Valley Emperor

Contemporary maritime merchants have many enemies, such as pirates.

Nowadays, there are a large group of pirates active in the waters of the South and Indian Oceans. Although the famous pirate leader He Ding was killed by the Tang Empire and the Portuguese in the early years.

However, after the disintegration of the pirate gang 'Fourth Fleet' under its command, it did not disappear, but dispersed into a pirate gang of many factions, which continued to be active in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, playing hide-and-seek with the Portuguese and the navy of the Tang Dynasty. , looting every merchant ship they saw!

These many pirates originating from the Fourth Fleet do not mean people from a certain country or region. These pirates come from all over the world. The Fourth Fleet in the early years was dominated by Chinese people, that is, the former Ming army who defeated the Burmese region. The Ming general He Ding was the leader.

However, it quickly absorbed many pirates from other regions, including the indigenous people of the South China Sea, the indigenous people of India, the indigenous people of West Asia and North Africa, and the Europeans and even black Africans.

Many pirates were even known from the Gabiles.

In the early years, the Fourth Fleet was very famous, and it also posed a huge threat to Portugal and the Tang Empire, as well as all businessmen from various countries who ran business in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.

Regarding this pirate gang, in the early years, the Datang Empire cooperated with the Vine people in an unprecedented way. In the end, they gradually eliminated this huge pirate gang and found their nest on the coast of Myanmar, defeating them in one fell swoop.

However, after He Ding's death, a large number of pirate leaders under his hands were still active in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea with scattered pirate ships. Although the momentum was not as big as before, the degree of harm was still the same.

These pirates have always been the great enemies of the trading companies of the Datang Empire, but when it comes to real enemies, mere pirates are nothing. The biggest enemy of these trading ships is nature!

The ubiquitous storm of the sea is their real enemy.

For example, the American route has emerged in China in the past two years. These ships running the American route are not safe.

The most famous one was last year, when three domestic overseas trading companies helped each other in order to avoid the risks when sailing, so they formed a joint fleet to go to sea together. As a result, this ship was full of goods and left Shanghai with ten In the fleet of two merchant ships, only five of them returned to Shanghai successfully, and all the others were lost due to various accidents during the voyage.

Because they had just left the waters of Fusang and entered the depths of the Pacific Ocean, they encountered a huge storm, and six ships were unable to withstand the storm and sank on the spot.

The remaining ships survived the storm with great difficulty, but because many ships were damaged by the storm, when they passed an island along the way to prepare for temporary correction of the ships, because they did not understand the local hydrology, another ship hit a reef and sank...

In the end, only five ships remained in the Americas, and when they returned, there was no accident, and they all returned smoothly.

This accident was also the biggest loss of sailing accident in the overseas trade of the Tang Empire for many years!

It directly led to the bankruptcy of three ocean-going trading companies...

Of course, even if these trading companies go bankrupt, their ocean-going trading licenses are still very valuable, and naturally someone will take over this mess.

Because the Datang Empire has not issued a new ocean-going trade license in recent years, even if it is issued occasionally, there are a lot of conditions, and the application is very difficult. Investors who want to get involved in overseas trade take over the existing trading company. , or investing in a trading company that absorbs shares is the best and the only way.

This is also the reason why the Datang Empire has more than 100 ocean-going trading companies for more than ten years, and there have always been only more than 100 ocean-going trading companies.

Indigenous people, pirates, storms, these are the enemies of the Datang Empire's overseas trading companies, and these enemies are also the ocean-going trading companies that led to Datang, which has always been a high-risk industry.

Of course, the profits are also very high.

As long as the opening is opened and they are allowed to trade along the Indian Ocean coast, the blockade of the Portuguese is nothing.

You have to know that if you add up all the armed merchant ships of these overseas trading companies in China, even the Datang Navy has to avoid three points!

Well, yes, these overseas trading companies are so awesome!

For the overseas trading companies of the Datang Empire, it is estimated that the weaker ones have only one or two ships, and an armed merchant ship is all of a company.

However, there are also some powerful trading companies, who often own three or four merchant ships, and even some large-scale trading companies own seven or eight or even more than ten ocean-going merchant ships.

The tonnage of these merchant ships is basically 300 tons, many of which are 500 to 600 tons, and there are also a few large merchant ships of 800 to 900 tons or even thousands of tons.

And these ships, with the exception of a few ships running the Fusang route, are unarmed ships, and the rest are all armed merchant ships!

The Datang Empire had a total of more than 130 overseas trading companies, and these companies owned more than 500 armed merchant ships.

Although it is said that these armed merchant ships are relatively small, the artillery they are equipped with are generally five or nine catties of artillery for self-defense. Only a few are equipped with fourteen or eighteen catties of artillery, and the number of artillery they are equipped with is not much.

