Chapter 179: The Insider
"Brother Ding, the journey to Annan is dangerous, you have to be very careful here, in addition, there are also two Galen treasure ships in Minghai that are loaded with iron and other goods to Annan, and Brother Ding will take them to Dongpu as the owner." Su Langqing said.
"Hmm." Brother Ding took the order, turned around and went to prepare for the sea.
When the Chinese merchants left, Su Langqing also walked to the dock.
"Big brother, do you want to inform Lord Liu Yu about Lu Hai." On the street, Su Mingxiao and Su Langqing mingled in the bustling crowd.
"Sweep the snow in front of your own house, don't care about the frost on other people's houses." Su Langqing flicked his sleeves and walked forward quickly.
"Big brother, our Su family has opened twelve weaving workshops, there are so many cotton cloths in Luzon, and the weaving products are from our Su family, although it is not as good as the wool brought by the red-haired ghost, but the silver brought to our Su family every year is a lot, and now the raw silk smuggled from the mainland is directly broken in half." Su Mingxiao saw that the eldest brother was in a hurry, and hurriedly followed.
"There is a shortage of goods in the mainland, so simply plant mulberry and raise silkworms in Luzon, isn't it a resettlement of displaced people in Mingcheng? Send some silver taels, woolen wool to Lord Liu Quan of Weigan, and then spend some silver taels to get through the upper and lower officials, and bring some land, if not, then use grain, and the wool of the Westerners to send to the chiefs of the Tubang and ask for some land from the Tubang. Su Langqing glanced at the second brother behind him and spoke.
"How much does it cost, our Su family can afford so many silver taels, if I want to say that I should simply go to Lord Liu Yu to sue Lu Hai, but our Su family can also reach out to the mainland." Su Mingxiao's expression was a little excited.
"Shut up." Su Langqing was so frightened by these words that he staggered, and when he saw that the two of them had already entered the dock, he hurriedly pulled Su Mingxiao to the warehouse on the side.
"You're crazy, big brother."
There were pickled marine fish and whale meat piled up in the warehouse, and the fishy smell of barrels of sea fish hit his ears and nose, Su Mingxiao covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, and hurriedly rushed out but was dragged by Su Langqing on the side.
"I think you're crazy." Su Langqing didn't have a good airway.
"You think you're smart, and you went to the Ming Court to sue Lu Hai."
"These things have already spread among the merchant ship owners, do you think Lord Liu Yu doesn't know?" Su Langqing looked at the second brother beside him, and said angrily and annoyed.
"Sihai was personally formed by Lord Liu Yu, and our Su family is only in charge of Minghai, Lu Hai has nothing to do with my Su family, if I sue Lord Liu Yu and force my head, do you think the adults will think that we are loyal or think that we have a plan." Looking at the bustling business road outside the window, Su Langqing shook his head.
"That, Lu Hai smuggles so many ships from the mainland every year, and now he doesn't go to Laoag but goes to Hoi An, how many people's jobs have been touched by such a big thing, and the raw silk smuggled from the mainland these days is less than half, and the output of the Su family weaving workshop has decreased by half these days." Su Mingxiao had a painful expression, and stretched out five fingers tremblingly.
"Yes, there are so many fewer ships from the mainland to Luzon by land and sea for a while, where do you think these big ships have gone?" Su Langqing looked at his brother a little helplessly.
On the bright side, Ming Hai is doing things for the Ming Court, and he is also nicknamed the dog of the Ming Court by the people in the neighborhood and alley on weekdays.
But which of the four seas is not the dog of the Ming Court?
This morning, Liu Yu asked Minghai to send a fleet to Dongpu to go to sea trade, did he just tell himself, the helmsman of Minghai, what about the other seas?
There are fewer and fewer ships coming into the port of Laoag these days, so many ships go to Hoi An, what they do, so many goods, so many people.
Su Langqing took a deep breath and looked at Su Mingxiao, who was still in the dark.
