On Zhao Hongyu's side, he stirred up the situation here in the east and made the entire country unpeaceful.

However, on the other side of the ocean, on the American continent, the Song Empire he founded was in a good domestic situation and developed very steadily.

In this world full of hunger, war, famine, natural disasters, and man-made disasters, the Americas are as peaceful as outdoor peach orchards.

The port of Manhattan is still under construction and expansion. And after three years of development, the Port of Manhattan has become the largest shipping port in the world.

Every day, hundreds of European and Arab merchant ships sail to and from Manhattan.

This has also made the Manhattan Pier more prosperous.

It can be said that at this time of the seventeenth century, there was no other country in the world that had the most prosperous port than the port here in Manhattan.

In particular, the port of Manhattan is still under construction and shows no signs of stopping. This shows that in the future, Manhattan will be able to withstand more ocean-going merchant ships.

After these transoceanic merchant ships came to Manhattan, in addition to driving the local commercial prosperity and stimulating economic growth, they also stimulated another part of the economic growth because of the local expenses of the sailors on these merchant ships.

It can be said that the wealth of Europe and the Arab world was pouring into the Song Empire in the Americas at a very rapid rate.

On the European side, the war has swept across Europe, involving even the Russian Empire, not even the Ottoman Turks.

However, these have nothing to do with the Song Empire in the Americas, after all, the war can't burn across the ocean, right?

It was precisely because the Europeans had no time to think about anything else that gave the Arabs the opportunity to get their merchant ships out of the Mediterranean and try to start the ocean-going trade.

The British were excluded from the outset, and they had their own selfish agendas.

These Brits. Jumping up and down, they wanted to inherit the African colonies left by the Spanish Empire and open up the sea routes to the East.

Unfortunately, under the attack of the Portuguese and the French, the British never succeeded.

Moreover, the fleets of the British, and the fleets of the Portuguese and French, have been entangled in the vicinity of the English Channel.

Now, with the deliberate connivance of Portugal and France, the Arabs have begun to gradually accept the benefits left by the Spaniards, and have joined the Portuguese-French League as allies.

At this moment, it is even more impossible for the British to make a sound.

on this. The British, though annoyed, were helpless.

Therefore, the British had to find a way to see if they could return to the alliance of church princes. And pinched his nose to let the British merchant ships begin to go to the Americas to do commercial trade in the Song Empire.

After all, the British need to make money too, don't they.

Of course, when the British merchant ships came to the Americas, they had to change the flags of other countries.

If they came under the British flag, they would probably be killed before they reached Manhattan.

Meanwhile. On the outer seas of the Song Empire, raids between the British, Portuguese, French, and Arabs were frequent.

The instigators of this kind of thing are usually those British.

Thus. The British are already very accustomed to being robbers.

Don't look at another time and space, they always boast that they are gentlemen or something, but as long as they have brains, they will basically complain about it.

Because the British relied on profiteering and plunder. There are also those who have made a fortune by squeezing the blood and sweat of others. This has nothing to do with the gentlemanly demeanor they boast of.

Isn't it funny that a robber says he's a gentleman?

So that's it. In addition to the black hearts of the British, their skins are not ordinarily thick.

European merchants brought large quantities of gold, silver, and black slaves, and then bought large quantities of grain and luxury goods from Manhattan. Arab merchants also brought with them a large number of black slaves, and then bought large quantities of spices and medicines from Manhattan.

These things, in the Arab world, are very lucrative commodities.

At the same time, because of the war in Europe and the weakness of the British, the slave business is now basically monopolized by the Arabs.

Although some Europeans were able to stealthily get some slaves from Africa, they could not match the quality and quantity of those Arab merchants.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire, because it joined the 'axis of evil' of Zhao Hongyu and the Portuguese law, set up a special office in Manhattan.

With the Ottoman Empire setting up offices in Manhattan, the Turks brought a sense of luxury to Manhattan.

Of course, it only affects the European dicks who come to Manhattan to beg for a living, and the Chinese class in Manhattan is still not much affected.

Maybe it's because it's easy to make money here in the Song Empire, and life is relatively free. So these Europeans who worked in the Song Empire began a transition from dick silk to nouveau riche enjoyment.

