What's on the first page?

If it hadn't been for Rocle's mention, if it hadn't been for the guidance of the young man standing nearby, no one would have noticed that there were books in the cubicles under the side table and round table.

But since there are dozens of heads as a guarantee, Luo Xianggong's words cannot be questioned.

The exquisite binding and neat printing are in stark contrast to the bloodstained heads in the stack of boxes at the door, but they are all the proud handiwork of the Song people.

The three villages are not only the shelter of the local clans, but also the strongholds for colluding with the pirates to sell stolen goods, and the relationship with the Spaniards and the Portuguese is even more inexplicable.

There is no shortage of strongmen in the village, and there is the instigation of Hongyi outside the village, since forty years ago, the grandfather of the old Wang Hashan, Serfri Rija Sutan, was defeated by the hands of the Spaniards, the country has become increasingly heavy, even in the vicinity of the national capital, there is enough to compete with the royal family, this is also the origin of the old Wang Hashan's jealousy of the Song people, not only the Song people, any foreign forces, the royal family is very wary, this is later Mei Casey read a large number of historical materials to be able to suddenly.

However, the state is like this, and the crusade against several powerful people in the country has been in vain for many years.

But Rockley just made an understatement to delay everyone's time, and used the fall of three stockades as a footnote, which really gave another 'surprise' to all the princes here. In fact, the cost is not low, after all, the newly surrendered natives have not yet formed an army, and such a dirty work has to be carried out by the traverser himself, and it is not difficult to launch an attack at the same time, but it is really difficult to ensure annihilation rather than defeat, with the current number of traversers.

Turning over the plain and wordless hard-shell cover, and then turning over the semi-transparent title page covered with tulle, what catches your eye is the so-called table of contents, which is the same as the various books sold by the Song people earlier, and the contents of the books are listed in pages, which is the most simple and understandable.

It's just that this number seems to be used by the Taixi people, and after a long time in Nanyang, Hu Barong can still understand the number from one to ten.

All the gentlemen here turned to the first page according to the instructions of the table of contents, and across the entire board was a color map, which had never been seen before, but only felt that it was fine and abnormal.

Eight upright Song characters above the map - the detailed map of the Nanyang roads of the Great Song Dynasty.

Most of you have seen the maps drawn by the natives, Ming people, and Westerners, and they are like garbage when compared with those in this book.

The scale map of 1:20 million is like a pediatric primary school geography textbook in the eyes of a group of leaders, but in the eyes of the other leaders of the participating families, it is a great militaristic weapon, although many details have been removed, but the major cities in Nanyang have been marked clearly, and there are many elements such as sea routes and mileage.

The scope of the map extends from Annam and Qiongzhou in the Ming Dynasty in the north, Java and the Spice Islands in the south, Aceh and Bago in the west, and Luzon and Maluku in the east.

And just a simple glance at the picture, you can get a sentence that has been proven many times in Bo Ni 'short hair is not small'.

Borneo, Xianglin, Molu, this is Nanyang East Road;

Heling Prefecture, Jindao Prefecture, Timor Prefecture, this is Nanyang West Road;

Jiaozhi Prefecture, Lancang Prefecture, Linyi Prefecture, this is Guangnan South Road;

Bagan, Siam, Chenla, this is Funan Road;

Phuket, Buddha State, Sing Tao State, this is Chao South Road;

Sulu, Cebu, Luzon, this is Haidong Road.

Everything is clearly colored and well-planned, so that people can see it at a glance.

Even the various road offices are clearly marked, Brunei, Coconut City, Haimen, Bangkok, Chaonan, Minli, and Luzhou correspond to each other, and the side of the name of the house is marked with the current name.

"Dare to ask Xianggong, what is this?" There is no need to guess at all, the answer can be obtained just by the Chinese characters on the page, but Huang Shunzhi has learned to curry favor in front of the Song people quietly, after all, it is different from the past, although it is not trembling, but the scene just now is really impressive.

"As Zhong Ming can see, this is the map under the jurisdiction of the Nanyang Governor's Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty."

Huang Shunzhi originally did not have a word, in order to show the tenderness of the Great Song Dynasty, but also to win over, Mei Casey specially named him a word, and Huang Shunzhi was also happy to use it.

Vice Minister Huang now understands that the Song people will never do useless things, and since they have taken out the map, there must be something to fall on this map.

"I wonder if any of you here know about the trade and tax revenue of Brunei Province for a year?"

Although the words were changed, the people present quickly understood Rockley's problem.

Huang Shunzhi took the lead, "If the prime minister asks something else, I don't know, but I know something about this finance and taxation." ”

"Please tell me about it."

