The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 680 56 times the shocking profit
Ding Yi thought for a while, and asked, "What kind of city do you want to build? Do you want me to provide materials and tools?"

Xu Gonglie and the other representatives looked at each other and said, "We want to build a simple wooden village, just surround it with wooden fences, and we won't use bricks and stones."

They were used to such simple wooden cities in Luzon, because the Xiyi authorities did not allow the Chinese to build brick and stone cities locally, and the brick cities had a certain degree of protection.

Therefore, the local Chinese gathering places are all surrounded by ordinary wooden fences.

But Ding Yi has a different idea. Xu Gonglie and the others are not building a brick city here, which means that they still want to return to Luzon and will not live long.

He immediately generously agreed, and in the south of Dayuan, on the Pingtung Plain, there are a lot of land suitable for hoarding fields, allocating them [-] mu in one go, and throwing them to them as if they don't want money.

But Ding Yi also has a request. Ding Yi will provide all the materials and tools for building the city free of charge, but all their ships must be requisitioned by Ding Yi at any time. If Ding Yi wants to use their ships, he cannot refuse.

Of course Xu Gonglie and the others agreed, and felt that the place was a bit big, and such a big place was not needed.

The refugees praised General Ding for his benevolence.

So these more than 2000 people built a new city (actually Muzhaizi) in the corner of Dayuan, and named it "Balian" city to commemorate the compatriots who were killed in Balian.

In mid-February, Ding Yi sent off the expeditionary force.

At this time, the officials had already accepted about [-] refugees. Xu Gonglie was very busy during this time, and he was dedicated to collecting and resettling the refugees.

During the period, he came to Ding Yi many times, but Ding Yi was not at the house, as if he wanted to discuss something with Ding Yi.

At the end of February, the eight-linked city was still under construction, and the owner of the city, Xu Gonglie, came to Ding Yi again to discuss matters.

But when they arrived at Ding Yi's residence, they heard that Ding Yi was not there.

This is the fourth time for Xu Gonglie, and he finally couldn't help it: "Where did General Ding go? When will he be back?"

The guard replied in the same way: "I'm sorry Mr. Xu, Mr. Ding is the general of the army, and his whereabouts are military secrets. To prevent slavery, I can't say it. I really apologize."

Xu Gonglie was very helpless, how could this senior official build slaves?Jiannu helped Ding Yi fight.

He couldn't do anything, so he decided to wait at the door this time.

After a while, several people walked out of Ding Yi's mansion.

Xu Gonglie's eyes lit up, he knew the person at the front, wasn't he the governor Zhao Dashan?

"Governor Zhao."

"Hey, Boss Xu, what are you doing here?" Zhao Dashan smiled politely.

"Caomin is waiting for General Ding." Xu Gonglie laughed along with him.

"Master Ding is not at the house, we are going to find him, let's go together."

Xu Gonglie was pleasantly surprised: "I can go too?"

"Of course, they're all our own people."

Xu Gonglie originally felt that Zhao Dashan was very rude and might not be easy to talk to, but he didn't expect Zhao Dashan to be so polite when chatting alone with him for the first time, and his affection for Zhao Dashan immediately rose.

He chatted with Zhao Dashan and the others as they walked, and only then did he realize that today the staff planted two new crops, one called rubber and the other called coffee, so Ding Yi was not in the house.

"Can seniors grow coffee?" Xu Gonglie was shocked when he heard this.

He went to Luzon with his father when he was very young, and took over the family business when he grew up. The Xu family is the richest family in Luzon and has maintained a good relationship with the local Xiyi, otherwise there would be no Xiyi massacres Before starting, secretly inform them to run away.

Among all the Chinese businessmen this time, the Xu family escaped with the most wealth.

He also drank coffee from Europe in Luzon, and was very addicted to it, but coffee was relatively rare in Europe at that time, and it was usually only available to rich people and noble officials.

He once wanted to resell it to Daming, but there was no stock at all, and he wanted to plant it, but he couldn't get the seeds.

Luzon doesn’t have any to sell, so he can only ask his friends in Europe to bring them over from Europe, basically only once a year or a few years, not many.

"Give it a try. I don't know if it will succeed. Master Ding said that in the future, this thing can be sold for money." Zhao Dashan said with a smile.

"It can be sold for a lot of money." Xu Gonglie's eyes brightened.

Not long after they walked, some soldiers brought some horses.

Zhao Dashan glanced at him: "Can Boss Xu know how to ride?"

"Of course." Xu Gonglie smiled.

Everyone, one person and one horse, ran towards the southeast of Tainan City.

After running for about two or three miles, I saw a lot of people ahead.

There are also piers and walls built here, like a secret base. After entering through the gate, there is a plain inside, where you can store fields and grow crops.

After getting close, Xu Gonglie saw that there were all civil and military officials, some officials, and so-called experts.

Ding Yi is with several experts.

Some experts still hold books from Europe.

He watched quietly, Ding Yi seemed to be discussing coffee planting with others.

Originally, no one here in Dayuan knew how to grow coffee, but fortunately Ding Yi had been exchanging white sugar for books from various places in the past few years.

They actually found a European-translated Arabic book (Portuguese) from the warehouse.

I don’t know who bought this book, anyway, it just introduces many crop cultivation methods in the Arab world.

Which happens to have coffee.

According to the book, coffee trees are generally suitable for planting from March to April, and tropical plants can be planted in February.

The temperature in Daxuan is relatively high at this time, and it is almost ready for planting at the end of February.

