The six lucky ships are indeed what Zhao Shizhen said, one pilot ship that has been to Spain, two grain ships that have landed in Majia Port in North Asia, and the other three large and small lucky ships are treasure ships that have sailed first in the South Seas.

Although it does not look good, before entering the Bohai Sea, it has been sailing slowly with the large fleet, until it enters the absolutely safe coast of Beizhili, and then quickly sails to the mouth of Dagu with the pilot ship.

"The subordinates were instructed by the Minister of Nanyang, and knew that the military expenditure of Beiyang could not be delayed for a day, and they would not stop for a moment when they entered the Bohai Sea, and the clipper ship came."

The captain of the treasure ship sailed from Nanyang was a student of the first phase of the Guangzhou Lecture Wutang, and saw that Chen Mu had a close relationship with his old subordinates, and as soon as he entered the Beiyang Yamen, he sighed that the school had changed after a year, so he presented Chen Mu with the shipping manifest sent by the Nanyang Military Government, and said: "This list is in triplicate, Nanyang kept one copy, and just gave one to Mr. Chang Ji, this is the last one." ”

The account sheet is sealed with wax on a round paper tube, and the wax seal of the annular private seal of the minister of Nanyang is intact.

The Luzon Macheng Mansion minted a large ingot of silver, encapsulated 260 boxes, a total of 6,000 ingots, and one ingot was 50 taels.

Lion Country, Tangmin Island gems, crows, cat's eyes, blue and red, agate are packed in eight boxes and four boxes, each box is different in size and type, weighing a total of 4,200 catties.

Sulu Sea Pearl, according to the rarity of the three boxes, each box of different sizes and types, a total weight of 1,970 taels.

The ivory of the Champa country is divided into 16 boxes according to the size, with a total of 34 ivory; The rhino horn was packed in three boxes, and the two items weighed a total of 7,470 catties.

These things were loaded into three ships, and Chen Mu was overjoyed, and when he closed the bill, he said a few words of encouragement to the captain of Nanyang, and asked: "The journey is hard all the way, and I will rest for a few days in Beiyang, when will the Beijing transportation arrive?" ”

"It's just recently, and now the advance fleet should have set sail from Denglai, thank you for your kindness, but your subordinates can't rest, and they will set sail tomorrow." The captain said and confessed to Chen Mu, explaining: "This year, Myanmar and Shengfu have a bumper harvest, the amount of transportation in Beijing is huge, and the shipping is insufficient. ”

In the past, there were more than 200 ships on a single trip, which was about all the number of more than 400 ships of the Nanyang Military Government, but now they are required to transport them two or four times, not to mention 600 ships of freight, and the road consumption alone will consume 50,000 or 60,000 stone and rice grains.

"In that case, it will be hard for you, and a good harvest is the best thing." Chen Mu slowly bowed his head, and then advised: "Be careful of the wind and waves, sail for two months to and fro, don't be eager to sail, be careful of drifting." ”

"The rest time is not long, you go down with the soldiers, find a barracks for the sailor to rest, and you should explain to the soldiers if you need it."

When the captain left, Chen Mu secretly calculated the value, originally he thought that this year, the Nanyang Military Government would take care of the Western Ocean, and he was afraid that there would be much less money and goods to be transported to the Oriental Military Government in the Beijing Transportation, but unexpectedly, there were even more than last year.

Last year's silver delivery was the same as this year's, both were 300,000 taels, but last year's goods were transported in bulk Guangdong cotton cloth, and the rest were mostly cement raw materials and other building materials, which were worthless goods; This year is different, and it is worth sending some valuable items.

"Gong Xu, Nanyang will go to this year, what will happen in the next two years?"

It doesn't matter who Chen Mu asks about this, his staff will not know, it is really something they can know in the north, Chen Mu is sure that he knows it himself, what Chen Mu does not know, his staff will not know, Xu Wei asked him suspiciously, and saw him shake his head and said: "The goods sent by Nanyang this year look like they are pressing, but there is no shortage of silver shipped, I think something is wrong." ”

As he spoke, Chen Mu handed the bill of goods to Xu Wei who stepped forward and asked him to take a look.

