Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

The public refers to the wealth of several people, and the manager refers to the meaning of operation.Combining together means accumulating disadvantages to become high, combining small to become large, and merging to become a public way, which is for the company.Based on the state-licensed East India Trading Company, He Yi combined the financial, human, and material resources of the country's merchants and people to build a strong ship and gun that could overwhelm the Western Yi countries. In the coastal waters of China, he used martial arts to conduct business, and obtained huge monopoly profits, which were then distributed to the merchants and people in the Heyi Kingdom.This is the way He Yi dominates the sea.

And the trip of the three must have my teacher.We can also do the method of the Hebari's vertical and horizontal dominance! "

While talking, Zhu Heqi turned his head to look at Yanping King Zheng Jing, and said with a smile: "Yanping King, with the strength of your family, you want to take over Luzon and Java, control the Strait of Malacca, and take all the distance between the East and South Oceans." I'm afraid it's not enough. Why not follow the Heyi East India Trading Company and set up a Nanyang Trading Company chartered by the Ming court?

This time, the battle of the lonely family going north to Ningbo by sea, why not let the warships of the Nanyang Trading Company take the lead!

In the future, Nanyang Trading Company will take the lead in all matters of competing for profits with the barbarians.As for the matter of Xuande's preaching, the Ming court and the former Confucian University Scholars Conference came forward... What do you think? "

Zheng Jing immediately understood Zhu Heqi's intentions. Zhu Heqi wanted the Zheng family to take the lead in organizing a Nanyang trading company, and then use this company's name to compete with other western barbarians for Nanyang... while the Ming court and the former Confucian University The scholar meeting is responsible for establishing order and spreading the truth after the Nanyang Trading Company completes the zero-yuan purchase.

That is to say, the Zheng family did the dirty and tiring work, and the Zhu family, a good man and a saint, took care of it... Then the Zhu family had to share the money with the Zheng family!

Of course, Zhu Heqi's money won't be in vain... He will be responsible for providing the crime tools purchased at zero yuan.

With advanced crime tools, the Zheng family's zero-yuan purchase can quickly grow bigger and stronger!

"Okay!" Zheng Jing immediately nodded with a smile, "Jianguo, since you have already opened your mouth, the head of the franchised trading company, let me lead it!"

As he spoke, he turned around, bowed his hands to the people standing outside the Nine Halls, and said with a smile: "Jianguo can be said... This franchised trading company can only be established with the financial, human and material resources of the entire country, merchants and people. Wake up! The big guy needs to help out!"

Well, he is offering shares at the meeting!

Zhu Heqi quickly interrupted with a smile: "King Yanping, no matter how good the deal is, don't offer shares at the court meeting of the lonely family! Besides, with such a good deal, are you afraid that no one will follow? Turn around and you To open a general commercial center in Guangzhou, open a public offering, and attract investment... By the way, the lonely family also has some spare cash, so we have to invest in a share!"

Zhu Heqi is investing for Zheng Jingla!

Zheng Jing laughed loudly: "Sage Supervisor, don't worry, Mr. Zheng knows the sea business best, and he will definitely not let you lose money."

Zhu Heqi also laughed in response to the occasion: "Take our sugar gunpowder and firearms to do business at sea, can we still pay for it?"

Can I still pay for zero yuan purchase?What's more, there are advanced crime tools provided by Zhu Shengren...

When the servants heard Zhu Heqi and Zheng Yanping singing together, their hearts became hot.

This Nanyang trading company has a lot to do!

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"Jianguo, I have discussed with Qiu Zhijun and Chen Junmen, and I think we can use the method of appointment to fight with the foreign and barbarian fleets in Dinghai and Ningbo..."

The conference outside the Nine Halls has ended, but the small meeting inside the Nine Halls has just begun.Zheng Jing, who was in high spirits, was the first to speak and proposed a plan for a decisive battle at sea.

Zhu Heqi smiled and waved his hands, interrupting Zheng Yanping's words, "King Yanping, let's talk about this matter later... The lonely family still has good things to discuss with the big guys."

Is there something good?

Zheng Jing asked with a smile: "Jian Guo, isn't this good thing you said is another big business?"

