The reason why the partridge fleet of the Southern Tang Dynasty would get lost was, in the final analysis, because the salaries of Daming sailors were too high.

Not to mention the high salary of the navy, even if it is a public-private joint venture transportation company in the new Fujian and New Guangdong regions, the annual salary of an experienced sailor is close to 1,200 Ming yuan, equivalent to 300,000 yuan.

In later generations, seafarers were a high-paying profession.

In this era, because of the frequent trade and personnel exchanges between Yinzhou and China, and the lack of long-distance flights, shipping is even more important.

If it weren't for a behemoth like Mingyuan Shipping Holdings, which is 100 percent controlled by royal domestic funds, to lower the market price, the price of North Pacific Shipping would have risen to the sky.

It was against this background that the Southern Tang Dynasty could not recruit experienced Ming sailors at all, and could only use some ships of the pilot ships on the Huangpu River to work as sailors for the fleet.

Zhou Yushan, who was in charge of this matter, was also not very confident about these boat gangs, believing that they lacked experience in ocean voyages, so he entrusted Sheng Xuanhuai to find an old horse for this fleet.

As a result, I found Zheng Baoguo here.

In accordance with the "Regulations on the Management of Retired Cadres of the Ming Dynasty" and the "Several Regulations on the Prohibition of Doing Business for Officers on Active and Non-Active Duty in the Ming Dynasty", Zheng Baoguo refused Sheng Xuanhuai's consulting fee of 100,000 taels of silver.

But after retirement, he has not been idle, but he very much hopes that he can do something for the journey of the empire.

After asking the Marshal's Mansion for instructions, Zheng Baoguo joined the Partridge Fleet of the Southern Tang Dynasty as a supervisor, and finally played an important role in the reverse ultimate.

In fact, in the final analysis, this is the reason why the scissors difference inevitably appeared when Daming emerged as an industrial country and docked with the local Shenzhou at the level of an agricultural country.

The wealth in the hands of the local gentry, who had originally cultivated and read the heirloom and felt extremely solid in themselves, and their representative Li Hongzhang, became more and more worthless when faced with the internal funds of the Ming Lijian Emperor, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the Ministry of Households, and the private entrepreneurs of the Ming Dynasty, who had mastered the most advanced productive forces.

Similarly, the citizens of the British Empire, as well as the citizens of continental Europe whose currencies are pegged to the pound sterling, feel that their money is becoming less and less valuable.

Over the past year or so, accommodative monetary policy has led to an unmarked boom in London's financial sector.

Even if the Germans' new shrew tanks rumbled over the dawn in Brussels, and the peeing ones were ordered to wear clothes by Kaiser Wilhelm I, they still didn't stop house prices in central London from rising by 300% in months.

It's not just house prices.

Stocks, bonds, options, everything you can think of has gone crazy under the flood.

British merchants, who had too much money to spend, began to sell in Europe.

Whether it's a French wine estate, a Dutch shipyard, or a Nordic and Russian pine, they are threatened by the Germans and threaten to fall into ruins.

But the British merchants, who spent a lot of money, still bought them without blinking.

It's just that no one knows that in this group of crazy British businessmen, something strange is mixed in, and it is constantly fueling the fire.

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Galicia, in later generations, was part of Ukraine.

And in 1874, the state of Ukraine did not exist.

Today's big hair, two hair, and three hair are still combined.

However, Galicia is not part of Ukraine today, but part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, adjacent to Hungary. (Map)

A luxurious handmade sedan with a red flag slowly stopped outside the castle of the ancient Duchy of Galicia.

A fair-skinned girl as white as Snow White in a fairy tale, dressed in an elegant new velvet coat, little Bourgeois got out of the car with all her might.

She wears a beautiful pearl necklace around her long swan-like neck, as beautiful as the legendary Helen.

Refracted by the sunlight, a large diamond ring glittered on the middle finger of her left hand.

This shows that this girl-like woman already has a lover and is engaged.

"Oh, my dear Julie, you are still so beautiful!"

Despite the cold weather, Empress Elizabeth Sisi personally came to the gate of the castle to greet her closest girlfriend.

