Strict control? That's easy to say!
Emperor Zhu glanced at Qian Qianyi and said, "What Emperor Zheng said is wrong. How could there be firearms flowing from our country to the Eastern Han Dynasty? The firearms of our country are slightly worse than those of the Western countries, and more expensive than those of Japan. Even if there are profiteers, they will definitely use the Western weapons to make money." , Japanese firearms were imported to the North. As for the words 'Made in London, England', it was probably framed by someone with deliberate intentions!
Prince Zheng, do you think so? "
"Yes, yes, your majesty is wise! Those fire guns are either Japanese or Western. They may also be produced in Tianzhu."
Zheng Zhilong is more clever than a profiteer? When Zhu Cixiang mentioned it, he immediately knew that this matter could not be blamed on domestic profiteers.
Because to control the export of firearms is equivalent to imposing a maritime ban - how to control firearms? Now, if you build a sea boat with a load capacity of 1,000 stones, you can ask the shipyard to equip it with a few 3-pound guns and 6-pound guns.
As for the fire gun, it is a must-have item for long sea voyages! Not only the merchants and pirates want to buy, but even the farmers who go to the Jinghai navy and Jinou army to cultivate the land, everyone has a gun... If the ships don't have cannons and everyone has a gun, going out with bare hands is not a colonizer. Instead, they are used as slaves!
So from the perspective of internal control, colonial expansion is really better than closing the country off!
As for the firearms that flowed out of the Ming Dynasty Port, there is no need to ask whether some of them will flow to the Qing Dynasty - 100% yes!
Once the ship goes out to sea, it’s the free world!
No royal laws, absolute freedom!
Therefore, it is completely normal for domestic and foreign profiteers to sell the firearms of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. Even if all the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are loyal merchants, how can they control so many Western merchants? If we want to prevent openly made firearms from entering the Qing Dynasty, the only way is to restore the maritime ban...
"Prince Zheng," Wu Xiang, Minister of War, suddenly asked at this time, "In your opinion, who imported Japanese or Western firearms into the Qing Dynasty and then framed them for England?"
Netherlands! Must be Dutch!
Zheng Zhilong had lived with the Dutch and worked as a comprador for the East India Company. He knew very well what these heartless profiteers could do for money!
"Spain! It must be Spanish!" Zheng Zhilong said through gritted teeth.
He cannot reveal the face of the Dutch - because the core of Ming Dynasty's overseas policy is pro-Dutch!
Because the Western countries with strong influence in the Eastern Sea these days are the Netherlands, England, Spain and Portugal.
Let alone England, the future will be an empire on which the sun never sets! Could Zhu Cixi not be on guard against them?
The relationship between Portugal and the Ming Dynasty was very good, but Portugal is now a clay Buddha. It was completely suppressed by the Dutch in Southeast Asia and India. It was even worse in Europe. It was swallowed up by Spain for 60 years. It is still fighting a war of independence.
And Spain is the empire on which the sun never sets, and it is a bit stupid. It wants to go to war with the whole world. How can the Ming Dynasty be friends with Spain?
Therefore, the only Western powers that can cooperate are the Netherlands, the sea coachman.
Since I have no choice, I can only turn a blind eye...
"What Emperor Zheng said makes sense!" Zhu Cixiang nodded, "It must be the Spaniards who are causing trouble! That Caballero has been gone for several months without even a reply... It seems that he doesn't want to sign a contract with us. The Treaty on the Protection of Aliens!
This group of Western barbarians are simply nothing. Not only did they take away our vassal Luzon, but they also used our people to farm and build houses for them. After using it, they didn't want our people to make any money, so they levied heavy taxes and enacted harsh laws to force them to Our people rebelled, and then they went on a killing spree! After killing a group of people, they came to trick our people into making a living in Luzon.
Now we are openly smuggling guns produced by our Ming Dynasty to the Donglu. It is really too much! "
"Your Majesty, the Spaniards are the worst thing. They are really hateful!" Zheng Zhilong gritted his teeth. "They invaded Taiwan a few years ago and forced the Ming people on the island to build fortresses for them... This Waiting for evil thieves is really a big trouble for me on my way to Nanyang from the Ming Dynasty, so I have to be on guard!"
