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The big move of the owner of Luzhuang is simply not worth mentioning in the chaotic situation in Shandong. In troubled times, there are so many such grass-headed kings. During the Denglai Rebellion, bandits holding poles and occupying territory were everywhere. Occupying villages and attacking strongholds, harming the people everywhere. Some were even bold enough to join forces to attack the county seat. However, it was difficult for them to maintain their territory under the squeeze of the rebels and Lu Wenyuan. Neither the rebels nor the Senate liked anyone competing with them for food. Zhu Mingxia continuously led the rural warrior teams to sweep away bandits. First, he allowed the rural warriors to train, and secondly, he also captured more prisoners and seized some trophies to supplement himself.
As far as the court is concerned, they have no time to care about the deeds of the owner of the Deer Village on the small island." Because shocking news comes one after another. Xu Congzhi, the governor of Shandong, was killed by the rebels' Hongyi artillery in the ensuing tug-of-war, just like in history. Liu Yulie's defeat and Xu Congzhi's martyrdom became the perfect excuse for a round of party struggle. Politicians from all factions appeared on stage one after another to criticize each other. Wang Daochun, the Shandong patrol commander who broke out from Laizhou and was responsible for the dispatch of the armies in Qingzhou, was violently attacked by the censors. Like Liu Yulie, he was fiercely attacked from all sides because of the defeat of Shahe.
On the eighth day of May in the fifth year of Chongzhen, after a chaotic debate, the commander-in-chief finally came: Zhu Dadian, the former Tianjin military commander, was ordered to patrol Shandong and stationed in Qingzhou for dispatch. Someone needs to take responsibility for this series of defeats. Sun Yuanhua defended Laizhou City and Xu Congzhi had died in the battle. So Wang Daochun, who originally broke out from the city to Qingzhou to take charge of the support, lost his official position inexplicably earlier than in history. He couldn't help but feel inexplicable grief and anger, and returned to his hometown full of complaints. Fortunately, Liu Yulie was with him - he was dismissed from office earlier than in history.
As soon as Zhu Dadian took office, the entire army began to collapse. Lu Zeyang, who had been hoarding grain, grass and firearms and deploying them for suppression work, was not so calm this time. Zhu Dadian was known as a capable minister, and it was in his hands that the war in Dengzhou ended. He knows the course of history. The rebels can't survive for a few more months, and their range of activities will continue to be compressed in the next few months. And Laizhou City will also be able to come to the rescue.
The telegram was concise and concise, but Zhao Yingong knew that there was so much bloodshed behind it, and he couldn't help but sigh. At the end of the telegram, there was Lu Zeyang's plan based on the veteran military and political proposal system: sending a special reconnaissance team to assassinate Zhu Dadian in order to prolong the chaos in Dengzhou.
Under this system, once someone submits a complete proposal. The Standing Committee of the Senate will seek opinions from all senators, including those sent abroad.
Zhao Yingong frowned. He felt that the assassination was somewhat unnecessary. However, he had heard that Zhu Dadian was known as a capable minister. Moreover, we know from history books that he was a scholar-bureaucrat with great national integrity. If he was in charge of counterinsurgency, he would be the governor of Shandong after the event was completed. This would obviously be inconvenient for the owner of Luzhuang who wanted to form a local power separatist regime in Shandong. Think about it from this perspective. Assassination is also an option.
Several more letters and reports followed. He read them one by one and gave written instructions. Then he began to write a letter to the management staff of Wanyou's Shanghai headquarters.
As a full-time trading enterprise in Shanhai Road, "Wanyou", in addition to making profits through its own trade, is mainly responsible for the Senate's commodity sales and material procurement tasks.
Of course, Zhao Yingong usually does not show up at Wanyou, but gives instructions through written orders.
Wanyou is the "gold brand" in Shanlu, and Lin Quan'an personally runs the business at the Yangzhou head office. According to the operation model of Shanhai Road, Wanyou's logistics services and financial services are outsourced to Qizhan and Delong Bank respectively. It focuses on commercial operations and accounts for a large part of its efficient logistics system and flexible and abundant capital mobilization. of cheap. Coupled with Zhao Yingong's work of wining over the Xu family and Fushe, the business was able to get twice the result with half the effort. Sales and profit margins are rising. The amount of dividends last year made Lin Quan'an laugh from ear to ear for days - even though according to Wanyou's articles of association, there would be no dividends for the first three years. Zhao Yingong saw the surveillance report saying that he "walked in the dust and was blown by the wind, and his voice was like a bell."
"Hmph, if we hadn't lacked start-up capital back then, how could we have made you so rich?" Zhao Yingong thought to himself. Sooner or later, it must be mentioned at the Senate meeting: Dilute and adjust Wanyou's share capital, or simply start a new business - this big fat meat of Ming Dynasty trade cannot be profited out of a large piece.
Zhao Yingong was not prepared to let Wanyou directly participate in this trade with Japan - its only role in this trade was to mobilize goods according to his instructions. The specific stocking funds required will be transferred from the foreign trade companies under the Ministry of Colonization and Trade. Anyway, these days, sea trade does not necessarily require a corporate entity.
