After understanding the question of the young man sitting across from him, Don Garcia felt at a loss in his heart, rich? He naturally wants to, and from the bottom of his heart, he wants to get rich.

As the son of a bankrupt squire, he needs a lot of money to redeem his ancestral estate and, according to his mother's wishes, inherit the family title and rebuild the family's reputation.

In addition, he has a younger sister and a niece who are responsible for the marriage. If he could not prepare enough dowries for them, with the present traditions of the kingdom, they would not be able to find a suitable person to marry. The best outcome for them is either to serve God in a monastery or to become old virgins at home.

However, although he was so eager to get rich, he did not dare to deal with this young man at will, because he did not know what the other party wanted.

Now he is no longer the simple young man who has just set foot on the territory of New Spain. Someone doesn't throw a decoy and he's going to rush to it.

It's like, before he set foot on the land of the colony, he still had the dream that the colony was full of gold and silver, and he could make a fortune just by bending down to pick it up.

However, when he landed on the land of the colony, he found that it was no different from the rest of the country, and that all the better lands had been divided up by the great nobles.

And the shameless king had already issued a decree that all the mineral deposits under the colony belonged to the royal family. Therefore, even if there is any silver or gold to be picked up on the ground, it is the property of the king.

As for the legend, the stupid and rich pagan natives of the New World are waiting to give away a large fortune to a promising young man like him, and by the way, a beautiful daughter.

When he became acquainted with the colony, he could not connect the unclothed, glazed-eyed Indians with the legendary characters.

He realized that perhaps wealth, beauty, and stupid heretics did exist somewhere in the world, but not everyone could be Pizarro. The miracle expedition to conquer the Inca Empire will not happen a second time.

What he learned in the colonies over the years was more than just gambling, pickling and fighting. At the very least, he now knew that every piece of bread given by the superior would not be priceless.

Tang Garcia sorted out the thoughts in his heart for a long time, and finally held back a sentence: "Who wouldn't want to get rich?" But I don't know how to make me rich, my lord? Or, who are you, my lord? ”

Knowing that the temptation sent by the other party may not be poisonous, he still can't refuse this naked temptation.

Zhu Youzhen smiled and said, "I like to chat with rational and ambitious young people like you."

It's not difficult for me to get you rich. As long as you are asked to return to Manila with a batch of silk, tea, and porcelain, are you still afraid that you will not be able to make a fortune?

The question is, what can you do for me? As for who I am, you don't have to know yet. ”

After listening to Zheng Cai's translation, Tang Garcia immediately turned his head to Chongzhen, and he mustered up the courage to say something several times, but in the end he just opened his mouth and didn't make any sound.

Zhu Youzhen waited, then waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, you go down and think about it first, and then tell the master here your thoughts tomorrow." ”

Tang Garcia didn't want to leave immediately, but after being reprimanded by Zheng Cai a few times, he still dragged his heavy steps, a little lost his soul, and left with the servant who led him here.

After watching Tang Garcia walk away, Zhu Youzhen turned his head to Zheng Cai and said, "It seems that it is difficult to realize my original plan, if the Spanish colonies in the Americas are as he said.

The previous plan had to be revised, since the Spanish colonies in the Americas could not get the supplies we needed. Then we can only try to introduce these plants from the Americas to China or to the islands of the South Seas.

I intend for this man to take a consignment to Mexico, where he will collect seedlings and seeds of cotton, rubber, sisal, and other plants for us. You calculate the value of a cargo, and the value cannot be high enough so that he can run back to Spain and live comfortably for the rest of his life.

But not so low that he can't do the task of buying plant seeds and seedlings for us. ”

Zheng Cai thought about it for a while, and then replied: "Let him do this alone, after all, it is too risky." The minister thought that he could get the help of the other two Spaniards who submitted to the court, although they were a little stupid, but they still had the ability to complete a surveillance mission. ”

Zhu Youzhen said with satisfaction: "Okay, you can grasp the details yourself." I'll leave this matter to you..."

Two or three days later, Matsuno Shigegen was still mixed with the Japanese caravan as he had come, and returned to Tianjin by ship from the capital.

When he arrived, he had three or four samurai guards by his side, including his nephew. But when he left, there was only one person left by his side.

The nephew, Kosuke, and another person were left in the capital as envoys to keep in touch with the Ming Kingdom.

On this trip to Beijing, although the content of cooperation with the Ming people was discussed for a long time, a very good result was finally obtained.

