After several years of construction, Manila has become the largest commodity distribution center in Southeast Asia, and the Port of Manila has reached a considerable scale after repeated expansion in recent years. At least in this day and age, no other port in the world can compare to it.

The reinforced concrete piers and trestle bridges alone, as well as the continuous storage area by the pier, can make the western hillbillies who come here for the first time breathtaking. Not to mention the modern management process of the Port of Manila, from merchant ships entering the port, pilotage, loading and unloading, transportation, warehousing, tallying, consignment, customs declaration, inspection and other work have professionals to provide one-stop services for businessmen from all over the world.

In addition, merchant ships in and out of the port, offshore, cargo handling and warehousing, water diversion, ship support, water supply, belt unmooring, ship maintenance, food and daily necessities and supplies are arranged for you, the facilities are also very complete, the management is in good order, never out of the half-point cuò. As soon as the merchant ships arrived at the port of Manila, merchants from all over the world did not have to worry about anything else, but only went ashore to trade.

But these jobs are charged, and the price is extremely expensive, and children are not deceived. But don't be too expensive, it's not discounted if it's so expensive!

The merchant ships from various countries were about to come once, and after gritting their teeth and paying a fee to leave the port, they all scolded the Far Eastern Company for their black hearts, but they came back again after a while. Businessmen only talk about profits, and now Manila is in their eyes, it is a mountain of gold and silver, and they can choose whatever goods they think will make money here, pull them back to the country to sell, and make a lot of profits.

There is also a military port built deep in Manila Bay, which belongs to the military zone, and all ships that come close will be sunk on the spot if they do not listen to the dissuasion. The dock of the military port is not only for the warships of the Luzon Coastal Garrison. The materials entering and leaving the port of the Far Eastern Company are loaded and unloaded here. A deep-water wharf was built here for two 10,000-ton ships.

Every year, the company sends two 10,000-ton ships to Manila. At most, I have made three trips a year. Pull the supplies hoarded here back to Vladivostok and Liaodong. These include agricultural and sideline products such as rice, tobacco, and miscellaneous grains from Siam and other countries in Southeast Asia, as well as minerals such as iron, copper, gold, molybdenum, and bauxite mined in Luzon.

In addition to the two 10,000-ton ships, the Admiralty sends a large number of sailboats to and from Manila and Liaodong and Vladivostok every year to transport grain and labor, and every year the company pulls nearly 40,000 tons of rice back from Manila and transports more than 30,000 indigenous laborers.

Manila's Prosperity. A large number of businessmen from Western countries have crossed the ocean and come here. They are no longer limited to the Goa-Manila-Lisbon route and the Manila-Acapulco route, but now many merchant ships from Europe and the New World have formed fleets and come to Manila through Malacca to trade.

At that time, the Kingdom of Spain discovered the richest silver ore in the Rico Peak, deep in the interior of South America. The Spaniards immediately used countless Indian coolies to mine the silver mines. Between 1550 and 1850, millions of Indian and African slaves were buried in the mines. For a time, there was more silver in circulation than ever before, and everything could be bought and sold according to its corresponding price of silver. Silver doesn't have much value on its own, but it comes in just the right time and in the right quantity to meet the needs of economic expansion.

The Spaniards who sit on the Silver Mountain. In addition to transporting the silver directly back to the mainland, it soon extended its tentacles to the legendary and mysterious East. The famous Manila galleon soon set sail and set sail from the Mexican port of Acapulco to transport the silver of Rico Peak to Manila, a Spanish colony in Luzon.

The 8-real silver coin (about 27.468 grams) minted in Spain was used exclusively for foreign trade, and its silver purity was maintained at 0.931 at a steady dìng, so it was trusted by Chinese merchants and could be melted down directly into silver ingots after being imported into China. Prices are so cheap there, and China's productivity is so amazing. Capable of producing a steady stream of luxury goods and daily necessities that were the envy of Europeans, the Manila galleon's route was quickly fixed. It has become an annual trade hub between Manila and Mexico.

Historically, the governor of the province of Mexico in the Kingdom of Spain could decide how much cargo a sailing ship could carry, although its ownership was owned by the royal family. Because management is scarce, the governor has the right to arrange positions, so important positions are often occupied by unskilled connections. Every Spaniard who lived in the Viceroyalty of New Spain had a slot on a galleon by class, and each slot had a ticket. Widows are entitled to their husband's quota and their children are allowed to inherit. Buying and selling goods later became a very lucrative business.

