Jinyi champion

Chapter 1090 Do not trade with robbers
Zhu Hao also knew that if the Ming people stayed overseas and did not see their parents, wives and children for a long time, something would happen sooner or later.

Now it is just brainwashing people with the goals set when they went to sea, so that Ming people in the New World can see almost endless gold and silver, take more benefits, and even find indigenous women for them to soothe their loneliness, but they are homesick and homesick. If the love is not resolved, sooner or later there will be a general outbreak.

The most unacceptable thing for Zhu Hao now is the internal turmoil among the Ming people.

It can be said that the only people who have the opportunity to challenge his dream of conquering the world are not the European colonists or the people of the Inca Empire, but the so-called direct descendants brought out from Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Hao's plan is to transport 1000 million taels of silver back to Daming, and redeem these people's families from Zhu Si. At that time, Zhu Hao only needs to report that there are many silver mines in the New World, and they urgently need to be mined by hand. , may open the door of convenience, but it is estimated that an imperial envoy will be sent to follow the fleet to the New World and order Zhu Hao to return to Daming as soon as possible.

Of course, the family members of these Ming people may not be willing to take a long time by boat to cross the ocean to the American continent, so they need to be resettled in a place close to Ming Dynasty, such as Dongfan Island, which is across the strait from Pinghai, Yongning, and Zhenhai. , and the Nanyang Islands are no problem.

Of course, those family members who are willing to take the risk of crossing the ocean will definitely satisfy them, and they will be sent back to the New World safely no matter how difficult it is.

In fact, there is another problem. The object of allegiance of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty is the emperor of the Zhu family. One day Zhu Hao wants to become an enemy of the Ming Dynasty. I am afraid that the Ming army under him will immediately turn against him. Under such circumstances, it is basically impossible for him to lead his subordinates in the future. The Ming army returned to East Asia, which is what he needs to consider in advance.

After Lou Suzhen arrived at SF City, she handed over the account book of the North New City that she brought with her to Zhu Hao.

"In the past year there, a large amount of silver has been mined and searched from the local aborigines. Excluding those distributed to military officers and craftsmen, the stored ones should exceed 2000 million taels, and the quality is very good. The gold is less, only 100 million taels Two or so, but if it is transported back to Daming...it will definitely be an astronomical sum."

Lou Suzhen also seemed to support Zhu Hao's plan of redeeming people, and began to calculate how much money would be most appropriate to spend on redeeming people.

Zhu Hao nodded: "The silver obtained here is also about 2000 million taels, and we have strictly prohibited the circulation of silver in the area under our jurisdiction, which means that silver cannot obtain more materials from official channels, only gold and our printed and distributed Treasures are enough."

In the American continent, silver is a flood of currency. If the silver standard is implemented, many practical problems will arise. First of all, the people of the Inca Empire will take the silver that they think is readily available and exchange some from officially operated shops. The tight goods they had never seen before, these goods could have been exchanged for more supplies.

Although Zhu Hao's subordinates also mine silver on a large scale, silver cannot be circulated in the market.

Zhu Hao uses gold and banknotes as the official currency, which is close to the gold standard, but because gold is of different colors, it is not easy to negotiate prices. At present, it is mainly to force the circulation of banknotes. Fortunately, the banknotes produced by the printing technology invented by Zhu Hao, Not to mention the natives of the Inca Empire, even the current Europe cannot imitate them. The application of various anti-counterfeiting technologies fully guarantees the authority of banknotes.

Of course, this is also due to the fact that Su Xigui and Zhu Hao have accumulated some experience in promoting banknotes and other banknotes in Daming in the past few years.

Lou Suzhen said: "For my soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, silver is always a precious metal that can be returned to the land of China and exchanged for land, real estate, food, etc. I am afraid that the son's ban cannot be implemented, and there will always be circulation in private." channel."

Zhu Hao nodded: "Then it is necessary to make the people of Daming lose interest in silver. They have a lot of silver in their hands and have no place to spend it, and they will gradually feel that it is worthless...Compared to carrying heavy silver ingots, Paper money is lighter and easier to use."

If Zhu Hao wants to implement the new currency in the country he created, he will inevitably encounter some troubles.

First of all, the Incas were not familiar with banknotes, and they didn't know how to keep them. Given the roughness of their lives, banknotes were more likely to be damaged, and they would think that the Ming people were entrapping them.

As for gold, the production of gold in South America is quite limited, so there is no need to worry about depreciation.

At the beginning of the implementation of banknotes, it inevitably involved the exchange of silver and commodities. This made the busiest places in SF City, Mining City, Coal City, and Tucheng, etc., the coin exchange. Food and other things, after issuing a note, let them go to the currency exchange, which is equivalent to a bank to exchange the corresponding banknotes.

Still the same as the original social structure of the Inca Empire, the aristocrats always had more materials needed by the Ming Dynasty, and more banknotes were exchanged.

