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As soon as Qin Mu arrived in Hangzhou, he rested for a night, and then took Sima Kai, Jin Lei, Yang Shen, Gu Junen, Shi Chunqiu, Lin Jihai and others to Ningbo Mansion together.

Ningbo was originally called Mingzhou, Hongwu 14 years before it was changed to Ningbo Mansion, in the Song Dynasty Ningbo has always been an important foreign trade port, at that time Mingzhou City was the Song Dynasty three major cities of the Ship Division.

Especially during the Southern Song Dynasty, the tariff revenue of the Ming City Bosi accounted for nearly one-third of the fiscal and tax revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time.

When Zheng He went to the West for the seventh time, he also used the Taohuadu area of the Sanjiangkou of Ningbo Port as the main base for shipbuilding and material preparation.

Now Daqin also has a large shipyard in Taohuadu, Sanjiangkou.

The so-called Sanjiang estuary refers to the place where the three rivers of Yongjiang, Yaojiang and Fenghua converge in Ningbo, and after the three rivers converge in Ningbo, they form a river channel that can pass through large boats, and enter the sea from Dinghaiwei to the east.

Gu Rong's navy was training off the coast of Ningbo, and after Qin Mu arrived at Ningbo Mansion, a meeting was held in the second hall of the first mansion.

First of all, He Ningzong, who is known as a poisonous talent, is responsible for introducing the situation of the Zheng family.

"Nowadays, the ships of various countries come and go, where they are not allowed to come and go under the Zheng family's flag, and each merchant ship Zheng family levies 2,000 gold, and this alone makes the Zheng family earn tens of millions of dollars, and they are rich enough to rival the country."

At the same time, the Zheng family owned a total of 3,000 ships, which traveled to and from Japan, Luzon, Siam, Temasek and other places to trade with the Yiren, earning countless gold and silver. Even other members of the Zheng family are rich and rival the country, such as Zheng Tai, the cousin who guards the Golden Gate, and his family wealth is no less than two million taels. In short, the rich are tens of millions, and the few are millions. ”

"Xiyi countries do not produce silkworms, only to traffic our country's silk back, can weave fine satin, and serve it as good. It is 100 catties of Chinese lake silk, which is worth 100 taels in China, and it has been twice the price in Nanyang. Or even several times. Jiangxi porcelain, Fujian sugar, fruits and other things are all fond of Yi. With this, the Zheng family's annual income is actually more than my national tax revenue in Daqin. ”

In fact, everyone has long known that the Zheng family is rich and rivals the country, but after He Ningzong's eloquent story, he still can't help but secretly speak.

Qin Mu also sighed: "With the Zheng family here, my Great Qin has always been like being pinched by someone, and the Southern Song Dynasty has earned more than 100 million yuan, at least half of which is sea trade income."

I don't say that I have an annual income of 50 million taels, even if I earn 20 million years old, then I will have a lot of silver invested in the people's livelihood.

Qianming was actually begging for food with a golden rice bowl, after Longqing opened the sea. Hundreds of millions of gold and silver flowed into China through trade, but the Ming court was crying poverty every day, and could only continue to pay the poor people;

This sea trade right must not only be taken back as soon as possible, but also firmly controlled, and must not become a channel for a few people to seek huge profits. ”

After listening to Qin Mu's words, Gu Junen and the others had a kinship!

Since the opening of the sea in Longqing, countless gold and silver have flowed into the Ming Dynasty. But it did not flow to the imperial court, but was divided among private individuals, making millions of huge rich people abound, while the Ming court was so poor that the emperor's dragon robe had to be patched.

Obviously. Qin Mu would never allow such a situation to happen again.

After listening to Qin Mu's words, Gu Rong, who was the deputy admiral of the Great Qin Navy, was undoubtedly the most stressed, and he hesitated: "King Qin." It's just that our navy has just become an army, and there is still a lack of training, so if we rashly fight a decisive battle with the Zheng family's fleet. With all due respect, I'm afraid there is no chance of winning. ”

The current Daqin Navy has 25,000 troops, but the original more than 10,000 people have been cruising on the Yangtze River and lack experience in naval warfare;

Of the 10,000 people who had just been recruited, most of them had gone to sea as sailors and had seen wind and waves, but they had not experienced many large-scale naval battles.