"In Brunei, there was no tax in the first place, and when a merchant ship arrived at the port, it was levied on a daily basis, but there was also a lump sum, and the import was mostly in the number of tithes, and the export was much less, and it was only one out of a hundred, and it would not be more than four thousand taels of silver a year."

"What about agricultural taxes?" At least at this time, the Ming Dynasty still relied on the collection of huge agricultural taxes to maintain the operation of the country, and Luo Keli had to care about this kind of problem.

"Then it is even more pitiful, before the eighth king, it was calculated according to the tax per mu of rice field, which was less than five cents of silver, but sixty or seventy percent was in kind. Besides, out of the capital, this money is also uncollectible. ”

Huang Shunzhi said this well, don't say that it is Nanyang at this time, even if it is the one in the Forbidden City of Beijing, when he arrives in the suburbs of Beijing, whether his words work or not depends on his mood.

Huang Vice Chancellor saw that everyone here was listening attentively, and his heart suddenly felt refreshed, in the past, he had never had such an effect when he told the lord of the country, and as soon as the numbers were listed, some people would doze off.

So he shook his spirit, "In terms of tax revenue alone, seven or eight out of ten of the capital are looking at the commercial goods, and half of Thailand is sea trade, together with agricultural taxes, but the total is only five thousand taels, and before the prime ministers landed in the next year, when the sea trade was cut off, the nobles in the country were very anxious, and it was for this reason." ”

"No wonder Said is a rich man, and the copper coins he copied from his home are worth it."

"I heard it's all real money?" Huang Shunqing took the opportunity to ask.

"Yes, it's all real money." Xu Xuance accosted him on the side, and he did not shy away from it.

After becoming an ancestor, the sea ban became stricter, and the copper coins flowing into the South Seas were scarce, and when they were not enough, there were big food profiteers who minted fake money to use, and it also circulated in this Bomud country, but it was not comparable to the value of real money. Worth 5,000 taels of real money, just being able to collect it is a skill, after all, the copper coins in the Yongle period have been used for almost two hundred years, if the value is rounded, more than half of the fake money.

Rockley interrupted, "So, I would like to ask you a few questions from the ladies here. ”

Everyone followed the example of a Chinese businessman and said, "I would like to listen to the chief's teaching." ”

"Don't dare, I just want to say, everyone look at this map of the South Seas, the states and roads listed in the map, the population should be no less than 10 million, just in terms of the port cities, the population is also around 2 million."

Some of them, who had been to Mataram and Siam, said in unison, "Let that be the number." ”

"Then do you know how much silver flows into the South Seas every year?"

There was a brief silence, and Rockley didn't give the families time to think, and a number blurted out.

"Four hundred seventy-eight thousand four hundred taels."

This is the silver input data of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Japan in Southeast Asia trade over the years.

"First, this is only on the surface, and secondly, it does not count the share of the trade between the Ming maritime merchants and the South Seas, and thirdly, the trade in spices, precious stones, gold, cotton cloth and other goods has not been counted. If we take the above arguments, it will be more than three times. ”

Few people listened to the latter words, but the number of 478,400 taels was firmly remembered by everyone.

There are silver mountains in Dongyi, and there are silver mountains in the ocean in the west, and the silver and Benyang of Dongyi and Hongyi are continuously sent to Nanyang, and they are transported back to hot commercial goods, but before that, at least in this Bo mud country, no one really counted. Now such a number has been put on the table lightly, in an era when the regular tax of the Ming Dynasty is only a few million a year, what do the Song people want to say?

"Didn't you ever think that their money should have been ours in the first place?"

'They'? 'We'? The two words with profound meaning seem simple, but they distinguish between friend and foe.

When it comes to this, who would want to be that 'them'? But to join 'we', it must be the conditions that the Song people will offer below.

This time he didn't have to wait too long, and Rockley spoke slowly.

"My Great Song Dynasty has recovered Shenzhou this time, and I am going to rely on this land of the South Seas, and everyone must be willing to be loyal ministers of my Great Song Dynasty, so how can there be any reason to be loyal but not praised."

The hook was revealed, and everyone was waiting for the bait below.

"The three rules set by the imperial court, as long as each family is willing to obey them, they can protect the wealth of the family for generations in the future."

This time, the bait has been hung on the iron hook, and I am waiting for the line to be released, which one can be held down again.

"I am willing to listen to the teachings of the minister."

"But it is only in the ...... of colonization and industry, enriching the country and strengthening the army, and civilization and enlightenment"

Plow...... War...... Learn......

The three words of the three strategies are the same as those discussed the day before yesterday.