The Dutchman, who escaped the shipwreck, made no secret of his surprise at the black dry leaves that Zheng Haizhu took out.

Because after trying it himself, he agreed with Zheng Haizhu's statement: when the small black leaves are boiled into a deep red soup, they are also as invigorating as green tea, but the mellow taste is closer to their favorite coffee in the Western continent.

In addition, this kind of tea that does not emphasize the quiet and elegant taste, if you add cow and goat milk, not only the taste is better, but also a distinct sense of satiety, and you don't feel hungry for a long time.

It's been fantastic. Just as the Chinese are not short of silk, when did the Dutch people lack cows?

What's even more interesting is that the young Chinese girl, while still serving tea, used a beautiful white porcelain plate to hold pastries made of beans and fresh wild fruits.

Miss Zheng said that the elegant civilized people of the Eastern Empire often held such activities called "afternoon tea parties", and presumably the equally decent Dutch nobles should also be good.

Gullitt was keenly aware that this Ming specialty, called "black tea" in Chinese and "black tea" in Saxon, would definitely bring huge profits to their East India Company.

This harvest can somewhat dispel Governor Cohen's disappointment when he heard that the island of Taiwan already has a garrison under the jurisdiction of the Ming Empire.

Shortly after the Dutch returned to the East India Company's lairs in Batavia, a startling thunder exploded in the sky.

The people of Siraya rejoiced, because according to the revelation of the pot god, spring would not really come until all things had awakened.

The tribe can finally hold a wedding for the young female chieftain Wen Ah Kun.

Although he was still on his way to Beijing, Liu Shimin, in order to express his confidence in the success of this matter and the sincerity of his full support, asked Ma Xianglin to load it on a boat, in addition to the congratulatory gifts of gold and silver brocade, there were iron farm tools, ploughing cattle, rice seeds, tea seedlings, Fujian soil, and more than a dozen Zhangzhou villagers who were good at farming and tea affairs.

Ma Xianglin didn't even forget Zheng Haizhu's previous reminder, and hired two teachers from the Nanxi Zhu family to go to Taiwan together.

Yan Siqi has been wandering for many years and has not forgotten the genealogy, as the twenty-eighth grandson of Yan Zao, a descendant of Confucius, he was naturally very happy to see the two descendants of Zhu Xi, and he still felt lonely and returned to his ancestral roots on land.

He became more and more settled, and told Zheng Haizhu at the wedding banquet that after taking Zheng Zhilong back to Songjiang, he must contact Tang Hong and Shi Yuelan in Daishan Road through Nanhui Tang Bo as soon as possible, and let them inform the brothers in Hirado, Japan, that Brother Yan sincerely hopes that they will come down to the stage.

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"I am willing to work with all public affairs, make a heart and liver into a pill, create a Ryukyu career, realize the ambition of men, and promote China's reputation."

A month later, after Songjiang Nanhuizui, Zheng Haizhu and Zheng Zhilong handed over the above-mentioned handwritten letter from Yan Siqi to Uncle Tang, who invited a young son from the inner house.

Uncle Tang smiled and said, "Young Master Mao, this one is Miss Zheng that you have been waiting for for many days." ”

But when I saw that person, in his early twenties, he wore a straight green cloth and was wrapped in a Confucian scarf, at least he was a showman, but looking at his face, he had a wide forehead and raised eyebrows, a lion nose and a wide mouth, with a bit of recklessness, and Mao Wenlong was carved out of the same mold.

"I've seen Miss Zheng, I've seen an official son. In Xia Mao Chengbei, according to the instructions of his father and mother, he came to Songjiang to send a profit to the girl. ”

Mao Chengbei ......

Zheng Haizhu muttered silently in his heart, Shi Zai Mao Wenlong had a son named Mao Chengdou, who was born to Mao Wenlong's concubine in the northeast, and was spared in the Battle of Liaoyang five or six years later and was sent back to Hangzhou to be raised by his wife.

But on the boat back to the mainland from Daishan, Mao Wenlong made it clear that he had a son-in-law in Hangzhou, and now he touched the names of "Chengbei" and "Chengdou".

Seeing that Mao Chengbei did not shy away from Zheng Zhilong, he directly mentioned the word "profit sharing", thinking that Uncle Tang had told him that he was all his own people in front of him.

Zheng Haizhu then smiled and said: "There is a young man, let's sit down and talk about it." It just so happens that in the future, an official will often go back and forth to the Jiangnan Prefectures to listen to business together. ”

Mao Chengbei hurriedly came to the stone table in the courtyard to pour tea, and he was quite courteous.