In real terms, only Gu Rong's two or three thousand original team members had experience in naval warfare.

Qin Mu swept to Gu Junen, Yang Shen and the others and said, "The enemy is strong and I am weak, what are your best strategies to win?" ”

Sima Kai remembered Qin Mu's idea of uniting the Dutch to attack Zheng Zhilong, so he said: "Sun Tzu has a cloud in the art of war, the first army is to attack and strategize, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and then to attack the city. The minister thought that he should first plan and cut the relationship. Although the Dutch could not count on it, the Portuguese in Macao and the Spaniards in Luzon could still take advantage of it, and the minister thought that it would not be difficult for Xu Yixi to make some small profits and use it to flank the Zheng family. ”

Shi Chunqiu, the right attendant of the ministry, objected to this, and said: "King Qin, the ministers dare not agree with Lord Sima's strategy. Xiyi often violated our Haijiang in the late Ming Dynasty, and he was by no means a good type. The minister thought that when the naval strength of our dynasty was still weak, leading Xiyi to attack the Zheng family was tantamount to driving the tiger at the front door and entering the wolf at the back door. ”

Jin Lei also said: "The minister agrees with Shi Shilang's opinion, leading Xiyi to attack the Zheng family, not only has the suspicion of driving the tiger at the front door and entering the wolf at the back door, but also takes a long time and is difficult to coordinate, and the Zheng family has accumulated tens of millions of assets over the years, leading Xiyi to attack the Zheng family, even if it wins, the assets accumulated by the Zheng family are very likely to fall into the hands of Xiyi." ”

When Qin Mu heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Jin Lei, this guy thought of being with him.

Qin Mu had long threatened to unite with the Dutch and Portugal to attack the Zheng family, but he never did so, and the biggest reason was the gold and silver treasures accumulated by the Zheng family.

The Zheng family has controlled Japan and Nanyang trade for many years, and Qin Mu absolutely does not believe that the wealth accumulated by his family is less than 30 million taels.

These riches are in the hands of the Zheng family, and it can't run. If it falls into the hands of Xiyi, Qin Mu can't help but think of Cixi's old lady, what is the difference between this and Cixi's "Rather give to foreign cowards than domestic slaves"?

Qin Mu said: "Since everyone does not agree to unite with Westerners to attack the Zheng family, then what can be done? ”

Yang Shen spoke: "King Qin, Fujian has many mountains and few lands, and materials are limited. The Zheng family's trade with Japan and Westerners mainly relied on Jiangnan for their goods. If I prohibit goods from entering and leaving the port, it will definitely cause great losses to the Zheng family, and the morale of the Zheng family's army will definitely be low. Moreover, the Zheng family is not monolithic, Zheng Sen, Shi Lang, Tong Haifeng and others do not agree with Zheng Zhilong's approach, it is not difficult to guess from the performance of these people that there must be many soldiers in the Zheng family army who are also unwilling to leave their hometown and move to Fujian. At that time, I will increase the division and co-optation within the Zheng family, and we will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort. ”

As early as the Ming Dynasty, "economic sanctions" were imposed on Japan, prohibiting merchants from trading with Japan.

If it is operated slowly, Yang Shen's trick is still very effective for the Zheng family in Fujian, but the economic sanctions are to kill a thousand enemies. The matter of self-damage of eight hundred, and the slow effect, was really not in line with Qin Mu's wishes, so he muttered noncommittally.

On the first day of deliberation, everyone did not provide any good solution for a while, and Qin Mu had to announce the temporary dismissal of the meeting.

Then he took Niu Wanshan and Li Shi and other guards, and under the guidance of Gu Rong and the prefect Cao Weijun, they took a stroll around Ningbo City.

