Fifty miles east of Luzon City, there is a village called Gaojiabao, which is the headquarters of the Sanhe Company, but people are not used to the company's various names, and most of them are still called business names or triads.

After he returned to Luzon to sell the goods, he made a lot of money, but he was not in a hurry to go to sea, but decided to get Gaojiabao up first, and not let Gaojiabao be abandoned.

After paying the money for the establishment of the business in Luzon, he bought more than 400 prisoners of war from outside the city and brought them back to Gaojiabao to organize the prisoners of war to cultivate fields and grow sugar cane and tobacco.

When he returned to Gaojiabao, in order to increase the enthusiasm of the people, he also created the Tri-Fold, following the model of the Dutch and the British who had created the East India Company, and distributed the shares to everyone who had followed him to Luzon.

He accounts for 40% of the company's shares, basically owns the company's decision-making power, and then gives 30 percent to more than 30 people in Gaojiabao, leaving 30% to reward those who are helpful to the company or make achievements.

His decision undoubtedly aroused the enthusiasm of everyone, so that Gaojiazhuang, which originally had only more than 30 thatched huts and more than 200 acres of rice fields, has undergone great changes in a short period of time, from a small village to a simple fortress.

Gaojiabao is located on a piece of flat land not far from the sea, and the shape of the whole fortress is that the circular earthen wall encloses a circle, which is a bit like the Hakka fort in northern Fujian and southern Jiangxi.

The earthen wall enclosed a large piece of land, with firing ports on it that the soldiers could defend on, and inside were houses and warehouses.

Outside the fort, there are large fields of sugar cane and tobacco, where hundreds of natives work in the fields, and dozens of black clansmen watch from the sidelines.

At this time, the natives working in the fields were urging the black clan to harvest the sugarcane and tobacco leaves in the fields, and the sugarcane was transported to the workshop by the river to squeeze the juice, and then boiled into sugar, and the tobacco leaves were transported to the open space outside the fort to be dried, and then moved into the warehouse inside the fort for storage.

Although the weather is very hot, the natives still have to work.

In Luzon, the natives stood in the majority, the Han and the black domains were in the minority, and the main competitors and threats of the Han people came from the natives who originally lived in Luzon, so the dozens of black feuds brought back by Gao Yihuan became the guards of the triad.

They have no relatives and no kindred, and Gao Yihuan takes care of their food, so it is impossible for them to stand on the side of the natives.

Gao Yihuan made such a decision, it was also a helpless move, they had too few people, if they used natives, in case they colluded together, it would be very unfavorable to the triad.

It was not easy for the Han people to gain a firm foothold in Nanyang, in addition to the harsh climate and unaccustomed to the water and soil, there were enemies on all sides, and they could be attacked by the natives at any time.

On the shores of the Luzon Bay, there are forts like Gaojiabao, all designed to resist the attacks of the natives.

On Luzon Island, the Han people accounted for only a minority, and Zhu Yihai, as the king of Luzon, did not have the strength to maintain a large number of troops, and even the Zheng family could not maintain a huge fleet to maintain the safety of the Han people because of the loss of Fujian.

Therefore, the villages on the island have built forts to protect themselves, and each merchant has its own armed forces to protect the cultivated fertile land from the invasion of the natives and protect the safety of goods.

The Luzon state had to acquiesce that they were armed, but the number of guards in each merchant and village fort needed to be reported to the Luzon state, and the king of Luzon had the right to requisition them at a critical moment, and the village forts and forts and merchants sent troops according to their strength, and in return, the king of Luzon recognized their ownership of the newly cultivated land, or reduced a certain tax on the merchants.

For Luzon, it was the central government that lost many of its rights and distributed them to the localities, not centralized, but subordinated.

To a certain extent, this weakened Zhu Yihai's strength, but Luzon did not have the support of the Ming Dynasty like Champong, Surabaya and Forou.

These places are threatened, with the Ming Dynasty sailors as the backing, the Ming Dynasty will continue to import population in disaster years, the Ming Dynasty has the ability to control in a strong state, but Luzon can only rely on itself to solve the various problems it faces.

The situation faced is different, which determines that Luzon's development model in Nanyang will not be the same as that of the Ming Dynasty, which can be said to be guided by the central government, and Luzon can only try to mobilize the enthusiasm of every Han person on the island, divide the rights, and let them solve the problem by themselves, because it is difficult to solve it by looking for Zhu Yihai.

In September, it was the harvest season, and Gao Yihuan was commanding nearly 100 natives with more than 30 men to bundle the dried tobacco in the fort and transport the cane sugar out of the warehouse.

Not far from the fort, by the seaside pier, there is a three-masted ship parked, on which are the flags of the Ming Dynasty, Luzon and Sanhe Company.

This is a sea boat that Gao Yihuan bought from the Zheng family, and it is also the only boat in the triad.

