Valley Emperor

When Li Xuan paused, he once again looked around at the six admirals below, seeing that they all turned their attention to himself, this is the way: "The empire will never give up the interests that belong to the empire!"

Li Xuan did not directly say what to do with Portugal. What he said seemed to have nothing to do with the Portuguese, but as an emperor, his words must not be taken on the surface. Sure enough, he continued:

"Any armed force of the empire should be fully conscious and earnestly safeguard the interests of the empire!"

"What is the interest of the empire? To obtain the living space they need for the people of the Tang Dynasty, to bring tangible and visible benefits to the people of the dawn of the world, and to make the people of the world and my people eat well. Dress warmly!"

"For this reason, any armed forces of the empire must fully exercise their subjectivity and dare to face any foreign forces that violate the interests of the empire and the interests of the people of the Tang Dynasty, whether they are Portuguese, Tatars, or others. What a cat and a dog!"

"If they dare to come, we will fight!"

Li Xuan's words were very pleasant to the ears of these military generals. Admiral Bao Yifen immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty has the people of the dawn of the world in mind. !"

This was just a compliment, but Li Xuan stretched out his hand to suppress the idea of ​​others wanting to follow the tout, and continued: "For this reason, whether it is the 6th army or the navy, we should make a corresponding battle plan to Be prepared for any unexpected event!"

"But!" After Li Xuan said this, he emphasized one point: "I hope your plan can be carried out without greatly destroying the existing overseas trade of the empire!"

Li Xuan is tantamount to giving the military, or more precisely, a problem for the navy!

He wants the military to crack down on the arrogance of the Portuguese, but also to destroy the current overseas trade!

No way, the current scale of overseas trade is really too large!

The cooperation between the Empire and the Portuguese is not limited to the route from East Asia to Europe. In fact, this cooperation is integrated into the entire East Asian trade system!

The Portuguese controlled the waters west of Malacca. They transported a large amount of materials from India, West Asia, Africa and other places, most of which were industrial raw materials. Goods imported in large quantities by the Portuguese.

Without the Portuguese cotton supply, textile factories in many coastal areas of the empire could not say that they would stop working immediately, but they would definitely be greatly affected.

In addition, the empire's most important export commodities, raw silk and porcelain, would also be greatly affected.

In addition, even in the East Asian trade circle, the Portuguese are very involved, and the biggest influence is the spice trade.

The Portuguese actually controlled many products of spices. Although Datang opened up ports such as Luzon and Banten, and also obtained some sources of spices, the Portuguese control was still very strong.

Once the cooperation with the Portuguese is completely cut off, the impact will be huge.

And this kind of influence is something that the current empire does not want to see!

This is a major event that involves many workers and countless silkworm farmers.

If this is messed up, the silk will not be sold. Although the domestic market is still huge, it will still cast a shadow on the silk industry, which is currently the fastest growing in China.

This is a big industry worth over 100 million taels and affecting millions of people!

In fact, this is not just the concern of the empire. In fact, the Portuguese are also very entangled. They also gained a lot of wealth from trade with the empire, and these wealth cannot be discarded.

Otherwise, they would not sit by and watch the empire open up colonies in Southeast Asia and open up European routes, but they could only make small moves, but the official level was the reason why they dared not directly come forward to destroy it.

They are also afraid of falling out with the empire completely!

Cooperate with each other, compete with each other, this is the current relationship between the Empire and the Portuguese!

The Son of Heaven has set a tone for this matter, and basically declared that it is impossible to attack Malacca or something. If you attack Malacca, it basically declares a complete fallout with the Portuguese.

But it's not okay to tolerate the Portuguese messing around so much.

The military must respond by telling the Portuguese that the Empire is not to be messed with and the Imperial Navy is not to be messed with!

Since it is impossible to attack Malacca head-on, it would be unreliable to directly send a fleet to block the port of Malacca, or even block the Strait of Malacca, which is no different from attacking Malacca directly.

But since you can't do things in East Asia, it doesn't mean you can't do things in other places. For example, in the waters of Southeast Asia, the Portuguese have a large stronghold in Malacca, in fact, in the Indonesian archipelago, which is the mouth of the Tang Empire In the Banten Islands, there are also some other small strongholds, mainly supply ports and trading posts.

Malacca can't play, it doesn't mean that these places can't play either.

The fact that the navy can't be dispatched doesn't mean that pirates can't be dispatched either.

Because of the prosperity of maritime trade in East Asia, this prosperous sea area has also attracted countless pirates. The Portuguese can use pirates to attack the overseas interests of the empire, and the empire can also use pirates to attack the interests of the Portuguese.

In addition to the waters in Southeast Asia, the Navy has also decided to do something in the Indian Ocean.

However, the main body of the trouble is not the navy. The current business of the navy is limited to the east of Malacca and the west of Malacca, which is the business scope of Datang Western Company.

