At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the development of capitalism had a serious impact on feudal jurisprudence, and money worship began to emerge, making some people abandon the morality advocated by the past society in order to pursue money.

Legend has it that gold is everywhere overseas, and the natives are as stupid as pigs, and they can make money at will.

And then attracted a lot of people, so that the number of overseas immigrants in the eighth year of the apocalypse increased significantly, and local immigrants from Nanyang, Australia and other places came one after another, but it brought an opportunity for glory.

However, after arriving overseas, these people found that in fact, overseas is not so easy to mix, and it is difficult to get returns without paying.

Although overseas places are rich in resources, they lack development and lack foundation. And the so-called statement that there is gold everywhere is an exaggeration, but it is true that there are gold mines everywhere. But all that gold was mined by the gold troops, and it didn't have much to do with them.

As long as the people of these colonies overseas work hard, they can get more resources to be allocated, and they can live a more prosperous life, but they may not be rich and rich. Those who can make a lot of money usually have to suffer a little.

The biggest benefit is actually that people can find a career that they can concentrate on, and that is to transform this undeveloped land.

Australia has gone through another year of development, and it is already the third year, and the number of immigrants in the eighth year of the apocalypse has reached more than 100,000, more than 5 million acres of cultivated land have been developed, and some other resources have also been developed. Migrant colonies have been widely distributed to the northern, eastern and southern coasts of Australia.

The geography of Australia is that the coastal area is like a ribbon, which is suitable for the development of plantation, where the vegetation is lush and the rainfall is relatively abundant.

The interior is grasslands and deserts. Grasslands are rich in groundwater. Suitable for the development of animal husbandry. The desert environment is harsh. Not suitable for human activities.

Of course, in this part of Australia, most of the land is state-owned. Cultivated land and pastures have also begun to be contracted to foreign countries, but the land is owned by the state.

As asset development continues, more and more employees are being hired by state-owned enterprises developing in Australia. Privately owned land is also increasing.

It is obviously unrealistic for state-owned capital to monopolize all cultivated land and pastures, so some arable land and pastures are sold to the outside world, and some are allocated to immigrants for their own development. At the same time, some arable land is contracted to foreign countries. Only about half of the real state-run ones are dominant.

At present, the imperial court wants commercial grain and cotton, as well as more wool, sheepskin and other raw materials, as well as copper ore and high-quality iron ore that are lacking in the country.

These are the resources that Australia can provide, and the population that immigrated from the mainland is either allocated to agriculture and animal husbandry, or to mining, and the other part is the freelance population engaged in business and service industries.

The productivity of agriculture and animal husbandry is constantly improving, and after three years of mining exploration, a lot of copper and iron ore have been discovered in Australia.

It's the gold that is really mined in large quantities. In the eighth year of the Apocalypse, the gold force mined nearly 30 tons of gold in Australia.

The total amount of gold mined by the local gold forces reached 120 tons, the largest of which was mined in Siberia. and Alaska in the Americas.

Some of the gold mined by the gold army in these inaccessible places was sold to the civilian market as civilian gold jewellery, and some was deposited in the central bank's gold reserves.

Australia's copper ore, iron ore these resources have gradually begun to develop, but Australia's population is not enough, the infrastructure is not so good, the mining place is still the coastal transportation is more convenient area, some inland minerals can not be developed for the time being, can only develop the value of gold ore, silver ore.

And in Nanyang, after all these years of development, large tracts of plantations have been carved out. These plantations are both state-run and largely privately owned.

Most of these plantations are produced by natives, who are managed by a three-class system of nine grades, and those who do not want to enter the system are either forced to work or expelled to desert islands.

So much so that on the islands that have entered a state of development in the South Seas, there are few indigenous people on the streets, and most of them are working as contract laborers on plantations. It's just that this kind of contract worker has a certain salary and treatment. And this system also makes full use of indigenous labor resources.

However, many people have made a fortune by operating plantations, and the land output in Nanyang is relatively rich, and there is undeveloped land everywhere, which is easy to form economies of scale.

Nowadays, there are still many people who come to Nanyang to cultivate and open up wasteland, and more plantations are being developed, and the power of example is endless.

In Nanyang, the land policy formulated by the imperial court was not as strict as that of Australia, except that the land could not be reclaimed by setting fire to the forest, as long as it was wasteland, it could be developed. However, the development was also under the guidance of the imperial court, and many islands were not allowed to be cultivated by the common people until the official settled in.

