Dali Temple, the highest court of the country.

Because the emperor attached great importance to this case, Tang Yi, the secretary of Dali Temple, personally tried it and announced the verdict: "...... In view of the fact that the defendant did not know that Ah Furong was poison, and there was no relevant law in this dynasty, the corresponding punishment was exempted. Judges: Jia Zhouzhi, Chen Bangding, Jin Xuekong, and Li Guangxun...... Acquittal. The defendants were sentenced to immediately hand over all A Furong and destroyed by Dali Temple. After the promulgation of the "Prohibition of Breeding, Prohibition and Prohibition of Eating and Eating Ahibiscus Order", if the defendant has committed another crime, this crime will be counted together! ”

Li Guangxun was weak and sat down on the spot, thinking that he would die.

Several businessmen left Dali Temple together, and Zhou Zhi said: "I don't dare to stay in the south, I want to apply for immigration to Shandong with my whole family." ”

"Yes, yes, the South must not stay." Li Guangxun was terrified.

Although Dali Temple acquitted them, after the addicts were imprisoned, the terrible sequelae had already spread throughout Nanjing.

And the more than 1,000 smokers are either rich or expensive.

Even, seven died due to drug rehabilitation, and this account did not dare to be calculated by the emperor, so it had to be recorded on the head of the merchant who sold A Furong.

A group of businessmen returned home, ordered their families to prepare for relocation, and then went to the government to apply for relocation, and they were willing to bear all the immigration costs.

I'm afraid that if I walk slowly, I will be harassed by officials every day, and even die of fabricated charges!

Chen Bangding and Jin Xuekong were unwilling, and the two got together to discuss secretly.

"Brother Chen," Jin Xuekong said, "you and I are not rich, and we have no other way to do business. So he went to the north, what can he do to make a living? ”

Chen Bangding also thought so, but he was afraid of being punished: "What if you don't go to the north?" Li Shilang's son, as well as Mr. Ximing himself, have suffered a lot because of Furong this time, and they are likely to be retaliated against for staying in Nanjing! ”

"Go overseas!" Jin Xuekong said.

Chen Bangding asked: "Brother Jin has a way overseas?" ”

Jin Xuekong said: "Although this Hibiscus harms people, as long as it doesn't harm the people. Let's sell Hibiscus to Japan, Korea, and Annam, first to the local wealthy, and then to the local nobles. The more people who smoke, the richer we will be. If Your Majesty does not stop eating Hibiscus and arrests so many people to go to prison for drug rehabilitation, we don't know that this thing is so difficult to get rid of. Since it makes people want to stop, it is a big business, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! ”

Chen Bangding hesitated: "But poppies are forbidden everywhere, where can I get so many hibiscus to sell?" ”

Jin Xuekong said with a smile: "The younger brother also left some poppy seeds, which were not copied by the officials. Let's go to Annam first and find a piece of land to plant. After Annam's business was booming, he hired sea ships to do business in Japan! ”

There is also a charter business for sea vessels, and because sea transportation is dangerous, some ship owners simply sit and collect rent.

If the ship capsizes in a shipwreck, the owner will not return the deposit, and then ask the government to make a judgment to compensate for the collateral.

Chen Bangding said: "Annan has never been there. ”

Jin Xuekong said: "I have a fellow villager doing business in Annam, and according to him, the southernmost territory of the Nguyen lord of Annam has been expanded and occupied in recent decades. The indigenous people there were driven and killed by Annam, the population had not yet recovered, and there were many borderless lands in the mountains. The government of Annam also encouraged the Han people to cultivate the land, as long as they paid taxes honestly. Let's find a few plots of land from the Annan government and plant opium poppy as a medicinal herb. ”

Chen Bangding hesitated.

Jin Xuekong urged: "If you are willing or not, hurry up and give a sentence." Let's go together and take care of each other. If you don't go, then I'll go myself. ”

"Man dies for wealth, and birds die for food. Done! Chen Bangding gritted his teeth and let go.

These two guys who lack virtue and smoke are now knowing that A Furong is poisonous, and they want to harm others for money.

Although it is not the Chinese who are harmed, it is known by Zhao Han, and he will also be severely punished. Because once drugs are rampant in neighboring countries, sooner or later they will come back again, just look at the United States in later generations.

The two first moved their family to Qiongzhou, and after settling their families down, they went to the southernmost part of Vietnam together.

The Napo place they chose was located at the junction of Annam, Champa and Nam Phan, which can probably be understood as a three-way zone, and at the same time it was actually controlled by the Nguyen regime in Vietnam.

Everything was done, Jin Xuekong stayed in the local area to dredge up relations, and Chen Bangding went to Yunnan to buy A Hibiscus.

They couldn't even wait to grow their own seeds, and after buying the spot, they presented Ah Hibiscus to the magistrate, saying that it was a cure for the needy. After the other party became addicted, he said that this was a Chinese elegant thing, and literati liked to take it.

In just half a year, it has expanded more than 200 new customers, all of whom are Vietnamese officials and gentry.

The process went unexpectedly smoothly, and the two of them didn't want to go to Japan, so they concentrated on developing their business in Vietnam, making a bunch of addicts to the officials of the Nguyen regime - this is the place where Zhao Han wants to take it, and he will definitely be wanted everywhere in the future!

These merchants, for the sake of 100% profits, dare to trample on all the laws of the world; With a profit of three hundred percent, he dared to commit any crime, even selling the rope that hanged himself.

Not to mention the two guys who sell drugs, just talk about serious maritime businessmen in Zhejiang, Suzhou, Guangdong, and Fujian.

As more and more ports were opened, and even European merchant ships were allowed to dock, these coastal merchants were rolled up.

