At the end of last year, Yuan Qi did transfer tens of thousands of victims to Taiwan and the Ryukyus, and Ma Yiqing, who heard this, mentioned this, and Yi Zhizhi explained: "It's not that I don't want to transfer to the South Seas, there are many disaster victims, few ships, and time is tight, so I don't have time to transfer them to the South Seas." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" said he smiled, "Manila has a population of 200,000, and Brother Junhu is still so close?" ”

200,000 people? Ma Yi cleared his eyes for a moment, then glanced at Yan Yangtian, and then said: "The population of 200,000 is true, but this is false, more than half of the population is students and naval and land officers and soldiers, especially students, and most of the school-age children of immigrants and local indigenous wealthy families are concentrated in Manila to study ....... ”

Yi Zhizhi smiled contentedly, focusing on running schools for free, which he proposed, not only to effectively use the limited teachers, but also to control the local aborigines, Manila as a provincial city of Luzon, naturally has many students, and it may not be an exaggeration to say that half of the population of Manila is students.

Smiling, he flipped over his palm, "The palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, but I promise, Nanyang is always the palm of the hand, and there will only be a lot more immigrants transported every year in the future, so it's always okay, right?" ”

Ma Yiqing didn't care about the tens of thousands of immigrants, he was worried that Yi Zhishu would shift his focus to Taiwan and Ryukyu, and when he heard this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, beckoned someone to lead the horse over, and said: "Don't be a car in the big shopkeeper, let's ride into the city." ”

It is said that it is a city, but in fact there is no city wall in Manila, and the Nanyang Navy did not build a city wall after capturing Manila, one is that the people's financial resources are limited, and the other is that Yi Zhizhi does not advocate building a city wall, he thinks that it is not necessary, even if the city wall is still demolished after the city wall is built, it is not a fool's errand.

Manila's road plan is clearly modeled after Shanghai's new city, with wide, straight roads from the port to the city, lined with trees on both sides of the sidewalks, but all dirt roads, lined with shops and pedestrians.

There are many white people in the streets, obviously mixed race children left by the Spaniards, and the pedestrians have a variety of hairstyles, such as short hair, braids, curly hair, long hair, turbans, small hats, and the same is true for clothing, long robes and horse coats, cross-collared right shirts, Han costumes with wide sleeves, indigenous ethnic costumes, Western-style costumes of mixed-race people, and a mix of Chinese and Western clothes.

The same is true of the language, as you walk through it you can hear a variety of languages - Turkish, Spanish, Northern Mandarin, Shandong, Wu Nong, Cantonese, etc., as if you are in an international city.

Manila's government offices - the governor's yamen, the admiral's office, and the prefecture, the provincial yamen are all in the original Spanish built royal city, heard that Yi Zhicontent is coming, the city's large and small civil and military officials rushed to the city gate to greet, seeing this situation, Yi Zhizu had to pull the reins of the horse, all the officials came forward to salute, "Welcome Zhenhai Gong!" ”

Yi Zhizu rode on the horse and glanced at everyone, and said loudly: "Everyone is scattered, each of you will go back to the ya, perform your duties, turn back, and this lord will invite you to a banquet." As he spoke, he urged the horse into the city with a clamp on his belly.

Entering the governor's yamen, Yi Zhizhi said unceremoniously as soon as he sat down: "Tell the back kitchen to get some delicious food, these days at sea, the diet is really bland." ”

"I was ordered to go down a long time ago." Ma Yiqing smiled, and then asked, "I heard that Mrs. Sister-in-law and Mrs. Ru are here?" ”

"Bring them to relax, open their eyes, and play an exemplary role." Yi Zhizu took out a box of cigarettes and lit one as he spoke, "There aren't many Nanyang officials who bring their families to office, right?" ”

"It's not much, it's none." Ma Yiqing said: "The sea route is dangerous, who will let the family members follow to the adventure?" ”

"What's sinister? With so many immigrants immigrating to the South Seas, how many ships have accidents? Yi Zhishu glanced at him and said, "The family members of the officials are allowed to come with warships, and the officials must be encouraged to settle down in Nanyang." As he spoke, he glanced at Yan Yangtian, "The same is true for the troops, encouraging officers to settle down in Nanyang, there are three unfilial pieties, no queen is the greatest, all of them are not small, it's time to start a family, besides, it's not a matter to be alone for a long time, and we must not go against human nature." ”

"Principal Xie is compassionate!" Yan Yangtian hurriedly got up and saluted, a group of naval officers are indeed not young now, and many of them have not yet started a family.