The people at the bottom can only go to the mine to work with their hands, and get banknotes in exchange for daily necessities.

The banknotes that Zhu Hao ordered to be forcibly promoted gradually became the currency of the entire Inca Empire, which is also related to Zhu Hao's strict restriction on the number of banknotes issued.Zhu Hao will not issue banknotes indiscriminately. In the future, banknotes will not only be circulated in the Inca Empire, but will also be promoted in cities such as Xincheng and Chang'an in Central America.

As the population in the territory increases, Zhu Hao will migrate a group of Incas to Central America to mine various mineral deposits there. As the scale of industrial production expands, the use of banknotes is essential.

It is a pity that the iron ore and coal deposits explored on the west coast of America are limited, and Zhu Hao even had to consider whether to send a fleet to the inaccessible Australian continent at this time, where the iron ore production and coal reserves are extremely high. Rich.

The only bad thing is that the living environment in the Australian continent is relatively harsh, and it needs to be reclaimed, and the climate and soil conditions are far worse than those in the American continent. I am afraid that the grain production cannot meet the needs of its own development... unless Zhu Hao is going to use the basic living materials , were all dispatched from America.

The mainland of Australia is indeed in Zhu Hao's development plan, but he thinks that it may be the only time to send a group of people there when they send the fleet back to Daming to "pay tribute" to the emperor and pay the ransom. Australian mainland colonization.

At present, in the American continent, a large-scale war with the European colonists has not yet broken out, and there is no shortage of basic resources. They are basically self-sufficient, and even have a lot of surplus. Zhu Hao is not in a hurry to develop the Australian continent.

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As time goes on, the rainy season comes.

Although the rainy season can promote the growth of food crops, it also brings many geological problems. The mining of coal, iron and other minerals has been hindered to some extent. Especially this year, there is a lot of rain, and sometimes it rains for about ten days in a row, which makes Zhu Hao vigorously The industrialization process promoted has been hindered to some extent.

At this time, European merchant ships arrived at SF City for the first time.

Originally, Zhu Hao could send warships to blow up the European merchant ships, but judging by the posture of the European merchant ships driving straight in, it seems that there is a new city here, mainly because of the vast territory of the Inca Empire. To build a ship, go down this road from the north to the south.

When Europeans knew that there were foreigners like them occupying the backward country of the Inca Empire and colonizing the coastal areas of this country, they thought of getting a share of the pie.

A Spanish captain, with two entourages, rowed a small boat to the shore, and accompanied by several natives of the Inca Empire, passed the majestic temple that had been built, and arrived at a special post house.

Zhu Hao didn't meet them right away, but I heard that they brought the so-called "credentials".

Zhu Hao knows English but not Spanish. He is learning recently because he knows that it may involve dealing with Europeans in the future. Among the Aztecs that Zhu Hao brought from the north, many people are Familiar with the use of Spanish, but they still know very little about the text.

Can only communicate in language.

As the lord of SF City, Lou Suzhen personally met the visiting Spaniard Captain Milana.

When Lou Suzhen came back to see Zhu Hao, she shook her head and said, "It's like a chicken talking to a duck. I don't know what it means. Fortunately, there are 'Northern people' who can probably understand what they say, and need to interpret it again. I vaguely know that they want to exchange gold with us. Said that as long as we are willing to take out gold, they can continuously send materials here."

Zhu Hao originally thought that Europeans wanted to buy advanced firearms, but now he realizes that these guys are more concerned about immediate interests. For them, gold can be brought back to Europe and exchanged for desirable commodities. After all, they are not prepared to stay in the American continent for a long time. In other words, this group of people has a way out.

As for the products in SF City, they don't know much, and they don't seem to care much about those things.

"They are very curious, people with yellow skin, why are we so strong? Europeans think that we belong to the same race as the local aborigines, but they seem to know that we came from a distant oriental ancient country, and they also know our country Call it Daming!"

Lou Suzhen's words immediately made Zhu Hao realize that even if the news of his being alive did not reach Daming for the time being, he might let Zhu Si who was in the inner garden of the palace know of his existence through Fu Lang's ingenious mouth.

With the outbreak of the war with the Europeans, the news of the Ming Dynasty's colonization of the American continent will spread all over the world in the next year or two. After all, there is a trade relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Frangji people.

"The so-called goods are nothing more than local products looted from other places in the New World, and they are sent to exchange for our gold."

Zhu Hao snorted, "It's not something they produced themselves, I'm not surprised at all. If this is the first, they will send more ships to plunder the entire continent, and then exchange what they want from us. We If necessary, why not go there yourself?"

Lou Suzhen said: "It will save us some effort if we start trading with Frangji."

Zhu Hao shook his head: "The plunder of the Frangji people is destructive, leaving no room for it. We trade with the aborigines, which is completely different in nature. Money cannot fall into their hands. This continent belongs to us. You don’t need to discuss how to do business with the robbers!”

(End of this chapter)