Chapter 348: For Food
He said that he particularly liked the rice of Guangnan and asked the lord of Guangnan to let his people increase the planting area, and he must provide at least 500,000 stone to the Ming fleet that came to trade every year. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Hu Mingshan, the minister of Guangnan who was in charge of the negotiations, had been exhausted by Lord Huang's unreasonable torture, and he didn't dare to offend this master to be careful everywhere, but who knew that there were still problems that he couldn't solve.
He said with a sad face: "Lord Huang, the small people of Guangnan Kingdom are poor and can't take out 500,000 Shi Daming to pay tribute to the Celestial Dynasty anyway, and it is even more impossible to do so every year. ”
It turned out that Hu Mingshan understood wrongly, thinking that the Ming Dynasty was asking Guangnan to pay so much tribute to rice.
Huang Sheng said: "Every year, this official will send a ship to Feifu Port to buy 500,000 stone of rice, and according to the price of this trade, four dollars and five cents of silver and one stone will be sent to Feifu Port Wharf for settlement. If you get the rice, the Daming fleet will not commit any crimes, and if you can't get it, there will be no way. The Ming army had no choice but to go ashore and go to the interior to find a seller. ”
Hu Mingshan breathed a sigh of relief, Da Ming didn't take it for nothing but bought it, and the price offered by Lord Huang was not low! This business can be done, and he is interested, because the Hu family is a big landowner, and the family has more than 30,000 acres of paddy fields, and the land rent can collect 40,000 stone of rice every year.
"Lord Huang can help contact the officials with the money to buy rice, but the adults must not send troops ashore, and the grass people of Guangnan Kingdom are not subject to the king, so it is not appropriate in case there is any dispute."
"This is very good, this official will recognize Lord Hu as speaking, the sailing time at sea is uncertain, as long as Lord Hu can guarantee that the Ming merchant ship will get 500,000 stone of rice before July."
"This, if the adult's fleet has not arrived within the time limit, and so much rice is smashed on his hands, where will the lower officials be able to eat?"
"The official can give you a deposit of 40% first, and it has nothing to do with you if it is overdue."
Hu Mingshan was overjoyed and hurriedly agreed, but he didn't know if this Lord Huang was honest, and he was a little apprehensive.
Huang Sheng arranged for Bian Zhiming to draft a contract, and generously gave Hu Mingshan a deposit of 90,000 taels of silver, and also told him not to dry up and fish, and to use the deposit to expand the planting area and water conservancy facilities.
Hu Mingshan saw that this adult was both an angel and a devil, and he couldn't understand it at once, but when he saw boxes of snowflake silver, this kid swallowed his saliva and felt a lot more relieved.
With their Hu family pulling the Ruan family to take the lead in this big deal, it is still a small matter to make a lot of profits, the key is to be able to make many people produce with peace of mind, and no longer have to worry about the rice being sold at a good price.
Hu Mingshan is not worried about not making up the amount that Lord Huang wants, the water and soil here are fertile, and he can't wait for the chopsticks to sprout, as long as the people are diligent, they will start planning this year to meet next year's delivery volume is no problem.
He had a deposit of 90,000 taels of silver in his hand, and immediately rested the water conservancy facilities and increased the sowing area.
Huang Sheng also had to do it as a last resort, because the extreme weather in the Xiaoice River in the north caused a serious shortage of grain, his own tuntian has just begun, how to open up new food supply channels.
No matter how troublesome it is, no bad weather will cause a global catastrophe, and the planet is getting colder, making the climate in these tropics more livable, and the food production here will not be affected at all.
Hu Mingshan took away 90,000 taels of silver with many domestic servants, and got Lord Huang's promise that the Ming army would return as soon as he did not go ashore, and he had the feeling of willows and flowers.
He was given a long-term contract of cooperation, with a term of ten years, and every year he had to prepare at least 500,000 stone of rice and send it to the dock of Feifu Harbor at a price of four and a half cents of Ming official silver per stone, and each time he could receive a deposit of 90,000 taels of silver in advance.
Hu Mingshan did not dare to slack off, and immediately went back to play the lord of the country and asked the Ruan family to jointly arrange the grain production plan.
The combined fleet is going to return home, but there are too many prisoners who have captured more than 4,000, and the population of Daming is so large, why do you bring so many Dayue people back? Kill them all? It's not proper, this is hurtful to the heavens and the peace, and the unprovoked killing of prisoners is ominous!
