When Su Langqing walked out of the court, several Chinese merchant ship owners who were already waiting outside the hall stepped forward one after another.

"Master Su, how about it, I'll wait for the merchant ship to go to sea." A bloated merchant ship owner squeezed in, his fat body trembling as he spoke.

"Yes." Su Langqing nodded.

"That's great." The Chinese merchant shipowners present laughed out loud, if they could get the official permission of the Ming court to go to sea, they could enter Annam earlier than the merchants of the open sea, land and sea.

Although Ming Hai has always done things for the Ming court, delivering grain and grass and supplies for the Ming army, in essence, they are still maritime merchants, but they are only in charge of maritime transportation for the Ming court during the war, and maritime trade is still the business of Ming Hai merchants.

"However, you may not be able to go to Hoi An." Su Langqing smiled and said softly.

"Lord Liu Yu hopes that merchants from all over the world will go to Dongpu to trade with the local Ming people."

In an instant, the Chinese businessmen present suddenly exploded.

"What, not to Hoi An, to Dongpo?"

"What a rotten place Dongpu is, I haven't heard of it."

"My lord, Annam's sugar industry is developed, I have negotiated with the Tuna chieftaincy, and I will go to Hoi An with gold, local medicine, and cotton cloth in exchange for three ships of sweets, and the sailors and mercenaries will be ready, just wait for the news of the Ming Court and Annam." A merchant ship owner in Minghai said anxiously.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to the time, Captain Zhao will return to Laoag soon, and it will be good to listen to the news of Captain Zhao when the time comes." Su Langqing glanced at the shipowner and persuaded.

"In case the lord of Annam is unwilling to trade with the Ming people in Luzon, won't you be detained with people and ships when you go?"

Su Langqing didn't want to know why Liu Yu knew about the refusal of the lord of Guangnan to trade, but since Liu Yu had spoken, it was basically hopeless for Chinese merchants in Luzon to go to Guangnan to trade.

"Su ship owner, it's not that we are in a hurry, only I Minghai can't make ends meet, although the Ming lord is gracious and opens Minghai Qianzhuang, but the money village is still the Ming court after all, and our businessmen are born in sea ships after all, all they want is a ship and a port." Another said.

"Master Su, Minghai's accounts are indeed at a loss, otherwise everyone present would not have set their sights on Annan." Brother Ding also stood up at this time.

"You also know that Lu Hai started smuggling with the mainland, and during this time, Lu Hai smuggled porcelain, tea, cotton cloth and other goods not through Nanyang but to Hoi An in Annam, and directly transshipped and sold them to Westerners in Nanyang in Hoi An, making a lot of money." Brother Ding smiled helplessly.

"Yes, I waited for Ming Hai to have his back against the Ming Court, and I originally intended to enjoy the shade under the big tree, who would have thought that the silver taels didn't make much money, and many businessmen even took their lives into it." The bloated and fat merchant from before snorted dissatisfiedly.

Su Langqing's face sank suddenly, for the land and sea merchant ship owners deliberately detoured through Annam for smuggling trade from the mainland and smuggled into Hoi An Port, in fact, many merchant ship owners in the four seas knew about it, and he Su Langqing had also heard about it.

"It's no wonder that these days, the number of land and sea ships in the harbor such as Laoag and Vigan has become less and less, and it turns out that they are looking for the thief port of Hoi An." Su Langqing laughed angrily.

The prosperity of Laoag during this period of time was largely due to the development of the harbor and the support of Chinese merchants in Nanyang.

For example, Lu Hai originally smuggled porcelain, cotton cloth, raw silk, etc. from the mainland, and went to Manila to go to Manila, but after the Ming court established the Four Seas Trading House, the maritime merchants responsible for the mainland to the Nanyang area have transferred to Laoag, and in disguise they got a large number of rich merchants and merchant ships from Manila.

It was thanks to port taxes and the wealth and goods brought in by a large number of Nanyang merchant shipowners that Lawag rose from a humble seaport to what is now the second city of Luzon.

