"Master Chitose, the minister and Fan Damen talked once, and the four fortresses asked for 200,000 taels of silver......"

When the autumn wind rose, Zheng Zhilong wore a duke python robe, bowed down and followed Zhu Cihong, and walked swaggering by the waterside of Zhongzhou Island in Xuanwu Lake. A pair of thieves' slippery eyes still looked at the eunuchs and palace maids who were waiting around Zhu Cihong, no matter how you look at it, it's a little treacherous!

Zhu Cihong changed into a wide prince's regular clothes - because it was one size bigger, it looked like a stolen dress, but it was sewn by Queen Zhou herself. The reason why it is one size bigger is because Zhu Cihong has grown again during this time! Therefore, when making clothes, you should be wider, so that you don't have to wear them in a few months. Zhu Cihong looked at it at one meter eight...... What a man! Zhu Cihong, who was a short man in his previous life, is now overflowing with a smug smile on his face.

He is now the legendary rich and handsome, and he is also the number one rich and handsome among all mankind!

A brand-new dragon boat is docking at the edge of the pier on Zhongzhou Island at this time. Chen Shifang, the commander of Dongchang, led people to guard the dock, and when he saw Zhu Cihong coming with a smile, he hurriedly knelt down to greet him.

"Get up!" Zhu Cihong waved his hand, and then said to Zheng Zhilong, "Old Taishan, Zhongzhou Island is finished, it's not bad, right?" There are a few more islands on Xuanwu Lake, how about giving you one? ”

Zhongzhou Island was originally the location of the Yellow Book Library. However, after Zhu Cihong took full power, he no longer regarded these inaccurate yellow books as a treasure. So they were transferred from Zhongzhou Island to the Hubu Treasury for storage, and at the same time, the vacated Zhongzhou Island was built for Emperor Chongzhen's "pension palace".

Zhu Cihong is so filial, of course, he grasps the construction of the "pension palace" very tightly. Not to mention spending 300,000 miles of silver, he is also personally responsible for bidding and contracting - now the Daming Ministry of Industry no longer does the project by itself, but is only responsible for bidding, contracting and acceptance. The "Pension Palace" is a model project, and Zhu Cihong has spent a lot of thought.

After the noon dynasty today, Zhu Cihong, a dutiful son, was going to inspect Zhongzhou Island, and happened to meet Zheng Zhilong to ask for a meeting, so he took him to see the place where Emperor Chongzhen was old.

After reading it, Prince Zhu was still quite satisfied, the project was almost finished, and only the interior decoration work was still being done. Chongzhen's "pension palace" is a garden-style, built according to the original west garden of the Wei State Mansion, although it does not use any giant wood and jade, but it is still beautifully repaired, and 300,000 taels is obviously worth the money.

Emperor Chongzhen must be looking forward to living in it, right?

Weng and his son-in-law got on the dragon boat back to Taipingmen Wharf, and after they sat separately, Zhu Cihong smiled and started a transaction with Zheng Zhilong about Taiwan Island, "Old Taishan, you are our No. 1 businessman in the Ming Dynasty, how to buy and sell, don't ask me." But one thing has to be said, as soon as Reshalan City arrives, they should be allowed to live on the island of Taiwan for a few years, right? ”

"They" refers to the sinners of the "Eunuch Rebellion" sent by Zhu Cihong to Taiwan Island, there are thousands of them, and now they have all gone to Fujian, but they did not go to Taiwan, but were arranged by Zheng Zhilong to go to Gulangyu near Xiamen Island. Moreover, Zheng Zhilong also built a house for them on Gulangyu Island, and he also had good food and drink for them.

Exile in Taiwan thus became a vacation on Gulangyu Island...... But Lao Zheng also wants to say, now that there are Dutch forces on the island of Taiwan, what if these fallen former nobles collude with the Dutch?

His reasons were sufficient, so Zhu Cihong did not pursue it. But now that the island of Taiwan is about to be completely returned to the motherland, it is time for sinners to go to the island of Taiwan to stay!

"After the minister goes back, he will arrange ......," Zheng Zhilong grinned, "In fact, Gulangyu Island is also an overseas desert island, a wild place, similar to Taiwan." ”

Who's going to be? Zhu Cihong said: I have been to Gulangyu Island...... You still have to buy a ticket to get to the island! Can that place be a wild place?

