Chapter 211: The Ming Dynasty and Rome

Wang Hongyu gave these foreigners three benefits.

One. Bring them to more places, and you will have the opportunity to communicate more. I surrounded the scholars before, and some results were achieved, but this time Wang Hongyu was able to give them a little different communication.

Two. Import of large quantities of goods. Aceban duck has always had a headache about the trade deficit, and Daming has a large number of tea, porcelain, and spices to export, but don't buy overseas things? I'll buy it, and I'll buy a lot of it, it's what you guys dream of.

Three. Strong army support. Wang Hongyu will let them see a group of soldiers and horses, and promise that in the future, there will be more people who are not weaker than this army and will go to Europe to support you. ”

After these three finished speaking, Jinnige and the others were stunned for a while.

The first and second are easy to understand, they dream of it, but it always feels like a blank check.

The third one is even more fake.

Although the European countries have limited military strength, the weapons and equipment and elite level of soldiers and horses are above the Ming Dynasty?

It is a bit strange that the Ming Dynasty had a strong army to support the Roman faction in Europe, but it was very exciting

"I will build several factories along the way, including soap, glass, coal, weapons, etc., and I need to purchase a lot of supplies, and there will be a lot of rice purchase needs in the future. You have a good grasp of the markets in South Asia and Southeast Asia, so you should be very worried about not being able to sell rice, right? ”

"That's right. We don't eat much rice, and we don't buy it in Europe, so we have been worried about running out of market. A Esbanduck missionary suddenly woke up.

Southeast Asia has been a good place to produce rice since ancient times.

Due to the advantages of climate, abundant water resources and abundant labor, it has been common to grow three crops a year.

As the price of grain in Daming is getting higher and higher, if a large amount of rice is purchased, it is not an exaggeration to say that it has the power to influence the situation.

"There are also guns, I will open a factory, hire experts and workers, many of you are unemployed, I will arrange it here if it is suitable."

At this time, the Thirty Years' War had begun in Europe, and the Great War in Central Europe was surging, and the production of agriculture, workshops, handicrafts and other industries was seriously damaged, and a large number of Europeans were displaced.

Wang Hongyu planned to take the opportunity to pick up wool and bring a group of famous scientists and artists who were wandering and begging for food under his command.

"I can't thank you enough that this can be done. But can that reinforcement really materialize? ”

Jinnige had heard Wang Hongyu talk about this before, and he suddenly realized that if this matter was fulfilled, the actual help it would bring far more than their original missionary purpose.

Because the Dutch were meddling in trade and diplomacy in the East, if the Ming Dynasty were on the side of Rome, it would be to claim isolation from Europe, so that the Netherlands' greatest commercial advantage would gradually come to naught.

Wang Hongyu is also thinking about the benefits.

A few years later, sending troops to Europe to support the Roman faction will directly affect the future world pattern, and China has been stepping into the main venue of globalization and determining the world pattern for the first time.

If done right, Rome will return like lightning......

No, it is the "five constants" of the first world pattern, which will be led by China.

That's one of my main goals.

It just so happened that I thought of "together" with Kinney Pavilion, so of course it had to be realized.

"In three days, please come to the northern suburbs of Tongzhou, and I will ask you to see my soldiers and horses."

After the agreement, today's meeting has come to an end for the time being.

As for which foreigners will join their trip to Yunyang ten days later, it depends on the results after three days.

In fact, he did not want to have missionaries who could take charge of the work to stay in the capital.

I don't want them to go to the homes of Jiangnan and Lingnan scholars like history, on the one hand, the impact is not good, and on the other hand, they are wasted.

The imperial court will not really care about its own behavior.

Apocalypse and Wei Zhongxian are supporting themselves here.

Ye Xianggao, Sun Chengzong and other relatively intelligent civil officials have no intention of making enemies of me now.

Yang Lian and others in Donglin may list these as incriminating evidence and come to find some trouble. But if they dare to come, they will pay a heavy price.

In fact, the Ming court has always been willing to contact Portugal and other countries.

In the eyes of the emperor and enlightened ministers, this helped the export of products to foreign trade, and more or less earned silver, which was good for finance.

The purchase of Western luxury goods, such as chiming bells, glass products, telescopes, map globes, various firearms, etc., allowed the Portuguese to rent Macao and engage in foreign trade, which could satisfy the poor and luxurious life of the dignitaries.

There are also large quantities of firearms, large quantities of silver, some South Sea commodities, and rare American crops, all of which are relatively popular commodities.

Like the Portuguese and Italians, at this time, they generally adopted gifts and other means for the Ming Dynasty, with a humble attitude and their own translators, and they have already run in a certain communication channel.

Therefore, if you do this by yourself, you will not engage in too ostentatious behavior, and you will not be attacked by the group.

It can be said that it is the best choice to leave the capital by yourself and go to other places to engage in it, and to leave the close observation of the doctors in the capital.

The technicians and the library are half in place.

It's time to prepare the other half.

The first is funding.

Wang Hongyu will go to Tongzhou three days later, and before leaving, he also met with Wei Zhongxian and Wei Liangqing's uncle and nephew, mainly to discuss the industrial cooperation between the two sides in Beijing and the development of the Yunnan-Guichuan project.

Wei Zhongxian said that he didn't know how to do business, and the negotiations were all about Wei Liangqing, and finally Wei Zhongxian and Wang Hongyu made a decision.

The original industries and new cooperation projects in the capital are still fifty-five points, the Wei family pays the money, and Wang Hongyu pays the people.

Wei Zhongxian invested another 100,000 taels, half of which was used to open a money bank in Yunyang. Other follow-up projects will be decided after Wang Hongyu's on-site inspection.

All the names in the capital belong to the Wei family, but all the shops are still divided into fifty or fifty, and the accounts are confidential and not known to outsiders.

At present, the two companies have opened a watch shop, a honeycomb coal factory, and a glass and glass products factory in the capital. The soap, stockings, and high-heeled shoes workshop is a new cooperation project; and the corresponding shop name.

Xishan Coal Mine is an industry solely owned by Wang Hongyu, because it is far away from the urban area, Wei Zhongxian and Wei Liangqing did not participate, but gave the uncle and nephew a commission of 20%, which was hung in the name of a distant relative of Wei Zhongxian. Let the Wei family help dredge up the relationship and solve all the thorny problems.

As for the establishment of the construction team, the old Wei uncle and nephew are now in a very high status, and they are unwilling to do such a thing of waiting for people, and they don't need much money, so Wei Zhongxian lent Wang Hongyu 5,000 taels.

Wang Hongyu decided to also hang under the name of the Wei family, but this person is not surnamed Wei but surnamed Li, and the Wei family only helps Meng Biao dredge up the relationship above and take some benefits.

Although Wei Liangqing likes to make money, he likes to let others beg for him, especially those civil officials who used to be superior, to beg for himself. On the contrary, for ordinary people, there is no malice, but I feel that engaging in some industries that help the people is not forgetting the roots.

One does not forget the original, and the other gives ideas.

One contributes more, and the other contributes more.

The so-called sincere cooperation is exactly that.

The matter of the mobile library was also properly discussed, and the silver was given beforehand, as well as a convoy of horse-drawn carts, donkey carts, and ox-carts to transport the mobile library.

This time, additional investment was made for the opening of a bookstore in Beijing.