It is true that Sulu produces pearls, and it is not surprising that if large quantities of goods are easy to sell in exchange for thousands of taels of pearls, it is not surprising that more than 4,000 catties of gems can be obtained at once, which is already beyond the scope of normal trade - not that the Ming merchants or the Nanyang military government cannot afford to buy them, but that the Lion Kingdom cannot eat cotton cloth or other goods of equal value at all.

What's more, gemstones, it is the same as pearls, these two treasures are not directly sold to get the highest profit, they have to be sent to Suzhou, where there are the most skilled jewelry craftsmen in the whole world, after their craftsmanship processing, one or two agate can be sold for a dozen taels or even hundreds of taels of silver.

It is also the southeast, and these processed finished products can also be sold as quickly as possible, because Jiangnan is the gathering place of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty.

This is something that can make ten times more profit, ten times more profitable, and those rhino horns and tusks.

Chen Mu calculated, as long as he was willing to pay the price of 50,000 taels of silver and a few years, the value of these things that Gao Gong sent to the Dongyang Military Mansion this year would probably be between two million and three million taels of silver.

It's just a single small two big and three lucky ships.

It seems that Nanyang has made a fortune, otherwise he would not be willing to send these things to Tianjin.

"Could it be that Yin Yangshi from the West has come to me Chen and gained a lot in the West? The Guangxi Flag Army is not unusable! ”

Chen Mu groaned with a short beard on his chin, and suddenly heard Xu Wei clapping his hands violently and said: "Dashuai, you should know why the number of goods transported by Nanyang is different this year, Nanyang made a windfall last year, but this wealth only fell into Nanyang's hands this year." ”

Chen Mu became interested when he heard this, and asked, "What windfall?" ”

"It's also speculation below, but how much has to do with this matter, last year Lin Afeng led a fleet of thousands of soldiers and civilians to sail away from Tangmin Island, and plundered more west of Malacca.

Xu Wei shook his head again as he spoke, and said, "No...... If this is the case, this batch of goods should be in the hands of Gao Xinzheng at the beginning, and they will be sold last year, and the Yi merchants will buy them in Malacca, and when Lin Feng's fleet snatches them, they will be sold back to Nanyang, if so, this batch of goods will be sent to Beiyang. ”

"How does that make sense?"

Chen Mu didn't think this guess made sense, Gao Gong could sell these things again, and let Lin Feng grab them again, and fish with all his might, how interesting is it?

Others don't know, Gao Gong won't know, with the Ming Dynasty in the West to set up a military government, will definitely further squeeze Portugal's living space in that sea area, the two sides are a matter of time, there is no need to be so stingy with friendship, let alone think too much about the long-term.

This is the Ming Dynasty, the people miss their wives and children, the country is rich and self-sufficient, the policy changes with the first assistant in office, and only God knows when the sea will be banned!

What do you think about in the long term?

One vote, one vote, and another vote, it is the last word to find a big windfall to do it, and it is earned to grab one or two silvers.

It's not too late to think about the long run, anyway, in terms of management, governance ability, agriculture, water conservancy science and technology, Daming can get rid of the distance between Beijing and Nanjing.

"There is still Duke Yin in the West, presumably it is not good for the Minister of Nanyang to sell this batch of goods again, or sell them into the country by himself, and then he will be played by the Minister of the West; Or, it can only be sent to Beiyang.

"It seems to make sense, but don't care how this goods came from, don't think about going out again in my hands, no one will give it if you want it, this is my three-year military expenditure in the East." Chen Mu stood up as he spoke, turned his head and said, "Mr. Lao Fu will take a trip and transfer thousands of horsemen from Beiyang to take care of this batch of goods and transport them into the military government intact, and I will go to see the envoy who returned from Spain." ”

"Everything is ready, only the warship is needed, and Chen can finally go to Mexico!"