C3455 I don't know

Fujian Province's history was very strange. Before the Tang Dynasty, this place was called the Savage Land of the Bai Yue.

Mountains, coasts, roads … There was no way for agriculture to develop here!

However, due to the gradual rise of the maritime trade, a series of trading cities rose along the Fujian coast! And the name Fujian started from Tang Dynasty.

As the tall and big continuous Wuyishan s were obstructing the expansion of the Central Plains, the war and chaos from previous dynasties did not affect this place. It was very peaceful and peaceful in Fujian during the time of the five generations and ten nations.

When they entered the Song Dynasty, the development of maritime technology once again ignited the business atmosphere in Fujian. At that time, Quanzhou was honored by the merchants of the Arabian as the City of Light, which continued all the way until the Yuan Dynasty.

The war that Fujian experienced from the Tang Dynasty was only a few years after the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. The remaining time was very peaceful, and the peaceful environment stimulated the development of business.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the scale of the Ocean trade was even more unprecedented in Fujian.

However, the good news was that after China entered the Ming Dynasty, its policy of closing the gates and sealing the gates completely destroyed China's Ocean trade. Since then, not a single Chinese caravan took the initiative to leave the country for trade.

China's right to trade in the sea has fallen into the hands of Western merchants and even pirates!

After losing the ocean trade, Fujian's economy was in ruins, and even its population had plummeted. This was not a good place to develop agriculture, and without the support of the Ocean trade, the Great Depression was unavoidable.

He had been going downhill since the Ming Dynasty, and now he was even more unlucky when he reached the Qing Dynasty!

In the early days of the founding of the country, the Nan-Ming forces fought with the Qing, and then Zheng's forces joined in. After the chaos of the three vassals, there was the battle of Pingtai-Taiwan, and the whole of the early Qing Dynasty became a great battlefield in Fujian.

The Manchu really didn't have the ability to fight on the sea. Facing the soldiers of the Zheng Family of Taiwan, he could only passively take a beating, and in the end, had to rely on General Shi Lang's strength.

In order to defend against the Zheng Family's fleet, the Qing Dynasty issued a very strict sea ban. Not only was the sail unable to go into the sea, it had to relocate all the people along the coastline.

This was the historical and controversial ban on the sea and the order to move to the sea!

These two bans were too cruel. They directly destroyed all the roots of the Fujian Ocean trade, especially the order to move to the sea and blow away the people who were tens of kilometers away from the coast.

This move was too extreme!

Back in the days when the sea ban was in place, the citizens were able to engage in smuggling business for the sake of their own interests. Although it was illegal, it at least preserved the vitality of commercial life!

There were merchants, mature sailors and captains, and a group of skilled shipbuilders!

The roots of these Ocean trade can hibernate for a while, but they will definitely rise up easily once they encounter a chance in the future!

However, the migration had destroyed the structure of the population and the foundations of the Ocean trade. It could be said that all the foundations of Fujian's foreign trade had been completely destroyed.

Poverty, what remained was only poverty. The Qing Dynasty had reclaimed Taiwan in exchange for a province of Fujian that was completely destitute. The foundation of business and trade accumulated over the past millennium no longer existed.

After the First Opium War, Xiamen and Fuzhou were forcefully opened by the British, but by that time, the glory of the Song and Yuan dynasties had long disappeared.

It had been decades since the port of Fujian opened, but economic development was still very slow. The restoration of basic necessities was not going to happen overnight.

When Westerners saw how poor this place was, he felt that there was nothing good to buy or to dump. Other than selling some opium, there was not much oil to buy and he was even less willing to invest.

After all these years, other than Zuo Zongtang who had a strategic vision and chose to invest in Fuzhou for her Mawei Shipyard, there was no other government-backed investment.

Forget about Shanghai and Hong Kong, even some of the cities near the Company Commander couldn't compare to them!

Shen Baozhen knew the scale of this place's economy very well. Although there were more than ten different kinds of tickets in Fuzhou City, all of them were very small in size.

Not to mention the Chinese banks, this was also the main reason why it was difficult to raise funds in Fuzhou. The local economy was really weak and the citizens didn't have the resources.

Do you have a foreign bank? Of course there are, but they are all very small numbers, and many large businesses cannot be done. These small banks can only provide basic financial services to the merchant ships of the foreigners, and the significance of these numbers far surpasses the value of earning money.

Most importantly, the branches of the foreign bank did not have any foreigners taking charge. Instead, they hired the merchants of the Great Qing to help them with their business.

It was obvious from this that Shen Baozhen had taken the Bank of England's promissory note to exchange for cash, but in the end, he had hit a wall again and again.

He had originally planned to exchange the money for one million silver taels worth of cash, but he didn't expect that the people in charge of these tickets and the manager of the bank would not even know 90% of the names.

It couldn't be blamed on their inexperience, as the economy and scale of the place was inaccessible to the Bank of England, which was their banknote issuing business!

The size of a proper central bank was unimaginable. Small business people could not even get in through the door!

The British had never thought that he would come to such a small place to exchange the military aid to the Tongzhi. The huge amount of money in Zai Chun's luggage could only be exchanged by Hong Kong and Shanghai in Asia.

"His Majesty! It's only four hundred thousand silver taels, and most of the merchants have heard that His Majesty was serving in Fujian.

"Even more merchants would not dare to accept them. If they were forced into a corner, they would kneel down, kowtow and cry in agony, begging me to let them go …"

"What the hell is going on!?" They thought I was going to steal the money! "

Bang! Zai Chun smashed his fist on the table. I deserve to die! "

Da Sixi quickly answered, "That's right, I deserve to die … Lord Shen! Is that how you do your job? Such a fatherless bastard, you still want to grab him and chop his head off? "

"Kneel! "Bastard!" Zai Chun's shout scared the hell out of him and he kneeled down.

"Calm down His Majesty … His Majesty, please calm your anger … Your servant said the wrong thing again … "My mouth …" This Da Sixi also didn't know what was going on recently, he couldn't even see anything, and even said the wrong things several times, and his face was slapped so hard that it turned into a pig's head.

"Is This Emperor some kind of monarch who massacred the innocent? If the people don't know him, then that means they don't know him. This means that we didn't do our job well before! Can you blame the people? "

"Who told us Great Qing to keep our country sealed? It is not their fault that the people did not know! "

"What I want now is a solution!" I won't listen to the bitter words, this plan that I have to solve! The sky is about to brighten, with thirty thousand people waiting for us to fulfill our promise! "

"What are you going to do with the four hundred thousand?" "Do you all want to make us lose face in Java?"

At this moment, the three treasures suddenly said, "Your Majesty …" I... I remember that there is a branch of the Chinese Central Bank in the Fuzhou City … They should have experience! "