"Lord Yang, business must be fluid. If it's just one party making money, why should others insist on sending him money? ”

"Then I don't understand, there are also provinces in the country that don't have any special products, so how does their business exist?"

"Because those provinces have at least grain."

"There is also grain in Dongshan Prefecture, and the yield is very high."

"But the grain in Dongshan Prefecture can't be shipped."

Yang Changbai was a little unconvinced, and was about to complain about "why can't it be transported, it can be transported so much at one time with the Nanyang class", when he suddenly reacted that Song Yingxing asked them to watch the Maritime Safety Bureau's performance in previous years to learn the affairs of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau, and indeed they had never seen a large-scale fleet of grain delivery to the mainland in Dongshan Prefecture.

Since Dongshan Prefecture has a high grain production, there is no reason not to sell it locally.

"Lord Yang, the reason is very simple." Liu Yifeng could see that Yang Changbai was thinking about this problem: "The main grain-producing area of Dongshan Prefecture is the city of Fushan, which is too far away from Edo in Fusang, let alone the Central Plains. ”

"It's a desperate distance, how much food will be destroyed by moisture on the road? Even if the grain is not bad, the cost of this journey is a cost, and it must be converted into the price of grain, and when the grain arrives in the Central Plains, who will it sell to? ”

Even if Yang Changbai didn't know the price of grain in the Central Plains, he also knew that the price of grain in Dongshan Prefecture after it was sold to the mainland was definitely unbearable for the local people. Moreover, the loss along the way also had to be converted into the price of food, and he had already experienced the voyage of those months when he came on the Nanyang class.

He finally understood why when he first arrived in Fushan City, the teacher sighed that Dongshan Prefecture was really poor, and it was clear that in his opinion, there were good fields everywhere outside Jishan City.

Thinking of this, Yang Changbai didn't have much dissatisfaction anymore, and asked in a slightly inquisitive tone: "How did the grain of the Annan Protectorate be sold to the Central Plains?" ”

"Almost all of the main grain-producing areas of the Annam Prefecture are not far from the sea, and even in the inland Indochina Peninsula, there is a well-developed water network. I heard that Jakarta, the southernmost city in the Protectorate of Annam, only reached Guangzhou in about 20 days, and the main grain-producing areas closer to Liangguang could ensure that the grain was sent to Liangguang when it was fresh, and even continued north to Fujian and Shuntianfu. ”

Yang Changbai was dumbfounded when he heard this, he really didn't know if what Liu Yifeng said was true, because he didn't have the concept of a map between the Annan Protectorate and the Central Plains in his mind at all.

Ancient maps have always been a strategic resource, not to mention that quite a few maps are not accurate. Yang Changbai's background allowed him to see the map of the Central Plains and the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate, but the distorted proportions made him unclear how far the two places were. Therefore, he can only listen to what Liu Yifeng said, and cannot refute or echo it.

Just like a Heilongjiang person who tells a Guangxi person about the prefecture-level cities in Heilongjiang Province, this Guangxi person can know Qiqihar City, Daqing City, and Mudanjiang City without checking.

Liu Yifeng's expression when he spoke was too normal and easy-going, and Yang Changbai could only believe it. and sighed again that he, a person from a family of Jiangmen officials and eunuchs, was actually less than an orphan from a private restaurant cook.

"Let's not talk about this for a while, then why can Dongshan State solve many problems with the new currency you proposed?"

"First of all, the new currency can be exchanged for gold from the hands of the gold diggers who are privately owned, Lord Yang has no objection, right?"

Yang Changbai nodded, this point didn't need Liu Yifeng to explain, he understood it himself.

"Then let me give you an example: Lord Yang, you are the owner of a large local commercial house, I am one of your shopkeepers, you heard about Dongshan Prefecture, and you think that the future of Dongshan Prefecture is worth looking forward to, so you sent me to open a store."

"I went for two years, and in the first of these two years, I had to prepare for the opening of the store, and I didn't make money for the whole year, and it was your money that was spent. The next year, I opened the store, but I didn't have much business, and I needed money to run the store, so I could only ask for you. ”

"It's now the third year, I still don't have a business, and the other shopkeepers here can't stand it anymore, thinking that I am wasting your money, boss, and have begun to persuade you to close my store in Dongshan Prefecture. You also feel that it is too much to continue to invest, so you reduce the money you give me. Now the situation has become that I have no savings, and the money you give me can only make ends meet, let alone do business, and a vicious circle begins. ”

"At this time, I borrowed money from others in the name of the headquarters and you, and with the borrowed money, my business in Dongshan Prefecture was able to start, and then I used the profits to repay the borrowed money. I have the principal to continue to operate, and the other shopkeepers here have nothing to say, Lord Yang, is my store in Dongshan Prefecture operating independently from the funding of the headquarters? ”

Although this example does not perfectly represent Dongshan Prefecture, it is very good to explain to Yang Changbai. Combined with what he knew about the current situation in Dongshan Prefecture, he fully understood what Liu Yifeng wanted to express.