Although the strength of a single armed merchant ship does not seem to be very good, it can't be compared with professional warships, but it can't hold a large number!

When the Tang Navy saw so many armed merchant ships, its scalp was numb!

Today, most of these huge number of merchant ships are running on the South Ocean route, a small part is running on the American route, and some, that is, the ships of the Datang Western Ocean Trading Company, are running on the routes of India, West Asia and Africa.

But today's South Ocean routes are already saturated, and the American routes are too risky to sail, and the returns are not high at present. As for the Indian Ocean routes west of Malacca, many trading companies are watching helplessly, because the Western Ocean trade license The monopoly power of the certificate lies in the fact that only Datang Western Trading Company can run this route.

Today, Chen Lifu is proposing to open up properly and let other trading companies participate in it to increase its competitiveness in the Indian Ocean market.

In this way, it can not only solve the problem of Datang Western Ocean Trading Company's lack of strength and unable to maintain the Indian Ocean trade, but also find a new trading market for the huge domestic overseas trading companies, thereby driving the import and export trade of the entire empire.

In the import and export trade of the Datang Empire, Guangdong occupied at least half of the share, especially in the trade in the South and Indian Oceans, basically relying on geographical advantages, Guangdong occupied more than 80% of the share.

In other words, to develop overseas trade is to develop Guangdong's economy.

This is a new solution proposed by Chen Lifu, and in Li Xuan's view, this solution still has great operability!

The only problem is that this will involve the Western trade monopoly of Datang Western Trading Company.

The Western Ocean Trade License issued to Datang Western Ocean Trading Company in those years had monopoly rights, and the Indian, West Asian and North African markets were also the main source of profit for the company.

If the opening is opened, then it is equivalent to abolishing the monopoly, which is bound to cause heavy damage to Hui Datang Western Trading Company.

Now, for the interests of the empire and their own profits, the Datang Western Ocean Trading Company is fighting with the navy in India, Burma, West Asia, North Africa and the Vine on the coast of the Indian Ocean.

If the country suddenly cancels their monopoly right at this time, it will be a direct draw from the bottom line, which will cause a devastating blow to this company.

Without the profits brought by these monopoly routes, how could the Datang Western Trading Company maintain a team of more than 20,000 people to fight the Portuguese along the entire coast of the Indian Ocean.

War is about money, okay?

Therefore, although he was very interested in the new ideas proposed by Chen Lifu, Li Xuan was still very cautious and didn't express anything. He just said a few words to circumvent this issue.

Then I turned to the issue of trade in the South China Sea. After all, the Portuguese have now been driven away by the Tang Empire. The entire Southeast Asia region is the back garden of the Tang Dynasty. It was when the South China Sea was developed on a large scale, which brought huge overseas The trade market cannot be ignored either.

However, although Li Xuan avoided the topic on his own, he was really moved by Chen Lifu's proposal.

He set up the Datang Western Trading Company back then, not for the profit of the company, nor for the profit of the royal family. Although the Royal Assets Section of the Datang Family still owns more than 30% of the company's equity , and more than 60 percent of the total voting rights.

However, this Datang Western Trading Company was never a pure trading company, but a colonial tool specially created by Li Xuan.

Over the years, Datang Western Trade has also fulfilled the responsibilities that Li Xuan entrusted to them. They have built dozens of colonial strongholds on the coast of the Indian Ocean, and now the company has been in harmony with the Indian Ocean coast. The East India Trading Company of the Vine people was divided.

But now, with the representatives of Datang's official forces, that is, the Datang Navy and the Datang Army officially entering the Indian Ocean, the company's historical mission can also be completed.

Of course, it is impossible to withdraw directly, which will cause a huge backlash.

If nothing else, it's just that there will be huge troubles in the stock market.

Because the company is the company with the highest market value in the Datang stock market, with a market value of more than two billion!

Today, Datang's annual financial revenue is not as high as the market value of this company...

And this company's high market value ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is based on the monopoly of Western trade. If Li Xuan wants to cancel this monopoly, it goes without saying that the company's market value will definitely plummet in the end.

If the market value is only false, then considering the huge administrative and military expenses of the company, after the abolition of the monopoly, the company will definitely be unable to make ends meet, and bankruptcy will be a matter of minutes.

Faced with this situation, Li Xuan also had to be cautious.

However, although it is cautious, it does not mean that Li Xuan does not intend to do so. Monopolizing trade was just a helpless move in the past. Li Xuan never intended to let the company continue to monopolize.

And now, it's time to break this monopoly.

Just how to break this monopoly requires Li Xuan to carefully consider.

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