The Merchants Shipping Company took advantage of the Dutch's refusal to provide shipping services and took advantage of the expo to attract a large amount of transportation business, causing the Dutch to lose half of the shipping business in the Far East.

This is something that the Dutch cannot tolerate, but Donghai Town is strong and the Netherlands cannot resort to force, so they can only start competing with Donghai Town again, using ships and control of routes to fight price wars to regain their share.

The emergence of China Merchants Shipping Company shakes the Dutch's foundation in the Far East and sees clearly that Huaxing Company will become his biggest threat in East Asia.

This made the Dutch, the senior Dutch, began to be wary, regarding Huaxing Company as its biggest competitor in the Far East.

The expo ended successfully. While the military workshop in Donghai Town received a large number of orders, the merchants who came to participate also sold the goods in their hands at the best price.

In addition to the traditional exported silk, cloth, porcelain and tea, there are also several new items with good sales.

One is camphor. Zhang Yida and several other stores selling camphor received a total of 200,000 taels of order, which shocked many people.

The second is cigarettes. Tobacco was transmitted from America to Luzon and then from Luzon to China.

Since tobacco was introduced to China, North Korea, Japan and other places, the trend of smoking immediately arose, and both the Ming and Japan were prohibited from being on the verge of smoking.

The main reason for this is that tobacco compete for grain land, and the profit of growing tobacco is far greater than that of growing food. In order to prevent affecting grain production, both the Ming and Japan banned smoking one after another. However, although the imperial court banned it, the trend of people's smoking has not changed, and there are many secretly planted.

The cigarettes produced by Huaxing Tobacco Factory are uniform in length and are packaged in a carton with a Pegasus printed on them, which is considered to be the brand of cigarettes.

As soon as the expo was launched, merchants from all over the world ordered all orders and received an order of 100,000 taels.

In addition, it is the cloth order. Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands have eaten two million taels, plus merchants from other countries, a total of three million taels.

In the warehouse of Huaxing Company, the inventory is only 500,000 pieces, and at least 500,000 pieces are needed to meet the needs of various countries. For a time, Huaxing Company could only be busy with production and expanding the workshop.

At present, the production and sales prospects are very good. With the production scale of Huaxing Textile Factory, it can produce more than 30,000 pieces of cloth per month. It is sold at an average price of 30,000 pieces per horse. In a month, it will be 100,000 pieces. Excluding costs, the profit is about 60,000 pieces.

The shareholders who were originally somewhat shaken about the company unanimously decided after the expo to use the remaining funds and profits to continue to expand production.

However, at present, there are still many conditions to restrict company expansion. The first is the lack of raw materials and the second is the lack of manpower.

Donghai Town urgently needs a larger colony to plant cotton, tobacco and other raw materials for Huaxing Company, and also needs a larger population.

In addition to textile factories, China Merchants Shipping, Huaxing Cigarettes, Huaxing Insurance and other branches also have a lot of profits. It can be foreseeable that Huaxing Company will turn losses into profits in no time and the prospects will be very good.

Southeast merchants who participated in the expo also received a lot of orders, and the success of Huaxing Company also stimulated coastal merchants and forces.

After Zheng Zhilong entered the Qing Dynasty, his strength was greatly damaged, especially the savings in Anping City were wiped out by the Qing army, which made the Zheng family very prosperous, but the lean camel was bigger than a horse.

In order to prevent the Zhejiang forces from controlling the entire Fujian, Emperor Longwu kept Zheng Chenggong in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou and reorganized the old subordinates of the Zheng family. Many people within the Zheng family agreed that Zheng Chenggong was the best candidate to revive the Zheng family.

After seeing Zhao Ming establishing Huaxing Company, Zheng Chenggong also reorganized the Zheng family’s five merchants, like private funds raising funds to make up for the Zheng family’s lack of money and set up a Nanyang company.

