Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 639 Fan Shang
In February, the wind on the sea is already mild.The two ships sailed from Guangzhou to Mingzhou, where the Qi army has taken over, and the Mingzhou Shipping Department has been open for more than a month.

The businessman's nose is the most sensitive, and he has already sniffed the smell and surrounded him.Not only in Jiangbei, but also in Lingnan.Including those fan merchants in Guangzhou.

The latter is the real first window for China's foreign sea trade. During the Tang Dynasty, countless Fan merchants from heaven and earth gathered.Even the Fan merchants who lived in Guangzhou once gathered a crowd to rebel and seized the city of Guangzhou.Zizhi Tongjian contains: In the first year of Suzong Qianyuan (758), Guangzhou reported to the imperial court, saying: "Da Shi, Persia besieged the state city, and the governor Willie saw the city and walked over the city. The soldiers of the two countries plundered warehouses, burned huts, go to sea.

In fact, it was a rebellion by maritime merchants with a large number of private armed forces.

From Tianfang to China, there is no law on the vast sea, and every merchant ship is equipped with a large number of swords, guns and arrows.All the sea merchants are part-time pirates.When Huang Chao captured Guangzhou at the end of the Tang Dynasty, he killed all the foreign merchants and aliens in Guangzhou Pimancheng in one fell swoop.There are records, as many as 12 or 20.

From this we can see that there were many fan merchants in Guangzhou at that time.

Maritime trade in the Song Dynasty developed spontaneously, just like Pu Shougeng, a descendant of Tianfang who slaughtered more than [-] sons of the Southern Song clan and more than [-] Huai soldiers in Quanzhou at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. His family lives in Guangzhou today.

Two seagoing ships heading north from Mingzhou finally saw the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz, a sea merchant from the Tianfang Peninsula, and Shah Rukh Afshar from Persia, each took a sea ship, as representatives of the two groups of Tianfang and Persia, Heading towards Xiuzhou.Tianfang and Persia already have fierce conflicts and conflicts. The relationship between the two is very sharp in their homeland, and it is impossible to be as close as a family when they come to China.

They are the two most powerful ethnic branches in Tianfang World, and their competition has always been all-round.

In the splintering Tianfang Empire, the power of the caliphate has long existed in name only, but the bitter fruit of the early years is still fermenting.

In today's era when the East and the West have not really begun to communicate, the existence of Tianfang people serves as a bridge between the East and the West, and their influence affects the development of the entire world.It's a pity that because Lu Qian's impression of the latter is really bad, these people's life in China will obviously not be as comfortable as before.

There is also a banfang specifically for merchants to gather. Among the banfangs, there are ban chiefs who are elected by themselves and approved by the government...

This little life was so comfortable.

Although Chinese outsiders also like to hold groups for warmth, and there are bound to be prominent figures pushed out by the public in Chinatowns everywhere, Chinese people are Chinese, and people from Tianfang are people from Tianfang.Can he be treated equally in Lu Qian's heart?

Faisal bin Abdulaziz wanted to go north for a long time. He was a nobleman of the Kingdom of Oman, one of the more than ten feudal kingdoms that the Tianfang Empire was divided into.

The strength of the Kingdom of Oman is very weak, and the territory is small. It is far inferior to the vast territory of later generations of Oman. It is located in the northeast corner of the eastern end of the peninsula. However, due to geographical advantages, the business here is developed and wealth is gathered, so it is often controlled by the Persians and the opposite side of the bay. The Bedouin raids in most of the square peninsula.It can be said that the status in Tianfang World is quite low.

But no matter how low he was, Feisalwu was still a nobleman with an unusual status and noble blood, and had a slight connection with the Banun Nebuhan family who ruled the Kingdom of Oman.Therefore, it has a lot of prestige among Tianfang maritime merchants.

The existence of Liangshanbo spread to Guangzhou very early.To be honest, Feisal never thought that one day a country as large, powerful and rich as the Great Song Empire would be destroyed by a wave of bandits, which was completely beyond his imagination.

In Tianfang World, the struggle for supremacy relies on clans based on tribes.Just like the Banun Nebhan tribe run by the Banun Nebhan family in Oman.It has never been heard that a group of bandits rose rapidly within a few years and finally overthrew a powerful empire.

The constant news from the north aroused endless curiosity in his heart.Especially when the navy of the Qi army arrived in Ryukyu, after they established a firm foothold and forced some of the local sea merchants in Bamin to be obedient, it was no longer the land of Bamin that was covered by the navy of the Qi army, but even the land of Guangdong and Nandong. Road along the coast of the county.

On that vast sea, their merchant ship from Tianfang World was hit by the navy of the Qi army, and they wanted to cut their flesh and let their blood out.

However, the Qi navy's warships were sharp, tall and sturdy, and carried a large number of troops. They were also equipped with crossbows and stone cannons. Their force was beyond the reach of Tianfang's merchant ships.

The only maritime navy of Zhao Song Dynasty was still deployed in Dengzhou. The vast southeast coast was always defenseless.The people of Tianfang have only seen Chinese merchant ships, which are taller and stronger than their merchant ships. From this, it can be inferred that China's maritime combat power is absolutely impressive.But never a specific comparison.

The three heroes of the Ruan family led the main force of the Qi army's foreign naval forces to Ryukyu and ran across the Fujian and Guangdong seas.

People in the other world were also raised by their fathers and mothers, so why not cherish their own lives?What's more, in a place thousands of miles away from my hometown, if you are strong, he will be weak, and if you are hard, he will be soft.

