Chapter 40 Dividends
If the Spaniards have done anything here for more than two hundred years, it is that they have killed almost all of the unChristians in Luzon - except for the primitive tribes deep in the forest, which is indeed a major benefit to Christendom. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In religions outside of China, when you preach, you have a scripture in one hand and a knife in the other, and if you don't believe me, I will give you a knife. If in ancient China it was not rich without killing the poor, then before the end of World War II in Europe, it was not rich without killing infidels.
In three days, not only the siege of the city, but also the original sin wealth of the Spanish colonists inside and outside the city were counted, about 190 tons of gold, 2,070 tons of silver, and 5 tons of various precious stones and rough gemstones. The wealth of gold and silver alone is about 80 million taels of silver according to the comparison of the Qing Dynasty, and with the addition of precious stones, the value will not be less than 100 million taels of silver.
There is still about half of the gap between Song Haiping and the more than 200 million taels of silver promised in advance, but the Spanish stronghold on Luzon Island is not Manila, but only a dozen military strongholds, although Manila is the largest and most prosperous one, but it does not mean that there is no harvest elsewhere. After all the searches, it can only be said that the income will definitely exceed 200 million taels of silver.
Just when Song Haiping selected a Spanish maid for himself, the soldiers of the Hunan army Huaiyong issued a reward according to the above instructions, and the excess wealth obtained by the soldiers of the Hunan army Huaiyong wanted to be taken away, and the Japanese air force had to cooperate, otherwise they would take the gold and silver treasures into the deep mountains and old forests of Luzon and wait to be natives.
In terms of its attributes, Luzon is still good to develop as a plantation, and it is a match made in heaven because of its rich mineral resources, especially copper and gold mines, and there are enough prisoners of war to fill the mines. As for the trading point between the East and the West, at least Song Haiping feels that the status of Malacca should be higher.
Now stationed in Malacca is a relatively large power in Asia, but in fact it is the most vegetable colonial power in Europe, Portugal, although Portugal has colonies on all continents in the world at this time, but in fact, because the local strength is too weak, these years have been relying on the thigh of the British to preserve the colony.
The fortress of Malacca is indeed impregnable for the local aborigines, and the blows of foreign guns and cannons always make the local aborigines scatter. But in the face of Japan with weapons or Chinese forces with Japanese weapons, Malacca is like an apple, and when the apple is ripe, it should be picked.
At this time, according to calculations, within three months, the Sino-Japanese coalition forces had cleared the Spanish forces in Asia, and there were only two Westerner forces left in Nanyang, one was the Portuguese in Macao and Malacca, and the French who occupied half of Vietnam.
As for the Asian Dutch colonial power, which should have been in the limelight at this time in history, it was destroyed by the joint attack of the Heshun Company, the Lanfang Republic, and the Nanyang Tiandi Society, which had been equipped with advanced Japanese firearms and ironclad ships long before the Battle of Luzon.
After several battles, tens of thousands of Dutch colonists whose weapons were clearly behind the times died or surrendered under the blows of Oriental guns and ironclads, Batavia was also occupied by the Heaven and Earth Society, and those Dutch colonists who surrendered now and are still alive are working in the mines of the three companies, using their own labor to wash away the original sins of the colonists - and the three companies do not seem to have any intention of releasing or negotiating with the Dutch, and it seems that these Dutchmen are going to work to death.
As for the European women brought by the Dutch colonists, although the value of the Persian women was not as high as that of the Persian women in this era, the white foreign girls were decisively stronger than the local black indigenous women, and the young ones were divided among the leaders of the three forces at all levels, and the older ones were thrown into the mines to work as washesses and comfort the white coolies in the mines - the year of the tiger and wolf can change the groom night and night, which is really gratifying and gratifying.
The fate of the indigenous servant army recruited by the Dutch was even more miserable, because the local people were not good at management and needed to kill chickens and monkeys, and other factors, tens of thousands of Dutch servant troops were collectively shot and buried by the Heshun Company, the Lanfang Republic, and the Tiandihui after the war - the white people could not run away from the mines, and the primeval forests of the South Seas were also cannibalistic, and without certain wilderness survival skills, they could only be eaten by the woods if they ran into the forest.
There may be a difference, that is also eaten by wild beasts or insects, or even by wild people. Bei Ye will take it, but in this era, there is only a dead end for Bei Ye to be thrown to New Guinea alone. The local natives know that where there is a tribe, where the tribe is their own people, and where the tribe is the enemy, if they escape, the natives have a certain chance to flee back.
Song Haiping exchanged most of his income for gold and precious stones. Silver may have been the money circulating in the market in China at this time, but gold was more of a precious metal and jewelry in China at this time, and there is no disagreement about this - except for the reward for the soldiers, it was already an exciting surprise that a governor could get 20 million taels of silver for white flowers.
Only Song Haiping knew that the gold-silver ratio would gradually stabilize from the current 1:10 (at this time, the European gold-silver ratio fluctuated around 1:16 to 1:20) to about 1:50 or even 1:60. Holding silver is to depreciate, especially after a large amount of silver is mined from the Americas.
By the time the Luzon War began more than a month ago, and the last Spanish colonists also entered the prisoner of war camp, Song Haiping was already smiling from ear to ear, not that it had expanded to 1,800 foreign girls and maids, but that after all the wealth of the Spaniards was liquidated, Song Haiping received 160 million taels of silver - in fact, Song Haiping asked for 515 tons of gold, 16 tons of rough gems and jewelry, and more than 300 tons of silver.
As for the wealth of precious spices, precious timber, and mature Luzon plantations, it is impossible to count them for the time being. As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold, and this sentence was really true. Song Haiping has already considered casting several life-size gold statues for himself, both contemplative and sporty.
Neither Song Haiping nor Zeng Li Huzuo (Zeng Guofan, Liangjiang Governor, Li Hongzhang Liangguang Governor, Hu Linyi Lianghu Governor, Zuo Zongtang Fujian and Zhejiang Governor) would not put so much silver on the market at one time. The only 80,000 Hunan soldiers who could spend money on the market (these soldiers received a reward of more than 1,000 taels of silver) had to be rotated back to China in batches over four years, and some decided to stay in Luzon to run the Luzon plantations that were rewarded.