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Neskas was already grinning to the root of his ears, such a fortune that he would not have earned much from being a governor for another ten years. The Dutch coin is the guilder, and four guilders are equivalent to one tael of silver in China, that is, a large silver dollar in Fujian. Geng Jingzhong prepared a total of about 30,000 large silver dollars worth of gold and goods for Nescas, which was converted into guilders, which amounted to more than 120,000. The largest Dutch merchant ship now anchored in the port of Batavia is only worth so much of its cargo.

Neskas was not a businessman after all, and as a government official, although he often had some extra money, he was still far from being a businessman. Neskas closed all the boxes, then called a few soldiers and ordered them to carry them to their rooms. Looking back, he immediately smiled and said: "His Royal Highness King Jingnan is really polite, your affairs are wrapped up in me, and within a week, the war horses in Batavia can be evenly distributed in advance for you to take away." However, it seems that the number of your merchant ships is not enough, so let's let our Dutch merchant ships help transport it, and I will also help and let them help as much as possible. However, the shipping cost has to be negotiated between you and them! ”

"Thank you so much, Lord Governor!" Miao Quanchen and Wang Shishan were also very happy, they could bring back five thousand war horses on this first trip, which was also a great achievement for them, not to mention how many rewards there were, just the weight in Geng Jingzhong's heart would be a lot heavier.

"Hahaha, it's all my own. Why are you so polite! Come. Help me prepare the food and drinks. I'm going to wash the dust for two distinguished guests! ”

Miao Quanchen and Wang Shishan glanced at each other, and they both saw a smile in each other's eyes. The matter was successfully resolved, and it was not as difficult as expected, which also made the big stone in their hearts fall to the ground. Since it would take a few days for Neskas to raise the horses, they would have nothing to do here, so the Governor would like to invite them to dinner, and have more contact with each other to bring them closer. It is more conducive to future cooperation and exchanges.

Miao Quanchen also went to Europe once, and stayed for a long time. However, most of his energy was spent befriending the British elite, and he knew very little about the intricacies of the European powers. Although Geng Jingzhong has the advanced ideas and vision of hundreds of years in later generations, he is not a history major after all, and he only picks some things he likes to understand about Europe, such as the three naval battles between Britain and the Netherlands, the destruction of the Spanish Armada, and the Anglo-French war, etc., which are all recorded in middle school history books, and he only slightly broadens his knowledge. If he really wants to sort out the relations between European countries, then he must send someone to do this.

Fortunately, Geng Jingzhong had already sent someone. It's just that due to the short time, the people sent there are not at all familiar with Europe. Therefore, it will take a long time to get this done well. Hey, it's also that Europe is so far away from Asia that it would take more than two months to reach it by sea. Otherwise, Geng Jingzhong would not have thought things through so inconsiderately. For example, the relationship between the Netherlands and Spain, Geng Jingzhong is still not innocent, and he doesn't even know such an important information that the Netherlands is independent from Spain, the Netherlands and Spain have fought for seventy or eighty years, plus the two countries are developing overseas colonies, and there are often conflicts, so it's strange that the relationship can be good, let alone intimate!

It's a pity that Geng Jingzhong can be said to have no idea about this, so he made such a big detour to find cooperation with the British. But there was a mistake, and it was wrong to guide the British to the Far East and let them compete with the Dutch and even Spain and Portugal, and muddy the waters of Asia, which is beneficial and harmless to the current Mawei Navy. Dozens of warships of the British fleet circled around and entered the waters of Fujian relatively secretly, and they have been blending behind the Mawei Army in the posture of the Mawei Navy, and no one really found anything abnormal in it.

In recent years, there have been a lot of Westerners in Fujian, among which the British account for almost average, and the warships of the Mawei Navy were originally built by the British according to the drawings of the British warships, and they are very similar in appearance. At this point, the surrounding forces still think that it is the more than 20 warships newly added by the Mawei Navy, if the governor of Neskas knows that the British fleet has come to Asia and has been stationed on Luzon Island, and there is also Geng Jingzhong's help, I don't know what will happen. I'm afraid that I won't be so polite to Miao Quanchen and the others today

Miao Quanchen was ordered to go to sea to find the Dutch, and Li Guangdi received an order to also start selecting a place on Luzon Island to prepare for pasture. And Geng Jingzhong and Yao Qisheng stayed in Mawei to solve the matter of the army's comments on the merits of the war, which is relatively the most important, but Geng Jingzhong still dragged on for so long, and personally reprimanded several generals during this period. The navy has not suffered any losses in the past few years, maintaining a state of long-term victory, from the generals to the ordinary soldiers have a proud heart, especially this trip to Luzon, thousands of Spanish navy surrendered without a fight, which made the navy crazy and unchanged. The reason why Geng Jingzhong dragged on and did not reward meritorious deeds for a long time was to suppress this unhealthy trend in the army.