The development of a large number of plantations has led to a large area of pepper and sugarcane cultivation. Coconut, oil palm, sisal and rubber are all being planted.

The coconut tropics are full of things, and at the same time, they can be preserved for a long time. Coconuts began to be shipped back to the mainland in large quantities by Ming merchants, and then sold for five or six cents each, and people usually bought them in order to try them. Just like in the past, Fuzhou merchants sold Fu Tangerines to Nanyang, and sold them one by one but sold them well.

Oil palm is a highly productive oil crop, and many plantations are now planting oil palm in large quantities. At the same time, the American cashew nut, which had been introduced to the South Seas in an earlier period, also became a cash crop, which can also be used to extract oil.

Large-scale cultivation of fibre cash crops such as sisal, abaca, feudal hemp, and Javanese kapok has also appeared, and the scale is not small.

Spice cash crops include lemongrass, basil, and cinnamon.

Fruit cash crops are also increasing, and fruits such as bananas, lychees, longans, pineapples, mangoes, avocados, pumpkins, and guavas have also begun to be planted in large quantities.

The main force in the development of these plantations is the private plantation owners, who have the brains and energy to manage. State-owned plantations, on the other hand, do not have that much flexibility and deal in bulk cash crops. Such as rubber, sisal, oil palm, pepper, sugar cane. and rice.

Under the complementarity of state-owned plantations and privately-owned plantations. The output is very comprehensive.

A good life is created by labor. In the hands of the industrious Han people, the abundant Nanyang is undergoing tremendous changes, and the output is growing rapidly.

However, as a result of the popularity of cash crops in the Nanyang region, the rice cultivation area has been affected to a certain extent, and if it were not for the state-owned capital to retain the current rice cultivation area, the rice output in the Nanyang region would soon decline rapidly.

Indeed, the islands of the South Seas are more suitable for cash crops, as they are easier to transport and many places have more complex topography. It is not suitable for large-scale rice cultivation.

At this time, a large number of rice was planted in Nanyang, which was forced by the situation, and the Ming Dynasty was short of food! However, in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, the commercial grain imported from the Indochina Peninsula began to grow rapidly, and in a few years it could replace the commercial grain producing areas of the Nanyang islands.

Nanyang has recently produced a new gadget, something called cocoa beans. Nanyang officials attached great importance to this crop, which the emperor specially asked to go to Portugal to introduce it.

These cacao trees bear fruit and produce a bunch of cocoa beans.

The cocoa beans were loaded onto the ship and sent back to Jingshi. It became a tribute and was sent to Guanglu Temple. After Zhu Youxiao learned about it, he immediately ran to develop chocolate in person with high interest.

In these days, Europeans also have 'chocolate'. But apparently it is not quite the same as the chocolate of later generations, which is just grinding cocoa beans into powder and then adding water and sugar, which is actually a drink, not something to chew.

Zhu Youxiao extracted cocoa butter from cocoa beans, mixed it with cocoa powder, and smoothly made chocolate that was often eaten in later generations.

After making the chocolate, it was simple, and let the palace people study the tricks to make it.

Different templates, different proportions, and different nuts or something. Some have milk added to it, others have cream.

After the chocolate thing appeared, it quickly became popular in the harem. The ladies around the ladies of each palace have gone to the pastry room where Chock is made to learn from the scriptures, and soon each palace will make its own chocolate.

Seeing that this thing was relatively successful, Zhu Youxiao asked the state-owned enterprises to carry out commercial operation, thereby driving the development of cocoa cultivation.

So it didn't take long for the chocolate in the palace to spread out, because the current cocoa production is scarce, and these chocolate candies consumed in the palace are fried to a high price.

Nowadays, with the development of the economy, many people are not short of money.

The cocoa trees planted in the South Seas quickly became a treasure, and the scale of cultivation began to expand rapidly. In terms of planting, Daming is becoming more and more abundant.

Whether it is the production of industrial raw materials or the production of food, the variety is enriched.

The Western Regions also produced the first batch of commercial cotton in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, but the quantity was not much, and the agriculture in the Western Regions was still vigorously constructed, and the drought in Shaanxi allowed the Western Regions to obtain enough labor, and many Shaanxi people immigrated to the Western Regions.

At the same time, the Dzungar Department in the Western Regions, as well as the Mongols in Qinghai and Mongolia, also resumed normal production under the ruling order of the Ming Dynasty.