Recently, Datang Western has also been overwhelmed by the Portuguese. They finally reached a cooperation agreement with the Spaniards, and they also initially opened up markets in India, West Asia, and East Africa, and even successfully entered the Ottoman Empire. in the market.

Well, it is worth mentioning that the incident that Ying Zihua led the fleet to attack the port of the Ottoman Empire has not been exposed until now. The Ottomans have always thought it was the Portuguese.

But this situation has just opened up, and Datang Western Company has not even had time to make a lot of rich profits from it, and the Portuguese have just started to sabotage.

It has only been half a year since Xuanping ten years, and two merchant ships of Datang Western Ocean have already disappeared in the Indian Ocean!

Did it sink in a storm? Or was it intercepted by the Portuguese, and the cargo ship was finally empty?

No one knows, but within Datang Western Company, it is believed that this is a ghost made by the Portuguese, and they hate the Portuguese.

Of course, the grape people also hate Datang Western Company, which has risen in recent years!

In the early days, Datang Western Company had not been made public, and was just an ordinary trading company in the eyes of outsiders. However, at the end of the eighth year of Xuanping, Datang Western Company initially established a route to India, and it was officially made public. Began to raise a large amount of funds from the society in order to obtain rapid expansion of development funds.

This also exposes this extremely special product of Datang Western Company to the world!

The outside world was also informed of the trade license of Datang Western Company!

Then, the shares of this company were looted!

Because that license represents a monopoly!

In the future, in Datang, only the Datang Western Company will be able to engage in maritime trade from the empire to India and even to Europe. No one can tell how much profit there is.

Therefore, when Datang Western Company first privately offered to major financial institutions, it only used 20% of the shares, that is, it obtained an investment of up to 8 million taels.

This also means that the valuation of this company at that time has reached more than 32 million taels, and the total investment of Datang Western Company in the past few years is only more than one million taels!

In the autumn of the ninth year of Xuanping, Datang Western Company was officially listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. On the day of listing, the stock price rose by 30%, and the total market value exceeded 60 million!

It has become the company with the highest market value in the Datang Empire!

At the same time, it has become a company with the most special equity structure in the Tang Dynasty, because in this company, only 16% of the shares of the royal industry are occupied, which is far from achieving the purpose of holding.

However, the Royal Family Industry Division has 33% of the voting rights in the company1

Because in the early stage of fundraising, it was stipulated in the contract that although some of the shares were used for financing, the voting rights still belonged to the Royal Industry Section. This part of the shareholders only had the right to pay dividends and had no voting rights.

In addition, there are also shares held by large institutions, whose voting rights are represented by the Royal Family Industry Section, so the Royal Family Industry Section still firmly controls more than 51% of the company's voting rights.

However, although the Royal Family Industry Section controls the voting rights, it still cannot avoid the problem of scattered shares!

What is more noteworthy is that almost the vast majority of the company's stocks are held by major institutions. Except for the Royal Industry Division, basically domestic financial institutions that can be called names are more or less all. Although the number of real individual investors who hold shares in this company is equally large, their share is quite small, and the total number will not exceed 5%!

There is no way, the market value of this company is too high, even if individual investors spend tens of thousands of taels and hundreds of thousands, it is useless. The real big investment is those financial institutions that have collected a lot of funds.

With the money collected through several fundraisings, UU reading www. uukanshu.com Datang Western Ocean Corporation began to expand its shipping fleet, built supply ports and trading posts in Myanmar and India, and did not forget to expand its military power!

Today, the Datang Western Company has a formidable military force. Their armed personnel, even the gunners and sailors on merchant ships who are also ready to go to war are not counted. If they are only professional soldiers, then they are With as many as 5,000 people, they together form the main military force of Datang Xiyang Company!

At the same time, it is also the only unofficial armed force of the empire currently in the official official register: the fleet of the Datang Western Company!

They are officially registered in the empire and have official numbers. They are the fourth military force with a separate system in the empire besides the 6th Army, the Navy, and the Guards!

This kind of regular military force is unmatched by domestic law enforcement forces under the names of tax inspection teams, armed patrol police, and Hantong Action Team.

The difference is that this Datang Western Company fleet, which is referred to as the "Corporate Fleet" by the outside world, has been banned forever from entering the Empire since its first day of establishment.

It is not allowed to carry out any form of military operations on the territory of the Empire in any name, and military personnel serving in the country must wear civilian clothes and must not carry any weapons if they want to return home.

This company fleet, in addition to the 6 teams with more than 2,000 people, also has four cruisers and eight frigates. At the same time, it is still expanding rapidly. In addition to ordering new ships, it is still in contact with the navy to try to purchase active-duty ships in the navy.

Now the Navy's idea is to simply sell a batch of old warships to the Datang Western Company fleet and let them make trouble for the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean!

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