Wang Defa can only live temporarily in a two-story wood-paneled house in Manila City...... He said apologetically to his little lady Luo Niang: "Xiao Luo, I really worked hard for you. ”

Luo Niang's eyes sparkled and said, "Official, I'm really not bitter...... I am glad to see another great city being built...... But why is this called the city of Manila, and why is this big island called Luzon? ”

Wang Defa thought to himself, isn't that just to make our brothers remember quickly? If you give some names randomly, when you get older in the future, I'm afraid you won't be able to remember them.

Wang Defa had no choice but to say: "Xiao Luo, the dialect of our hometown at that time ...... It means a place where flowers bloom. ”

"Ah, that's a nice name...... It's a perfect fit here! ”

The wildflowers bloomed even more when the fire-stricken Manila area was revegetation...... The banks of the Manila River can be said to be full of flowers.

On the contrary, the ashes of plants and trees nourished the latecomers even more.

Queen Tranquility gave Luo Niang a set of equipment for flavor refining, and gave her more than a dozen related female technicians...... The second largest perfume and flavor processing factory outside of Liuqiu Island was officially established.

Judging from the current demand, it is possible to reduce the price of perfume essence by half with another twenty times the production.

The men of this time and space, whether they are the Great Song Dynasty or the Huihui, or the white and the black, their demand for perfume and essence is almost endless.

Take Da Song as an example, the one who loves to put flowers on his head the most is a man!

And there is no distinction between cultural and identity differences.

The industrial equipment sent to Manila by the island of Liuqiu can fully meet the needs of the beginning of industrial development.

There are no coal resources around the Manila area...... To the north, the Ha Long Bay coal mining area in Cochin is just right to bring in thermal coal.

Moreover, the food needed could be brought from Champa State.

As for other supplies, they can also be easily purchased from the city of Guangzhou in the Great Song Dynasty.

Judging from the nautical chart, the Badaohe area of Liuqiu Island, the Guangzhou area of the Great Song Dynasty, the Ha Long Bay area of Cochin Prefecture, and the Champa area of the Champa State form a five-point circle with the Manila area...... If the Manila area is developed, it will be possible to complete the circular business circle within a small geographical area.

What Wang Defa didn't expect was that before he could start to officially attract investment, there were a lot of people from Guangzhou City!

It's like hearing a knock on the door and opening the door, I thought it was just a guest, but when I opened the door, there was an endless stream of Baisheng people coming in!

Director Zhang Laoshi, who was building his own Zhangjia shipyard, said to Wang Defa: "Hmph, those guys missed the early stage of the development of Liuqiu Island...... Now that I heard that our federal empire has begun to build Manila City, of course I want to come over and see what benefits I can get. ”

Wang Defa smiled, where others are not allowed to get benefits, there will never be development.

The Philippine archipelago is an archipelago rich in resources, but unfortunately it is basically on a few islands, which are very scattered.

Those mineral resources are mainly divided into six categories: precious metal ores, ferroalloy ores, base metal ores, fertilizer ores, industrial ores, gem and ornamental stone mines.

Previously, according to the development needs of the Federal Empire and limited by the conditions of mining and other factors, only gold, chromium, nickel, phosphate ore, sea bird droppings, clay, dolomite, feldspar, limestone, marble, perlite, silica, stone, sand, salt, diorite, serpentine, etc., were selectively mined in metal ores.

Previously, they had set up some personnel to mine on several islands where minerals were produced, and basically transported raw ore and so-called concentrate products that had undergone simple crushing, washing, drying, grading and other processing directly to Liuqiu Island.

Those non-metallic mineral products are processed according to the requirements of the market on the island.

For example, the marble stone used to build the imperial palace was mined from an island, processed and transported directly to the Badaohe area.

The phosphate ore needed by the Liuqiu fertilizer plant is also transported directly after manual sorting.

The mineral products of the Philippine archipelago basically have the advantage of being shallow and easy to mine.

When Wang Defa built Manila, he built small two-story buildings for the workers and technicians who were mining on the islands, and gave them free of charge for their families to live in.

Although Wang Defa has always paid those people high wages...... However, life on the island is indeed too hard, and although it is not life-threatening, it is like the labor of a criminal person.

Therefore, Wang Defa thought of them first.

When he told the news to the people on the islands, they almost shouted hooray...... The wages paid to them by Wang De can make a family of five live comfortably for three months without doing anything in one month...... With such an income, they are too content.

I don't know who started, everyone started to call him Wang Island Master.

Wang Defa grinned when he heard this title, and when he called Zhang Anguo the owner of the island, he didn't feel anything, and when he called himself...... How do you feel a little dirty?!

On Luzon, they are not the only ones, on an island more than 500 miles to the southeast, there is a large tribe that calls itself the country of Mayi, with a population of nearly 30,000 people, all living in a large village.

The owner of Wang Defa Island also sent people to them to recruit laborers.

The recruits traveled along the coastline in three-masted ships to the island where they lived......

At this time, the primeval forests of the entire island of Luzon had not been exploited on a large scale at all...... The island's aborigines are far from being a match for plants.

The recruiters brought seeds of corn, cassava, and sweet potatoes, as well as tools of far better quality than axes and chainsaws produced in the Great Song Dynasty.

Of course, as the most attractive source of the island, there are many daily necessities such as silk, cotton cloth, sugar, and kerosene lamps, so you must bring more.

Wang Defa believes that these will be more attractive than giving them copper coins or money.

Ma Yi is not a Shengfan country, it is similar to the Bo Ni country and the Three Buddha Qi country, but it is not as strong as the Zhancheng State and Bagan State, and the degree of civilization development is not comparable.

They also sent people to pay tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, and they were rewarded with far more than the tribute...... However, as the Great Song Dynasty tightened the mouth of the tribute, they could no longer get more in return.

They are a tribal system ruled by a chieftain, a form of social organization with communal tribal ownership...... It has not yet developed into slavery.

At this time, they were also the trading center and commodity distribution center of the northern part of the Philippine archipelago, and they were quite close to the trade with the nearby islands.

Their leader had the power to control trade.

The island of Mayi is a gentle mountain, fertile land, and a warm climate.

Moreover, their handicrafts such as making salt, making wine, and weaving linen were more developed than the indigenous people of the surrounding islands.

Ma Yiguo has a long history of non-governmental trade relations with the Great Song Dynasty.

Ma Yiguo once took the Great Song Dynasty sea ships to trade in Guangzhou City in 982 A.D. at the earliest.

Their trade was generally bartered.

Ma Yiguo exchanged local yellow wax, pearls, betel nuts and other products for porcelain and iron ware of the Great Song Dynasty.

Whenever the sea ships of the Great Song merchants arrived in the country of Mayi, the leader of the country of Ma Yi sent people to take the goods on credit first, transport them to the nearby islands with bamboo rafts to resell, and then wait for the next time the ships of the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty came again, they would pay off the value of the goods, and never miss the appointment.