Although the Ming Dynasty was not as good as Jiangnan merchants in terms of business methods, it had a strong national power and was backed by strong national power. If they really wanted to take action, Jiangnan merchants would have no chance of resisting.
Lin Jingchun wanted to eat all the flagship products for foreign trade exports, such as tea, silk, porcelain, and iron pots.
His plan was to make these industries state-owned before the Song Dynasty was destroyed. In this way, when the Song Dynasty was destroyed and after the Song Dynasty was destroyed, there would be no unbearable fluctuations in Jiangnan's economy.
And from the current point of view, the progress of this matter is already very good.
Because the Zhao and Song clans living in Quanzhou and Guangzhou held a considerable part of the Southern Song Dynasty's foreign trade resources.
When they were all captured by the Ming Dynasty, the situation changed.
All the foreign trade resources controlled by the Zhao and Song clans in Quanzhou and Guangzhou belonged to the Ming Dynasty.
The Zhao and Song clan in Fuzhou were entrusted by the Lin'an court to the Ming army, and the foreign trade resources they controlled were split half-and-half - originally, the Ming Dynasty planned to split 30-70, and the Ming Dynasty took three for itself. To be polite, leave seven to the Lin'an court. share interests.
As a result, the Lin'an court took the initiative to split it in half.
If you don't do it half way, you're looking down on me. You must do it half way!
This feeling is good.
Of course, all the economic resources controlled by the Zhao and Song clans in Lin'an City belonged to the Lin'an court after the coup.
In addition to these clans, the high-quality commercial assets controlled by the war criminal families requested by the Ming Dynasty were also swallowed up by the Ming Dynasty.
So for now, in terms of foreign trade alone, the Ming Dynasty has already mastered a considerable part of its resources through the liquidation of the Zhao and Song clans and war criminal families.
The owners of many merchants and production workshops in the mainland that produced foreign trade export goods were transferred from the Zhao and Song Dynasty clans and the Zhanfa family to the Ministry of Finance of the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, because of this land-cutting operation, the Ming Dynasty, which occupied a large area of Jiangnan Kingdom, also took away a considerable number of manufacturers and workshops through military means.
These manufacturers and handicraft workshops directly supply goods to the port for foreign trade, and are an important export force for Jiangnan to earn foreign exchange.
Judging from the current rough analysis, after the entire liquidation operation is completed, the share of Jiangnan State's economic assets controlled by the Ministry of Finance of the Ming Dynasty will be almost half of the entire Jiangnan State's total economic quota.
This is an absolute war dividend that is difficult to obtain by normal commercial means.
Under normal circumstances, the Lin'an court would not easily admit defeat and would fight to the death.
But after the war, the Lin'an court had no possibility of resistance.
This part of the benefits was eaten up by the Ming Dynasty. The Ministry of Finance sent a large number of officials to follow Lin Jingchun south to organize this part of the economic resources, and then go to the place where they should go to collect these economic entities, and then resume production.
Of course, overseas trade can be resumed immediately after production is resumed, and the producers controlled by Mingguo Capital can go to the port to do business without paying tariffs. Compared with the goods of Jiangnan merchants, they will immediately have a cost advantage of tariffs.
Lin Jingchun also plans to set up water cards on the Yangtze River and road cards on important roads in Quanzhou and Guangzhou.
Merchant ships and caravans from the Ming Dynasty or Jiangnan manufacturers controlled by Ming Dynasty capital can pass through free of charge, while merchant ships and caravans from the Jiangnan Kingdom or other types of merchants need to pay tolls.
It is also stuck in this aspect and forcibly increases their operating costs.
Then when entering the port to pay customs duties, customs officials can also use various reasons to block the goods of Jiangnan merchants, hinder them in various ways, and even confiscate their goods using various reasons.
At the same time, Ming Dynasty products will be allowed to enter customs quickly.
As a result, Ming products had some additional cost and time advantages.
After the multiple advantages are superimposed, Mingguo products can start a price war with Jiangnan products in the port.
Except for those goods that are temporarily irreplaceable, all the same goods that Mingguo Holdings or Mingguo itself can produce can squeeze Jiangnan producers out of the competition, and then purchase them at low prices to achieve industrial monopoly and control production and sales. All channels are under control.
Without competitors, the good days of foreign businessmen will come to an end. When it is time to increase prices, prices should be increased, prices should be restored to original prices, and middlemen should be abandoned.
My product, seller’s market, I make the decision!
We should eat what we should eat, and we should earn the money we should earn. Although the business scale of Ming Dynasty does not need to be that large, it is also very meaningful to have more financial savings in precious metals.