"Second brother, take another 10,000 taels of silver from home, and transfer hundreds of imitation Western flash gold satin, Western gold satin, Western gold satin, or something from the weaving workshop, and give them to the chiefs and nobles of the Tubang near Mingcheng, let's try to take some land from Shengfan's hands, and the silkworm or something Minghai will buy, as for manpower, there are many displaced people in Mingcheng, and spending some grain and silver can always attract people." Su Langqing pondered.
"No, big brother, we really raise silkworms and make silk by ourselves." Su Mingxiao was shocked.
"It's time for this, if the coastal war starts in the future, and the Nanyang maritime trade is broken, we Nanyang merchants must also be prepared." Su Langqing muttered to himself.
When the two brothers of the Su family were thinking in the warehouse, Brother Ding had already boarded a galleon.
"This time I went to Dongpu mainly to explore the business road, I am afraid that I will not be able to earn a little silver taels, and I hope that my brothers Haihan." Ding Ge looked at the merchant ship owners gathered here with a slight apology.
"It's okay, I brought two thousand catties of iron to the sea this time, and I don't ask how many silver taels Dongpu Ming can give, just exchange for some raw silk cotton cloth or something." A shipowner said.
The shipowners present were all familiar with Brother Ding, and naturally knew that there was no profit to be made in Dongpu, just to find a trade route for Minghai.
"This trip to Dongpu, Ming Hai also attached great importance to it, and specially dispatched two armed merchant ships, each of which carried eight artillery pieces." Ding Ge smiled, and couldn't help but look at a six-pounder falcon gun on the deck gun position.
A group of mercenaries walked past the gun emplacement, and the second tooth stole aim.
"Look at what you see." Li Liu tugged at his second tooth, and he didn't have a good airway.
"Brother Li, we're going to sea, are we going back?" Erya looked at the sea and said with great longing.
"Okay, if you go back, you want to go back, but you want to kill back." Li Liu knocked Erya's head and said with a smile.
This time, the Ming court specially dispatched a hundred people, including musketeers and gunners, from Huben and Fubo Town to escort the Minghai merchant fleet to Annam.
With Liu Yu's permission, Ming Hai could also equip the merchant ship with some artillery, and at the same time, he could hire some gunners and gunners from the Ming army to accompany the ship as mercenaries at a high price.
This time he went to Dongpu, Ming Hai cooperated with Ming Ting, and Ming Ting naturally transferred some elites from the army to serve as the escort of these Chinese merchants.
At this time, Dongpu and other places can be described as stormy.
Ruan Phuc Binh, who wanted to kill people with a knife, simply wrote a letter to each of Zhenla's Hidden Frog Qiu and Hidden Frog Nen, promising them that if they took back Dongpu and other places and expelled the local Ming people, Quang Nam would not care.
The implication was actually to order them to immediately send troops to destroy the Ming people in Dongpu and other places.
Since the last civil strife in Chenla, Nguyen Phuc Phuc took the opportunity to intervene, Chenla has also been divided into two parts, which are controlled by the eldest son of the old king, Hidden Thu, and the former nobleman, Hidden Ngan Nen.
He was in charge of the northern part of Chenla, while he went to Chai Stick to rule the southern part of Chenla, which is the Mekong Delta region.
However, he is nominally the king, but in fact he is just a puppet secretly supported by Nguyen Phuc Bin.
It just so happened that Dongpu and even Ha Xian and other places were close to the territory of Hidden Frog Nen, and Ruan Fuwei also hoped to use Zhenla's forces to suppress the Ming people.
Nenen, who had been supported by Ruan Phuc for many years, had long lost his temper, and when he saw Ruan Phuc Wei's letter, he did not object, but just ordered his generals to prepare for war.
And the hidden Qiu in the north has much more backbone, and directly tore up Ruan Fuxian's letter, anyway, Zhenla and Quang Nam are still separated by a Champa city, you have a kind of detour to Champa to beat me.
Hidden Thu, who had already lost a large amount of land due to Nguyen Phuc's intervention, saw in these Ming people the hope of rebelling against Quang Nam.
In particular, Nguyen Phuc Wei wrote a letter hoping that he would go south to destroy the Ming people in the realm of Shui Chenla, which made Hidden Dian Qiu and his ministers feel that it was profitable, so they sent an envoy to Shui Chenla to contact the Ming people.