Lin Youde and Chen Mo stayed in Thonburi for a while, and the actual transaction had already been completed, although Siam was small, but with only one shipload of goods brought this time, the trade volume was close to two million Tang Yuan, which means that the huge profit of this cargo ship was enough for the Tang Navy to purchase a Freedom Wind class frigate. （）

The iron pots, which could not be cheaper in Datang China, were sold twice as much in Siam, such as ordinary aluminum blocks, which were much more expensive than silver. As for some of the manufactured industrial products produced by Datang, the value is even higher. In the case of arms, for example, the profits are unimaginable.

Datang International Trade Company has been committed to developing Far East trade routes, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is the largest trade object, accounting for 60 to 70 percent of Datang's foreign trade, and now Lin Youde, as the business representative of the International Trade Company, hopes to help the International Trade Company open up some new trade objects.

In East Asia, there are also countries such as Japan, North Korea, the Philippines, Siam, and Vietnam, among which Vietnam is still a pot of porridge, and it is not easy to do business, but it is good to plunder and trade people from the local area. The Philippines belongs to Spain, and Spain has signed a trade agreement with Datang, only allowing Tang people to trade in Mexico, Peru and Chile, but Lin Youde plans to transfer Datang goods to Borneo Overseas Territory, and then smuggle them by pirates. Japan now only does business with the Dutch and the Chinese, but the Shimazu clan has never been a good bird, as long as it is disguised as a Qing merchant ship, Shimazu will not have much of a problem to cover it up. The North Korean side still needs to open up, and there are no signs of > now

Siam is a new trading object that has been developed relatively smoothly, and a ship can make a lot of money every year by shipping some Datang commodities, plus sulfur metal or something. The Tang Dynasty hoped to obtain people from Siam and use local agricultural products to supply Borneo's overseas territories, and Siam was also a tin mining area.

It's just that this time the recruitment of immigrants from Siam. And it didn't work out.

By the time Lin Youde and Chen Mo left Thonburi, there were only more than 70 immigrants on their boat, and half of them were Thai. However, these Thai people are mainly women, and they are still good-looking Thai girls, but they did not take the initiative to sign up to immigrate, but Zheng Xin gave them to the Tang people as a gift.

It seems that he thinks that the number of people is not very good, and he ordered his subordinates to get a group of prisoners of war slaves from Laos. There were more than 300 people, and they were also stuffed into Lin Youde's boat.

On board. Chen Mo said: "I really have a lot of overseas Chinese in Siam, are interested in coming to our Datang, generally those who have just come to Siam, no industry, no family, not afraid to break through, older people who have already taken root here are not willing to move. But we only got a few dozen immigrants this time, and I think it has something to do with the Siamese authorities' disobedience. They paid lip service to help us recruit immigrants. But they secretly ordered their people not to come to us, we don't know Thai, so I don't know if they said hello to the people, but look at the look of interest and hesitation on the faces of those people, eighty percent of them are like this. ”

Lin Youde sighed: "I was a little careless, I thought that Zheng Xin would be better at talking than the Manchu government, but I didn't expect it to be like this." In fact, if you look at the situation in Thonburi, you can also know. Siam's population is actually not very large, less than that of Vietnam and Burma, and they need to make great use of overseas Chinese in their own countries, so how can they be willing to give up overseas Chinese to us? After Zheng Xin ascended the throne, the status of the Chaoshan people in Siam was not low, and the Chinese were exempt from the poll tax. There are even Chinese generals under Zheng Xin, which shows that we are too naïve. ”

Chen Mode was not very interested, and encouraged him: "It doesn't matter, these tasks of ours have successes and failures, and they are dull. It was done. It is true that we have at least opened up the route to Siam, which will be an important way for our country to make money in the future. ”

Lin Youde nodded, and thought: "In addition to breaking the situation in Borneo, it is already difficult for us to recruit Chinese immigrants in other places, and this matter will fall on the 'Cuckoo Plan' planned by General Counselor Bai in the final analysis, only if we hold the Manchu Qing in our hands, can control Hong Kong and Shanghai, and the Yangtze River becomes our sphere of influence, we will have the ability to send millions of Chinese displaced people to North America." ”

"Hehe, thinking about General Counselor Bai's calculation before, it's really scary. But the more we got back, the more we realized that we had to do this. Those of us who have come from the 21st century always feel that Datang is really backward and has nothing, pushing Datang forward, obtaining new resources, and with labor and chassis, we can promote the development of science and technology and social development. Most of the people in the Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China also have a heart to fight for profit, everyone either wants to make a contribution, or wants to be promoted to become rich, anyway, no matter what kind of mind they have, everyone's strength falls on the ground, and it has become a direction - forward, and then forward. In this way, there will inevitably be a lack of resources, the lack of labor, the lack of labor is a key, so there must be a large number of people, and the new immigrants can't turn back and change the lives of our traversers, and they must be able to meet our expected social development direction, then we have to get people from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is back to the original intention of the Cuckoo Plan. At that time, everyone objected to this matter, but now the more I go on, the more I feel that the cuckoo plan is imperative. ”

Lin Youde sighed: "So sometimes I think, General Counselor Bai is not a long time ago. ”

Chen Mo smiled: "That's not true, I think General Counselor Bai is an expansion maniac in his bones." ”

Lin Youde said: "Now the cabinet's mind is basically on the three southeastern states and the North American Revolutionary War, and a considerable part of the country's transportation capacity has been transferred, but it is said that if we can get enough European sailors from the east coast, then it will be obvious for us to improve." We will soon be able to support military operations in the Far East. ”

Chen Mo nodded: "The three southeastern states are already in their hands at this time, and now it is mainly a matter of governance and development, the British do not have the ability to invade on a large scale, and our participation in the North American War of Independence is also a battalion-scale experience, even if the East Coast is still participating in the War of Independence, the cabinet has the ability to distract others, and even concentrate the forces of the army and navy to implement the Cuckoo Plan in the Far East." ”

Lin Youde thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid it's a bit risky in this way." ”

Chen Mo smiled: "Don't forget, our strength is also increasing day by day." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for the recommendation ticket, your support is my biggest motivation. )