, in an attempt to take advantage of the superiority in personnel to occupy the area.

He also learned about the import of tea by Australians from a maritime merchant, and now that the price of tea is high, if the tea picked can be sold to the Australians, then more weapons will be available, which is the main reason why Hauge wants to occupy this area.

He was supposed to march into major cities such as Fuzhou and Quanzhou, but he suddenly changed the direction of his march and extended his tentacles to the main tea-producing regions of Fujian, hoping to control the tea trade in this area to strengthen his military power.

Strategically speaking, he was right about this idea. Because in addition to silk and porcelain, the main product of the Zheng family's export trade is tea, and the Zheng family's share of tea exports to Japan occupies a large share, because the Japanese aristocracy also has the habit of drinking tea, so it is one of the main tea consumption markets here.

If the war continues, it is likely that these people will leave for Hong Kong to make preliminary arrangements, but now it seems that the confrontation will continue.

The Zheng family seems to have a situation of not retaking this area, and the weapons, ammunition and reinforcements requisitioned from Fuzhou and other places are already on the way, and they are ready to use the advantage of weapons to overwhelm Hauge.

But Zheng Zhilong didn't know that Hauge's army actually had a lot of Australian weapons, if he just wanted to use weapons to overwhelm him. Then it is difficult to do, and the most likely is to fight a tie In the end, it is not possible to completely recover this area, and if you really want to recover this area, you must use the advantage of personnel, as well as cut off Haoge's military material supply, but it seems that Zheng Zhilong does not have this awareness.

Faced with this situation, Zheng Zhilong was a little helpless, originally wanted to consume Haoge's strength by clearing the wall, but now it seems that it is not possible at all.

I don't know which guy gave him such attention. Occupying the main tea-producing areas is tantamount to cutting off 40 percent of the Zheng family's income.

Once the main export area of tea was occupied, the blow to the Zheng family can be imagined, and the Zheng family mainly relied on maritime trade.

The characteristic of trade is that goods are sold to various places, and now there is nothing to sell. In addition, Hauge's march led to a series of commercial and trade contacts, which had seriously reduced his income, and he had to support an army of 100,000 people, which was a large expense.

If there is no financial support. It will be difficult for the Zheng family to maintain a huge expenditure.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong must send troops to recapture the Wuyi Mountain generation occupied by Haoge, and only by recapturing this major tea-producing area can the Zheng family's basic expenses be maintained.

Hauge deployed 100,000 troops in Wuyi Mountain. There are strict restrictions on the export of tea here, and all the tea sold outside must be purchased by him for resale, for his behavior, the tea farmers and good tea merchants dare not speak out, and it is very good to get a capital, and at this time they dare to mention what else how to die I don't know.

The news that Zheng Zhilong gathered a large army to recapture this area has been known to Haoge, for Lao Zheng, it can be said that he does not pay attention to it at all, in his opinion, the new army of Liangguang may still be able to fight, Lao Zheng is just an empty shelf, there are not many troops that can fight, don't look at the 100,000 people, but the battle must not be compared with the Eight Banners.

The contact between the two armies was in a small town at the foot of Wuyi Mountain, where the two sides engaged in a skirmish, and Zheng Jiajun, because of his familiarity with the terrain, occupied a certain degree of dominance, but this dominance did not bring him much benefit.

Hauge's army was equipped with a large number of artillery, which was not at all weaker than Zheng's army, and with the addition of numerical superiority, it became an overwhelming victory for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was simply incomparable to Zheng's army.

Now the number of Zheng's army is only 30,000, and the troops stationed in the rest of the place cannot be transferred to fight here, so the first battle ended with the defeat of Zheng's army.

This war is also concerned by Australia and many other forces, because once the war is won, it means that the price of tea will fall, and if it is lost, it means that it will remain the same, and the continuous confrontation will make the price rise.

Through the comparison of the tea market, some tea merchants did raise the price, which made Australian businessmen see business opportunities, some people took advantage of the war factor, through price gouging, the price of tea to an inflated price, to attract investors to enter, and the last person to enter is like a person who entered the stock market in later generations to be trapped.

Of course, this kind of noisy tea trend is not only played by Australians, but also by local businessmen in the Ming Dynasty, and in the end it depends on who gets out first.

For this kind of behavior, the Australian government said that it acquiesced and did not intervene strongly, after all, the government cannot interfere with the speculation of foreign funds in the Ming market, and this is also the freedom of the private economy.

However, it is certain that this war because of tea has had a great impact on the establishment of the futures trading market in the future.

Australia's local financiers have thought of a new weapon to absorb capital, establish a 17th-century financial system, and use the surplus funds of the market to develop the country.

(To be continued.) )