In the sound of crackling firecrackers outside, Zeng Jize said: "The public, the public." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Division, palm also. Today, since our Luzon company has been established, we must effectively control Luzon. Of course, the practical interests of our shareholders are the most important thing. If you have any ideas, you can speak freely at the meeting. ”

Song Haiping: "Let me tell you about it as a representative of Japan. ”

The people are good.

Song Haiping asked his subordinates to bring a world map and hang it on the wall, took a baton, pointed on the map, and said, "This is the location of Luzon." Located near the tropical equator, it is summer-per-year and suitable for growing tropical crops depending on the climate. From spices, rice, sugar cane, coconut, bananas, rubber, etc. And rich in some precious mahogany. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, many mahogany used in palaces and mausoleums were mined from here.

The above are all reproducible resources, and I know that if you want to know how much copper is in Luzon, you might as well tell you that when the white people were in the past, the copper output of that bit was not even a fraction of the Luzon copper mine. How many copper mines are there in Luzon? To put it bluntly, if 10 million copper ingots are mined and smelted every year, it is 5 million tons as foreigners say. Luzon's copper ore is also large enough to be mined continuously for 1,000 years.

Of course, an annual output of 10 million materials is an ideal goal, even if the white prisoners of war and the natives of the South Seas are filled, and it may not be produced, and the information I have read is that when the Spaniards were in Luzon, the highest annual copper production was about 1,000 materials. In addition to the lack of exploration, there are also shortcomings such as insufficient labor and backward smelting technology.

Our goal for next year in Luzon is to increase production tenfold from the previous Spaniards and double the year after. Reaching the output of 20,000 copper ingots a year is barely in the past. ”

Luzon has considerable copper reserves in Asia, and most of them are rich and shallow minerals that are easy to mine. However, in the world, Luzon copper production is still small, and Chile, Mexico, the United States, and Australia are the largest copper reserves. Moreover, gold, silver and copper are not separated, since there are copper mines, there must also be certain gold and silver mines, no matter which one it is, it is a money mine for the Luzon company.

The annual output of 10,000 tons of copper ingots is a little stronger than nothing in the eyes of later generations. But now, a copper coin weighs only a few grams, and it still has lead. Now in circulation of copper coins each almost contains about 1 gram to 2 grams of copper, according to one gram of copper coins, a ton of copper plus a ton of lead can make one million inferior copper coins. According to 2 grams, a high-grade copper coin can be produced, which can also produce 5 billion copper coins per year.

According to the current exchange rate, the value of 5 billion high-quality copper coins is about 5 million taels of silver -- the reason why copper is cheap and expensive in the middle and late Qing Dynasty is that a large number of privately minted inferior copper coins entered the market and began the process of eliminating good coins from bad money, but high-quality copper coins with high copper content have always been able to maintain an official exchange rate of 1 to 1,000, and privately high-quality copper coins can reach the ratio of 1 tael of silver to 700 high-quality copper coins.

Five million taels of silver a year seems to be a lot, but it still needs a few points, if it was before taking Luzon, the four governors might still think that hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year is a lot, but now every family has earned tens of millions of taels of silver from Luzon, which is a bit unsightly. Fortunately, there are many copper mines in Luzon, and the water flows for a long time.

Seeing the psychology of several second-generation people, Song Haiping said: "Now the imperial court is casting big money when it is two, five, and ten. We don't have to be restrained, just follow the casting, as long as the quality is good enough, the big money is not afraid of not being able to spend it. Nissin Bank's copper coins with a face value of 5 cents are equivalent to five copper coins when they weigh 50 yuan, and they are not the same as circulating in the market. ”

Everyone has heard of the Nissin Bank in the North, and the legend says that it is a bank that can turn paper into money, but with that piece of paper, it can really be exchanged for silver dollars and grain, and no one says anything, after all, the bill of exchange is actually very familiar to businessmen and officials.

The bill of exchange business originated from the Shanxi bill number, some of the bill number has been doing business for hundreds of years, but there is not a single bill of exchange missed, and the quality of the modern bank using the computer is not comparable to this business level.

As soon as they heard that only the income from the copper mine could be turned into millions or even millions of taels of silver a year, several second-generation people were a little more serious.

After talking about mining, Song Haiping turned his words and returned to agriculture and forestry: "In fact, the agriculture and forestry in Luzon are cleaned up every year, and the annual income is tens of millions of taels of silver, which I think is a very easy thing." In the books I have seen, the plantations of the Spaniards that we have confiscated alone add up to about 10,000,000 taels of silver a year.

You must know that because of the shortage of labor, backward tools, backward technology, indigenous attacks, etc. The Spaniards actually had a very low level of exploitation of Luzon. The plantations were mostly in the vicinity of cities or forts that had been run by the Spaniards for many years. In agriculture and forestry in the next four years, we will take one step at a time, clean up an area, and develop an area. We will strive to triple to quintuple the size of our existing plantations, and to increase the existing profits of agriculture and forestry by more than ten times in four years, so that we can live up to our efforts to create Luzon.

Introduce improved breeds and domestic immigrants, and update technical equipment. To deal with the local natives, we have to have bananas in one hand and a knife in the other, and for those who cooperate with our Luzon company to make money, we will give him bananas to eat, and for those who hinder our Luzon company from making money, in the words of our hometown, it is a stone over a knife, a grass over a fire, and people must be changed. ”

Zeng Jize asked: "If the income from agriculture and forestry is expanded tenfold, it will be 100 million taels of silver." Is there such a big market? ”

Song Haiping: "The domestic market is actually quite large, but we have not developed it, and now the north imports tens of millions of quintals of Nanyang rice every year, you know, right?" Japan also imports millions of quintals of rice from the South Seas every year, and Japan also imports spices, sugar, timber, fruits, etc. from the South Seas.

Let me give you an example, as you know, there are more than 10 million coconuts that can be found everywhere in the South Seas, and now Japan imports more than 10 million coconuts from the South Seas every year. A series of coconut product processing plants with more than 50,000 workers have been built. Coconut water can be drunk, take it out and sell it in cans and seals. Although coconut meat can also be eaten, most of the factories use coconut meat to extract oil, and caustic soda, water, coconut oil, and spices can be easily made into soap. Coconut palm can be made into tatami mats, cushions, and mattresses. Most of the coconut shells are used to burn into charcoal, and some are machine-made into buttons or water scoops.

The Chinese market is much larger, and even hundreds of millions of coconuts a year can be easily digested. We have calculated that after the comprehensive use of coconut, each coconut can generate an average of 2 cents, which is a net profit of 20 yuan. Therefore, just one coconut has tens of millions of taels of business and millions of taels of profits in it every year. It is no less than the current Luzon mining industry. ”