The Ming Dynasty is in full swing to prepare for war, and Nanyang is now furious.

I have to say that a little trick played beautifully, almost put Sun Chuanting and Shu Xinchen in a pot of stew, tight a year, the Dutch to the Ming Dynasty imported more than six or seven thousand boxes of Fushou paste, later, followed by England, Portugal and the Spaniards have a copy, at the same time to the Ming began to sell, in just one year, nearly 20,000 boxes of Fushou paste was sold to China, this era is not the era of the late Qing Dynasty, the late Qing era of the people's livelihood withered, the common people did not have much wealth to do additional expenses, But in the seventeenth century, especially in the past few years under Zhu Jie's rule, the wealth owned by the commoners and nobles of the Ming Dynasty rose sharply, and the people were rich and their purchasing power was amazing, and nearly 20,000 boxes of Fushou paste had been sold without much effort!

This thing is ridiculously expensive in Daming, but in other places, it is very cheap, in the Indian Peninsula, a box of Fushou paste is only more than 100 taels of silver, and the best is only more than 200 taels of silver, but in Daming, the cheapest ones are sold for more than 400 taels, and the most expensive ones are sold for 800 taels of silver a box! The profit is more than 300 percent!

There is a well-known saying in the West: If capital has 10 percent profits, it will be ready to move, 50 percent profits, it will take risks, if it has 100 percent profits, it will dare to trample on all the laws of the world, and if it has 300 percent profits, it will dare to commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged! The profit of Fushou paste has reached 300%, which is almost incomparable to any commodity, and even far exceeds that of munitions, and it is absolutely second to none among the bulk goods!

In just over a year, the West sold nearly 20,000 boxes of Fushou paste to the Daimyo, and the profit of each box was more than 300 taels, that is, the profit of 6 million taels of silver, which flowed into the pockets of Westerners.

Just as the silver flowed from the Ming Dynasty into the pockets of Westerners, the Ming Empire suddenly woke up, and the butcher's knife was suddenly raised and slashed down at the Western merchants!

In just one and a half months, more than 200 merchants from Western countries were arrested, more than 200 smugglers were killed, and more than 10,000 boxes of opium were confiscated! 10,000 boxes, this involves a profit of at least three million taels of silver, and even the cost is more than one million taels! Such huge losses, coupled with casualties, have made the four Western countries chaotic!

One by one, envoys rushed to the city of Relansha in Yizhou from all over the South Seas, and asked Yu Yi what was going on!

The current one is also a big head, speaking of losses, the biggest thing is that he is one, among the arrested merchants and the killed merchants, the Dutch accounted for nearly half, and more than half of the confiscated Fushou ointment! Even Governor Cohen repeatedly sent people to ask what had gone wrong and caused the Dutch to suffer such a huge loss!

"Everyone, everyone, be quiet, be quiet!"

With a wave of his hands, the people in the audience barely quieted down.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid that there will be no way to do it in the future......"

He smiled bitterly and said, "You still don't know, the Ming Emperor suddenly toured south and came to the opposite Fujian Province, and found that Fushou paste was popular in Fujian Province and even several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and he was furious, and even the governors and governors of Tiannan Province were removed, but all those who smoked Fushou ointment, all officials were dismissed on the spot, and all soldiers were expelled from the army, and their military status was erased, and the officialdom of several provinces in Jiangnan was disposed of more than 100 officials for smoking and trading Fushou ointment, and more than 3,000 people were expelled from the army! The Ming Emperor's anger has not subsided, but all the Fushou paste in the territory of the Ming Dynasty has been confiscated, not only that, strictly investigate the smuggling of Fushou ointment, as long as it is found, whether it is a Ming country or a Westerner, all of them will be killed on the spot, whether it is a businessman from a Western country, together with the Ming Dynasty who is engaged in smuggling Fushou ointment, the number of people who have been executed has reached hundreds......"

What a ruthless method, such an iron-blooded style!

The envoys present were all dumbfounded, what kind of prestige did this Ming Emperor have in the Ming Empire, everyone knew it, even the Western Roman pope did not have such prestige, if he severely cracked down on the Fushou paste business, then I am afraid that the entire Ming Dynasty would not be able to continue to operate, just over a month, nearly 2,000 people were killed, extremely cruel! More than 200 merchants from Western countries died, that is only Western merchants, and there are many people who have been killed, all of which are used from all over the Nanyang, and the people of the Ming Kingdom, killing 2,000 people in more than a month, which is already a conservative number!

"No, resolutely not! We resolutely refuse! It's too barbaric, the Ming Empire is too barbaric, in a short period of time, so many lives have been slaughtered, which is even more barbaric and ignorant than the savages of the primitive tribes! We want to make the Ming Empire pay the price! Take its toll! ”

Vane, the envoy sent by England, rolled his eyes and shouted, where did he feel sorry for these lives? Speaking of barbarism, how many people are more barbaric than the countries of the West? In black Africa, the innocent lives that died at the hands of Westerners, I don't know how many 2,000, 1,000, 2 million, all of them are few! He has only one goal, Fushou ointment, no matter what, can not stop the trade of Fushou ointment, now the market has gradually opened, once it is fully rolled out in the Ming Empire, the annual sales of 100,000 boxes are trivial, 100,000 boxes, that is involved tens of millions of taels of silver profits, think about it and be excited to death! Faster than the slave trade!

"Not even God can stop us from selling longevity cream!"

Vane roared in his heart.

"Yes, it's barbaric, guys, I think, it's time for us to join forces again!"

Yu Yi shouted loudly, "This time the actions of the Ming Empire have seriously damaged the interests of our four countries, and we must not give up!" I propose to ask the governors of all countries to send special envoys to the Ming Empire to meet the Ming Emperor and ask them to give us a reasonable sturdiden, release the merchants of various countries, return our Fushou ointment, and compensate us for our losses! ”

"Yes, we must let them compensate for our losses, for this reason, we do not hesitate to send a message back to China, mobilize the main fleet to come to the South Seas, and do not hesitate to fight to the death with the Ming Empire!"

Vane shouted.

(End of chapter)