For Kong Youde, the so-called question of reality and fiction does not need to be explored at all. [No pop-ups] Dongjiang Town is very "virtual", and Fuxing Trading Company is "real" and scary.

As soon as the cannon sounded, Kong Youde knew that he was in trouble. Just listening to the movement and looking at the effect, Kong Youde knew that the so-called Fuxing Trading Company must be one of the best forces in the southeast coastal family. After all, in the past, Dongjiang Town still had contact with the maritime merchant families in Jiangnan.

Some historical researchers in later generations believed that Dongjiang Town would only ask for money from the imperial court, and used various means to coerce and suppress the imperial court. However, the problem is that if it is just to ask for money and salaries for the regular army of more than 20,000 people under Mao Wenlong, what Dongjiang Town is doing is indeed an arrogant and arrogant rogue behavior. But Dongjiang Town was not just the more than 20,000 regular troops. Dongjiang Town has been tossing in the southeast of Liaoning for so many years, and there are more than 100,000 refugees from southeast Liaoning under its rule.

In addition to Mao Wenlong's more than 20,000 regular troops, the little arable land in Dongjiang Town alone is simply not enough to feed more than 100,000 refugees under the influence of the Xiaoice climate. The bigger problem is that the silver allocated by the imperial court is indeed not small, but there is no material for silver alone, and with thousands of silver, you can't eat or wear, except for further causing the depreciation of silver in Dongjiang Town's sphere of influence, it is not helpful for people's livelihood problems.

And let's just talk about this silver, under the system of feudal society, under the nature of local warlords, the silver in Dongjiang Town is not what Mao Wenlong said alone. In addition to the fact that 30 or even 40 or 50 percent of the imperial court's appropriations were to be "floated" by the military department and the yamen at all levels of the governor of Denglai before they were allocated to Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong, who got the silver, could not directly decide the money. He also had to share the money with the officials of all sizes in Dongjiang Town.

As a result, the funds that were already very stretched for more than 100,000 people were basically nothing when they were implemented into the specific ordinary soldiers and refugees below.

In many cases, Donggang Town still has to rely on monopolizing the trade of various specialties such as ginseng and mink skins on the North Korean side in order to make some money to maintain the supply of daily necessities.

In this environment, it is easy to understand that the ordinary soldiers in Dongjiang Town are in tattered clothes and have yellow muscles and thin muscles like homeless beggars.

Having said that, it is not that there is no silver on the side of Dongjiang Town, the key is that on the one hand, the silver is in the hands of a group of officers in Dongjiang Town headed by Mao Wenlong, and on the other hand, because of the poverty of materials, the silver has seriously depreciated in Dongjiang Town.

Under the influence of the policy of only entering and leaving the grain price in the hinterland because of the Baath Party in Huguang, the grain price in the Jiangnan area has reached 12 taels of silver and one stone. And here in Dongjiang Town, thirty taels of silver and one stone of grain cannot be bought by ordinary people. Even if I bought it, there was at least a third of the sand in it.

Therefore, when Wu Hongjie proposed that the Fuxing Trading Company was "admiring" the noble behavior of Lord Mao to resist the country, so in order to express his respect, he was willing to provide Dongjiang Town with 1,000 pieces of Ming Dynasty style cotton armor, 1,000 spears, 1,000 steel crossbows, 500 collars of plate armor, and 2,000 catties of grain bricks mass-produced by the Garment Fuxing Party Garment Factory for free. The officials of Dongjiang Town in the Governor's Mansion selectively forgot about the fact that the merchant ships of the Fuxing Trading Company sent twenty Dongjiang warships to the bottom of the sea, and began to make peace with Wu Hongjie, the "big treasurer" of the Fuxing Trading Company.

In fact, in the environment of the last years of the Ming Dynasty, officials and businessmen were not separated. In the upper echelons of the imperial court, whether it is the so-called Jin Party or the Chu Party, or the Donglin Party, which has been arguing for the emperor not to compete with the people, they are not only big landlords on the one hand, but also big businessmen from all over the country.

