Through Huang Wenfeng's description, Yan Zheng found that the printing industry in the Ming Dynasty was actually very developed.

There are many bookstores in Guangzhou alone, and in addition to printing all kinds of imperial examination books, they also publish a large number of books.

At this time, the style of storytelling has also flourished in Guangzhou, and every restaurant has a storyteller.

Ventriloquists are like popular courtesans, and they are quite sought after by the world.

It's just that the bookstores of the Ming Dynasty all used engraving printing, that is, carving into a stitching plate with a wooden board, and then printing it directly.

This surprised Yan Zheng and felt expected at the same time.

Because movable type printing requires the production of movable type, and also needs typesetting, if it is really to be printed on a large scale, the number of movable type needs to reach an order of magnitude.

Otherwise, the cost of printing is much higher than that of this kind of engraving, at least this kind of engraving printing, which belongs to a kind of engraving, can be used for a long time.

The disadvantage is that only one book can be printed in one edition, and when it is not in use, these plates have to be stored.

Yan Zheng brushed the record, and then waved his hand to find a few clothes for the two to wear.

Huang Wenfeng and Liu Shiyang hurriedly thanked him, and finally encountered a kind move.

"Are you on this trip because of that lord?" Yan Zheng asked.

Liu Shiyang was stunned, hesitating and not knowing how to answer.

Yan Zheng frowned: "Don't tell me, you guys are businessmen."

"It's Lord Liu Daxia!" Huang Wenfeng said directly.

Liu Shiyang looked at Huang Gongzi in surprise.

Yan Zheng smiled, looked at the two of them and said, "Da Ming and Dong Qin are originally of the same culture and species, and I am still willing to do an arms business!" It's just that I need the Ming court to talk about it, not you to talk about it secretly! ”

Liu Shiyang arched his hand and said: "The king, this Ming Dynasty has a lot of people and a lot of involvement, if it really lets the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty know, the king will not be able to earn this silver!"

"You think I care about this bit of silver?" Yan Zheng smiled contemptuously.

"This ...... This king, there is really something unspeakable here! Liu Shiyang lowered his eyes and said.

Yan Zheng sneered, and his eyes turned to Huang Wenfeng: "You are the middleman that Lord Liu is looking for?"

Huang Wenfeng said with a smile: "What the king said is that he is the eldest young master of the Huang family master of Guangzhou Mansion, and my family had some friendship with Lord Liu in his early years, and this time Lord Liu entrusted us to handle this matter!"

"What kind of business does the Huang family do?"

"That's a lot, goods from the north and south, sea trade in the South Seas, porcelain and tea from Jiangxi, cotton from Huguang, in short, all kinds of goods are involved."

"What about human trafficking?" Yan Zheng asked suddenly.

"This ...... The king laughed, my Huang family is an innocent family, and I have always been kind and charitable, and I am widely famous, and I will never do such a lack of virtue as leaving people's flesh and blood! "Huang Wenfeng is neither humble nor arrogant.

Yan Zheng smiled, Guangdong is still a place where East Qin has not set foot in it, and the original plan was to wait for the production capacity to be doubled before opening the Guangdong market.

This time, someone sent it to the door, but it made the dry goods from the northern route have a good place to go.

He lightly lit the table and said, "What is the market of Liaodong's ginseng, pearls, and all kinds of dried goods in Guangzhou?"

Huang Wenfeng glanced at it suspiciously, and after thinking about it carefully, he said: "I don't know much about this, but the goods from Liaodong have always been of high value when they arrive in Guangdong!" It's not something that ordinary homes can spend, but ginseng alone is priceless! ”

"What about the goods produced in Guangdong?"

"Guangdong produces the most, one is silk and cotton cloth, the second is Leizhou's sugar, Foshan's ironware, the third is porcelain and paper, as well as tables, chairs and benches, all kinds of Huanghuali furniture and lacquerware, all kinds of household things, and food!" Huang Wenfeng said 1510.

Liu Shiyang listened on the sidelines, thinking that this Eastern Qin monarch actually talked freely about business with others, presumably this man was a profit-heavy person.

Yan Zheng clapped his hands and praised: "In this way, Guangdong is also very productive!"

Huang Wenfeng nodded and said: "What the king said is that not only is there a lot of products, but also commerce is prosperous, and a Guangzhou capital city has a population of 600,000."

"600,000?" Yan Zheng smiled and said curiously: "There are so many people in Guangzhou, there must be a lot of Tanhu in Guangdong, right?"