First, it took a full ten days to carry out ideological and political work in the army, correcting the bad thoughts and bad remarks in the army, and finally, when Miao Quanchen arrived in Batavia, the reward ceremony was officially held. After some ideological education, the atmosphere in the army has been greatly invigorated, and although it is still a little impetuous, on the whole it has realized its mistakes. In this round of reward meetings, many officers have been promoted, and some combat heroes have changed from ordinary soldiers to grassroots officers, which has greatly boosted morale. In addition, large tracts of land were officially distributed to the soldiers, holding land deeds one by one, and many "proletarian" soldiers were excited to tears.

In two consecutive years, the Mawei Navy successively attacked the Spaniards who had already landed on Luzon Island, and the movement was very noisy. Trying to hide these things. It can only be delayed for a short time. Eventually, the court will still know. It is estimated that it will take about half a year for Kangxi to determine the battle of Luzon Island, but at this time last year, Geng Jingzhong was loyal to the Japanese, and the imperial court already knew about it. It is very tacit that neither Geng Jingzhong nor Kangxi mentioned this matter, Geng Jingzhong deliberately did not mention it, but Kangxi did not dare to mention it. It seems that Kangxi is afraid of Geng Jingzhong, but in fact, it is not. At the beginning of the year, when Geng Jingzhong Shang Kexi entered the palace, Kangxi wanted to mention it, but as soon as he saw that Wu Sangui had not arrived, his plan to cut the feudal domain could not be implemented.

Among the three feudatories, as long as he Kangxi moves one of them, the others must join forces to resist. Shang Kexi wanted to continue to be the prince of Anwen, but Guangdong was not up to him, his son Shang Zhixin had already mixed up with Wu Sangui. If Kangxi moved Geng Jingzhong. Then Shang Zhixin may not rebel immediately, but Wu Sangui immediately has an excuse to rebel. This is what Kangxi does not want to see, and at the same time, there are also Kangxi who are not ready to turn their faces with the three feudatories. This time, Geng Jingzhong took Luzon Island, and brought over more than 300,000 people from the north, and the movement was even bigger than that of the conquest, but at this moment, the imperial court and the three feudatories were secretly accumulating strength, and Kangxi could not move lightly. Time, now both sides need time.

This is the end of the matter, and Geng Jingzhong has returned to a state of idleness. In fact, it's not that he has nothing to do, but that he is really tired during this time, others still work for six days and have one day off, and he, Yao Qisheng and others are busy almost every day, and it is not an exaggeration to be physically and mentally exhausted. Now, Geng Jingzhong has realized the hard work of the country's leaders, and I don't know who invented the idiom of Rili Wanji, which is too vivid! Coming out of the barracks, Geng Jingzhong didn't need to rush back to the palace, but ran to Houyu Port not far away to hang out. Although the distance between this Houyu Port and Mawei Military Port is only 15 kilometers, Geng Jingzhong rarely comes here, and on average, he only comes three times a year.

Today's weather is not good, the temperature at the end of October is not high, because the sky is relatively gloomy, but there is no feeling of autumn air, and even the sea breeze blowing on the sea is uncomfortable. Geng Jingzhong put on a hat and walked along the wharf, the port was full of cargo ships, large and small ships were densely docked together, and the sails of the clouds almost covered the entire sea.

Although the weather is very bad today, it has not affected the busyness of the port at all, I saw that the cargo ships in the port are constantly coming, most of them are coolies on the port, are sweating and unloading the goods, and the stewards on the cargo ship stand at the bow of the ship and shout loudly, so that the coolies are careful not to damage the goods. Geng Jingzhong has seen a movie in later generations, which is about the prosperity of the Pearl River Estuary in Guangzhou at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the merchant ships coming and going on the screen are still far worse than the real and visible scene in front of them, which is different from the feeling of warships converging together.

In fact, these coolies on the port were ordinary people, who were usually only responsible for working and getting money to eat. They did the hardest and most tiring work, but their wages were not as high as those of the sailors, and they were worse than those of the workers in the nearby development zone. But Geng Jingzhong had already issued an order that businesses were not allowed to deduct workers' wages, and minimum standards were set for different jobs. Most of the coolies here are not locals, there are more from the interior of Fujian, and a small number are from Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces, and they are all poor people.

Geng Jingzhong walked around the port, roughly calculated along the way, and found that in the port, there were actually more than 500 cargo ships loading and unloading goods at the same time, and these cargo ships would immediately give up berths to the ships behind after loading and unloading the goods. This is only half the size of the Moon Port, so it can be seen how amazing the daily cargo throughput of the Moon Port is!

Geng Jingzhong walked around this big circle, it was already late, because the weather was not good, the guide zhì was very dark today. By this time, many of the coolies had done their work, and after the leader had greeted the shipowner, the coolies began to go to the side of the harbor to eat. Geng Jingzhong was hanging around. So he took a few guards and walked to the business district.

"Lord Wang. Let's not go over here! "Seeing Geng Jingzhong, he wanted to go to one of the roads. Gu Ping stretched out his hand to stop Geng Jingzhong and said.

