Chapter Ninety-Seven: Mo Jingwan

The small town of Gaoping in the mountains is not much different from a county town in the Ming Dynasty.

I don't see much prosperity, but there is a lot of soldiers. It seems that there are more soldiers than the people. Although it cannot be said that the face is hungry. But looking at the people, there is not much satiety.

"The general wants to see our majesty?" In the middle of the small city of Gaoping, in the humble palace of the Mo Dynasty. Several people are discussing, and the person at the head is Mo Jingwan, the emperor of the Mo Dynasty.

Mo Jingwan made it on the dragon chair, but Annan's dragon only had four claws, and the workmanship was very rough. It makes people feel like they are wearing a monkey.

But Mo Chao also had to do this.

The reason is very simple, under the pressure of the Later Li Dynasty, although Mo Jingwan is known as the emperor, his strength is not as good as that of a larger Tusi in the Ming Dynasty. In the barren land of several counties, there are only twenty or thirty thousand soldiers who can fight, and these troops are already almost all the men in the four counties.

Although Mo Jingwan himself is a character, he can repeatedly defeat the strong with the weak and keep the four towns of Gaoping, but that's all.

The strength gap with the Later Li Dynasty, Gao Ping Mo Dynasty could not support it at all.

"Your Majesty, the Xia Dynasty still doesn't know what our thoughts are about our dynasty. Your Majesty is not to be moved. Once there is a just in case. "Mo Jingwan is the backbone of the Mo Dynasty, and some of the people below naturally want to show their loyalty.

Mo Jingwan also understood that if he didn't make changes, the strength and weakness of the Houli Dynasty would change one day, and no matter how he struggled at that time, he would inevitably become the king of the country. Mo Jingwan claims to be a hero for a lifetime, and he definitely doesn't want to end up like this.

Mo Jingwan's gaze swept over the ministers below, some of these people did not speak, and the silence was a statement.

Mo Jingwan said: "I have made up my mind, it is better to go to Guilin and meet the general." And wait at home, guard the city, no matter what happens, don't act rashly, once the Southern Dynasty comes, you can keep the rules, and if you can't retreat into Guangxi, if you want to come to the general to see me, I will definitely give convenience. ”

Mo Jingwan has a bit of a heroic temperament, and when he is decided, he will be decisive.

However, Mo Jingwan went to Guilin and did not take the land route. First, it is a land route over the mountains and mountains. It didn't seem to be long, but it took a lot of time, and secondly, he wanted to observe how Great Xia ruled in Liangguang through the waterway.

Therefore, Mo Jing disguised himself as a merchant and went to sea by boat. In just a few days, we arrived at the sea near Guangzhou.

The first thing he noticed was the port of Macao, he looked far away, but saw that there were many ships in the port of Macao, it seemed that the port was no longer allowed to moor, and they were all going to overflow out of the port, although Mo Jingwan was on the itinerary, and did not want to stop in Macao, but he couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the grand occasion of Macao from afar.

"Your Majesty, this is Macau County, at the beginning of this year, in the summer

Since the opening of the port here, the general of Zhengnan. All foreign ships dock here, and today's situation is still trivial. The captain who followed Mo Jing said.

The so-called hundred-legged insects, dead but not stiff, are said to be Mo's family.

After all, the Mo family has gone through ten generations of kings, and the Mo family also has its own power in various places, and there are also above the sea.

"Is this already the case in Macau?" Mo Jingwan asked.

"Of course not. Although Macao used to be prosperous, most of the ships docked were foreigners. After the opening of Macao this year, half of Huayi and even three Huayi. I don't know how much it has increased, otherwise it would not be blocked like this, and it is said that the people of Macao are ready to open a new port. ”

Mo Jingwan just counted the ships outside, and knew that there were about thirty or forty big ships, which were parked outside, and if the whole thing was counted, there were probably hundreds of large and small ships docked in the whole of Macao. Although he didn't know how many ships there were in Macau before, he also knew that this was by no means normal.

At least it wasn't like that before.

Mo Jingwan's judgment was good.

Before the opening of the port, there were about 13 ships a year between Macao and Marani, but they were all large ships, which was not too many in terms of number. Even now after Zhang Xuan opened the port, the real increase in trade with the West is not too much.

There is much more trade with the small countries of Southeast Asia.

