Chapter 176: Evasion
With the assistance of the Ming court in Luzon to the Ming people of Guangnan, the Ming people who had been bullied by the local Tufan of Annam all the year round seemed to be like being beaten with chicken blood, and they all began to become active.
Chen Shangchuan's troops stationed in the Dongpu area began to prepare for war, and at the same time contacted Yang Yandi of Meidi, and the two families joined forces to defend against the threat from Jinla.
Chen Shangchuan even contacted Mo Jiu of River Immortal.
Compared to Nantou Quang Nam, who was placed by Nguyen Phuc on the verge of Dongpo, it is disgusting and disgusting.
Unlike Chen Shangchuan and others, who directly defected to the more powerful Quang Nam, this Jiu Gong directly defected to the relatively weak Chenla, and after bribing Zhenla's important ministers, he settled down in the area of the Mekong Delta today, and established a separatist regime based on this.
Later, because of legend, "there are often immortals haunting the river", he changed his name to the river fairy.
With Ha Tien located in the Mekong Delta, close to Siam and Quang Nam, and with Ha Tien's geographical advantages, Mo Jiu vigorously develops commerce.
As a result, "overseas countries, sails and trees come together, and their near China, Tang, Fang, barbarian, homeless people are clustered, and the household registration is dense", so that the river fairy is prosperous, so the Westerners who come here also call the river fairy a port country.
Like Chen Shangchuan and other latecomers, Mo Jiu's power was weak at first, and around 1679, Ha Tien was defeated by Siam.
After learning from the pain, Mo Jiu decided to take refuge in Quang Nam, and with the support of Nguyen Phuc Binh, he returned to Ha Tien, built a fortress, dug the city, equipped the artillery team, and vigorously developed firearms and other weapons to defend against threats from various forces.
It can be said that in Guangnan, on the realm of Zhenla, the most powerful Chinese today is Mo Jiu of Hexian.
However, this Mo Jiu only cares about his own one-third of an acre, and he doesn't care about the Ming people in nearby Dongpu and other places, perhaps because he doesn't want to anger Zhenla (Hexian is the territory of Zhenla, and Guangnan is foreign aid).
This made Chen Shangchuan have to bet on the Luzon Ming Court.
And the Luzon Ming court did not live up to Chen Shangchuan's trust, and soon sent Chinese merchants to send firearms and silver taels.
With this, Chen Shangchuan specially sent the edict given by the Ming court and the letter from the Ming lord to Mo Jiu, presumably the leader of the river immortal will also have some actions.
When the Ming people in the Annam area began to unite under the influence of the Ming court, the Ming court in Luzon was also actively rectifying.
Su Langqing looked good during this time, and with the opening of Minghai Qianzhuang all over Luzon Island.
From Laoag to Vigan, Mingcheng and even overseas Dayu and other Chinese merchants sailed through the islands, there are branches of Minghai Qianzhuang.
In just one month, the savings of various towns and towns reached 500,000 silver yuan.
This made the merchants above and below the Ming Sea excited, and just collecting the formalities, the storage fee made a profit of more than 20,000 silver yuan.
I have to say that it is really a huge profit, of course, this is also related to the influence of Lord Liu Yu's explicit order, and many Chinese businessmen and local shrewd Tufan chiefs are also looking at the Ming Court's deterrence to deposit silver in Minghai Qianzhuang.
This made the Ming merchants more convinced of Liu Yu, and the trade with the Ming army became more active.
Of course, the Ming Court is not charitable, the Ming Court accounts for fifty percent of the equity of the Ming Sea Money, and the 500,000 silver yuan deposited in the Money Village during this time, the Ming Court can also mobilize more than 200,000 yuan.
Relying on these relationships between the silver and the four seas, the Ming court began to develop the Ming City and the surrounding land on a large scale.
Most of the Chinese immigrants from Luzon and the Ming immigrants from the mainland were settled in a large area from Ming to Vigan.
Through the establishment of basic local units such as "Shecun Fangyi", and the arrangement of land and household registration, etc., the management and resettlement of Ming people and local students.
The Chinese merchants were set up as the Ming Society, and the local Irook, Tagalu and other Tufan Liuren affiliated with the Ming Court were set up as the Fanxiang Society, and those Tufan chieftain tribes within the jurisdiction of the Ming Court were classified as the Tufan Society.
For a time, the Ming court set up hundreds of different communities in the northern and central parts of Luzon, making it easier for the Ming court to manage.
