"I'm not interested in Fujian."

Yang Xin was very honest.

Huang Kezhang came to negotiate with him on behalf of the Fujian gentry under the banner of passing by, after all, his army had already arrived at Xianxia Pass, and the Nanyang Naval Division had just beaten the Fujian Naval Division before, Fujian completely relied on overseas trade, if Yang Xinzhen was worried about Fujian, he didn't need anything else, and the North and South Eryang Naval Divisions blocked the Minjiang River Estuary and Xiamen, and the Fujian gentry would have to kneel!

But Yang Xinzhen was not interested.

"You don't have what I want there.

What I want is a place where I can grow food, and there are so many people there that you can't even feed yourself, so what's the use of me coming?

Actually, I would like to work with you even more.

The fundamental reason for your opposition to me is actually Nanyang Company, because Nanyang Company occupies too much share of the sea and blocks the financial route of your overseas trade, but this problem is not difficult to solve, you can join Nanyang Company. I welcome Fujian maritime merchants to join, all Fujian maritime merchants can join the Nanyang company, in the future we have money to earn together, in the end I am not a person who eats alone, since I am willing to cooperate with those maritime merchants in Guangdong, of course, I can also cooperate with Fujian businessmen.

You are the ones who have to smuggle.

You have to be like in the past, even the Li family has cooperated with me, I really don't know what you Fujian maritime merchants are still entangled in?

The ocean was big enough to accommodate us.

In fact, you have no idea what is really profitable in overseas trade.

Just that little business?

Wrong!

Robbery is the most profitable.

The Spaniards robbed the Americas, until now more than 100 years are still enjoying the dividends, Fujian tea farmers work hard to pick tea to make tea, people use the silver dug out of the ground to buy and enjoy, who is really happy, people have made an example, we have to follow the example. ”

Yang Xindao.

"The old man reads the books of the sages."

Huang Kezhang said with a smile.

Of course, he is just one, as a native of Quanzhou, and he is also the first person in the Ming Dynasty to introduce the Hongyi cannon, he must be very clear about the overseas situation.

The craftsmen he brought in had all fled from Manila.

It is impossible for him not to know how the Spaniards made their fortunes.

"This is not contradictory to reading the books of the sages.

The sages also taught us to take up the responsibility of indoctrination when needed, and we also indoctrinate with guns, and that's what the Europeans did, with guns and with the missionaries, and they have been very successful, and as far as I know, most of them have believed in them. People who come from tens of thousands of miles away can do this, since we are full of poetry and books, of course, we can't lag behind, and it is the responsibility of our generation to educate the Ming Dynasty in all countries.

This is our destiny.

I think you also want to see the teachings of the sages as far as the wilderness, right?

Do you also want to see those barbarians reading the Four Books and the Five Classics, and they must be called Confucius and Mencius, right?

As far as I know, many Fujianese people have already established settlements outside, so why don't we expand it?

They alone will definitely not proofread

Without the protection of force, sooner or later there will be a second Manila, the more money the more urgent, Li Dan claimed to have a gold mountain in Manila back then, but the result was not the last to cheapen the Spaniards?

But I can protect you.

My sailors of the two oceans are invincible on the seas of the East.

And what about the Spaniards in Manila?

The two oceanic sailors plus the marines drove over enough to defeat them.

Didn't they kill a lot of you Fujianese last time, and robbed a lot of gold and silver, you go back and find out those who escaped back, and let them come to me to complain about their grievances, and then I will play Your Majesty, and let the two oceans sailors form a combined fleet and sail to Manila, and force the Spaniards to pay compensation.

Isn't that what the money is?

And we must make them promise not to commit any more crimes in the future, and at the same time allow our merchants to go back again, and we must send troops there to protect our merchants, and if the Spaniards do not agree, we will continue to beat them, and even join the Dutch to beat them. Or even simply send a fleet across the ocean to the Americas, to bombard Acapulco, we have battleships, what are we afraid of. ”

Yang Xindao.

Well, it's time to take that step.

He is really not interested in Fujian, where there are few people and no reclamation value, the wasteland that can be cultivated is basically reclaimed, modern Fujian cultivated land of 20 million acres, at this time the official figure is 14 million, plus the hidden field is probably about the same, the number of hidden fields in the far away place of the high emperor must be amazing. Moreover, the ratio of Jinshi to the population in Fujian is frighteningly high, the population is less than one-third of Shanxi, and the number of Jinshi is twice that of Shanxi, which also means that the proportion of non-paying taxes is extremely high, and the amount of land paid by Fujian in a year is only a pitiful 970,000 stones.

The rest, even if there is still wasteland, is unreclaimed under the conditions of this era.

