Valley Emperor

Vol 2 Chapter 1410: The Tang Dynasty is in jeopardy

Xuanping twenty-two years in July.

Newsboys on the streets of Shanghai are hawking the latest issue of the Tang Chaobao!

However, the slogan of the newsboys is to make many passers-by stop, showing suspicious eyes!

"Portuguese barbarians wantonly attack my Tang merchant ship!"

"The Portuguese barbarians provoked a war for no reason, and my Datang merchant ship was sunk in the port of Malacca!"

"Datang's overseas trade is already in jeopardy!"

Different slogans, each sentence is eye-catching, and immediately a middle-aged man in business attire stepped forward, took out a copper coin and said, "Come here!"

After taking over the newspaper, the middle-aged man quickly swept the front page.

However, he did not see what he wanted to see on the front page. The content reported on the front page was that the Son of Heaven recently held a special education conference to discuss the many problems existing in today's education, especially basic education. Questions were asked to officials such as the Minister of Rites and the Minister of Rites, and the relevant officials of the Ministry of Rites were ordered to take education issues as their main work now and in the future, and there should be no slack.

And once again stressed that education is a century-old plan, the foundation of the long-term stability of the empire, and officials at all levels should earnestly do a good job in education.

The second edition reported that the Jingkai Line (Jinling City-Kaifeng) was completed and opened to traffic. In addition, it also reported the construction of the Datang Railway. So far, the railways built and opened to traffic in the Datang Railway are already Jiangnan The Dangtu to Shanghai section of the railway is expected to be completed and opened to traffic at the end of this year when Dangda reaches the Jiujiang Hukou section and the Shanghai to Hangzhou section. By then, the main construction project of the Jiangnan Railway will be completed.

In addition to the Jiangnan Railway, the Jingkai Line (Jinling City to Kaifeng), Luoyang to Kaifeng, Tianjin to Youzhou, Tianjin to Shanhaiguan, Foshan to Guangzhou to Hong Kong, and Hangzhou to Ningbo have been completed and opened to traffic. There are a lot of various branch lines that are messed up.

In the third edition, this middle-aged man found what he wanted to see!

Here, the Datang Chaobao reported that in June, a Datang merchant ship was heading to Malacca for trade, and when it entered the port of Malacca, it was suddenly attacked by a Portuguese warship. The merchant ship was sunk on the spot and sank. within the port.

Subsequently, several more Tang merchant ships were attacked by the Portuguese.

My brave and fearless Datang naval battleship, upon learning the news, dispatched battleships from nearby waters to approach Malacca as soon as possible, and responded to many imperial merchant ships staying in Malacca to evacuate. The speed of the news was sent back to the country.

At first glance, this matter seems to be very simple. It is nothing more than that the Portuguese acted recklessly and took the initiative to attack the imperial merchant ships and provoked disputes between the two countries. However, the report did not describe it too clearly. At least, it did not say that the Portuguese were in the end. Why did he take the initiative to attack the Imperial Merchant Ship?

Is it true that the Portuguese are acting recklessly, it is unlikely.

The Portuguese are not stupid. How could they take the initiative to attack the merchant ships of the empire at their doorstep and leave such a big handle to the empire? If they really want the merchant ships of the empire, then they will attack the merchant ships of the empire disguised as pirates in the sea as before. , the Portuguese have done this before, and it makes no sense to suddenly change their practice now.

Could it be that the Portuguese wanted to completely cut off trade with the Empire?

This middle-aged man smelled the conspiracy from the simple report, but his footsteps did not stop. After he stopped a rickshaw, he went straight to the company.

No matter whether there is any conspiracy behind it, but since this article was published on the third page of the Datang Chaobao, and made a report on the whole page, and the words of the article are very tough, he just knew, War is coming.

War is impossible. The scary thing is that the trade with the Portuguese will be completely cut off. In this way, many industries related to overseas trade will inevitably be severely hit.

As a project fund manager of a fund company, the only thing that needs to be done at this time, and must be done immediately, is to immediately dump the stocks related to overseas trade, and it is the ocean trade whose main business is trade with the Portuguese. Companies, the business of these companies will inevitably be hit hard.

This morning in Shanghai, the busiest thing was the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Many stockbrokers, even high-weight fund managers and even company bosses, all went into battle in person, and some wanted to quickly Ditch the stocks of related companies, but some want to take the opportunity to absorb more high-quality stocks!