"Sit, don't be formal." Yi Zhishu turned his head as he spoke, "Can the original population of Luzon be investigated clearly?" ”

"One million six hundred and thirty thousand." Ma Yiqing said without thinking: "There are troublemakers, kill some, there are still 1.6 million." ”

"The two or three provinces with a suitable climate and fertile land have only a population of more than one million, which is really a tyrannical thing." Yi Zhizhi said with emotion: "Even if there are two or three million immigrants, it is not too much." After a pause, he continued: "For the natives who are xenophobic and resistant, we cannot be soft and resolutely suppressed!" For those who are obedient, we must also treat them equally, not discriminately, through universal education, intermarriage, after one or two generations, we can completely assimilate them, we must have a heart of tolerance from all over the world. ”

Ma Yiqing said with a smile: "The big shopkeeper has the heart to embrace the four seas, but he also has the ambition to swallow the world?" ”

"Not only has the ambition to swallow heaven and earth, but also has the ambition to dominate the world." Yi Zhizhi smiled and said: "Nanyang is a treasure land, Brother Junhu can give me a good management, as the foundation for our hegemony!" As he spoke, he turned to Yan Yangtian, "Don't always stare at our own one-third of an acre of land, take a long-term view, and occupy Nanyang just to expand outward." ”

Yan Yangtian hurriedly stood up and said loudly, "The student understands. ”

Yi Zhishu nodded and said, "Let's go down first, I'll go to the barracks tomorrow." ”

"Yes." Yan Yangtian saluted vigorously, turned around and retreated, Ma Yiqing chuckled: "The big shopkeeper really plans to compete with Western countries for hegemony?" ”

"I have no choice." Yi Zhizu sighed lightly: "This is an era of hegemony, from regional hegemony to world hegemony, this is still a mineral era, resources are king, not fighting for hegemony means no resources, no resources will be restricted development, development backwardness means being beaten!" Speaking of this, he smiled, "This time I came here for resources." ”

"What resources?" Ma Yiqing was very surprised and said: "What resources does Luzon have?" ”

"Copper mines, gold mines." Yi Zhizhi said in a deep voice: "The development of the military industry needs a large amount of copper mines, Yuanqi also needs a large amount of gold reserves, Luzon is rich in copper and gold mines, I will bring a lot of craftsmen to explore mineral deposits this time, this matter has to be grasped urgently." ”

Luzon is rich in copper and gold mines? Ma Yiqing was stunned for a moment, and then said excitedly: "No wonder the big shopkeeper wants to take the risk of occupying Nanyang, don't worry, as long as there is, I will let them find out by digging three feet into the ground." ”

"Look at your excitement." Yi Zhifen said with a smile: "In addition to copper and gold mines, Luzon also has many distinctive cash crops, such as coconut, Manila hemp ....... ”

"What's the use of coconuts? I can't sell it at all. Ma Yiqing complained: "The sales volume of Manila hemp is not large, it is used to rub hemp rope." ”

Yi Zhicontent glanced at him, "In the future, don't tell people that you are from Guangzhou, let alone that you grew up in Guangzhou, let alone that you are a businessman." ”

What does it have to do with Guangzhou? Ma Yi cleared his eyes for a moment before he reacted, and hesitated: "Can you set up a factory?" ”

"It's not stupid." Yi Zhishu said with a smile: "In addition to being edible, coconut meat can also be squeezed for oil, coconut oil is a good thing, it can be used as soap and soap." In addition to making rope, Manila hemp can also be used to make paper, weave cloth ....... ”

Ma Yiqing's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said excitedly: "The big shopkeeper came this time to prepare to open a factory in Manila?" ”

Yi Zhizhi nodded and said, "Yes, I brought some people over this time for a special investigation." After a pause, he continued: "There is another resource in Nanyang..... Guano. ”

"What?" Ma Yiqing thought he had heard it wrong, and said in disbelief: "Guano? ”

"Yes, guano." Yi Zhi said with a full jaw: "The cost of immigration is not small, we have to find some way to make money to subsidize the subsidy, at least not at a loss is not ......." ”

"Wait." Ma Yiqing said suspiciously: "Guano? Yes.... Sell? ”

Yi Zhishu smiled and said, "If I say that a load of guano can be sold for a silver dollar, do you believe it or not?" ”

Isn't this crazy for money? Ma Yiqing looked at him dumbfounded, guano is so valuable? Seeing his expression, Yi Zhi couldn't help but smile, "Dou Cake knows, right?" Guano is a better fertilizer than soybean cake, and it can be called the best quality fertilizer, do you know what the price is in the West? Two silver dollars per load. ”

Ma Yiqing seemed to be listening to the Arabian Nights, and said after a while: "Could it be that there are a lot of bird droppings in Luzon?" ”

"It's not Luzon, it's the Nanyang Islands, and the Xisha Islands, Nansha Islands, and Dongsha Islands all have extremely rich guano resources." Yi Zhizhi said slowly: "This is equivalent to picking up silver, and you can exchange it for silver with a few shovels, but it is not easy to dig up guano on the island, it is best to use the indigenous people of Luzon, and now there are many fleets going back and forth to the South Seas, and this matter must be implemented as soon as possible." ”

