"Liu Xiang is finished?!" The surprised questioner was about fifty years old, wearing a square hat, a lake blue silk gown, and an emerald pendant hanging from his waist, looking like a common wealthy businessman. [No pop-up novel website] It was Qin Haicheng, the maritime merchant who negotiated with the Australians on behalf of the merchant shipowners trapped in Huangpu during the Battle of Guangzhou.
"Yes, it's over!" The middle-aged man sitting opposite him nodded vigorously, "I received the news that just three days ago, Liu Xiang's gang drove to Hong Kong Island, and Liu Haizhu and his shopkeeper boarded Please surrender to the island. The scene is said to be extremely spectacular, with 400 ships and a population of 30,000!"
"I remember Liu Haizhu had more than just these people and ships..."
"In the past two years, he has been trapped in Chaoshan. First, Zheng Zhilong, and then the Australians, surrounded him until he could not move. He had no money to make, and many of his men and ships probably dispersed."
"It's incredible!" Qin Haicheng shook his head and turned to Xiang Feizhu's chimney, asking a bright-eyed little maid to light his cigarette with paper media. "Liu Haizhu is a Chaozhou person with the most stubborn temper. When Zheng Zhilong was so powerful, he didn't buy it, but he didn't expect that he would bow down to the Australians!"
"The Australians are so strong. Even the Zheng family was completely defeated. Liu Haizhu's physical strength is far inferior to that of the Zheng family. What else can we do if we don't surrender?"
"To be honest, I really didn't expect that Zheng Zhilong would be destroyed so quickly!" Qin Haicheng took a puff and blew out a white smoke ring, "The financial resources of the Zheng family: silver is like the sea. If you want to build ships, you can build as many ships as you want. How much, and they have the support of the government - even the Dutch don't dare to do anything to them, it's over as soon as they say it, even their nest has been raided!"
"Although the Zheng family is not finished talking at the moment, looking at this, they probably won't be able to stay around for long." The middle-aged man who spoke was Liu Deshan, a businessman who specializes in coastal trade. Although he is a native of Dongguan, Guangdong, he is from the south and the north. He looked like a big man from Shandong Province. "I heard that there is great unrest in Weitou Bay. The members of the Zheng family are secretly competing with each other. I'm afraid that if the Australians don't attack them, they will kill them themselves first."
"Although it was unexpected that the Australians attacked the Zheng family, it was actually expected. Even though the sea is big, it still can't accommodate two dragons."
The fall of Zheng's power and Liu Xiang's surrender brought great changes to East Asia's maritime trade. As a maritime businessman, of course, you must carefully analyze the impact on your business.
It has been a long time since the Zheng family's defeat in Weitou Bay, but Qin Haicheng has always been watching with a cautious attitude - in recent months, he has only cooperated with Liu Deshan to conduct short-distance trade along the coast of China, and has not easily Ships were sent to Manila. He was in no hurry to return to the dangerous foreign trade until it was clear who really had the sea power.
"Isn't it? The Australian offensive can simply be described as devastating. Early that morning we heard the sound of artillery coming from the sea at the inn, so we immediately withdrew the Dongshanju with our crew and sailors. Who knew we had just boarded the Dongshanju? Before the ship even set sail, Zheng's Navy had already retreated. The Australian ship immediately blocked the port. In just one day, the Australian soldiers had occupied the entire port. I don't know when. Hou Shang's shore. One day! In just one day, the home that the Zheng family worked so hard to manage was occupied by the Australians..."
The man standing and talking was wearing a Confucian turban and Confucian uniform, but he looked dusty, as if he was a Confucian scholar who had just returned from a long journey. He recalled the situation at that time - although it has been a long time, he still has endless aftertaste. The man in the talking gown is named Chen Huamin, who is Liu Deshan’s cousin. He became a scholar when he was twenty years old, but he failed to succeed in many trials. Seeing that he was almost thirty, his family was established but his career was not yet established, he simply gave up and left. The path of becoming an official through learning and excellence also led to a career in maritime business. His family is a native of Guangzhou and has three generations of maritime merchants. He has been dealing with foreigners since his great-grandfather's generation. Different from other ordinary merchants who sit and wait for the Franji people to come to do business, their family is a merchant who has his own ship and sells the goods himself. There is an old Guangzhou boat at home that is more than ten years old. Chen Huamin has followed his father and uncle since he was a child, taking the old Guangzhou ship to the north to Japan and south to Nanyang to traffic various goods. I have been to Damuan, Nagasaki, Champa, Batavia and other places, and spent most of the year drifting on the sea. Because of this background, Chen Huamin understands the overseas world better than most Ming people and even businessmen, and has developed a unique business vision. Because he was still young, his father was worried about him embarking on overseas trade alone, so he asked Liu Deshan to take his cousin to practice coastal trade first. It happened that a new ship was built at home, and the old Guangzhou ship was Chen Huamin's capital for doing business.
Liu Deshan did not have a ship, so he usually rented space on other people's merchant ships to do business. The business was not large and the expenses were very high. The cousin owns a boat, and the two immediately hit it off and started a business partnership.
