Opium War.
This is always painful for any Chinese!
The tragedy of Chinese civilization!
Zhou Chonglin and Tai Junlin called it the "Tea War", which was different from the many previous names and interpretations: "The controversial term 'Opium War' was coined by The Times on April 25, 1840. "Come out" (Bu Zhengmin et al.'s "The Opium Regime"), many Western scholars call it a "trade war" (as does Chinese scholar Zheng Guanying's "Wearing Statements in the Prosperity"), and other scholars regard it as a "silver war" (Frank's "Silver Capital", Lin Manhong "China's Reversal: World Silver Shortage and the Chia-Daoxian Order"), "Currency War" (Song Hongbing "Currency War", Han Yuhai "Who Wrote History in the Past Five Hundred Years") and so on!
But in simple terms.
The root cause of this war is that China earned a large amount of European silver through tea.
The UK, on the other hand, does not want this silver to continue to enter China...
Therefore, they tried to use opium to replace silver and exchange for Chinese tea.
As it turns out, they did!
Since then, Chinese civilization has ushered in the most humiliating period in history!
National tragedy!
National pain!
This time, among the documents Guo Chao brought.
Liu Zheng wrote in red fonts the importance of tea.
Ling Chen.
There was silence for a long time.
"Hahahaha, since it is the Young Master's order, although Ling Chen cannot understand it, these two orders will definitely be completed!"
Guo Chao breathed a sigh of relief and bowed deeply.
…
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations, Your Majesty!"
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations, Your Majesty!"
at this time.
Longyan Jinghua.
In the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
The civil and military ministers all knelt down and shouted in unison.
Xie Tianyao, listen quietly.
Manager Zhou was singing beside him the financial income of the Longyan Dynasty this quarter.
Double it!
Directly doubled!
Now, the members of the scholar-bureaucrat group who had been blocking the opening of sea transportation were afraid to let go.
With the adoption and establishment of the Liaodong Special Economic Zone plan.
This time, Xie Tianyao took a drastic step and directly lifted the sea ban. Of course, there was great resistance. Naturally, the forces of the scholar-bureaucrats in the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River least wanted to see the lifting of shipping. There is no other reason. If the imperial court is dismissed, how can they smuggle? That huge profit will be gone forever.
The economic and trade between Long Yan and other countries belongs to the imperial merchants.
For example, a certain country and Long Yan customized as many pieces of silk, as many pieces of ceramics, and as many tons of tea leaves.
This was done by the imperial court, and then the local government coordinated the delivery.
but……
Despite this, over the years, many countries in the West still found ways to buy silk, spices, and tea from Long Yan.
This also gave the scholar-bureaucrats the opportunity to make money through smuggling...
Over the years, they have accumulated huge wealth through smuggling.
as expected.
As soon as shipping opened, their income was immediately halved.
Long Yan has already liberalized maritime trade, so why does he still engage in smuggling? They can only think of ways to collect inferior goods and adopt low-price strategies in an attempt to maintain their considerable income.
Xie Tianyao was also very happy today. Although there was no news about the national jade seal or Liu Shilang, the sharp increase in financial income still made him feel a lot more relaxed. He laughed and waved his hand: "My dear friends, let me tell you, this Who are the people who come to Longyan to buy silk tea?"
The whole crowd laughed.
One person said: "Your Majesty, they are just a group of barbarians wearing monkeys!"
"Hahahaha, Your Majesty, I heard that these people all have very long hair, and their hair is all yellow!"
"real or fake?"
"Yellow-haired monster?"
"Is this okay?"
A group of people started chattering.
In fact, various foreigners have come to Longyan for a long time, but they can only travel here and then run away. Even those businessmen from the Netherlands can only have some contact with businessmen, and it is really difficult for them to enter the "elegant hall". Therefore, these people have no understanding of what foreigners are like.
"Is it a weird thing with yellow hair?"
Xie Tianyao smiled faintly: "I have heard of it, and he even spoke in the language of birds. Can such a person actually learn the tea ceremony of our Yangyang Longyan?"
The whole audience burst into laughter again.
A minister came out with a smile: "Your Majesty, this time, there happened to be a Westerner who wanted to meet with Your Majesty and promote our tea trade..."
Xie Tianyao was in a good mood and raised his eyebrows: "Really? Where is it, Xuan! Let me see!"
Others are also curious.
After all, they had only seen barbarians at most before.
During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, many of these Westerners came to Longyan. However, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Longyan Dynasty began to seclusion. After that, all these Westerners were driven out of Longyan. In this way, hundreds of years have passed.
Announcement!
Xuan Westerners come to visit!
Pass down the orders one by one.
People are looking forward to it.
as expected.
Soon, a blond man wearing Longyan official uniform walked in.
Under the instructions of several eunuchs, he bowed three times and kowtowed nine times.
When he appeared in front of so many people, these civil and military ministers naturally started to marvel at him and point fingers.
Some people couldn't help but cover their mouths, and some couldn't help laughing at all.
A Westerner wearing Longyan official uniform!
It does look a bit nondescript, and he is imitating this Eastern etiquette and pretending.
That funny look is even more annoying.
Xie Tianyao couldn't help but slap his thigh: "Hahahaha, good, good, good, good! Whoever is coming, please tell me your name!"
The Westerner opened his mouth and spoke rather blunt Chinese.
"Your Majesty, I am a Dutchman, Davis. I am here this time..."
Who knows, these words haven’t been finished yet.
The whole audience burst into laughter again.
"What the hell? What's his name?"
"Be fed to death?"
"Hahahaha, what a bullshit name is this!"
In their eyes, this person is a complete clown.
Xie Tianyao also suppressed a smile: "Okay, Davis, this time you have traveled thousands of miles to come to my heaven. Why are you here?"
Davis bowed: "Your Majesty, the grassroots are here for the tea trade."
"tea?"
People are not surprised at all.
Recently, more and more people come to Longyan to purchase tea. This time, the surge in the Longyan Dynasty’s quarterly financial revenue was all profits generated from tea!
What they don't know is.
The Dutch have begun to promote tea in Europe, and the previous teas have made them a lot of money.
This time.
They are here to get the monopoly!
Must have a monopoly!
Davis looked sincere, but his heart was extremely determined.
If the tea trade rights are in hand, the Netherlands will achieve unprecedented development!
Who knows.
Xie Tianyao, however, was not in a hurry and continued to ask: "Davis, how big is the Dutch empire you are talking about?"
Davis said honestly: "Population two million...an area..."
"A tiny place!"
"Two million?"
"You dare to call yourself an empire? You're laughing to death..."
"Hahahaha, that's it?"
"How dare you come to court? Ridiculous!"
"How much tea can you buy?"
A group of people shook their heads.
A small country in a small area dares to make such wild claims that it wants to discuss business with Emperor Long Yan!
This is not ridiculous!
Someone was even calling the Royal Guards to drive out the ridiculous yellow-haired monster.
Who knows.
Davis continued honestly: "The second-grade tea costs three million stones, the medium-grade tea costs two million stones. The top-grade tea costs one million stones."
"price……"
"We can negotiate..."
quiet.
The whole place was deathly silent.
Everyone's expression.
Suddenly solidified.
