"You said Gong Dingyu is Haoge's person?"

Yang Feng said unexpectedly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It took him more than a dozen days before he remembered Philip, the crew of the East India Company.

These people handed over to Jinyiwei because they couldn't judge anything valuable, and Jinyiwei himself didn't know what was important on them, so this kind of work still had to be taken care of by the emperor himself, but he didn't expect Philip to give him an accident immediately.

"Your Majesty, he originally contacted us on behalf of Li Zicheng and wanted to use our fleet to blockade the Yangtze River, but after coming here, he wanted to bribe me to attack Your Majesty, and only then did he say that he was actually sent by those people in Liaodong, because I refused to attack Your Majesty, so he grabbed the ignition pole and opened fire. Your Majesty, the East India Company has absolutely no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of your country, and we are only here for trade, we are merchants, and interests are the most important thing. ”

Philip said as he lay on the ground.

"Hmph, you don't have the guts, do you?"

Yang Feng sneered.

Philip lay there and didn't dare to speak, if he had the guts before he came, but now he didn't have the guts at all, deducting the emperor's own terror, the strength of the Ming army he saw was enough to make him frightened. The level of equipment and combat effectiveness of this army is beyond that of European countries, even if the invincible Swedish army on the battlefield of the HRE battlefield may not surpass this army, if you add the population and financial resources of this huge empire, it is estimated that it is easy to arm millions of such troops.

An empire with millions of such troops......

Then the monarchs of Europe should rejoice that they are too far from the East.

"I welcome businessmen from any country, including you, but you must also abide by my laws, I can forgive you for things on the Yangtze River, but it is also a fact that you illegally invaded the Yangtze River, so your ship will be confiscated, as for you can leave after paying a fine, in the future, I will separately designate several ports to set up customs, and your ships will trade in these ports, but whether it is silk or tea trade, it will be operated by my company, and dare to trade with the people privately to deal with smuggling, As for porcelain and the like, you can. ”

Then Yang Feng said.

Anyway, these trades are ultimately cheaper than those profiteers, whether it is the export of tea or silk, it is definitely not the bottom of the peasant profits, look at the speed at which the gentry in Jiangnan pay out the silver, you can know where the profits of overseas trade are, since this is the case, then simply let him monopolize it, at least he can also intervene in the price, the domestic trade of tea and silk can be ignored, but foreign trade must be done by him, this is very simple, just set up a royal monopoly silk and tea export company, although there will definitely be smuggling, but this is just a matter of details.

Don't think that monopoly is not good, in such an era of budding capital, in the absence of sufficient legal norms, the shamelessness of profiteers will be unscrupulously magnified to the limit, and if you want to protect the interests of the people at the bottom, monopoly is often the most effective means.

Of course, it is also the most effective means to ensure the interests of the government.

After all, in such an era, the tax system is also non-standardized.

And he's not a complete monopoly either.

He only relied on partial monopolies to intervene in the market, for example, he deregulated the salt industry, but he would monopolize the salt mines, so that he could intervene in the salt market without making the market lose its vitality because of the monopoly. For example, he monopolized the grain trade, but liberalized the import of grain, which would drive the grain merchants to find ways to import grain from outside to increase the domestic food supply, and by the way, it would harm the surrounding small countries and create famine. The same is true of his monopoly on silk and tea exports, the biggest profit of this trade is exports, but the domestic market is also huge, and he shares half of the private merchants, but when the profiteers squeeze the silkworm farmers and tea farmers, his export company can raise the price and force it to follow suit.

At the end of the day, it's a control.

Of course, Philip was certainly not qualified to give an opinion on this kind of thing, and he didn't even dare to say anything about those two ships.

"There is one more thing, you go back and tell your superiors, Taiwan belongs to me and is my land, and you will steal Taiwan without my permission, which I absolutely cannot allow, and the East India Company must withdraw from Taiwan, and you also need to pay a fine of five million taels of silver for this, otherwise, I will not be polite."

Yang Feng said again.

"Your Majesty......"

Philip was just about to speak.

"Shut up, I'm giving you orders, not what I want you to say? Give you half a year, and you must withdraw within half a year, and pay this fine in addition, otherwise I will cut off trade with you, and at the same time send an army to expel you, and then you will have to pay not five million taels! ”

Yang Feng shouted.

"Don't think that I don't know about you from a distance, you haven't finished the war with the Spaniards yet! In the East, the Vatican supports the Portuguese, not you Protestants who are regarded as rebellious, the trade between the East and Europe is not up to you, as a supplier, there is no shortage of collaborators in the Ming Dynasty, and the East India Company is not the only one of you, but what you want is only available to the Ming Dynasty, if you do not withdraw from Taiwan, then I promise not to let any merchant ship of the Dutch East India Company sail out of the South China Sea! ”

He went on to say.

