Chapter 499

There are many countries in the world, and there are only three countries that Cheng Shijie has really dealt with, namely the Republic of Venice City-State, the Spanish Empire and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The status of the Netherlands in the Ming national strategy,Roughly the same as a small book,Nominally one of the Ming vassal states,But many years of deep grievances,Even if Spain wants to fight the dog,Need to tell the owner of the Ming Empire,After obtaining permission,You can beat it casually。

The status of the Dutch Empire in the Spanish Empire is the same, if the Ming Dynasty wants to fight the Netherlands, he only needs to inform the Spanish Empire, and he also does not need to bear any responsibility, when beating the Netherlands, the Spanish Empire is responsible for handing the bricks.

Obviously, Great Britain, France, and Portugal have not yet reached a diplomatic envoy-level relationship with the Ming Dynasty, but they are all fascinated by the Ming Empire's powerful maritime power, as well as silk, porcelain, spices, and tea.

It can be said that now Daming's products, in addition to industrial products, also include life products, and even Cheng Shijie feels incredible that Daming exports more than 160 million pieces of ready-to-wear overseas every year, which is almost equivalent to one and a half pieces of clothing that everyone in Europa has now.

In Cheng Shijie's view, if Daming continues to maintain this momentum of development, Daming's Ming-style Hanfu is estimated to replace suits and become a model of professional clothing in the world. As far as these foreigners who have arrived in Daming are concerned, except for poor sailors, if they have some status, the first thing they do when they come to Daming is to buy decent clothes.

Among them, the most popular is the round-necked Taoist robes of the Ming Dynasty, those priests who are engaged in missionary work, all blue or black round-necked Taoist robes, combing the hair and sideburns of the Ming Dynasty, if it is not for their appearance and accent, they would think they are Ming people.

In fact, the gap between the rich and the poor in Europa is extremely large, the price of these ready-to-wear clothes is not cheap, and now any item in the Ming Dynasty is almost synonymous with luxury goods, just like the tea that the people of the Ming Dynasty consume daily, in the countries of Europa, it is almost equal to the price of the top coffee now, and the rich people above the middle class are required to be qualified and have the strength to enjoy.

As for the porcelain produced by the Ming Dynasty, the same entry level, but also the middle class, it is estimated that there is the ability and strength to enjoy, of course, other goods of the Ming Dynasty are as popular, especially the wheels cast with steel, precision bearings, rivets made of good steel, sugar, cement, steel, etc., are good things that money can't buy.

If nothing else, how many invulnerable plate armor can be made by a shipload of high-carbon steel shipped back? How many times the profit can be made by shipping a boatload of black tea and white sugar back?

There is also the cement that can repair the unstoppable fortifications, the woolen cloth with good breathability and excellent warmth, exquisite ready-to-wear, beautiful shoes, as long as the trademark carries the Chinese produced by a certain manufacturing factory in the Ming Dynasty, it is the fashion of Europa.

Merchants are profit-seeking, and the Far Eastern trade has such a broad prospect, so how can they not go crazy? Cheng Shijie is happy to have a dragon and phoenix fetus, if he doesn't come to pat at this time, when will he wait?

Foreigners who came to Jinzhou to give gifts to Cheng Shijie were naturally very warmly entertained, of course, the privilege is not to be had, in Jinzhou, anywhere in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has absolute control power, what foreigners, who violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty, will be severely punished.

The exile of the exile, the labor reform of the labor reform, as for the diplomatic immunity, it does not exist, whether it is the Venetians or the Spaniards, the crime is dealt with fairly, when these diplomats landed, they specially told the attaché: "Don't fucking make trouble for Lao Tzu, the folk customs of the Ming Dynasty are relatively conservative, and you can't talk nonsense, let alone mess around!" ”

After placing these foreigners to participate in the banquet, they will be sent to the protocol where they live, and it is not cheap to live in the protocol house in Daming, there is no such thing as free, and the price is too expensive, and it is okay not to live, Daming does not recognize their identity as diplomats, and they are not even qualified to meet Ming officials in person.

Of course, Spain is relatively wealthy, and has long chartered a courtyard in the concierge homes in Beijing, Jinzhou, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin and other places, and the rent is basically three years to build a courtyard of the same size.

But the problem is that this is also the way of comparison.

Venice is not as strong as Spain, but it also has a courtyard in the concierge houses in Beijing and Golden State, and Catherine rides a bicycle to Di Bar, the province of the province, the flowers that should be spent, she has always been to save money, as long as Cheng Shijie is, she will go to Cheng Shijie to eat and drink.

