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Chapter 1000 The Impetuous Age

The beginning of the middle of the Jiajing period, the southeast troubles, exhausted the spirit of the people of the world for 20 years, and then the forbidden sea and the border are reasonable, and the gentry and people in the Ming provinces also want to be stable and maintain the current order. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After all, the trade on the northern border is only a few mouths, and the south is also a few ports, not to mention the official, even those who are not seen in private are counted, and the scope is limited, the impact is not great, and the people's hearts are very stable.

The wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River and the salt merchants in Lianghuai can earn huge wealth just by moving in the Ming Dynasty, and the landlords can be landlords with peace of mind, and the people can be the people with peace of mind.

Regardless of the north, south, east and west, everyone is calm-minded, and the civil officials in the court and the scholars in the opposition are still clamoring for any laws and strategies that are unfavorable to them, and they are engaged in endless political disputes with each other.

But after five years of Wanli, everything has changed, and it was originally just the opening of Tianjin Wei, which made people find that there would be such a big profit by communicating the north and south of the river through land, water, and sea.

The collapse of the Ota tribe made the merchants realize that they could make more money by wearing armor and carrying firearms than they had done before, and they didn't even need capital.

The expansion of the territory of the Huwei Army made the nobles and wealthy gentry of the Ming Dynasty discover that the rich land in the world is not only in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but also in the Hetao, and there are also white mountains and black waters, where they can be cultivated without paying taxes, and there are more possibilities, there are various specialties, and there are all kinds of trade.

The common people also found that they could have more ways out, and that the famine did not necessarily mean that they would beg and become homeless people, they could go to the reclamation farms everywhere to plant and cultivate, and those who had courage could go to the guards, relying on their own courage and courage to lay a world of food, clothing, food and clothing.

Everyone suddenly broadened their horizons, and suddenly felt that this world was not only the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, beyond the sea, the north of the nine sides, and the infinite vast world, those places had unlimited wealth, and there were many slaves in those places, all waiting for you to develop and rob.

Before the fifth year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty said that they were hard-hearted, but they also knew that the Tartars outside the side wall and the Japanese in the southeast were all strong enemies, but after the fifth year of Wanli, the Han people, who were equipped with armor and firearms and used carts as barriers, found that those beasts, wolves and tigers turned out to be so vulnerable, and they turned out to be just cattle and sheep to be slaughtered.

This is a great time when people's hearts are fluctuating

Seeing that many people around him got rich because they seized a small opportunity, and heard that many people encountered miracles and became rich, those people were not as good as themselves, and they may have begged themselves back then, and they were despised by themselves, but now they are all stronger than themselves, and no one will be willing to do this.

They can do it, why can't I, they can seize the opportunity, why can't I, there are so many opportunities now, as long as you pay attention, as long as you dare to take risks, you will definitely be able to succeed.

The common people have this idea, and the wealthy businessmen and nobles have this idea, the more they have status, the more they care about this kind of comparison between high and low, for example, in the city of Nanjing, the earl who is in the right scenery is terrible, why, it is not because the earl's family that is about to fall has developed all of a sudden, how to develop, that is, Songjiang opened the port, and kept up early, and as a result, he made a fortune.

The two Huai salt merchants both made a fortune by virtue of their privileges, and even so, some people benefited greatly from the early opening of the port in Songjiang.

There are so many examples around, coupled with the fact that this person is already flamboyant, which is even more exciting and irritating, impetuous and abnormal, all of them are keeping an eye on everywhere, and they are ready to keep up as soon as there is a business opportunity.

After March of the seventeenth year of Wanli, the commentaries of storytellers everywhere, in addition to the traditional paragraphs, began to tell the war allusions of the dynasty.

After the Ming Taizu became an ancestor, there was no victory in the external record, and some of the battles in Zhengde were deliberately covered up, saying that these are not meaningful at all, and no one listens, but there are a lot of things that can be said in this generation, and it is also exciting to listen to.

Mr. Storyteller talks about this, there are always people who are willing to listen, and in addition to the wonderful bravery of those sons of heaven and military generals, this comment always adds a lot of allusions, what so-and-so is in the naturalization city, outside the border wall of Liao Town, got a big Zhuangzi, hundreds of thousands of slaves, tens of thousands of livestock, and so on.

Jiangnan has a strong business atmosphere, and it is always exciting to hear this kind of story of making a fortune, there is a clever storyteller, who simply does not talk about such a crusade to the east and the west, but only says that this kind of people who go to foreign lands to make a fortune, and the result is more popular, so that they leave their hometowns in vain, dare to fight outside, and make a fortune as a result, from top to bottom are welcome, and even pickers and beggars are willing to listen to such stories.