Ruan Dan took a dozen Han people born in Annam and began to interrogate the captives, and selected 600 Jing people with Han blood to stay as miscellaneous servants, and asked them to speak Chinese, and from now on they must say that they are Han Chinese.
Huang Sheng was going to hand over the remaining 3,500 northerners of the Great Yue Kingdom to Hu Mingshan to take back to be serfs, and having these strong laborers to farm would help Hu Mingshan complete the contract.
Le Zizi took the silver and went back to prepare to go up quickly, Hu Mingshan was summoned by Lord Huang Sheng again, this kid thought that there was something wrong, and he felt frightened. Who knew that good things awaited him.
Hu Mingshan received more than 3,500 strong laborers who did not need to be paid, and he had a start-up capital of 90,000 taels of silver, so he did not know how many rice fields could be cultivated.
He was so excited that he kowtowed and thanked him again and again, patted his chest and promised: "Lord Huang, if you treat Xia Guan like this, Xia Guan should be repaid with his liver and brain, if it is less than 500,000 stone of rice delivered in the next year, you can directly cut off Xia Guan's head." ”
Huang Sheng said: "Master Hu, don't limit yourself to 500,000 stones, didn't the official say it?" The more the merrier. ”
"Of course, the lower officials will not hide it if they can do more, please relax."
Hu Mingshan had so many strong laborers, and his confidence was very different, so he hurriedly went back and brought his family to take over the prisoners.
Of course, he would return to the lord of the country and ask to keep these people as serfs in the Hu family, and give half to the Ruan family.
The lord of the country already knew that the Hu family had signed a rice sales agreement with Daming, and knew that it was profitable here.
Hu Mingshan made a great contribution this time, Ruan Fuyuan certainly would not treat him badly, and expressed satisfaction with Hu Mingshan's ability to be a man and pull the Ruan family to make this big deal together, and the Ruan family is also a large landowner in Quang Nam and is also worried about the sale of rice.
This time, Hu Mingshan negotiated a big deal, which not only contributed to the country, but also benefited himself and was worthy of praise, so Hu Mingshan of Guangnan Kingdom was promoted to three levels in a row and became a powerful minister of the red man next to the lord of the country.
In the meeting compartment of the 'Liaodong', the names of Hexiang, Ruan Dan, and Bian were counted, and the supplies and property of the captured Zheng Jieshui Division were reported, and finally Huang Sheng was reported, and more than 2,700 enemy heads were beheaded.
The Ming army became accustomed to cutting off the enemy's head in battle, and even the corpses in the sea were bothered to fish up, strip off the head, and then throw them down to feed the fish.
Why did you strip the enemy naked every time? Because the soldiers of the Huang family are all from a bitter background, the clothes they have picked off and washed a lot of them can help the poor who have no food and clothing, and the rotten clothes and rags are the raw materials for the hard-working women to process the soles of the cloth.
Huang Sheng couldn't cry or laugh, Guangnan paid the balance on the day he learned that the Ming army had won a complete victory, what did he want these heads of the northern army to do?
Forget it, if you cut everything, you can't be busy in vain, all of them will be counted as a capture of the pirates attacking Zheng Yiguan, and Ye Chengjing will return to Zhejiang to operate his family's son Ye Yanshi.
Anyway, these soldiers of the Dayue State Navy Division are all young and middle-aged, and it can be seen at a glance that they go to sea all the year round, and the pirates who pretend to be Zheng Yiguan do not need to be disguised at all, if the soldiers of the Huang family are not mainly to capture prisoners, but to beat Zheng Yiguan pirates to death, they are probably seven or eight thousand beheaded.
He Xiang has been on the expedition for a long time, and she is also familiar with the bloody fact of beheading, she likes to count the seized property the most, she knows that this time she helped the southern army of Dayue to fight the northern army, and the Huang family got more than 100,000 taels of gold.
This is not the end, the captured warships, equipment, and materials have more than one million taels of silver, and the beauty is a little excited, and she chatters non-stop in the arms of the old man at night, and finally stops talking about it after holding something.
The beauty is very excited today, playing a scoundrel with the master, saying that the master is eccentric, why does Sister Zhao Rui have the blood of the master, and she still has no reaction?
The lord didn't know what the reason was, so he simply didn't explain everything and looked at the action, only hard work, the beauty finally knew that it was amazing, and soon fell asleep in the master's arms.