In the military system of the Ming Dynasty, it was quite common for officers at all levels of the Nine Sides to participate in business operations. Take Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku and other Shanxi businessmen as examples. If they hadn't colluded with the officers at the border gates, they would not have been able to smoothly and smoothly start a trade with the Houjin Jurchens in terms of grain, iron, salt, cloth, military intelligence, and so on.

Mao Wenlong himself is a native of Hangzhou. He is not at all resistant to such a thing as doing business. It can even be said that he is quite proficient in doing business.

Therefore, after hearing that Wu Hongjie gave Dongjiang Town so many good things for free on behalf of Fuxing Trading Company, Mao Wenlong clearly realized that Fuxing Trading Company was in the process of "going down". Obviously, Fuxing Trading Company has taken a fancy to something in Dongjiang Town and wants to establish a business relationship with Dongjiang Town.

Mao Wenlong is even clearer that Fuxing Trading Company is very resolute in its attitude towards this business. They did not hesitate to use force to ensure the success of this business. The jaw-dropping naval battle not long ago is proof of this.

As a native of Hangzhou, Mao Wenlong knows how lawless the maritime merchants in the south of the Yangtze River are. He clearly knew that in order to ensure their maritime trade, the Southeast family could not hesitate to guarantee their trade authority by launching a Japanese raid on the south of the Yangtze River.

As for things like installing cannons on sea ships, Mao Wenlong has long heard about them. It is a very common practice for maritime merchants in Fujian to privately cast muskets and artillery equipment caravans. So much so that the imperial court knew that the effect of casting guns with Fujian's Min iron casting guns was the best.

Therefore, it is completely understandable that Mao Wenlong's reaction to Fuxing Trading Company was so fierce. After the fierce conflict, Fuxing Trading Company "hemorrhaged" to come up with so many good things. It is clear that Fuxing Trading Company is also very resolute in establishing a business relationship with Dongjiang Town.

"Since you are so sincere. Ben Shuai is not welcome. I'll take it. However, since you Fuxing Trading Company have traveled thousands of miles to Dongjiang, then you are going to do business with Dongjiang. The shopkeeper Wu can talk to Ben Shuai about the rules and regulations of your Fuxing Trading Company. ”

Of course, Mao Wenlong also hopes to have a relationship with the southeast maritime businessman like Fuxing Trading Company, regardless of whether there is anything to sell in Dongjiang Town. But Dongjiang Town can buy things from Fuxing Trading Company. Silver is indeed a good thing, but the silver that is left there cannot be eaten or worn, and it is useless waste.

When Wu Hongjie arrived at the Governor's Mansion, he was accompanied by cadres who were in charge of trade work. Cadres of several business bureaus have long brought samples of various products.

At Wu Hongjie's suggestion, several cadres of the Bureau of Commerce immediately put these commodities out and showed them in detail to Mao Wenlong and other officials in Dongjiang Town.

Things like cotton armor weapons are good to say, although the products of the Baath Party are quite sophisticated and high-quality, and they have an absolute advantage over similar products in the Ming Dynasty. But these things have been seen in Dongjiang Town. Although I was surprised by the good quality and low price of Baath Party's products, the surprise did not go beyond the normal level.

However, when the Baath Party began to display all kinds of canned grain bricks, instant noodles, canvas tents, honeycomb coal stoves, and other daily necessities, the military attachés at all levels in Dongjiang Town could not hold back. One by one, they surrounded the Baath Party's business cadres, scrambling to taste the Ba'ath Party's goods, and busily inquired about the quantity and price of these products.

When they heard that the Baath Party proposed that the materials for weapons and clothing could be traded in silver, but the daily necessities must be used for human exchange, the officers at all levels in Dongjiang Town fell silent. They all looked at Mao Wenlong with a blank eye, hoping that Mao Wenlong would immediately agree to this extremely desirable trading condition