There are many such stories, and many people sigh and regret that they didn't catch up with this time, and now on the northern grassland, it has almost been divided up by big merchants and wealthy families, and outside the border wall of Liaoning, it is also the northern merchants and nobles who have been divided, and this opportunity to make a fortune on the flat land is gone.

In such an atmosphere, there is another pamphlet circulating, this pamphlet is also the so-called Nanyang Notes, and the content is similar to the one circulated by the Jingshi.

There is a lot less description of the Nanyang woman, and the wealth of the Nanyang is described in detail and abnormally, saying that the gold and silver mines there are easy to develop, and they have not been developed much, there are spices and all kinds of hardwood, and the merchant ships sold to the Fan people on the spot are all profiteering, and if they can be trafficked back, the profits will be higher.

The rice fields there can be ripened three times a year, and the natives are all strong and capable people, as long as they can kill them, they are obediently slaves to cultivate for you.

There are examples of each item, and there is no need to make it up out of thin air, many people have gone to Nanyang to make a fortune, and they have worked hard in the local area, and it is easy to accumulate a fortune if they are not killed by pigs.

The pamphlet also mentions that those who have made a fortune have to pay taxes to the local people, and those who have made a fortune in Banten and Sulu and Manraka also have to pay taxes to the local local tyrants, and if they don't pay taxes, what kind of benefits will they have?

Not only that, but there are not many people in every part of the South Seas, but there are thousands or even hundreds of people occupying the main points, relying on warships, fortresses and firearms to defend them, and the pamphlet mentions quite contemptuously that those warships are nothing compared to the big ships moored on the Songjiang dock, and those white soldiers are still strong against the natives, but they are too far behind the guards of the Duke of Liao.

This booklet also tells a few allusions, such as a certain ship to a certain place in the South Seas, a momentary idea, seeing how rich the natives on the shore were, as a result, evil to the side of the guts, to burn, kill and loot, rich back to China, become a good gentry, and also point out the names of several people as if true and false, more and more authentic.

It is said that there is nothing wrong with this comparison, although the person who wrote this pamphlet used the number, but if you look closely, you can also judge that it is a person from Songjiang Mansion, and there are many people in Songjiang Mansion who have been to Nanyang, and what I saw all day is Wang Tong's escort and big ship, so naturally there will be this comparison.

But the things on this booklet are too provocative, Daming said that there are a lot of overseas things, most of them are similar to the notes of Zhiwei, but this is very detailed, I asked those maritime merchants who went to the South Seas, and said that ten percent of them could not be said, and eighty percent of them were there.

With so much wealth over there, and no defense, isn't this equivalent to being placed there for someone to take? The merchants of the northern land of the Ming Dynasty take the grassland, the white mountains and black waters, so why can't we take the Nanyang

Everyone has heard of how the businessmen in the north do it, even if they haven't heard of it, there will be "people with hearts" who take the initiative to remind you, you have to have someone with a gun, to be able to scare others, if you can't be scared, you have to fight, and the strength of a family is not enough, but also to work together, this is not a business, this is the wealth of a country and a place, people go to grasp the big, everyone can get enough.

Everyone has no shortage of spare money in their hands, since they are tempted, and there are so many successful examples in front, then do it, first the price of the Guangzhou ship is high, there are many people who custom-order, many people buy it, and the natural price is high, and then someone goes to Wang Tong's shipyard to ask how much a ship like a gunboat costs.

Some people also privately asked how much silver they needed to add if they could install artillery on this ship, and some of them would partner with everyone, while some wealthy merchants in Lianghuai would buy one or several ships by themselves.

The Ten Seas Ship, naturally it is not said that it can be built, Liao Guogong is really a businessman, no matter how he wants to make money, he can't build it for a while, but if you need it urgently, I can rent it here.

Everyone knows in their hearts, Liao Guogong is also going to make this fortune, but his status is expensive and inconvenient to participate, with his old man's guidance, it must be half the effort, everyone said one after another, and the rent is easy to say.

This gunboat belongs to the gunboat, and the goods are still on land, and you can't get a big warship, and it's okay to get a Guangzhou ship to pull people up, and it's easy for outlaws to do it, but it's hard to find people who dare to cross the ocean to burn, kill and loot in a foreign land, and those pirates are naturally the first choice.

Many outlaws on the sea suddenly found themselves as sweethearts, and people everywhere offered them high prices to serve as guardians.

It was not only the merchants who joined the tide, according to the news sent by the Nanjing Jinyi Guard, Wei Guogong and several nobles' generals and soldiers were removed from their homes, but then they all invested in the property of a close branch of the noble's family, and then they also bought ships and hired people.

This is indeed a great time of impetuosity