Facing this Catherine, who is ready to recommend herself to Cheng Shijie at any time, the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty have become accustomed to it.

Cheng Shijie is serious looking at the gifts sent by these foreign devils, the French sent sixty Shire horses, Daming is no stranger to Shire horses now, this is the ceiling in the horses, Daming currently has more than 45,000 adult strong horses and foals.

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "France is really fucking knocking, sixty Shire horses, who do you look down on?" ”

However, looking at the sixteen French semi-Western beauties sent by the French who want to have a look, a figure, and a face, Cheng Shijie said with a straight face: "What is this, test this king with a beautiful woman?" Imagine what this king is! ”

If Cheng Shijie's eyes hadn't fallen on some indescribable parts of the sixteen beauties, they would have really believed Cheng Shijie's words.

Among the gifts sent by the Dutch, there is one that attracts Cheng Shijie's attention, which is two mats, about two meters long and three meters six wide.

Yes, the entire mat is made of thin slices cut from African ivory, and it is unknown whether it has any special effects, but it is very precious anyway.

The Portuguese offered twenty tiger skins. The pattern of this tiger skin is completely different from that of the Siberian tiger, and there are many fur merchants present, but none of them recognize what kind of tiger skin it is. Of course I don't recognize it, it's a jaguar!

Cheng Shijie smiled at these gifts, but when the Spaniards brought over a few guys who looked like goats, but looked naïve and had a pair of bony eyes, he turned his face.

The Spaniards must have urinated on their heads, what is not good to send, they actually send alpacas!

Cheng Shijie doesn't like this thing, but this kind of cute alpaca, Chang'an princess Cheng Jiayue likes it very much, in later life, one of Cheng Jiayue's classmates raised an alpaca at home, dressed up all day long, and still wearing clothes, Cheng Jiayue was very envious at that time.

But the problem is that at that time, Cheng Shijie didn't have the money to feed this thing, let alone the energy, but now it's okay, Cheng Jiayue took the alpaca and pointed at Sun Pu and said, "Spit her!" ”

The alpaca understood Cheng Jiayue's order and chased Sun Pu to spit.

was so frightened that Sun Pu hid directly behind Cheng Jialong.

The alpaca also wants to spit out the dragon.

Cheng Jialong yelled at the alpaca: "Grass and mud horses, if you dare to spit out Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will fan you all!" ”

The alpacas seemed to understand human speech, and as expected, they turned around and ran.

Cheng Jiayue didn't keep these alpacas by his side, because Xiang Hui didn't like them, Xiang Hui said: "Jiayue, there are still many children who haven't seen alpacas, so it's better to send them to the zoo so that other children can also have a chance to see alpacas!" ”

Although Cheng Jiayue was reluctant, she listened to Xiang Hui's words even if she didn't listen.

Cheng Shijie was reluctant to beat his daughter, only his son, but as soon as Xiang Hui's face was boarded, Cheng Jiayue's calves trembled in fright.

There is no way, this is blood suppression.

Xiang Huike never beat Cheng Jiayue, her eyes were killing, which made Cheng Jiayue extremely frightened.

Sun Pu didn't have a chance to meet foreigners, so she cautiously asked, "Why are all these Fanyi red-haired and blue-eyed, like evil ghosts?" ”

Cheng Jiayue looked disdainful: "Westerners are like this!" ”

Sun Pu is also a little helpless, she has received a lot of resources in Sun's family, and she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but the problem is that her talent is not worth mentioning in front of Cheng Jiayue at all.

As for Cheng Jialong, it is even more powerful, whether it is Confucianism or Western studies, or the miscellaneous studies advocated by Cheng Shijie, you can choose, anyway, the final result of the debate is hanging!

Cheng Jialong, in order to be a good emperor in the future, to be an emperor who is not fooled by the ministers, two time and space, crazy study, not only after learning all the courses in high school, but also in philosophy and sociology, political science, economics, among all Cheng Jialong's personal teachers, Cheng Jialong is recommended to take the college entrance examination in advance and strive to go to the University of Science and Technology.

But the problem is that Cheng Jialong has no interest in Shangshao University of Science and Technology, his biggest interest is to be the emperor, to be the emperor of the world, and not to establish the empire of the Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as Cheng Jialong's two lives in vain.

