Chapter 235: Those who dare to offend those who hold the banner of our order will be punishable eve

"The riverside is preaching He Xiantian, and the trading house Jia Bo is whirled: the coral tortoiseshell is in the city, the elephant-toothed rhinoceros is a beautiful feast; the Taipu pearl is continuously illuminated, the sun and the southern fire are burned by the night..." This poem is from the end of the Ming Dynasty. During Han Shanggui's "Guangzhou Trip to Fang Bo Hu Gong", this "Fang Bo Hu Gong" was Hu Yingtai who was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi at that time. From this poem, on the one hand, we can feel the boundless prosperity built by ancient Guangzhou commerce 400 years ago, and the more important aspect is the prosperity brought by its overseas trade. After all, coral tortoiseshell and elephant tooth Wenxi, Nichinan fire cloth and the like come from overseas.

　　 Throughout the Ming Dynasty, “sea ban” has always been the Ming government’s basic policy on the oceans. Not only was offshore non-governmental trade banned, the Ming government did not even allow people to engage in fishing and coastal trade.

　　 However, if there are policies on the upper side, there are countermeasures on the lower side. Since the government does not allow it, then smuggling is fine!

The government clearly does not allow foreign trade. Fujian’s tariff income was only 20,000 taels in the early years of Wanli, and Chongzhen was only 50,000 taels at its peak. However, according to Shi Zhihong’s "The Causes and Historical Consequences of the Conservative Overseas Trade Policy in the Early Ming and Qing Dynasties" "The article estimates that during the period from the fifth year of Longqing to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the amount of silver that flowed into China through the China-Luzon-Mexico Pacific "galleon trade" route was no less than 60 million pesos, which was converted into Kuping silver. When it is more than 40 million taels. What about the money of the country of Japan? What about the silver coming through the Strait of Malacca?

　　The inflow of so much money, the outflow of goods worth so much money, most of them are sold abroad through smuggling methods to make money back.

　　Fujian was the center of foreign trade in the Ming Dynasty, while the main foreign trade targets were Nanyang and Japan was the second largest.

There was also smuggling in the south of the Yangtze River, and Guangdong’s foreign trade was also very prosperous. At that time, not only foreign merchant ships entered the coastal ports of Guangdong more and more days, but also many merchant ships sailed from Guangdong to the West. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Qu Dajun recorded: "People from Wangxian, Guangdong Duowujia, with the times, with fragrant candy boxes, ironware, cane wax, pepper, hematoxylin, and other goods, and his south is going to Macau, as for Hongmao, Japan, Ryukyu, Siam, Hu, Luzon, etc. For a few thousand li, the trade of Chinese Zhenli's goods has made big profits."

　　 Look, the Guangdong smuggling route, those who are incapable, will transport the goods to Macau and ship them away by the big cargo ships of the red hairpin (that is, the Portuguese, but collectively called the red hairpin).

　　 Those who are capable, will not be exploited by the Portuguese, go on a sea boat, sail overseas, arrive in Hongmao, Japan, Ryukyu, Siam, Hu, Luzon and other places, and directly trade with barbarians everywhere.

　　 The maritime merchants are rich, but the danger of maritime merchants is also great!

　　Natural disaster: Typhoon hits, destroying people and boats!

　　 Understand why Mazu’s faith is so firm by the sea?

　　The boats of that period were all wooden, fragile and powerless under the mighty power of nature, and could only ask God to worship Buddha.

　　 After the natural disasters, there will be man-made disasters.

　　The sea merchants have worked so hard to cross the sea, and some people are jealous and want to make quick money, that is, pirates!

　　 There are local pirates like Liu Xiang and Li Kuiqi, there are also red-haired part-time pirates who read "You must not kill" in the "Bible", and what's more, the local authorities of Hongmaofan who directly attack the maritime merchants and eat the big ones!

　　 For example, in 1603, Spanish robbers who killed all over Europe, Asia and Africa finally took action against the overseas Chinese in Luzon. They spread rumors that the overseas Chinese and the Ming government were in collusion to attack Luzon, so they set up artillery at the overseas Chinese's residence and blasted the market for Chinese business to nothing.

　　Under the oppression of the Spaniards, the Chinese revolted in anger and gathered tens of thousands of people to fight against the Spaniards.

　　 However, the Spaniards had been prepared for a long time. They united the local Pangya and 800 Japanese to besiege the uprising Chinese. They bombarded, killed with guns, and chopped with swords, killing the local Chinese into a river of blood. According to historical records, 25,000 local overseas Chinese were killed, leaving only 300.

