The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 345 Barter
None of the pirate leaders dared to leave Yaogang with their own troops. They were all afraid that the Daming Fleet hiding somewhere would suddenly appear and kill them.

Just when Zheng Yiguan was scaring himself, the combined fleet was already on the way to Manila, Luzon. At this time, the Kingdom of Sulu had been conquered by the Spanish colonizer Li Gaispi 50 years ago, and Manila became Spain. The capital of the colonists.

The Luzon area is called the Philippines by the Spaniards. This name may be derived from the Spanish homophony of their king Philip II.

The Sulu Islands, Mindanao, Basilan, and Palawan in the southern Philippines became the territories occupied by the Moro people of the Kingdom of Sulu. They believed in Christianity and fought continuously with the Catholic Spaniards.

Huang Sheng did not bring the combined fleet to fight against the Spanish colonists. Under the management of the Spanish, the city of Manila was actually much more prosperous and advanced than that of the Sulu Kingdom.

The Ming Dynasty is now in turmoil, Huang Sheng can't give up the basics, he believes that the biggest disaster for the Han people is being colonized by the barbarians from Tunguska who established slaves, and it is not advisable to establish any strong overseas enemies without eliminating the slaves.

After the eradication of the slaves, the Western colonists will be slowly cleaned up one by one, and then they will go to the Americas to colonize.Now it's just a knock on the mountain to shake the tiger, so that everyone can trade fairly and make a fortune.

Such a large-scale fleet came to the port of Manila, which surprised the supreme officer here, the Spanish governor. There were only a dozen of their warships in the port. It may be too late to rush the warships to come here at this time.

Besides, the Kingdom of Spain is no longer what it used to be. They are going downhill, and their national strength and military strength are not comparable to what they were half a century ago.They faced a huge threat from the Dutch and the British.

The Spanish governor only discovered today that there are such powerful enemies in Asia. They suddenly launched an attack at this time, and their homeland is far away in the sky. What should they do?
St. ManilaThe bells of the Augustinian Church rang frighteningly, and the Spanish governor declared martial law throughout the city, asking all Spaniards to take up arms against the infidels.

Seeing that the war was about to break out, who knew that the huge fleet sent an envoy at this moment.

The Spanish governor was elated after receiving the envoy. It turned out that it was not the heretics who attacked, but the navy of the Ming Dynasty came to eliminate the Nanyang pirates and escorted the merchant ships of the people.

This time, Daming came with a huge trading fleet, bringing a lot of goods such as porcelain, silk, cloth, tea, handicrafts, etc., all of which were in short supply in the European market.

The Kingdom of Ming Dynasty is a country with an ancient civilization. The governor of Spain understands it better. This country is not as unbearable as the Philippines.

Ruan Dan, Li Ximing, Bian Zhiming, and Ye Chengjing sent by Daming to conduct trade negotiations with Spain.Ye Chengjing also contacted some merchants who had previously traded.

Fair trade, mutual benefit and reciprocity, all the goods brought by the Deming fleet were sold, and a lot of goods were loaded back, and the Huang family made a lot of profits.

Huang Sheng still adopted the style of bringing less money and buying more goods. He bought 20 shi of sugar, [-] jin of copper, spices, hematoxylin, somali bluestone, pepper, etc., and [-] jin. Stone rice is priced at six renminbi per stone, and corn is purchased at less than two renminbi per stone for [-] shi.

In fact, with the load of the fleet, it would be rich to load three times more. Unfortunately, Manila does not have such a large stock, and there is no other way but to load 5 taels of gold.The bulky porcelain, glass products, Songjiang cloth and some soap gift boxes brought by the Huang family cost less than 20 taels of silver, and the profit was more than three times.

The Spanish side was very excited when they got a lot of goods from Ming Dynasty. If they shipped them back to Europe, they would get at least three times the profit.They all agreed to buy a large amount of copper, gold, nickel, sugar, and cotton in the future to trade with Daming.

At this time, the Spaniards had the South American colonies in their hands, and there were a lot of gold mines and copper mines there, so the Spaniards had too much copper, but there were not many stocks in Manila.

As colonists, the Spaniards were the most vicious and greedy. Their overseas colonization was completely naked plunder. They used Galen ships to build an armed fleet specialized in transporting gold, silver, pearls, agates and various precious metals back to Europe.

They are not willing to invest in the establishment of industries in the colonies at all, but only rough processing of raw materials, and finishing processing is done locally.

In fact, the Spaniards are also relatively stupid. They plundered countless wealth but did not know how to use it. Most of these huge funds were used to build magnificent cathedrals.

Many small towns in Europe have no more than a few thousand people, and their churches are large enough to accommodate the residents of the entire town to worship at the church at the same time. Some beautiful churches need to be built for dozens or hundreds of years.

In this way they squandered their wealth.

Britain, which replaced Spain in the future, was much better. In fact, they colonized a place and promoted the industrial upgrading of that place. Until later generations, the prosperity of Commonwealth countries such as Australia and New Zealand can be seen.

Of course, all colonists are predators, and there is nothing wrong with that. It is practical and humane to consider everything for one’s own country and to maximize the interests of one’s own people, and there is no need to criticize it.

In the future, the Ming Dynasty led by Huang Sheng also plundered the colonies, and did not carry out further processing in the colonies.

Daming has a vast land and rich resources, and its population advantage is not comparable to that of Spain, which is a small country. It can completely support a million troops with its huge wealth.

Seeing that they had found a powerful buyer, the Spanish merchants would of course ship a large amount of goods to Manila for trading. Also, because they shipped too many precious metals back to Europe, which impacted the market, copper, gold, and silver had been depreciating. Therefore, this time Huang Sheng The price of copper purchased is [-]% cheaper than that purchased from Japan.

In fact, there was a huge trade deficit between the West and Ming Dynasty, and there were very few things they could ship and sell, while Europe needed a lot of Ming porcelain, silk, cloth, tea and so on.

Of course they wished they could transport gold, copper, nickel and other metals for trading, at least the load balance between the cargo ships was much more balanced.

Huang Sheng deliberately did not use silver to settle the value of the goods, because all Western merchants knew that silver was the currency in Ming Dynasty, and the price was too transparent.

Instead, barter was negotiated, and sugar, cotton, and grain were exchanged for silk, cloth, porcelain, etc., and the exchange ratio was negotiated.

After recalculation, the price ratio of gold and silver obtained by Huang Sheng from the shipment has become [-]:[-]. The price ratio of gold and silver in later generations is [-]:[-] or [-]. Now the ratio of Ming Dynasty is also [-]:[-] to [-]. between.

Huang Sheng negotiated in this way and won more benefits invisibly, and he will hoard a large amount of gold in the future, so he can wait for the gold to appreciate.

The Ming Dynasty Merchant Group finalized a long-term cooperation contract with the Spanish merchants. This is the second large foreign trade order that the Huang family has won. The Ming Dynasty and Spain officially named it the "Manila Contract".

The Huang family's first long-term cooperation contract was the "March [-] Agreement" finalized with the Japanese.

Huang Sheng was in an extremely relaxed mood. With these two contracts in hand, he would get millions of taels of trade volume, provide Daming with hundreds of thousands of job opportunities, and gain more than one million taels of profit.

(End of this chapter)