Elizabeth's tone was slightly jealous.

This is also understandable.

Because the years still did not leave any traces on Julie's face, although her actual age was 29 years old, she looked like a girl in her twenties, as if she had seen her for the first time.

"Da Ming must have developed a new skin care product!"

Elizabeth was desperate to know the secret of Julie's beauty, so she took Julie's hand and tried to talk as she walked into the castle.

"Maybe you should be like me, and have more contact with the mysterious Orientals."

Julie had a happy smile on her face, "Don't they all say that Orientals can't see age and will never age?" ”

"Already in contact with ......"

Elizabeth muttered.

"Yo! Hello Concubine Fan! ”

In the castle, firewood crackles in the fireplace, and a man in an apron looks like a Tibetan fox, holding a half-marinated roast chicken in one hand and waving hello to Julie with the other.

"Dr. Xiaoliang, are you actually here?"

Julie looked at her best friend in surprise, then turned to him and said, "I have already bought your newly published "Notes on the Sea Mistake Diagram", which is really great!" ”

After discussing the biological classification of rich hermit crabs with Zhang Xiaoliang for a while, Julie pulled her best friend and sat on the sofa together.

"You and Dr. Xiaoliang?" Julie asked in a low voice.

"Huh?"

Elizabeth hurriedly said, "We don't have anything, but the roast turkey he makes is particularly delicious......"

Naturally, Julie doesn't believe her best friend's nonsense.

As far as she knew, Elizabeth's relationship with the Hungarian count, nicknamed "the most handsome condemned prisoner", had rapidly cooled down over the years.

Although Elizabeth still likes Budapest, loves the Hungarian people, and considers herself the queen of Hungary, the relationship between her and the shaggy orangutan has gradually drifted apart, and there are no more scandals.

It seems that Dr. Zhang Xiaoliang has played a key role in this.

As for the great Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph, he didn't care about one or two more green hats on his head anyway.

In fact, the marriage of the two parties exists in name only.

It has long been an open secret that he has a large number of mistresses.

It was precisely because she witnessed such an unfortunate marriage of her best friend that Julie would say to her dear Mr. Huang He on the issue of concubines: "I would rather be straightforward in the East than the hypocrisy of the Western aristocracy".

In short, she was happy that Elizabeth had found a happy home.

"By the way, Julie, can you guess how many Rhein guilders a turkey costs now?" Elizabeth suddenly interrupted Julie's thoughts.

"How much? 100 Rheinguil? ”

Of course, Julie is well aware of the situation in the European financial market, but at this time she still showed the natural acting skills of the best actress in "Miss San Diego", acting as well as she looked, with big breasts and no brains, and her fingers did not touch the sun.

"Haha, Julie, Your Majesty is really spoiled for you!"

Elizabeth looked enviously at Julie's neck, on her hands, even she felt luxurious jewelry, and the latest and most expensive winter clothes in her "Han Yun" heavy luxury store,

"You really don't know anything about money, the Austro-Crine guilder of the Empire, one guilder is equivalent to 1/2 pound, 100 guilders is 50 pounds, and 50 pounds can make a poor Hungarian peasant live comfortably for two or three years!

Let me tell you, I heard Xiao Liang say that a turkey for Christmas now costs 2 Rhein guilders, which is really expensive.

I can't even imagine how the poor will eat turkey this Christmas! ”

"Because the poor don't eat turkeys at all, even for Christmas, it's just an extra potato, my little fool!"

Looking at Elizabeth's worried appearance, Julie couldn't help but complain in her heart.

Speaking of which, among the Western aristocrats that Julie has seen, Elizabeth is already the most sympathetic to the people, but compared to her fiancé, she is still far behind.

Julie still clearly remembers that one of Mr. Huang He's hobbies is to walk around the agricultural and sideline food markets in Fengdu after cross-dressing, looking for inspiration for writing.

He can swallow almost any street restaurant in Fengdu without any problem.

Of course, this is also because the food of Daming is so delicious.

And those foods have also been tested by Jinyiwei and are absolutely safe.

In contrast, the extravagant and lascivious European aristocracy is simply a parasite with fat brains, parasitic on scrawny commoners.