Chapter 82: New Members
With Jiang Chen's prompt, Zhu Houxi soon began to act, and a contract from almost five hundred years ago was also presented at this moment.
This is a contract signed between the Ming and Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, or more precisely, the Ming and the entire Europa countries.
This contract is different from the original Ming Dynasty, or even any dynasty of the original Chinese Dynasty.
Such a contract, if it is placed up and down the Manchurian dynasty, I am afraid that it will be abused and boycotted by countless people, because there is only one content in the contract, that is, interests.
There is no great power etiquette, no nobility.
Some have only naked interests.
The content of the treaty is divided into four articles.
First, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and other European countries must open treaty ports for the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming merchant ships need to be exempt from all taxes.
Second, where the Ming merchant ships arrived, the three countries must ensure the safety of the Ming merchant ships.
Third, the three kingdoms rashly started a war, and they needed to make compensation for this war, a total of 40,000 taels of silver.
Fourth, Nanyang has been the Ming Shu State since ancient times, and the countries of Europa have taken the liberty of occupying it, and they must all be evacuated immediately, in addition, this is a provocation to the Ming Dynasty Shu State to pay a certain amount of compensation, and also need to pay compensation to the Ming Dynasty, and the compensation for a station is 10 million taels of silver.
The four contents can be said to be completely unequal treaties.
But at this moment, many countries in Europa have no choice at all, unless they completely abandon Nanyang and Daming.
But that's not possible.
In the Age of Discovery, the most critical link is in the Ming Dynasty, no matter how big the price, they have to stay.
As for the payment to be paid, it seems to be extremely large, but it is really not unacceptable to them.
Forty thousand silver, plus the compensation cost of the port, adds up to almost 100,000 taels.
But this is not borne by one country, but by the entire Europa countries.
Each country adds up to only one or two hundred million, although even one or two hundred million taels is not small, but it is not an unaffordable value.
As for the evacuation from the South Seas.
After the start of the war, they had it in their hearts.
After all, the war was lost, and the result was bound to be so.
Anyway, it's not impossible to use Tianzhu as a transit station, the only problem is the trouble.
As long as they still have the routes, it is enough.
Of course, at this moment, they don't know that with the signing of this treaty, their end has also come.
The most important thing about this treaty is not the reparations, although those can give them headaches, but it is difficult to say how much impact they have.
After all, the Americas, and even the South Seas, island countries, send a huge amount of gold and silver to Europe every year.
With such a value, let alone a billion taels, even if it is two billion, three billion, the whole of Europa can afford it.
But the other two are extremely deadly.
First, European countries need to open their treaty ports to allow Ming merchants to trade freely, and countries must not collect customs duties.
This was the beginning of the economic colonization of China by European countries in later generations.
With the Opium War, the plundering of China by the whole of Europe for nearly a hundred years began.
This came from the Europeans' own methods, the extent of which was not yet known in this era.
Or even if you experience some, you still don't feel it deeply.
After all, in this era, except for China, even European countries have no ability to really dump large-scale products of other countries, and only after the arrival of the industrial revolution can Europe have this ability.
Huaxia is an exception.
With the huge geographical location and rich handicraft industry, even if there was no industrial revolution in the Jiajing period, it was already possible to dump products for the entire world in the world.
Not to mention, this moment is accompanied by the Ming Dynasty inserting into the Age of Discovery.
The germ of capitalism in the Ming Dynasty has already begun.
In the absence of external intervention, the germ of capitalism will inevitably go bankrupt, and the Ming Dynasty will begin industrial upgrading.
Even if the Ming Dynasty does not have the technology of the industrial revolution at the moment, it has already begun to have soil.
Especially when the Ming Dynasty was forced into the Age of Discovery's trade this time, such an outcome was almost inevitable.
Of course, Zhu Houxi at this moment is not clear about this.
This time, the contract was only formulated by Zhu Houxi based on what Jiang Chen described.
His gaze was still fixed on the white silver.
Three months after the contract was signed.
Shiploads of silver and gold were transported to Kyoto by sea.
When looking at the gold and silver, the smile on Zhu Houxi's face never disappeared.
Consciousness is even more excited to discuss in the group.
Zhu Di is even teaching Zhu how to carry out currency reform.
Zhu Houxi listened to the teachings of his ancestors.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di "That's it, too much gold and silver, will inevitably lead to the inflation that Mr. said, you have to carry out monetary reform now, and strive to make the people of the Ming Dynasty accustomed to using treasure money, so that there will be no big problems." ”
Ming Shizong Zhu Houxi: "Master Tai, but it is difficult for anyone to recognize the Ming treasure banknote now." ”
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di: "Don't worry, I have Xia Yuanji here, Mr. perfect plan, you can see it at a glance." ”
Ming Shizong Zhu Houxi: "Thank you, Master Tai." ”
Emperor Zhao Yu at the end of the Song Dynasty: "Your Majesty Sejong, Your Majesty Yongle's plan is very powerful, and both teachers praised it." ”
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di: "Hahaha! ”
Lines of text are presented, and everyone is still in full swing.
It's obviously late at night.
Jiang Chen looked at a few people chatting, interjected a few times, and then turned off the computer.
Start washing and go to sleep.
Jiang Chen went offline, but everyone in the chat group did not go offline.
Still discussing excitedly.
And in their chat, the popularity of the chat group began to increase.
Finally, when the heat has risen to a new level.
"Buzz!"
A ripple spread in an instant.
I don't know if it's a coincidence.
This time it was late at night, and the system turned on the search function of group members again.
In a daze, a mechanical voice sounded next to Jiang Chen's ears.
"Ding, do you want to open the group member search!"
"No answer, the system will search automatically!!"
"Searching!"
"Search complete!"
"Recruiting!"
"Successful recruitment!"
One after another, the sound was mixed and gradually came to an end.
And as the curtain came down on these sounds, the two space-time moments had a fluctuation at this moment, and at the same time, the golden ripples also spread to this space-time everywhere.
(End of chapter)