Using copper coins as the main currency is still too stressful for China, a copper-deficient country. It is subject to deflation at every turn and is not suitable for long-term development. Therefore, Su Yonglin is also planning to carry out currency reform in the future.
Currency reform requires sufficient reserves of precious metals to back it up, so it is necessary to engage in export commercial trade and promote the inflow of precious metals, especially gold and silver.
Gu Ping
This was what Su Yonglin revealed to Lin Jingchun.
Lin Jingchun, who has been in charge of financial work for many years, also has a clear understanding of this. It can be seen that the current economic situation with copper coins as the main currency is still somewhat difficult.
It's okay in the short term. Once production in the Ming Dynasty recovers and business scale increases in the future, deflation will be almost inevitable, and we must find ways to deal with it at this time.
Increasing precious metal reserves and ensuring the strong value of [baitiao] are the two main paths that must be adhered to at present.
Therefore, Lin Jingchun must fully seize Jiangnan's foreign trade channels. He can't help but start to imagine the future scenario where the Ming Dynasty national team will kill everyone in the commercial field and Jiangnan merchants will lose ground.
There is no way, this is the real [commercial competition], unless absolutely necessary, who is willing to do business with you?
After settling matters in Quanzhou and Lin'an, Lin Jingchun hurried to Guangzhou again.
In this port city at the southernmost tip of the country, Lin Jingchun saw a different style.
He originally thought that Guangzhou would be a hot, dirty and messy place, but when he actually arrived, he found that Guangzhou was very different from what he thought. At least it was far cleaner than he imagined. In terms of infrastructure, Guangzhou was Really good at it.
Although it is really different afterwards.
It was almost December, so he had to wear thick winter clothes in Jiangnan. The terrifying sea breeze on the sea was like a knife blowing on his body, making it uncomfortable and tight.
As a result, when he arrived at the waters of Guangzhou, he found that he only needed to wear one piece of clothing. The unexpected cool weather in the morning and evening and the warm weather at noon made him think that he had arrived at some kind of holiday resort.
However, the navy officers who came to Guangzhou first told him that when they first came here, they thought it was very cool here, but it turned out to be surprisingly hot. The navy soldiers were forced to go shirtless and jump into the sea to swim to cool off until the end of October. This is the case. After November it gradually gets cooler and I can wear clothes.
According to the locals, the period from the end of November to the end of January is when it is easier to wear clothes. The rest of the time is very hot, and from March onwards there is a kind of thing that the locals call Hui Nantian. weather.
At that time, many things stored in people's homes are likely to regain moisture, and the home will become humid inexplicably. The weather will be very hot and muggy, making people very uncomfortable. Sometimes it is even difficult to breathe.
Lin Jingchun, who has lived in Jiangnan since childhood, thought that he was relatively heat-resistant, but he did not expect that the heat in Guangzhou was beyond his imagination.
Having said that.
"However, from the end of November onward, the north is very windy and extremely cold. It might be very comfortable to live here at this time."
The navy officer chuckled and didn't answer.
This is not something he can decide, but since he has lived in the north since he was a child, he prefers the comfortable weather of autumn and dislikes the extremely hot weather.
Then again, Lin Jingchun was here for business, not for vacation. He quickly said and did what he said and did in Quanzhou, and informed them about the tariffs.
From now on, Jiangnan merchants need to be aware of tariffs. If all Jiangnan goods want to be exported from Guangzhou, they must pay a certain amount of tariffs.
This news caused complaints and strong dissatisfaction among businessmen.
They asked Lin Jingchun for an explanation and tried to put pressure on Lin Jingchun, but Lin Jingchun then said that this was something the Lin'an court had agreed to do. If you are dissatisfied, go to the Lin'an court and say, don't come to me.
Businessmen have a clear mind.
The Lin'an court has convinced you. Of course, you will get whatever you say. Whatever treaty you want is whatever treaty you want. Where can we go to reason with you?
No one paid any attention to the complaint!
If I don’t ask you, can it be done if you want to speak the Dharma?
Fortunately for foreign businessmen, Jiangnan businessmen also knew that no matter whether the Ming Dynasty had the next combination of punches, the additional customs tax would be a burden for them, and the customs tax rate was not low, which was higher than the original fee charged by the Shipping Department. If the tax is twice as high, it would still be paid twice. This is too dark.
Can you do whatever you want if you win the battle?
Sorry, you can really do whatever you want.
Especially after killing people to establish their authority, and under the shock of the Ming army, the rules were really set. The businessmen repeatedly proposed to negotiate with Lin Jingchun to no avail. Lin Jingchun made up his mind to do this and would never compromise with them.
Then he turned around and returned to Quanzhou.
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ps: Looking for a wave of monthly tickets and recommended tickets in the middle of the month~~~~
