Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 369 Multinational Company, Wandering Emperor (seeking subscription, monthly pass)
"General, how do you get the principal of 100 million taels? Where should the head office of the Mongolian East India Company be located? Who is in charge of this company?"

The one who asked this series of questions was Wu Guogui, who is now well-fed in the three kingdoms of Ming, Zhou, and Qing.In Daming, he was the King of the West and the father-in-law of the Great General.In Dazhou, he was the third uncle of Emperor Wu Shifan and Wu Adou, and the third younger brother of Prime Minister Wu "Sai Zhuge".In the Qing Dynasty, he was still Wu Huangshu of Emperor Kangxi Wu Xuanye!It seems that he is the one to preside over the Mongolian East India Company.

Li Zhongshan had already made up his mind, and he said with a smile: "Our Mongolian East India Company is following the example of the Dutch East India Company. All the methods and regulations are directly used by the Dutch East India Company. The Dutch East India Company At the beginning, the shares were subscribed by rich and powerful businessmen in the Netherlands, but now the shareholders are all over Europe, and it has become a company that crosses national borders. Therefore, the millions of shares of our Mongolian East India Company are led by the dignitaries of our three countries Take it out, isn't it difficult?"

Of course it's not difficult!
Although the current Daming is heavily indebted and the Great Zhou cannot make ends meet, the Qing is desperately poor.But the dignitaries of the Three Kingdoms are all rich! One million taels are divided into three, and each family is only 100 thousand taels.

That's not a lot of money!
And the dignitaries of the Three Kingdoms are all willing to invest money.From the perspective of people on both sides of Wu Zhou and the Qing Dynasty, whether it is following the example of the Han and Tang Dynasties to open up trade routes in the Western Regions, or following the example of the Mongols to go to the West to plunder. This is a steady profit without loss!

In Li Zhongshan's view, the Western Regions and Central Asia are a channel, as long as they can extend their tentacles into India, then it is impossible to lose money!Even if he really lost, he would admit it.

Because the strategic benefits that can be obtained by entering India are not comparable to the expenditure of hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels of silver.

After all, Ming's navy will not be able to compare with the navies of Western countries in the foreseeable future.If you want Ming's sea power to enter the Indian Ocean, you have to make a breakthrough on land first.Then, in the name of an "old friend" of the Mughal Empire, they entered from the sea at the invitation of Emperor Aurangzeb—the Western colonists who now dominate the Indian Ocean should have not simultaneously offered to the Ming Dynasty, Great Mongolia, and the Indian Mughals. The courage of the great powers on the mainland to challenge.

Since ancient times, the land passage to India seems to have been through Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass.However, in the foreseeable future, the army of Ming Dynasty does not seem to have the possibility of controlling Central Asia, advancing into Afghanistan, and then heading south to India.It's not that the Ming army's combat effectiveness is not good, but that the Ming army can't solve the logistics and transportation and the governance of the Mughal region. In any case, it is impossible for Ming to play the banner of the Great Mongolia or the Chagatai Khanate, right?Even if Li Zhongshan ignored the facts and designated it as Yuan, it would be difficult for him to control the Mongolian nomadic tribes to participate in the Western Expedition.

It is not so difficult for the Qing Dynasty and Wu Zhou, who have certain nomadic attributes and can borrow the Great Mongol Kingdom and the Chagatai Khanate, to take the road of the Western Regions, Central Asia, and Afghanistan.

Therefore, investing in the Western Expeditions of Wu Zhou and the Qing Dynasty is a method worth trying.Even if the investment is all lost in the end, as long as you can get the ticket to enter the Indian Ocean, it will be worth it.

Seeing that Wu Guogui, Chang Ning, Mingzhu, Wang Shirong, and Fang Ying did not raise any objections, Li Zhongshan went on to say: "The share capital of 100 million taels can be split into 1000 shares, and 330 taels per share. Daming subscribes for 330 four shares. , Dazhou subscribes for 330 three shares, and Daqing also subscribes for [-] three shares, adding one piece is exactly [-] shares."

"That's not bad. For this split, everyone just needs to get it together."

"One share is only 1000 taels, and it's quite easy to get together."

