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After reading the preparation time on the 18th, the sixth life experience started.

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In 1551, Wei Fengfu died, and his third son Wei Yisuan succeeded him as the tenth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

In 1563, Wei Yiduan died and his eldest son Wei Daodan succeeded him as the 11th emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

In 1565, Wei Daodan passed away and had no children. His younger brother Wei Daoqi succeeded him as the twelfth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

In 1579, Wei Daoqi passed away and had no children. His younger brother Wei Daoya succeeded as the thirteenth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty.

From 1564 to 1582 when Wei Dongsheng left, the Vietnam-Wu War had not officially ended.

During the period, the maritime hegemony of Vietnam became weaker and weaker, and the coastal vassal states all over the world seized the colonies of Vietnam.

Among them, Wu Guo, a victim of the Yue-Wu War, is a well-deserved pioneer.

Wu Guo took the lead in efficiently breaking through the maritime blockade encircled by the Vietnamese and Weiguo for many years, and rushed along the Pacific route to the west coast of North America. Although it was ultimately defeated by the Viet Nam's Penglai Three-Jeds Envoy and a capital governor’s mansion, he was regrettable. Returning after defeat, they managed to settle in Washington State.

The breakthrough in the direction of the African route has made more brilliant achievements. The State of Wu not only made a series of important breakthroughs in Southeast Asia, India, East Africa and other regions, but also bypassed Africa and went northward, successfully acquiring a colony in Africa and Guinea. The vigorous maritime merchants of Wu State not only provoke the maritime hegemony of Vietnam and defending the country, but also dismiss the maritime hegemony of Spain and Portugal. The marine merchants of Wu State went to the Iberian Peninsula on a single ride, and cleverly took advantage of the contradictions between the nations to make the Spanish and Portuguese hometowns. Wu Guo immediately based on the simple values ​​of the enemy's friend as a friend, reached a strategic cooperation agreement with England and the Netherlands, and obtained the right to operate a trading port in England and Wales.

After gaining a foothold in Africa, Wu Guo focused on the east coast of America. Viet Penglai’s center of gravity is on the west coast. Viet Penglai and Wu Penglai have relatively weak control over the east coast of the Americas. Large areas of coastal areas are undeveloped wasteland, and Wu’s enclosure efficiency is therefore extremely high. In the area of ​​Suriname and French Guiana in South America, the Wu State Enclosure established Penglai of the Wu family; on the east coast of North America, the Wu State Enclosure announced the establishment of the Beilai Jiedu Envoy.

Of course, as a latecomer, Wu also has many shortcomings.

If one-on-one fights against Yue and defending the country, it would be impossible for Wu to win such a hearty victory.

However, Wu Guo would not be foolish enough to fight alone.

In order to contain the counter-offensive of the Vietnamese and defending states, Wu actively contacted the imperial family, Lu, Zhao, Yan and other vassal states, holding high the banner of "respecting the king and seeking rebellion" to establish a powerful anti-Vietnam alliance. Take Penglai as an example. After Wu established the Wu family of Penglai in South America, he immediately invited Wu to establish the Shandong Xinlai Dudu Mansion in the north of the Wu family of Penglai, and invited the royal family to establish the Xia family of Nanlai Jiedu Envoy in the Wu family of Penglai. . Shandong has two provinces, Shandong and Henan, and the royal family has four provinces including Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu. Its human resource reserves far surpass the vassal states such as Guo, Wei Guo and Wu. Wu used the colony as a bait to invite the two countries to send armies to station. Wu's Penglai immediately had security to the south and north. Vietnam must take the lead in conquering the imperial family and Lu's fortresses before it can hope to actually threaten Wu.

Wu also used a similar operation method when operating the North American colony, inviting Lu and the royal family to contain the Vietnamese and Wei Penglai counterattacks in the south and the north. In this way, the State of Lu established the North Lai Jiedu Envoy of the Lu family on the east coast of North America, and the royal family was also established by the East Coast of the Americas the Xia Beilai Jiedu Envoy.