At the suggestion of the Ming people, he agreed to the most critical one on behalf of Suruga Daiyan. At the cost of 350,000 taels a year, he trained two wings of 3,000 troops for Suruga Daiyana in the Ming Kingdom.

The advantage of this article is that sending the samurai and soldiers under Da Nayan to the Ming Kingdom for training can drag the Ming Kingdom into the water, and the other is to avoid the eyes and ears of the domestic shogunate, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

In a happy mood, he longed to fly back to Japan and report the good news to His Royal Highness. As a former retainer of the Toyotomi family, he did not have a good impression of the shogunate.

As Matsuno stood on the deck of the ship and watched the scenery on both sides of the river, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be several more huge Western windmills on both sides of the canal.

Although he was not as curious about windmills as his nephew, he also learned from that nephew that they were large power machines that could greatly save manpower.

According to his nephew, windmills can do many things for people, such as grinding grain, crushing ore, etc.

However, in Matsuno's opinion, this kind of windmill will not be popular with the Japanese. There is an almost infinite amount of manpower in Japan, and what windmills can do, with their hands, can do the same.

It's not a good idea to give up cheap manpower to expensive machines. There are only so many materials that need to be processed, what is the difference between a few days faster and a few days slower?

The biggest point of these windmills is that a small number of people work and the majority of people do nothing. Matsuno Shigegen believes that this is simply a decision that only the stupidest of superiors can make.

However, the vast and flat fields on both sides of the canal made him feel particularly envious in his heart. Such a vast plain is an unimaginable treasure in Japan.

However, in China, the treasure land is only the development of the land along the canal, and the plains away from the canal are left to be so barren, occupied by sparse forests and wild grasses.

This is simply a crime, Matsuno Shigegen couldn't help but think silently in his heart, he began to miss the man who once wanted to take them to break through the four hundred states of China.

With mixed emotions, Matsuno Shigegen followed the caravan to his own fleet at the port of Tianjin, and then the ships loaded with Chinese goods turned around and returned west.

When the Japanese fleet left the Tianjin River, the personnel of the fleet were seeing an even larger fleet, ready to dock at Tanggu New Port.

Even though these Japanese had always looked down on these southern barbarians, they were still shocked by this fleet, which was queuing up to enter the port.

The commander of the Portuguese Sino-Japanese trade fleet, Sarmento, was also standing on the side of his ship at the moment, watching condescendingly as the Japanese fleet, which was less than 30 meters away from him, passed by his fleet.

Samento was in a good mood, although when his fleet arrived in Japan, the price of silk fabrics and tea had weakened due to the trade of Chinese and Macao merchant ships.

But raw silk and porcelain were still in short supply in the Japanese market, and some of the glassware and lacquerware he brought with him from Tianjin also made a staggering profit from the Japanese.

However, Sarmento suspects that the price of Chinese goods in the Japanese market will not recover anytime soon after his fleet leaves.

All along, the number of Chinese goods carried by this fleet was only between one-third and one-half. It's rare to have a position filled up by 8 or 9 percent like this time.

Nearly 7,000 tons of Chinese cargo, if it is not divided into several ports for shipment, it is estimated that the market in a certain Japanese region can be blown up.

In fact, this matter was very troubling to Sarmento, who in the past, even if China imposed a maritime ban on its own merchants, and those Chinese merchants accounted for at least one-half to two-thirds of the total amount of goods traded with the Japanese each year.

Although the Chinese ships are not comparable to their European merchant ships, often the volume of six or seven ships arrives at a small European merchant ship. But the Chinese are the landlords here, and they are far more familiar with the sea than the Europeans.

Even the junk, which they thought was rudimentary, could safely travel between China and Japan.

These big European merchant ships could only sail about once a year on the trade wind, but these Chinese could trade almost all year round, and those Japanese merchants were obviously more willing to trade with Chinese merchants.

Samento's concern is how to sustain the high profits of the Sino-Japanese trade route if China opens the door to overseas trade.

He pondered for a long time during his time in Japan, and finally decided to accept the Ming Emperor's proposal to expand the scale of China-India trade beyond the Macao-Japan route.

After deciding on the decision, Sarmento returned to Tianjin with half of the Sino-Japanese trade fleet, nearly 1,000 tons of volcanic ash, and some Japanese goods. The rest of the fleet will go directly to Ningbo in half a month.