The trade between the Ming Dynasty and Monan and Mobei Mongolia was very smooth, and both sides exchanged for what they hoped to obtain. For example, the Mongols hoped to buy a large number of weapons and equipment, and this year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty readily agreed to the Mongols' request.

The Mongols didn't know what the Ming was doing, but as long as the Ming dared to sell it, they naturally dared to buy it, and directly bought 50,000 sets of armor and sabers and other weapons like smashing pots and selling iron.

The Southern Mongolia and Northern Mongolia led by Lin Dan Khan really smashed the pot and sold iron, and sold a large number of horses, cattle and sheep, especially cattle and sheep, and sold a lot.

What if you don't have enough cattle and sheep?

Naturally, it's to grab it!

With sophisticated weapons and equipment, are you still afraid that you won't be able to grab food?

Of course, Lin Dan Khan is also afraid of the Ming Dynasty's lesson, so he naturally does not dare to provoke indiscriminately, otherwise if it becomes a war again, Mongolia may not be able to bear it.

If you can't rob the Ming Kingdom, you can rob other nomads!

So in this year, the Mongols targeted the Bukhara Khanate, and in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, the Mongol Bukhara Khanate launched a large-scale raiding war.

As a result, it is conceivable that the Bukhara Khanate could stop these well-armed Mongols, and after a bunch of cavalry was cut down, a lot of cattle, sheep, and women were robbed by Lin Dan Khan.

The Bukhara Khanate was swept back and forth by the Mongol cavalry led by Lin Dan Khan, and those cattle and sheep could not run fast at all, and they were wantonly captured by Lin Dan Khan.

After Lin Dan Khan obtained cattle and sheep, he continued to attack the Bukhara Khanate with war, but the Bukhara Khanate did not hold out for two months, and was completely defeated by the Mongol north-south alliance and expelled from the steppe region of Central Asia.

When the news came back to the capital, Zhu Youxiao was a little stunned, the Bukhara Khanate was so unbeaten? Thinking about it immediately, I was relieved, this time the Mongols dispatched nearly 300,000 people, and a large number of sophisticated equipment, it was difficult to win this war.

Immediately, Zhu Youxiao laughed, and it seemed that another bandit gang was born, a bandit gang that relied on the Daming commodity market.

It didn't take long for the diplomatic ambassador sent by Honglu Temple to send back the news that the Mongols still wanted to continue to buy weapons and equipment, hoping that the Ming could sell them another batch.

There was a very unanimous opinion within the Supreme Command on this demand of the Mongols, that is, no more weapons and equipment should be sold to the Mongols.

But Zhu Youxiao made a counter-tone and said: "Sell, why don't you sell!" We sold as much as the Mongols could afford it. ”

"Please think twice, if the Mongols obtain a large number of weapons and equipment, it will be too much of a threat to my Ming Dynasty." Sun Chengzong immediately objected.

"It's okay, the Mongols can't jump in front of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Youxiao said with confidence, the supreme command is obviously what the emperor says, and a group of courtiers, including Sun Chengzong, can only be helpless under Zhu Youxiao's insistence.

A month later, another trade in weapons and equipment was signed. This time, the Mongols also had to buy 30,000 sets of weapons and equipment, apparently they made a fortune by robbing the Bukhara Khanate, and it seemed that they had suddenly opened up the second vein of Rendu, and their brains were directly enlightened, and they found a way to make a quick fortune.

That is to rely on the commoditized economy of the Ming Dynasty and sell the things they have grabbed to the Ming in exchange for what they need. For example, weapons and equipment, such as food, such as more luxuries for them to enjoy.

Anyone, as long as they are still alive, will have property. This world is so big, can't you beat the Ming Kingdom and can't beat other countries?

Labor is too slow to get rich, and robbery is the quick means to get rich! Lin Danhan suddenly felt that he had realized, completely enlightened.

A bandit gang that is trying to sweep Central Asia and Europe has been formed, and if the Ming can intervene to curb it, it is obvious that Lin Dan Khan's ambition is doomed to failure.

But will Zhu Youxiao contain the Mongols?

The answer is obviously, no!

He needed the Mongols to be the vanguard and turn Central Asia and Europe upside down, and a very bold idea came to his mind - by supporting the Mongols to plunder everywhere, and even attack Europe. As a result, in order to fight against Mongolia, European countries continued to buy weapons and equipment from the Ming Dynasty...... (To be continued.) )