Chapter 1974： Mindoro Buffalo

In addition to copper and nickel mines, there are many gold mines in the Philippines. Of course, there are no big gold mines, but there are many small ones. After all, the Philippine archipelago has many mountains and is located in the Pacific Rim seismic zone. There are rare gold deposits.

Generally speaking, many gold mines are formed with volcanoes and earthquakes, and ancient orogeny (such as the extrusion of continental plates), accompanied by magma upwelling and gathering.

Therefore, there are many gold and silver mines in the Pacific Rim seismic zone. For example, the gold and silver producing areas in Peru and Mexico, as well as the gold producing areas in California, the gold and silver producing areas in Japan, the Keelung Gold Mine on Taiwan, etc. are all located in the Pacific Rim seismic belt, most of which are squeezed on the continental plate Mountain ranges formed, and volcanic eruptions ...

Obviously, the Philippines meets this condition very well-it is located at the junction of the Pacific Rim seismic zone and the plate, and there are many mountains, which is a good place for gold mines.

Even Lu Songguo, a small barbarian country, was gradually formed because the sand produced locally attracted Chinese merchants to trade. The farce in Jiajing was because Zhang Yi had probably heard that Ji Yishan of Luzon had produced gold, so he bewitched the emperor of Jiajing to organize a fleet to dig for gold.

However, Ji Yishan may have produced gold before, but it has already been wiped out by the locals, and naturally no gold was found. Then, it became a farce and led Lu Songguo to mistakenly think that Daming was going to invade Lu Song. So he feared that the Chinese who lived in the country should kill most Chinese.

Of course, at this time, Lu Songguo should not have taken shape yet. Because this country only went to tribute during the Jiajing years. Obviously, it was only then that Lu Songguo formally founded the country. At this time, it should still be in the state of the tribal alliance, similar to the belly of the island on the island.

Moreover, before Lu Songguo slaughtered the Chinese at that time, he first used deception to confiscate all the ironware of the Chinese family, so that the local Chinese were defenseless before they began to send soldiers to slaughter.

It can be seen that the strength of the Lu Song barbarian there is not very good. Otherwise, it is not necessary to deceive the ironware of more than 30,000 Chinese first because of fear of resistance.

Marin estimated that their strength should be able to touch thousands of barbarians. However, weapons and equipment must be simple. After all, it has just formed into a country, and its strength is definitely not good.

You must know that the local people were still in a wild time before the Yongle Dynasty. When Zheng He ordered Xu Chailao as Governor Lu Song, in fact, Xu Chailao took the Han people to teach the local people to farm. Then there was the appearance of Lu Songguo. Otherwise, here is just a group of real barbarians.

Even with the rudiment of the country now, its military strength will not be very strong. Marin only needs to recruit thousands of Taiwanese aboriginal warriors on Taiwan Island, equip them with high-defense weapons and armor such as Fujikoto, and then conduct battle and discipline training. They will definitely be able to hang down the indigenous Philippines troops.

Moreover, with the Aboriginal warriors on Taiwan Island, there is no need to worry about those indigenous Filipinos fleeing into the forest. Because these aboriginal people of Taiwan Island were originally masters of hunting and fighting in the mountain forest, and they could walk briskly in the mountain forest.

In this way, after the Sauron Warriors can help conquer the jungles of the North American continent, Marin now also has the indigenous warriors on the island of Taiwan, which can help conquer the tropical rainforest area ...

And the use of aboriginal warriors on the island of Taiwan is also a double benefit. This is because if these indigenous warriors stayed in their hometowns, it would also be a security risk for the Kongtai organization to develop the local area. After all, if they mess up their resistance, Kong Tai is also somewhat difficult to parry. After all, these people are familiar with the local area, and the strength of jungle warfare will bring great trouble to Kong Tai.

If Kong Tai hired them to conquer the Philippines, it would not only help Dongfanbo expand its territory, but also eliminate the local security risks on the island. After all, those local aboriginal warriors who were able to fight all went overseas to fight and sit in town. As a result, Ma Lin's coveted Tainan Plain naturally emptied. When the time comes, Marin will be able to recruit Hu Jian on the other side and the Hakka people without land in Guangdong and other places to develop Tainan. With the farming level of the Han people, the Tainan Plain will soon be transformed into a land of fish and rice and an important granary.

On the other side of the Philippines, there are now estimated to be 10,000 or 20,000 Chinese immigrants. After all, there were more than 30,000 Chinese in 1551, and now it is 1516. At least there must be more than 10,000 people. There may be more than 20,000 people.

At that time, after occupying the place, the colonial army will be able to distribute the fertile local land to those Chinese immigrants. Then, by taxing them, the local area can be well developed and utilized.