Zhu Hechi smiled: "You're right! It's a big deal... Yi Zhi, hurry up and get the good stuff out for everyone to open their eyes to!"

Yi Zhi is Yan Yuan's name. This great Confucian who was "a teacher and a friend" with Zhu Heqi, although he has not yet become an official, but he follows Zhu Heqi in the name of a disciple of a sage, and he seems to be a confidant.

The good things were quickly brought by Yan Yuan, and placed in a wooden tray, it was a bowl of off-white powder and lumps, and there was also a stone covered with bean-shaped and nodular crystals on the surface.

Zhu Heqi smiled and pointed to the good thing that Yan Yuan put on the conference table, "Do you know anyone? I will test you in a lonely family, who among you can recognize it? This is a good thing! It is related to the next 300 years of my Ming Dynasty. A good thing for the fortune of the country!"

Chapter 390 Three Treasures of National Destiny

Those who can have a chair at the big conference table in the Nine Halls are all big men, either former Confucian scholars, or important ministers and ministers of the Guangzhou court, and many of them are well-educated.

But none of these people could recognize the two good things that Yan Yuanpeng brought that were related to the 300-year national fortune of Ming Dynasty.

"Jian Guo, please don't be a fool, we are so ignorant that we can't recognize you."

"Jian Guo, this thing looks like stone and some kind of soil... What's the use of this thing?"

"Could it be a gemstone? It doesn't look like it!"

"Jian Guo, please tell me, what are these two things?"

Zhu Heqi shook his head with a smile, and said, "Everyone, look carefully...these are not two things, but three treasures!"

"Three treasures?"

"Earth, stone, what else?"

Zhu Hechi stretched out his hand, picked up the porcelain bowl filled with soil, poured out the soil in the porcelain bowl, and raised the porcelain bowl, "Look, what is this?"

"This is... a bowl, it doesn't look very round!"

"It's just a white porcelain bowl... the color is quite nice, is it some kind of famous porcelain?"

Zhu Hechi said: "This is called milk white porcelain. It is made by adding beef bone powder and quartz stone powder to porcelain clay... This milk white porcelain is excellent in hardness, color and light transmittance. This bowl It was made casually by the craftsmen of Huangpu Iron Works. If it is fired by a famous porcelain craftsman, it will definitely be a high-quality product that has been waiting for. The lonely family has sent people to Chaozhou, Zhangzhou, and Quanzhou to invite local porcelain masters to see it. If they If you find it useful, teach them this method.”

What Zhu Heqi brought out was a piece of bone china, which historically appeared in Europe at the end of the 18th century.After the appearance of this kind of porcelain, it was quickly sought after by wealthy people in various European countries, and it also helped the European porcelain industry catch up from behind, destroying most of the jobs of Chinese porcelain—don’t underestimate this matter!

What is porcelain made of?

Made of dirt!

This is a good deal of exchanging dirt for silver!

For more than 1000 years, porcelain has been a top industry.

Moreover, China Porcelain has established an extremely strong brand effect for a long time. Before the appearance of bone china, there were almost no competitors, and it was simply making money.

After the appearance of bone china, China quickly lost this top industry of "exchanging soil for money".

Also at the end of the Qing Dynasty, with the strong rise of the Japanese silk industry, another top industry that had been monopolized by China for 2000 years—the silk industry also completely declined.

And tea, sugar, and ironware, the three industries that could still dominate the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, all fell to the ground by the end of the Qing Dynasty!

In addition to ironware, China's porcelain, tea, silk, and sugar were all very lucrative and monopolized good deals back then.

The loss of all of them caused China to completely lose the industries that could quickly accumulate industrialized capital at the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century...Without the industries that are profitable, China’s road to industrialization is of course extremely difficult.

Now it was Zhu Heqi's turn to lead Xin Daming to "capitalize", so he naturally had to do everything possible to keep these advantageous industries.In addition, we have to try our best to destroy the advantageous industries of Westerners-of course, we can buy them for zero yuan!

Zhu Heqi did not believe that Europeans could produce an industrialization by shearing sheep...

