Chapter 526: Father's Kindness and Son's Filial Piety(1/2)
His Majesty the Emperor agreed readily because this was said.
What the Dutch should do on this issue was originally what Li Dan had told them, and their tribute was just to get the official approval of His Majesty the Emperor.
Wanli is not going to be the savior of Nanyang.
He was welcome to the colonists.
He is not afraid that the more European colonists come, the better!
These colonists gave him silver, so why didn't he welcome him?
What he didn't welcome was the direct trade between European colonists and the Ming coast, because in that case he would have to face the problem of large-scale smuggling of coastal merchants...
Maritime business must be done.
But it can only be done by Nanyang Company.
After all, Nanyang Company is His Majesty’s ATM, and now two-thirds of the company’s equity is in his hands.
The other third is in the hands of upstarts.
As for the Fujian and Guangdong families that had gathered the crowd back then, except for a very small number of whom have become upstarts, the others have basically been confiscated.
Therefore, the money earned by Nanyang Company is His Majesty’s inner treasury.
In this case, coastal smuggling must be eliminated. It is to rob his money, and the secrets of various industries must also be protected. Leaking secrets is to rob his money, but it takes a lot of money to control these things. In the past, the imperial court had no ability to control it, so the overseas trade he had engaged in was controlled by coastal gentry. If tens of millions of silver were imported a year, the emperor could make tens of thousands of taels.
So the easiest thing is to place the trading market directly in the distant Nanyang.
It can be said that the colonists were physically isolated from coastal gentry.
The latter is enough to be a supplier, and set up factories and plantations in the Ming Dynasty. Domestic trade is casual, and overseas trade is given to Nanyang Company monopoly. Nanyang Company transports their freight to Java, Peking University, Malacca, and Manila. Then, it is sold to European merchants with the right face of monopoly enterprises. Even some of the prices of some of the goods are personally designated by His Majesty the Emperor. It is impossible to flip through them. To be precise, it is a few flips, and then the money earned is returned to the inner warehouse for his use.
As for how the European colonists treat the indigenous people of the South China Sea, the more they squeezed, the better. After all, the money they squeezed would still be sent to his inner treasury in the end.
In this sense, the European colonists were working for him.
Of course they must be allowed to live.
Rent is not important.
Because Nanyang Company earned more than this amount of money in any shipment of cargo in the past.
The rent must be lowered so that European colonists can be willing to come. In fact, it is not impossible to pay it, but it is still possible to pay a little. The Spanish in Manila is 50,000 yuan a year. At the most, Nanyang companies can earn 300,000 Spanish pesos from a ship of cargo...
Let’s talk about it.
You can also go over to kill pigs from time to time!
The Spanish have been forced by him to pay a fine of four million in the past few years.
Sixty percent of the silver extracted in South America was sent to the Ming Dynasty in one year, and nearly half of it entered his inner treasury. It can be said that his share was higher than that of the Spanish king himself. The latter had ordered the Americas to reduce the silver directly sent to Asia. But this was useless. The Ming Dynasty had Shanxi merchants, so why should the Spanish merchants be more conscientious? These silvers were the support of His Majesty's continuous expansion over the years. By the way, his naval ships have increased to eight.
It will increase in the future.
After all, after Myanmar takes it, cheap and sufficient teak can be obtained.
The four new ships he built were cypress trees. This kind of sacred tree in a certain island is being cut down and then transported out of the mountains and forests to turn into shipbuilding wood at Bengang. His Majesty the Emperor even built a shipyard in Bengang.
In this way, the Dutch colonists transformed into merchants who were authorized by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to conduct legal trade in Java, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. According to the examples of Macau, they were authorized to live in His Majesty the Emperor, but they had to pay 50,000 taels of silver for this year.
In addition, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty will also set up a governor there...
Protect the natives.
After all, the natives were weak and helpless. What if the Dutch bullied them? The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had to be responsible for them, so he specially sent a governor to take some troops to station. Considering the climatic conditions there, there was no need to directly transfer troops from the Ming Dynasty. Originally, Huang Minggang, the general manager of the Nanyang Company in Java, was appointed as the governor of Java, and the Ming people there were converted into imperial militias. Then the Java affairs were under its management. The Dutch had to get his permission first.
In addition, it is responsible for taxation.
Of course taxes are required.
The Dutch East India Company transported so many spices back in a year, which were all from the territory of the Ming Emperor, so taxation was necessary.
The Netherlands East India Company accepted it in full.
