In July, Chen Mu was still in Makino, not only because of the beautiful scenery here, but also because Makino was already the money bag of the whole of Asia.

The power of the merchant was terrifying, and a merchant who took over the tobacco cultivation on the east coast of North Asia, Li Yuxi, urged the imperial court to enforce laws on ploughing, logging, and tobacco cultivation.

But the starting point of the law is not wanton plunder.

On the east coast, due to the vigorous development of the tobacco industry, the Toyo military government planned 460 forest farms, most of the aboriginal tribes lived by logging and hunting, each forest farm was divided into 20 areas, stipulating that only one area could be cut each year, and the remaining forest areas were pastures and hunting grounds.

The same plan was given to tobacco cultivation, where the land of each tribe was divided into farmland and tobacco fields, and the imperial court did not manage much farmland except for the field tax, while tobacco fields were forcibly divided into four plots, and tobacco could only be grown on one piece of land each year.

Li Yuxi saw this matter as thoroughly as Yang Tingxiang of the Oriental Military Government - if he opened the way with Tongbao and wantonly cut down mountains and forests and planted tobacco, it would inevitably cause a large number of aborigines to leave the land and move into the central part of the country, and his business would become worse and worse.

And in the end, it caused the confrontation between the aborigines and the Oriental military government.

Li Yuxi even suggested that the Oriental Military Government implement the decree on the hardware mines and coal mines of the Great Lakes, and suggested that the iron mountain, coal fields, and other resources should be dug up for one year and then buried, and the mountain should be closed for 20 years before being excavated.

And it is not only Li Yuxi who has this idea, such as Yang Tingxiang, the governor of Spain in the Ming Dynasty, Zou Yuanbiao, the commander of Changsheng County, and even Zhao Shizhen, a staff member of the military government, all approve of it - they all think that Li Yuxi is reverent and fearful of heaven and is very far-sighted.

made Chen Mu cry and laugh.

The resistance to this matter is indeed a bit great, not because of others, but precisely because of their own internal reasons.

If in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, if you want to make the iron factory all year round, each blast furnace does two, one for iron-making and one for repair, it is difficult to exchange it for 90 days all year round, and the workers are not happy in the first place, and people have to go back to farming.

But the indigenous workers employed in Asia are different, the blast furnaces here can work three shifts around the clock to make steel, the workers do not have that tradition, and agriculture and industry are easily separated.

But the management was unwilling.

They are people-oriented, believe that people need to rest, and from this point of view, they think that since people want to rest, then the blast furnace must also rest, even the mine must rest, and after digging, they must bury the soil, and once they are buried, they must rest for 20 years.

Li Yuxi paid for the construction of many spare blast furnaces, but they were useless, and the workers wanted to use them, but the officials refused to let them use them.

"You call this the time to understand the sky, I think this is sustainable development, hardware is different."

When Chen Mu said this, Zhao Changji's eyes were full of contempt, and he whispered to Yang Zhaolong, the county magistrate of Muye, who was sitting at the long table: "I used to say that Xiyi was short-sighted, but now it's our turn." ”

Chen Mu thought that this might be the golden mean? Each of them was against the event, even when it came to digging iron ore, and from the very beginning of the Great Lakes ironworks there was resistance.

Even Zou Bald, who was far away from Changsheng, could not contain his disposition to spray something, and wrote a long letter to dissuade Chen Mu from continuing his great cause of increasing production.

"No, why?"

Chen Mu was very confused, he knew very well that this matter was different from the affairs he had encountered in the past, and it was not something he could do if he wanted to go his own way, he spread his hands and complained: "You said that workers should rest, yes, Chen also thinks that workers need to rest, although it is three shifts, but the day shift is one worker, the middle shift and the evening shift are prepared for two workers, they work for four hours and rest for twenty hours, and all workers have two days off every ten years." ”

"Saying that the blast furnace should rest, in the past, the blast furnace was designed to use 90 days to either repair or rebuild, but now I have shortened this time to 45 days, 45 days and 30 days, and each blast furnace has a secondary...... But you say that the mine and coal field should be closed? ”

"You can't dig underground, but you can rest." Chen Mu slapped the table helplessly, he was really incompetent and furious about this question: "Where are we digging now?" I can't finish digging! ”

Pre-industrial mining, iron-making, and steel-making production were completely indistinguishable from the production that followed.

Everyone looked at him without blinking, and without saying a word, their expressions had already clearly expressed the meaning in their hearts.

"You see how Euroi is mining, they dig Potosí all over the place, day and night, all year round, and death, can their production be low? Now we are only digging outcrops, and no one knows how much is underground. ”

"We will protect the mines well, and in the next year, there will be countless steel in Europe, and they will drive our children and grandchildren from this land, and use these ores to make things to beat us, and then it will be my children and your children who will be beaten."

"Our industrialization requires steel and wealth, and I won't rob anyone, and I can't dig a mine here - pinch my cigarette, don't smoke!"

Zhao Shizhen had just lit a small pipe, holding the pipe in his hand and planning to say something, when he suddenly saw Chen Mu get up and wave his big hand and point at him to let him extinguish the cigarette, he was so frightened that his hand trembled, and he almost dropped the pipe to the ground, paused to soothe his mind, and then said cautiously: "If you don't let you smoke, you won't let you smoke, why are you arguing with me." ”

Chen Mu was not against his subordinates smoking before, but in Li Yuxi, he made tobacco a weapon for harvesting gold and silver, and he was very opposed to this pastime.

Because this means that the terrible power is only 1,200 boxes of wild tobacco, so that the Ming merchant Jia Li Yuxi will make a net profit of more than 76,000 taels of silver, and at the same time pay more than 35,000 taels of taxes for the Oriental Military Government, which is still in short supply in Europe.

Li Yuxi even became a guest of the Oriental Military Government with this cause, serving the Ming Empire with his vision.

Just talking about the concept of 35,000 taels of taxes, it is the income of a thousand households, and Zhu Xiaoen's resumption of ** did not cost so much money from its establishment to the end of training.

1,200 boxes of Muye tobacco will be earned, so what about Li Yuxi selling another 12,000 boxes next year?

Europe is a natural dumping ground, since the Spanish came to the New World, they have long developed the habit of chewing tobacco and smoking pipes, and the quality and taste of the pasture, the packaging is more beautiful, and the value is naturally a better choice for them.

And it is difficult to replace, the Europeans can't make decent cigarette paper, and they don't have the roasting technology, and even if they do make their own tobacco, they can only sell it at a low price and earn a hard-earned money.

Chen Mu didn't think that this business could last long, but according to the huge number of people employed in the planting, logging, paper and cigarette industries in the upstream and downstream of tobacco on the east coast, as long as it maintained its peak for ten or twenty years, not only could the gold and silver plundered by Europa from the New World and Africa for decades be recovered, but even the wealth of the Crusades could be gathered in his hands.

In Chen Mu's view, letting Europa return to Europa should be like is his greatest just cause in this world.