Huang Wenfeng was slightly surprised, nodded and said, "On the Pearl River, it is estimated that there are more than 100,000 people!"

Yan Zheng was stunned: "There are more than 100,000 people?"

Huang Wenfeng replied: "The king doesn't know, the entire Pearl River is very wide, the water system is complicated, and there are many people on the water!"

Yan Zheng was shocked for a long time, and then he remembered the play Zhujiang Ji, which is about the tragic situation of the Tanhu in Guangdong.

As for why the Zhujiang Tanhu became such a large group, it was actually a last resort, because the three generations of the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties all carried out discriminatory policies against them.

Therefore, although the population of the Tan households for generations is increasing, and the water is reliable, the life becomes more and more miserable after the number of people increases.

The Pearl River is rampant with bandits, and it is also the low-level households who really can't get by, so they embark on the road of plundering by the river.

Even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Tan households in Guangdong were the most difficult group to properly resettle, because the Pearl River was densely populated and the plains were not as numerous as in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

It took more than ten years of resettlement before the last batch of Tan households successfully landed.

However, when Yan Zheng thought of this, he was faintly happy in his heart, he looked at Huang Wenfeng with a smile and said, "If your Huang family wants to come here to do business, Dongqin can distribute sea quotation documents for free!" We have Liaodong goods in Dongqin, whether it is fur, ginseng, pearls, or all kinds of dry goods! ”

"As long as your Huang family gets the tax-free things stipulated in the foreign business law, I can guarantee that your Huang family's trade in Dongqin is unimpeded!"

Huang Wenfeng was flattered and hurriedly said: "Thank you for the king's generosity, I also love every grass and tree in Eastern Qin very much, if the king is interested, I will often bring merchant ships here."

"Oh?" Yan Zhengxiao asked, "Why do you feel this way?"

Huang Wenfeng said: "What you have seen and heard in Eastern Qin, in the next regard, there is only one strange word to speak of, if you don't come to Eastern Qin, I am afraid that it will be difficult to see such a scenery in this life!" It can be said that it is better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles, and one day to come to Dongqin is better than ten years of life! ”

Yan Zheng couldn't help but smile and said: "Since you have a heart, then I will let someone take you to visit one or two tomorrow!"

Huang Wenfeng said in ecstasy: "Thank you, King!"

Liu Shiyang watched from the sidelines, wanted to interject and held back.

He felt that this Huang Gongzi was so ill-informed, since they had a good conversation, they naturally wanted to get down to business.

But it's like chatting about family life, and the more you talk, the more biased you become.

Yan Zheng looked at Liu Shiyang, who was staring down, and soon had a plan in his heart.

After chatting with Huang Gongzi about what he had seen and heard in Guangzhou, and talking about the fashionable scripts in Guangzhou, he asked the two to step down.

When they stepped back, he hurriedly took out the paper.

"Lan Ya, you go and inform the cabinet ministers and ask them to come over."

"Yumo, you grind the ink for me, and Kaori will go and inform the salt port, so that they can make proper arrangements to ensure that there are two ships vacant."

After the order was given, the three life secretaries immediately got busy.

Yan Zheng took the pen and wrote down on the paper: the "Liu Bei Plan" on the trade of the Ming army and the collection of the Zhujiang Tan households.

Since the implementation of Liu Bei's plan began last year, the vast number of cadres of the Eastern Qin Dynasty have traveled to both sides of Fujian and Zhejiang, and in the face of severe challenges, they have actively carried forward the spirit of Yugong to move mountains despite all difficulties.

Learn by doing, practice by learning. That is, the team has been trained, and a series of achievements have been made.

So in the face of a similar situation but with a large population of Zhujiang Tan households, how can he not be mindful?

In Fujian and Zhejiang, a total of more than 50,000 households were collected in a year, and the remaining households were decisively stopped because they were too scattered.

From the point of view of cost, it is definitely the most cost-effective to collect the Tan households, these people are close to the sea, just go to the boat to pull them back to Dongqin.

At the same time, this group of people does not get seasick, and some of them have rich experience in fishing and sailing, and they can be qualified for the work of sailors with a little teaching.

More importantly, this group of people is oppressed deep enough, and GM's will is strong, as long as the trust problem is solved, they are willing to come to Dongqin.

After hatred education and propaganda, it will become the absolute opposite of the Ming court and the squire.

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