In fact, there is no need to deal with the Dutch so troublesomely, what they rely on for survival is trade, although it is said that spices and silk tea are equally important, but they will cry if they lack any of them, as long as they cut off their trade with China, then they can only give in, Taiwan is indeed important, but it is far from the East India Company's fundamentals.

Poor Philip was reprimanded and departed, and he was to be sent to Ningbo, where he would wait for the next East India Company merchant ship.

"Where is Gong Dingyu's concubine?"

After Philip left, Yang Feng asked Liang Cheng.

"Back to Your Majesty, I don't know where I am."

Liang Cheng replied.

The emperor rewarded Gu Hengbo to him, of course he also wanted to taste the taste of Qin Huai Bayan as soon as possible, but after entering Nanjing, when he went to copy Gong Ding's house, Gu Hengbo had already disappeared.

"Find her immediately, I'm afraid this woman is not that simple, Gong Dingyu is actually Haoge's person, and it is impossible for her, as Gong Dingyu's most beloved woman, not to know."

Yang Feng said.

He didn't know that at this time, Gu Hengbo, the original historical Qing Dynasty Yipin, was walking out of a carriage at Jingkou.

"Mei'er, you forgot your umbrella!"

The man who came out next to her put his arm around her waist and whispered.

"Humph!"

Gu Hengbo snorted.

Then he snatched the small umbrella from his hand, pushed it up like a rage, and then shook it a few times and shook it sideways in front of the man, and then closed it hatefully, and then hit the man, threw the umbrella on the side of the road, and walked towards the passenger boat in front of him, the man smiled faintly, sped up a few steps and stepped forward to hold her waist, and the four bodyguard-like men followed closely behind, one of whom raised his foot and kicked the umbrella into the ditch.

Gu Hengbo glanced at the umbrella out of the corner of his eyes, and got on the boat as usual.

But as soon as she got on the boat, she was stunned.

She looked at the two men and a woman sitting in the cabin in amazement, the latter also looked at her in the same astonishment, the man behind her walked into the cabin, and immediately smiled with interest when he saw this scene, and then stared at the man in his old green shirt, fifty or sixty years old like an old teacher, the latter also turned his gaze to him, the man gently pushed his hat upward, and the hair inside was pushed upwards to reveal a little short hair, and the old teacher smiled knowingly.

"Mr. has a kind face, but he is quite like a contemptible in-law, I wonder if Mr. has any relatives in Dengzhou?"

The man asked.

"The old man is originally from Dengzhou, and there is a brother in his hometown."

The teacher said.

"Is the gentleman's surname Kim?"

The man asked.

"Old decayed Jin Mu Zhai."

The teacher said.

"Sir, brother is Jin Muyuan?"

The man asked.

"Exactly."

The teacher said.

"Oh, it turned out to be an uncle-in-law, the little nephew Suoping, the second sister-in-law is the daughter of Mu Yuangong, I have heard the name of the uncle-in-law, but the uncle-in-law is high outside, and I have always been a friend, I don't want to see you here today, please accept the little nephew."

The man said.

"Uncle in-law, this is going back to Dengzhou?"

Then he asked.

"Exactly, the old decay lives in Nanjing, has been teaching for a career, this time Dong Weng was involved in the anti-party prison, there is no food and clothing, and he has to return to his homeland, but he has not returned for many years, I don't know if his relatives and friends in his hometown still accept it."

The teacher said.

"Uncle in-law laughed, Uncle in-law is famous in the township, but it's just bad luck."

The man said with a smile.

Then the teacher smiled.

The woman beside him also looked at Gu Hengbo and smiled, but she smiled a little reluctantly, but Gu Hengbo was very indifferent, got up and sat directly next to her, a pair of beauties made the whole cabin a spring like a flower, which is all in the unspoken tacit understanding, or it can also be said that in the silence of each ghost, the passenger ship that went down the river left the Jingkou wharf, and went briskly down the Yangtze River, heading straight for Shanghai, hundreds of miles away.

Gu Hengbo turned his head to look at the dock.

Just beside the pier in the distance, a man standing on the side of the road watching her leave suddenly lowered his head, looked at the silk umbrella with the handle half-sunk in the water, quickly reached out to pick it up and held it and weighed it, then opened it and looked at it carefully, grabbed the bottom of the umbrella handle and tried to turn it, the bottom of the umbrella handle began to rotate from an almost indistinguishable thin line, and soon turned to the end He pulled it out with his hand, and a slender short thorn was pulled out, of course, this short thorn is not important, the important thing is that the broken thorn is also wrapped in a piece of paper full of words with eyebrow stones.

He glanced at it and ran towards the yamen of the inspection department in the distance without hesitation.