Because the profits of the sailing trade were too high, the situation of entrainment of smuggled goods was very strict. Every time a galleon declars its cargo to leave port from Manila, a number of small boats follow it and load smuggled cargo on the way to evade taxes. A galleon with a declared cargo value of 2 million pesos. The actual loading may be 3-4 times or more. Because no one inspected the goods again in Mexico, the official adopted the "silent principle" of turning a blind eye and collecting taxes on the declared goods.

With the capture of Luzon in the Far East and the defeat of the Spaniards twice, the trade in galleons, which should have been cut off, increased exponentially. For the sake of their own interests, the Spanish magnates of the New World did not hesitate to devote themselves to the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade. More galleons brought entire ships of silver to Manila, where they were loaded with various goods and shipped back to the New World and Europe.

Since Macau has become a "God's forsaken land" that no one dares to go to. The Portuguese colonists also lost their foothold in Daming, and when they reacted and found out what was wrong with it, they were powerless to return to the sky.

There are thousands of Chinese pirate ships along the coast of Luzon, the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, and the coast of Japan, and as long as the Portuguese merchant ships appear, these Chinese pirate ships are like a school of sharks smelling blood, frantically pounce and bite them.

Not only did the Portuguese lose Macau, but now even the Nagasaki route to Japan was cut off. Originally, they could still rely on huge sailing ships and Chinese pirate junk ships to maneuver, but now the clippers of the coast guards in the Far East and the sloop sloops were not ordinary ferocious, and the Portuguese merchant ships were considered to have fallen into blood mold when they encountered them. As long as you dare to resist, it will be sunk.

What frustrated them the most was that the Portuguese merchant ships were going to appear north of Luzon, and even if they sneaked in, they would always be caught by the Far East. Not only them, but many Dutch, British, and Spanish merchant ship owners, as well as Ming maritime merchants, tried to bypass Manila and go out to trade privately.

However, as soon as their ship left the port, its whereabouts were reported by Far Eastern intelligence officers to the fleets in Manila and Taiwan by radio. Several guerrilla fleets in Luzon, Liu Xiang in Guangdong, Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, Song Shiping in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the coast guards of various overseas territories will receive the news.

The thousands of pirate ships, hundreds of clippers and slupp sloops in the Far East will soon open a wide net to intercept the merchant fleet that tries to trade privately, and if they resist and sink on the spot, the cargo and sailors will also be imprisoned in the coolie camps in the Far East to do hard labor. If you want to redeem the ships and sailors, you have to pay a sky-high ransom.

Moreover, since the Far East brought Cam Ranh Bay from Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, the Far East's control over the South China Sea has become more and more tight. With the Cam Ranh Bay Coast Guard stationed there all year round, and a guerrilla fleet to cooperate with them, the Far East has absolute control over the waters north of Luzon.

The owners who were initially caught lamented their bad luck, but as more and more owners were caught, those who tried to make private deals bypassing Manila were stunned by the power of the Far East.

The Far East is too godly, how can it be accurate as soon as it is caught.

How do they know how rebellious the artifact of radio is in this era, it's just a **ug. Far Eastern Group has built a large number of wireless communication relay base stations on the islands of the South China Sea, East China Sea, Sea of Japan and Bohai Sea, and Far Eastern Group can share information from various places in a very short time.

In this era, radio not only has a huge military use, but also has an immeasurable role in economic trade. Every year, the trading companies set up by the Ministry of Commerce of the Far East in various places will study and analyze the commodity market in various places, and then communicate and discuss with companies in various places through guò radio, and adopt macroeconomic regulation and control of various commodities.

In this way, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty can also carry out targeted production according to the needs of merchants from various countries in Manila, and even control the price of goods, ensuring that all Ming merchants have high profit margins.

Since the Dutch East India Company signed a contract with the Far East, they have been keeping the contract for several years. Because they are going all out to deal with the Sultan of Mataran in Java, Agung. So now all the interests north of Luzon are abandoned, and all their merchant ships are traded in Manila.

The prosperity of Manila was most beneficial to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty. Far East controlled the circulation channels of Oriental commodities, which made the profits of Daming's commodities much higher. Coordinated by the Far East, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty would also form price alliances to control the prices of certain in-demand commodities.

Daming's exports of raw silk, silk fabrics, cotton, porcelain and other commodities mainly come from the Taihu Lake Basin, as well as the southeast coastal areas. In this way, the repeated production of commodities is avoided, and the business risks of sericulture farmers, small merchants and small workshops in the middle and lower reaches of the Ming Dynasty are virtually reduced, and the losses caused by the repeated backlog of a large number of commodities are avoided. (To be continued......)