Maritime merchants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, carrying goods from the Yangtze River, went to Quang Nam (southern Vietnam) to sell at low prices and grab business. Fujian, Guangdong and maritime merchants, also carrying goods, went to Southeast Asia to sell at low prices to occupy the market.

The Manchu sea ban is so powerful, they dare to play like this when they smuggle, how can they endure it when they meet Zhao Han who opened the sea?

Batavia (Jakarta).

This is the world of Chinese and Dutch.

The Dutch were mainly farmers, soldiers, craftsmen, and officials, while the Chinese were mainly handymen, overseers, and petty traders.

The Chinese and the Dutch have their own settlements, which are strictly separated from the Malay aborigines. The Chinese settlements were self-governed, and each neighborhood had Chinese chiefs, who were called "Kapitan". One or two of them, Chinese Kapitan, can be elected as municipal councillors (only with the right to sit and make suggestions).

A Chinese fleet slowly docked, and a large number of Chinese wharf coolies went to unload the cargo under the leadership of Dutch officials.

Even coolies in Batavia are mostly Chinese. The Malays are very unreassuring because they are often lazy and stupid, and even drop their goods into the sea.

Even the canals, city walls, and houses in the city were built by the Chinese, and were contracted by Chinese businessmen such as Yang Kun and Pan Mingyan.

During the construction of the city, the Chinese had to pay a poll tax of 1.5 liels (about one tael of silver) per month, otherwise they had to help build the walls. The Chinese paid five times as much tax for the city's fortifications as the rest of the townspeople. When the town hall was built, the Chinese paid three times as much tax as all other races combined.

Most of these Chinese came from the Wanli, Tianqi, and Chongzhen periods, and now account for 20% of the city's total population.

However, most of them have already married and started families, and they are married to Malay indigenous women. Counting the wives and children of the Chinese, the proportion of all Chinese families in Batavia is estimated to be more than 40%!

Less than 10% of Europeans are purebred, and less than 10% are of mixed Eurasian descent.

After the Chinese fleet was unloaded, the ships were sent to the shipyard for repairs. The shipyard was the East India Company, and the top managers and senior shipbuilders were, naturally, all Dutch. However, the middle and low-level employees of the shipyard are all Chinese from the coast of China.

Lin Changfu belonged to the first batch of Chinese laborers, who immigrated in the 48th year of Wanli.

At that time, it was not called immigration, and he couldn't live in Guangdong, so it happened that Master Yang recruited laborers to go to sea, so Lin Changfu took the settling-in fee and went with him.

At the beginning, I came to build the city, and I couldn't earn a penny of salary, just food and shelter. It is okay not to participate in the repair of the city wall, either to swim back to Guangdong, or to pay a tael of silver per month poll tax.

Lin Changfu was deceived very badly, and scolded the eighteenth generation ancestor of Master Yang in his heart.

After the city wall is repaired, the canal will be dug again, and the house will be repaired after the canal is dug.

The Dutch actually paid their salaries, but they were all embezzled by Chinese contractors. After the construction work was completed, the Chinese contractors did not let the laborers go back, because they paid the laborers a settling-in allowance and paid a ferry ticket from Guangdong, and the Chinese laborers had to continue to work and pay back.

In order to maintain their rule, the Dutch were afraid of the departure of the Chinese laborers, so they specially arrested Malay women and distributed them to the Chinese laborers as wives for free.

When Chinese laborers married wives and settled down, they had bonds here, and most of them chose to stay.

Lin Changfu's son is 12 years old, and he works in the shipyard with him, and now he is only an apprentice shipwright. They had learned to build large ships, and they were even more skilled in repairing ships, and a skilled craftsman like Lin Changfu received a monthly salary of 6 liels (about 4.3 taels of silver).

It seems that you make a lot of money, but there is also a poll tax, and the price is quite expensive, so you can't save too much money every month.

After working for most of the day, I was finally able to rest a little.

Lin Changfu gave the meal to his son, and the young man with a long body ate a lot, how could the meal managed by the shipyard be enough?

This son is clever, that is, dark, born to a Malay native.

Lin Changfu decided to save some more money, so he took his wife and children back to his hometown, he had not buried his ancestors for more than 20 years.

"Changfu," Chen Dongshan came over with a rice bowl and said mysteriously, "Have you heard that the Ming Dynasty is gone, and the emperor has changed in his hometown!" ”

Lin Changfu said with a smile: "I've heard that the new emperor's surname is Zhao." ”

Chen Dongshan said: "I have heard that this is a good emperor. In our hometown, the peasants can divide the fields, the grain in the fields is not enough to eat, and they can go to the sea to fish casually, and the new imperial court does not prohibit fishing boats. ”

"Still dividing the field? How can there be such a good thing, don't listen to people's nonsense. Lin Changfu shook his head again and again.

Chen Dongshan said: "Even if you can't divide the field, it's better to change the emperor." I saved more than 40 taels of silver, and when I returned to my hometown, I could buy a few acres of land and repair the grave of my ancestors. I thought about it, and I would go back after a while, maybe I would be able to catch up with the Chinese New Year. ”

"What about the wife and children?" Lin Changfu asked.

Chen Dongshan said: "I must bring it back, is it difficult to stay here?" ”

While the two Chinese shipwrights were chatting, the East India Company's Council for Oriental Affairs was having a heated discussion.

Two topics were discussed:

First, whether to completely withdraw from the South China Sea, because waiting for Chinese merchants to transport goods to Batavia is more profitable than the Netherlands going to China to buy goods themselves.

Second, whether to allow the Chinese in Batavia to build schools.

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