After talking about the bone china, Zhu Heqi grabbed another stone covered with crystals and said, "This is called struvite, and it is a treasure picked up by the prisoners of the Shang family army from the deserted island of Dongsha!"

"Guano?" Qiu Hui, who had raised ducks, immediately understood, "Is this fertilizer? Duck droppings are good fertilizer!"

"That's right!" Zhu Heqi nodded, "This kind of struvite is mostly produced on overseas desert islands. It is formed by the birds on the sea after thousands of years of defecation... It is an extremely high-quality fertilizer. Its lonely home is on Huangpu Island. Someone opened a rice field and used struvite as fertilizer, and the yield was twice as much as that of a paddy field without guano fertilizer!

With this kind of good fertilizer, we Daming people will be able to avoid a lot of famine in the future! "

University scholar Zhu Shunshui asked with interest: "Are there many struvites on Dongsha Island?"

"Not too much," Zhu Heqi said with a wry smile, "but if the imperial court could mine the dung from Dongsha before the disaster of Jiashen, it might be able to alleviate the famine in the world. Moreover, the world is so big that the four seas are boundless, and guano islands like Dongsha must be There are many more...Mr. Shunshui, do you think that the development of sea frontiers is related to the mouths of hundreds of millions of living people? And the food of hundreds of millions of living people is the foundation of the family, country and world for 300 years?"

Zhu Shunshui nodded and said: "Zhiyu once traveled to the East Ocean and the South Ocean, so he knows the size of the world and the vastness of the four seas... the previous Ming Dynasty closed itself to the outside world, and failed to use the wealth of the four seas to support the heaven and the people. This is a big mistake!

If Emperor Taizu Gao knew that bird droppings from overseas could support the common people of the Celestial Dynasty, there would certainly not have been the ancestral precept of retreating and not collecting. "

Eating is the political correctness of Chinese people!

If Zheng He brought back struvite that could support people, then going to sea would be politically correct!

The reason why Zhu Heqi spent so much effort (in fact, it was the captives of the Shang family army) to get so many struvites was not for the sake of feeding many people now...but for the development of the present and the future!

One is to turn overseas interests into political correctness by "turning bird droppings into food"!

The second is to provide guano fertilizer for the pioneers-it is very difficult to colonize a wild land, and the probability of starvation is not small!Guano fertilizer can greatly increase the grain yield per unit area, which naturally increases the success rate of development.

"Bone china can be exchanged for silver, and bird droppings can be exchanged for food," Zhu Heqi said, picking up an unground white stone, "this kind of stone is called dolomite, and it is produced everywhere, and it is not rare. .

But it's so useful...it can be used to make bricks! "

"Building bricks?" Guo Youde, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, became energetic when he heard it, "Saint, do you want to use these white bricks to build a house?"

"It's not building a house," Zhu Hechi said with a smile, "it's building a furnace... a furnace for making iron and steel!"

Bricks fired from dolomite are excellent refractory materials, which can withstand high temperatures of more than 2000 degrees Celsius.Moreover, this is an alkaline material, and the furnace made of it can be used for dephosphorization, and the addition of desulfurized quicklime can solve the problem of high sulfur and high phosphorus in iron ore—most of the iron ore in China is high in sulfur High phosphorus, coupled with the dissolution of sulfur in coal into molten iron caused by coal ironmaking, so desulfurization and dephosphorization have always been a big trouble.

So when the easy-to-mining and high-quality iron ore is exhausted, the quality of Chinese ironware is a bit worrying... and most of the ironware produced in Foshan, an important iron smelting town, exceeds the standard for sulfur and phosphorus.

The reason why Zhu Heqi was not busy making steel guns and steel cannons, but tossing sugar copper bombs, was because he knew that Foshan could not provide a large number of light flintlock guns, nor could he produce high-quality iron cannons.

Unless you get out the dolomite stove and graphite clay crucible first!

However, although there is Baiyun Mountain in Guangdong, there are no large dolomite mines, so Zhu Heqi had to wait patiently.It wasn't until Zheng Jing took most of Fujian that he sent people to find some dolomite, and handed them all to Huangpu Iron Works for trial use.The iron piece that saved Daboling's "chest" last time was made from iron produced in the dolomite furnace of Huangpu Iron Works.

