"What Your Highness said is the glass business?" Below, a merchant had a different color flashing in his eyes, and he got up and coaxed.

"The Shen family's glass business is making money day by day, and we have been coveting it for a long time!"

"We are all Suzhou businessmen, and now only the Shen family is flying and flourishing. Since Your Highness has also asked us to cooperate today, he will definitely not treat us badly! ”

"Everyone, have I ever thanked His Royal Highness King Wu for his great kindness?"

As the man coaxed, the rest of the people also thanked Zhu Su loudly. A group of people were in a mess, as if they had set up Zhu Su with beautiful words.

Only Shen Wang, who had just been suppressed by Zhu Su last night, and a few old and serious people, faintly felt that it was not good, and sat upright in their seats.

"Heh......"

Zhu Su didn't answer, he still had a smile on his face, but his eyes no longer had the lazy and casual meaning of Fang Cai.

He didn't stop drinking, just smiled and continued to look at the chaotic crowd below. It wasn't until the shouts of thanks from the people below gradually stopped that Zhu Su turned to Shen Wang and said, "Second Uncle Shen." This was the first to speak. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Back to Your Highness." Shen Wang didn't dare to slack off, he stepped forward directly, knelt on his knees and respectfully replied to Zhu Su: "This is the big salt merchant and horse member of this mansion. ”

"Outside the horse." Zhu Su nodded, with an inexplicable smile on his face: "Ma Yuanwai is really a shrewd person, as soon as he looks at him, he guesses the meaning of this king." ”

"I invite you here today, there is indeed a big business, and I want to share this cup of soup with you."

"Ladies and gentlemen, are you interested in doing this overseas business with this king?"

"Overseas?" Below, the merchants' brows were all furrowed, and many people turned their heads and ears when they heard these two words.

"Temple...... Your Highness ......" that rice merchant Zhao Yunyan opened his mouth a little timidly and said:

"Your Highness wants to do business overseas, does he want to reopen the Silk Road?"

"I don't know what kind of cargo business I want to do?"

"Silk Road, Silk Road, naturally silk." Zhu Su sat on the top road. "The silk you weave in Suzhou has been well-known in the north and south since the Song Dynasty, and is known all over the world."

"This is my Chinese precious thing, many different races, all yearn for it. If it can be sold to Fanbang by sea, how much profit is there, presumably there is no need to say this Wang Ming, right? ”

"In the Song Dynasty, you were rich in Suzhou Mansion, and you must be clear."

"I have something to tell you. In the eyes of those red-haired ghosts, the silk and porcelain of my China are extremely precious and rare things. ”

"If it can be transported to the other place, a pound of silk, you can get dozens of catties of silver!"

"It can be even higher!"

"This matter, the classics of the Tang and Song dynasties, are well documented. Luhai Silk Road profiteering, do you wait? ”

"It's worth hundreds of times! My Suzhou is the hometown of silk, this kind of profiteering, I Suzhou people don't take it, do you have to give it to others? ”

There were some merchants sitting in the corner below, their eyes lit up. Zhao Yunyan was still frowning. But it was the salt merchant surnamed Nama who continued to ask: "Your Highness, we naturally know about overseas profits. ”

"It's just that His Highness is young and doesn't know. This sea is no longer as good as the Song Dynasty. ”

As he spoke, he put on a preachy appearance: "Let's not mention that the plague is rampant now, going to sea is no longer as easy as it was in the past. ”

"I said that now I am in ruins, and there are not many big ships. Although we also covet the huge profits overseas, we are really powerless! ”

"Your Highness will not, you want me to wait for my own ship to go to sea, right? Even if we build a big ship, we can't beat the Japanese at sea! The horse salt merchant spread his hands together.

"This horseman is not right." Zhu Su smiled slightly. "This sea of gold and silver, we don't take it from the Ming people, and in the future, there will naturally be Japanese people, Korean people, and even those red-haired ghosts in the West to take it."

"You also know that His Majesty has opened a shipyard in Poyang Lake, and its intention to reopen the sea ban has been clearly revealed."

"Since the imperial court wants to open the sea ban, it will naturally send sailors to inspect the troubles. The danger of the Japanese is naturally unhindered. ”

"As for the shipless, this king has come for this."

"After some time, the imperial court will have a grain ship to carry military grain by sea from the south to Liaodong."

"This is the business that this king wants to do with you. If you wish, the king will make room on the grain ship to carry the goods for you. ”

"This king knows that none of you have ever done shipping business, and this time is an opportunity for you to become familiar with the shipping business. Selling goods to Goryeo is not as lucrative as selling them to Western red-haired ghosts. ”

"However, there are still profits. With the imperial fleet escorting, you naturally don't need to worry about the Japanese rampant on the sea. ”

"When you are familiar with the process of shipping, and the imperial court has begun to increase its efforts to clean up the seas, you and other experienced Suzhou merchants can be the first to take advantage of this policy and set sail to the sea to make gold......

"Can this king still do this business?"

Zhu Su's words are not untrue. After the defeat of the Lingbei Battle in the fifth year of Hongwu, the Ming court changed its combat strategy against the Northern Yuan Dynasty in a timely manner, from "taking advantage of his illness to kill him and purging it at one time" to "accumulating strength and encroaching step by step".

In order to guard against the Northern Yuan separatist forces in Liaodong: Naha, the Taiwei of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Lao Zhu gathered an army of nearly 70,000 on the border of Liaodong, and while building Beiping Mansion (now Beijing), he "judged the situation and waited for the opportunity to move". And the grain and grass of this army is a sea transportation route opened up to supply.

In recognition of the maintenance of this shipping route, Lao Zhu even named a new "marquis of the sea".

Some wild history and pheasant scholars framed the Ming Dynasty for completely abandoning the coastline, saying that Lao Zhu ordered that "no piece of board should go to the sea". This is pure. In the 14th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang strictly affirmed the policy of banning the sea, but only said that "the Japanese still did not collect their footprints, and ordered that the people on the coast of the sea were forbidden to forbid overseas countries".

After all, at that time, the real and the fake were already mixed. Who knows if you built a ship and went to sea without permission, whether you went to do business or went to work as a widow?

It can only be said that although it was a bad policy of passive defense, at the time, it was actually excusable.

Interestingly, the words "the board shall not go to the sea" were actually first from the "Biography of Zhu Kun" repaired by the Qing Dynasty, and they were not what Lao Zhu said at all. Come to think of it, it was the book repairers who deducted the maritime ban policy implemented by the Qing Dynasty itself at that time, and took it for granted Zhang Guan Li Dai to the head of the Ming Dynasty.

No further ado. It was only said that after Zhu Su said that the imperial court was going to open up a new shipping route, the merchants below suddenly couldn't sit still. As businessmen, they naturally know how much interest there is on this sea.

Now the territory of Daming is dilapidated, and there are some places where there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. How much silk can be sold with so much silk produced in Suzhou?

But if it is sold to a foreign land...... Those foreign lands have always admired Huaxia's clothes, and most of them are "stupid and have a lot of money", and transporting China's silk porcelain to the outside is no different from picking up money in Jinshan!

If there is really a large army to escort it, this business can be done!

A group of people suddenly exchanged ears.

"Your Highness." But it was the old and serious Zhao Yunyan who spoke again.

"Your Highness is willing to take us to this business."

"I just don't know, what do you want my Suzhou businessman to pay?"

(End of chapter)