Five taels of silver for one acre of land, five million taels for one million mu, 10 million taels for 2 million mu, and 50 million taels for 10 million mu...... The money is used to build roads, and it is enough to pave the country's official roads with concrete, and it is enough to repair the country's water conservancy. The profits from the trade have been earned more than 20 million taels, but you can't spend it like that if you have money!

In Dengzhou, there is no problem in buying three taels of silver per acre of land, but in other places, five taels of silver is too little, if you want to press one or two taels, it is no different from Ming robbery.

Zhao Yan didn't want to spend money, but he didn't want to cause too much backlash, there was really nothing he could do about it, and there was no second sky-turning monkey in Shandong. And that kind of practice is too violent after all, unless it is very urgent, Zhao Yan would rather spend money to buy it than use that kind of means.

"So be it! Rent from them first, and give them twenty catties of wheat per mu of land every year. Zhao Yan couldn't think of a good way for a while, so he could only occupy it in disguise by renting.

Zhao Yan's tun land, the rent to be paid for one acre of land, is about sixty catties of wheat, that is, thirty percent, twenty catties to those landlords, and then ten catties of land to be paid, and he still has thirty catties left.

"My lord, if we pacify Liaodong, we will have a large area of land, and when the time comes, we can move the displaced people to Liaodong." Tang Zhengze looked forward.

"Huh~! Yes! After Zhao Yan heard Tang Zhengze's words, he suddenly thought of a way in his heart, but he didn't do it at the same time, but thought of a better way - to exchange land for land!

The contradictions in the country are caused by land annexation. If violence is not used, the contradiction can be transferred, and so much land overseas will not be exchanged with those landlords. One acre for one acre, or one acre for two acres! In this way, there will be pioneers in overseas development, and there will be those who will be able to resolve the acute social contradictions.

"In the future, those landlords will occupy them by rent! Twenty catties of wheat are given every year, and you can keep 50 acres of land for self-cultivation, and rent it for five years! Zhao Yan immediately set a policy towards those landlords.

"And what about five years from now?" Tang Zhengze asked, surprised in his heart, this is not in line with Zhao Yan's usual style! For land, Zhao Yan has always intended to entrench it for a long time.

"Five years later, who would have thought about it, let's take a step at a time!" Zhao Yan said with a smile, "If you can lay land overseas, you can return it with the amount of land overseas." ”

"Overseas?" Tang Zhengze was dumbfounded, "My lord, in the overseas barbarian land, where can the land be counted, I'm afraid I don't want to give them away for nothing." ”

"Barbarians are naturally better to make money, and there are barbarians everywhere overseas, and they are caught as slaves to open plantations, and they don't have to pay a penny of money, which is more cost-effective than tenants working for a long time." Zhao Yan said with a smile, "As long as someone tastes the sweetness, there will be less resistance in the future." ”

"In those five years, we have to lay down a piece of land, and if we don't have land, I'm afraid it won't be easy to cope with in five years." Tang Zhengze said.

"Hmmm! This was left to the Navy and the Marine Corps, and the Civil Affairs Bureau first leveled the landlords in Laizhou, and then gave more publicity to the homesteaders about the benefits of the land, so that they could join in. Zhao Yan said.

"My lord, the Laizhou prefect has already taken office, and if the Laizhou prefect cooperates, the yeoman farmers in Laizhou can be directly included in the jurisdiction of the tundi."

"The Governor of Laizhou is here? What is your name? Zhao Yan asked, since Sun Yaoguang was overthrown, the Laizhou prefect has been vacant, waiting for the arrival of new officials.

"His name is Zhou Fenglin, a jinshi in the early years of the Apocalypse, and he just arrived the day before yesterday."

"Hmm!" Zhao Yan touched it and thought for a moment, and then instructed Tang Zhengze: "You go to find Chen Zhongsheng, go with him to visit this Zhou Fenglin, and test our attitude towards us, it is best to cooperate." ”

"If you don't cooperate......"

"Then let him be! When the Buddha statue is offered that is. ”

…… At the end of May, the clipper ship F001, which was heading for the Americas, successfully returned to Qingdao Port, bringing back more than 500 catties of rubber, 10 catties of rubber tree seeds, and the "Far East Cooperation Agreement" signed with the Spaniards.

Zhao Yan was overjoyed when he saw the rubber, originally thought that it would not be so easy to find rubber, and he had to wait until the other warships of the American Fleet arrived in the Americas before he could unfold, but he didn't expect that the two clippers that set off first found the rubber.

With this rubber, there is basically no suspense in creating a watt version of the steam engine, except for the processing of the cylinders. Several steam engine research groups of the Academy of Science and Technology are stuck in the processing of cylinders.

In fact, the steam engine does not have to use rubber, when the steam engine was invented in Europe, rubber had not yet been put into use, but Zhao Yan wanted a more mature steam engine.

The problem of cylinder processing is mainly not fine enough and not smooth enough. In order to be able to manufacture more sophisticated artillery, Zhao Yan has already let people start to manufacture drilling and boring machines, and after this boring machine is manufactured, the processing of cylinders is no longer a problem, and the cost of artillery will be further reduced.