Now that the situation in Gaojiabao has entered the right track, the only thing lacking is people, but they are not natives, as long as they spend a high price, Gao Yihuan can still buy some of them.

But now in the entire Gaojiabao, there are more than 500 natives, 38 Han talents, plus less than 100 people in the black domain, Gao Yihuan does not dare to expand anymore, in case the natives rebel, they can't control it at all.

Now that there are a lot of goods stored in the warehouse, Gao Yihuan is ready to load the goods on the ship, go to Daming, and go to his hometown to pick up some people by the way, otherwise he will not feel at ease if he has too few people.

At this time, Gao Yihuan and Gao Yitong stood on the edge of the dock, dozens of natives were under the supervision of the black domain, carrying bags of tobacco leaves, walking towards the fortune boat, and a few people behind were carrying cane sugar made of wooden barrels, and the heavy goods bent their backs, and their bodies were slumped forward.

Gao Yiyan looked at the fortune ship, turned around, and said with some worry: "Second brother, the sea has not been very peaceful recently, the Spanish warships often come and go, and several merchant ships have gone out and never returned. Or let's wait! ”

The Spaniards nested on the island of Sulu southwest of Luzon, the Ming Dynasty sailors blocked them in the south, and Zheng Chenggong blockaded them in the north, but the sea was vast, and occasionally one or two Spanish ships broke through the blockade and attacked the merchant ships of Luzon everywhere, which could not be avoided.

Because of the Spanish attack, the port of Luzon was already full of merchant ships, and most of them were reluctant to take the risk for fear of colliding with the Spanish warships.

Gao Yihuan smiled, "It's okay, the Spaniards mainly intercept our merchant ships going to Johor (Singapore), and we will go north to Daming, there will be no problem." Besides, the company is short of people, so I plan to take everyone's relatives over and buy some fine iron and farm tools by the way. I can't buy these things in Luzon, so I can only go to Daming to buy them, and I'm going to buy a boat back, and I should be able to make a fortune again. ”

In addition to producing grain, vegetables and fruits, Luzon did not have anything else to trade, and the Luzon Chamber of Commerce mainly bought tea, porcelain, cloth and other items from the Ming Dynasty, and then sold them to the sultanates of the South Seas, or shipped them to India to engage in the work of "second-way dealers".

Therefore, Spain harassed Luzon's route to Johor, which made it impossible for Luzon to transport goods to India, and trade was greatly affected.

Some merchants parked their ships in the port and did not trade again, but Gao Yihuan saw other business opportunities, went to the Ming Dynasty and brought a boatload of iron back, although the profit was not much, but the risk was small, not to mention that he also had tobacco and cane sugar to send to the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that the profit was not less than a trip to India.

The two were talking, not far away a teenage native, I don't know what he kicked in, fell to the ground, the wooden bucket on his back smashed on the ground, the red cane sugar was half sprinkled, a black clan saw that he was furious, picked up a stick and started fighting, and a native man in his forties saw that he hurriedly put down the wooden bucket on his back, and threw himself on the young native, helping him block the stick waved by the black clan.

The forty-year-old man was beaten to the point that he vomited blood, and the little native below hissed and shouted, trying to push the native who was blocking the stick for him, but the latter really held on, so anxious that the young native cried bitterly.

Their voices attracted the attention of the two, Gao Yihuan frowned, and said to Gao Yiyan: "Remember, our people don't go to beat people, let the black clan do this kind of thing, and if there is a punishment, there will be a reward, and after the sugarcane is harvested, give them a few good meals." ”

Saying that, he looked at the black clan who was still beating people, and then said to Gao Yiyan: "Okay, you tell him not to fight, the injured native let him rest for a few days, five taels of silver a mile." In addition, at dinner, add an extra chicken leg to this black domain. ”

Gao Yiqi nodded, trotted over, stopped the black clan with strokes, asked the young man to help the injured native to rest, and stretched out his hand to summon two native people to clean up the sugar on the ground.

After giving the order, he walked towards Gao Yihuan, but at this moment, a cavalry of the Luzon Kingdom galloped in, he was alone and two horses, with a flag behind his back, and was blown by the wind. He hurried to the gate of the fort, and after asking a few questions, he pulled the reins of his horse and ran towards Gao Yihuan.

The cavalry reined in the war horse not far away, glanced at Gao Yihuan and Gao Yiji, and said loudly: "Which of you is the owner of the Sanhe firm?" ”

Gao Yihuan had some bad premonitions in his heart when he saw this, but Wen Yu still took a step forward and arched his hand, "It's down there!" ”

"The Sanhe Firm has a three-masted sea ship!" The cavalry unfolded a scroll and looked at it, "You have been requisitioned, and you are ready to sail to Luzon City!" ”

After the cavalry finished speaking, he threw the file to Gao Yihuan, then pulled the reins of his horse and went to the next place.

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