Zhu Hechi said: "With this kind of dolomite, our Foshan Iron Industry can go to a higher level... But the promotion of dolomite refractory bricks, graphite crucible furnaces and coke ironmaking is too late for the lonely family. Hosted. Old Taishan, nine thousand years old, Mr. Qi, Mr. Guo, this matter is left to you."

For Foshan Iron Industry, Qiu Hui, Eunuch Pang, Mr. Yu, and Mr. Guo are all "great gods" who cannot afford to offend.Among them, Qiu Hui is the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the head snake of Guangdong.Eunuch Pang has a "central bank" in his hand.Mr. Yu is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and the Minister of Zhongshu, that is, the Deputy Prime Minister.Master Guo is the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and he is in charge of military orders!

Zhu Hexi then continued: "Before the Gu family sends troops to the Northern Expedition, you will find people for the Gu family, and the Gu family will pass on this craft to them... There is no need for them to pay tuition fees, as long as they send some apprentices Just go north with the lonely family."

Chapter 391 Only hard work wins!

"Three points are destined, seven points depend on hard work, hard work will win..."

In Chengtianfu, Guangzhou, on the Tianzi Ferry Pier, the military songs are loud and clear!

Today's weather is not so good, the autumn rain has come down, and there is still some wind and waves on the Pearl River.However, amidst the storm, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the second and seventh towns of the army who sang the "vernacular military song" "Will You Win" was high.The people of Guangzhou, organized by the former Confucian school, cheered hoarsely in the distance, while waving the sun and the moon as bright flags, the world as public flags, the world's Great Harmony flag, and the just-appeared Dao flag for the sky—this is the new The flag of the established Nanyang Trading Company!

Now moored at the Tianzi Wharf are several brand-new "Great Eastern" class armed merchant ships, all of which are flying the blue background colors of the Tianxiaweigong flag and Renjian Datong flag, which are the military flags of the Ming Navy.

And the galley warships of the Nanyang Trading Company flying the flag of Titian Xingdao are cruising on the further Pearl River, waiting for the transport fleet to be loaded.

In fact, the newly released Nanyang Trading Company does not have its own fleet, and the warships under the banner of Titian Xingdao are also the property of the Ming Navy.

The reason why the warships of the Ming Navy were to use the banner of the Nanyang Trading Company was of course to allow them to serve as the main force in the next battle with the Dutch and the Spaniards... The Dutch and the Spaniards hung the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty Isn't the purpose of going out to fight to avoid completely tearing up with Xin Daming?

Then Zhu and Qi followed suit and let Ming's warship fly under the banner of Nanyang Trading Company. If the Dutch and Spaniards agree with this rule, they will see this in the waters off Batavia and Manila in the future. It's time to face the flag of Tianxingdao!

At the corner of the Tianzi Ferry Pier, there is a newly built long pavilion. Zhu Heqi in yellow clothes and scarves is sitting in it, saying goodbye to a group of Cantonese elders who came to see him off. In the long pavilion, there are only him and these people. The group of elders, as well as Qiu Hui, Eunuch Pang, Mr. Yu, Mr. Guo, and a group of young men and teenagers wearing blue cross-collared cloth clothes and black horn scarves on their heads, all of them were carrying burdens and crying Like a tearful man.

An old man dressed as an outsider, holding a long box in his hand, walked up to Zhu Heqi and was about to kneel down.Zhu Heqi hurriedly stretched out his hands to help, "Abbot, don't kneel down, we have a new Ming Dynasty, and we don't like this anymore."

Elder Yu smiled and said, "Qizai, this is Su Abo from Foshan. His family has been a furnace household for generations, and his youngest son, Su Zhe, will join the army in the northern expedition."

"Oh." Zhu Heqi smiled and nodded, "Su Abo, are the refractory bricks and the crucible still usable?"

"It's easy to use, it's so easy to use! Saint, look at this..."

While Su Abo was talking, he opened the box, and inside was a four-foot-long flintlock musket and a one-foot-long steel bayonet bayonet.