After Lu Qian got Ruan Xiaoer to report, a name came to his mind - Zheng Zhilong.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Zheng Zhilong defeated the fleet of the Dutch East India Company in the Kinmen naval battle along the coast of Fujian.

Historical records: All sea vessels that do not have the flag of the Zheng family cannot come and go.Each ship earns [-] gold, and the annual income is tens of millions, so as to enrich the enemy's country and build the city of Anping Town by itself.From then on, the atmosphere of the sea has been calm, foreign goods are sold, domestic and foreign merchants all use Zheng's banner, there is no warning, and merchants have twenty times the profit. So the Zheng family was used as the Great Wall.

Zheng Zhilong's strategy can also be used by the navy of the Qi army now.

When the three heroes of the Ruan family led their warships across the Fujian and Guangdong oceans, they were invincible. It was almost as if some of the pirates on the Fujian and Guangdong oceans were either taken over by the three heroes, or sunk to the bottom of the sea by them. It is a unique family.Therefore, as soon as the command flag came out, it earned hundreds of thousands of guan in a short period of time.But it also made their majesty imprinted in Fan Shang's mind.

Now that they saw that the group of thieves had reached Lingnan and were about to unify China, a feeling of 'power' had arisen in their hearts.Not to mention the news that has been circulating in Lingnan in this short period of time.

Tianfang people with firm beliefs are unwilling to believe that kind of 'nonsense', but this does not delay the fear in their hearts.Especially with the strong combat power of the Qi army against the backdrop, that fear gradually turned into awe.

This also made Feisal a curiosity about the north.

Of course, these are not the main reasons why he and Sha Rukh came north in person.The biggest purpose of their trip was because the Chinese wanted to open a commercial port at the mouth of the Yangtze River.That location is the Shanghai stock market of later generations.

Many people say that the Shanghai Stock Exchange was just a "small fishing village" before its opening, but this is actually a misinformation.More than a hundred years ago, the imperial court of the Northern Song Dynasty had already established the "Shanghai Affairs" agency in the Shanghai stock market, which was the office established by the imperial court to collect alcohol taxes in the Shanghai stock market.There are "Shanghai Pu" and "Xiahai Pu" in the lower reaches of the Wusong River. Because the wine tax agency is close to Shanghai Pu, it is named after "Shanghai Affairs". , the geographical location is unique, the popularity is very prosperous, the transaction is busy, and the tax revenue has increased greatly.In the official history, the Southern Song Dynasty established a town here, and the Mongolian Yuan established a county here.

Therefore, the rumors are really not necessarily credible.

While staying in Mingzhou, Feisal sent the sailors ashore to buy as many newspapers as possible for him.From Mingzhou to Xiuzhou, he kept reading the newspaper, reading the newspaper.

"The Chinese want to build a brand new trading port city in the north of Xiuzhou!"

Faisal read the newspaper and Shah Rukh could see it.What's more, people had heard about the two before they came here.The Chinese believe that Xiuzhou is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River and at the dividing point between the north and south of China's east coastline. It has the rich golden waterway of the Yangtze River as its economic extension area. As long as the will of the Chinese emperor is implemented, the prospects here will be limitless. of.

Although overseas trade was briefly mentioned in the article, more was mentioned about the importance of this city to China's domestic trade, which is a golden port with complete rivers and seas.After all, the development of China in the future is by no means purely on land, but a merger of sea and land.

The Shanghai stock market is really barren in this day and age. The reason is very simple. The coast was formed for a short period of time, and the coastline is uncertain. There are many puddles and puddles within dozens of miles along the coast. A patch of reeds.The coastal line is full of saline-alkali land, and there are a lot of reeds growing, so salt can only be boiled, and it cannot be gathered to make it heavier.

In the early stage of the development of the Shanghai stock market in history, it was also after the coastline there was stabilized in the late Southern Song Dynasty that there was a Shanghai town.The county was first established in the Yuan Dynasty, and it developed rapidly in the Ming Dynasty. In the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, it was Jianghai Tongjin, a southeastern metropolis.

Kang Mazi’s forbidden sea and Yong Lao’s fourth queen’s open sea.Therefore, if the port is prosperous, the Shanghai stock market will prosper; if the port is declining, the Shanghai stock market will decline.When Westerners first arrived in Shanghai, they saw that the Huangpu River was full of sand boats. It was like a world of sand boats.

But now there is still an uninhabitable muddy beach. Fortunately, the basic market of the future big Shanghai stock market already exists.There is no Nanhui Chuansha, but there are Baoshan and Wusongkou.There is also a Huangpu River, but it is completely different from the later Huangpu River.

But don't be afraid of this, it is not difficult to create a Huangpu River for future generations.The Ministry of Industry has already made a preliminary outline for it, and dredged the tributaries on the north and north banks of the Wusong River. The reason is that the Wusong River is quite shallow, and at this time it is the most important channel out of Taihu Lake.But it is obviously unusable.If the water from Taihu Lake is diverted into the Liuhe River, and Baimao is injected directly into the Yangtze River, and then Fanjiabang in the northeast of Shanghai is dredged, so that Huangpu flows northwest to Wusongkou into the Yangtze River, and the riverbed can be scoured, and the problem will be solved.

It can be said that as long as Lu Qian makes up his mind to develop the Shanghai stock market, the latter will surely develop and rise rapidly.Shanghai has this condition and advantage, and he also has such ability.

This is a rare opportunity for every maritime businessman.

They have long heard about the prosperity of Jiangnan in Lingnan, and this is the wealthiest area in China. The Chinese built a port city here dedicated to river and sea commerce.This place will be a city of gold, and every businessman will flock to it, even if they are fan merchants, there is no exception.

(End of this chapter)