According to the level of 50 acres per household in the paddy field, 10,000 Hans count as 2,000 households and can cultivate 100,000 acres of rice. If it is calculated according to 300 kg per mu, Zhancheng rice can be cooked three times a year in the Philippines, and the annual output of 900 to 1,000 kg per mu is not a problem ...

Then, 100,000 mu of rice fields can produce hundreds of millions of pounds of rice a year. Milled into rice, there are 70 million catties ...

Moreover, this is only calculated according to the minimum requirements. You know, there are not only tens of thousands of Han people in the area, but also more native Filipinos.

At this time, there were at least hundreds of thousands of people in the entire Philippines. Moreover, most of them are gathered on Luzon Island. After all, Luzon is the largest island in the Philippines and the earliest developed area. The second-largest island of Mindanao is still very low in the 21st century. The Sulu State in the southwest is now the most developed. However, the Sulu Archipelago has a total of more than 2,800 square kilometers, and the population it can accommodate is very limited.

After taking down Luzon Island, there are more than 10,000 square kilometers of upper plains in the Central Luzon Plain just north of Manila for reclamation.

Then, the lack of labor force can completely allow those Taiwan Island Aboriginal warriors to capture the indigenous Filipinos as serfs and follow the Han people in farming. Unreliable, leather whip waits.

In this way, it is not a problem to catch 100,000 Philippine natives and reclaim one million mu of paddy fields. Of course, this is only theoretical data. Because, there is a very important thing that is not mentioned, that is-cattle farming!

Cattle farming is a very important agricultural tool. There is no cattle farming. If you pull the plow by manpower alone, the most varied 10 acres of land. Even if a man is strong, he has planted a dozen acres of land.

But if there is cattle farming, it is not a problem for a family to plant 30 acres of paddy field. Work hard, 50 acres can also deal with the past. After all, cattle's strength and endurance far exceed humans.

However, cattle farming in the Philippines is very difficult to obtain. Why? Because the local open up paddy fields, water buffalo must be used. Cattle and the like are not suitable for cultivating paddy fields, nor are horses. Ma Lin has only heard of Hu Jian's Jinjiang horses who can cultivate paddy fields. Other horses have never heard of those who can cultivate paddy fields.

Therefore, even though Marin can easily get a lot of cattle and horses, it has not been able to adapt to the cultivation of paddy fields in the tropical rainforest of the Philippines. If you want to buy a cow, it is not realistic. For example, water buffalo. In countries where rice is grown, such as Daming and South Vietnam, you can buy dozens of water buffaloes. If the price is high, buying a few hundred heads can barely be achieved. However, if you want to buy thousands of heads, then dream. After all, in East Asian agricultural countries, cattle farming is a strategic resource, and it is difficult to buy too many quantities, even if you are rich.

"No, it seems that there is a kind of cow that has no owner ..." Marin suddenly remembered, it seems that there is a kind of buffalo in the Philippines ~ www.novelhall.com ~ can be used to cultivate land ...

This buffalo, called the Mindoro buffalo, is a wild buffalo. This type of cattle is not large, but it is a native indigenous breed adapted to the local climate.

The most important thing is that there seem to be at least thousands of wild Mindoro buffaloes on Mindoro Island ...

As long as people are sent to the island, traps and various rounded nets and sets of rods and other tools are used to chase and block, they can still catch the buffaloes on Mindoro Island.

Previously, when he went to buy West African buffalo and Indian zebu, Marin had thought of the Mindoro buffalo on the Philippines. But because the whip was too long, I didn't think about it anymore.

But now, in view of the need to develop Luzon Island in the Philippines, it seems that it is possible to send people to catch those Mindoro buffaloes. As it happens, Marin intends to use the aboriginal fighters hired by the Taiwanese islanders to land on Mindoro Island, not far from Manila, to round up the buffalo during their free time to conquer the indigenous Filipinos.

As for the problem of malaria on the island and the problem of malaria, it is not a problem here in Marin. Because Marin not only has artemisinin, but also allows the soldiers to chew betel nuts to prevent malaria, which is very safe.

However, the bulls of Mindoro buffalo seem to have a bad temper and are somewhat aggressive. But this is not a big problem. As long as the equipment is fully prepared, the bulls of the Mindoro Buffalo who want to attack can be subdued. After subduing the Mindoro buffaloes, put a nose ring on. In this way, most of the Minduo Buffaloes are basically honest.

If it is not honest to put on the nose ring, it can only be used for breeding, or simply killed. After all, if you ca n’t use the Mindoro buffalo, why keep him? It ’s better to kill meat ...

With the tens of thousands of Mindoro buffaloes on the island, the development of the central plains of Luzon in the Philippines is much more convenient. At that time, Luzon Island will become an important grain-producing area in the territory of Dongfanbo ...