Chapter 111 People who can use tools

Since Yunfu's army had cleared Guangzhou, the city's trade became unusually prosperous.

Why is this deformity occurring?

It's all because the heart of the merchants in Guangzhou has been completely grounded.

Whether it's good or bad, when the results come out, people will have corresponding countermeasures.

The merchants here thought it was strange that the officials from the Lantian Imperial Court regarded the land as a priority and regarded it as a priority.

They were busy dividing the fields of large families, paying no attention to the prosperous commercial activities of Canton, and as long as the merchants paid their taxes, they appeared to be very talkative.

In fact, after no covert extortion by officials, merchants actually paid much less taxes than before.

This made the merchants secretly complacent.

Many merchants who occupy a lot of land even joke that the Lantian Imperial Court is a Tubaozi Imperial Court when they meet in secret, and they only know about the land and nothing about commerce.

In a huge city of Guangzhou, to be honest, more than ninety percent of the people eat commercial meals, as for the farmland...... That's a symbol.

So, in Guangzhou, it was easy to carry out land reform, and many times, when the land was divided and allocated, the local officials could even see the stewards with a faint sarcasm on their faces.

After waiting for half a year, the businessmen finally determined that the reform of the Lantian Imperial Court focused on land, not commerce, and even from the news transmitted by the Guangzhou government, the Lantian Imperial Court had a supportive attitude towards commerce.

And the Lantian Second Fleet, which is responsible for blocking the sea, has also recently completely lifted the sea ban on merchants.

As a result, Guangzhou's long-suppressed commercial and trade activities exploded in an instant.

The world gradually settled down, the life of the war gradually ended, people's lives gradually came on the right track, and the demand for materials began to rise, especially spices and sugar, which could not be sold before, were the focus of all goods.

At this time, although Fujian, Guangxi, and Taiwan had sugarcane, the output here was far from enough to supply the huge market of Daming, and the demand for sugar in just one Lantian County reached a terrifying 20 million catties.

Especially after the Guanzhong people diluted the sugar into a solution, and then crystallized the sugar solution into rock sugar through the yellow mud cellar and cotton rope, the demand for this sweeter and purer sugar was even greater in Guanzhong.

However, the Lantian Imperial Court planted countless sugarcane forests in distant Malacca......

Palm oil, sugar cane forests, these are the cash crops that Han Siew Fan deliberately developed in Malacca, and now at least 60,000 Malacca natives are taking care of these crops on these estates.

Not only palm trees and sugar cane forests, Han Xiufen also followed Yun Zhao's instructions, and deliberately placed orders with Dutch adventurers, Portuguese adventurers, British, French, and Spanish adventurers four years ago, and obtained 200,000 seeds of "Tear Tree" native to the American jungle at the same price as gold.

Now, these tear trees are a foot tall, and in three years, these tear trees will produce something called rubber.

Although Han Xiufen didn't know what Yun Zhao wanted this thing to do until now, she didn't understand why Yun Zhao would know that there was such a strange tree in the distant place where the cannibals of the Americas were infested.

And the location and appearance of the tree were so vividly depicted that the explorers, after going deep into the jungle, immediately found this strange thing.

And from the secret letter Yun Zhao gave her, she could feel that Yun Zhao attached far more importance to this tear tree than palm trees and sugar cane forests.

The person in charge of these three things is Liu Mingming, and he hates this job very much.

The biggest problem is land reclamation!

It's summer all year round, but the trees and vines cover the land he needs so tightly that it's hard to burn it down.

Only during the dry season of the year can there be a short month to use, and if the hastily burned wasteland is not cut out of the weeds and tree roots in the land, after a rain, the burned wasteland will be full of life.

Therefore, in this environment, the reclamation is completely filled with human lives.

Han Xiufen didn't care much about how many people died, she just asked Liu Mingliang if she wanted palm trees, sugarcane forests, and tear trees, as for anything else, she wasn't even interested in asking.

For this matter, Han Xiufen distributed all the black sailors on hand to Liu Mingming, this dark-skinned sailor seemed to be more adapted to life in the jungle than the people in Lantian in the past, when they found that they could do whatever they wanted in this land...... The darkest times in Malaya have come.

Since Han Xiufen's demand for palm trees, sugar cane forests, and tear groves is endless, there is also an endless demand for manpower to open up wasteland and plant these estates.

These black sailors, as well as the surrendered Malacca natives, hunted in the woods to catch the Malacca natives.

Stout men, women stay to sell for money, and it is difficult to say what will happen to the elderly and children without the protection of strong labor.

When the Malacca people within a radius of 500 miles were hunted down, the black sailors began to target those who were as black as themselves when they found that their profits had dropped so much.

Or rather, they targeted all animals that walked on two feet.

As a result, there were many white-skinned people and brown-skinned people in the manor.

Liu Mingliang, who was already on the verge of madness due to the lack of manpower, naturally did not refuse, and did not hesitate to raise the price of slaves again and again to stimulate the enthusiasm of those black sailors and Arab pirates to raid the population.