Now Lu Hai has bypassed the port of Laoag and smuggled mainland goods directly to the port of Hoi An, didn't this kill Ming Ting?

Su Langqing was so angry that he wanted to go back and talk to Liu Yu for a while, but he soon calmed down.

Ming Hai and Lu Hai are both Chinese businessmen in Nanyang after all, so let's talk to several ship owners in Lu Hai in private, if Liu Yu knows, it will not be beneficial to the four seas.

"I will go to discuss with Wang Li about Lu Hai, as for any of you who are willing to go to Dongpu for Ming Hai, the Ming court wants to fund the Ming people in the Dongpu area, and they need Chinese businessmen to go." Su Langqing looked at the Chinese merchant shipowner who was chattering and asked.

Suddenly everyone fell silent, and everyone was silent.

"Don't you all have ships in the port, what is the difference between going to Dongpu to sell and going to the local Ming people and going to Hoi An Port, if you lose money along the way, you can be reduced from the Ming court tax at the end of the year." Su Langqing said.

"Besides, Dongpu and other places are fertile for thousands of miles, it is the land of fish and rice, I have never been to Chinese businessmen before, it is really an uncultivated treasure land, and now the land and sea rely on the mainland for smuggling, the mountains and seas dictate the Luzon trade route and the local states along the way, the far-sea merchant ships enter and leave Manila, the port of Batavia is like entering the door, I know the sea, and now Dongpu is an opportunity, please consider it." Su Langqing persuaded earnestly.

What the previous merchants said was true, only Minghai in the four seas was really losing money, and he couldn't make ends meet, and the money village was actually in the hands of the Ming court, and the Qian Ming merchants in the money village gave him 10,000 guts, and he didn't dare to move, and the sea trade could not compete with the other two seas, and the traditional business routes of Luzon were arbitrarily ruled by the mountains and seas, which is why the merchants of the Ming Sea couldn't wait to go to sea to Hoi An even if they didn't know the details of Annan.

"I'll wait until Captain Zhao returns to Laoag and then discuss." Several merchant shipowners glanced at each other and turned away in unison.

Several merchant ship owners were also shrewd people, and none of them wanted to take their own ships to a strange place.

What's more, the news of Annan Mingren asking for help from the Ming Court in Luzon has already spread among merchants from all over the world, who has nothing to do with a group of poor people who want food.

"I'll go." Just as the Ming merchants present left one after another, Brother Ding stood up and recommended himself to Su Langqing.

"That's very good." Su Langqing nodded, Brother Ding is also one of the leaders of the Chinese businessmen in Manila, and his presence must be able to attract the attention of many Chinese businessmen.

This time I went to Dongpu more to explore the situation of the Ming people in Dongpu and other regions, focusing on exploring local specialties and trade routes, and exploring the way for the four seas to enter Dongpu, but also needed an old Chinese businessman to lead the team.

"Let's explain first, what the adults mean is that the Ming people in Dongpu don't have much money, and the so-called sea trade is just that we pay for the shipment, and at the end of the year, it will be deducted from the commercial tax of the Ming Court, so there is no oil and water on this trip." Su Langqing didn't hide it, and said truthfully.

"I didn't go to Dongpu for the silver taels, but just to repay Ming Ting's kindness." Brother Ding waved his hand and said with a smile.

"Hey, I was also fascinated by things outside my body such as money, and I believed in Juan, which caused my wife to be separated, and if it weren't for the Ming Court, I would have died in the water prison." Ding Ge sighed.

"If there is no Ming court, even if we wait for the Chinese merchants in Luzon to have fine clothes and food, what if they make money every day, they are just cattle and sheep raised by the Spaniards, and now the Ming people of Annan are trapped, how can we see death and not save them."

Su Langqing was also moved, the man in his early forties in front of him was also a lover, compared to the previous mercenary businessmen, the man in front of him had more loyalty to Daming.