Regardless of their purpose, the violent actions of these people instantly caused the stock trading volume of the Shanghai Stock Exchange to skyrocket, and then the stock prices of some companies plummeted, while some companies were greatly sought after.

For example, the stock prices of several trading companies with close ties to the Portuguese were almost halved, and they continued to fall, and no one took the offer at all.

However, the stock price of Datang Western Trading Co., Ltd. has been rising all the way. When the market was temporarily closed at noon, the stock price of Datang Western Trading Co., Ltd. had risen by 13% compared with the closing time yesterday!

Don't think that this 13% is less, you must know that Datang Western Trading Company is the largest heavyweight in the imperial stock exchange market, with a huge volume, and its performance is stable on weekdays. maintained a slow growth trend.

But today, the stock price of Datang Western Trading Co. soared by 13% in just a few hours, which also made the market value of Datang Western Trading Co., Ltd. break through the 200 million yuan mark!

It became the first enterprise in the Datang Empire with a market value exceeding the 200 million yuan mark!

Why did the stock of Datang Western Trading Company skyrocket in an instant?

Because everyone knows that the Datang Western Trading Company and the Portuguese East India Trading Company are fighting to death around the Indian Ocean, and in this competition, the official forces of both sides have not personally ended.

But now, the war is on the verge of breaking out. The huge military power of the Tang Dynasty can undoubtedly destroy and occupy Malacca, and then occupy the Malacca Strait, a strategic maritime route, and at the same time completely open the road to the Indian Ocean.

Subsequently, with the support of the Imperial Navy, Datang Western Trading Company's capture of India and even the whole of India is just around the corner!

Therefore, the war with the Portuguese may be a bad thing for many countries in the country, or a mixed blessing, but for Datang Western Trading Company, this is definitely a good thing, a great thing!

Stimulated by this kind of good news, coupled with the fact that the stock market has always been blindly following the trend, and because the stock market is turbulent today, some ordinary investors and even smaller fund companies, in order to avoid risks, They all started to carry out a large number of prudent operations, such as shorting some stocks appropriately, adding some stocks appropriately, and buying a large number of stocks of super-large companies for safe-haven.

This is also the reason why the stocks of large domestic companies represented by Datang Western Trading Co., Ltd. will not fall but rise in this stock market turmoil!

For example, Changjiang Shipping Company and Feng Shipping Company, the two leading companies in the domestic shipping industry, logically say that they have nothing to do with overseas trade, but people think that if the overseas market shrinks, then the domestic market will become more Importantly, many companies will turn more attention to the domestic market, which will then drive the further prosperity of the domestic market.

People's guesses are not wrong. In order to prevent the economic turmoil caused by the shrinking of overseas trade, Li Xuan has already prepared to boost domestic demand and let the domestic market digest the many goods originally used for export.

For example, silk, which has a huge export volume, but now Li Xuan is planning to encourage the domestic market to expand silk consumption in order to stabilize silk-related industries.

All these have also made the performance expectations of such companies represented by the Yangtze River Shipping Company and Feng Shipping Company rooted in the domestic shipping market to be bullish.

In order to avoid the economic turmoil caused by the war with the Portuguese, Li Xuan offset the impact of the war by preparing a lot in advance!

A few days later, according to the data reported by the Ministry of Commerce, Li Xuan was relieved!

An article in the Tang Dynasty newspaper, although it caused turmoil in the stock market, was mainly affected by a small number of trading companies and some manufacturing companies mainly engaged in European trade.

But other industries, although some will also be negatively affected, this negative spillover is controllable and can be alleviated by supplementing the domestic market.

Interestingly, some industries were stimulated by the good news of the war~www.wuxiaspot.com~ there was a rise in stock prices, a thriving scene.

Cutting off trade with the Portuguese has a certain impact, and it is not small, but strictly speaking, it is controllable.

After all, the economic main body of the Datang Empire is not an economic system oriented by overseas trade, but an economic system oriented by domestic demand. Overseas trade is just a supplement.

Today's conflict and war with the Portuguese this time can also allow the empire to make further adjustments to the empire's economic system, further increase domestic demand, and continue to reduce its dependence on overseas trade.

The next time he goes to war with the Spaniards, Li Xuan doesn't want to see the slightest fluctuation in the domestic economy!

After seeing that although the economic system was affected, it was generally stable, Li Xuan also made his final determination, and asked the DPRK Newspaper Division under the Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty to conduct a second round of public opinion propaganda, completely laying the groundwork for Portugal's official The public opinion basis of propaganda, let the people support this war, at least, have to oppose it!

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