The thirteen elements led by Wang Hongyu and Cai Fuyi are very different from the thirteen elements in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty in later generations.

The thirteen lines of the Qing Dynasty are more good at bullying their own people, and they have no competitiveness with foreigners.

The Ming Dynasty Thirteen Lines established by themselves did not monopolize at home, nor did they restrict the development of other maritime merchants, but concentrated the forces of all levels of society to form an international competitive group, which was to compete with the Netherlands for the hegemony of world trade.

The Dutch East India Company played primarily the role of a middleman, a coachman on the sea. The thirteen lines are a comprehensive economy integrating production, sales and sales.

The purpose of the two was also different: the Dutch East India Company was only trying to make the difference, purely to make money.

The purpose of the Thirteen Lines is to enrich the country and strengthen the army, introduce advanced science and technology from the West, introduce grain crops and cash crops from South America, and introduce technical talents. Money also has to be earned, but making money is only secondary, development is the first.

Moreover, it is not to sit in Guangzhou to earn customs money, but to engage in cash crop planting, factory handicrafts and maritime transportation.

In cooperation with the Francois of Macau, they also bought their firearms, American crops, glass products and Western-style boats, and formed a partnership in trade.

Taking advantage of the convenience of merchant ships, unemployed physicists, chemists, biology, painters, and machine builders were recruited from Europa, covering food, transportation, and settling in.

To vigorously develop maritime transportation, the Ming Dynasty lacked navigators at this time, and it was also essential to recruit sailors from overseas.

The development of maritime transportation is inseparable from the transit station, and the terrain of Cochin is the most suitable stop for supply stations, and now that the Dutch people have reached Cochin, it is imminent to reclaim Cochin.

Jiannu is colluding with the Japanese to attack North Korea, and North Korea has asked the Ming for help, but at present, the Ming Dynasty has no navy at all, let alone crossing the sea to rescue, so you can't use merchant ships for naval warfare, right?

The construction of Western-style warships has already begun to be planned, and the model Wang Hongyu has already gotten it from the Europa missionaries, and there are many hardwood crosses to build battleships, and there are only trees for building merchant ships in Fujian.

Fujian was an important shipbuilding base of the Ming Dynasty at that time, due to Fujian's strong shipbuilding technology force, there were many shipbuilding craftsmen. Fujian is rich in natural products, especially iron, pine, cedar, camphor, rattan, palm, bamboo, lacquer, tung oil, ramie, oyster ash and other materials required for shipbuilding.

Wang Hongyu planned to look for hardwood for shipbuilding in Qiongzhou, and after felling, he would soak in water for a few years before he could build a ship.

At present, only one pirate can be recruited, and this pirate can act as the Ming navy, and establish a naval base in Fujian after defeating the Japanese pirates. Then develop the treasure island.

Zheng Zhilong is just right, and his son Zheng Chenggong will be born two years later.

Franc was hired to set up a joint glass industry and a heavy artillery workshop. Wang Hongyu has already laid a foundation for these two aspects, and Beijing's glass yard and glass products factory have been on the right track.

Glass bottles have been introduced, ironcore cannons have long been used, redcoat cannons are in the process of being developed, and the cooling water jacket of the cannons can already be produced.

It has also imported a large amount of cheap rice and fruits from Southeast Asia, which has enabled Guangdong to engage in cash crops on a large scale, and grain prices have fallen instead of rising, and even crops from the Americas have been introduced on trial basis.

In fact, Wang Hongyu has successfully tried to grow sweet potatoes, potatoes, tomatoes, corn, and peanuts in Yunyang, and is being promoted along the Yellow River.

Many American plants have formed a process in which Fujian is the pioneer in the introduction, and the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta will try, promote and localize American crops.

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Wang Hongyu inspected the surrounding areas of Guangzhou and selected some areas to set up sugar workshops.

Guangdong itself has a small amount of sugar exports, which has always been popular in the Nanyang market due to its good quality.

Now the initial development is definitely not worried about selling.

As production increases, prices will fall, so it is necessary to move from primary processing to high value-added products as soon as possible.

Canned food, candied food, syrup drinks are a profiteering industry in this era.

Unlike Kaifeng's development of canned sauces, Guangdong is rich in seafood, fruits and sea salt, and when there is plenty of food, they are not expensive and can be made into canned ceramics.

The sealing technology of ceramics is currently a unique technology mastered by Wang Hongyu, and others outside do not know it, and they can't think of the operation process of high-temperature sterilization and sealing at high temperature.

Therefore, others can only engage in dried fish and fruits, but Wang Hongyu can make more profitable canned food.

Of course, dried fish and dried fruits let the "Thirteen Lines" also be engaged, due to dehydration and easy to carry and other reasons, marching and fighting, ocean voyages must be based on them.

There is also a unique product: syrup drinks.

Fruit juice flavors, tea leaves, and syrups are enough to form drinks that shock the taste buds, and there are many types of these drinks, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, whether they are rich or poor, whether they are rich or poor, whether they are rich or poor.

With plenty of sugar and glass bottles, the bar for syrup drinks isn't high.

Maybe others can copy it, but they don't control the large-scale sugarcane or fruit industry, and the cost is much higher than Wang Hongyu's, so naturally they don't develop as fast as him.

This is the advantage of dispatching social resources and concentrating forces on major things in a planned manner.

After laying out the industrial planning and preparing the thirteen cooperation objects, Cai Fuyi will take charge of the rest of the things.

Wang Hongyu has more important things to do.

has been engaged in industry in Guangzhou for half a month, and in fact, he is waiting for someone.

Eventually, the missionaries followed.

Jin Nige, Deng Yuhan, Bi Fangji, Long Huamin and others all went to Guangzhou.

Previously, they were left in Kunming to concentrate on preparing for the Kunming campus of the Southwest United School, and selected a number of books on mathematics, geometry, architecture, astrophysics, marine geography, and the history of various countries.

Wang Hongyu took them to the glass and artillery workshops under construction and asked them to give some technical advice.

They do know artisans from Macau and guide them through some key steps to improve the quality of their products.

Jin Nige and the others have already reached an alliance with Wang Hongyu, and these technologies are not stingy.

Long Huamin has always been more conservative, and has always regarded the Ming as a different faith, and in his eyes, the Ming is a civilization that is slightly backward than Europe, like the Ottomans, Persians and Mughals.

However, the cooperation with Daming deepened, and the reality slapped in the face.

He had to admit that Wang Hongyu's strength in all aspects, as well as some of the Ming Dynasty's development height, huge volume and his own uniqueness, proved that his ideas were just stubborn prejudices.

He still clings to this stubbornness, but the others who have come from afar have gradually abandoned it.

Especially Bi Fangji, he is relatively young and enthusiastic, and he has debated with Long Huamin many times. At this time, when he arrived in Guangzhou, he had some new ideas, wanting to persuade Long Huamin to contribute more to the cooperation between Ming and Rome.