While leading the way, Cao Weijun introduced to Qin Mu: "Ningbo Mansion City was built by Liu Ji at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and the circumference of the city wall is 18 miles. The wall is more than three zhang wide, and there are six city gates of Dongdu, Lingqiao, Changchun, Wangjing, Yongfeng, and Yi. In order to resist the Japanese in the later Jiajing period, the prefect Zhang Zhenghe had repaired it on a large scale, and the city wall was increased to two feet and six feet, and the moon city was added outside the city gates;

Today, the city has a population of 360,000, of which more than 40 percent are engaged in business or boat operation, and more than 20 percent are engaged in handicraft, freight and other industries, and the goods sold overseas from Ningbo. There are mainly porcelain, pottery, silk, cloth, books, lacquerware, musical instruments, umbrellas, combs, fans, tea, sugar, wine, rice, salt, medicinal materials, etc.

The commodities imported from abroad into Ningbo mainly include jewelry, spices, medicinal materials, daily necessities, and daily necessities. Among them, the jewelry category includes gold and silver, ivory, rhino horn, coral, tortoiseshell, emerald feather, agate, cat's eye, etc.;

Spices include agarwood, frankincense, ambergris, rose water, sandalwood, note incense, light incense, benzoin, raw incense, musk wood, etc.;

Medicinal materials include hematus, aferid, nutmeg, pepper, cloves, wood, deer antler, white cardamom, Poria cocos, ginseng, musk, etc.;

Daily necessities such as jibei cloth, pan cloth, Korean silk, silk cloth, pine board, Luo board, mat, ebony wood folding fan, etc. Military supplies include sulfur, Japanese swords, leather goods, tendons, etc. ”

Cao Weijun's mouth was like a river, and he talked endlessly, which showed that he was very familiar with the business situation in Ningbo, and Qin Mu nodded frequently when he heard it. As far as the eye can see, there is an endless stream of cars and boats coming and going between the markets, and the voices of people are noisy. The degree of prosperity is almost no less than that of the capital Jinling.

Cao Weijun sighed: "King Qin, if it weren't for the conflict with the Zheng family in Fujian, there would be more businessmen coming and going. There are more than 300,000 registered people in Ningbo, but in fact, the total number of businessmen who come and go to Ningbo all year round is more than doubled. There is a fang in the city, and people from Persia and other places live in it, and the number of people is as high as 20,000. ”

Qin Mu listened and walked, and soon climbed the east gate city wall, looking around, the three rivers in the city converge, the green waves are clear, the willow green and pink along the coast, the scenery is picturesque.

The big river in the east of the city is rolling towards the sea, and the boats on the river are like weaving, and the sails are filmed; Inside and outside the city, the voices of people are in the clouds.

On the southwest city wall, there is a three-storey, octagonal wooden structure pavilion, and the majestic momentum attracted Qin Mu's attention.

Cao Weijun immediately said: "King Qin, that is Qingyun Tower, was built by Wang Yinghua, the deputy envoy of Ningbo Haidao in the former Ming Dynasty, there is a big bell in the building, which echoes with the drum tower in the city, if the foreign enemy comes from the sea, the bell will be ringed on the Qingyun Tower to warn, and the Drum Tower and Haishu Tower echo each other, so as to inform the soldiers and civilians in the city to prepare for battle. ”

When Qin Mu first saw that Qingyun Tower was built tall and majestic, it was better than Yueyang Tower, and he thought that it was a face-saving project carried out by an official, but he didn't expect it to be used for military alarms.

"King Qin, please see, that is Haishu Tower, take the Tang Dynasty Du Xunyan "and Jin Ling Lu Cheng Early Qin Travel" poem "unique eunuch traveler, but shocking phenology new." The clouds go out of the sea at dawn, and the plum willows cross the river in spring'. ”

"Yunxia goes out to the sea, Meiliu crosses the river in spring" Qin Mu muttered, but he was thinking about the matter of the city shipping division in his heart, because not long after the battle, Daqin had not had time to set up the city shipping division in Ningbo, and the trade affairs were still managed by the Ningbo government, which was not good!

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