Liu Deshan and Qin Haicheng had a long history of business cooperation. Many of Qin Haicheng's overseas goods were supplied by Liu Deshan, so Chen Huamin followed him to the Qin family's foreign company.
"At that time, we all thought that this time there would be no cargo and all the cargo would be swallowed up by the Australians. Who knew that the Australians who came to the port to collect the cargo saw our Lingao sailing flag and checked the Australian Yamen issued by the Bopu The registration sign says that we are Guangzhou-based... so-called 'self-employed', and we are not considered members of the 'Fujian Zheng Group', so we are free to leave."
"You just left Xiamen like this, and you weren't left in trouble?"
"Yes, the Australian leader who led the team also said that as long as the Australian sailing flag is hoisted, the Australian warships patrolling the port will not block our ship from leaving. After that, I sailed on my own to go to Damian Trading. This Everything went smoothly with this transaction."
Liu Deshan smiled and said: "Let me tell you, don't worry. Australians have always been the most disciplined and reasonable in doing things. They are not as unreasonable as the government. At the beginning, Sanliang Town was in chaos. They came to my house to set up artillery. The shooting was over. You even repaired my house - it’s really Qiu’s fault!”
Qin Haicheng nodded. This was not news. When the Australians attacked Humen, there were thousands of ships moored in Huangpu Port, with cargo worth more than one million, but the Australians were not touched at all. How much is an old Guangzhou ship worth? Besides, I bought an Australian sailing flag.
After the Battle of Guangzhou, Liu Deshan felt that the Australians were good business partners and found out that they were in great need of various cold goods, so he boldly transported a shipload of iron ingots produced in Foshan to Bopu to trade with the "Kun thieves". During his days, he continued to traffic various native goods along the coast of China to Lingao and Kaohsiung according to the "Trade Guide" of the Ministry of Colonization and Trade. Later, a route to Longkou, Shandong was also opened.
The profit from this kind of trade is not large, but the income is very reliable. There is no need to worry about the sales of the goods, and the safety of navigation is generally guaranteed. As long as you work hard and run a lot, you are sure to make money.
After accumulating the first pot of gold, Liu Deshan and Chen Huamin discussed that the ship on hand was too old and they might as well use the money to build a new ship. Chen Huamin noticed that the Australians had built a shipyard in Hong Kong and had new-style large ships for sale - civilian version of sea-going ships specially designed by the shipyard for sale. This new type of large ship uses soft sails made of cloth, which not only has better seaworthiness, but also increases the cargo capacity, simplifies the maneuvering method, and sails faster than the old ships. It's just that the price is high, and it's a new thing, so few ship owners dare to ask about it.
At Chen Huamin's suggestion, the two ordered a new large ship at the Hong Kong Shipyard. Chen Huamin was just waiting for the new ship to be completed before he prepared to sail to Nanyang, ambitiously continuing to work in the promising career of maritime merchants.
The original plan for this trip was to go to Songjiang to purchase a batch of silk cloth, then go south to Xiamen, purchase a batch of dried seafood, and then return to Guangzhou for sale. Since it was just a simple short-distance sales trip, Chen Huamin was busy planning the purchase plan for the next six months in Guangzhou, so Liu Deshan led the team alone and expected to return in a month. As a result, I got the news of Liu Xiang's investment in Kun at the right time on Hong Kong Island. Although I didn't know much about business, I knew that the annexation would have a huge impact, so I didn't even make any purchases and hurried to Huangpu to discuss with the partners.
"After Liu Xiang landed in Australia, the route from Guangdong to Shandong has been smoothed all the way!" Liu Deshan said excitedly.
Originally, this route had been generally open since the Battle of Weitou. Especially after the Australians established a coast guard patrol system in the Taiwan Strait, civilian ship navigation can generally guarantee safety. However, after all, the forces of all parties are intertwined, and small and medium-sized businessmen still have to think twice when sailing.
"There are indeed great business opportunities." Chen Huamin calmly went through the whole thing, thought it over, and keenly discovered that there were quite a lot of business opportunities in this incident. As long as you are willing to take a risk, you can get big rewards.
"This opportunity is divided into two aspects: short-term and long-term." Chen Huamin stretched out two fingers.
"In the short term, due to the civil strife in the Zheng family and Liu Xiang's surrender, the Australians are busy processing and digesting the fruits of victory, which will inevitably cause other maritime merchants to wait and see and not dare to enter this area easily. Therefore, from Xiamen, Songjiang and other Jiangnan areas to Da Da Freight transportation in Yunnan and Kaohsiung is at a standstill, which will definitely cause price fluctuations. If goods from outside cannot be brought in, the selling price will rise; if self-produced goods cannot be sold, the selling price will fall. So now we are shipping goods there. Sell it, and then buy local specialties and sell them back, so you can make at least half the profit between the time you enter and the time you leave."
"One and a half times the profit is quite a lot, but it's a pity that it can't be done for a long time! So what are the long-term opportunities?"
"Why do most merchants only travel short distances, usually selling goods between neighboring cities? Don't you know that long-distance trafficking will make more money?!" r1152
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