Unless they drove all European fleets to Java, they would not be able to defeat the Ming Navy.
In fact, even if they opened all European warships, they could not defeat them. The strength of the eight horizontal ships was also the top warships in Europe at this time. The current group of essentially armed merchant ships in the Netherlands really did not have the ability to fight against them.
After the Dutch tribute envoy retreated, the Spanish tribute envoy arrived...
They came to pay the fine, because they followed the Japanese invasion of North Korea and they needed to pay a fine of 2 million taels to His Majesty the Emperor. The Ming Navy had already collected it once last time. That time, one million was collected, and one million was given to them some time to raise it. Otherwise, they would send a large army to land in Manila, cancel Spain's right of residence in Manila and impose tribute on it.
That is, cut off trade.
In the future, any Spanish ship that appeared in the East would sink one if the Ming Navy and Nanyang Company encountered it.
What else can the Spanish do?
If you can’t fight, you can’t break the trade. One million is just one million!
At worst, the price of the goods shipped back can be increased!
So this time they brought one million taels of silver to pay tribute.
As for their current affairs, His Majesty the Emperor mercifully forgave the crime they committed by being deceived by the Japanese...
It's all the fault of the Japanese.
Spanish businessmen were then allowed to continue living in Manila.
His Majesty the Emperor sat upright in the Tai Chi Hall, accompanied by Yonghan's screams faintly from outside, accepting the worship of the tribute envoys from various countries, as if he had returned to the era when his ancestors came to pay tribute. He also began to restore his rule over that land like his ancestors, as he was the master of the order in the South China Sea. These tribute envoys originally included the sultans in the South China Sea.
They tried to rely on the Ming Dynasty to resist the European colonists.
but……
It depends on what they can give to the Ming Dynasty.
In the distant Japanese country, wild boar skin is facing another emperor...
"What is he talking about?"
Standing at the door, he looked blankly at Zhou Ren in front of him, who was talking in words that he could not understand at all.
"This is the sound of a crane."
Mr. Maori, who met with him, said.
"Chiyin, isn't that just a bird's song?"
Wild boar skin...
Zhongren Guanbai said in surprise.
"This is indeed true. Your Majesty is the great god Amaterasu. Even if you speak, you cannot use mortal words. Therefore, there is a crane sound specially used by Your Majesty. Only the close ministers can understand it, and then the close ministers will explain the holy meaning."
Mr. Mori said with a smile.
It is obvious that he has no respect for His Majesty the Emperor.
After they broke through Himeji Castle, they continued northward, but Toyotomi defended Osaka and waited for Mitsunashi Ishida to return to rescue, so they gave up attacking Osaka and went straight to Kyoto to come to Shangluo. His Majesty the Emperor was a smile to welcome guests from all directions. Since they came to Shangluo, of course, they were honestly welcomed. Then there was the scene in front of them. After the meeting, they had to go to fight quickly. The second Battle of Sekihara would begin soon.
This battle will once again decide the name of Japan.
Boar Skin has already promoted his shaving in all occupied areas.
Also easy to dress.
He felt that the clothes in Japan were inconvenient in the past, so he personally formulated a new style of clothing.
Currently, except for the exiled gentry and the Thais in Japan, all the others shaved their hair and changed their clothes. They dared to keep Yue Dai's head and cut them directly. So if he wins, then the entire Japan will probably be able to shaved their hair and change their clothes.
"A good person doesn't speak human words, but he actually speaks birds singing. Besides, will His Majesty and the Prince also speak birds singing?"
said the wild boar skin.
"That's not the case. After all, there are not many people who can understand this."
Maori Yuan said.
In fact, everyone knows this well.
Heyin just wanted to leave room for explanation for the ministers.
What if the emperor said the wrong thing?
Then let the emperor say something in a formal occasion that no one can understand, and even the meaning of Shinoyin itself is nothing important. What is important is that the minister in charge of translation will convey the necessary interpretation. If something goes wrong, it is the minister in charge of translation that is interpreted wrongly, not His Majesty the Emperor said it wrong. After all, the emperor is a god.
God cannot make mistakes.
Then, after the end of World War II, the recruitment uses this as an explanation for his innocence.
I didn't let them invade and massacre.
What I said was to let them promote love and justice, and then they explained my Heyin wrongly.
Then the Americans who had already reached an agreement with them immediately said...
Searching for death!
"That's it. I am the son of Your Majesty. How can I use Heyin when I see my father when I see him!"
After saying that, the wild boar skin walked in with great pride.
To be continued...