At the same time, for the border defense around the southern Ming city, the Ming court reorganized the Weiwu Town, transferred soldiers from all over the country, set up two towns on the left and right, with 500 people in each town, and at the same time selected adult Fanyi people from the Fanxiang Society and the major Tufan Societies to form the Fanxiang Battalion to deal with the threat of the southern Tubang and the Spaniards.
"My lord, the resettlement of the Ming people and the Shengfanliu people to build the community is roughly completed, but the farm tools and grain needed to reclaim the wasteland, the Ming Society, and the Fan Society are all insufficient." Wujisi Road of the Ministry of Households.
"Now that spring has already begun, agricultural production is imminent, since all the local communities are short of farm tools and grain seeds, you can buy farm tools and grain seeds from the four sea commercial banks." After listening to the report of the household official, Liu Yu glanced at Su Langqing on the side and muttered.
When Su Langqing heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward and said; "During this period of time, Mingcheng and Weigan lacked hundreds of iron farm tools from the eleven Ming Societies, Ming Hai also commissioned the blacksmith workshops in various towns to step up the construction, and the required grain was also purchased in various places, as for the agricultural tools needed by the Fan Society, the grain was also obtained from the various Tufan chiefdoms through the mountains and seas, and it could be distributed by the end of March."
"Hmm." Liu Yu is still quite satisfied with the affairs of the four seas, some things are actually enough for two silver, and the efficiency of businessmen is much faster than that of the government.
This is also the reason why Liu Yu wanted to establish the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, not only to obtain silver taels and goods, but also to let the merchants do some things, which are actually more efficient than the government.
"The purchase of farm tools, grain and other money can be requested by the household department of the two dynasties, and the household department is not allowed to deduct or pay on credit." Liu Yu glared at the officials and said.
"My lord, it has been more than a month since the envoys of Yuanhai and Dongpu left, presumably there should be news from Guangnan that has been passed back, and the major shipowners of Yuanhai and land and sea have hoped to go to sea to Guangnan immediately." Su Langqing said.
"Oh, it seems that the owner of the long-sea ship you recommended persuaded the lord of Quang Nam with his three-inch tongue that he was about to go to sea so soon." Liu Yu closed the fold and threw it to Su Langqing.
"Well, these days, the smuggling ships that Lu Hai took away in Luzon, Guangdong, also passed through Hoi An and other ports, and the local Guangnan officials did not reject Chinese businessmen, so the major shipowners of Yuanhai, Luhai and other ships thought that Guangnan would trade with the Luzon Ming court in the near future, so they planned to go to sea first." Su Langqing said embarrassedly.
"It's a pity that the Ruan lords of Quang Nam were not willing to trade with the Ming court and anger the Qing and Spaniards." Liu Yu looked at Su Langqing meaningfully.
Su Langqing's hairs suddenly stood on end, and cold sweat flowed behind his back, in fact, there were some rumors that spread back to Laoag.
It is said that Lord Ruan angrily denounced the Chinese merchant ship owners in the lobby and wanted to deal with the Chinese merchants in Hoi An, etc., but these rumors are purely rumors, and the fleet of land and sea smuggling from the mainland to Hoi An did not see the local Chinese merchants in Quang Nam moving Hoi An, and as for the owner of the offshore ship, Zhao Tianqi, is actually still on his way back to Luzon at the moment.
In fact, Sihai entrusted Su Langqing to say it in the hall, in fact, he also wanted to gamble, in case Lord Ruan agreed to trade.
"My lord, how do you know about Quang Nam?" Su Langqing asked puzzled.
Liu Yu did not respond to Su Langqing, Liu Yu actually knew about the matter in Guangnan earlier.
As early as the establishment of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce and the establishment of Minghai into the Ming Court Commercial Bank, Liu Yu vigorously recruited merchants from all over the world, and the displaced people established an intelligence network through the organization, which was called evasion.
The members of the military evasion are very complex, there are Ming merchants, Fan merchants and other maritime and land merchants, there are also small stalls and vendors walking the streets and alleys, and even government officials, soldiers of various towns, etc.
They were born differently and came from all walks of life, forming a well-established intelligence network.
For example, when the lord of Guangnan angrily denounced the owners of the merchant ships in the open sea, some of the Chinese merchants who were waiting outside secretly transmitted the news back to Luzon.
The owner of the long-sea ship stayed in Quang Nam for some time before returning to Luzon, and the merchants from all over the world could naturally only guess, while Liu Yu naturally found out the actions of the Ruan lord of Quang Nam through the information sent back from the evasion.