Three countries, including the Wu Kingdom, the Royal Family, and the Lu Kingdom, broke into the Penglai New World at once.

Of course, the royal family and Lu will never be willing to be Wu's lackeys. When the two countries gained a firm foothold in Penglai, they both began to expand to varying degrees based on their own interests. Take Lu State as an example. It shook off the Wu State and the royal family, independently attacked the colonial strongholds of the Vietnamese Nanlai Jiedu Envoy in South America in Argentina and Uruguay, and announced the establishment of the Lu Nanlai Jiedu Envoy.

There is cooperation and struggle. This is the normal state of the three-nation alliance.

Zhao and Yan were also allies that Wu deliberately wooed, but unfortunately they missed the second wave of voyages set off by Wu.

Since the establishment of the feudal clan, Yan State had been trapped in Yuanmeng, the remnant party and Jurchen natives in the early days, and had little spare capacity to participate in the hegemony game of the Central Plains heroes. After that, the successive vassals of the Kingdom of Yan worked hard to conquer Jilin Province, Heilongjiang Province and the outer northeast, and the land area gradually expanded. Unfortunately, due to the feudal values, many conquered territories have become the private property of the viscounts and earls, and the vast territory cannot substantially enhance the national power of Yan.

Passed down to the seventh generation, the king of the Yan Kingdom, Wei Jilei, who succeeded in his early years, hated the aristocratic class of their own affairs. After regaining power, he immediately set out to combat the domestic aristocratic forces, and the aristocratic territories in the elite areas were successively sealed to the birds. The Northland is wild. The benefits are obvious. A group of great aristocrats moved out in embarrassment and indirectly included the Russian Far Eastern Federal District into the sphere of influence of the State of Yan. The State of Yan instantly became a rotten country with an area of ​​nearly 7 million square kilometers, absolutely like Russia in the real world.

However, the disadvantages are equally significant.

After Wei Jilei was in power for more than forty years, he gradually became old and weak, and the aristocratic group immediately began to counterattack, and Yan's internal affairs were suddenly chaotic. When Wu was advancing along the Pacific Ocean Route to the west coast of North America, he invited Yan to establish a colony on the west coast of North America. However, the internal political struggles in Yan were already fierce at that time, and Wei Jilai, who was dying old, had no leisure to attack Penglai.

Zhao Guo had no time to look around at this time.

With the effect of Wei Jilei's centralization reform gradually showing, Zhao Guofan King Wei Shunzong also wanted to expand the centralization and drive the great aristocrats out of the local elite zone according to the situation. It is a pity that Wei Shunzong's ability is not as good as Wei Jilei, king of the Kingdom of Yan, but the fighting power of the nobles of the Zhao Kingdom is far better than that of the nobles of the Kingdom of Yan. After the failure of the centralization reform, Wei Shunzong drove out to Wei on his own, and fought against Zhao Guoxungui from a long distance. Not long after, the four northern vassal states such as Wei, Jin, Zhou, and Zhao once again embarked on a deceitful chaos around political issues such as the aristocratic factions of the Zhao State and whether Wei Shunzong returned to China or not, and the distribution of benefits to the sea.

Wei Shunzong fled to Wei state in embarrassment, and the nobles of Zhao State were busy coping with the chaos of the four vassal kingdoms. How could the court of Zhao Guoxiao still be greedy for the share of ocean trade.

Said to be the anti-Vietnamese vassal coalition forces, but the only ones worthy of the trust of Wu are the royal family and Lu.

The alliance and cooperation of the three countries is known as the Three Nations Maritime Alliance in history.

The country of Yan had just ended the civil strife. Wei, Zhou, Jin, and Zhao were fighting in chaos. The imperial family and Lu indirectly intervened in the fighting of the four vassals. The Marine Alliance of the Three Kingdoms continued to compete with the alliance of Vietnam and Vietnam on land and sea.

This era, so chaotic, so tyrannical.

This was the year 1582 when Wei Dongsheng's sixth generation came.