"But what if the money you borrowed in Dongshan Prefecture in the name of me and the headquarters is not accepted by the headquarters?"

Liu Yifeng said with a smile: "There must be people in the headquarters who don't accept it, what they don't accept is not that I borrowed money in my name, what they don't accept is that my branch has survived, and they have one more competitor since then." In that case, unless you close that store in Dongshan State, you will always be their enemy. Is there an excuse to borrow money, they will also find other excuses to keep persuading Boss Yang to close my shop. ”

"So this part of the people, we just have to think of a good rhetoric to deal with them, what really needs to be taken seriously is you, Boss Yang, I have to find a way to prove to you that I have no second thoughts about borrowing money in the name of the pretense, and then there is no negative impact on you and the department, and in the end, I can really rely on the borrowed part of the money to run this store in Dongshan Prefecture."

Yang Changbai understood thoroughly, took a deep breath, and somewhat understood why many officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau were fanatical for a while, and their entire brows were tangled for a while.

"It's hard."

Liu Yifeng nodded and echoed Yang Changbai's words.

"It's really difficult, the anti-maritime bureau forces in the court are too strong."

After Liu Yifeng finished speaking, he was a little sleepy, and he beat Yang Changbai, who was in high spirits, but when he heard him say that the anti-Maritime Safety Administration forces in the imperial court came to the spirit: "There are many political enemies of the Maritime Safety Bureau? ”

Yang Changbai's face was full of helplessness: "There are many, and the six are its enemies." ”

Liu Yifeng's direct was frightened, the Maritime Safety Bureau is making enemies of the world!?

Yang Changbai glanced at his shocked look, and finally found that he didn't know everything, so he was in a slightly better mood, and said: "It's not that exaggerated, but the Maritime Safety Bureau does not deal with many officials of the Sixth Ministry." ”

"Why?"

"Because the Maritime Administration has too much power."

Then Yang Changbai gave him a general explanation of how the Maritime Safety Bureau offended most of the imperial court.

To put it bluntly, it was still a struggle between the factions of the imperial court.

The Maritime Administration is in charge of all overseas affairs and was established as a small organization, so it was named "Bureau". Just like the famous Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, it is just an ordinary yamen that the imperial court often builds casually. However, all the officials of this yamen were personally selected by the young Wanli Emperor, so the limelight has always been very strong.

But gradually, there are signs that the Maritime Administration is getting bigger.

First of all, the astronomical income caused by the massive trade after the sea ban was fully liberalized, the household department was instantly red and ready to intervene, and then found that Xu Guangqi took out the holy decree of Emperor Wanli with a smile. When the officials in charge of the household department returned to the capital to report the situation, they found that Emperor Wanli was actually drinking tea with the household department Shangshu at that time, and there were many hints between the words that some officials of the household department were privately annexing the assets of the local government.

At that time, the factory of the East and West Factory and the commander of the Jinyi Guard were all waiting outside the door. Hubu Shangshu directly sold his subordinates and settled the matter.

At this time, the whole imperial court knew that the Maritime Safety Bureau was the forbidden territory of Emperor Wanli, and no one dared to tamper with the Maritime Safety Bureau.

So the Maritime Safety Bureau spent its most vulnerable time and slowly became bigger and stronger. Cooperate with the Southern Army to start the southern expedition, cooperate with the naval army to establish a navy, and establish the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate.

At this time, many officials of the six ministries have begun to feel that the Maritime Safety Bureau is still a bureau? The full force and responsibility are already comparable to the six!

But the time to move the Maritime Safety Bureau is gone, and Xu Guangqi even became a cabinet elder and settled in the cabinet.

At first, Xu Guangqi still needed the support of Emperor Wanli to deal with several other cabinet elders in the cabinet, but as the Protectorate of Annam began to monopolize trade with foreign countries, the tax burden had exceeded that of the inland provinces, and his waist was straightened.

Later, the Protectorate of Annam expanded its territory, conquered Fuso, fought the Luzon Naval War, took over Luzon, opened up the northern route, and established Dongshan Prefecture.

How could such an existence not be hated by the traditional bureaucracy?

However, the traditional bureaucrats of the imperial court could not kill the Maritime Safety Bureau, and now the Maritime Safety Bureau bears nearly half of the annual tax burden of the Ming Dynasty. Without the Maritime Administration, the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition would have to be stopped immediately.

Hearing this, Liu Yifeng had an image in his mind, it was a person with a very hateful smile on his face, and said to the officials of the six departments of the imperial court: "I just like the way you can't get used to me and can't kill me." ”

No wonder on the issue of Dongshan Prefecture, Song Yingxing was sure that there would definitely be someone in the court who would make a move.

The Maritime Administration, arrogant.