"A good gun, a good knife..." Zhu Heqi took out the musket inside and looked carefully, then took out the polished bayonet inside, couldn't help admiring a few times, his face was full of joy, "Abo, is this made of iron smelted from a white stone furnace and a graphite crucible?"

"That's right, but saint, that's not iron, it's steel! The whole pot is made of steel!" Old Uncle Su wanted to kneel down to Zhu Hexi again when he said this, "Saint, you still have to be treated by the little old man!" Bye, you are the patriarch of our Foshan Iron Industry!

The little old man’s family has been blacksmithing for generations, and it has been passed down for 300 years, and there has never been so much steel smelted in one furnace..."

That's right!

The sulfur and phosphorus in the ore exceeds the standard, and there is no coke that burns well and a blast furnace that can withstand high temperatures, and there is no graphite crucible that can withstand the high temperature when high-purity molten iron is melted.Wouldn't it be impossible to get so much steel in one furnace?

Although Zhu Hechi did not have a background in metallurgy, he still knew the methods of dolomite alkaline furnace, graphite crucible steelmaking method and coal coking.

And he doesn't intend to hide these secrets to open a steel factory to make money by himself, but to use them to benefit the elders in Guangdong... Although the purpose of what he does is still want to get more high-quality weapons as soon as possible, so that he can buy industries for himself with zero yuan Add a little core competitiveness, but objectively it has indeed become the "father" of Foshan Iron Industry.

Having obtained the dolomite furnace, coke, and graphite crucible, Foshan Iron Industry can be said to have achieved a world-leading level overnight!

The "fusil pistol problem" that has plagued Foshan Iron Industry for a long time before, now that there are good materials, it is naturally not a problem.

Seeing that old man Su wanted to worship, Zhu Heqi hurriedly helped him again, and said with a smile: "Old man, you don't need to worship... Remember the words of the lonely family, one is not to pass on the real skills to Yangyi, but to meet the apprentices and masters." You should know the truth of starvation, but if you teach Yang Yi it is not a problem of starvation, maybe you will be beaten!

The second is to plan ahead. Foshan has neither iron mines nor coal mines, so it depends on transportation from other places, and the cost is always too high.If your iron factory wants to grow bigger, you still have to open the iron factory next to the iron ore or coal mine... Of course, you have to be cautious about this business matter, take the big idea yourself!

As for your son Su Zhe, the lonely family brought him north not to serve as a soldier to fight, but to help him open an iron factory in Nanjing.He will be a disciple of the Gu family from now on, you can rest assured that the Gu family will not treat him badly. "

While talking, Zhu Heqi ordered his eldest disciple Yan Yuan to bring a "big gift bag" to Old Uncle Su, and asked Yan Yuan to send the old man away in person.

After Uncle Su left, several master porcelain craftsmen from Chaozhou and Zhangzhou were brought in again, and they also came to thank them.The secret method of "bone china" given to them by Zhu Heqi is really wonderful. "Bone china" is not only beautiful in color, but also very strong. It can be made very thin, so thin that it is slightly transparent. It is definitely a fine porcelain !

With the secret method of "bone china", the porcelain industry of Chaozhou and Zhangzhou is enough to keep pace with Jingdezhen's Dehua white porcelain products.

It is even more difficult for Europeans to challenge China in ceramic manufacturing!

Having met the master porcelain craftsmen of Chaozhou and Zhangzhou, Zhu Heqian went on to meet the heads of the Guangdong Sugar Chamber of Commerce, Liquor Chamber of Commerce, Salt Chamber of Commerce, and Qianye (Qianzhuang) Chamber of Commerce.

Needless to say, these industries have all been favored by Zhu and Chi.

Although he has not ruled Guangdong for a long time, and he is busy fighting most of the time, but in terms of supporting industries, he not only spares no effort, but also appears to be quite selfless.

Guangdong Sugar obtained "special white" from him, and also made a lot of money because of the price increase of white sugar after military use.

The Guangdong wine industry has benefited from the brand effects of sugarcane wine and Damingchun wine, and has also developed rapidly.

With his help, Guangdong Salt Industry developed the drying salt technology and obtained quite high-quality white salt.