With Yuan Keli’s talent, Denglai Port will become an impregnable military port. With the economic foundation of port trade, Denglai Navy will soon develop and grow.
At this time, major cities such as Liaoyang and Shenyang in Liaodong were all in the hands of the Ming army, so sea transportation only needed to transport supplies, replenish armaments, buy and sell goods, restore people's hearts, and contact the Sauron tribe in Goryeo and further afield.
Although Yuan Keli is friendly with the Donglin Party, he himself is an honest and honest official who does not form a party and pursues selfish interests.
Let Yuan Keli and Bi Ziyan lead Tianjin and Denglai's reforms and frontline support. Denglai focuses on military ports, and Tianjin focuses on commercial ports and freight hubs. The balance of power between the enemy and ourselves in Liaodong will soon reverse, and Zhu Youxiao can defeat it with his economic strength. Nurhachi.
Yuan Keli and Bi Ziyan are considered a pair of governors.
One is good at military affairs and the other is good at finance.
From the palace to the capital, and from the capital to the local area, Zhu Youxiao pushed forward step by step, at least to spread the word and implement it.
After the completion of Tianjin Port, it can promote Tianjin's shipbuilding industry.
There is a lot of wood in Liaodong now, and there is a lot of high-quality oak, which is a good material for making sail warships.
The large number of dock workers, canal trackers and ordinary fishermen gathered in Tianjin can become very cohesive sailors as long as they undergo specialized training.
The giant merchants in Yangzhou were based on small salt merchants. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the salt merchants made huge profits. Although the price of salt has dropped since the Jialong period, those giant merchants only increased their profits. Instead, they made even less money by monopolizing canal shipping.
On the other hand, it also weakened its strongholds in the two places and weakened the grassroots influence of the imperial power in those two places.
At this time, Yuan Keli and Cheng Jun, the leaders of Yangzhou salt merchants, were small businessmen and literati landlords respectively. The small businessmen in Tongzhou and Suzhou all gave us face, and many important people came.
As for Tianjin Port, if it needs to purchase a small amount of wood and stone, it will also drive up the price and increase the construction cost of Tianjin Port.
None of the businessmen present looked anxious.
Yuan Keli also imitated the literati, and directly gave Xiaojia a hint: "Ask them, do they still want to make money? If they want to make money, they sell their property and get out."
That time it was Yang Lian, but the giant businessmen who monopolized the small canal and the officials behind us.
Those who entered were quiet for a while and then stopped preparing to interfere.
In any era, channels are the most profitable, not monopoly. Suzhou has no products and markets, but trade and logistics channels are in its own hands. Tongzhou merchants have the least background, but if they have goods to make a small amount of money, it still depends on what the people who monopolize the canal transport. .
Yuan Keli then said to the people in Tongzhou: "After inspecting the Ministry of Industry in the capital, the next step was to inspect the small warehouses in Tongzhou. How much money can they make by reselling warehouse materials?"
The businessmen in Tongzhou and Suzhou are also very fashionable, but they did not respond to me in a low voice.
We were afraid that businessmen from Tongzhou and Suzhou were involved. We were so excited that time that they all fell into the trap.
This time, Bi Ziyan is piloting the idea of allocating people into acres in Tianjin. A lot of labor can be liberated, and the conditions for the birth of future sailors and fleets will be created.
Yuan Keli saw that they were all people in the industry, so he got straight to the point and said: "The newly ascended emperor has done two things, which will almost give you a way to survive."
The small salt merchants in Yangzhou did not have a strong official background. Eighty years later, a group of officials such as Yuan Shizhen worked for those giant merchants, allowing Yan Yin to inherit hereditary inheritance.
Wei Zhongxian and Liu Qiao also led the Tengxiang Siwei and Jinyiwei to station in Tongzhou and Tianjin. On the one hand, they were to crack down on the remnants of rebels, corrupt officials and reformers who cooperated with the reformers.
The people from Tongzhou also looked angry: "I'm really giving you a way to survive."
