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The benefits gained by sailing the sea far exceeded those obtained on land, but unfortunately the rulers of the Ming and Qing dynasties were so short-sighted that they let the small barbarian countries show off their power at their doorstep. The power of the whole country is not as good as that of a private company.

Think of the Dutch East India Company, which was established only 60 years ago, after 60 years of development, it has occupied a large area of East Asia, and the annual benefits are astronomical. Although the Dutch East India Company was a private company, it had a state function, responsible for colonial plunder and monopoly of trade in the East. Thinking about these years, just a partial fleet of the East India Company has given Zheng Chenggong's family a headache for three generations.

In the past two hundred years, the Dutch East India Company sent a total of 1,800 ships overseas, and more than 1 million Europeans sailed to Asia on about 5,000 voyages. On average, each overseas base has 25,000 employees and 12,000 crew members, which is a staggering number. The United Provinces of the Netherlands granted the East India Company a monopoly for a period of twenty-one years to colonize Asia, the first multinational corporation in the world and the first company to issue shares, the first mega corporation in the world.

The government held shares, paid salaries for war support, signed treaties with foreign countries, minted currency, established colonies, and many other rights. For nearly two hundred years, it had an extremely important influence on world trade, paying eighteen percent of the annual dividends to the government until 1800, when the company was formally dissolved, and its property and debts were borne by the Republic of Batavia. The company's colony became the Dutch East Indies, and in the 19th century it expanded to the entire Indonesian archipelago, forming Indonesia in the modern sense.

Even now, the Dutch East India Company is the richest private company in the world, with more than 150 large merchant ships, more than 40 warships, 50,000 employees, and an army of more than 10,000 mercenaries, and a dividend of up to 40 percent! During the boom in the subscription of shares, the Dutch East India Company released a total of 7 million guilders for subscription, and at this moment, 10 guilders is about equal to one pound sterling, that is, three taels of silver, which is converted into more than 2 million silver dollars! At this time, a Dutch teacher had an annual salary of about 90 silver dollars, and half of the shares were subscribed in Amsterdam alone.

Fortunately, the Dutch East India Company's stronghold in Taiwan was defeated by Zheng Chenggong, otherwise, it would have been impossible for Geng Jingzhong to develop a navy. Even if you buy back the battleship from Britain, you won't be able to enter the Taiwan Strait, and you will be destroyed halfway! Fortunately, Britain and the Netherlands have been fighting in the past few years, and they have no time to take care of East Asia, otherwise, the Dutch East India Company will mobilize a large number of troops, and the Zheng family and the Geng family will not be its opponents. In the nearly 40 years since the Dutch occupied Taiwan, the buildings of that year, such as the city of Geranza and the city of Puluominsha, have become the territory of the Zheng family.

The purpose of the Dutch occupation of Taiwan was to serve as a pivot to China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia, and to monopolize trade between Manila (now a Spanish colony) and China. The main export trade included sugar, deerskin, venison, antlers, rattan, rice, etc., and the transshipment trade included Dutch metals and medicinal herbs, Batavia's spices, pepper, amber, linen, cotton, tin, lead, and crow. pieces, and then there are Chinese silk fabrics, pottery and gold. Taking deerskin as an example, history records that in just four years from 1634 to 1638, the number of pieces exported from Taiwan to Japan increased from 110,000 to 150,000. By 1658, Taiwan's sugar exports were sufficient to meet the needs of Japan and Persia, and Batavia was added as an export target. Even now, Taiwan's sugar industry is also a major source of wealth for the Zheng family!

Not everyone on the mainland is short-sighted, and many businessmen are very aware of the profits of sea trade, but unfortunately the imperial court wants to ban the sea, which makes people helpless! However, now Fujian Yuegang and the newly built Houyu Port have played the banner of the Mawei Navy and have begun to trade with foreigners normally, especially the Houyu Port, and many ships coming and going are flying the flag issued by the Mawei Navy, otherwise they are not allowed to dock! Since the Mawei Navy was formally established last year, the trade volume of Fujian Province has increased considerably compared with the past.

Nowadays, whether it is Yuegang or Houyu Port, the store pù sells more than just local items. The main business in the shop is some things from Guangdong, and some silk from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, mixed with some specialties from Champa, Srivijaya, Siam, Manila and other places, the business is quite good, and there are many customers who come and go to talk about business in the store. All foreign products were sold to the interior or to the north, and domestic products were traded to foreign caravans. If we want to make the port more prosperous, we must vigorously support maritime trade and marine transportation. Just like Geng Jingzhong's offshore formation, it set an example for Fujian businessmen, and how many ordinary people earned silver coins by going north from the south!

The hundreds of small sea vessels of the offshore formation have been leaving Fuzhou for almost a month, and they are almost back after calculating the time. When they left, they were in a hurry, because half of the ships were loaded with fruits, and there were some fruits with higher water content, such as a small amount of lychee and mango, which had to be sent to the north in a hurry. Fruits unique to the south, such as pomelo, shakya, kiwi, mangosteen, lychee, mango, etc., were quickly sold out as soon as they arrived in the north.

Since ancient times, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been the richest places in the country, and Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jinling, Yangzhou, Jiaxing and other places are famous for their wealthy businessmen and wealthy families. Although these places were war-torn more than a decade ago, only a few cities were damaged, and they recovered quickly. Since the beginning of the rebellion of the former Ming Dynasty, there has not been such a large-scale formation of sea ships entering the mouth of the Yangtze River for more than 100 years, except for the sailors of the imperial court, of course. More than 400 ships loaded a total of 3,000 tons of cargo, of which all kinds of preserved fruits accounted for more than half. It sounds like a lot, but in the face of the markets of several northern provinces, it is not enough to see so much!

