I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Suzhou, Wu Changqing said goodbye to Wenrou Township early in the morning, and started working after breakfast.

On this day, he received several Dutch maritime merchants and Portuguese maritime merchants.

The Ming Dynasty always banned overseas trade, but this kind of ban had some effect in the early stage. In the middle and late stages, various smuggling was common in the face of huge profits.

The imperial court thought of banning too much spending completely, and was powerless.

Local officials have chosen to close one eye, or to benefit from it.

As a result, ocean trade has always existed, but the court cannot collect a tax.

It can only be said that one sentence of ancestral family law killed this country.

Because the family law formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang is sacred and cannot be violated, their descendants are worried about changing this situation.

Wu Changqing would not follow the rules of this kind of sand sculpture. If a country wants to be prosperous and strong, overseas trade is inevitable. Especially now that the world has begun maritime trade, Britain has begun to rise.

If he doesn't enter the venue as early as possible, he may suffer on the sea in the future.

Therefore, Wu Changqing sent people to find overseas businessmen after he took power, in order to establish business relations with them and slowly develop the navy.

"Wu Guogong, three of them are Dutch businessmen, and two of them are Portuguese businessmen. They are all engaged in ocean trade, taking the route from India to Japan."

Lu Shan, who is in charge of translation, introduced.

"Ask how many ships they have and can they bring me saltpeter, cotton, high-quality iron ore, and bird droppings."

Wu Changqing said, in his eyes, silver is really useless. It is a silly behavior to exchange a pile of silver with one's own cloth or porcelain tea, and it is far better to replace it with useful materials.

Simply changing to silver will only reduce the purchasing power of domestic silver, without any benefit.

The saltpeter is different. Wu Changqing lacks a lot and wants as much as possible. And the more raw materials such as cotton, hemp and iron ore, the more the better. As for bird droppings, it is even more a good thing.

Nowadays, people don’t have much fertilizer in farming, but at most some manure and human urine. The fertility is limited, resulting in very low grain output.

Guano is a very good natural fertilizer, which has a great effect on increasing the yield of crops. Before the fertilizers were produced, the more things were better, no matter how much they were shipped, they were needed.

If you want to prosper, population is very important.

But here in China, the per capita arable land area is actually not much, and many people have problems eating.

Only by finding ways to feed these people can they free up their hands to develop industry.

And the more the population, the more technology he has, so he will always be short of food, never too much.

Lu Shanwei translated Wu Changqing's words, and the few people rushed to answer. Under Lu Shanwei's scolding, Hurd from the Netherlands spoke first.

"Honorable general, we can ship saltpeter and cotton at any time. As for guano, it is more troublesome. If the general is willing to pay a good price, we can also ship it."

There are a lot of cotton in India, saltpeter is also more common in Japan, these are the routes he often takes. As for bird droppings, they are going to Peru, Chile, California in North America and other places in South America, which is more troublesome.

However, in order to change to the silk, tea and porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, he was willing to do it even if he troubled him.

Before relying on smuggling, there were always many troubles and uncertainties.

Now that he learned that Wu Changqing, a powerful general, wanted to do business, Hurd took it very seriously.

As long as he can maintain a stable cooperative relationship, he can take the opportunity to make a fortune and gain a very high status in the Netherlands.

"We are best at round-the-world routes, and we can transport the bird droppings that the general wants from South America.

Portugal's Metro also answered that the goods of the Ming Dynasty were very popular in the West, and he also wanted to get a stable supply of goods from Wu Changqing.

"Don't worry, we can supply your entire country with a lot of goods, let alone now only have your two fleets."

Wu Changqing motioned to them to remain calm, and he would make all kinds of small inventions in the future to ensure that these foreigners were dazzled and would hate to change themselves into gold to exchange these things.

With the intention of cooperation, the two sides are next to bargaining. Wu Changqing must promise them a price, otherwise they dare not risk a boat of guano.

This year, Wu Changqing is the one who will treat bird droppings as treasure, and no one else has discovered the value of this kind of thing.

After confirming the intention of cooperation, Wu Changqing approached Gu Yanwu to discuss with him the development of Songjiang Mansion, which is about Shanghai.

Although ships at sea can also reach Suzhou, Suzhou still has many inconveniences compared to Songjiang.

"Developing overseas trade zones?"

Gu Yanwu didn't particularly understand this new word, but he could guess the general meaning.

"It's a place specially used to do business with foreigners. We provide infrastructure and maintain order, and then allow overseas merchants to trade from here, and encourage mainland merchants to transport goods here for trading. And we can collect taxes from it."

Wu Changqing explained in detail.

Gu Yanwu was stunned for a moment, this idea was too bold, it could even be said to be too rebellious.

You must know that the official ban is still in force. Although the imperial court has turned a blind eye to merchant smuggling, the development of such a trade zone so openly does not violate Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral motto?

Gu Yanwu also knows that there are many benefits to opening such a trade zone, and taxes can be collected collectively.

However, if the imperial court asks it down, it would be a bit hard to explain.

"Perhaps, we can secretly contact those merchants and ask them to ship the goods there. There is no need to make an announcement."

Gu Yanwu suggested that the speed and effectiveness of this propaganda might be worse, but at least it gave the court a step down. The imperial court can think that those things were made by the merchants privately and ignore them.

If Wu Changqing had personally promoted it, it would seem to be a little bit of a disregard for the imperial court.

"No need, I will write a copy of it. Either they allow me to open a commercial area, or they provide me with military salaries. The fifty thousand army of food and drink Lhasa, how can I afford it without increasing taxes."

Wu Changqing's attitude was very resolute. If King Lu did not allow him, he would directly declare his refuge in Emperor Longwu, and he might be able to kill Zhu Yihai alive.

He is now a rare commodity, very popular, and the two emperors will coax him.

"......"

Gu Yanwu can only continue to sigh in his heart, his lord is really getting less and less of the court, which makes him very contradictory.

However, he also knows that he can only hope to defeat the Manchu and regain the lost land by relying on Wu Changqing and Wu Changqing's assistant.

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