open sea

Chapter 1307
2 taels of silver per year, for seven consecutive years, if Charles can keep his promise, no one will be indifferent.

Ying Ming almost escaped from the prison, he was afraid that he would hesitate a little longer, so he agreed.

The moment he walked out of the cell and saw the light of day again, he finally believed that he had the talent to be a general—at least, he was sure that he had the ability to live to the day when the court canonized him as a general.

Few people in the world do not know what Chen Mu did in the early days. Among the rumors that are true and false, people all know that the money for Chen Mu to build the first long-distance fleet came from the governor Zhang Han who intercepted some of the treasures. The finances of the tax were handed over to him.

People would like to believe that Chen Mu deceived Governor Zhang Han, because the Governor may not know how much Hao Jing's tax revenue was. At that time, no one knew that ocean trade was so profitable.

Although the trade was not very profitable at that time, people used to look at the income from the maritime trade in the Sanyang Military Mansion City at that time, and felt that there was a lot of income at that time. In fact, the maritime trade really made a lot of money, so Chen Mu came from Portugal. Getting to Malacca was the beginning of the Mingxi trade started by the Eastern Military Government.

Before that, Daming had the best goods, but there was no force to escort them at sea, so who could they sell them to?Selling to the Portuguese, they made all the money. The merchants of the Ming Dynasty felt that they had made a lot of money if they could double their hard-earned money;

But now that the achievements of the sea trade and the holy family are getting deeper and deeper, no one can say anything about Chen Mu's "doing evil" back then. They can get ten times the profit from it, and they only need to run the Eastern Sea Route twice, and the principal will be doubled. hundred times.

Is there anything crazier than this in the world?

Yingming knew that Chen Mu had done a lot of things, let alone a contract like this, he had even done things like going to war with a country privately and then negotiating peace. From scratch, now they have the Siyang Military Mansion, the military mansion is a complete system, a small family like him has no right to do such a thing.

He wanted the money, but he wanted to take it with his life.

Since his self-knowledge told him that he might die if he took the money, he wanted to know how the money came from, and how to use other people's money to add merit to himself.

Ying Ming is not a person who has never seen money. In the Kingdom of Alan, the king Zhu Xiaoen named them Ming generals as honored guests and gave them great power and honor. Homes, servants, they can get what they want, and besides that, they have the right to distribute most of the spoils.

The spoils of the rebel nobles seized during the war were sold by merchant ships, and half of the property obtained after the sale became the king's reward to the Alan Restoration Army and the Dongyang Alan Dispatch Corps.

Compared with the tribal leaders who surrendered on Alan Island, the king trusted the reinforcements from Ming Dynasty more, and hoped to save more money as soon as possible in exchange for more support from the Dongyang Army Mansion for the kingdom.

What Zhu Xiaoen wanted was a little Ming on an island, not an Ireland supported by Ming troops.

The same is true for Yu Yingming, 2 taels per year is indeed a temptation, not enough to make him make a wrong choice.

When people have greater desire for the future in their hearts, they have enough concentration to ignore the temptation in front of them.

"General, Alan Momin said that their queen has no taxes, only a symbol of ship tax when resisting pirates and fighting. All the lords collect taxes in kind, and there are some strange taxes, houses, windows, servants, carriages, Even cosmetics, powders, playing cards, etc., roughly [-]% of the charge.”

Ying Ming's King of Alan said, shaking his head and said: "But the tax in Puli County is not heavy. It mainly collects a little land rent from the farmers. The tax of the lord is very complicated, but powerful people will evade taxes. Therefore, Earl Charles The tax revenue is not much, about [-] pounds per year."

The commander leaned over the table, recorded the source of income of two thousand a year with a charcoal pen, and continued to ask the family: "The other money, where did it come from?"

The servant lowered his head and said: "We have received some rumors, and the subordinates have sent people to verify the statements of the people in the city. Some people say that the Earl has two pastures outside the city of Puli for raising sheep, and a large woolen workshop. Produce wool and sell it to a group of business groups called Levant in exchange for a large amount of goods."

"In addition, in the early years, the earl invested in a company called the Moscow Merchant Group, which has many ships like the Quanzhou Company, and can share the profits every year."

Levant, Moscow.

Ying Ming memorized the two names, frowned and thought: "Moscow, this name is very familiar."

"Returning to the general, these seem to be two place names. The former travels to and from the Ottoman route every year. According to England's custom, the queen authorizes a group of people to travel in a certain area. I heard that the Levant regiment has just been established a few years ago. 15 pounds of gold, of which [-] belong to the queen, and [-] pounds of cloth are sold to the Ottomans every year."

"The latter went to a country called Moscow in the east. They were composed of more than a hundred merchants, and they were stationed in London, Plymouth, Moscow, and Riga. Others shipped goods by sea. They bought wool and firearms from London and Plymouth every year and sold them to Moscow. .”

"Buying furs, honey, fish oil, timber, etc. from there makes a lot of profit every year, and the earl can get thousands of pounds from it."

Snapped!
Ying Ming put down the charcoal pen, clapped his hands together, tapped the finger emphatically on the table and said to the servant: "That's it, it's these that make him a profit of 6 taels a year."

"The merchant group's participants are not close to him alone. From production to sales, if he alone can get 5 taels of profit per year, how much can the whole of England get? Even their queen is involved."

The commander wanted to write something more on the paper, but he couldn't start writing, so he raised his head and said very seriously to his servant: "I need to submit a very comprehensive report to the military government, no matter what What method to use, be sure to find out.”

"The route environment, how the sea chart is, coastal wars, countries passing through, the price of many goods traded, how many people and how many ships are there in the merchant group."

Ying Ming articulated the key objectives one by one, paused, and finally raised his hand and tapped his head, adding: "Mo Xiangying bought firearms and wool, why do they need firearms and wool; Fur and wood, why they need fur and wood—and everything else you can find."

"Hundreds of thousands of pounds of wealth enter England every year, and the royal family and nobles make a lot of profits. The money will be turned into their warships and gunpowder cannons. It is not good news for the king of Alan. This will make huge profits. The route is not used by Ming Dynasty, and it is bad news for the court."

Commander Ying Ming clenched his fist against his lips, with a righteous face on his face: "It must be messed with!"

(End of this chapter)