The Spaniards themselves did not have much industry and did not have much demand for raw materials, especially when they were to be shipped back to Europe, which may not be so cost-effective.

If the ships of the Ming Dynasty can directly sail to South America to trade, then the Ming Dynasty will bring all kinds of commodities, and it is impossible to only transport some precious metals back when leaving, right? Therefore, the raw materials in South America can be shipped back by the way, even if there are not so many raw materials in South America to be shipped back to the mainland, the raw materials produced by Daming on the west coast of North America can also be shipped back.

The main thing was that trade with the Spaniards would make the Pacific shipping routes prosperous, which would be beneficial to the development of colonies on the west coast of North America, and even the production of industrial products on the west coast of North America to sell to the Spaniards.

The foreign colonization system of the Ming Dynasty is different from that of the Spaniards and the British, and the foreign colonization of the Ming Dynasty will be dominated by state-owned capital, limiting the influence of private capital in the colony, and then not afraid of the development of the colony to the extent that it can be self-sufficient. Moreover, under the model dominated by state-owned capital, some of the core industries of the colony were restricted and had to rely on the local area.

For example, the steam engine was made, and the colony's steam engine would be exported from the mainland.

As long as the private capital is not allowed to grow in the colony, there will be no driving force for independence, and in addition, the colony's army is dispatched from the mainland, and the soldiers' families are all in the homeland, so it is impossible to be controlled by the independent elements of the overseas colonies, and even if there are independent forces, they can be suppressed.

Under such a system, the Ming Dynasty was not afraid of the development of overseas colonies, and the model adopted by the Ming Dynasty in the overseas colonies was completely different from the plundering model of Spain. In the Spanish colonies, except for the plantations, the old rich people were slaves and natives. Therefore, the system established does not protect personal property. And even if there are natives in the overseas colonies of the Ming Dynasty, personal property is also guaranteed. Even the lowliest contractors have a certain amount of personal property.

Therefore, it is difficult for the Spanish colonies to develop economically, while the economy of the Ming colonies can be developed, and once the economy develops, the profits become very high. Because the economy is growing, all kinds of resources are valuable.

The difference in the colonization mode between the two sides means that the trade between the two sides is reopened. It's good for both parties. In particular, the mode of Daming taking the initiative to come to the Americas to trade is also an important step for Daming's ocean trade.

The Spanish Governor in Mexico then went to negotiate in person, and the two sides hit it off with each other's wishes, and Spain no longer imposed import restrictions on Chinese goods.

In the past, Spain and Portugal have developed a consensus to refrain from importing Chinese goods and avoid a large outflow of precious metals. In other words, it is to buy only some light industrial goods and luxury goods that cannot be used in the war, and at the same time avoid buying too much and causing the profits of trafficking to Europe to decrease.

After all, the European market is so big, too many Chinese goods into Europe will cause market prices to fall, and then profits will decrease.

Today, however, the Ming Dynasty was able to export heavy industrial goods and military products. In particular, military products are still very good. It is popular with Europeans and can also export steel and steel products in large quantities.

In such a situation. The Spaniards only needed to import these goods from the Ming Dynasty, and there was no need to buy lower-grade European goods.

As for the industrial life and death of other European countries, this is not Spain's business at all, if other countries can be weakened because of industrial development setbacks, it is what Spain is willing to see, of course, the Spaniards in this era are not so clear consciousness, Europeans are not strong in estimating the consequences of the development of new things, but the ability to summarize what has happened is relatively strong.

Europeans at this age have not yet realized the powerful role of industry, and they do not know that industry has an incomparably powerful potential to continuously improve the strength of a country.

After all, the industry in this era was very low-level, and there was no embargo. As long as you have money, what can't you buy?

This is indeed true for European countries, in the days when steam battleships first came out, as long as there was money, any country could buy them.

However, such rules do not apply to the current Daming, and Daming is not for sale of advanced products at this time.

Of course, the Europeans did not know what industrial products the Ming Dynasty had at this time, and many of the Ming goods were very advanced in the eyes of the Europeans.

The two sides set the place of trade in Central America, and the Ming transported the goods to the west coast of Central America, which were then transported by the Spaniards to the east coast with mule and horse teams, and finally shipped back to Europe.

