Cheng Bi had been engaged in maritime trade for Donghai Town before, but with the ban on sea ban of the Qing Dynasty and trade shrank, he had nothing to do.

Although Zhao Ming opened some handicraft workshops in Taiwan, Zhoushan and other places to produce leather, cloth and other goods, and wanted to resume trade, the results were not very good.

In addition, Donghai Town and the Spaniards were still in a state of war, and the route was plagued by the Spaniards, and trade further shrank.

After the Industrial Revolution, the most urgent thing in the West was to open up the market and find sales for its own products. However, China did not have this depression at this time. All parties were looking for Chinese raw silk, cloth, tea, porcelain and other products. There was no branch in this one, so there was no worry about sales.

This is actually a huge advantage, which can bring a huge trade surplus to China and a lot of silver and wealth.

Although the influx of silver will cause inflation, in fact, as long as you go out, purchase raw materials from overseas, and enrich domestic materials, you can solve inflation and enrich goods to a certain extent, and then master enough silver, and build a world currency dominated by silver.

The main problem of China's overseas trade is that it does not have the ability to go far and wide. It only enters and does not spend the silver you earn, buys cheap overseas production materials and purchases industries, thus missing a huge opportunity.

Zhao Ming wanted to start an industry, but did not think about it on a whim.

The time when the Ming and Qing dynasties changed was the time when the entire China's foreign trade turned from prosperity to decline.

The wars destroyed the economy of the Jiangnan region. In addition, the Qing Dynasty banned the sea, which interrupted trade and increased the cost of maritime merchants to obtain Chinese goods.

Under this circumstance, China's foreign trade shrank severely. Before Japan imported a large number of raw silk and cloth from China. Now, Japan's domestic silk and silk weaving production has begun to develop and gradually formed a scale, which has gradually reduced Japan's dependence on Chinese raw silk and cloth.

Hundreds of years later, the Meiji Restoration in Japan and the breakthrough in industrialization was the raw silk and textile industries.

Almost as the Ming and Qing dynasties, the British land enclosure movement gradually reached its climax, the cotton textile industry developed rapidly, and quickly occupied the Chinese market, and finally dumped the goods into China.

The Industrial Revolution broke out around 1750, only more than a hundred years away from today.

The outbreak of the industrial revolution is not something that can be broken by just building a machine. It can only happen after the commodity economy, market and society develop to a certain extent, under the pressure of production and the desire for capital expansion.

The textile industry was profitable and was China's traditional strength. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, China imported 50 million taels of cotton textiles from the UK alone each year, which was equivalent to the number of opium imports.

Zhao Ming didn't understand these, but knew that the industrial revolution started with the textile industry first, so he decided to maintain this advantage, defend China's traditional market, suppress the development of Western capital, limit their industrial upgrading, suppress their original accumulation, and fix their industries in the raw material supply.

After hearing Cheng Bi's words, Zhao Ming frowned slightly, and immediately waved: "This time we have obtained a lot of money, and we can't spend it for a while. It's better to jointly build a company and start a textile workshop. While we gathered employees to resume production, we went to Japan to buy raw silk and other raw materials, and raised the price of raw silk, increased the cost of the Japanese workshop, dumped cloth into Japan, defeated their workshop, and maintained the market in Japan. At the same time, we also protected the only one to buy silk fabrics in Xiyi."

The voyage of Western powers has been going on for more than a hundred years. All countries have embarked on the road of colonial expansion and are about to stand at the top of the world.

Compared with internal wars, Zhao Ming actually yearned for overseas expansion. He hated the Qing Dynasty. In addition to the national plot, it was ultimately because of the darkness and slavery rule of the Qing Dynasty that China missed hundreds of years and fell from a world-class power into an abyss that could never be restored.

His superficial goal was to defeat the Qing Dynasty, but his deeper intention was to seize the job of the British Empire and restrict the West in international trade.

In addition, the textile industry is strong and can also accumulate a certain amount of technology, and finally pass on the technological innovation of the textile industry to other industries and launch an industrial revolution.

After hearing Zhao Ming's words, everyone was a little doubtful. Most people in China like to bury silver or purchase land instead of investing in business when they have money.

When several people heard that Zhao Ming wanted to buy raw silk at a high price and destroy the Japanese workshop, they couldn't help but be confused. Moreover, the Japanese didn't provoke you, why did you go to mess with them without any trouble? There was some doubt in their hearts. Wu Zhaosheng asked, "Duke, can you really make money like this?"

Zhao Ming nodded, "The textile industry is a traditional advantageous industry in the Ming Dynasty, and the market is vast. Not only does it have strong internal demand, but East Asian countries and Western countries also like the products of the Ming Dynasty very much. At this time, the concept of trade protection is not strong. Not only will countries not set up barriers to prevent the Ming Dynasty goods from entering the market, but they come from thousands of miles to buy. These are not what I said, and you can also see that those red-haired ghosts come from thousands of miles away and are just thinking about our things. Besides, if you don't believe me, you should believe the silver! The silver we copied from Fuzhou is all real money and can't be fake at all!"

The southeast coast is the area where China has the most contact with the outside world and the most developed commerce. People have some understanding of maritime trade.

At this moment, Zhao Ming had another fantasy, instilling a lot of things into everyone, like a pyramid scheme, telling a few people the great cause they were going to do, making everyone blush and expressing their willingness to invest in and join Zhao Ming's bag company.

However, at this time, everyone only reached an intention. They still needed to discuss the company's composition and organizational structure, and how to operate it. They also needed to use the power of the Zhejiang Group to find talents from Zhejiang's textile industry and maritime trade to join the company.

A few months ago, Zhao Ming had already established a bag company. This time, Zhao Ming did not intend to establish it again, so he planned to directly reorganize and inject capital into the Europa company, making it an existence like the East India Company.

In later experience, the government directly opened a workshop and would mostly be a yamen, which made the company not competitive. Therefore, Zhao Ming directly leaped over the official business model and adopted the method of hiring managers to manage the company. The manager's salary was completely linked to the company's benefits.

After discussing with everyone for a while, Zhao Ming entrusted Cheng Bi to draft a charter to conduct a detailed analysis of the company structure, shareholders' rights and shareholding ratio and institutional construction.

At this time, Ding Weiyue walked in with excitement and reported urgently: "Duke, good news, the Spanish in the chicken coop surrendered!"

Zhao Ming was happy and stood up, unable to help but sigh, "This group of grandchildren can really bear it, but they insisted until now to surrender."

When the generals of the Zhejiang Army heard the words, their faces were a little shocked. The Duke of the State is really powerful. It turned out that when the decisive battle with the Qing army, Donghai Town was still fighting with the Western Yi.

What kind of strength is this? Everyone respected Zhao Ming and looked up to his majestic body.
Chapter completed!