After Zheng Chenggong was in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, he began to clean up the existing industries of the Zheng family and the surplus money and grain.

Because Anping City was looted by the Qing army, the Zheng family's savings were completely taken away by the Qing Dynasty. Later, Zheng Hongkui recovered more than one million taels, but after a few people were a cent, plus tens of thousands of troops, the Zheng family, which was once rich enough to rival a country, was left with only more than one hundred thousand taels of silver.

This amount of funds is completely incomparable to Huaxing Company's seven million taels of capital. However, with the success of Huaxing Company, coupled with the previous success of the Zheng family in the sea trade, Zheng Chenggong raised capital in Fuzhou under the control of Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and even Zhejiang, and was a great success.

Some gentry and merchants who missed Huaxing Company chose the Nanyang Company of Zheng. Zheng Chenggong originally planned to raise 500,000 taels of shares, but as a result, the subscriptions in Fujian were enthusiastic, so they had to implement purchase restrictions. Even Zhu Yuyou, the Tang king of Ganzhou, wrote a letter saying that he wanted to attach it, and Zheng Chenggong could reserve a share of 20,000 taels.

The goods traded by the Zheng family before were mainly silk fabrics, tea and porcelain. Among them, silk fabrics come from Jiangnan and porcelain comes from Jiangxi. The Zheng family did not produce these two goods, but the only production of tea in Fujian is very large, and the Zheng family owns a large amount of land and manors.

When Zhao Ming learned that Zheng Chenggong had founded Nanyang Company, he gave up the tea trade, which was a show of kindness to Zheng Chenggong.

With the help of Huaxing Company, Zheng Chenggong successfully solved the problem of lack of money. Businesses in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places were stimulated, and a number of companies were established one after another.

For a time, commerce flourished along the southeast coast, and with the development of commerce, it gradually emerged from the acquisition of larger raw material production areas and market demand.

In 1650, the sixth year of Longwu, and the seventh year of Shunzhi, the Qing Dynasty.

More than a year has passed since the last Fujian Battle.

During this period, the situation changed rapidly, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties entered a stage of confrontation.

Except for fighting in Huguang, the two armies basically truce in other places.

On the Ming army, the Ming army resumed production, developed commerce, made weapons, and trained the army. On the Qing Dynasty, there was no idle either.

At this time, it had been seven years since the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, and various parts of the north were settled and production was gradually resumed, which could gradually provide money and food for the Qing Dynasty. Dorgon took a year to restore the strength of the Eight Banners and reorganize the Green Camp troops, and some progress was made.

By early 1651, the Qing Dynasty completed statistics and supplements to the Eight Banners. Although there were only more than 53,000 full-flagships and could not complete the supplement, the Mongolian and Han military flags were already full after being supplemented.

Although the newly added troops cannot be compared with the former Eight Banners, they finally recovered a certain amount of strength.

Beijing, Bauhinia City.

Outside the Regent's mansion, Hong Chengchou led a group of Westerners to the palace hall, and emphasized the etiquette of paying homage to the Regent through the translation.

The Dutch Mousse, who heard that he was going to kneel down to the Tatars, showed displeasure on his face, "Your Excellency, we are the ambassadors of the Netherlands, not the vassal of the Qing Dynasty. We are here to seek cooperation, not to pay tribute. I think you should know this."

The rise of Huaxing Company seriously threatened the Dutch East India Company, especially China Merchants Shipping Company, which seized the East India Company's shipping business.

Nowadays, shipping from China's coastal areas to Japan, North Korea, Annan and other countries is occupied by Huaxing Merchants Shipping Company and Nanyang Company. The East India Company has been squeezed out of China's offshore areas and can only engage in ocean trade from China to the Nanyang Islands, as well as India and Europe.

This caused the East India Company to lose a lot of business and reduce its revenue greatly, which made the senior management very dissatisfied, so they wanted to contact the Qing Dynasty, the enemy of the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!