In addition to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, it enters the inland along the Yangtze River. The journey from the mouth of the Yangtze River to Poyang Lake is not a poor place, and it is much stronger than many places in Fujian! This time the big fanfare to go north also means to show some strength to the Qing court, since a caravan can have such a scale, then the Mawei Navy will definitely not be bad. Although the imperial court has always cared not much about the navy and thinks that archery is fundamental, it will no longer underestimate his Jingnan Palace, and his Jingnan Mansion will no longer be the bottom role in the three feudatories. Kangxi's first task is to control the power of the imperial court and win Aobai. Even if he wants to cut the feudal domain in the future, Wu Sangui is his main opponent, and he will inevitably be greatly appeased by the Jingnan Palace. Geng Jingzhong fought the idea of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight.

In addition, more than 400 seagoing ships in the offshore formation went north, and they could transport a huge amount of cargo at one time. If these sea ships are all grain, they can be transported to the capital for hundreds of thousands of stones at one time! It is enough for the whole Beijing city to eat for more than a month! This will greatly alleviate the pressure on the imperial court's river transportation, and it is hoped that the Qing court will be able to see the benefits of shipping and no longer strictly prohibit the sea! As for whether it will affect future wars if the imperial court raises maritime transportation and there is no longer a shortage of food in Beijing and the north, this is no longer in Geng Jingzhong's scope of consideration. The north has been short of food for a long time, and the development of maritime transportation cannot be completed in one or two years. Even if this decision was made, it would take a year and a half to quarrel in the court, and when it was time to start building a sea ship, it would take a lot of days to build a ship in various places. What's more, the sea has been banned for many years, and there is not one in a hundred who can build sea ships, and only some of them have been collected by various ships in Fujian, and there are almost no masters who can build sea ships in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and further north!

On this trip to the north, the coastal formations were basically driven by soldiers from the Mawei Navy, but they were all dressed in ordinary clothes and acted casually and did not follow the rules of the army. In addition to the professional business personnel in the fleet, Li Guangdi also selected a group of shrewd subordinates from among the navy soldiers and scattered them into the fleet. This action is also a helpless move, if the princess fang can be opened all over the country, there is no need to spend any more energy.

Speaking of which, the business of this offshore formation is actually very easy to do, and the cargo on board is basically a sought-after item. Not to mention all kinds of fruits, the Chinese are the best, fresh and delicious fruits are definitely not marketable, and it is worth mentioning that there are two fist products on board, perfume and glass products! The glass products produced in the Fuzhou glass kiln are more transparent than before with the mastery of the craftsmen and the continuous improvement of the process, and the craftsmen are constantly innovating to produce some more novel glassware. These glass products not only surpass those glass products shipped from distant Europe by Westerners in quality, but also their prices are cheaper than those glass products produced in Europe, and the styles are more in line with the aesthetic needs of the Chinese, and the styles are becoming more and more numerous, naturally becoming a commodity sought after by the aristocratic class.

In addition to the previous glass products on the fleet this time, there is also a brand new thing, which is also made of glass, that is, the glass mirror that Geng Jingzhong remembered not long ago. Of course, glass mirrors were common in later generations, and there are a few in the palace now. He thought that after the glass kiln factory burned out the glass, they would also make mirrors, and they could see it at will in the palace, so they didn't take it seriously, and when they went to Zhangzhou some time ago, there was no mirror, so they remembered to ask the glass kiln factory to make mirrors, in fact, this is also simple, and it can be made with tin foil and mercury.

The mirrors were made by craftsmen into different sizes and shapes, the large ones were two meters long and half a meter wide like the wardrobe mirrors of later generations, and the small ones were only half the size of a palm. The ship was loaded with more than 100 large glass mirrors, the smallest 10,000 mirrors, and a total of 10,000 other styles. The largest 100 yuan on the ship is not used to sell for money, it has to be sent to the capital, some of it is sent to the palace as tribute, and the rest has to be sent to the various departments! Now this thing is a hot commodity, and it has only been listed in Fuzhou recently, but once it was listed, it immediately became the object of pursuit by the rich and powerful. Nowadays, even if the rich people around Fuzhou can't afford to buy a large glass mirror, they must at least get a small glass mirror and hold it in their hands to fill the façade, and anyone who doesn't have this thing at home is embarrassed to say hello to others.

Moreover, many merchants have also come to the door to discuss the purchase, hoping to sell to the inland and northern places. There are more than 20,000 mirrors of all sizes, and when they reach the north, it is estimated that they will not be able to make a few waves. Let's just say that the small mirror with a big palm, those ladies or young ladies are definitely one piece per person, and the number of 10,000 yuan is really far from enough! Think about the streets in the later generations, the girls each have a small makeup box, and the small mirror is the most indispensable!

In addition to mirrors, perfume is also a magnet for northern merchants, and more than 60,000 bottles were sent with the ship this time. According to the original market estimate, there is no need to go to the mainland, and when you arrive at the mouth of the Yangtze River, you will be eaten by the rich businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River. Selling to anyone is selling, and it saves trouble if you sell it early, but because of Geng Jingzhong's order, you have to keep some to go to the inland areas, after all, you have to find out the intelligence along the river.

While the offshore formation sells its own products, it also has to buy goods from the north, which is also one of the important tasks of their trip, and Houyu Port is waiting for a large number of northern goods to fill the shops. The goods of the south are popular in the north, and the products of the north are the same in the south.

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