I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

Chapter 679 Zhu Youxiao’s surprise
October 27, Forbidden City, Wenhua Hall.

The cabinet ministers, Sun Shenxing, the Minister of Rites, Xu Guangqi, the Minister of Industry, and others were all present. Zhu Youxiao smiled at them with a document and said:

"Sun Yuanhua surprised me. Before he left, I just told him casually, saying that if he goes to the West, he can introduce some Ming Dynasty weapons and equipment to the Western countries. If the Western countries want it, the Ming Dynasty will fully supply it, and it will be of high quality and at a good price. Lian, as much as you want.

Originally this was just a joke, but I didn't expect that the matter was negotiated by Sun Yuanhua, and it was still a big order of 250 million taels. I will make a good contribution to Sun Yuanhua, and I will reward him well when he comes back. "

What Zhu Youxiao held in his hand was none other than Sun Yuanhua's letter.

What surprised him even more was that along with Sun Yuanhua's letter, there was also a letter from the King of Spain and a big business deal.This made Zhu Youxiao extremely happy. Sun Yuanhua had just arrived in Europe, and he was really surprised by such results.

Seeing the emperor's praise, everyone looked at Xu Guangqi standing aside, some with a little envy in their eyes.

Sun Yuanhua is Xu Guangqi's apprentice. Now that Sun Yuanhua has such achievements, Xu Guangqi will also benefit a lot.

"Your Majesty, now that the Ordnance Bureau has become independent, although there are orders from the imperial court and Daming Trading Company, the number is far less than last year. With today's order for the Folang machine, the Ordnance Bureau's orders in the past two years can be regarded as It’s worry-free, and the unit price is very high and the profit is huge. In the future, the Arms Bureau will not only not need to pay any more money from the court, but will also have a lot of surplus, and the pressure on the Ministry of Revenue will be reduced a lot."

Wang Yingjiao, a cabinet scholar, also praised him. He had worked in the Ministry of Household Affairs for a long time and was very concerned about money.In the past few years, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has not allocated 300 to [-] million yuan to the Tongzhou Firearms Workshop.

Even though the firearms workshop started accepting orders from Daming Workshop this year, it is still difficult to maintain a balance of payments and requires continued funding from the Ministry of Household Affairs.But now with the large order from Spain, the balance of payments is not only balanced, but also a surplus.

"I think not only is there less pressure, I'm afraid more money will be spent to fill the national treasury. From time to time, South Zhili reports that there are maritime merchants ordering millions of taels of firearms and ordnance. In this way, the number of arms in recent years has The bureau’s income must be at least 400 million taels.”

Seeing what Wang Yingjiao said, Xu Guangqi couldn't help but agree.

The performance of Sun Yuanhua and the Ordnance Bureau made him couldn't help but be happy.One of these two is his student, and the other was developed by him personally. Now seeing how effective these are, he is very pleased. In this way, his position will become more and more stable in the future.

Xu Guangqi reminded Zhu Youxiao.

In addition to the orders from Spain, there were also orders from Yan Siqi. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh that arms were the most profitable.

"Your Majesty, I think this order from Franji is not easy to accept. According to the king's letter and Sun Yuanhua's introduction. King Franji hopes that the Ming Dynasty will adopt a rationing system for Western countries to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and let Franji Machinery and Portugal occupy at least [-]% of the trade share, and the rest can be divided up by the Netherlands and other Western countries."

At this moment, Sun Shenxing, the Minister of Rites, put forward his opinion, and Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but nod.

There is no profit to be had early. Ming is so far away from Spain, yet Spain actually placed such a huge arms order with Ming. It is obvious that it wants to bribe Ming.However, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about this. This would be of great benefit to Ming Dynasty without any harm. "What Sun Aiqing said is true, but in my opinion, there is no need to worry about this matter. Currently, Franji, Portugal and I have the most trade with the Ming Dynasty. Now there is no problem in allowing them to maintain their monopoly.

Besides, this agreement only limited the trade volume of merchant ships from Western countries to China, and did not limit the trade volume between Ming Dynasty and Western countries.By then, as long as more Ming merchant ships are allowed to go to sea and trade with other Western countries, they will not be affected by this.

Besides, King Folangji is also a real person. He actually opened all ports in Folangji and Portugal to Ming merchant ships and allowed them free trade. This is a great thing. I have long heard that Folangji has many ports in the New World.In this case, it will be much more convenient to go to the New World in the future. "

Compared with the benefits provided by Spain, the few benefits released by Ming Dynasty are not worth mentioning at all.

"What your Majesty said is true. I have long heard that the territory of Folangji is as vast as my Ming Dynasty. It occupies half of the New World, and its ports can be opened to our Ming Dynasty. It will be very good for our Ming Dynasty!"

Xu Guangqi understood the meaning of what the emperor said best, and he praised him when he saw it.But having said that, Zhu Youxiao still has his own worries.

"Well, Sun Yuanhua's letter also said that Fo Langji will send a delegation to come soon, and they will receive a good reception and sign the matter quickly. But now the Hongmao Yi delegation has arrived in the capital.

I will summon them soon. I heard from Yuan Keli before that, in addition to handing over prisoners of war, the more important thing for his delegation to come to Beijing is to establish business relations with the Ming Dynasty.But now that the business share has been finalized with Fo Langji, the share allocated to them may be much less. "

Since reading Sun Yuanhua's letter, Zhu Youxiao has also gained an understanding of Europe's affairs on the Ming Dynasty Route.

Now the era of Spain and Portugal is gradually passing, and what will rise in the future is the Netherlands, known as the "Sea Coachman", and the United Kingdom, where the bourgeois revolution will break out in 20 years.

Therefore, he also attached great importance to the mission of the Dutch East India Company, hoping to make good friends with them and develop maritime trade.But Spain's conditions were too favorable, and even he had to agree.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry. I have long heard that the red-haired barbarians value profit over righteousness and run the country by merchants. They were previously hindered by Fo Langji and rarely traded with the Ming Dynasty. Now they are finally able to break through the blockade of Fo Langji and reach the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the Ming Dynasty can agree to trade with them, they are afraid that they are too late to be happy. Even if the share is small, they will be very willing. Maybe seeing Fo Langji ordering firearms like this, they will probably be frightened, lest the Fo Langji people will deal with them if they buy it. They will also follow my example and buy firearms from me, Daming, to protect themselves. "

Xu Guangqi shook his head when he heard this. He didn't have a very good impression of the Dutch. Seeing that they couldn't get any benefits from the Ming trade, he was naturally happy to see the results.

Zhu Youxiao shook his head when he heard this. He naturally did not have expectations for the Netherlands to imitate Spain and buy arms.At this point, he could only resort to tricks.

Because in five days, he would summon the Dutch envoy.

(End of this chapter)