Guangdong has a history of navigation in the South China Sea for thousands of years. The ability of Guangdong maritime merchants is not bad. Especially in Southeast Asia, around the South China Sea, many of them are his own back gardens. After the official liberalization of cannon control, the maritime merchants suddenly became bolder.

A group of merchant ships was reported to be in a group, and even the Westerners did not dare to do it lightly when they saw it.

After all, there is no distinction between Western merchants and thieves, but they still pay attention to the cost of doing things, and it is natural to grab a gun, but if the cost of doing it is too high, it will naturally become gentle.

This restorative growth. Naturally, it has led to the prosperity of all industries in Guangdong. Compared to this time, it is not the era of overproduction in later generations, and generally speaking, as long as it can be produced, it is generally not afraid of not being able to sell. As a result, tariffs of more than 100,000 taels per month poured into the treasury of Guangdong, which can be said to be Zhang Xuan's money bag.

It's just that this kind of growth seriously affects the interests of Western merchants.

There was a Zheng Yiguan on the sea before, which was enough for them to be depressed. Now there is another Guangdong merchant gang. How could they be happy, and due to the rise of the Guangdong merchant gang, the interests of the Zheng group in the South China Sea were also affected, but Zheng Zhilong did not want to contradict Zhang Xuan for the sake of money, so he diverted the Zheng family's attention and focused on Japanese trade.

Although Japan has a lockdown order, what they prohibit is private trade, and official trade is not prohibited, and Zheng Zhilong

In the high position of Great Xia, the shogunate naturally opened the net to the Zheng family's merchant ships and issued seals. Perhaps it was because the shogunate was using its strength.

The Dutch commercial position in Japan was replaced by Zheng Zhilong.

The Dutch were very dissatisfied, and the friction with the Zheng family gradually increased.

However, the Zheng family has a high-spirited attitude, it seems that Zheng Zhilong has become the founder of Great Xia, and the Zheng family has suddenly become very unbelievable. Naturally, there is no attitude towards these foreigners in the Netherlands.

It's just that this evolution is not going much faster.

When the Dutch really gathered the courage to fight for maritime supremacy with Zheng Zhilong, it was a few years later.

Mo Jingwan naturally couldn't get a glimpse of the whole leopard and spy on the changes after a few years, but just the heyday of Macau had already made him tremble. Estimate the strength of Great Xia vigorously.

After entering the Lingding Ocean, I felt that the ships were ship-by-ship, and the boats were crowded, especially after entering the Pearl River, countless ships seemed to have paved a bridge over the river.

One can step on the boat and walk all the way to the pier.

Mo Jingwan's ship also had to fall into an embarrassing blockage. This kind of prosperous scene made Mo Jingwan a little numb.

"Your Majesty, there is an order from the Great Xia Imperial Court that foreign ships carrying artillery are not allowed to pass through Macao, but can only stop in Macao, so most of these ships are transshipped between Macao and Guangzhou.

Under Zhang Xuan's order, foreigners could not go to Guangzhou, and only foreigners who had become naturalized in China could do so.

However, Zhang Xuan overestimated the ability of the administrative system of Great Xia, and also underestimated the ability of merchants to exploit loopholes. Whether a ship can come over or not can be seen at a glance, as long as it is equipped with artillery, it cannot cross the Lingding Ocean. But whether a foreigner is naturalized or not, I can't tell it.

In short, the people below have all kinds of tricks, and Zhang Xuan's order can be said to be scrapped.

Compared with these ships, Mo Jingwan is more interested in ships cruising on the river, because these ships are war ships.

Mo Jingwan was attracted by the cannons on these warships.

Although Chinese merchant ships in foreign oceans also had cannons, one or two to deter thieves was enough for each ship. And there is no warship like this, adhering to Zhang Xuan's ideology, firepower is supreme, and he can't wait for a ship to be loaded with dozens of cannons.

If it weren't for the limited shipbuilding capacity, coupled with Zhang Xuan's lack of money, Zhang Xuan would not be able to build this kind of ship plus artillery, tens of thousands of two large ships, and only one or two experimental ships. But when Mo Jingwan saw it in his eyes, he was extremely shocked, and said to the people around him: "From now on, don't call me Your Majesty, just call me the lord of the country." ”