Compared with the fifth generation, Wei Dongsheng's identity background continued to decline, and his nominal father was only the son of a merchant in the Jiaxing Mansion of Wu State. Contrary to Wei Dongsheng's accident, the sixth-generation identity background did not fall to the mayor's son, but completely withdrew from the bureaucracy and became a grassroots.

The nominal father died in 1578, leaving Wei Dongsheng to a small wholesale business.

This small business is very small, even without a formal name. Everyone often refers to it by Wei Dongsheng’s father’s name. After the death of his nominal father, this small business is generally called "Xiao Wei's House of Business". "It refers to the childhood Wei Dongsheng.

Wei Dongsheng simply flipped through the books. Before 1578, the annual net profit of the small Weijia Commercial Bank was about 350 silver dollars; from 1578 to 1582, the annual net profit decreased year by year, and the annual net profit in 1581 was only 105 silver dollars. There are two main reasons for the substantial decrease in profits: First, after the death of Wei Dongsheng’s nominal father, the small Wei’s family firm has no leader, and its business ability has declined; second, the treasurer and manager entrusted by the nominal father are fully private and the original The profits belonging to the small Wei's house were secretly seized for themselves.

Despite this, Xiaowei's House of Business can also provide Wei Dongsheng with 105 silver dollars a year, so there is no need to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation for the time being.

The silver dollar price here is the currency revolution set off by the great voyage of Vietnam. The huge amount of gold and silver input caused the Wei Xia Empire to gradually transform from the copper standard to the silver standard. Wu State was close to the alliance between Vietnam and Wei, and also followed the trend of adopting a silver-based monetary policy. Ten silver dollars were approximately equivalent to six taels of silver before.

When Wei Dongsheng was the son of the prefect of the Jiaozhi clan and the Dragon Palace for his fourth life, his father left him more than 300 acres of fertile land and several workshops, earning about 90 taels of silver each year. After a simple conversion, 90 taels of silver is equivalent to 150 silver dollars. The inheritance from the fourth life experience seems to be similar to the inheritance from the sixth life experience.

not like this.

Even ignoring the evil slaves and deceiving the master during the fourth life experience and the management of the sixth life during the experience, assuming that the inheritance is really only 150 silver dollars and 105 silver dollars, the social status of the two generations is also tens of millions of miles away.

The simplest example, land.

Today, land mergers are still the ultimate dream pursued by the whole people. Even if the people of Shengdou are lucky enough to have surplus money, they often buy land and heirlooms as soon as possible. When Wei Dongsheng’s nominal father was still alive, the firm had a net profit of about 350 yuan per year. Even if Wu’s land rose to 20 silver dollars per acre, he could still purchase 10 acres of land every year and slowly save up to tens of acres. The landlord.

It is a pity that the Wei family only has 9 acres of fertile fields.

It is not that the nominal father is unwilling to buy more land, but that he dare not buy a lot of good land, because the contemporary land area is vaguely tied to social status. The home of the prefects of Wu has the right to own hundreds of acres or even more than 1,000 acres of fertile land; the homes of the prefects of Wu may also have the right to own more than 100 acres of fertile land, but how can a small merchant deserve to own hundreds of acres of fertile land?

If the nominal father dared to buy land on a large scale, the exorbitant taxes and taxes imposed on the land would inevitably follow, allowing the nominal father to pay for one year of planting.

To put it simply, you must first have a social status to avoid excessive taxes and taxes before you are eligible to become a proud landlord. Otherwise, not only will the land not generate income, it will also become a cash machine for the local officials. After all, the "landlords" can't run away from the monks. The social status of the nominal father is not enough to quit small officials and behave, so he doesn't dare to buy land and heirs if he has money.

Obviously, the Wei family of the sixth generation is just a family of small and rich.

The experience of the first and second lives, Wei Dongsheng was born in the house of the king; the experience of the third and fourth generations, Wei Dongsheng was born in the house of officials; the experience of the fifth generation, the mayor with the authority of the county, or Regarded as a civil servant with real power, he can barely say that he was born in the home of an official. In the sixth life, Wei Dongsheng's background status has been reduced to the level of "civilian", at most small wealthy or wealthy people with their own business.

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