July of the 22nd year of Xuanping.

The newsboys on the streets of Shanghai are selling the latest issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper along the street!

However, the slogans in the mouths of the newsboys made many passers-by stop and show puzzled eyes!

"The Portuguese barbarians wantonly attack my Datang merchant ships!"

"The Portuguese barbarians provoked a war for no reason, and our Datang merchant ship was sunk in the port of Malacca!"

"Datang's overseas trade is already in jeopardy!"

Different slogans, each sentence is eye-catching, and immediately a middle-aged man in professional clothes stepped forward, took out a copper coin and said, "Have a copy!" ”

After picking up the newspaper, the middle-aged man quickly swept the front page.

However, he did not see what he wanted to see on the front page, and the content reported on the front page was that the Son of Heaven had recently held a special meeting on education, and questioned officials such as Shangshu and Shilang of the Ministry of Rites on the many problems existing in education today, especially in basic education, and ordered the relevant officials of the Ministry of Rites to grasp the education issue as the main work of the present and the future, and not to have any slackness.

He once again stressed that education is a century-old plan and the foundation of the empire's long-term peace and stability, and officials at all levels must earnestly grasp the education work.

The second edition of the report is the Beijing Kaifeng line (Jinling City-Kaifeng) completed and opened to traffic, in addition to the report by the way of the construction of the Datang Railway, so far, the Datang Railway completed and opened to traffic, has been the Jiangnan Railway when Tu to Shanghai section, and is expected by the end of this year, when Tu to Jiujiang Lake mouth section, Shanghai to Hangzhou section will also be completed and opened to traffic, at that time, the main construction project of the Jiangnan Railway will be completed.

In addition to the Jiangnan Railway, there are also the Beijing-Kaifeng Line (Jinling City to Kaifeng), Luoyang to Kaifeng Section, Tianjin to Youzhou Section, Tianjin to Shanhaiguan Section, Foshan to Guangzhou to Hong Kong Section, Hangzhou to Ningbo Section, in addition to many messy branch lines.

In the third edition, this middle-aged man found what he wanted to see!

Here, the Tang Dynasty newspaper reported that in June, a Tang merchant ship was on its way to Malacca for trade, and when it entered the port of Malacca, it was suddenly attacked by Portuguese warships, and the merchant ship was sunk on the spot and sank in the port.

Subsequently, a number of Tang merchant ships were attacked by the Portuguese.

After learning the news, my heroic and fearless battleships of the Tang Navy were the first to dispatch warships in the nearby waters to approach Malacca, and to respond to the evacuation of many imperial merchant ships staying in Malacca, and at the same time, they also sent fast communication ships to send the news back to China as quickly as possible.

At first glance, this seems to be very simple, it is nothing more than the Portuguese acting recklessly, taking the initiative to attack the imperial merchant ships, provoking the dispute between the two countries, but the report is not too clear, at least, it does not say what the Portuguese took the initiative to attack the imperial merchant ships.

Could it really be that the Portuguese are acting recklessly, this is unlikely.

The Portuguese are not stupid, how can they take the initiative to attack the empire's merchant ships at their doorstep, and leave such a big handle to the empire, if they really want the empire's merchant ships, then as before, disguise themselves as pirates in the sea to attack the empire's merchant ships, the Portuguese have done this before, there is no reason to suddenly change their approach now.

Could it be that the Portuguese wanted to cut off trade with the empire altogether?

The middle-aged man smelled the conspiracy from the simple report, but his footsteps did not stop, and after stopping a rickshaw, he went straight to the company

Regardless of whether there is any conspiracy behind it, but from this article, it appeared on the third page of the Tang Dynasty Newspaper in a grand manner, and made an overall page report, and the wording of the article was extremely tough, he just knew that the war was coming.

War was not possible, and the terrible thing was that trade with the Portuguese would be completely cut off, and many industries related to overseas trade would inevitably be dealt a major blow.

As a project fund manager of a fund company, the only thing that needs to be done at this time, and what must be done immediately, is to immediately dump the stocks related to overseas trade, and those ocean trading companies whose main business is trade with the Portuguese, the business of these companies will inevitably be hit hard, and when will it not be thrown at this time!

On this day in the morning of Shanghai, the busiest is the Shanghai Stock Exchange, many stockbrokers are even high-weighted on weekdays, fund managers and even company bosses, all of them are in person, some want to quickly sell the stocks of related companies, but some want to take the opportunity to absorb more high-quality stocks!

