Chapter 90: A Trip to the South Seas

Zhu Houhuang naturally knew who these maritime merchants who came and went to the East were in the background, and they were wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River. Zhu Houhuang directly seized the Penghu Islands, and almost tore his face with them. Zhengde's impeachment of Zhu Houhuang immediately increased. What bad intentions, what unpredictable intentions, and so on, the big hat was buttoned to Zhu Houhuang's head.

Zhu Houhuang knew that if he wanted to peacefully intervene in the trade between Japan, it would be impossible.

However, Zhu Houhuang didn't care about this, and said: "So how about the trade in the South Seas?" ”

Xu Dong said with some embarrassment: "During this period of time, there has been a lot of trouble in the south, and the minister is not very familiar with the south. ”

Zhu Houhuang was a little embarrassed for a while.

Wu Fengyi said: "Otherwise, Your Highness should ask Your Majesty for help." ”

Wu Fengyi came from Beijing with Zhu Houhuang, knowing that Zhengde and Zhu Houhuang have always been close, with Zhengde's style, only Zhu Houhuang spoke, and it is not a problem to come for tens of thousands of taels at all.

"Nope." Zhu Houhuang came from later generations, and he knows what it means to be weak, even if he has a good relationship with Zhengde, he can't casually consume Zhengde's favor. If you don't have to, you can't consume the goodwill of Zhengde.

Zhu Houhuang turned his head, looked at Xu Dong and said, "Do you dare to go to Nanyang?" ”

Xu Dong was full of color, his face flushed and said: "The life of the minister belongs to His Royal Highness, why not just Nanyang." ”

"Okay." Zhu Houhuang said: "The new country of Franc in the South China Sea, some time ago. Sent an envoy to Beijing to trade with the Ming Dynasty. It's just that he destroyed my Ming vassal country, and Your Majesty didn't allow it. However, Lone heard from the envoy of the Franc machine that the Franc machine was good at producing gold and silver. However, there is a lack of oriental customs, silk, porcelain and spices, and the price can be ten times. I want you to go to Nanyang Lingyamen, but you also have to be careful, the Franc machine is not good at stubble. ”

Although Xu Dong didn't know why Zhu Houhuang insisted that going to Nanyang could solve the financial problems of Yongguo. But I still agreed.

In this way, Zhu Houhuang is still a little uneasy. He summoned Xu Dong alone. Told Xu Dong all the news about his understanding of the Franc machine, and asked him to bring all the sailors of Yongguo over. This time, although it is a businessman, it is also necessary to be ready to fight at any time. Zhu Houhuang never dared to overestimate the moral bottom line of Westerners.

The cargo that filled ten three-masted ships was tea, porcelain, cotton, silk, and so on. It cost Zhu Houhuang thousands of taels to buy goods. Of course, this action is very important, related to Zhu Houhuang's grand strategy, he is not worried about Xu Dong acting alone, and then stuffed Wu Fengyi and Li Liangqin into the fleet, especially Wu Fengyi, Zhu Houhuang specially told Wu Fengyi to set up a few dark spots in the Portuguese place, and even if he has the ability, send a few brocade guards to Europe.

Zhu Houhuang personally sent Xu Dong and others away.

Zhu Houhuang watched Xu Dong's ship gradually disappear above the sea level, and said secretly in his heart: "The success or failure of this operation is directly related to whether I can reclaim all Dongyong within a few years."

Judging from the general trend of history, Zhu Houhuang feels that this trip to the South Seas should be foolproof, and the West is short of goods from the East. Zhu Houhuang naturally understands that even what he has done is just to hook up the last chain of the Age of Discovery. It's just that anything can happen in the world. Not to mention the ocean-going trade of this era, such as wind and waves, such as the Portuguese in Lingyamen who saw that they were rich, and so on. may make this trade a failure. Are there fewer things in history that should have succeeded but failed?

But no matter what, Zhu Houhuang has to give it a try.

After sending Xu Dong away, Zhu Houhuang suppressed the worries in his heart and returned to Dongyong Island again.

After returning to Dayuan, Zhu Houhuang once again discovered something different. Because there is a lot of silver in the accounts, but there is a lot more.

