Chapter 230: The world situation is changing
Jinxiu Long Street is the most prosperous and lively section of the street in the west of Luoyang City. Various vendors set up stalls and hawked on both sides of the street in an orderly manner.
The products here are full of dazzling arrays. In addition to some local specialties from Luoyang, there are also many rare treasures from all over the world, and even some rare goods flowing in from east to west can be seen here.
Speaking of which, since the Longqing switch, the Ming Dynasty ended the maritime ban policy that lasted for more than two hundred years. After more than ten years of trade development, the Ming Dynasty has reconnected with the world.
However, unexpectedly, the Ming Dynasty, which was reconnected into world trade, was not in an unfavorable position. On the contrary, with the accumulation of civilizations over thousands of years of Chinese civilization, the Ming Dynasty actually had an absolute advantage in its trade with Western countries.
In this trade between the East and the West, most of the Western-income-in-China agricultural products that were introduced to China were peppers, corn, sweet potatoes, and other agricultural products that were looted from the Americas.
As for some of the daily necessities they made themselves, because China had formed its own unique civilization for thousands of years, so their things had no market in the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty was different. With the sales of three traditional commodities, silk, tea and porcelain, the Ming Dynasty created a huge trade surplus in commodity trade with the West.
This huge trade surplus forced the West to pay money obediently in this trade exchange, and it also made the silver they finally plundered from the Americas eventually flow into China.
It can be said that Western countries have finally obtained money from America, killing, setting fire, robbing, and looting, and finally spending money to buy Ming Dynasty goods. This huge trade difference makes them very jealous.
However, even if the West is jealous at this time, it is useless, because even if the Ming Dynasty had huge internal and external troubles at this time, it was not something they could shake.
What's more, the West is now even more chaotic than the East, and there are tensions between Spain and Britain.
With the rise of the Age of Discovery, Spain is the well-deserved overlord of Western Europe, but the emerging Britain actually had its own ideas.
Because of his jealousy of the huge benefits that Spain has gained from the Americas, Britain actually openly supported the pirates and supported them to plunder Spain's maritime merchant ships.
From 1577 to 1580 AD, that is, between the third year of Wanli and the sixth year of Wanli, a major event that aggravated the conflict between the two countries.
That is the British pirate Drake, who sacked the Spanish colonists in various ports along the coast of South America during his voyage around the world.
After hearing the news, the Spanish government immediately asked the Queen of England to commit piracy against Drake, but unexpectedly, the Queen of England conferred Drake as the Baron.
For a time, the war between the two countries was about to break out, and in order to win the naval battle against Spain, Britain even planned to join forces with the Netherlands, which had just left Spanish rule.
Of course, these are temporarily off topic for the East. Western affairs have no relationship with the East. However, with the development of the times, the East and West will inevitably usher in a fierce collision.
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The street is ten miles long, with people coming and going on the streets, but today, several uninvited guests are welcomed on this bustling and lively street.
I saw a woman in black wearing a black gauze hat running away in the street with a little girl.
"Give it, let it go!" The woman shouted anxiously in the crisp and gentle voice.
While pushing away the pedestrian in front of her, she hurriedly ran, while looking back worriedly, and saw that the man holding the sword behind her was chasing him closer and closer.
Looking at the crowded crowd in front of her, Wushuang made up her heart. She immediately picked up Xiaoqi beside her, jumped up, stepped on the shoulder of a person in front of her and flew onto the stall stand beside her, and then flew again to the eaves extending from the second floor of the house next to her, and ran quickly on the sloping eaves.
"Wow!"
Everyone on the street looked up at the scene and couldn't help but exclaim.
The eaves are made of thin tiles, and it is already very difficult to bear the weight of a child, let alone adults like Wushuang.
Moreover, she was holding a little girl in her hand. In this situation, she could fly over the eaves and walk on the walls, like walking on flat ground, and she could really be called a light body.
"Wow, sister, you are so awesome!"
Even Xiaoqi in Wushuang's arms was amazed at Wushuang's steadily.
Listening to Xiaoqi's praise, Wushuang felt a little happy. She was a girl who really wanted to be affirmed.
In fact, Wushuang was not sure just now, she was just taking a risk, but unexpectedly she succeeded.
Wushuang, who felt that he had escaped danger, immediately ran away and said with a smile: "What's this? I didn't think I was right before, sister, I didn't..."
"Sister, be careful!" Before Wushuang could finish his words, Xiaoqi quickly screamed.
Wushuang felt the sound coming from behind, and with Xiaoqi's reminder, she also noticed the approaching crisis. She immediately subconsciously turned over and almost passed by the sharp sword that was stabbing towards her.
Seeing that Wushuang avoided his sword that was pointing directly to the point, the other party immediately changed his move, swung his sword across and swept straight towards Wushuang's face.
Wushuang felt the sword edge attacking him again, and while turning over, he bent down and leaned back, and narrowly avoided the deadly sword.
Jian Feng ruthlessly swept over Wushuang's hat, and Wushuang's black veil hat was instantly split into two halves.
At the same time, in order to avoid the deadly sword sweeping, Wushuang's entire body lost balance in the air and fell down.
But even at this moment, she still hugged Xiaoqi tightly in her arms.
"Ah! Ah!"
The two women fell from the air in panic, but Sikong Heng did not give them a slight chance.
He quickly stepped on the exterior wall of the house, turned around with the force, swung his sword and thrust down from the sky, and only took Wushuang's throat.
This pursuit battle has been delayed for a long time, and it has probably attracted the attention of the six gates in the city, so we must fight quickly and decide quickly.
The three-foot green edge in Sikongxing's hand pointed directly at Wushuang's throat. Wushuang, who was in a downward momentum, had nowhere to leverage the force to dodge, so he could only lead his neck to wait for death.
And just at the moment of life and death, Wushuang felt a hand gently holding her waist and stopping her falling body. At the same time, the three-foot green breeze pointing directly at her throat also stopped.
Chapter completed!