The reason why the Qiong Navy has the opportunity to intervene at present is nothing more than to bully the Ming Dynasty that the end is approaching, the control and management ability is too poor, and the government function is almost completely lost, and it is impossible to stop their penetration of the mainland market at all. took advantage of the fact that people's attention was not in this area, so he reached in and fished it out.

But now that people have come back to their senses, it is natural for them to want to protect their own interests, and they are fully capable of taking it back -- after all, the terminal market is on other people's territory, and there is no shortage of coastlines in Daming, and there are too many places that can dry salt -- Tong Guò has cooperated with the Zheng family and Liangguang, and their salt drying field technology has gradually leaked out. Now it has been publicly reported...... At this time, if we want to forcibly keep those smuggling routes, we will inevitably have to invest more resources, and it will also affect the overall situation of cooperation between the two sides, and the gains outweigh the losses.

With the development of trading companies to this day, the profits from the sale of illicit salt to the mainland no longer account for the majority of their overall economic income, and the minting of silver coins is for the sake of long-term development in the future, and it is not necessarily a bad thing to shrink it appropriately.

However, it is obviously impossible for the capitalists to let go lightly, even if they are bureaucrats within the Ming Dynasty, as long as they have a little brains and judgment, they will not feel that they will take the initiative to hand over this aspect of interests completely if they throw away the short hair in a clever word. Maybe Zhu Youzhen would be so naïve, but Qian Qianyi obviously wouldn't-so when he asked Chen Tao to pass the word, he only said that he wanted you to come out with a way, at least to meet the emperor's requirements.

"The salt industry is a profiteering industry in Daming, but we all know that its future is actually very limited - the market capacity is limited, and it is too easy to produce, and it is difficult to guarantee profits without the state to forcibly guarantee monopoly. Moreover, the final sales market is completely in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the state of the Ming Empire is a little tougher, they have too many ways to recover the power of the salt power, both legally and specifically. Therefore, as for the private salt, the construction of our staff group is to simply give it up gradually. In the future, in addition to ensuring the supply of salt goods in the areas under our control, the sales channels on the mainland and the profits generated should be gradually returned to the Ming Dynasty government - of course, there must be a process, and it cannot be handed over all at once, anyway, it is all additional income, and it can be delayed for a while. ”

Hearing Pang Yu say that he was going to give up this piece, a whisper sounded in the conference room again, but Pang Yu had no time to pay attention to them, and continued:

"After making such a heavy concession on the salt policy, we can justifiably claim compensation in terms of money law - our demands will not be very high: we hope to get the Ming Empire to agree to the establishment of a Baoquan bureau here in Hainan - that is, a coin mint - we already have one, but it is illegal. This time, we are going to try to get the Ming Empire to recognize it and the silver coins it minted as legitimate, while continuing to put it in our hands...... Of course, the Ming Empire will certainly mint silver coins elsewhere, but that has nothing to do with us. As long as we squeeze into the currency issuance system of the Ming Empire, it is already the biggest victory. ”

"Ha, I understand, so that we can legally mint Ming Dynasty currency in large quantities...... In the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that there are few people who know how to control the total amount of currency issued, anyway, they just mint silver into silver coins...... As long as we have raw materials, we will continue to mint them, which is equivalent to obtaining the currency issuance rights of the Ming Empire in disguise! ”

Julie smiled, she quickly understood the deep meaning behind the staff team's strategy, seemingly concessions, but in fact aggressive, although the process was not as straightforward as she imagined, but the final effect was the same - can affect a country's currency issuance, what business is more profitable than this?

The rest of the committee may not be as financially sensitive as Julie, but after discussing with each other for a while, they basically understood that if the Ming Dynasty really agreed to exchange the profits of the salt industry for the minting qualifications, the deal would be very profitable!

"Very good strategy, so who will negotiate with the Ming Dynasty?"

Everyone's eyes naturally crossed Pang Yu and Zhao Lide, but the two of them looked like they were sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai and had no intention of volunteering.

"This time the negotiation is not too difficult, after all, we have conceded enough benefits. However, I am afraid that the level of the talks will be relatively high, and many of the terms will have to be completed with Zhu Youzhen's personal nod -- we will have to send someone to Beijing to talk. And recently we happened to have a group of people going to the capital......"

When Zhao Lide said this, some people had already reacted and turned their eyes to the other side: Guo Yi, Hu Wen, Lin Hanlong and several others sat there in a hurry, obviously mentally prepared.

"The delegation composed of more than a dozen 'real shorthairs', led by a current management committee, should be enough to reflect our sincerity!"

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A few days later, at a cabinet meeting, Qian Qianyi triumphantly showed the attackers a telegram of reply to the imperial court's questioning, and although the other party was not humble in his words, he was not ambiguous in all the questions concerning practical interests, and all of them responded positively.