After reading the content of the "Far East Cooperation Agreement", Zhao Yan couldn't help but be very satisfied with the agreement signed between Cao Li and the Spaniards, and even asked for 10,000 pounds of rubber in one go, that is, nearly 10,000 catties, or every year.

At the same time, it also established trade relations with the Spaniards in Asia, and it was obvious that trade could not be supported for long, although it was called "Treasure Island", but there was not much gold and silver itself, and in two years, the profits from trade could only be supported by brass.

Trading with Westerners can open up a new way of making money. The Spaniards, in particular, had large gold and silver mines in the Americas and produced a large number of precious metals.

At the same time, the Spaniards could also resell goods to other European countries, and most of the wealth plundered by the Spaniards in the Americas went into the pockets of other countries, mainly because their productivity was not high, and the grabbing of a large amount of gold and silver led to soaring prices, and they were very dependent on the import of goods.

So the Spaniards lost their position as supremacy at sea, and the Dutch were about to lose their supremacy at sea because of their lack of industrial capacity.

Daming's productivity can be said to be the highest in the world, with a GDP of 2/3 of the world, and it is now in a state of deflation, so there is no need to worry about inflation.

In this era, the main target of overseas plunder and maritime trade is precious metals, in fact, it is like printing money, and when there is more money in the political axe, it will generally choose to print more bills and grab money from the pockets of the people. It's just that there is no market for paper money in this era, and the political axe has no ability to print tickets, so it can only obtain more tickets from the outside. No matter how much it depreciates within a country, it can still play its original value in other countries.

Therefore, how to ensure that these precious metals that have been obtained will not flow out to other countries in places that are not important to development, has become a problem that needs to be paid attention to by maritime hegemony, and if even food and clothing have to be bought in other countries with real money, it will only be cheaper for others.

If you can use this real money for development, to buy important resources for other countries, then you can use it in the right place.

This is also one of the reasons why Western countries can still develop rapidly after World War II, and their precious metals can continuously mobilize the world's resources.

The minimum annual trade volume of 5 million taels of Chinese goods stipulated in the agreement is a bit small in Zhao Yan's opinion, and with an annual trade volume of 5 million taels, he can only earn more than 2 million taels of silver at most.

However, the transportation capacity is not strong now, and only eight clippers are the fastest and most convenient, and the 50 1,000-ton clippers built this year are not so fast to launch. At least until the second half of next year.

There is also a clause in the "Far East Cooperation Agreement" that is military cooperation to jointly eliminate pirates in the Far East, and the biggest pirate in the Far East is Zheng Zhilong.

On the side of the couch, you will not allow others to snore.

His dispute with Zheng Zhilong was bound to arise, which he had anticipated before he stepped into the maritime trade, so Zheng Zhilong would also be the enemy he would have to face.

As for the righteousness of the two sides, the national righteousness, cooperation and the like, whether in Zheng Zhilong's view or Zhao Yan's view, it is unrealistic.

First of all, Zheng Zhilong does not have this awareness.

Although Zhao Yan has such awareness, he does not have much affection for the Zheng group, Zheng Zhilong is just a pirate-born figure, and he is basically unaware of the general interests of the nation, so he will run to surrender after the Manchu Qing Dynasty enters the customs. As for his son Zheng Chenggong, he is more ambitious, and he is not expected to achieve great things.

Even if it is cooperation and let them get a piece of the benefits of sea trade, Zhao Yan is unwilling.

Whoever obtains the hegemony of the China Sea will be able to monopolize the right to foreign trade of Chinese goods, and the interests in it can be imagined, otherwise the Zheng group will not be rich from top to bottom.

Just when Zheng Zhilong was planning to attack Zhao Yan, Zhao Yan was also thinking about how to deal with Zheng Zhilong, with Zhao Yan's current strength, although he couldn't meet Zheng Zhilong head-on, Zheng Zhilong definitely couldn't help Zhao Yan's sea power.

First of all, although Zheng Zhilong's ships were numerous, there were thousands of terrifying ships, but most of them were small boats, not only were they slow, but they also did not have many artillery, and it was impossible to gather these ships together to fight at all times.

If he really fights with Zheng Zhilong, Zhao Yan will definitely be able to take the initiative, so Zhao Yan is not afraid of Zheng Zhilong. The hegemony of the seas has always been closely related to artillery.

As long as the artillery is more advanced than other countries, it can gain a corresponding position in the ocean. Zheng Zhilong's tactics still retain the naval warfare methods of the cold weapon era to a large extent.

However, the Far East Cooperation Agreement has not yet been communicated to the Spaniards in the Philippines, so Zhao Yan immediately asked the trading fleet to organize a trade with Manila.

At the same time, he asked his subordinates to plant the seeds of the rubber trees, and instructed them to take good care of the rubber tree seedlings.

Rubber trees grow in the tropics, but they can grow in colder regions, but they can't be tapped, and it's not too late to transplant them to the tropics when they have grown into saplings.

(To be continued)