Zheng Sen looked at these foreign devils and said: "We have a lot of things and everything, why does the regent want to do business with these Fanbang barbarians and let them make our money?" ”

"They sell ores and resources to Daming, how much money can they make? Even if they make money, they still have to buy a lot of tea, porcelain, and silk from us, do you know what the price of these things is? ”

Cheng Jialong pointed to the tea leaves on the table and said, "Just such a bucket of tea will cost them a boatload of ore!" This is equivalent to our money from this person's pocket into that person's pocket, not a penny, and we also get a large amount of ore that we urgently need. ”

Shi Lang understands that foreign devils are tired of opening mines, and then they are tired and tired of transporting them to Daming to sell, in fact, they can't make much money, and a barrel of tea is enough for them to dig a boatload of mines! And the money earned from selling ore was used to buy Daming's goods, and the money just went around in their hands, and then returned to Daming's pocket, and also hitched tons of ore......

These foreign devils who came to Daming for the first time are now deeply shocked by the city, the moon is like water, lighting up the streets, of course, there are street lamps in Dajinzhou, not electric lights, but whale oil lamps, oil lamps with glass covers, lighting up the whole city.

This city never sleeps, unlike those cities in Europe that are dark at night, in fact most European cities are still garbage dumps, and when it rains, sewage flows sideways, and you can see yellow and white things floating in the sewage and animal carcasses at any time.

In the summer, the city is so clean that even at twelve o'clock the streets are bustling with people.

There is no way, there are five or six hundred thousand workers from all walks of life living in Golden State, they need to work during the day, and only have time to go out with their families at night, and when they have money in their hands, they can eat something delicious, buy some new clothes, or have a few drinks with three friends or four friends.

If the Golden State's shops close late at night, they're going to miss out on the huge night market economy, with countless restaurants in the city operating all night, or rather, closed during the day, whether it's ready-to-wear shops, tailors, snack bars, liquor stores, and all sorts of shops, almost until about 12 o'clock.

Even more lively than the city of later generations, this era of entertainment projects are scarce, there is no TV, there is no computer and mobile phone, there is nothing to do when you return home unless you sleep, it turns out that people do not need to sleep for more than ten hours, as long as seven hours of sleep is enough.

In order to leave time for children to go to school, all factories and shops in Daming are open after half past eight in the morning, including government departments, and it is precisely because of this that the nightlife will be more abundant.

The whistling sound on the street in the distance continues, and the ignition of meteors runs into the sky, and then turns into bright fireworks, rendering the white clouds of the night sky colorful, and it is estimated that the fireworks manufacturers are going crazy with laughter these days.

The fireworks field advertised, praying for the blessing of Princess Yong'an and His Royal Highness King Qi, God prayed for blessings with fireworks, but this kind of nonsense is really believed, whether it is believed or not, under the six-fold promotion activities, the fireworks are overwhelming, and there is a long fire dragon swimming in the distance, and a few laughs float from time to time, that is some young people are according to the custom, in this beautiful night lantern parade.

Their laughter added warmth to the cold night, and the river had formed a thin layer of ice below. The steel-framed glass structure of the greenhouse is like a docile beast, lying on the field, there are faint lights, and the neighing of horses is constantly heard in the racecourse under the mountain......

Lord Perez, the special minister of the Spanish emperor beside Francisco, sighed with a face: "When will it be so prosperous in Madrid of our Spanish Empire!" ”

"Dear Repes, Your Majesty the King, you will never be able to build such a city!"

Francisco pointed to the bright lights in the distance and said, "Do you know how much money they need to burn in one night?" It would take almost a few thousand middle-class people to earn a month, which is an unimaginable number! ”

In fact, Francisco was wrong.

The consumption of street lamps is far less than the value created by the night economy, just like the Golden State, for example, street lamps cost almost 600,000 taels of silver every year, and more than 1,600 taels of silver per day. But in fact, the night economy can provide more than 996,000 taels of silver in taxes.

If the government does not turn on the street lights and does not develop the night economy, it will lose millions of taels of silver in taxes.

Rapes exclaimed: "What a fantastic city, so charming! ”

Francisco smiled bitterly: "Dear Repes, don't you know, about ten years ago, the Ming Dynasty was not like this, he, like countless empires, fell into an unprecedented crisis, there were many internal contradictions, there were strong enemies outside, the whole empire was corrupt, just like the ancient Roman Empire, life entered the countdown, it is a pity, at this time, Cheng, the great emperor His Majesty appeared, he took his army and established the beautiful Golden State, which is really a city built on the Golden Mountain." ”

PS: I can't think of it, I really wrote it today.

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