Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1305 Triad Company
Fifty miles to the east of Luzon City, there is a village called Gaojiabao, which is the head office of the Sanhe Company, but people are not used to the company's different names, and most of them call it a business name, or a triad society.

The experience of going to sea this time made Gao Yihuan feel that he still needs to build a base camp. After he returned to Luzon and sold the goods, he made a lot of money, but he was not in a hurry to go to sea, but decided to build Gaojiabao first. Get up, don't let Gaojiabao go to waste.

After he paid the money for establishing a business in Luzon City, he bought more than 400 prisoners of war from outside the city and brought them back to Gaojiabao. He organized the prisoners of war to reclaim fields and grow sugar cane and tobacco.

Back in Gaojiabao, in order to increase the enthusiasm of everyone, he also established a three-in-one company according to the model of the East India Company established by the Dutch and the British, and distributed the shares to everyone who followed him to Luzon.

He holds 30% of the company's shares, basically has the decision-making power of the company, and then gives [-]% to more than [-] people in Gaojiabao, and keeps [-]% to reward those who are helpful to the company or make achievements.

His decision undoubtedly aroused the enthusiasm of everyone, making Gaojiazhuang, which originally only had more than 30 thatched huts and about [-] acres of rice fields, undergone great changes in a short period of time, from a small village to a simple fortress. .

Gaojiabao is located on a piece of flat land not far from the sea. The shape of the whole fortress is a circle surrounded by circular earth walls, which is a bit like the Hakka forts in northern Fujian and southern Jiangxi.

The earth wall encloses a large piece of land, and there are shooting ports on it. Soldiers can go up to the earth wall for defense. Inside are houses and warehouses.

Outside the fort, there are large tracts of sugar cane fields and tobacco fields. Hundreds of natives are working in the fields, while dozens of black feudal clans are watching from the sidelines.

At this time, the natives working in the fields were harvesting the sugarcane and tobacco leaves in the field under the urging of the black feudal clan. The sugarcane was transported to the workshop by the river to squeeze the juice, and then boiled into sugar. The tobacco leaves were transported to the open space outside the fort for drying. Dry it, and then move it into the warehouse in the fort for storage.

Although the weather is very hot, the natives still have to work.

In Luzon, the natives are the majority, while the Han and the black vassals are the minority. The main competitors and threats of the Han people come from the natives who originally lived in Luzon. Therefore, the dozens of black vassals brought back by Gao Yihuan became three. guild guards.

They had no relatives and no kinship, and Gao Yihuan took care of their food, so it was impossible for them to side with the natives.

Gao Yihuan had no choice but to make such a decision. They had too few people. If they used natives, if they colluded together, it would be very detrimental to the triad society.

It is not easy for the Han people to gain a firm foothold in Nanyang. In addition to the harsh climate and unacceptable water and soil, there are enemies on all sides, and they may be attacked by the natives at any time.

Along the coast of the Gulf of Luzon, there are fortresses like Gaojiabao all over the place, all of which are designed to resist the attacks of the natives.

On Luzon Island, the Han people accounted for only a minority. As the king of Luzon, Zhu Yihai did not have the strength to maintain a large army. Even the Zheng family could not maintain a large fleet to maintain the safety of the Han people because they lost Fujian.

Therefore, all the villages on the island built forts to protect themselves one after another, and each business house also had its own armed forces to protect the cultivated fertile land from the natives and protect the safety of the goods.

The Luzon Kingdom can only acquiesce that they are armed, but how many guards each firm and village fort have, needs to be reported to the Luzon Kingdom. The King of Luzon has the right to recruit them at critical moments, and each village fort and firm will rely on them. In return, the king of Luzon recognized their ownership of the newly reclaimed land, or reduced or exempted certain taxes for businesses.

For Luzon, this means that the central government has lost a lot of power and distributed power to the localities. It is not a centralization of power, but a division of local governments.

This has weakened Zhu Yihai's strength to a certain extent, but Lu Song is not like Champa, Surabaya, and Forou, which has the support of the powerful Ming Dynasty.

When these places are threatened, they are backed by the navy of the Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty encounters a disaster year, it will continue to import people. question.

The situation is different, which determines that Luzon’s development model in Nanyang will not be the same as that of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty can be said to be guided by the central government. Go out and let them solve the problem by themselves, because it is difficult for Zhu Yihai to solve the problem even if they ask Zhu Yihai.

It was September, which was the harvest season. Gao Yihuan led more than 30 men and was directing nearly a hundred natives to bundle the dried tobacco in the fort and transport the sugar from the warehouse.

Not far from the fort, there is a three-masted blessing boat parked beside the seaside pier, with the flags of the Ming Dynasty, Luzon, and the Sanhe Company on it.