Although he won the show, but he knows that Zhejiang is full of humanities, his own qualifications, and he did not worship at the feet of a famous teacher, and his father is not a member of the court, in this case, it is really rare to go to a higher level in the province's industry, it is better to turn into a trader earlier, after all, the ancestors of the Mao family are Shanxi businessmen.

Therefore, this time the father is full of praise for Miss Zheng, Mao Chengbei has the heart to make friends, Hangzhou Mansion and Songjiang Mansion are so close, or they can jointly operate the brand and introduce their respective contacts.

Mao Chengbei then said sincerely after the tea: "Don't hide it from Miss Zheng, although my family is in Hangzhou, but since my grandfather, my family has been in the middle of the road, and I am thrifty. ”

As he spoke, he took out the baggage he was carrying and opened it for Zheng Haizhu to see.

It is two pieces of soft and beautiful material, one jacquard and one plain noodles.

Zheng Haizhu has the basic understanding of textile fabrics for modern people, and has lived in the dazzling Jiangnan for a while, and has already seen the doorway of the two materials.

She twisted the corners of the material and told Zheng Zhilong: "Look, this is Hang Jin, this is Hang Luo." Hangzhou Mansion has been the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou Jin inherited from the Song Jin, although there is no Song Jin origin of Suzhou Eucalyptus as extremely fine, handed down in the flower book, water lines and flowers, but there is the legacy of the Southern Song Dynasty Painting Institute, simple and quiet beauty. Hangluo is also a skill handed down from the Song Dynasty, light as a cloud and as thin as a cicada's wings, but it is not transparent at all, and the fastness is enough, so it may not be easy to tear it off. ”

Zheng Zhilong looked at it intently, and Mao Chengbei praised: "Miss Zheng is really an expert. My father said that there are only three types of people in Liaodong who know the goods and can afford to wear ayaluo, one is the official scroll of the Ming Dynasty, and the other two are the nobles of the Mongolian and Li dynasties. Hang Jin made spring and autumn clothes, Hang Luo made summer skirts, when the goods arrived in Liaoyang last year, before the heavy snow closed the road, the merchants of Mongolia and the Li Dynasty first bought a lot, in the wax moon, several big men in Liaoyang wanted to reward their subordinates, buy New Year's goods for their own female rolls, and suddenly wrapped a round. ”

After hearing this, Zheng Haizhu said half excitedly and half regretfully: "Mao Gongzi, you see, I told your father at that time that such a great team of Hui merchants poured our cotton cloth from Songjiang and took more land routes to Beijing, and few people could cross the sea from Dengzhou to Liaodong, after all, it was close to the Jianzhou Jurchens, and there was money to be made in Taiping places, so why take the risk." But General Mao doesn't have to be afraid of this, so this business is really worth doing. It's a pity that this time, the cost is less. ”

Mao Chengbei thought that she was implying that she couldn't make a fool of herself, so she hurriedly said: "Miss Zheng, the first time my father is not a trivial shouting about his own business, it is necessary to give the master of Futai, the chief military officer, and several generals a good job, so half of the capital of three thousand taels of silver and the income of four thousand taels are filial piety." Although my family has been stretched thin for decades, I am not poor, and I will never cheat on the girl in this matter. ”

Zheng Haizhu was stunned for a moment, and then waved his hand: "Mao Gongzi is too worried, if I am the kind of suspicious little family, how can I give your father the capital without hesitation." ”

He turned to Uncle Tang and said, "Uncle Lao, can you give me pen and paper?" ”

Tang Bo took the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, added water and polished the ink, Zheng Haizhu took the pen, first drew a crooked eastern border of the Ming Empire on the paper, and then estimated the approximate distance, and drew seven circles of the Liaodong Peninsula, Korea, Hirado, Japan, Songjiang, Hangzhou, Daishan Island, and Taiwan Island.

"Mao Gongzi, the younger brother of an official, since he is a businessman, he doesn't want to make the business bigger. You look at this picture, Liaodong, North Korea, General Mao is familiar with it, Pingdo, Daishan, Taiwan, Brother Yan is familiar with it, and the latter two are already his territory. Songjiang Mansion, there is me and an official, and Hangzhou Mansion has Mao Gongzi. Mao Gongzi is a person of merit and fame, although he is the youngest, he grew up in Macau, and he has seen more than many old rivers and lakes, and I am lucky to have some friendships in Songjiang Mansion. ”

Zheng Haizhu paused and said word by word: "We can be like the East India Trading Company of the Hongyi people, and also open a big maritime business." ”

Look at Ming Yinghua.