"The area around Resharan City is not bad, right?" Zhu Cihong said, "After all, the Dutch have been developing for more than 20 years, and it is not considered a raw land." Let those sinners live for a few years, and when they are accustomed to the climate, the palace will give them a chance to atone for their sins. ”

Zheng Zhilong smiled and said, "That old minister is going to thank His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for his grace for those sinners." ”

The living conditions around Resharan City are indeed a little better than other places on the island of Taiwan, not seven dead and three alive or six dead and four alive, there are always five or five open, maybe a little higher.

If those sinners can survive in the city of Resharan for a few years, then they will be able to adapt to the life of Champa and Shui Chenla, and they will be sent to become colonial officials.

Thinking of the colonization, Zhu Cihong asked again: "How did you think about going to occupy the city and buying rice in Shuizhenla last time?" ”

Zheng Zhilong said with a smile: "Master Chitose, the minister has already let people settle the accounts, and the business of buying rice from Champa and Shui Zhenla will not make much money...... The value of rice is too low, how much is a boatload of rice worth? And we don't have much to buy for Champang, Shui Chenla, and Annam. However, the minister still has a way to import rice from Champa and Shui Zhenla! ”

Zhu Cihong laughed, and said in his heart: I know that you, a profiteer, have a way! You profiteers are better than their doctors!

"Say it, say it!" Zhu Cihong urged two sentences.

"Actually, it's very simple," Zheng Zhilong said, "and the import ship tax is not silver, but rice...... My Daming Haimao has always been more out and less in. The export of silk, porcelain, cotton, ironware, wood, tea, etc., is a variety of goods, and the quantity is extremely large.

The bulk goods imported were only spices, brass, glass, and rare wood, and there were very few, so Xiyi merchants would bring in a large amount of silver every year to make up for the gap in the value of the goods in and out. But the silver doesn't weigh much. Therefore, most of the cargo ships of various countries that import trade come empty, and leave with full loads.

If the imperial court levied a ship tax in rice, not silver. Then the merchant ships that came from afar to trade would dock at Champa and Shui Chenla to purchase rice and transport it north. After all, the price of rice in Zhancheng and Shuizhenla is only one-third of that in Jiangnan, and the merchant ships are along the way, so it is much more cost-effective to pay rice than to pay silver!

Based on the annual import tax of 3 million taels, the maximum amount converted into rice is 3 million stones...... If they could buy them from Champong, Suchenla, and Annam for five coins of silver and one stone, the maritime merchants who came and went could save 1.5 million taels a year.

In order to ensure the supply and at the same time keep the price of rice down, the sea merchants will expand the land in Champa and Shuizhenla. Maritime merchants have money, people have roads, and they are merchants, who are good at calculations and do things well. From the maritime merchants, the colonization of the city and the matter of water Zhenla will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort. ”

"Good!" Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "Quanguo Gong is really the humerus of this palace...... If you let you do it, this palace will be able to greatly save your worries. ”

"Chitose Ye said that he was laughing," Zheng Zhilong thought that Zhu Cihong was joking with him, so he replied with a smile, "How can you enter the cabinet as a scholar?" ”

"Why not? You're a hundredfold and a thousand times better than those nerds......"

Zhu Cihong smiled lightly and did not continue to insist. But he thought in his heart: Sooner or later, he will have to trick you into being a scholar! It doesn't matter if you don't have a Jinshi diploma, and Wu Xiang doesn't have either, so why don't you become the secretary of the military department? It's really not good, you can also take the imperial examination! I can ask Qian Qianyi to tutor you, and I will definitely be able to win.

"It's better to do this," Zhu Cihong turned the topic back to trade and colonization, "the tax package of Quanzhou and the tax of the Yamen of the Governor of Nanyang are also paid for rice...... Two tax packages plus one piece is one million taels, and you just need to pay 800,000 stone white rice. ”

Zheng Zhilong was stunned, why did it go around my head again? He thought about it again and thought it was okay...... The island of Taiwan will soon be taken, and perhaps more land can be opened up on the island to grow rice. If there is a harvest in Fujian, 450,000 mu of fertile land will be enough to pay 800,000 stone rice.

In addition, Champa and Suchenla must also be profitable! Zheng Zhilong thought to himself: Brother Pulian seems to be going to be prosperous, and when Da Mu comes back from deceiving Japan, let him go on a trip to Shui Zhenla...... Be sure to cheat!