　　 Among them, there are many Chinese marine merchants who don’t know much.

　　 Poor Luzon's seaside bones, they are still in deep boudoir dreams!

　　 The news reported to the central government of the Ming Dynasty, and the Wanli Emperor at that time didn't care about the death of overseas Chinese. It turns out that for the court, only those who stay in the country are called compatriots, and when they leave the country, they become troubled people. No matter what bullying they are subjected to, it has nothing to do with the court. Regarding the death of these overseas Chinese, Emperor Wanli even gloated. As if saying: "Look! This is the consequence of leaving my sphere of control!"

　　Emperor Wanli still drafted an edict "Entitlement to Luzon", "rebuking" the Spaniards who slaughtered overseas Chinese, asking them not to do such inhumane things again. Regarding their slaughter, the mighty and mighty Wanli Emperor couldn't bear to punish him, "their overseas murderers will not be impoverished," and demanded that Spain "think of the mighty grace of the emperor and the great benevolence and righteousness of China."

What is even more disheartening is that the Wanli emperor declared in his article: "China's four people, merchants are the cheapest, how can they use the untouchables to initiate a military revolution!" Those overseas Chinese who are stranded in foreign countries will not return to the motherland or worship the ancestral temple. Abandoned by their fathers, grandparents and brothers. Therefore, they are not sorry for their death, and there is no need for Ming to send troops to save. As a result, overseas Chinese were expelled from the Ming Dynasty.

　　 And the Spaniards who learned of this news were even more confident. They did not expect that the powerful Ming Dynasty would be so "magnanimous"! As a result, the overseas Chinese have truly become the best fish.

　　 Not only Spaniards, but also Chinese go to Southeast Asia to trade and do business. They are fed up with the red-haired fan. Your home country doesn’t support you anymore. Don’t blame outsiders for being rude to you!

　　 Overseas Chinese must be exploited by Hong Maofan. If there is a dispute with Hong Maofan or local indigenous people, it must be the Chinese who will be angry!

　　 Under heavy pressure, the Chinese marine merchants had to be armed and escorted while sailing, and fought desperately with the pirates!

　　Every cargo, every silver, there are Chinese, and the blood of my Chinese people is poured on it!

　　 But in front of the cannon of the red-haired fan splint, the Chinese marine merchants can only swallow their anger!

　　 They don’t have the support of the state~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Daming navy no longer has the courage to regain Zheng He's voyages to the Red Sea in Africa, so he huddled on the beach to catch fishing boats.

　　Without the ocean-going fleet, the power of the Ming Dynasty retreated to the coast, making the Chinese merchants who travelled between the East and the West suffered from the looting of red hair.

　　There are also various pirates who rob Chinese businessmen!

　　 Why does Yan Changwu strongly support the shogunate's retreat? Japanese and Filipinos were the most aggressive in killing Chinese in Luzon in 1603. Even the Spanish were afraid of their cruelty. It is said that when the Japanese killed the Chinese. The screams of the Chinese made the Spaniards unable to sleep!

　　 The shogunate locked the country, and the widows have stayed in the country since then. Yan Changwu's pressure on the East has greatly reduced. He only used four cruise ships in Ryukyu and it was OK.

　　……

Today, Yan Changwu, who owns a fleet of General Daming Hussars, Command Envoy of Taiwan Guards, Fujian Coast Defence Guerrilla, Guangdong Coast Defence Guerrilla and many titles, and the second set of the Southeast Government Supervisor and the Great Leader, announced that it will collect water diversion from the ocean-going cargo ships going out to Guangdong Province An annual fee of two thousand silver dollars for a boat.

　　 undoubtedly increased the burden on everyone. However, almost all the large sea merchants in Guangdong Province sent important personnel, or personally arrived at Wailingding Island, met with Yan Changwu, and claimed that the money was coming!

　　 Just for Yan Changwu’s promise: “Those who dare to offend those who hold our order will be punishable even if they are far away!

In other words, after a long absence of 113 years (starting with the arrival of the 4 battleships of the Portuguese fleet in Tuen Mun, Guangdong in 1517, the wind and clouds in the South China Sea changed color, the afterglow of the sunset of Zheng He's voyages to the west completely disappeared, and the South China Sea and the west Our Chinese sphere of influence, now in 1630), China's established maritime armed forces will re-appear in the South China Sea, which has been reduced to Hongmao Fannei Lake!