nanming man

Chapter 1018

After the Nanming court changed the maritime trade policy, the maritime trade along the southeast coast became active. Merchant ships from various countries came and went, and even many southeast maritime merchants joined the voyage sequence.

The southeast coast, especially Fujian, and Chaoshan, Guangdong, etc., have many mountains and little land, and they cannot live by farming alone. The people rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and the sea to eat the sea. Their footprints have spread all over Nanyang very early, and some people even live in Nanyang established a political power.

Nanming's open maritime policy not only welcomed merchants from various countries, but also merchants from Guangdong, Fujian and other places joined the voyage.

At this time, the Nanming regime was compressed to Guangdong, and the Wei court imposed a blockade on Nanming to cut off the supply of goods, which affected the maritime trade between Guangdong and Fujian, but there were still many ships passing through the sea.

On the way to withdraw his troops from Huguang, Sun Kewang plundered southern Hunan, and then sent troops into Guangdong, abducting millions of people.

In the past, Zhu Cihong would have been furious, but at this time the Ming Dynasty had no capital to be angry.

Regarding Sun Kewang's deeds, Zhu Cihong did not start a war with Sun Kewang, but instead sent envoys to recognize Sun Kewang's status, and Sun Kewang hoped that Nanming could continue to contain Gao Yihuan, so he agreed to support Nanming, and the two continued to maintain an alliance relationship.

At present, the sea merchants in Guangdong are short of goods, and they mainly take the Annan-Guangzhou route to buy and sell Annan's grain.

At this time, in the sea off Guangzhou, a three-masted blessing ship about fifteen feet long with a towering stern tower was sailing through the waves.

This ship is very big, and the cabin is filled with grain bought from the Great Zhou Kingdom. The hull is undulating in the waves. On the deck, sailors with Miao swords or Japanese swords hanging from their waists are sitting on the side of the ship, chatting leisurely .

Maritime trade is very dangerous, but in the past two years, Nanming has reached an agreement with the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and Japan. Ships in the offshore area have frequent exchanges, and no one dares to break the agreement. Therefore, ships are safe to sail, and robbery is rare. things.

At this time, a tanned man on the boat tower was scanning the sea with a telescope, "After crossing the Qiongzhou Strait, we will be able to reach Guangzhou safely!"

An accountant next to him said: "Boss, although this trip is safe, the profit you get is not as good as [-]% of the previous one!"

The owner of the ship sighed, "That can't be helped? Now everyone can't get the goods, so they can only buy some food for the court and earn hard money for running errands. Fortunately, although the money is small, the journey is safe, so don't worry about it."

The accountant also sighed, "The imperial court is now in a corner. If it keeps fighting against the Great Wei, and has no source of goods to exchange for Nanyang's grain, money will flow out, and sooner or later it will be empty."

The proprietor shook his head, "These are not what we consider."

The two were talking, and the mast was looking up, but suddenly there was an exclamation, "Master, someone is robbing the ship in the northeast!"

The proprietor was startled when he heard the words, this place is near the coast, who is so courageous, he hurried to the side of the ship, and he saw two black spots, and there was a faint sound of gunfire.

The owner of the ship immediately picked up the binoculars, looked at it in front of his eyes, frowned, and shouted anxiously: "It is Hong Maoyi's gunboat that is robbing the merchant ship of the Four Seas!"

The accountant was shocked, "Didn't the Hongmaoyi have an agreement with the imperial court? How dare they rob the sea ships that transport grain to the imperial court?"

The owner of the ship had a gloomy face, and said urgently: "Hong Maoyi's ship is fast, everyone quickly adjust the sail to avoid them!"

At this time, the man on the mast yelled again, "Boss, there is a ship from the south coming towards us!"

The owner of the ship suddenly exclaimed, "Quickly, turn the rudder to the left and head north at full speed, to Gaozhou Prefecture!"

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Zhu Cihong voluntarily withdrew from Hunan, and exchanged space for time for him to regain a foothold in Guangzhou.

Now that he has retreated to Guangdong for several months, Zhu Cihuang has used Su Guansheng, Chen Zilong, Ding Kuichu, Qu Shixu, Yang Wenyue, Du Yinxi and other ministers to reorganize the cabinet, and has set up the Guangzhou court and restarted its operation.

Nearly [-] main forces of the Ming army retreated into Guangdong. While deploying heavy troops in Shaozhou Prefecture, Zhu Cihong tried to solve financial and logistical problems.

The struggle between Wei and Ming is not a struggle between Hua and Barbarians. Fighting against the Manchu Qing can be called for with righteousness, and people are willing to destroy their families to relieve difficulties, but fighting against the Great Wei is different. There must be enough money and food.

In order to solve the financial and food problems, Zhu Cihong turned to Sun Kewang for help and encouraged production at the same time. He was very busy.

At this time, just as he entered the cabinet, Yang Wenyue also hurried in. His steps were so fast that there was a gust of wind, but he didn't even notice Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cihong couldn't help frowning, and asked aloud, "Yang Qing, why are you panicking?"

Yang Wenyue was taken aback, turned around and saw Zhu Cihong, and quickly bowed to salute, "Your Majesty, I'm sorry!"

Zhu Cihong frowned, with a bad premonition in his heart. He saw Yang Wenyue holding a memorial book in his hand, and pointed at it, "What is the urgent military situation? Could it be that the Wei bandits sent troops?"

Seeing Zhu Cihong's gloomy face, Yang Wenyue hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty, it wasn't the Wei bandits who sent troops!"

Hearing this, Zhu Cihong heaved a sigh of relief, if he wasn't a Wei thief, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Recently Zheng Zhilong voted for Wei, and Wei Jun entered Fujian, which made Zhu Cihong very worried. As long as it is not Wei Jun, it is not troublesome.

At this time, he just breathed a sigh of relief, but Yang Wenyue said: "Your Majesty, it is the red-haired barbarians on the sea who attacked our grain ship."

Zhu Cihuang was already in a state of desperation just to deal with Wei Guo, and he didn't want the red-haired barbarians at sea to stir up trouble again.

Zhu Cihong was instantly furious, "I have fallen to the point where I can bully even a cat or a dog?"

Zhu Cihong had a trade agreement with the Netherlands a long time ago, and now the Dutch attacked the Ming government's grain ship and robbed the Ming Dynasty's grain.

Yang Wenyue hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, although the red-haired barbarians are fast and powerful, they have no faith and are no different from the Qing Dynasty. In the early years of the Penghu War, Ming and them reached an agreement, and later the battle of Luowan , reached another agreement, and reached the last agreement when His Majesty opened the sea. But these agreements did not last long, as long as the red-haired barbarians felt that they had an opportunity, they would tear up the agreement. They are rogues, As soon as I saw the opportunity, I immediately came up to take a bite, just like the Hulu in the north!"

Zhu Cihong's face was gloomy, "These red-haired barbarians, why did they tear up the agreement this time?"

Yang Wenyue said in a deep voice: "According to what I understand, it seems that the high-ranking thief has reached a new agreement with them."

"Shameless villain!" Zhu Cihong was furious in an instant, "You Gao Yihuan, who once slandered me for colluding with the Qing Dynasty, now he actually colluded with the Hongmaoyi, is simply shameless!"

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(End of this chapter)