"I think this is very good, so let's do it!"

Seeing that everyone has no objection, Li Zhongshan said again: "As for the general name of the Mongolian East India Company, it can be placed in Xuzhou. Xuzhou is located at the junction of Ming, Qing, and Zhou. The territory is flat and the transportation is convenient. It’s not really a battleground for military strategists, but a piece of land can be taken to build a commercial city that communicates with the three countries, and it can be handed over to the Mongolian East India Company as the head office of the company.”

Currently Xuzhou is under the control of the Qing Dynasty, but to the east of Xuzhou are Chenzhou controlled by the Ming Dynasty and Yanling County in Kaifeng Prefecture, and to the west and south of Xuzhou are Ruzhou, Nanyang, and Runing controlled by the Zhou Dynasty.Moreover, there is no danger in Xuzhou to defend, and the warlord Zu Liangbi stationed in Xuzhou has no strong soldiers, and he can't afford to provoke anyone around him.It could not be more appropriate to put the general name of the Mongolian East India Company there.

Moreover, with such a commercial market there, the trade between the Ming, Zhou, and Qing countries was much more convenient.

"Okay!" Chang Ning nodded immediately, "You can agree to Wang Shilang, Master Fang. If you have no objection, then it's settled."

Both Wang Shirong and Fang Ying looked back at Wu Guogui, and seeing Wu Guogui nodding slightly, they both agreed.

Li Zhongshan also said: "The governance of the Dutch East India Company is the general responsibility of the 17-member council established in the Netherlands, and then the councils of the lower branches are in charge of each share, and they are responsible to the 17-member council. Our Mongolian East India Company can do the same thing. Shareholders elect 18-member council. Ming, Zhou, and Qing each elect six people to stay at the headquarters to discuss major policies. Then, according to needs, set up the Western Region Council, The Kipchak Council, the Riverside Council, and the Indian Council. Each council is composed of 18 members, and the members are all elected by the three parties."

"This method is very good!"

"The three families contribute money, and if there is something to do, the three families should discuss it together."

"However, how should the military expenses for this Western Expedition be paid?"

"Yeah, a million principal is not enough!"

People from Wu Zhou and the Qing Dynasty were not interested in how the Mongolian East India Company operated and managed it. What they cared about was still raising salaries for the Western Levy.

Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "This is also easy to handle. As long as the Great Mongolian State and the Chagatai Khanate grant the Mongolian East India Company the trade management rights and taxation contract rights to open up trade routes in the Western Regions and India, the Mongolian East India Company will be able to provide Ming Merchants in the territory of Qing, Qing, and Zhou took loans. Let alone a few million taels, isn’t it a piece of cake? And these millions of taels don’t need to be repaid by the Great Mongol Kingdom and the Chagatai Khanate, just let Mongolia The East India Company only needs to return the principal and interest through trade management and taxation.”

Chang Ning was so happy when he heard this, he slapped his thigh and said, "Isn't this just letting the Mongolian East India Company become a businessman?"

Li Zhongshan nodded and said: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, when the Mongols ruled the Han land, they used Semu merchants to scrape Han land's money. Now that the Mongols rule Semu people's territory, they should use Han merchants to scrape Semu money." "

"But where can we find so many profiteers who can go to the west to impress people?" Mingzhu frowned and asked, "Shikai, can your Anhui merchants, maritime merchants, and Cantonese merchants in Ming Dynasty be able to do it?"

"They can't do it," Li Zhongshan waved his hand and said with a smile, "Isn't there the old west of Shanxi and Shanxi? The Mongolian East India Company can subcontract the following trade routes and tax rights to Shanxi and Shanxi merchants. I belong to Ming Dynasty. Huizhou merchants, maritime merchants, and Cantonese merchants only need to invest in dividends, and lend money to collect interest.”

Merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi were once neck and neck, but later Shanxi merchants took the path of the Qing Dynasty and completely overwhelmed the Shanxi merchants.If Li Zicheng was the victor in history, the Shanxi merchants would probably have to be trampled underfoot by the Shanxi merchants.

