Chapter 1972： Eastern Fanbo Development Project

To be honest, Marin feels such a cool day! Drinking yellow wine, eating venison ... venison is a good nutritious thing in later generations!

As for wine, Marin feels that the cost of making yellow wine is still a bit high. Beer is the most suitable cost, because 40 pounds of barley can produce 100 liters of beer, that is, 200 pounds of beer, and the ratio of grain to liquor is 1 to 5.

For rice wine, a pound of glutinous rice yields 4 pounds of rice wine, the yield is 1 to 4, lower than beer. Moreover, glutinous rice is more expensive than barley. According to the price list given by Kong Tai, in Daming, the price of one stone glutinous rice is 1 or 2 silver, which is much more expensive than ordinary rice. Barley, however, is a cheap grain, and the price of one stone is only 0.5 silver.

In this comparison, brewing beer with barley is much cheaper than brewing rice wine with glutinous rice. Of course, this requires some hops. Therefore, you need to send some hops to make beer. However, the amount of hops does not seem to be large. Marin intends to grow hops in the North American colony, and then transport a batch of dried flowers to Taiwan Island for beer brewing. In this way, local colonies and indigenous soldiers on Taiwan Island can drink low-cost beer. If you want to use ice cubes made from cheap saltpeter purchased from Daming, don't be too cool ...

Of course, professional things must be left to professional people to do. Therefore, Marin decided to send two brewers who were good at brewing beer with barley to Taiwan Island, and worked under Kong Tai to help use the hops shipped from North America and cheap barley purchased from Daming to brew cheap beer and supply indigenous warriors. Moreover, a group of Ming Dynasty brewers learned to brew beer. After all, Ming craftsmen were cheap ...

Marin did not know that because of his idea of ​​saving money, beer appeared in China several hundred years in advance. Moreover, the practice of drinking cold beer in the summer quickly became popular among Daming literati circles and became a very fashionable drinking method. Of course, this drink is really very cool in summer ...

Of course, these are secondary. Whether it is venison or rice wine or beer, Marin is used to attract indigenous soldiers to join the army.

Although these indigenous warriors can hunt, but because of lack of seasoning and poor technical level, life is very poor. And if you participate in Marin's army to fight in the Philippines, you can live a good day where you can drink and eat meat every day. The attraction is very powerful.

Moreover, Marin intends to equip them with high-protection equipment such as the rattan and rattan armor that Li Lai specialized in. They are completely slammed against the natives of the Philippines.

Although the vines are afraid of fire, the indigenous people in the Philippines have never read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Naturally, they do n’t know the "fired vines soldiers". Abuse the indigenous existence of the Philippines.

When the Philippines is occupied, the resources there are also very eye-catching. Moreover, the population is also quite large.

The indigenous people of the Philippines belong to the Malay race. Although these people have low civilization, they are really fertile ...

In later generations, in the Philippines, the population actually exceeded 100 million, but it was very scary. You should know that the land area of ​​the Philippines is less than 300,000 square kilometers, and most of them are mountains and hills. More than 100 million people do n’t know how to distribute ...

Nowhere else is known, but Marin knows that north of Manila, it seems that there is a large plain area, which is one of the main grain-producing areas on Luzon Island in the Philippines.

This plain is very large in area, more than 10,000 square kilometers in size, much larger than the Tainan Plain on Taiwan Island. Moreover, it seems that in the Yongle period of the early Ming Dynasty, Zheng He had represented the Ming Dynasty and appointed a Hu Jianren named Xu Chai Lao as the Governor of Luzon Island, who was responsible for the management of Chinese immigrants here and led them to reclaim. It seems that the location of their wasteland is here, near Manila.

The Ming Dynasty called this place the Luzon Kingdom, but in fact, at this time, some indigenous tribes had not yet formed a country. The arrival of Chinese immigrants such as Xu Chailuo, on the other hand, directed the local people to raise land and increase productivity. It was only in the mid-to-late 16th century that the local community formed a strong local force and became a country. Unfortunately, this country was annexed by Spain shortly after its birth.

Of course, Marin will not sympathize with Lu Songguo. Because this country, during the Jiajing years, had slaughtered Chinese immigrants and killed more than 25,000 people. Many people do not know this history, thinking that the massacre of Chinese immigrants began by the Spanish colonists. But in fact, as early as the Jiajing period, because of a political farce, the local indigenous king actually slaughtered more than 20,000 Chinese. The Spanish killing Chinese will have to wait until Wanli.