For such a situation, Zhang Tie, as the governor of Manhattan, is also happy to see it.

After all, if these people wanted to enjoy a luxurious life, then they had to buy a large number of goods produced by the Song Empire in order for them to maintain such luxury.

And in the end, it was the Song Empire that made the money.

Therefore, Zhang Tie not only did not suppress this, but also deliberately indulged it.

Some advertising words from later generations, such as luxury supreme, imperial glory, noble and glamorous, etc., all moved those European dicks who had some spare money in their hands.

What Zhang Tie didn't expect was that he was moved by these advertising words and put into action, and even more crazy were those Arabs and Turks.

As a result, on Manhattan's established main commercial thoroughfare, you'll often see pot-bellied poops dressed in traditional Middle Eastern attire, surrounded by dozens of tall samurai and charming female merchants.

These guys all wore rings studded with gems on their ten fat fingers, and the belts around their waists were all golden and eye-catching.

If you want to enjoy luxury in the Song Empire, hire Indian warriors. At the same time, if you want to carry a weapon, you need to pay a high fee to apply for permission from the sheriff in Manhattan.

The price of hiring Indian warriors was not cheap, after all, the Manhattan Indians at this time had already entered the household registration of the Song Empire and became citizens.

As a citizen of the Song Empire, how can its price be compared with those dicks who come to Europe to beg for a living.

At the same time, the Indians lived very comfortably in Manhattan, and they were basically militia reserves, paid a monthly salary, even if they did not have to go to the military for duty.

Although this salary is not very much, it is important to know that the purchasing power of Long Yang of the Song Empire is very high, and at the same time, the consumption of water products for citizens in Manhattan is very low.

Although there is an excise tax for citizens, and at the same time, there is a rule to tip when eating out, but this is really nothing for the Indians who can earn twenty or thirty dragon oceans a month.

Besides, the Indians never had the idea of saving money, they used as much as they wanted.

So, they lived in Manhattan very chicly.

However, for the rich people from Arabia or Turkey, it is a very face-saving thing to be able to hire strong Indians.

Therefore, no matter how much it costs, they always have to hire a few Indian warriors by their side to show that their status is extraordinary.

In fact, behind such a trend, it is not unrelated to Zhang Tie's promotion.

And as the father of Emma, the Indian queen of Manhattan today, Black Bear has nothing to object to.

After all, there are many benefits to be gained by the Indians.

You must know that those rich people hired Indians, and not to mention the high salaries, they would not let the Indians do anything risky.

Every day, the hired Indians were nothing more than to follow the rich men to save face for them from the time the sun rose in the morning and before the sun went down in the evening.

It's such an easy job, with a salary of fifty or sixty dragons a month, and only a fool wouldn't do it.

Of course, it's not that the rich people from Arabia don't want to hire people of Chinese descent. It's just that because the Chinese were basically civil servants or members of the army in the Song Empire, it was impossible for them to accept such employment.

That's why these rich people turned their attention to the Indians.

According to Zhang Tie's words, how could Huaxia be a subordinate to these pot-bellied guys, he didn't have face.

To talk about wealth, the Song Empire was much richer than the Arab Empire.

Don't look at the oil in the Middle East, but as long as the empire develops in the future, the Middle East will definitely be included in the empire's territory.

Even if it will not be included, but with the level of technology of this era, those Arabs will have to wait more than 200 years if they want to make a fortune by pointing to oil.

In other words, before oil had no value, it was really impossible for Arab merchants to compete with those on the Song Empire's side.

In the Song Empire, the Chinese basically occupied the top of the pyramid.

Basically, it's either a big farmer or a big businessman.

Moreover, there were already some merchants of Chinese descent who began to slowly take shape as a trust.

Of course, for these trusts, Zhang Tie is encouraging and supporting.

It's just that these newly formed trusts must be invested by the 'umbrella' company controlled by Zhao Hongyu. At the same time, the shares should also occupy as much as 40%, and only in this way can Zhang Tie support it.

If you don't agree...... Hehe......

For these, Zhao Hongyu doesn't know what to do.

And the reason why Zhang Tie did this was also to safeguard the interests of the empire and Zhao Hongyu. (To be continued......)