As soon as dawn the next day, Zhao Wen led his troops to set off.

At the same time, Zheng Yiguan also led his troops to the coastline.

After arriving at the coastline, Zheng Yiguan took the boat placed here and went to Pi Island.

When he arrived at Pi Island, Zheng Yiguan briefly repaired the place for a day, and then drove a boat to Relanzha City.

At this time, Relan Cha City had become the most prosperous place on Taijun Island and a very important transit station on the sea. The city had also been expanded many times by Zhao Wen before.

The headquarters of the Maritime Business Association founded by Zhao Wen is on Taijun Island. The only drawback is that there is no shipyard on Taijun Island.

After driving on the sea for a few days, Zheng Yiguan's fleet finally docked at the port of Jelanzha.

The port where Zheng Yiguan called was a specially built military port.

Originally, military ports and civil ports were on the same port, but with the development of commerce, more and more maritime merchants came here, so Zheng Yiguan had to rebuild a military port.

Zheng Yiguan stood on the port and looked at the civil port not far from here, feeling full of emotion, "I really didn't expect Taiyuan Island to have the same atmosphere today."

"I have to say that the General is really powerful. Back then, we only dared to survive at the northern end of Taiwan Master Island, and as for this place, we didn't dare to touch it at all.

The Red Barbarians gathered here were wiped out by the General General. If we were asked to come, we would probably not be able to take this place at all." Zheng Zhihu stood behind Zheng Yiguan and was filled with emotion.

"Haha, this is all the credit of the General. Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's go to the city quickly." Zheng Yiguan laughed and then walked forward.

Zheng Yiguan's men also jumped off the ships docked in the military port and began to assemble on the military port.

When they assembled, they began to march into the city.

The military port is not far from the city, which is only two miles away. Not long after, Zheng Yiguan came outside the city.

Although it is outside the city, there are many vendors setting up stalls here.

More than a dozen markets of all sizes have gathered outside the city, and these markets have surrounded the city.

These vendors are basically coastal people who come here to make a living.

Of course, there are taxes to be paid for selling goods here, but the tax is not very high.

Although most of the stalls here are ordinary small vendors, there are still some small merchants.

These small merchants have no financial resources to buy and sell bulk goods in the city, so they are outside the city, buying and selling things that big merchants look down upon.

For example, some spices with poor quality or some raw silks with poor quality.

Although the big businessmen look down on it, these things still contain a lot of wealth.

The market was filled with bargaining sounds, and it was very noisy.

Zheng Yiguan stopped outside the market on the east side of the city wall, looked at the crowded market, breathed a sigh of relief, and said with an excited look: "I really didn't expect that one day this place would be prosperous like this."

"Brother, what's unexpected? It's normal." Zheng Zhihu looked at the scene and said excitedly.

"General Zheng, is he General Zheng?" At this moment, a loud voice sounded from behind.

A middle-aged man in a foreign uniform led a dozen followers to meet him from behind.

Zheng Yiguan turned around and saw that it was Liu Changchun, so he smiled and said, "It turned out to be Yuanwai Liu."

"I've seen General Zheng!" Liu Changchun walked to Zheng Yiguan and hurriedly bowed to Zheng Yiguan.

Zheng Yiguan waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite!"

Liu Changchun stood up straight and smiled and said, "General Zheng has just returned?"

When Zhao Wen attacked Batavia, he asked Zhao Daniu to drive a treasure boat to Fuzhou Prefecture to find Zheng Yiguan.

And this is the maritime businessman that Liu Changchun wants to win over Zhao Daniu.

When Zhao Wen established the Maritime Merchant Association, Liu Changchun was the first to join the Maritime Merchant Association.

Because of his good vision and financial resources, and Zhao Wen opened up the sea route to Java, Liu Changchun made a lot of money in the past few years.

When Zheng Yiguan went out, Liu Changchun also knew, but he didn't know what Zheng Yiguan was doing, so now he asked politely when he saw Zheng Yiguan.

"Yes, I'm just back. How is Mr. Liu's recent business?" Zheng Yiguan asked with a smile.

Mr. Liu pointed to the civil port and said, "The ship I ordered on Pidao just arrived a few days ago. With the ship I ordered this time, I now have ten large ships, and more than 30 medium-sized boats in my hand."

Pidao not only manufactures warships such as treasure ships, but also produces some civilian merchant ships. Anyway, if you have money, you won’t make a fortune.

Liu Changchun's face was full of pride. A fleet of his size was in a middle-level position in the Maritime Merchants Association.

"So many ships? Mr. Liu has made a lot of money in the past few years, right?" Zheng Yiguan said with a smile.

"I dare not, I just make some money. The number ones in the Maritime Merchants Association bought a lot of land in Java, planted spices and mined there, and the money I earned was just some hard money.

If it weren't for the General's opening of the sea route to Java, where would we have such a life now? All of this is the credit of the General's." Liu Changchun's face was full of excitement when he mentioned Zhao Wen.

Although Liu Changchun had never met Zhao Wen, he also knew that Zhao Wen led his troops to attack Java.