Today, the financial management of the Qing Dynasty relies on Shanxi merchants, the financial management of the Great Zhou relies on Shanxi merchants, and the industry and commerce of the Ming Dynasty relies on Huizhou, Maritime, and Cantonese merchants.When it comes to the strength of these major merchant gangs, merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi are definitely not enough, but they still have to rely on them to go to the west entrance.

However, what Li Zhongshan did not expect was that the largest profiteer on the southeast coast of Ming Dynasty, the total tonnage of his private fleet was comparable to Zheng Jing of the Dutch Navy and the British Navy, and he had recently found a wandering emperor who could do the dirty work for him. loyal!
Geng Jingzhong's actions in Ryukyu can be hidden from the Spaniards and Li Zhongshan (Li Zhongshan's intelligence network has not yet covered Ryukyu, so he will not know if Zheng Jing does not report), but he cannot be hidden from the East Asian "Sea Overlord". "Zheng Jing.

However, Zheng Jing did not tell Li Zhongshan that Geng Jingzhong occupied Ryukyu and was still cheating and abducting everywhere, and wanted to wander to the New World.

This is because Zheng Jing is the "big brother" of southern Fujian and Chaozhou maritime merchants.And the Hokkien and Chaozhou people were slaughtered and slaughtered by the Spaniards in Luzon, and they were slaughtered as fat pigs!Therefore, Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Jing and his son hated the Spaniards to the bone.Zheng Chenggong was planning to attack Luzon before he died of illness, and Zheng Jing was also considering whether to invade Luzon before participating in the anti-Qing and Ming-ming campaign.It was only because the opportunity to go north to Fujian suddenly came that he temporarily shelved this idea.

But now Zheng Jing has taken over the actual control of Fujian, and using the name of Daming Yiwang and his own powerful sea power, he has completely controlled the network of Fujian and Guangdong merchants all over Nanyang.

With the actual control of Fujian, the network of Chinese merchants in Nanyang, and the East Asian arsenal in Foshan, Guangdong, which can continuously provide him with advanced guns to arm his army, Zheng Jing naturally wants to drive the Spaniards out of Luzon. gone.

However, he also knows that it is not Da Ming's national policy to go to war with Spain - Da Ming now only has three parts of the world, and the internal integration is not yet complete, so it is impossible to go to war with Spain.

So after he discovered that Geng Jingzhong, who had nowhere to go, was going to venture to the New World, he wanted to give him a hard push behind him. No matter how Geng Jingzhong died in the New World, as long as he can attract the limited troops of New Spain, Zheng After that, it will be possible to seize Luzon by opportunism.

And after capturing Luzon, Zheng Jing can also reconcile with the Spaniards by betraying Geng Jingzhong, and sharing the Pacific trade line is perfect!
As soon as the wishful thinking was made, his envoy Feng Xifan, the marching commander of Yiwangfu, took Geng Jingzhong's wife and children to the small Ryukyu Island.

"Your Majesty, your wife and children, the other captured soldiers of the Jing Army and their wives and children were all exiled to Dayuan Island by the General's Mansion!"

In Geng Jingzhong's General's Mansion, which was the former Satsuma Clan's Zaifan Enforcement Office, after Feng Xifan returned Geng Jingzhong's wife (Yue Le's daughter) and son together, he told Geng Jingzhong another important news—— The family members of Geng Jingzhong's subordinates were actually taken hostage by Zheng Jing!

Geng Jingzhong asked: "Presumably King Yi spent a lot of money on them, right?"

"It's okay," Feng Xifan said with a smile, "it's only a few million. The general's mansion is short of military pay. It costs food to raise those captives, and it hurts morality to kill them, so I handed them over to King Yi in exchange for money. But you can rest assured. , King Yi's heart is kind, he didn't let these captured people open up new land, but let them work in the well-earned land that had been opened up long ago."

It is very dangerous to open up habitats in tropical areas, and it is easy to be infected with malaria!
In order to settle in Dayuan Island, many people of Zhengming Group died of malaria.But now that the Zheng Ming Group has returned home in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, there are very few people left on Dayuan Island. After the party members of Geng Jingzhong, Yue Le, and Jie Shu were captured, they "wholesale" to Zheng Jing and asked them to fill in. The gap helped Zheng Jing operate the sugar cane plantations and sugar factories on Dayuan Island—in this era, the sugar manufacturing technology was monopolized by China, and the pillar industry of Dayuan Island was sugar production.

