Chapter 127: Niu Venus's South Sea Strategy (1)

After the occupation of Cebu, the Ming had two strongholds in the Philippines, and the Spanish forces were gradually driven out of the islands, and now they are facing the problem of how to govern them. The Spaniards relied on taxes to loot the wealth here, but Zhu Youxiao did not intend to do so, he wanted to build this area into a raw material supply base for the Ming Dynasty, and finally occupy this place stably. The Philippines is rich in copper, silver, and a lot of gold mines, as well as rich forest biological resources, precisely because the resources here are too rich, causing the residents in this area to be very lazy, because they can live a good life without effort, who is willing to work hard, which makes Zhu Youxiao also feel a headache, in order to solve this problem, Zhu Youxiao is very sad.

In the end, it was Niu Jinxing who helped Zhu Youxiao solve this problem, the indigenous people don't need too much work in the face of rich resources, so let them envy people who live better, such as marrying more women, enjoying the cool temperature in summer, wearing more fashionable clothes, taking a more comfortable boat, etc., no matter where in the world, people's comparison psychology is always endless, if you want to change their habits, you have to arouse their greedy desires. Niu Jinxing, a genius conspirator, with his understanding of the ugly side of human nature, breaks this awkward problem and solves the lazy habits of the local population.

The current Philippine series of islands is still in the era of fragmented tribal rule, and it is not yet a real country, and the tribal habits of various places are diverse, and there are countless tribes large and small. Niu Venus used the advanced commodities of the Ming Dynasty to change their living habits and arouse their desire to enjoy life. Niu Venus brought sharp knives, such as kitchen knives, machetes, bows and arrows, fans, anyone has to eat, that's easy to do, look at the kitchen knives used by other tribes to cut vegetables are extremely sharp, cut out evenly, fried meals are sweet and delicious, then buy it. Hand cranked mechanical fan, in the hot summer, everywhere is hot and sweaty, someone hires a maid to slowly shake the light handle, the fan blows a cool breeze, if you sit under the coconut tree, what a pleasant enjoyment. Machetes, bows and arrows, you look at people's machetes, you can cut down enough bananas and coconuts in a while, you use that broken knife for half a day to cut not enough to eat, how shameful it is, look at the bows and arrows used by others, not only lightweight, but also shoot far and accurately, what should I do? Buy it. When you encounter a dispute with other tribes and start a group fight, look at the machetes, bows and arrows in your hands, all of them are extremely sharp, and beat each other to the ground, how exciting it is!

In short, Niu Jinxing sent his merchants to various small islands and tribes in the Philippines, and asked them to sell these advanced goods to the island owners and tribal leaders, as for the price, it is not ordinarily high, a kitchen knife has to be exchanged for silver as heavy as it, or ambergris, agarwood, sumac, etc. of the same value as silver to exchange, fans, machetes, bows and arrows are considered luxuries, then the value is higher, and more things are needed to exchange.

Niu Jinxing's goods are not only these, but also many other various consumer goods, with these fresh things, Niu Jinxing completely aroused the desire of the island owners and tribal leaders, in order to get these goods, those nobles desperately looted the people's property. Niu Jinxing also gave these nobles ideas, let them take some small things from time to time to reward their hard-working subordinates, so that other people are blushing, and under the greedy desire, endless dirty changes have occurred.

Under the inducement of the conspiracy of the bull Venus, the inhabitants of this area of the island gradually changed greatly, and began to compete for limited resources in order to enjoy advanced goods. First of all, starting from within the tribes, they looked at each other, and some began to engage in stealing and killing, which was the easiest opportunity to obtain the wealth of others, and then the tribes began to fight for resources from small to large-scale firefights, and later developed into wars between nearby islands.

Niu Venus is very happy to see this fierce competition, which not only increases the price of his goods, but also sells them different goods according to different forces, not letting the larger forces destroy the smaller tribes, but making them evenly matched, so that they always have the ability to continue fighting. Under the control of Niu Venus, Daming's weapons also began to sell well here, from the beginning of machetes, bows and arrows, to later firing guns, small two-kick mortars, clippers, these things Niu Venus sold to them, and with the continuous improvement of weapons, not only the entire Philippines was very happy, and gradually there was a tendency to spread to other places, let them fight, anyway, it was someone else who died.

Under Niu Jinxing's strategy of fooling the dead and not paying for their lives, the whole ship of silver was transported to the Ming Dynasty, and the population of the natives continued to decrease, laying a good foundation for Zhu Youxiao to slowly control the islands in this area.

What Zhu Youxiao didn't know was that Spain and Portugal were still one country, and they practiced a dual monarchy, but there was a gradual tendency to split, so the Ming Dynasty made a miasma in the Philippines, and the Portuguese were really happy to see it. The Portuguese occupied countless colonial strongholds in South America, and when they saw the hot sales of Daming's goods in the Philippines, it was so hot that they were fighting everywhere, and their eyes were hot. The commodity trade in Daming has been monopolized by the Daming Royal Trading Company of Niu Jinxing, so they signed a sales agreement with the Daming Royal Trading Company in South America, stipulating that they are not allowed to sell outside the Americas.

The Portuguese monopoly trade in South America also promoted its strong international trade ability, accumulated enough original capital, and provided a solid foundation for its later separation from the Spaniards, and another role was to greatly promote the development of South America, after the separation of Portugal and Spain, the Portuguese king abandoned the native royal palace and established another powerful Portuguese kingdom in Brazil, becoming the overlord of South America.

To the south of Cebu Island is Mindanao, which is still in pristine condition, slightly better than Zamboanga, and the territory occupied by the Kingdom of Sulu. The relationship between the Sulu and the Ming was good, but at that time it was because the Spaniards were persecuting and the Dutch were threatening. Now that the Spaniards had been expelled from Luzon and Visayas, the Ming became an even greater threat, so they got together with the people of Mindanao. Xiao Hailong doesn't care so much, anyway, as long as the Sulu people don't take the initiative to find their own business, they won't take the initiative to attack him, after all, they once called the Ming Dynasty a vassal and belonged to one of the subject countries.

Niu Jinxing is not like Xiao Hailong thinks, the power of his Daming Royal Trading House needs a broader sales area, because of his particularity, Xiao Hailong does not care about him, let him do his own thing. Niu Jinxing found Yu Hualong and told him his opinion, this guy is also a bold person, so he helped Niu Jinxing organize an armed caravan and let him go on his own. Of course, Niu Jinxing knew what Zhu Youxiao meant, Zhu Youxiao's purpose was to let him earn more silver, as for what trouble he caused, Zhu Youxiao would definitely not care, and the generals below also knew, for example, his first trade from the Wa Kingdom, which was directly escorted by the navy. So Niu Jinxing began to wander around the South Seas with armed merchant ships, set up a trading point in Zamboanga, and then used this point as a base to build a small castle, and now protect his own life. The next thing to do was to sell the advanced goods of the Ming Dynasty, stir up infighting between the tribes, and then copy his methods in Luzon and the Visayas.

But here he met a descendant of Jinyiwei, and this descendant is also a small tribal leader in this area, his ancestor is a thousand households, because he was sick when he went to Nanyang with the eunuch Zheng He, the eunuch of Sanbao, and could not follow the brigade, the Jinyi Wei Qianhu who accompanied the team asked him to join Jinyiwei, and passed the contact code to him, let him be the local leader of Jinyiwei, this person's name is Lin Shimin, the world is the meaning of ten, indicating that he is the tenth generation of descendants, and Niu Jinxing, who also loses, knows this secret, Otherwise, Lin Shimin doesn't know how many years he will have to wait.