Fujian is different from Beizhili, and even if the current cultivated land area of Beizhili is added to the hidden field, I am afraid that there are still tens of millions of acres of reclaimable area, after all, modern Hebei plus Beijing and Tianjin has exceeded 100 million mu, and it is after large-scale urbanization.

At this time, the surrounding area of the capital can be full of farmland.

But Fujian really has no reclamation value.

On the contrary, we should also find a way to coax the Fujian people out, after all, this is the only group in the Ming Dynasty who likes to run overseas, and it is also the only one who has begun to colonize.

Guangdong can't compare.

At this time, the pressure on Guangdong to go out is far less than that of Fujian, because Guangdong's registered cultivated land area is almost twice that of Fujian, and the registered population is only slightly larger.

Again, Cantonese people can go to Guangxi.

At this time, Guangxi's registered population was only half of Guangdong's, and the cultivated land was only a pitiful 9 million mu, but modern Guangxi was 60 million, which could be full of wasteland to be reclaimed.

There are really many people and little land, and it is almost impossible to accommodate only Fujian.

This must be fully utilized.

But it was not to immigrate to Taiwan, but to Nanyang, and the first batch was around Saigon.

Taiwan is used to accommodate those immigrants from the north, after all, they can't send the northerners to Nanyang, they can't stand it at all, but Taiwan can barely bear it, the previous group of Guizhou people are currently living very well, this year has achieved complete self-sufficiency, and even began to sell a small amount of grain to the north. Moreover, the northern farmers who followed them were also able to adapt, so it can be seen that there is no big problem in using Taiwan to resettle the northern disaster victims. But it would be an exaggeration to let them go to Nanyang, which can only be colonized in Fujian and Guangdong, and at present, Fujian is the easiest, because they are already in a bunch of overseas settlements similar to commercial colonies.

Nagasaki in the Wa Kingdom, Hoi An in Vietnam, and even Pattani in the Malay Peninsula.

There are Min merchants in these places.

Hoi An alone had four or five thousand people, which belonged to the Japanese merchants, and the Fujian merchants in Nagasaki and other places in their own country added up to twenty or thirty thousand, which was recorded by Zhu Guozhen, who heard from a maritime merchant named Liu Fengqi.

But they lack the protection of force, and because of the region, clan and other reasons, they still like to fight themselves, so they need a person to use force to integrate, as long as these Fujianese who run outward are integrated into a group, then there is really nothing to do with Europeans in Southeast Asia.

What is the background of the massacre carried out by the Spaniards in Manila?

It was Li Dan who was rumored to own Jinshan.

The whole of America is rumored to be the wealth of this Manila Fujian merchant chief, and it is rumored that he is richer than the king of Spain

What is the background to the massacres committed by the Dutch in Batavia?

Nine of the ten sugar cane plantations around Batavia are Huarao.

Those who broke into the South Seas were basically Fujianese, plus some of the Chaozhou Rao Chinese, with their own diligence and brains, developed rapidly in every place, in Hoi An they squeezed the Japanese merchants to dozens left, on the island of Java they had more plantations than the Dutch, and in almost all trading ports, there were these Rao figures and their settlements.

But with a huge amount of wealth but no armed protection, and even if he still likes infighting, then it is normal to be slaughtered by other fat sheep, including the later Lan Fang, if it weren't for the infighting and cannibalism of those Chinese gold diggers in West Borneo, there would be nothing to do with the Dutch in that place. They have the strength, they have even established a bunch of commercial strongholds in fact, but they need to integrate, they need a powerful figure to let them abandon their clan and geographical barriers, and eventually integrate into a colonial group.

This is what Yang Xin is going to do.

And to go to Manila to beat up the Spaniards to vent their anger is to prove to them that he is capable and tell them that he is worth relying on.

And then......

Then, of course, it was Saigon.

"The king is anxious for justice and righteousness, and the old man thanked those villagers first."

Huang Kezhang thanked him very falsely.

"It's just that I don't know what the king thinks of His Majesty's reforms?"

He continued.

"Yes, of course I fully support, I know that Fujian businessmen don't like tax supervisors, but let's be honest, Your Majesty hasn't personally grasped anything for so many years, and now for the first time, he has shown the style of a human monarch, and we must fully support it as courtiers, isn't it 500,000 taels a year." Originally, there were already 300,000 tax packages of silver in Fuzhou and Zhangzhou, and the remaining 200,000 were still in various land customs, and in the end it was nothing more than a gap of 100,000 taels.

Isn't it silver?

We don't need to pay, let those ghosts just pay, that's why I want to engage in Nanyang Company to control trade, we used to compete with each other, so that the ghosts made a profit, and in the future we have to unite to control the price, no matter which customs it is exported from, the price must be consistent, and the price will be increased together when the price is needed.

The ghosts don't have anywhere else to buy these things. ”

Yang Xin is very profiteer-like.