In fact, these merchants in the Maritime Merchants Association basically know about this matter. Even many people and officials on the southeast coast know about these matters, and they all know that Java was attacked by Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen did not deliberately conceal this, so it is very normal for these people to know about it.

Although they know, they are only limited to them and keep silent to the outside world.

There is a lot of connection between the officials on the southeast coast and these maritime merchants, so these officials cannot tell the court about this.

In other words, the entire southeast coast now knows that Zhao Wen will open the sea route to Java, but the court does not know.

"General Zheng is back today and is exhausted. He is placing a table of wine in the Qinggong Building to welcome the general. I wonder if the general is willing to give him a favor?" Liu Changchun looked at Zheng Yiguan with anticipation.

Zheng Yiguan was about to refuse, but he thought of some things, so he went with the flow, "Since that's the case, let's go to the arrangements of Mr. Liu."

"Thank you, General Zheng!" Mr. Liu said thank you, and hurriedly said to the butler who was following him: "Hurry up and go to the Qinggong Building to wrap their best private rooms, and then ask them to prepare the best meals quickly. He said that I want to treat General Zheng to a meal today, go quickly."

"Yes!" The butler nodded at Liu Changchun and hurriedly ran towards the city.

"General Zheng, please!" Liu Changchun stood there and extended a gesture of asking for help.

Zheng Yiguan laughed and said, "Since that's the case, I'm not polite."

As he said that, Zheng Yiguan walked towards the city.

Liu Changchun hurriedly followed Zheng Yiguan and walked towards the city.

Not long after, Zheng Yiguan, Liu Changchun and others sat in the private room in the best place in the Qinggong Building.

Zheng Yiguan sat in the main seat, and Liu Changchun sat in his lower head position.

"Liu Yuanwai's business is very big now. Now he has so many ships in his hands." Zheng Yiguan looked at Liu Changchun with a smile.

"This is all a blessing for the general and the general. If there were no general and the general, how could I have so many ships now?" Liu Changchun said modestly.

Just as the two of them were talking, the food was brought up.

The two of them exchanged cups, ate and drank wine.

When the dishes have been five flavors and the wine has been three rounds, Zheng Yiguan put down the wine glass in his hand and said, "I have something here. I wonder if Mr. Liu is interested?"

When Liu Changchun heard this, he became interested. He looked at Zheng Yiguan and asked, "I don't know what the general needs to serve me?"

"This matter was handed over to me by the General Manager, and it was a very big deal. I originally thought about doing it myself, but after thinking about it, I still wanted to bring some people together."

What Zheng Yiguan said was nothing else, it was exactly what Zhao Wen gave him.

Originally, Zheng Yiguan wanted to do it alone, but when he heard Liu Changchun say that he had dozens of ships outside the city gate, his mind suddenly became alive.

If you do it alone, although you have a large number of ships in your hands, it is impossible to transfer all the ships there.

As the saying goes, if there are many people and great power, it is better to bring some businessmen to go there. It is more convenient to find rubber trees and cinchona trees at that time.

And even if the merchant found these things, Zhao Wen gave it to him, and he also found these merchants, so the credit was naturally on his head. Besides, Zhao Wen did not say that Zheng Yiguan was not sure that he could find the merchant.

If you really find a rubber tree, once you create rubber, you can first ask these merchants to transport the rubber back, leave it there, and then make the rubber.

The general said before that this rubber is very important. The more it is transported back, the greater the credit will be.

Although the seeds of the rubber tree will be brought back, it is a tree after all. It is impossible to produce rubber in the first few years, so in recent years, the source of rubber must depend on the Americas.

In this way, it is better to give these merchants some small profits and ask them to help transport rubber.

In addition to asking merchants to help transport rubber, these merchants can also build rubber plantations locally and allow these merchants to produce rubber locally.

In addition to rubber, cinchona trees can also do this.

And you can free up your hands to do other things, which is a win-win situation.

Zheng Yiguan used to be a pirate, but he was also a businessman. The greatest ability of a businessman is to reduce costs and strive for the greatest benefit.

"I wonder what the general is talking about?" Liu Changchun suddenly became interested and looked at Zheng Yiguan with interest.

Zheng Yiguan lowered his voice, asked Liu Changchun to come over and whisper: "This matter was handed over to me by the General Manager. It is a very important matter. As for what is specific, I can't explain it to you. I can only tell you a rough idea!"

As he said that, Zheng Yiguan told him what Zhao Wen gave him, only said a rough idea, and at the same time he also explained his plan roughly.

Liu Changchun listened to Zheng Yiguan's voice and kept thinking in his heart.

"Since it is the matter given to the general by the General, if the general takes me with him, wouldn't it be against the general's order?" Liu Changchun kept beating in his heart, not knowing whether to agree or refuse for a moment.

"Don't worry, I believe the General will agree. As for whether it can succeed, I will ask General, but I think General will agree.

Let’s do this. In the past month, you will stay here and not leave, and at the same time, let the maritime merchants on the island not leave either. I will write a letter to ask the General. If possible, I will take you with me.
To be continued...