Ma Yiqing came to his senses when he arrived, and hurriedly said: "Big shopkeeper, our yamen at all levels in Nanyang Province are newly built ....... ”

"There is no need to cry poor, the benefits of the two provinces of Nanyang are indispensable." Yi Zhizhi said with a smile: "Let's divide the profits, but let's say it first, this silver is used for local infrastructure construction in Nanyang - building bridges, roads, post stations, water conservancy, etc., if local officials dare to be greedy for ink, I will correct the law if I don't ask for a decree, don't say that I am unpredictable when the time comes." ”

"Don't worry, I'll be responsible for this." Ma Yiqing's eyes narrowed into a slit with a smile, and he almost patted his chest to pack the ticket, Luzon was poor and white, and officials at all levels were crying poor, and now they finally saw hope, and followed Yuan Qi to do business, and it was also personally instructed by Yi Zhizhi, that is definitely a lot of money that can be earned, and he diligently refilled half a cup of tea for Yi Zhicontent, and then he tentatively said: "Guano trade, how much profit can it be in a year?" ”

"I don't know." Yi Zhizhi took a sip of tea, and then said slowly: "There is a small country in South America called Peru, which sells guano a year, and can sell it for 10 million silver dollars, we can't say this, it may be more, or less ......" ”

Ten million silver dollars! Ma Yiqing's hand holding the teapot shook involuntarily, and he gasped and said, "Ten million...... Silver? It's nothing more than turning a stone into gold! ”

Yi Zhizhi glanced at him and rolled his palm, "Do you think Nanyang's palm is just talking?" Immigrants are catching up, and the days of making money are still to come. ”

Hearing this, Ma Yiqing seemed to have taken a reassuring pill, got up and walked to the door, and said loudly: "The banquet has not been made yet?" The hands and feet are sharp, and the big shopkeeper is hungry! ”

Luzon has abundant copper and gold deposits, and the news that Yuan Qi is preparing to open a series of factories in Manila and that two or three million silver dollars are allocated every year for the infrastructure construction of Luzon soon spread in the royal city, and the officials of various yamen are stunned by this series of news and cannot believe it.

When it was confirmed that the news came out after the governor and Grandpa Yi drank, the authenticity was beyond doubt, the entire royal city instantly boiled, Luzon is a newly attached land, it is already sparsely populated, and most of them are indigenous, although there have been continuous immigrants in recent years, but the yamen at all levels are poor, to put it mildly, there is not even the silver to build the yamen, most of the prefectures and counties yamen are located in the homes of the local confiscated large wealthy families, and now they suddenly heard the good news, how can a group of officials of all sizes not be excited?

Malaca Nan Palace.

Lin Meilian stood on the balcony on the second floor with a telescope and looked at Manila City on the other side of the Bashi River with relish, this time Yi Zhizhi brought all his women to Nanyang, Zaitong, Yan Kexin, Bai Zhi, Su Mengdie, Bai Xue, Lin Xuan, Chunmei, Xia He, but, except for Lin Meilian, all of them were seasick and dizzy, and now they are all resting in their respective rooms.

When she saw Yan Yangtian accompanying Yi Zhizhi into the door, she hurriedly trotted downstairs to greet her, and as soon as she approached, she smelled a smell of wine, and couldn't help frowning: "How much did the big shopkeeper drink?" ”

Yan Yangtian saluted before he smiled: "Ma Zhongcheng fell drunk on the table on the spot, I heard that the two drank a jar." ”

"I didn't finish it." Yi Zhishu smiled: "Junhu hasn't grown much in terms of alcohol. As he spoke, he asked, "Are you still resting?" ”

"Not really." Lin Meilian pursed her lips and smiled: "Walking is like stepping on a pile of cotton, and it feels soft." ”

Glancing at the sunset in the west, Yi Zhishu said softly: "The sunset is infinitely good, but it's almost dusk, just sit outside and scatter the smell of wine." ”

Hearing this, Yan Yangtian hurriedly moved the tables and chairs, and Lin Meilian rushed back to the maid to cook the sobering soup, although Yi Zhizhi was content with the amount of alcohol he practiced, he was not as perverted as Huang Dianyuan, and poured Ma Yiqing, he was also thin and drunk, and Yan Yangtian stood a little restrained when he saw it, and immediately beckoned: "Don't be formal, sit." ”

After taking his seat, Yan Yang said genius: "Principal, is there really a rich copper and gold mine in Luzon?" He was really a little suspicious in his heart, after all, Yi Zhixiang had not been in Luzon for a long time, and if there were copper and gold mines in Luzon, how could the Spaniards not mine them back then?