It's early summer now, when Zheng Zhilong's fleet is riding the southeast monsoon from Fujian to Japan. Shen Tingyang's sand ship cannot leave the port from Shanghai during this season - the sand ship leaves Shanghai in November, and they still have enough time to prepare the goods.
At that time, Japan, like other East and Southeast Asian countries, was very short of daily necessities, so no matter what was shipped to Japan for sale, it was easy to get rid of it: from high-end textiles and raw silk to the most common iron pots, coarse porcelain bowls, and sewing needles. Wait, there is almost nothing that is not easy to sell.
The most important export item was, of course, raw silk. Raw silk in this time and space only begins to appear one after another in the seventh and eighth months of the lunar calendar every year. Zheng Zhilong's fleet has to set off in the summer, so naturally he can't wait, so what he sells in Japan must be the old silk he hoarded last year.
In contrast, his sand fleet set out in winter and could easily purchase high-quality raw silk from that year. The quality is already superior to Zheng Zhilong's raw silk.
Zhao Yingong's ambition does not stop there. Zhejiang produces the best silkworm cocoons in China. If the more advanced silk reeling technology is used to make raw silk, the quality will become the only high-quality silk in this time and space. Tèbié is still a severe drought in Zhejiang this year, and the cocoon production is bound to be greatly reduced. The market price is bound to be high. It is impossible for a purchaser like Wanyou to compete with other silk purchasers on the purchase network, so the purchase is obtained The price will definitely be higher. Producing high-quality raw silk can greatly increase the added value and make it sufficiently competitive.
His instructions to all things: be open to purchasing raw silk and cocoons. A tèbié is a silkworm cocoon. He has written a letter to the Planning Institute to explore the possibility of setting up a mechanized or semi-mechanized silk reeling factory in Hangzhou.
The idea of a silk reeling factory has been around for a long time - it is unthinkable not to consider this issue in a major cocoon production base in the country like Zhejiang. He has communicated with the Planning Institute, the Industrial Energy Commission and the Ministry of Light Industry on this issue. The silk reeling factory is relatively simple in technology and also requires large-scale power equipment. According to the plan given by the Industrial Energy Commission, the construction is basically based on the model of Chen Qiyuan's Jichang Longsi Factory. Strictly speaking, the Jichang Longsi Factory is not a true mechanized silk reeling factory, but can only be regarded as semi-mechanized production. However, the investment is low, the construction and the high-end equipment are a leap forward in improving silk quality. It is very consistent with Zhao Yingong's current material foundation and surrounding environment.
The project of the silk reeling factory has been generally approved and is only waiting for the final approval of the executive committee. Zhao Yingong estimates that the project has a high chance of being approved - after all, raw silk is currently a major export product. It is not only costly to rely solely on partners to collect it on the mainland, but the production scale of native silk is too small according to the level of modern industrialization. . Just satisfying Europe's huge appetite is worth embarking on this project.
In the 17th century, in addition to China, silk was produced in Japan, Italy, North Africa, Central Asia and other places, but no one's production scale could compare with China. Once Zhao Yingong's improved raw silk is produced, with its excellent location, huge output and strong transportation capacity, it can directly defeat all the raw silk industries in these places and form huge monopoly benefits.
In addition to raw silk and silkworm cocoons, he also wants Wanyou to purchase various daily groceries. Tèbié wants to try to purchase all kinds of daily porcelain from Jiangxi - Jiangxi is a big province of porcelain, and its production quantity and quality are higher than those of Fujian, which specializes in exporting And fired Clark porcelain is much higher. It is very difficult to transport porcelain from Jiangxi to Fujian, but it is not difficult to transport it to Shanghai: Jiangxi has a developed inland river transportation system.
In addition, he also applied to the Planning Institute to purchase a batch of Lingao's small hardware products for export to Japan. After all these letters were written, Zhao Yingong breathed a sigh of relief. Give all the letters to the confidential officer waiting outside.
The next step is to wait for news from Japan. The Ministry of Colonization and Trade's channels for Japan should have been opened. When the wind blows in November, the four large sand boats will surely cause a sensation if they sail to Nagasaki or Hirado. Needless to say, it is impossible for Zheng Zhilong or any other Chinese merchant to transport silk from that year. Zhao Yingong sneered a few times. When the time comes, the Jiangnan Jin gentry who begged Shen Tingyang to go to Japan with him to make a fortune may have to restrict the old Shen family to wear clothes. Maybe we will have to get dozens of large sand ships to go to Japan for dumping. They directly filled up the merchant warehouses in Japan and collected all the money. Once the Zheng family's route to Japan is destroyed, he will not be able to survive for a few days - without an economic foundation, everything is empty talk.
No matter how capable Zheng Zhilong was, and no matter how much Xiong Tingbi trusted him, he probably would not have the guts to provoke the Jiangnan Jin gentry, the most powerful ruling and opposition forces in the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, he will either jump over the wall and come out for a decisive battle - this is what the Senate wants; or he will die silently and weakly due to blood loss.
Zhao Yingong thought: This is called defeating the enemy without fighting. Let you see that we can win thousands of miles away without relying on strong ships and guns. To be continued. )
ps: I read the wrong information in some previous chapters. The route from Shanghai to Japan sails in November. If it was said earlier that it sails in the summer, please correct it! Please forgive me!