In the telegram, the Qiong Haijun readily admitted that they had indeed been selling salt goods to the interior, and at the same time issued and minted the "Hongwu Tongbao" silver coin, but they also unceremoniously pointed out: The reason why Qiongzhou sea salt and Hongwu silver coins can be popular in the inland is that their own quality and ease of use far exceed the official genuine goods, which is a spontaneous choice made by the vast number of inland people.

This passage made the faces of those bigwigs not look good, but it was a true fact - these days, the northwest road is not quiet, the market has been rare green and white salt, even the daily use of the kitchen of the elders here has to be Qiongzhou sea salt, as for the silver coins, every household has saved a bunch - take this thing to buy things Merchants are willing to give more discounts.

"These thieves are really arrogant and domineering, and they don't change their minds!"

Wen Tiren scolded angrily, but Qian Qianyi didn't feel angry at all, but looked at him with a smile, as if he wanted to wait for him to say more. However, Wen Tiren only scolded once, but then there was no follow-he could only scold on his lips. This kind of Ming bureaucracy's ability to focus on infighting, they can have countless ways to deal with their "own people" who are on the same front as them, but for those enemies who clearly stand against them, these literati are often helpless.

Qiong Haijun has obviously seen through this a long time ago, although he has been recruited by the Ming Dynasty, but he never seems to have the consciousness of integrating into the Ming officialdom, let alone regard those officials as "his own people", although he has maintained a good relationship with a few officials, but their attitude towards the entire Ming Dynasty has not changed much from before Zhao'an, at most it is only a little polite. Even if it actually helped the court a lot, but if anyone wants to see the kind of weak and timid, trembling, and cautious attitude that a person who has surrendered should have in Shorthair, it is obviously a hope.

-- The Shorthairs never thought that they had surrendered, and they were not afraid of the imperial court at all, both psychologically and practically—and this became known to more and more Ming bureaucrats over time. In this way, it is difficult to implement any idea of using those ghost tricks in the officialdom to deal with them, but it is necessary to carefully maintain the relationship between the two sides everywhere - there are people within the Qiong Navy who can shout that they want to break with the Ming Dynasty, but no one in the court of the Ming Empire dares to say this. Even if there was before, there was no more after the Battle of Shandong.

Wen Tiren is not stupid, he scolded a couple of sentences to vent his feelings, and he really wanted to say anything substantive to deal with the content of the Qiong Navy, in case it caused trouble, he would be unable to bear to give people a big hat of "provoking trouble and forcing rebellion against the feudal town".

"The people have always been like this, after all, they don't learn my Chinese studies, and they don't know how to advance and retreat in etiquette...... Please continue, Elder. ”

Seeing that Qian Qianyi still didn't speak, there was a great deal of wanting to see Wen Tiren's jokes, Zhou Yanru, who was the first assistant of the cabinet, had to stand up and play a round and thin mud.

Qiong Haijun sent this telegram to solve the problem, not to pull hatred, so after only a few stabs to the Ming court, he returned to the topic: considering the cooperative relationship between the two sides and the fact that the Ming court is still the legitimate government of China today, Qionghaizhen respects the sovereign position of the Ming Empire in terms of salt administration and money law. He also expressed his understanding of the Ming court's demand for the recovery of the benefits related to the salt administration and the money law -- this diplomatic rhetoric made Qian Qianyi quite difficult to read, and the elders present could not understand it, and finally unanimously came to the conclusion that the gang did not read the book of China, and the literature and science were really incomprehensible.

But at least they understood the core meaning: Shorthair was willing to make concessions in this regard, and the establishment of this principle made all the Ming bureaucrats present happy. As for how to handle the specific matters next, it is obviously not a simple telegram that can be fully explained, so Qiongzhen said in the telegram: If the Ming court agrees, they will send a negotiation team to Beijing to negotiate with the court on the issue of salt administration and money law, and strive for a result that is satisfactory to both sides.

By the way, the telegram also informed another thing: According to the previous agreement between the two sides, the Western giant ship that Qionghai Town sold to Daming for a "symbolic price" of one silver dollar has been renovated, and the officers and men of the naval division drawn from Fujian and the Liangguang region have also been basically trained and qualified, and can be delivered at any time. In addition to the eight guns and 100 arquebuses that were given with the ship, the 32 long-barreled guns and 400 arquebuses purchased at the request of the imperial court were also fully equipped - the guns and artillery money had not yet been paid, but in view of the fact that the salt negotiations would inevitably involve the question of money, the money could be temporarily deducted from the income of the salt administration at a later date.

Now it only needs the Ming side to give this giant ship a name so that it can be painted on the bow, and at the same time designate a port of call for it, and Qiongzhen can arrange for this giant ship to set off for the north. If it is in time, it will set off with the negotiating delegation.

"How?"

After Qian Qianyi read the telegram, he looked at his colleagues in the hall triumphantly:

"Now, who else thinks that the imperial court's move to recruit the Qiong Navy is a loss?" RS