Regardless of their intentions, the drastic actions of these people instantly caused the stock trading volume of the Shanghai Stock Exchange to skyrocket, and then the stock prices of some companies plummeted, while some companies were greatly sought after.

For example, the stock prices of several trading companies with close ties to the Portuguese have almost been cut in half, and they continue to fall, and no one has taken over at all.

However, the stock price of Datang Western Trading Company has risen all the way, and by the time the market is temporarily closed at noon, the stock price of Datang Western Trading Company has risen by 13% compared with yesterday's market close!

Don't think that this 13% is less, you must know that Datang Western Trading Company is the first heavyweight stock in the imperial stock trading market, the volume is huge, and the performance is stable on weekdays, occasionally fluctuating but not big, and it has always maintained a trend of slow growth.

But today, the stock price of Datang Western Trading Company has skyrocketed by 13% in just a few hours, which also makes the market value of Datang Western Trading Company have exceeded 200 million yuan!

It has become the first enterprise in the Datang Empire with a market value of more than 200 million yuan!

Why did the stock of Datang Western Trading Company skyrocket in an instant?

Because everyone knows that the Datang Western Trading Company and the Portuguese East India Trading Company are fighting to the death around the Indian Ocean, and this kind of competition, the official forces of both sides have not personally ended.

But now, with war on the horizon, there is no doubt that the Tang Empire's vast military might be able to destroy and occupy Malacca, and then occupy the Strait of Malacca, a strategic maritime route, while completely opening the way to the Indian Ocean.

Subsequently, with the support of the Imperial Navy, the capture of India and even the whole of India by the Tang Western Trading Company is just around the corner!

Therefore, the war with the Portuguese may be a bad thing for many countries in China, or a mixed bag, but for the Tang Western Trading Company, it is definitely a good thing, a great thing!

Stimulated by this good news, coupled with the stock market, there has always been a blind follow-up behavior, and because of the violent turbulence in the stock market today, some ordinary investors and even smaller fund companies, in order to avoid risks, have begun to carry out a large number of steady operations, such as appropriately shorting some stocks, and appropriately adding some stocks, and at the same time will buy a large number of stocks of super large companies for hedging.

In this way, the stocks of large domestic companies represented by Datang Western Trading Company will rise instead of falling in this appropriate turmoil in stocks!

For example, the Yangtze River Shipping Company and Feng's Shipping Company, the two leading enterprises in the domestic shipping industry, logically speaking, they have nothing to do with overseas trade, but people feel that if the overseas market shrinks, then the domestic market will be more important, and many enterprises will focus more on the domestic market, which will then lead to the further prosperity of the domestic market.

In order to prevent economic turmoil caused by the contraction of overseas trade, Li Xuan had already prepared to increase domestic demand and let the domestic market digest the many goods originally used for export.

For example, silk, which is exported in large quantities, but now Li Xuan is preparing to encourage the domestic market to expand the consumption of silk in order to stabilize the silk-related industry.

All this is also to make the performance expectations of such enterprises represented by the Yangtze River Shipping Company and Feng's Shipping Company, which are rooted in the domestic shipping market, bullish.

In order to avoid economic turmoil caused by the war with the Portuguese, Li Xuan made a lot of preparations in advance to offset the impact of the war!

A few days later, according to the data reported by the Ministry of Commerce, Li Xuan was relieved!

Although an article in the Tang Dynasty newspaper caused turmoil in the stock market, it mainly affected a small number of trading companies and some manufacturing companies mainly engaged in European trade.

However, other industries, although some will also be negatively affected, but this negative impact is controllable and can be alleviated by the supplement of the domestic market.

Interestingly, some industries were stimulated by the good news of the war, and there was a boom in stock prices.

The impact of cutting off trade with the Portuguese is there, and it is not small, but strictly speaking, it is controllable.

After all, the main economic body of the Tang Empire is not an economic system oriented by overseas trade, but an economic system oriented by domestic demand, and overseas trade is just a supplement.

The current conflict and war with the Portuguese can also allow the empire to further adjust the empire's economic system, further increase domestic demand, and continue to reduce its dependence on overseas trade.

The next time he went to war with the Spaniards, Li Xuan didn't want to see the slightest fluctuation in the domestic economy!

After seeing that although the economic system has been affected, it is generally stable, Li Xuan also made up his final decision, and asked the Chaobao Department under the Tang Dynasty Rite Department to carry out the second round of public opinion propaganda, completely laying the public opinion foundation for the official propaganda of Portugal, so that the people can support this war, at least, and not oppose!

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