What can support the colonization of the Ming Dynasty?

In terms of the current situation of internal and external troubles in the Ming Dynasty, it is certainly unrealistic to lose money and burn money to colonize like the French, not to mention that they will lose money, after all, the French are only facing a few scattered indigenous tribes in North America, and they burn money, burning hundreds or thousands of people.

But there are millions of natives living in Nanyang!

Thousands?

It's just a stronghold.

Besides, what does Daming need? It's to send millions of displaced people to the colony, so many people, but it's just a drop in the bucket, and it can't quench your thirst at all!

The base of displaced people is large, and it was decided from the beginning that the colonial path of the Ming Dynasty is definitely different from that of European countries!

The Europeans used hundreds of years of colonization to build their colonial cause. However, the Ming Dynasty wanted to move millions of displaced people overseas in a short period of time, and the only ones that could be compared to it were the great migration after the famine in Ireland.

But the crux of the matter is that when Ireland immigrated, North America was open to them, and they paid for the tickets themselves!

But what money do the displaced people of the Ming Dynasty use to buy ferry tickets?

Zhu Guoqiang couldn't afford this money, and the imperial court couldn't afford it either.

Who can afford it?

No one else can take it. Immigrating one million taels a year is equivalent to tens of millions of taels of expenses per year. If this money is completely borne by the government, what will be the result of the bankruptcy of the imperial court! Eventually, so-called immigrants will become a joke, and may even be making wedding dresses for others.

If you immigrate to millions of people, you will let millions of people pay for it!

If the poor emigrate, let the rich pay!

But how can they possibly pay for it?

Not only do you have to make them pay for it, but you have to make them pay it willingly, but how can you make them pay for it willingly?

What do these mercenary guys value in their eyes?

Benefit!

As long as they see the benefits, they will be willing to pay for it.

But how could a colony without mines be profitable? And these benefits must be available to every immigrant, and it is clear that even mines cannot meet this requirement.

Just like the poverty alleviation in later generations, the key is to first find a suitable industry.

This industry does not need to make much money, but it can make everyone see its rich returns, and people will be willing to pay for it, so that more people can be sent to the colony.

After thinking about it, Zhu Guoqiang still set his sights on rice!

The ocean-going rice trade may not be very lucrative, but it can involve every migrant household, because every migrant is basically an agricultural migrant – the Mekong Delta was a time when there was little development and tens of millions of acres of land to cultivate.

It is now the territory of Chenla, but more than a decade ago, King Gi Zhe Ta II married the six princesses of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam (a separatist regime in Annam), who obtained the coastal land from the husband of Chenla, allowing the Vietnamese refugees to enter the area, thus becoming a paradise for Annam refugees who had escaped the Trung Nguyen dispute.

However, the real development there was after the surrender of the Zheng clan in Taiwan, and his subordinate Chen Shangchuan did not want to become a subject of the Qing Dynasty, so he led 3,000 people and Yang Yandi and other overseas Chinese to cultivate fields, build houses and cities there. This is especially true of the Mekong Delta.

In other words, there is no owner at all now.

No, it has a Lord, but that's nothing.

After all, the so-called "Annam Metropolitan Envoy" is not a real state, but a Tusi regime attached to the Ming Dynasty. Nearly half a century ago, after the restoration of the Southern Later Li Dynasty, the Li Dynasty was able to flourish. Li Shizong sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to ask the Ming court to restore the canonization of the former "King of Annam", but the Ming court temporarily granted the title of "Commander of Annam" on the grounds that the situation was undecided.

From then until the death of the Ming Dynasty, Vietnam always existed as an administrative autonomous unit within the territory of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Ming Dynasty also allowed the Li Dynasty to open up Gaoping and Taiyuan to the descendants of the Mo family.

Even if there are several regimes in the current small Annan State Metropolitan Envoy Division, it has become a pot of porridge internally, but externally it has to recognize the "good father" of the Ming Dynasty.

But even if that's the case, they still have the strength to bully Champa and Chenla in the south, and it's not the "Great Annan" to bully, but a Nguyen lord in Quang Nam suppressed Champa and Chenla, and these two countries are simply so weak that they are outrageously weak.

The Mekong Delta is in the hands of Zhenla, and it is simply a childish child holding gold to pass the market, and he went over by himself, not to seize the land, but to protect this child who is unable to protect himself!

Well, Zhenla was also a member of the tributary system, in other words, you have to call Daming Dad.

Well, the son's stuff is daddy's!

What the son can't keep, when the father takes it and keeps it for him, what's the big deal?

It's a no-brainer!

It's bullying there.

It's clearly Daming's father, and he can't get used to the two weakest "sons" being bullied by other sons, so he stands up and administers justice.

Of course, this justice can not only solve the food problem in the country, but also resettle millions of displaced people.

That's a great thing!

Of course, Zheng Hongkui doesn't understand how this "good thing" is, he is a businessman, and he values interests more.

"But, Lord Shizi, even if it is like this, on average, the profit of one trip is only a thousand taels of silver at most, and this profit is too low."

Zhu Guoqiang had no choice but to patiently explain:

"Not much, of course. But you have to know that this is a long-term business, especially for investors, you invest a thirty taels of silver, the return is not only the two percent of the rent, let's first calculate the account of these two percent of the rent, and then what, a year to return a dozen taels of silver, it is no problem, these twenty years, is almost ten times the return, Shengyi, you say, in the world, what business can have such a high return?

After asking rhetorically, Zhu Guoqiang said again.

"But, this is not the biggest business, after all, this is just a small amount of money, what is the real business? It's immigrants, millions of immigrants who have to get dressed, they have to use ironware, they have to buy all kinds of goods, where do these things come from? Surely it still has to be transported by sea? The Zheng family's fleet transports people to a place, and naturally opens a business to a place, which is not only to collect land rent, but also to conduct trade, at the beginning, this trade does not make much money, but ten years, twenty years later? After those immigrants gave birth to a generation, two generations, and there were millions, or even tens of millions, in the past ten or twenty years, how much did the Zheng family earn through maritime trade? ”

Zheng Hongkui didn't know for a while, but there was no need to count this matter, everyone knew that this must be a good thing, and it did have a lot of benefits for the Zheng family!

Even if the Zheng family doesn't buy a "ferry ticket", this business is a sure profit!

You can earn shipping!

But the key is...... Is this true?

Zhu Guoqiang then said:

"Since we are going to immigrate there, there will definitely be cities, and rice will need to be transshipped through ports and commercial ports. And this transshipment port and commercial port, of course, can be made into our territory...... This is not a stronghold, but a city of my Daming, which was a small city at the beginning, but some cities must be on the trade route, and they will eventually become a big city like Fuzhou. After all, in the end, we will set up one province after another there, and the provincial capitals of the provinces are those cities, and when your Zheng family is trading on the sea, you will definitely set up shops in those cities to trade. So how much will these houses be worth in the future? ”

Staring at him, Zhu Guoqiang said again.

"Moreover, Zhenla and Champa also have a lot of special products that can be sold for money, such as ivory and mahogany, where can we grow sugarcane and produce cane sugar, which can become our way to make money."

It seems like so...... Zheng Hongkui sounded a little dizzy, obviously he was talking about transporting people and rice business at the beginning, why did he talk about it farther and farther?

Looking at the eloquent prince in front of him, a thought suddenly popped up in Zheng Hongkui's heart.

Talking about business with this master will definitely not take advantage of him.

Suffer?

Will the Zheng family suffer?

Even if he is as shrewd as Zheng Hongkui, he is a little dazed at this time......