Zheng Zhilong followed Zhu Cixiang's words and shouted to kill him, but he just shouted.
The large sailing ships of the Spanish were not enough to meet the navies of the Dutch and English, but the Ming navy could not defeat the Spanish navy.
The Ming Navy, including the Zheng family navy, only has seven 500-ton galenic ships capable of traveling across the ocean. These seven galenic ships were copied from armed merchant ships. They are not real warships, at best. It's just an armed merchant ship with relatively strong firepower.
After all the Galenic ships in this batch are completed (all can be completed by the end of the third year of Hongxing), the Anping Zheng family shipyard and the Shanghai Lopez Shipyard (run by the Portuguese) will begin to build real Galenic warships. It is not a large ship of more than 1,000 tons, but a replica of the Dutch East India Company's "Hettok" battleship. In order to "copy it well", Zhu Cixiang also negotiated with Van Diemen in the first month of the third year of Hongxing and reached an agreement. A "technology transfer contract" to lease the "Hertok" for 12 months, purchase the drawings, and hire 20 Dutch shipbuilding engineers. For this reason, the Ministry of War and Navy Department of the Ming Dynasty had to spend 80,000 taels of silver and a replica of the first ship of the Hertok to the East India Company. In order to fulfill this contract, Emperor Zhu could not even fall out with the Dutch!
Although the Hertok is just a 600-ton (load ton) medium-sized Galen warship with two gun decks and can only be equipped with a maximum of twenty-four 12-pound long guns, this is an authentic warship and is enough It is sturdy and has very good seaworthiness, making it suitable for ocean warfare. Better than any warship currently owned by the Ming Dynasty!
But compared with the Spanish Galen, this battleship is a bit worse. Many Spanish galleons had a deadweight of over 1,000 tons and were equipped with 24-pound cannons. If the "Hettok" class is operated by Dutch sailors, it will not be afraid of the Spanish galleons, but the level of the Ming Dynasty's naval officers and soldiers is limited - a century-old navy is not something you talk about casually. Who can expect the Ming Dynasty Navy that has only been in operation for a few years? Are the skills of the officers and soldiers comparable to the Spaniards?
Zhu Cixiang nodded: "Since the Spaniards are unwilling to protect the Ming people in Luzon, then I have issued an order to evacuate the overseas Chinese... Jing Haijun's Jinlan Commercial Port will be open to all Ming people in Luzon, as long as they are willing If you go to Jinlan, you can get a piece of residential land, a piece of agricultural land, or a piece of land where you can build a shop or workshop for free. You will not need to pay any taxes in the next three years, and you will pay half the tax in the next two years."
The current Jinghai Navy and Jinou Army cannot be responsible for their own profits and losses, and must provide large-scale subsidies from the court to maintain them. Therefore, the two vassal towns had little autonomy, and the Ming court could also command remotely - in fact, it was Zhu Cihong and Zheng Zhilong who were commanding.
The method they used to develop their colonies was to combine commercial cities with medium-sized capitalist farms—specifically, they used commercial cities as the economic center and farms as the economic basis to develop colonization.
There are currently two commercial cities as economic centers. One is called "Jinlan", which is probably where the Jinlan Bay is located in the market outlook, and is the center of the Jinou Army; the other is called "Jinou", which is the original Chaigun and is the center of the Jinou Army. .
Surrounding these two economic centers are farms in units of 500 acres. Although Zhu Cixiang did not advocate equalization of land, he also knew the dangers of the large-scale real estate system, so he limited the size of farms in the colony from the beginning. . There is not only an upper limit, but also a lower limit. The upper limit is 5,000 acres (per household), the lower limit is 500 acres, and colonial farms can only be transferred and inherited in units of 500 acres. For a farm of 500 acres, no form of division is allowed to ensure the scale effect of the farm and the tax revenue of the colonial government.
In addition, all people arriving in Jinlan and Jinou from the Ming Dynasty (now including Luzon) can receive 500 acres of land for free to establish farms. If you are unwilling to cultivate land, you can receive a piece of white land in Cam Ranh and Ca Mau for building houses or running businesses.
