Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 279 New Colonial Ideas
Old Chentou's house is a typical southern Fujian dwelling, with red brick walls, dovetail eaves, bricks on the outside and stones on the inside.

The one-entry and one-entry here are not the courtyard houses in the north, but a row of houses followed by a row of houses. The two sides are roughly sundry-style walls.

Old Chen Tou's house has three entrances and three rows of houses.

This scale can be regarded as a large family in the villages of southern Fujian. It is not that such a large house cannot be seen in relatively affluent places.

Old Chen didn't know that it was the emperor who came. After he led the people into the middle hall, he politely invited them to the guest seats, and then he sat on the master seat.

Zheng Zhilong is so worried, you are afraid that your skull is broken, and you dare to sit on the emperor's head carelessly.

Fortunately, Taichang didn't show any strange color on his face, even when old Chen's wife brought the tea, he took a few sips as if nothing had happened.

This tea is still a good new tea. It seems that the people here are really doing well.

He sipped the tea carefully, and then said in a gentle voice: "Old man, how are you doing here, are you still used to it? Do you feel flustered when you cross the ocean?"

Old Chen said without hesitation: "It's much better here than Quanzhou Mansion. We've been used to it for a long time. As for what to worry about, it's only a panic when you're hungry every day in your hometown. At this time, we can It is said that there is enough food and clothing, so there is nothing to panic about."

What this said is really reasonable. People do get flustered when they are short of food and clothing.

They really live a better life than those ordinary people in Quanzhou Prefecture.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then asked again: "I heard from Mr. Zheng that you still have surplus grain for sale, and I want to buy it too. Do you still have any surplus right now?"

Old Chen looked at Zheng Zhilong, saw him nodding repeatedly, then nodded and said: "We have surplus grain for sale, I don't know how much you want."

What I want to buy is not a little bit.

Taichang smiled slightly and said, "I want a lot of food, and I will buy a lot of food not only this time, but I don't know how you sell this food?"

Old Chen said without hesitation: "Since this is the case, you can sell it to the shopkeeper Zheng Da at the price of one tael of silver and two stones. What do you think?"

Well, one tael of silver and two stones is cheaper than the opposite Quanzhou Prefecture, and it also saves the trouble of transshipment across the sea.

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said: "Well, the price is fair. I want to buy 60 shi first. Do you have so much food in stock?"

There is no way, there are still a few months before the autumn harvest. If there is no food, the army cannot be transferred blindly.

Hearing this, Old Chen couldn't help but stare at Zheng Zhilong in astonishment.

My God, it's 60 shi when I open my mouth, I'd better buy some first!
They can scrape together 60 shi of stored food. The problem is, their stored food is usually sold to Mr. Zheng Da. If it is all sold to Mr. Huang, what will happen to the tens of thousands of people under Mr. Zheng's hands?

Zheng Zhilong naturally said without hesitation: "Don't worry about me, you can sell as much as Huang Da's family wants."

Hearing this, the old man nodded slowly and said: "60 shi, all the villages here should be able to get it together."

very good!

Taichang said without hesitation: "That's okay, I will order people to go back to collect the silver later, and then I will send people to buy it."

Uh, silver is not much use here!
Old Chen asked cautiously: "Master Huang, can you do the same as Mr. Zheng, and bring us some cloth, salt, pots and pans, hoes, kitchen knives, etc. in exchange?"

Taichang still nodded without hesitation and said: "Okay, no problem, what the head of Zheng Da will trade with you, I will trade with you."

These things are more valuable than food, and they don't take up much space. There must be no problem bringing them together when transporting troops.

Hearing the words, Old Chen Tou nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, I'll go discuss it with other village elders and try my best to gather 60 shi of grain for you."

With 60 shi of grain, it will be no problem to transfer an army of [-].

Taichang couldn't help but excitedly said: "Is it okay for us to buy another 120 million shi after the autumn harvest?"

Uh, you bought all the food, what about the head of Zheng Da?
Hearing this, old Chen Tou looked at Zheng Zhilong again.

Zheng Zhilong is so helpless, why do you keep looking at me, my men and horses are gone!
He could only helplessly said: "Don't worry about my side, you can sell as much as Huang Da's family wants."

Then there is no problem.

Hearing this, Old Chen nodded and said, "After the autumn harvest, it will be no problem for us to collect 120 million shi of grain."