"Huh?" Geng Jingzhong was a little puzzled, why can't he go? Looking up again into the distance, the row of two-story houses in the distance was much better than the houses in other places, and there were many red lanterns hung on them. Geng Jingzhong instantly understood that this was the so-called red light district. Not only in Houyu Port, but also in Yuegang, which is full of restaurants and brothels. Of course, the Moon Harbor is bigger and more prosperous. Naturally, there are more liquor shops and brothels in the port than in Houyu Port. The first few times Geng Jingzhong came to the port, it was daylight, and it was mostly morning, and people generally did not open the door, but it was the time for people to rest at that time.

Speaking of these brothels are really complicated, many of the women are from the Japanese and Korean, when the merchants go to the Japanese and Korea, they can buy a woman at a very low price, and then transport these women here, and these exotic women also really attract a lot of early men, every dusk. A hazy pink glow shines from the doors and windows of the brothels in the harbor, and drunken men linger among these exotic prostitutes. It has become a scene of the port, and the chambers of commerce that control these green buildings behind them have also made enough money.

"Lord Wang, let's go this way!" Gu Ping said again.

"Oh!" Geng Jingzhong responded, he really can't ban brothels, no matter which dynasty or generation, even before Geng Jingzhong crossed over to this era in later generations, there are countless people who are engaged in this industry. Moreover, the brothel is now legal, that is, it is registered with the government. On the other hand, they also contributed to the prosperity of the port. But as Geng Jingzhong, it is not suitable to go to this kind of place, although he really wants to see what it is like inside, and whether it is the same as what is played in later TV dramas? There are many question marks in Geng Jingzhong's heart!

Geng Jingzhong took Gu Ping all the way to the west, and the more he went, the more prosperous he became. In the past, there was no such strong feeling when I came during the day, and although there were many people during the day, everyone was very busy, but now, the people here feel more relaxed. This is the commercial area originally planned by Geng Jingzhong himself, and it is indeed a forest of restaurants and inns, and all kinds of small vendors are full of them, shouting one after another, all vying to win over the merchants walking on the street.

The restaurants and inns on both sides of the street here are obviously more upscale than those on the Zhiyue Harbor side, after all, this is all uniformly planned, it looks neat and spectacular, but at this moment it seems to have an extra extravagant atmosphere. The restaurant inn is full, and many beautiful women are obviously singing songs in the dust to accompany the guests, which are all invited by the merchants from the red light district, if the merchants like it, they will also take it back to their rooms at night. At this moment, Geng Jingzhong observed the pedestrians on the street, most of them were brightly dressed, and the prime location of this port was really not covered.

Geng Jingzhong led a few people to hang out, holding the sweet fruits of the Fujian snacks he had just bought, and sent them to his mouth one by one. After passing through several restaurants and inns, they soon came to the center of this area, which is also at a three-way intersection, which happens to form three 120-degree equal angles, which is also designed by Geng Jingzhong himself, but now the building in front of them was bought by a tea house owner, as if the two buildings connected around were also bought together, opened up, and connected into one.

"Hey, this tea house owner is so rich!" Geng Jingzhong himself knows that the rent of a store in such a location is very high, and the owner of this tea house can actually buy three rooms at once, which is amazing! It's just that what surprised Geng Jingzhong at this moment was that the door of this tea house was a little too big, and the signboard of this tea house was the largest, more than twice as big as other people's, and there was actually a bigger one on the roof. Each of the four huge fonts on the roof, "Four Seas Tea House", catches up with the entire plaque of the other shops!

At the core three-way location of this prime location, Geng Jingzhong originally set aside a small vacant land, which was now built into a small flower garden, and there was a statue of Tao Zhugong in the middle. Geng Jingzhong's original definition was to transform this business district into a pedestrian street, and all people who came here were not allowed to ride horses or sit in sedan chairs, but could only walk, because the street was quite wide, but it was not crowded at all. Geng Jingzhong and the others bypassed the flower garden and came to the front of the tea house.

When Gu Ping heard Geng Jingzhong's words, he also nodded, this boss is really rich, if they remember correctly, the façade here seems to cost three hundred taels a month! A whole building should be five hundred taels, and this tea house is three buildings in one at once, so it must cost 1,500 taels! When did this tea seller become so profitable? Even if it's an export, it doesn't seem necessary to rent three buildings, right?

"What is this teahouse for, and why is it so...... So special? Geng Jingzhong couldn't think of any words to describe the teahouse in front of him, from the perspective of the architectural environment, this teahouse is no different from other houses, but this signboard, this flow of people, etc., is really standing out.

"Back to the prince, my subordinates don't know!" Gu Ping replied honestly.

Geng Jingzhong didn't speak, looked at the teahouse again, and found something different from the ordinary teahouse. I saw that there were still a few guards standing in front of the gate of this Sihai Tea House, who looked quite burly, as if they were not much different from the elite warriors of the horsetail, and there was a fierce aura on their bodies, which should have seen blood. In addition, there is an endless stream of guests in the teahouse, and most of the people who come in and out are extraordinary, dressed luxuriously, and they know at a glance that they are not ordinary people. Seeing that there were guards standing guard in this Sihai Tea House, and there were so many people coming in and out, Geng Jingzhong was even more curious, and immediately took Gu Ping and a few people to step forward, wanting to go inside to see what was going on. (To be continued......)