The Ming warships brought back from Diaoyu Dao or Diaoyu Island, as it was called at this time, were only samples of less than 10,000 catties in total.

Real development still takes time.

After all, Diaoyu Island and its small islands are not suitable for large ships to berth, and there are no buildings on the island, so if you want to be a prisoner of war camp, you have to build a fortress, a permanent army, equipped with cannons and a few patrol warships. The means of controlling the prisoners of war were simple, as long as they controlled fresh water and food, they could be forced to work, so that the supervision of their fortresses was necessary, and it was necessary to prevent the Dutch from being rescued by force, so that at least one battalion would have to be stationed.

In short, pre-construction is essential.

The most important thing is fresh water, there is not much fresh water on the Diaoyu Islands, at least it cannot be consumed by thousands of people, and it is necessary to build a collection pond to collect rainwater, and this has to transport cement there.

Good thing the food there was well settled.

First, there are many goats and the second is a fishing ground near the sea, originally in the history of the Japanese people built a bonito processing factory on it, of course, the most important thing is the distance, from the chicken coop past is nothing more than hundreds of miles of sea route, but also the Kuroshio sea route.

In this way, the early construction period of two years can be calculated, and at this time in the next year, it can officially start to enter the output stage, first in the Diaoyu Islands, and then from Chikan, which has just been renamed Taiwan, to establish a route to Dongsha, and then start from Dongsha. Step by step, we walked to Xisha, the most resource-rich island, which is the largest guano island off the coast of China, where guano supported rice in southern China in the sixties, and even used guano there for both lakes. The reserves of the entire Paracel Islands were estimated at 300,000 tons, of which 200,000 tons were concentrated on Woody Island, and this was after the Japanese frantically exploited them, from which tens of thousands of tons were transported every year during World War II. As for the extremely simple mining, according to the workers at the time, where there were trees, the bottom was full of guano more than one meter thick, and it was just dug up and bagged and transported away.

It was only after the development of the fertilizer industry, coupled with the fact that the resources were becoming scarcer due to frenzied exploitation, that production there was stopped.

In short, the guano business took off.

Taiwan's sulphur industry is also taking off.

In fact, the Dutch have been mining sulfur in Taiwan before, and sugar and sulfur are the main industries of the Dutch in Taiwan, and the rest is the expropriation of scraping the land, after all, the island of Taiwan is full of this thing. But they were all small and sporadic mines, and the giant mine that Yang Qing and Zheng Zhilong acquired in Taipei was a qualitative change, and it was the only truly large sulfur mine in China.

With this, there is no need to think about the supply of sulfur in the future.

As for mining......

Well, this one has to be a slave.

"Buying black slaves?"

Zheng Zhilong said.

The discovery in Taipei made him ecstatic.

Yang Qing is right, it is really a huge treasure trove, not only sulfur, the Zheng family also found golden sand in the chicken coop area, and the Spaniards have begun to dig coal in the chicken coop, gold, coal, sulfur, the three things add up to their partnership Taiwan Development Company is a golden light.

However, the worker problem is serious.

There are not enough workers.

Although it can be recruited from Fujian, but with the economic development of the Ming Dynasty, especially the comprehensive promotion of sweet potatoes, even the mountain people in Fujian are not very willing to take the risk of going to Taiwan, before Zheng Zhilong was able to organize large-scale immigration was the famine in Fujian, but now there are more and more sweet potatoes, the threat of famine has decreased sharply, and the population of Fujian has not reached the level of the late Qing Dynasty, and the desire of the people to run out is not high. In particular, the work of mining sulfur, which is purely exchanging lives for money, is even more unattractive, and the number of prisoners of war is too small, and they have to be kept for later digging guano for use, so that only slaves can be used, at this time, the black slave trade is booming, which Zheng Zhilong is very clear.

"Black slaves are too expensive, and the death rate is too high for the ghosts to transport them here from Africa."

Yang Qing vetoed the proposal.

"That's right."

Zheng Zhilong said sympathetically.

Originally, the Zheng family's army actually had a small number of black slaves in history.

"But, we can buy the natives."

Yang Qing said.

"It's not easy to do, the natives are all clans, and they won't sell their people."

Zheng Zhilong said.

"They won't sell their clan, but their adversaries will! Do you think the ghosts were catching black slaves on their own in Africa? No, they are actually buying, instigating those black tribal chiefs to exterminate other tribes, and then sell the captured prisoners of war to them cheaply, since even the ghost guys can play this, why don't we play among the natives in Taiwan? I don't need to say more about how to do it, right? Anyway, they often barbecue when they capture prisoners of war, so instead of barbecue, it's better to exchange some good things with us, such as some luxury goods, they should like food, right? How about sweet canned fruit? If they like silk, they give it to them, and in any case, if they try to use it as much as possible, it will not increase their strength, but rather weaken their wildness.

You can even give them soap.

These fellows will be troublesome in the future, and they must be weakened as much as possible, and the first thing to weaken them is to destroy their wildness, and it will be easy to conquer them when the wildlings learn to use soap. ”

Yang Qing said.