Ding Yi and several experts discussed there for a long time, and finally planted coffee carefully, and then planted rubber trees tens of meters away.

Rubber trees are generally suitable for planting in the autumn of the current year, or in the spring of the second year.

But Ding Yi and everyone else don't understand.

Fortunately, rubber trees, like coffee, are also suitable for planting in places with relatively high temperatures, such as tropical regions like Brazil.

And the temperature in Dayuan is not low, and the planting can barely be done now, and it must be considered that spring is about to enter.

Ding Yi planted one-fifth of the two kinds of seeds he got this time, not daring to plant them all together.

He also asked the planters to take good care of them. If the planting survives, the planting can be expanded next year.

Ding Yi has already selected the places where the rubber trees will be planted and where the coffee will be planted.

A piece of coffee will be planted here, and a piece will be planted in Xingang City.

The rubber trees will be planted in the mountainous area in the central part of Dayuan, west of Tainan City.

After Ding Yi and the others finished planting, as soon as they turned their heads, Xu Gonglie rushed forward: "General Ding, can you hand over the sales of coffee in Daming to us in the future."

Ding Yi was stunned for a moment, then smiled knowingly: "Da Ming's market is so big, I can't give it all to you."

"Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang?" Xu Gonglie hurriedly retreated to the next best thing.

"Don't worry, we'll wait until we succeed." After Ding Yi finished speaking, he patted him on the shoulder and said sincerely: "We are old friends, don't worry, Boss Xu, I won't forget you."

Xu Gonglie felt very itchy in his heart, but there was nothing he could do.

Since Dante Yi said so, he finally had some hope.

At this time, Ding Yi turned his head to talk to others again, probably meaning that this place must be strictly guarded, and the seeds must not leak out. This place will be listed as a restricted area in the future, and anyone who does not listen to the advice and approach will be killed.

When entering and leaving, the whole body must be searched to prevent the seeds from leaking out.

Workers live here permanently and keep rotating.

Xu Gonglie was terrified when he heard this, feeling that Ding Yi attached great importance to these two things.

Ding Yi also said that there was a dynasty in the past, and the treasury was often stolen. After investigation, it was found that the guards of the treasury were guarding the treasury.

They usually go in and out and search the whole body?How did you bring it out?
It's just practicing since childhood, stuffing gold and silver into the butt drum.

At the end of their practice, these people can stuff several ingots of gold and silver in the vault at a time, bring out a few ingots every day, and bring out tens of thousands of silver in a few years.

Zhu Wenwu at the scene was dumbfounded.

What Ding Yi was talking about was the events of the Qing Dynasty in later generations. The Qing soldiers guarding the treasury were trained from an early age, and they rotated every three years after they became adults. Within three years, they could bring tens of thousands of silver out.

Xu Gonglie was also dumbfounded. When he comes out here in the future, he still wants to see the fart drum?

In the afternoon, he followed Ding Yi back to Ding Yi's residence, and Zhao Dashan was with him.

At this time, only Ding Yi, Zhao Dashan and him were there.

"Boss Xu, do you have anything to say? We are all old acquaintances, so just speak up if you have anything to say." Ding Yi said politely.

Xu Gonglie thought for a while, then said: "I want to ask Mr. Ding to help us fight back to Luzon and take Luzon back."

Ding Yi knew that he wanted to talk about this, so he deliberately didn't see him for a few days.

Hearing this, he looked terrified: "Boss Xu, how dare I go to war without the order of Emperor Ming?"

Xu Gonglie didn't believe it, and immediately persuaded him: "The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the emperor of Ming Dynasty, how could he know what's going on here?"

"Tens of thousands of Chinese in Luzon were massacred, and the imperial court didn't care about it."

Ding Yi looked embarrassed: "Although the senior official is my territory, Zheng Zhilong and other Fujian civil and military officials on the opposite side are all staring at me."

Xu Gonglie knew that Ding Yi was not only a general, but also a businessman.

Businessman, mercenary.

He thought about it seriously, and said slowly: "I used to buy raw silk in Daming at 200 taels of catties, and sold it to Manila (Luzon) for 350 taels of catties."

Ding Yi thought it was not expensive, and it was not as expensive as selling it in Japan.

Xu Gonglie looked at Ding Yi's expression: "General Ding must think that it is not expensive, and it has not been sold to Japan."

"Hehe." Ding Yi chuckled.

"But General Ding, do you know the price at which the Spanish exported raw silk from Luzon to Mexico (the Spanish called it New Spain at this time)?
Ding Yi looked puzzled.

Xu Gonglie knew a Spanish businessman who once bought a batch of raw silk from Xu Gonglie for [-] pesos.

He later told Xu Gonglie that the cost of transporting this batch of raw silk to Mexico (including all expenses such as manpower and freight) was 80 pesos.

But in Mexico, it ended up selling 200 million pesos.

When Xu Gonglie and Ding Yi were talking, Zhao Dashan remained silent.

He was also playing with a Spanish silver peso in his hand. (One peso is approximately equal to 7 qian silver).

Hearing this, hiss, Zhao Dashan gasped suddenly, and then, with a bang, the silver peso fell to the ground.

Xu Gonglie caught his flustered expression and the flash of greed in his eyes.

Hey, this Governor Zhao seems to like money more?Xu Gonglie was secretly happy.

"So expensive?" Ding Yi also heaved a sigh of relief, with a look of disbelief.

No wonder merchants from all over the world like to buy raw silk from Ming Dynasty so much.

Raw silk worth about 5000 taels of silver was 140 million taels in Mexico, a full 56 times increase.

(End of this chapter)