Therefore, for these Philippine indigenous, Marin did not have any favors. It is a very good practice to hire the indigenous Gaoshan warriors on the island to conquer the local aborigines.

Although Luzon is backward, there are still hundreds of thousands of indigenous people. After all, the indigenous people here can be born, or they will never have a population of more than 100 million in the future.

Thousands of Taiwanese Gaoshan tribes are indigenous, wearing rattan armor, holding rattan cards and swords, it is still easy to defeat local indigenous. After all, local indigenous even metals are rare. It seems that all the local metal was smuggled from the Ming Dynasty, not many.

As long as thousands of indigenous warriors from the Alpine tribe are mobilized to capture the central plains of Manila and Luzon, they can drive the local indigenous people to help farming. Luzon Central Plains covers an area of ​​more than 10,000 square kilometers, grabbing hundreds of thousands of indigenous farmland, and the grain output is definitely high.

If you plant Zhancheng rice locally, it will be cooked three times a year, and the food will not be eaten properly.

Moreover, there are many local Chinese immigrants. When the massacre of Chinese emigrants by King Luzon in the thirty years of Jiajing (1551) broke out, the local Chinese immigrants had reached more than 30,000, which was the main force of local agriculture.

It is now 1516. Even if there are no more than 30,000 Chinese immigrants, there are still tens of thousands of people. Otherwise, Zheng He would not appoint Xu Chailuo as Governor Lu Song. Obviously, the Chinese have a high economic position in the local area, and they are also the guides of local civilization.

In addition, historical records show that it seems that this Lu Songguo has not yet taken shape, and will not go to the Daming tributary until Jiajingzhong, and then there will be conflict.

That is to say, Lu Songguo has no records in the Ming Dynasty as a dependent country. Although Zheng He also brought a King Luzon to the tribute in Yongle years, that was just a little barbarian chief in Manila, and King Luzon should not be taken. Otherwise, Zheng He will not appoint Xu Chai Lao as Governor of Lu Song.

Obviously, even if it is as great as Zheng He, bringing a little barbarian chief to tribute near Manila is just to create the illusion of prosperity of "coming from all nations". After all, the feudal Confucian dynasty liked to play with this set. Although Ming Chengzhu Zhu Di killed decisively, he also had some good results. Zheng He took the "King Luzon" back, just to please Zhu Di, who belonged to pure numbers, and the Ming court did not take it seriously.

Sure enough, after Zheng He's voyage to the west stopped, there was no "Lu Song Kingdom" to pay tribute. Because, there hasn't really formed a country here yet, and there is no ship to go to the tribute of the Ming Dynasty ... The tribute did not begin until the Jiajing years, indicating that there was a decent country. But immediately, because of a farce, the two sides broke up ...

That is to say, at this time, Marin sent troops to conquer Luzon Island is no problem. Moreover, no Luzon indigenous barbarians would go to the Ming Dynasty to sue. Because Lu Song has n’t paid tribute to the Ming dynasty for nearly a hundred years, and he has long lost the Ming dynasty.

Marin intends to use the Manila Bay in future generations as a basis to send troops to occupy Manila and build cities. Then, the Gaoshan warriors were dispatched to occupy the entire central Luzon plain ~ www.novelhall.com ~ and drive the local people to develop and cultivate land. The local Chinese can become local "agricultural technology instructors" and teach locals to cultivate land. Then, the central plain of Luzon gradually became an important granary ...

In addition, Marin will send troops to occupy Cebu Island. This is because there is a Toledo copper mine on Cebu Island, which was historically the largest copper mine in Southeast Asia and produced tens of millions of tons of copper.

Moreover, this is a copper-gold mine and produces a small amount of gold. As for that Toledo, it seems to be on the west coast of Cebu Island. As long as you remember where, when the time comes to send people to the field survey, you can always find that large-scale copper and gold mine. By that time, Marin would not be able to develop the same frame in the deserts of Chile.

You should know that in the desert area of ​​Chile, fresh water supply is difficult and the population is scarce, making it unsuitable for the development of copper mines. The Toledo Copper Mine on Cebu Island is different. It is close to the sea and convenient for transportation. Moreover, it is convenient to find miners. There are a lot of indigenous people in the local area. At that time, just grab tens of thousands of people and go to the mine to mine ...

In short, Marin ’s big plan is to include the Philippine region in the territory of the "Dongfanbo Kingdom." In addition to the development of the central plains of Luzon with great agricultural potential, the copper and gold mines on Cebu Island can also bring huge benefits to the "Dongfanbo Kingdom". As long as the development is completed, the "Dongfanbo Kingdom" will be very rich in food and finance ...