The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 350 Tropical Land
In mid-October, when Huang Sheng confirmed the food supply, he felt that the trip was worthwhile and sent an order to lift the anchor and go home.The United Fleet returned home with full sails, and this trip was a full return, with more than 200 more large and small seagoing ships.

Not so many ships were seized in the naval battle outside Feife Port, and many of them were merchant ships seized by the shielding battlefield.No matter who it belongs to, Huang Sheng now takes it all home with him.

The return fleet is naturally going all the way, because there are pirates under the command of Li Guozhu in the team, and the stories of robbing merchant ships and fighting warships are happening every day. Because the pirates are so enthusiastic about robbery, the Huang family is really not good at attacking them. enthusiasm.

Soon the perfect robbery combination was born. There were many shirtless professional pirates holding various cold weapons on the main battleship and grass boat of the Huang family.

They approached under the cover of the Huang family's artillery fire, and under the precise strikes of the young musketeers, they fought gang-to-board battles.

Along the way, we built four or five Japanese Shuin ships, seven or eight Western Galen ships, and many small merchant ships.

Sometimes it is not clear which country's armed merchant ships are killed, so don't worry about it. The Huang family's armed forces will not allow other armed forces to survive. If you are not convinced, you can come to fight.

Li Guozhu's pirates were excited to sail with Huang's family. They were unscrupulous and robbed whatever they saw, regardless of whether there would be sequelae of plundering.

Because they think that a team like Mr. Huang is not afraid of any fleet to retaliate. There is no big country in Nanyang, and we are not afraid of the whole country coming. One family dominates nature.

Huang Sheng needed a subtropical place to operate, and a friend Xiong Zhaogui happened to be the grandfather of Lingao County, Qiongzhou. How could he not take advantage of this golden opportunity.

Huang Sheng decided to take a detour through the Qiongzhou Strait to see Xiongzhi County.Arrange for Huang Mingdao to command the fleet to continue sailing to Penghu, and take Huang Dongshan to select twenty fastest warships to Lingao.

Lingao is a good place, with abundant fresh water resources, favorable geographical and climatic conditions for the development of agriculture, fertile land, good irrigation conditions, and warm spring all year round.

In later generations, it is rich in food, melons and vegetables, sugar cane, peanuts, sesame and so on.The main tropical crops are rubber, pepper, lemongrass, and coffee. The main high-yielding forests are Eucalyptus microphylla and Casuarina. The main fruits are bananas, mangoes, lychees, longan, carambola, and jackfruit.

But Daming Lingao is a poor and barren land, why is it so?Without him, pirates have been rampant for years, and the people cannot live and work in peace and contentment, resulting in too few residents and insufficient investment in water conservancy facilities.

Huang Sheng personally went to meet with Xiong Zhaogui in Linkozhi County, and brought 1000 people to be plundered. Among the 1000 people, there were [-] Han descendants from the Da Yue Kingdom. Half of the strong laborers for farm work are Han Chinese.

Huang Sheng was going to acquire Lingao land by purchasing and occupying it. The more the better, he temporarily left a musketeer from the General Banner to manage this place.

Xiong Zhaogui was appointed by the magistrate of Qipin County in Xiaxian County in the fifth year of Tianqi, and he took office in the spring of the following year. He has been working for almost two years. Dozens of strong men were recruited for training.

Xiong Zhaogui doesn't know how to do business or farm. Under his management, Lingao's economic development remains the same. The only bright spot is that the three-acre land he manages is in good order. With the force of dozens of servants in his family, it can only guarantee the city of Lingao. Bandits are extinct, and it is beyond our power to make a difference.

Seeing Huang Sheng by accident, Xiong Zhaogui was extremely happy, and enthusiastically hosted a banquet for Mr. Huang and a group of military officers in the back office.It's a pity that although he gave everything he had, the food and drinks he could produce were still extremely poor.

It's no wonder that Xiong Zhaogui is not a big corrupt official, he is not very good at scraping land for money and has to support dozens of family members, it is really unsustainable, and life is very tight.

Huang Sheng asked Xiong Zhaogui to help buy the land, saying that he would invest in Lingao, and more than 1000 people would be left to farm here.

Of course, Xiong Zhaogui knew that Huang Sheng wanted to help him with such a good thing. The land here is too cheap for the sparsely populated land.Of course, the magistrate of the county will spend less money if he wants to enclose the land. Xiong Zhaogui pleads his chest and promises that the Huang family's investment will not be wasted.

Huang Sheng left Ma San in charge here, and gave him 10 shi rice and [-] taels of silver as start-up capital.He has forty musketeer youths under the chief banner officer Zhou Dazhuang available.

Ma San's task is to hire the local people to build water conservancy facilities to increase the sowing area, and strive to cultivate [-] to [-] mu of land.People here are too poor, labor and land are worthless.

With food, many people who are eager to eat will be recruited to work here. With a large amount of investment, Lingao will usher in development opportunities. Once a virtuous circle is formed, the economic level will be immediate.

The reason why Huang Sheng took a leisurely move here was to go to South America to find rubber trees and cinchona trees to plant in Hainan Island in a year or two. In Ming Dynasty, only Hainan, a subtropical place, was the most suitable place to develop rubber plantations.

Therefore, Huang Sheng prepared the land first, so as to be prepared, it was not Huang Sheng's usual style of work to find a place after obtaining saplings and seeds.

Huang Sheng was delayed in Lingao for three days, and when he parted, he gave Xiong Zhaogui 5000 taels of silver and [-] shi of rice.

Said: "Master Huang, I am afraid that it will be difficult to repay the kindness of the Xiong family in this lifetime. You will spare no effort to buy land in Lingao, Xiong, how dare you spend money."

"Master Xiong, you and I are my own family. Giving you 5000 taels of silver is not a bribe, but to let you recruit servants. You only have fifty servants now, which is too small. You need at least two hundred bosses to guarantee the safety of this place." force."

"Master Huang, in Lingao, someone can walk sideways with fifty family members. How can there be any opponent?"

"That's because Lingao is too poor and doesn't even look down on decent pirates. It will be very different here in the future. The common people have a better life, and they will return to the original point after being robbed by pirates once."

Xiong Zhaogui blushed and was speechless, the leader of the servants, Xiong Da, knelt down and said, "Master Huang, I know what to do. Don't worry, as long as you have money and food, the two hundred chief servants will be able to fight within three months."

Huang Sheng joked with a smile: "You also have to eat meat often. Remember, you can't save money by relying on your mouth. You have to use your brains! If there are too many people, you can take the initiative to fight the pirates who live on the island! The pirate's lair There will be less gold and silver treasures in it."

With a word to wake up the dreamer, Xiong Shiqi and Xiong Da became excited.They don't know that there are many dens of pirates big and small on Hainan Island, but their force can only protect themselves.

With 5000 taels of silver to raise soldiers, it is quite different. If there are two hundred bosses in the team, of course they dare to attack some small-scale bandit lairs. The gold and silver hidden by the bandits will be more costly to raise soldiers.

Xiongzhi County suffers from lack of money. Hearing what Huang Sheng said, he is not hypocritical. He himself is a scholar with high military strength.

Xiong Zhaogui said: "Master Huang, the 5000 taels of silver are considered to be borrowed by the Xiong family. In the future, I will return the property to you after taking the property with my servants to destroy bandits and pirates."

Huang Sheng believes that Xiongzhi County has such ability. With Huang's family running an industry in Lingao, his financial income will also rise in a straight line. Money will not be the main problem of Lingao in the future. The main problem is that the population is too small.

(End of this chapter)