open sea

Chapter 950 Greatness
Yang Ce's fleet came with a full load and returned from the port of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico at the end of May. Their ships were not empty, but a large amount of gold and silver goods were missing.

The stay was longer than expected, and they spent more. They withdrew a total of 300 million Tongbao from the military government four times, and escorted gold, silver, and jewelry worth 750 taels of silver in three batches. Send it to the military.

A large amount of it is gold that the military government lacks.

Before they left, Zou Yuanbiao, the county magistrate, thanked Yang Ce for the huge tax revenue, and specially approved the military government to sell it to Yang Ce at half price, and Changsheng exported 18 sets of tropical infantry equipment worth [-] cents. .

Including a full set of Jinghai clothes, old Wanli two-year-old matchlock blunderbuss, Nanyang-made waist knife, iron hat, canvas linen and a pair of soap boots, [-] wooden medicine tubes, wooden kettle bowls and chopsticks, canvas insect repellent pocket set.

'Earn less' is Chen Papi's greatest goodwill.

It is good for the world to be connected as one. The Han pirate king Lin Feng or Yang Ce directly controls the maritime trade of the Songhai Empire in Northwest Africa. Facing the sea, it has a relatively complete bureaucratic system compared to Europe, uses shells as currency, has mining and textile capabilities, and its wealth comes from the trade route through the Sahara desert.

Gold, iron ore, slaves, ivory, spices, kola fruit, and cotton were exported, and salt, sugar, weapons, horses, copper, glassware, shoes, and wool were imported.

Chen Mu is not interested in kola fruit and slaves, but he wants everything else produced by the Songhai Empire, and Asia can produce something that Songhai urgently needs but can't make, salt.

This means that everything in Songhai is like a free gift to the Dongyang military government.

Before leaving, Yang Ce passed through Mexico City according to Chen Mu's suggestion, signed a contract with Yang Tingxun, and established Dahan Dongyang Company. West Coast, becoming the first start-up to go live.

They are not the first company to register. Fujian Guanghe Xingsheng alone has established three companies. Including them, [-] companies of all sizes have registered in New Spain. However, other companies have not enough ships and goods. However, the Dongyang Brazil Company founded by the adopted son of Quanshang Li Yuxi managed to gather some ships, but due to the restrictions and the military government's order to prohibit the outflow of silver, they had to wait for the goods to be brought by Beiyang Phase III before they could set off.

Only Yang Ce, with both men and boats, pulled five boats of salt and six boats of sugar from New Spain and left.

Warship!
If Lin Afeng was here, he might not sign the contract, and he might not be tempted by Daming's warships - Lin Feng would think that if the court could build it, he could build it too, isn't it just a big ship!

But Yang Ce was different. In his eyes, the warships of the imperial court were the best ships in the world. The Liuding Liujia warships were [-] times better than the Spanish galleons!
In addition to being able to buy the hard currency of the Songhai Empire on Eleven Ships, Yang Ce also bought 30 catties of gunpowder from Changsheng at a price of [-] taels per [-] catties. Yang Ce knew it was no longer safe, but he couldn't help it.

Everyone knows the advantages of well-trained veterans using guns and heavy artillery, but the consumption is also unacceptable, especially for Han, they have no shortage of manpower, and the vast coast of Africa can be obtained by pirate kings everywhere. Inexhaustible manpower, but no place for them to obtain inexhaustible gunpowder.

Even if gunpowder is not so safe, it is equally important to Yang Ce.

Zou Yuanbiao, who is always victorious, is fascinated by Zhang Luo. As the saying goes, if you are close to Zhu Zhechi, if you have worked with Chen Mu for a long time, everyone will see Yinzi happy.

In fact, it wasn't Chen Mu's fault. Everyone would see that Yin Zi was happy, but the past was hidden in his heart, buried in the dark, and he even pretended to be reserved on the surface, but Chen Mu was different.

He said he was cold and hungry when he was cold, and his goal was to raise inexhaustible gold and silver for the court to catalyze the qualitative change of the industry. He would never hide it. There is no need to be ashamed of doing the right thing.

It is a great thing to strengthen national strength internally and establish order externally.

And do your best not to hurt anyone.

Zou Yuanbiao also thinks this is a great thing. In his Changsheng County, there are still so many canals and bridges that have not been built. He needs money.

Especially after Yang Ce left, the tax revenue dropped by [-]%, which made him understand a truth - most of the wealth will always be in the hands of a few people, and as the county magistrate, he must find a way to transfer the wealth of the few people through taxation. Hold it in your hands, and then go to benefit the majority.

A few people have been able to meet the basic needs of survival, and they need something unique, and this unique thing is not limited to the teahouses and restaurants of Changsheng, but also good seats for martial arts competitions.

And Chen Mu also has a special liking for martial arts, he thinks this is a good way to maintain the fighting power of the Banner Army in peacetime, people hope to get a good ranking to get rewards, and work together to make them invincible.

Therefore, Chang Sheng is about to start a new round of martial arts competition. This time the subject is spear and gun stabbing and cold soldiers fighting each other.

After the last shooting competition, Zouzhi County has tasted the sweetness. Even if the gunpowder consumption is counted, the county still makes a lot of money by selling tickets and renting shops. This time, the military government is more daring in its operations. For the last month, there is an official gambling game that allows the common people to place bets in each game. The unit of a hundred households is the unit. to the people who bet against the victor.

It's just that the stakes are not high, and the people won't get rich if they bet right, and it doesn't hurt if they bet wrong, but it's a lottery reward for the banner army.

Although the ticket price is not too high, for Zou Yuanbiao, at least the county has a steady flow of income.

In addition, after a long period of familiarization with the military law system and practicing military skills, the Baojia militia in Changsheng County was finally approved to recruit one out of ten people.

In fact, Zou Yuanbiao knew that all this meant that the center of gravity of the Dongyang military government would move to the east coast, which meant that they could directly threaten the land with mature production capacity on the opposite side of the Great Eastern Ocean - Europa!

In late June, news finally came from Majia Port that the Beiyang Phase III Fleet, which was even larger than last year, sailed across the ocean from the distant Ming mainland, and set foot on this land that was no longer known to the Ming people. And their journey, when they arrived in Asia, had just begun.

　Good morning!

　　
　
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