Soap soap or something, in this era of the Ming Dynasty does not need a traveler to invent, in fact, this is very ancient, there are hundreds of shops in Nanjing City that make pancreas by hand, and even toothbrushes do not need to be traversed, people in the Song Dynasty used toothbrushes, in a sense, toothpaste also has. Of course, it's not salt, the Tang Dynasty had a special prescription for tooth protection, and it was very common in the Song Dynasty, and the big road goods he is now introducing are tooth powder made of squid covers. As for the soap, the main road goods are whale oil soap, but in the future it will be changed to oil palm, he is going to West Africa through the merchant ship of the British East India Company to get oil palm seeds for him, but Liangguang is still in the hands of King Gui, he can only grow oil palm in Yunnan now, and it can be eaten mainly in the early stage.

Palm oil is really bad.

But for the mountain people of Yunnan in this era, oil is a good thing, and high fat content is an advantage rather than a weakness for them.

At this time, the main source of vegetable oil in the Ming Dynasty is actually rapeseed, especially in Huainan, Jiangnan, which is this kind of thing, it can be rotated with rice, rape seedlings are raised before the rice field is harvested, transplanted after harvesting, and even seventy percent of the rice fields are rape in winter, and only three percent are more traditional wheat, which is introduced in Xu Guangqi's book of agricultural administration. However, rapeseed cultivation takes up the cultivation of winter wheat, which will reduce grain production, which is not in line with Yang Qing's needs, so he has to make every effort to promote other oil crops.

However, soybean oil is limited by the means of oil extraction, which is not the best choice at this time.

Instead of squeezing oil, it is better to make tofu.

The yield of peanuts is too low, and there is actually no use for eggs before there is no mulch, at most they are like melon seeds as a snack.

Sesame is the oldest oil crop and the most suitable for current oil extraction technology, but the yield of sesame seeds is lower and it is unlikely to be truly popularized.

In fact, he has two choices, rapeseed oil and palm oil, rapeseed oil occupies wheat production, palm oil does not have this problem, palm oil is indeed not good to eat too much, but people in this era need to care about what diseases caused by excessive fat? The most lacking thing in this era is fat, canned whale fat oil is widely popular among the people, and now even the fishermen in Zhoushan, who originally regarded the whale as the god of fish, almost made a riot in order to stop the whaling, regard the whale as gold. The most important thing in this era is to increase fat for the people, worrying about what palm oil fatty acids are too high is completely nonsense, Yang Qing plans to plant a large number of oil palms in Tainan, Hainan Island and even the future Nanyang colony, and then use palm oil to make soap lubricating oil and even use it as edible oil to transport to Daming.

Supply those cities with this kind of thing.

Then, in this way, the cultivation of rape in various places was reduced and the wheat was changed to increase the grain production.

In this era, talking about everything else is nonsense.

As long as the people can be fed, they are basically invincible.

As for how to lure the natives to kill each other and then capture prisoners of war and sell them to the Taiwan Development Company as slaves to mine sulfur, this does not need Yang Qing to worry about, Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhibao is in charge of the Taiwan Development Company, and he will handle this kind of trivial matter well. The house slaves sent by Yang Qing and the eunuchs sent by Zhang Yan will supervise his work from the two systems, so that Taiwan will truly become the private treasury of the Yang family, the Zheng family, and the queen mother.

Now there are many such vaults.

For example, the North and South Two Oceans Company, Nanyang controls maritime trade to Southeast Asia, and Beiyang controls North Korea's trade and whaling in North Korean waters.

There is also the Shen family's replacement of the Zheng family's Toyo Company.

In fact, not only the Shen family, but also the real power generals like Huang Binqing and Zhang Mingzhen, who were in charge of trade with the Japanese and other parts of the Ryukyus, also controlled the whaling of the Zhoushan fishery and the canneries along the coast.

And the largest coffers are undoubtedly banks.

The Imperial Bank actually controls the financial industry of the Ming Dynasty, after all, it has the exclusive right to issue banknotes, and it also has the management of the household department and the treasury funds. Including the army in addition to the front-line garrison, the others are also issued in banknotes, these people cannot exchange all of them, not even half of them, as long as it is the same as silver, then of course it is more cost-effective to use banknotes, the result is that the vaults of the Imperial Bank are piling up more and more gold and silver.

And this bank is not state-owned, this is Yang Qing, the Empress Dowager Yi'an, plus a large number of generals to open a joint-stock bank, Yang Qing is the largest shareholder, plus the Empress Dowager Yi'an, he controls half of the shares.

In this way, the Ming economy is also controlled by him.

The army is in hand, the secret service is in hand, the economy is in hand, the power of public opinion is basically in control, and it is even a god with millions of fanatical believers......

Nanjing, however, there are common people who have built temples for him.

Almost every household in the Huangzhuang everywhere enshrines his immortal tablet, and he seems to be the spiritual leader of these people, with such control, all those who try to confront him are nothing more than mantis arms as a car.