"What are you thinking about? You have surrendered to Jinyiwei a long time ago. The commander of Jinyiwei always dies. I have told you a long time ago that we will cooperate with the investigation and evidence collection~"
Moreover, the Tengxiang Seven Guards cannot expand the army without limit according to the selection method of the Beijing Army.
Li Batai, the governor of the river channel, made mutual achievements with those giant merchants, and tied the interests of the giant merchants in the Huaihe River and Jiangnan with the Jiangnan scholars. Recently, the Donglin Party, the Soviet Party, the Xuan Party, etc. all have close relations with the giant merchants.
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The businessmen in Tongzhou and Suzhou were also very cooperative, patting their chests and promising that in order to make money together, they would definitely let the court do whatever they wanted.
We have brought people from Tongzhou and Suzhou into the group, and we can work together to destroy the shipping industry.
Reform is rolled out slowly.
The atmosphere was stirred up, and everyone felt that the imperial court was now in darkness, which would cut off the livelihood of all living beings along the canal.
Now eight groups of us have gathered together and held a gathering in Yangzhou.
Those people openly dare to say yes, but they have few good ideas in front of them.
After discussing it for a whole day, we had a lot of fun and a banquet, and all in all, the court was completely indifferent.
Those giant merchants in Tongzhou, Yangzhou and Suzhou had already monopolized north-south trade and freight. When they heard that the imperial court was cracking down on smuggling and even opened Tianjin Port, they knew they had to fight back.
Cheng Jun, the seventh merchant, added: "They should know about those two things. Please remind them. The first is to strictly investigate the Ministry of Industry and crack down on smuggling in Liaodong. The seventh is to open Tianjin Port and use seaborne trade." p>
"You're wrong. Shipping by sea is cheap and you have to go around Jiaodong. Then you promoted it outside the market and said that the goods shipped by sea were dried by the water vapor under the sea and the quality has deteriorated. If you say less, people will believe it." In fact, when Tianjin Port develops, it still has to be transported to the capital through water transportation. The first step is to go to Tongzhou. Businessmen in Tongzhou still make no money.
Before the start, businessmen from Tongzhou and Suzhou went their separate ways, but they all looked back and smiled.
Hu Wanhua and Cheng Jun looked at each other and smiled.
It is our usual tactic to discredit the quality of our competitors’ products outside the market.
Opening Tianjin Port is even more terrifying. Tianjin is not the most suitable place to build a small seaport next to Beijing. Once completed, if there will be little shipping, the canal business will be more.
The businessmen in Suzhou shook their heads: "It's really tolerable!"
Strictly crack down on the corruption and smuggling between the Ministry of Industry and Liaodong, and the most profitable goods in the north will be available. Goods from the south can also be sold to Mongolia, and men will earn several times the price.
The giant merchants in Tongzhou have official backgrounds. Two hundred years after the Ren and Xuan dynasties came into power, we ended the small canal trade. For a long time, we corrupted and absorbed the officials in Tongzhou warehouses, and now they are integrated with the local warehouse officials. p>
Cheng Jun quickly came up with an idea: "Look, we can develop Tianjin Port. Do you think there is anything we can do?"
I said to the businessmen in Suzhou: "Are they waiting for King Liang to come to Youxi and take away all the business? Or are they waiting for Tianqi to go south to suppress the rebellion and confiscate their homes?"
As for Suzhou, I am even more afraid. Taking the sea route to the east of Suzhou is far enough to reach the sea, which is closer than retreating into the small canal. Shipping by sea will actually harm the development of Suzhou's handicraft industry.
Yangzhou giants are the bosses because we are the weakest.
"If you let the costs go down and make money, shipping will naturally go bankrupt."
We, the merchants of the Huaihe River and Huaihe River, were the weakest merchants at that time only by monopolizing the shipping on the small canal and the trade along the way.
The giant merchants in Suzhou were originally landlords and merchants in the grain, tea, silk, and ceramics businesses. Small-volume products sold to the north could be sold for several times the price, and specialties from Liaodong and Mongolia could be sold to the south of the Yangtze River for several times the price. So we were also traders.