Chapter 96: Ocean trade
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong are the main areas of foreign trade, and the most important region is Fujian. After all, Fujian has the worst conditions among the three regions, and there is no good land to feed the local people (Jiangsu and Zhejiang have the Yangtze River, Guangdong has the Pearl River, land Also mostly plain),
In Fujian, one of the few natural resources is its natural harbor. Fujian must rely on the ocean, and this truth is very simple. For a long time, Fujian has been the center of China's maritime industry, and in the sailing era, this means that it is also China's international trade center.
The marine trade center of the Ming Dynasty was in Fujian, and the Fujian marine trade center was in Yuegang.
Fujian's trade is divided into two main directions, one is the Japanese country; the other is the Spanish and Dutch in Southeast Asia, and Portugal also has a share of the pie.
At that time, the Wa country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, and productivity was low. The folks ate brown rice **** (not much better for the Chinese folks). Some Japanese people arrived in the southeast prefecture, and felt deeply that ordinary people in the southeast prefecture were eating white rice. Surprised, because in the country of Japan, white rice is also called silver grain rice or silver relic. It is something that "heavenly people" (nobles) can eat.
In addition to silver and gold, the country lacks everything!
The cost of a load of silk is more than 60 taels of silver, and it is the price of five or six hundred taels of silver when shipped to the country. The country is deeply influenced by the celestial dynasty and has no resistance to silk. Anyone who can bear it can wear the silk of the celestial dynasty. Proud!
The Japanese nation has some luck and owns Jinshan Yinshan, whose silver production accounted for one-third of the world's silver production at that time!
Ship a ship of silk to Japan, and then a ship of silver will return. The profit is terrible.
There will be trade with Southeast Asia again. Moonport will send about 20 or more galleons to the Philippines at the beginning of the rainy season in March every year. Every big ship will be filled with all kinds of goods you want to be shipped by more than 500 merchants, of course, first of all silk and ceramic products, but also cotton, iron, sugar, flour, chestnuts, oranges, live birds, jams, ivory, Jewelry, gunpowder, lacquerware, tables and chairs, cows and horses, and anything the Chinese think Europeans need.
Some people even carry very little food, because no matter what they are holding, they can easily resell it and make a lot of money.
If the merchant's principal is not enough, they can only buy and sell goods by borrowing usury. For this reason, they must pledge their wives and children to the usurer as collateral. If the merchant dies, his family will be in trouble. The creditor will dig the ground to find anything they can find to repay the loan owed. If the money is still unable to be repaid, the wife and children will become slaves, and the creditor can sell them to anyone else. It's like buying and selling slaves.
Under normal circumstances, there will be a person with the most cost to rent a boat first, and then sublet each cabin to others, usually the rent will be 20% higher than his own charter rent. Under the deck are a number of watertight compartments with seals. They do not open portholes. Each compartment is about the size of a toilet. The densely packed cargo is packed inside. Porcelain must be wrapped tightly, and then packed in a box, with straw filled between the dishes to prevent shattering.
Merchants filled various places in the cabin with water, and then put the boxes of porcelain in these damp places. After being soaked in water, the straws will swell, which will firmly fix the ceramics and form a whole that will not be broken.
There is almost no theft on the ship, because the thieves cannot leave their stolen goods still on the ship. Nevertheless, the merchants would still bring their own food to sleep on their cargo, and they would stay in the dark and dirty cabin for the entire voyage. The voyage from Moon Harbor to Manila takes 10 days in total.
Almost all the goods shipped to Manila can be sold. The Spaniards have silver and bought all the goods.
The Spanish were so poor that they had only silver. For example, in 1602, the Mexican colonial authorities informed the Spanish court that in that year alone, the galleon shipped nearly 400 tons of silver to Asia, about 8 million taels of silver. The main destination is the Eastern celestial dynasty. The emperor who exaggerated to China can build a palace with silver bricks sent to his country! (If it weren’t for the British to **** Chinese silver back with opium, I believe that every household has a lot of silver dollars for children to play with.)
also knows that it is wrong, but the heavenly people are overwhelming everything, Spain also has its own silk weavers and tailors. However, the scale of the textiles produced by the Celestial Dynasty is far beyond that of Europeans, and the quality is also higher than that of Hong Maofan's own production.
The people of the Celestial Dynasty are extremely hardworking and not demanding. Their characteristic is "high quality and low price", and there is a large quantity.
The marine merchants of Moonport sell the Celestial Silk to Manila~www.wuxiaspot.com~ with a profit margin of 30-40%. Spanish businessmen sat down to double, triple or even quadruple the price before selling them to the Americas; even so, when they sold in the Americas, their prices were only 1/3 of the price of the textiles produced in Spain. They crossed two oceans and sold silk from China to Spain at a lower price than the silk produced by Spain.
Isn't this rolling or something?
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Apart from the Spanish trade, what about the trade to Batavia?
Batavia is the seat of the Dutch East India Company. The main export trade content includes sugar, deerskin, venison, antlers, rattan, and rice. The transshipment trade includes Dutch metals, medicinal materials, and Batavia spices, peppers, etc. Amber, linen, cotton, opium, tin, lead, Chinese silk, pottery, gold.
Well, there is a lot of money. These are two silver routes, and the Southeast Mansion will collect money from the sea on two routes.
Will you buy a route?
If you don't give it, just grab it. . . Well, we can't be so direct. It should be said that it is detaining the ship. We are not collecting road money, but collecting taxes!
A ship is two thousand silver dollars, which is not much more than a profit of tens of thousands of taels!
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If Yan Changwu said that he had to pay taxes before, then everyone would laugh at him as a child’s dream.
But he defeated the Daming navy, and others sent money to the door in a hurry, lest he didn't want it!
Moreover, he is continuing to expand his navy, and plans to purchase eighteen more Tier 6 cruisers, bringing the total to 36. Half of the patrol and anti-smuggling, half of the training. The speed of this type of tier 6 cruiser is that merchant ships simply escape. They are professional. . . There is a tradition of pirates!
All maritime merchants all over the world can only give money obediently!
Borrow the silver of the Moon Port Silver Number and pay it off on time!