This is a sea boat bought by Gao Yihuan from the Zheng family, and it is also the only boat owned by the Triad.

The situation in Gaojiabao is now on the right track. The only thing missing is people, but they are not natives. As long as they pay a high price, Gao Yihuan can still buy some.

But now in the entire Gaojiabao, there are more than 500 natives, 38 Han talents, and less than 100 black feudal people. Gao Yihuan dare not expand any more.

Now that there are a lot of goods in the warehouse, Gao Yihuan is ready to load the goods on a ship, and he will take a trip to Daming, and pick up some people from his hometown by the way, otherwise he will not feel at ease because he has too few people.

At this moment, Gao Yihuan and Gao Yijiao were standing on the edge of the pier. Dozens of natives, under the surveillance of Heifan, were walking towards the blessing boat with bags of tobacco leaves on their backs. Sucrose, the heavy cargo bent their backs, and their bodies hunched forward.

Gao Yizhen looked at the lucky boat, turned around, and said worriedly: "Second brother, the sea is not peaceful recently, the Spanish warships often come and go, and many merchant ships have gone out and never returned. Why don't we wait a little longer Bar!"

The Spaniards nested on Sulu Island in the southwest of Luzon. The navy of the Ming Dynasty blocked them from the south, and Zheng Chenggong blocked them from the north. However, the sea is vast. Occasionally, one or two Spanish ships broke through the blockade and attacked Luzon everywhere. The merchant ships are also unavoidable.

Because of the Spaniards' harassment, the port of Luzon was already full of merchant ships, and most of them were unwilling to take risks for fear of bumping into Spanish warships.

Gao Yi smiled happily, "It's okay, the Spaniards mainly intercept our merchant ships going to Johor (Singapore), and we will go north to Daming, there will be no problem. Besides, the company is short of people, and I plan to take everyone's relatives over , and buy some refined iron and agricultural tools by the way. These things can’t be bought in Luzon, so they can only be bought in Daming. I’m going to buy a boat and come back, so I should be able to make another fortune.”

Apart from producing grain, vegetables and fruits, Luzon has no other things to trade. The chamber of commerce in Luzon mainly buys tea, porcelain, cloth, etc. from Daming, and then sells them to the Sultanate of Nanyang, or transports them to India to engage in " The work of second-hand traffickers.

Therefore, Spain's harassment of Luzon's route to Johor made it impossible for Luzon to transport goods to India, and trade was greatly affected.

Some merchants parked their boats in the port and stopped trading, but Gao Yihuan saw other business opportunities. He went to the Ming Dynasty and brought back a ship of ironware. Although he did not earn much, the risk was also small. Tobacco leaves and sucrose were sent to the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that the profit was no less than a trip to India.

The two were talking. Not far away, a ten-year-old native kicked something and fell to the ground. The wooden bucket on his back hit the ground, and half of the red cane sugar was sprinkled. A black feudal When he saw this, he was furious and started beating with a stick. A 40-year-old native at the back quickly put down the wooden barrel on his back and threw himself on the young native to help him block the stick that Hei Fan swung down.

The wooden stick hit his body, making a muffled sound. Hei Fan scolded while beating. The man in his 40s was beaten until he vomited blood. The man pushed it away, but the latter did not let go, and the young native cried heart-piercingly.

Their voices caught the attention of the two of them, Gao Yihuan frowned, and said to Gao Yizhen: "Remember, our people don't beat people, this kind of thing is for the Hei Fan to do, and if there is a punishment, there will be a reward." , After the sugar cane is harvested, give them a few good meals."

As he spoke, he looked at Hei Fan who was still beating people, and then said to Gao Yizhen: "Okay, you tell him not to beat, the injured natives let him rest for a few days, one five taels of silver. In addition, at dinner , add an extra chicken leg to this Black Fan."

Gao Yizhen nodded, trotted over, stopped Heifan with strokes, asked the young man to help the injured native to rest, and stretched out his hand to recruit two natives to clean up the sugar on the ground.

After finishing the order, he walked towards Gao Yihuan. At this moment, a cavalryman from Luzon came galloping. He had two horses and a flag behind his back, which was blown by the wind.He quickly ran to the gate of the fort, and after asking a few words, he pulled the rein and ran towards Gao Yihuan.

The cavalry reined in their horses not far away, glanced at Gao Yihuan and Gao Yizhen, and said loudly, "Which of you is the owner of Sanhe Company?"

Seeing this, Gao Yihuan had some bad premonition in his heart, but Wen Yu still took a step forward, cupped his hands and said, "I'm here!"

"The Sanhe Company has a three-masted ship!" The cavalry opened a file and looked at it. "You have been requisitioned. Prepare to sail the ship to Luzon City!"

After the cavalry finished speaking, he tossed the file to Gao Yihuan, pulled out the reins, and went to the next place.

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