July.

Chen Mu was a little nervous after inspecting the warships entering the port along the bay coast.

It is much easier for a small shark boat to enter the port. Although the boat is as large as a ship, it is not beyond manpower. Just put some effort into putting the mast onto the beach, and then taking some careful protective measures to fix it.

The big ships are no longer possible. Manila has mud docks left by the Spaniards, but the number is too small, and only the Red Sea, the Iron Crafts and some shark boats can be put in. More than half of the shark boats cannot be parked into the dock, so they can only throw all four or five heavy iron anchors on their boats and park on the shore near the cliff and leave them to fate.

Chen Mu is ready to lose the warship.

During the monsoon change, even the most experienced helmsman can't tell where the wind and waves on the sea will blow. This brings great difficulties to the lucky ships that transport supplies from Nanyang Port to Manila. In just one month, two lucky ships have had accidents at sea.

A ship barely docked on Luzon Island after three days of deviation and bypassed Chenlai Island, which replenished food and water, was stipulated that they could obtain food from the expeditionary army's supplies only if food was cut off for more than three days, so the boatman was hungry for two days, so he was considered as a surprise.

Another lucky ship was not so lucky. After going to sea, the detour route was blown to the reef by the sea breeze at night. The entire ship was smashed to pieces with 1,200 stones of supplies. More than a dozen sailors rowed to Macau on the boat, leaving only six living places, enriching their charts.

Two batches of supplies were transported through the Nanyang Guard, and Manila and Banshilan City were allowed to reserve huge amounts of food and arms. At the same time, the sulfur transaction led by Li Yuxi completed the first transaction on Taiwan Island. Seventeen ships of sulfur and silver goods were paid in exchange for 70,000 taels of silver, of which 40,000 taels were sent directly to the grain transport with the Nanyang ministers and sent to the capital.

At the same time, the canal transport was also 160,000 taels of profit sold from Haojing, totaling 200,000. In fact, this was only one-tenth of the property sold on the Saint-Bablo. The amount of goods was too large. Although the Portuguese could eat it, they did not have enough silver to buy it. Mr. Chen never did not use credit on business, which caused a backlog of goods.

However, Chen Mu was not the one who insisted on silver. He sent someone to send a note to Haojing Huang Cheng, which included gold, silver, copper and iron, various woods, Western Malaysia and precious utensils, and even Indian cotton and Vietnamese rice. It was nothing more than a very fair and just price.

Because he knew that the Portuguese did not own as much silver as the Spanish. If he insisted on buying it with silver, he would probably force the Portuguese merchants to death.

During this business activity, Chen Mu suddenly found that he had inadvertently impacted the original customs on the southern coast of the Ming Dynasty. Because of the transactions he led, the court did not collect taxes.

The functions of the Nanyang ministers were not clear. Southern officials believed that any matter related to the sea belonged to the Nanyang ministers. Some local officials even sent a letter to the local governor to ask about his meaning. Chen Mu always said these things to Zhao Shizhen to make him bored.

But what Zhao Shizhen saw was that Marshal Chen was always happy to reply to local officials, especially from Guangdong.

In the letter written by Chen Mu to the cabinet, Li Tao, who was the prefect of Hengyang at the time, was recommended to be the governor of Luzon. In fact, the prefect of Guangzhou Zhou Xing was a better principle. However, Li Tao has lived in Fujian for a long time and is very experienced in governing the Fujian people in Fujian. Most of the Ming people in Luzon were Fujian people, which can provide him with convenience in governing the areas.

At the same time, in a letter to Yin Zhengmao, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Chen Mu mentioned his plan for Guangdong. He led the official Guangdong Metropolitan Department to recruit local merchants to open a textile factory, quoted Suzhou weaving technology, purchased raw silk internally and cotton externally, and developed Xiangshan County into a textile county.

In addition to textiles, Nanhai County, which has the distribution center of Guangzhou Iron and Steel, is iron and steel, and Xinhui, including Nanyang Port, is a ship. It is one purpose and gives directions to let Guangzhou Prefecture operate with all its strength.

Hexingsheng is a great force. Fujian Guanghexingsheng elected seventeen merchant leaders to arrive in Manila in July. They used to do business in Manila, but at that time they were not even considered guests, and now they are guests.

"Manila currently has more than 170 local Han households and 17,400 Luzon households. It is not this city, but it spreads from the castle to a very distant place. Many villages under its jurisdiction are counted together, and there are not many Luzon people, so it may be able to match the Guangzhou Prefecture."

"But there is nothing." Chen Mu said to the merchant: "Buying business requires making money. I allow you to sell everything in Luzon, except for the raw materials, for example, you can buy cotton and cloth shoes from Guangzhou and sell here, but you can't sell cotton here. You can ship silk, but you can't sell raw silk here."

"All tribes in Luzon will come to Manila in spring and autumn to sell things, using porcelain, iron, cooking utensils, textiles, musical instruments, and exchange wood, grain, gold and copper, medicinal materials. You bring the things to sell them, exchange goods, and then sell them back to Guangzhou Prefecture. This is the rule. After you go back, discuss, whoever wants this freight route, I need fifty big blessed boats to travel twice a year."

The current Luzon State is too small for the prosperity of the joint ventures of Fujian and Guangzhou merchants. The land and population of the entire Luzon Island have not been settled yet, but Chen Mu estimated that the population is only a few hundred thousand households, and no matter what the demand is, it is not large.

The profits that freight can bring to maritime merchants are naturally not as much as it has. In the past, the Spaniards had a huge market, but Luzon itself did not. In terms of products, it also needed to continue to develop after the establishment of the Luzon Tus-Securities. As for now, the commercial potential is very low.

It can be said that Luzon's geographical location was important in the past and was used as a bridge for communication between the Ming Dynasty and Spain. Now that the bridge has been destroyed, it has become less valuable in itself.

"Chen Shuai, can we buy it in Fujian or sell it in Luzon with our own things?"

Chen Mu knew that the merchants would raise this point, and they knew more about where the profit was. Simple freight obviously could not make much money. He waved his hand and smiled: "I know that starting a war with the Western Yi ruined your business, but it doesn't matter. As compensation, Chen can let you do business with the Portuguese in Haojing, but there is a prerequisite."

His hand pressed on the tea case and said, "If you want to do business in Haojing, you need to have your own factory, textile or iron factory near Guangzhou Prefecture. In the future, Guangzhou Prefecture will become the cheapest place for raw materials to be distributed. Portuguese will transport cotton there, and opening a textile factory there will never lose money. Don't worry, the market will grow in a few years, and Chen will make each of you have money to make."

At this moment, a guard walked quickly from outside the hall, lowered his head and whispered a few words to Chen Mu. He stood up and held a tea ceremony for the merchants in the hall: "You can take a good tour of Manila in the next few days. Maybe this place will be changed in the future, but it will not be bad if you know more about it. Chen Mu still has something to do, so I will lose my companion for the time being."

After saying that, he quickly walked out of the castle hall and asked Long Junxiong who was standing outside, "Is there someone holding the white flag?"

Good morning!
Chapter completed!