By now, even the British, as well as the remaining Portuguese, felt that this was a way to make a fortune, and when they caught a human being at sea again, they no longer killed casually, but tied them up and sold them to Liu Mingliang.

At present, Liu Mingliang, even hardcore brothers like Liu Chuanli are reluctant to communicate with him more, after all, as long as it is a person, after seeing those slaves working on the plantation, they will stay away from Liu Mingliang.

This made Liu Mingliang very sad......

He really wanted to escape from this shackle, but unfortunately, both Yun Zhao and Han Xiufen had always been hard-hearted towards him.

When he came to Paradise Island to report on his work, Liu Mingming, who was tall and bright in the past, was gone, and he was very thin and black.

A pair of eyes sunk deep into the sockets, and the eyeballs were still slightly yellow, which was a morbid reaction.

"I can't hold it anymore."

Liu Mingliang curled up his thin body in a huge rattan chair and babbled to Han Xiufen.

Han Xiufen poured Liu Mingliang a cup of tea and said, "Bear with me." ”

Liu Mingliang shook his head painfully and said: "What I am doing now is seriously inconsistent with the education I received, and it can even be said to be a kind of regression. ”

Han Xiufen frowned and said, "Is it serious?" ”

Liu Mingliang smiled bitterly: "A hundred people come in to fill enough manpower, and two months later, I need to enter another hundred people to maintain the scene." ”

Han Xiufen frowned and said, "How did these people die, your supply to them doesn't seem to be bad." ”

Liu Mingliang shook his head and said: "It is mainly due to illness and death, plus poisonous insects and leeches, people are very vulnerable in the jungle." ”

Han Xiufen nodded and said, "The environment in Malacca is too harsh, we need Java Island, where there are large plains. ”

Liu Mingliang arched his hand at Han Xiufen and said, "Can you replace me?" ”

Han Xiufen said: "If you don't go, you have to go with Liu Chuanli." ”

Liu Mingliang said bitterly: "Let him go, it's better for me to continue to stay, it's better to lose the name of two people, it's better for me to carry all the sins alone." ”

Han Xiufen said: "Your Majesty also knows that this matter is inappropriate, so only a few of us are limited to knowing about this matter, so there is no extra manpower for you, but you can cultivate some of your own manpower, and then gradually free yourself from this shackle." ”

Liu Mingliang looked at Han Xiufen and said, "It can only be an alien, right?" ”

Han Xiufen nodded and said, "Blacks, whites, Arabs and even Malacca natives can do it, but it can't be us Han." ”

When Liu Mingliang heard this, he let out a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, you just agree, I don't have to pay attention to this matter." ”

Han Xiufen didn't speak again, Liu Mingliang relaxed, and after a while, he nestled in the rattan chair and snored like thunder.

Not having to live like a ghoul was a great relief for him.

Many times, people need to deceive themselves in order to survive, and when we hear tragedies from distant places, our heads tend to automatically downplay these things, and finally lament a few times, hurt things and so on, and then we can continue to live our lives.

If these tragic things are witnessed by oneself or are one's own hands, then for a person who still has a little conscience in his heart, it will be a catastrophe.

At dinner, Liu Mingliang met Leonie who came back from the open sea, and the first thing Leonie said when she came back in a hurry was to ask him why he was not as good as the Dutch in the matter of snatching slaves.

After asking, it was learned that these people were the property of the Dutch East India Company.

When Liu Mingliang heard Leonie say this, he immediately fell his pleading gaze on Han Xiufen.

Han Xiufen put down the chopsticks in her hand, looked at Leonie and said, "Are you interested in this work?" ”

Leonie smiled: "At least you can do better than Liu Mingming!" ”

When Liu Mingliang heard this, tears fell, and he choked up and said to Han Xiufen: "At this point, I am not as good as Miss Leonie, and I can't catch up with the horse." ”

Han Xiufen frowned and looked at Leonie and said, "Have you ever seen a slave ship?" ”

Leonie laughed, "When I was six years old, I knew what was a mooing tool, what was a talking tool, and what was a non-talking tool.

I also saw the proverb "Know thyself" on the wall of the temple of Apollo in Greece.

In my opinion, Mr. Liu Mingliang's job is dereliction of duty, he has consumed too many slaves, has given too many benefits to slaves, and he does not even know how to maximize the value of those talking slaves.

Therefore, I suggest that I should take the place of Mr. Liu Mingliang in the management of the palm groves, sugar cane groves, and tear groves, which are so much favored by His Majesty. ”

Liu Mingliang stretched out his trembling hands, wanting to hold Leonie's hands, but was thrown away by Leonie arrogantly, Liu Mingliang did not feel any humiliation, and even said to Han Xiufen sincerely: "I plead guilty, I will write to Your Majesty to ask for guilt, and also to the Governor You plead guilty, and seriously agree that Captain Leonie will replace me, a useless person, to manage the three major crops that Your Majesty values." ”

Leonie raised her head proudly, looked at the roof and said leisurely, "You should have done this a long time ago!" ”