That's it!

In fact, Taichang mainly wanted to know about the food supply situation here, as long as there was no problem with the food supply, he would not hesitate to mobilize the army.

After all, the Dutch will come to fight for this treasure land in Dongfan sooner or later. If they can build the city and fortress early, they will have the upper hand.

After the group bid farewell to old Chen Tou, Taichang led everyone back to the flagship.

This trip to Stupid Hong Kong can be said to be unexpectedly smooth. Taichang originally thought that it would be good if he could raise food for tens of thousands of horses here, but he never thought that raising food for 10 horses here would not be a problem!

He looked at Zheng Zhilong who was standing cautiously by the side, and couldn't help admiring: "You have a good idea. You can get people to grow food, and then buy it from them at a low price. How many people can get enough food!"

Uh, the emperor is not talking ironically, is he?
Zheng Zhilong quickly and carefully explained: "Your Majesty, isn't it because the fishermen along the coast are poor? The general is just trying to find a way for them to eat. Anyway, there is a lot of wasteland here, and no matter how many people come here, they can plant land."

Ordinary pirates are not as capable as you. Even if they think of pulling people to grow food, they probably want to use ordinary people as livestock.

After all, people are not animals. If you really want to squeeze people desperately, you will not only have no motivation, but also no strength.

In that case, it is not bad for an ordinary person to plant ten acres of land.

If that's the case, the common people's life will not be better than when they were fishermen, and those pirates probably won't be able to raise much food.

I have to say that this Zheng Zhilong is really a talent, this guy just likes to do crooked ways.

Taichang thought for a while, and then seriously said: "Why don't you change your career and become a local official? I will bring you tens of thousands of ordinary people, and you will ask them to develop another 100 million mu of land to supply 300 to [-] million shi of grain every year. it should be no problem?"

This Dongfan is not so big, 10 horses alone are not enough to guard it, at least 20 horses are needed.

He was thinking of letting Zheng Zhilong be in charge of the food supply for the 20 horses, so that he could solve Dongfan's defense problem in one step.

Zheng Zhilong, however, looked down on this sesame mung bean official.

It's not impossible to ask him to be a local official, but what's the point of controlling tens of thousands of ordinary people?

That's not even worse than a county magistrate, it's better to be a guerrilla general.

He thought for a while, and then said carefully: "Your Majesty, do you want food? These two 300 million shi are nothing. You can definitely move all the people from the coast here. At the end of the day, the general estimates that the southeast There must be millions of people along the coast, and they are all hardworking and willing to work. If they all move here, they will be able to produce 3000 to [-] million shi of grain for you every year."

Move all the people along the coast here?
There are more than one million people living along the coast!
If you count everything north of Nanzhili, there are more than tens of millions!
This may enable the coastal people to turn around as soon as possible and live a life of adequate food and clothing.

However, in Dongfan alone, tens of millions of people have migrated here, and I am afraid that there will not be enough land to grow!
At this time, Taichang couldn't help but think of places like Luzon and Batavia, which are also sparsely populated, and are currently being occupied by the Dutch and Spaniards.

There is also Australia in the south and its nearby large and small islands, and there are basically no people at the moment!

If the common people were moved to open up wasteland and farm, which places would become the territory of Ming Dynasty?

This may be the best way to seize the colony!

The colonization method of the European powers is to plunder and colonize, robbing and killing, which will arouse the resistance of the colonial countries sooner or later.

If the common people were directly moved there and continued to proliferate, then most of the entire region would be the people of Ming Dynasty, who would resist?
This method can only be carried out by Daming, because Daming has a large population, which is more than all the countries in continental Europe combined!

The so-called European powers are actually small countries with a population of several million, and they are not even young enough to fight. They must not be able to colonize in this way.

This should be the best way to colonize, or in other words, this is not called colonization, but land reclamation.

Anyway, there are a lot of deserted islands at the moment, and there are also a lot of people in Daming. As long as the people can be moved there on a large scale, and then a powerful navy is used to protect these people, those deserted islands will be the territory of Daming.

Those places can not only grow food, but also have innumerable resources. It is not for nothing at this moment!

Thinking of this, Taichang couldn't help showing a hint of excitement in his eyes.

In his mind, the territory of Ming Dynasty is constantly expanding, expanding, and extending southward!
(End of this chapter)