In these years, the Panama Canal has not been dug yet, and the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean are still not navigable, so you can only go back and forth from the Drake Strait and the Strait of Magellan in southern South America to and from the east and west coasts of the Americas.

However, under such circumstances, the Ming colonized the west coast of the Americas, and basically did not have the strength to threaten the west coast colony of the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with South America, which is full of gold and silver, North America at this time is indeed a bit of a bird that does not, and those European colonists are a little disdainful of such a place.

Agricultural land or something, for Europeans, land is not everywhere, it is not rare at all!

But in the eyes of Europeans, a land where birds don't, at this time, in Zhu Youxiao's view, it is a treasure land of feng shui, a land that can make the Ming Dynasty more powerful.

As long as it is land, there is rarely uselessness.

This means resources, as long as there are enough resources, to feed a larger population.

After the fleet led by Zhang Ning came to the west coast of the Americas, it was a perfect completion of the task set by Zhu Youxiao, and after negotiating with the Spaniards, Zhang Ning sent a ship back to the mainland and reported the route and situation.

When he returned to the Ming Dynasty, it was already the second half of the ninth year of the Apocalypse.

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In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the north was still plagued by natural disasters, and after a year of drought in northern Shaanxi, it began to dry again. There was another locust plague in Henan.

In the south, there were floods this summer.

Zhu Youxiao is like a firefighter, constantly directing various departments to carry out rescue and disaster relief, and the imperial court continues to send relief out, and finally stabilizes the situation. So that there was no famine in every affected area of Daming. The people's basic right to subsistence has been guaranteed.

But the only benefit of being affected is. Obtained a sufficient immigrant population.

Many people have nothing left after the disaster, so they simply choose to emigrate. Some are immigrants from the whole village, some are immigrants from the whole ethnic group, and even relatives and friends have immigrated together, but there is no pain of parting. More often than not, a family immigrates, and it is also forced to have no choice.

In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the shipbuilding industry of the Ming Dynasty developed very rapidly, and the number of 2,000-ton merchant ships that could be launched increased to 1,200 throughout the year.

Shipyards were built from the north to the South Seas.

Dalian Shipyard in Liaodong, as well as Tianjin Shipyard in North Zhili. The Jiaozhou Bay Shipyard in Shandong, the Fuzhou Shipyard in Fujian, the Tainan Shipyard in Taiwan, the Manila Shipyard in Luzon, and the Batavia Shipyard in Java Island.

The Manila shipyards and the Batavia shipyards are the roots of the Spanish and Dutch. At the same time, a new shipyard is being built in Malacca, and a new shipyard is also being built in Dandong, Liaodong.

The distribution of these shipyards, closer to the timber production area, and the tonnage of ships built is also increasing. Of course, in addition to the manufacture of large boats, fishing boats and the like are also being built in large quantities.

At this time, the scale of overseas development of the Ming Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger, that is, the local coastal trade is becoming more and more prosperous, and the demand for ships is growing very rapidly.

The fleet sent to the Americas that year came back in the second half of the year. The successful opening of trade routes with the Spaniards led to a resurgence in demand for ocean-going merchant ships.

Shipbuilding mechanics have become one of the most sought-after trades. Each shipyard adopts a point-to-area model to train technicians, and at the same time, technical colleges train a large number of shipbuilding technicians.

The tonnage of wooden sailing ships is also rising, and the construction of 2,500-ton merchant ships has already begun, and they will be ready to sail by the end of the year.

As long as every shipbuilder can make a contribution to technological improvement, he can get a generous reward, and a large number of new technologies are constantly emerging under the painstaking meditation of a large number of shipbuilding technicians. These technologies have been popularized by state-owned capital consortia and quickly spread to various shipyards.

There is no shortage of materials for shipbuilding, and teak is abundant in the South Seas and Indochina Peninsula, as well as hardwood in the Northeast.

This allows the ships of the Ming Dynasty to be built very strongly, especially the local sailing ship type, the sturdiness has been greatly improved, and there are watertight compartments, which has greatly improved the safety of navigation. Of course, traditional ships cannot be as strong as Europeans because they have watertight compartments, because the space is so large.

At this time, the high-pressure steam engine has appeared, the telegraph has also appeared, and the power technology is also developing by leaps and bounds. Train technology is being developed, and Zhu Youxiao decided to set up a research project on steamships.