Zhu Houhuang asked Tang Yin: "What's going on?" ”

Tang Yin said: "It is the people below who are voluntary. ”

"What voluntarily, do you think Lone doesn't know what you've done?" Zhu Houhuang slapped a piece of paper on the table.

This piece of paper clearly writes the hookup that Tang Yin did. Tang Yin spread rumors among the officers. The reason why His Royal Highness King Yong gave himself silver was because he didn't want to divide the land for everyone, otherwise how could he give himself silver for nothing? Although His Royal Highness King Yongwang said before that the people who come to Dongyong divide the land, but the long history of King Yong, that is, Tang Yin himself, he thinks that such a good field should be from the Yongwang Mansion, so he gave everyone silver, and after the field matures, it will be the field of the Yongwang Mansion, and it will not be distributed to them.

This rumor spread with a nose and eyes, and some people even wrote out how Tang Yin persuaded King Yong.

As a result, when people asked, Tang Yin was hesitant again, looking like he had been guessed. The people below were suddenly reluctant.

No one can underestimate the Chinese's extreme desire for land, everyone has returned the silver, all the silver sent down, Zhu Houhuang has already given these two months of silver, these thousands of taels of silver are not a lot of repayment, even if someone spends it lavishly, at this moment is to borrow money, but also to return the money. They must be.

Tang Yin even took advantage of this time to finalize the title deed with everyone, and each person had ten acres of land. It's just that these fields have not yet been fully reclaimed, and after the autumn harvest, the fields will be officially divided.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Do you want to make Lone a faithless person? ”

Tang Yin said: "Does Your Highness think that just because of the minister's rumors, the people in the camp will be like this? No, the people's hearts have been uneasy for a long time. ”

"Uneasy? Why the restlessness? Zhu Houhuang asked.

"Because His Highness is too good to them." Tang Yin said.

For a while, Zhu Houhuang couldn't understand what it meant to be too good to the people, and it would also cause them uneasy.

Tang Yin explained: "No merit is not punished. As a military household, they were enslaved by the officers every day, as if they were slaves, they were used to cultivating the land here, providing food and shelter, returning silver, and dividing the land in the future. Make them feel uneasy. On the contrary, they doubted His Highness's intentions, so the ministers made a slight plan, and they themselves handed over the silver. ”

In fact, there is another point that Tang Yin did not say explicitly, that is, Zhu Houhuang gave too much money. Zhu Houhuang is used to measuring everything in silver, in fact, this is not the case in the Ming Dynasty, many people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty have hardly seen silver, because they don't use silver, they eat their own and use their own, and even paying taxes is just to pay food, where can they use silver.

It was also after Zhang Juzheng's whip law that silver was a necessity for the people at the bottom. Zhu Houhuang had only read about the self-sufficiency of the small-scale peasant economy in books, but he did not have an in-depth understanding of what was going on with them.

In this desert island, even if there is silver, there is no place to buy things, silver is a useless thing at all, the common people don't care at all, all they care about is land, only land.

Zhu Houhuang let out a long breath, and there was a feeling of punching the air. He shook his head and stopped talking about this matter, and said, "What's going on with Wangjialou?" ”

Tang Yin said: "Open source for Your Highness." In the mutual market between Wangjialou and the Turen, although it is barter, the profit is still very hangable. ”

Tang Yin explained in detail: "The natives need iron tools, grain, and salt, and there is no shortage of these big people. Use these superfluous things to exchange animal skins with the natives, especially deer skins. In particular, there were more than 100 deerskins in just a few days. ”

Although Zhu Houhuang didn't know the price of deerskin, he also knew that deerskin was also a kind of high-grade leather in Daming, and he kneaded it well. It is also a fashionable commodity. These hundred or so deerskins may not be worth much, but at least the adults have begun to have income.

Zhu Houhuang didn't say a word, and left alone, feeling very depressed. It seems that he has no other outstanding features except for his strategic vision, which is Tang Yin and Tang Bohu, who are not good at internal politics at all, but in this position, he can do it so well. It is far more than what Zhu Houhuang did by himself. made Zhu Houhuang lose his self-confidence a little.

"What the hell am I going to do?"