And these captives who were placed on Dayuan Island have now become Zheng Jing's tools to manipulate Geng Jingzhong. This Zheng Jing really won!

Zheng Jing was paralyzed when he won, and Geng Jingzhong lost miserably. He looked at Feng Xifan with a livid face and asked, "What does King Yi mean? Do you want to use my army's family to force me to surrender to the Ming Dynasty?"

Feng Xifan shook his head and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't get me wrong, my lord has no such intentions. Moreover, the General didn't offer any reward for your head. You have already turned the page in China."

Turned the page. This is more sad than spending so much money to be arrested and brought to justice!
He is Geng Jingzhong, it is no longer important, so that the General's House is too lazy to arrest him!
Geng Jingzhong's face was livid: "Feng Sima, since this king has already turned the page, why are you here?"

Feng Xifan smiled and said: "Your Majesty, you have turned the page in China, but you have just started overseas! If the news my lord got is correct, are you thinking about going to the New World now?"

Geng Jingzhong frowned, and looked at Feng Xifan with burning eyes.

The fact that he wants to go to the New World is a secret!Not many people under him knew about it, but Zheng Jing actually knew about it!

Could it be that Zheng Jing's eyes and ears have come to his side?This is too scary, right?
Feng Xifan said: "Your Majesty, did you buy a batch of muskets and cannons from the Spaniards in Luzon last year in the name of conquest of Japan? Do you still want to wrap up the Spanish ships? Then you think The Spaniards have too few and too small boats to hold many people, so they invite their galleon team to come to Luzon again this year for trade?"

Geng Jingzhong looked at Feng Xifan coldly: "Feng Sima, what are you talking about? Why doesn't this king understand?"

Feng Xifan smiled and said: "Your Majesty, don't pretend to be confused, you have nothing to pretend to be with the lower officials because the lower officials came to Ryukyu to help you under the order of King Yi!"

"Help?" Geng Jingzhong stared, "How do you want to help?"

Feng Xifan said: "Actually, you were right in not doing anything last year! Crossing the ocean to the New World is not that easy! If it were that easy, our king would have sent someone there! If you snatched a medium-sized sailboat, it wouldn't be able to accommodate a few people at all. And you will go to war with the Spaniards! When their galleons come to Ryukyu this year, they will have to bring troops!
So this year is the right time for you to seize all the galleons that the Spaniards sailed on the Luzon route in one fell swoop, so that you can decorate more people, and the governor of New Spain who lost the galleon team will not be able to attack Ryukyu for the time being.

Oh, you probably haven't figured it out yet, even if you snatched the entire Spanish galleon fleet, plus the big bird ship on the Ryukyu Island, there is no way to transport all your troops across the ocean. "

"Why?" Geng Jingzhong didn't understand, "Didn't my thousands of people come here on those bird boats?"

"That's different," Feng Xifan shook his head and said, "Ningbo to Ryukyu is only a one-day flight, and the sea merchants from Ningbo have all traveled to Ryukyu, so there is nothing wrong with it. But to go to New Spain, you have to prepare fresh water for three months And food! If there is more fresh water and food on board, there will be fewer people.

In addition, do you know how to control the fleet when running ocean? "

"How to control it?" Geng Jingzhong really didn't know.

Feng Xifan said: "It is very easy for the crew to mutiny when sailing on the ocean. The Spaniards took back a few sailboats by surprise and ran away. What should you do?"

"This." How did Geng Jingzhong know?
Feng Xifan said with a smile: "If you want to control the entire fleet, you must firmly control at least two large ships. Most of the food is loaded on these two-day large ships, and the other ships only have a small amount of food and a lot of fresh water.

In this way, the other ships in the fleet can only follow closely, or the crews on them will starve to death. So you must have a group of Han Chinese sailors who can really go to the ocean, and there must be two ships they are familiar with, and the firepower Mighty big ship! "

(End of this chapter)