Chapter 493

From the top window of michila castle, you can see the whole view of the opposite city of jeranza.

At the same time, Xiao Ming and Claire are looking at the merchant ships shuttling through the port of geranque. These merchant ships come from Manila, and after they are full of goods, they go to Manila colony in the Netherlands again.

In Manila, the Dutch chamber of Commerce transshippes the goods back home.

Since the relationship with the king of Chu broke down, now the Japanese tried to occupy Ryukyu. Now Claire has no choice but to do business with Xiao Ming. After all, dutch businessmen arriving at the port have been complaining about the shortage of goods.

"Your Highness, we have been waiting for a long time. Now our merchant ships are staying at the port waiting for the goods. I hope your highness can provide us with the goods." Claire looked solemn.

During this period, the chaos in East Asia seriously affected commerce and trade.

"In that case, you can give me the bill of goods you need now. I will let the merchant ship transport the goods you need back from Dengzhou. Of course, you have to pay for the goods."

Claire looked at the sea and said calmly, "of course, we always abide by the business rules. Now there is a great demand for porcelain, raw silk, silk and tea from Dayu in Europe. The prices of these commodities are relatively high in Europe. These are our main trade commodities. I hope your highness can provide them for us as soon as possible."

"No problem, I will return to Dengzhou in these two days, and then the goods will arrive." Xiao Ming was full of smiles. Before, the king of Chu almost monopolized the sea trade, but now the fat meat finally fell into his mouth. However, thinking of this, he asked curiously, "excuse me, count Clare, can you tell me how much silver has gone into the hands of the king of Chu?"

Hearing the speech, Claire frowned, but thinking that there would be no intersection with the king of Chu in the future, he said to rod, "rod, you should know better than me."

"In the past 40 years, we have handed over 3000 tons of silver to the king of Chu. According to the measurement of Dayu state, the total amount is 60 million taels of silver." Said rod, recalling the years.

"Sixty million taels of silver!"

Xiao Ming almost jumped up from his chair. He finally understood why the Cao family was so rich and powerful, and why the king of Chu was so bold and fearless. All this was caused by money.

With his eyes closed, Xiao Ming breathes out a breath. He rummages through the science and technology database for the contemporary economic data, and his heart is full of ups and downs.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, China had a long-term surplus in overseas trade, and most of the time, the exchange price of gold and silver was lower than that of foreign countries, which made foreigners think that they took advantage of it. After all, it was like taking one yuan to buy one dollar goods. Who would not like to?

As a result, Europeans used a lot of silver as currency to buy goods. At first, the silver mainly flowed in from Spain and Portugal. Later, the Netherlands and Britain established the absolute status of silver export.

This kind of net inflow of silver lasted from 1570's to 1830's. scholars at home and abroad have made various estimates on the inflow of silver in Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is concluded that in the 250 years before 1800, China obtained nearly 48000 tons of silver from Europe and Japan, and may also obtain 10000 tons or more from Manila. In addition, the total inflow of silver is about 60000 tons, totaling 1.6 billion tons 。

"1.6 billion taels of silver!" Xiao Ming kept circulating this data in his mind. In fact, due to the lack of some data, in Xiao Ming's opinion, this data was even seriously underestimated. After all, there were a lot of unregulated trade in the atmosphere at that time.

Claire noticed Xiao Ming's expression and said with a smile: "this is indeed a big number, but as long as your highness can sincerely do business with us, I guarantee that he will get more than the king of Chu. Now there is no shortage of silver in Europe. We have large open-pit silver mines in Mexico, a country of silver. Now Europeans find that Peru's silver mines in South America are even worse than Mexico's To be rich, European countries are mining heavily. Oh, sorry, your highness may not know about places like Mexico and Peru. "

When it comes to North and South America dominated by Europe, Clare once again shows the arrogance of the Europeans of this period.

Xiao Ming doesn't bother to refute Claire, because it seems to be as boring as a pupil showing off one plus one in front of college students.

"One day the king's warships will tell me where Mexico and Peru are." Xiao Ming said with a faint smile.

Claire and rod look at each other and smile at the same time. Although they admit that Xiao Ming is very strong in this sea area, it is only in this sea area. If it is in Europe, the fleet of any country can easily defeat him.

So in their opinion, Xiao Ming is just telling a cold joke.

"Hum."

Xiao Ming can see from their expressions that they don't believe that there will be such a day, and he is too lazy to explain. For him, he likes to prove himself with actions rather than with his tongue. Now what he needs is to make the fiefdom rich and improve his comprehensive strength.

Seems to feel that their behavior is not right, two people back to normal, Claire said: "Your Highness, I hope the goods can arrive as soon as possible."

Xiao Ming nodded, and then he and Claire discussed the details of the trade and the establishment of the Dutch foreign affairs office in Dengzhou.At the same time, in order to prevent the dutch businessmen from spying in Dengzhou, Xiao Ming decided to set up a business hall. The dutch businessmen could only live in the business hall during their stay in the port.

After discussing these matters, Xiao Ming held a ceremony with Claire in the city of jeranzha about Michaela lenburg, Ryukyu Island and the garrison in the city of jeranzha.

According to the agreement, Xiao Ming will garrison two thousand troops in millarenburg and two thousand troops in zelanzhecheng. Six warships in Qingzhou fleet, including class II warships and class III warships, will berth at the port of zelanzhecheng all the year round. Meanwhile, they will be responsible for the escort and patrol tasks within one thousand miles of Ryukyu sea area, and this number will continue to increase.

After completing these tasks one by one, Xiao Ming basically completed his control of Ryukyu Island and sea trade routes. After a two-day rest, he was ready to return to Dengzhou.

The sea route is only a part of his trade strategy. He has more important things to accomplish, that is, to eliminate the threat from the north. No matter for the sake of completing the control of Korea or his own security, he must solve the problem of barbarians.

Because in his view, as long as the barbarians are not destroyed, he can not spare all his energy to solve the problems in Dayu.

When a strong enemy is out there, he can't act rashly, which is why he tries to maintain the present situation of Dayu.

"Your Highness, I will visit Qingzhou City in person in a few days."

Under the Qi king, Claire took the officials from the city of geranzha to see Xiao Ming off. Now Qingzhou and Holland officially cooperate, and he is looking forward to making huge profits.

www.novelhall.com , the fastest update of the webnovel!