With the advent of the steam engine, commodities were manufactured in large quantities, and at this time, both state-owned capital and private merchants in the New Deal area had a higher demand for transportation.

The increase in commodities and the reduction in cost mean that goods that did not have a value in ocean trade in the past now have a value in ocean trade, such as those that are heavier and less valuable. But the ocean-going trade value of these commodities is still limited by the scale and cost of transportation.

Although the transportation cost of a sailboat is not too high, the efficiency is a little worse.

In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, state-owned capital is continuing to digest and build the northern market, and capital is still operating in the northern market.

Construction continued to expand in various provinces, the enclosure movement continued, and more of the agricultural population left the land to become workers.

The main construction activities are water conservancy construction, highway construction, telegraph system construction, and urbanization facilities. Construction was going on everywhere in the North, and a lot of labor was spent on construction.

However, grain production is still guaranteed, and the output of commercial grain in the northeast region has further increased in the ninth year of the Apocalypse. Taiwan, the South Seas, and the Indochina Peninsula have also exported more commercial grains, and the fishing scale in Zhendong Province and coastal provinces has increased further due to the improvement of fishing boats and fishing gear.

With the support of a large amount of commercial grain, construction activities in the north have been guaranteed.

It was perhaps the largest construction activity in China's history, and many literati in the northern provinces today saw such a scene and sighed at this scene, which China had never seen before. The ability to support such a huge construction activity depends on the new resources obtained from unintended expansion and the development of maritime trade.

The situation in the Indochina Peninsula has been further stabilized, and the unemployed population in Annam has been effectively resettled by the Ming Dynasty.

Those unemployed people in Annam have been arranged to reclaim land in Khmer, Champa and Siam, and Daming Capital is recruiting workers everywhere in order to develop these resources, and there is always a strength that will not starve to death.

In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the commodities of the Ming Dynasty were further driven into the Indochina Peninsula, and the handicraft industries of Annam, Khmer, Champang, Siam and Burma were further impacted, and with the increase in the scale of commodity grain exports from these countries, the scale of trade in the Indochina Peninsula was further expanded.

Daming used high value-added commodities in exchange for zero value-added food, and it was low-cost food, and it was a huge profit when it was shipped back to the mainland.

In various parts of the South Seas, the scale of exploitation of the indigenous people by the Ming Dynasty further expanded. The waves of resistance of the Nanyang natives also came one after another, but they were all brutally suppressed by the Ming Dynasty. The rebels were suppressed, and the obedient were included in the three-grade and nine-class system and arranged to work in the plantations.

Daming's development model in Nanyang at this time is also very simple, that is, enclosure first. Target an island and then the army sweeps the island against the indigenous tribes. Those who were willing to surrender were arranged to work on the plantation, and those who were unwilling to obey were beaten until they obeyed, and the men who resisted were killed, and the remaining women and children were also laborers, and the plantation welcomed them.

Nowadays, the plantations that can use indigenous labor are basically state-owned capital consortia, and private capital and individual plantation owners rely on immigrants for production, and the labor cost is relatively high, so there is not much employment, and most of them exist in the mode of family plantations, and their own family production and labor.

This kind of family plantation is to house many immigrants, they have a world to work for themselves, and the imperial court levied a relatively low tax rate on such family plantations.

The cost of this plantation development model of state-owned capital consortium is relatively high, because it is necessary to destroy the original indigenous order and establish a new one. But the profits are also frighteningly high, because the cost of indigenous labor is low, and under the management of state-owned capital, indigenous labor is fully squeezed, and to a certain extent, the problem of being too lazy is overcome. The cost of the agricultural products produced is extremely low, and the local Games are profiteering.

Under this system, the indigenous people who were included in the plantation system had no freedom, only the Han people had freedom. However, the indigenous property included in the plantation system was also secured, and if it was a simple slave system, then the slaves had a low incentive to produce and could only be claimed if they were giving, so they were also paid for their labor, and in addition, they were also allocated spouses, houses, and food according to their labor motivation, which was a necessary resource for society, so that the natives could compare themselves with each other.

In order to be able to obtain more such low-cost labor, the Ming encouraged those healthy and obedient natives to have more children, and those who gave birth to two or more would be given food subsidies, and if they could give birth to more than five, there would be various rewards.

The cost of raising these indigenous children is very low, that is, some food expenses, and such subsidies can only be said to be easy. (To be continued.) )