In December of the second year of the Apocalypse, the negotiations between the Dutch and the Ming Dynasty were officially held in Penghu. The Dutch sent the fleet commander Song Ke to Penghu, while the Ming sent Lin Wence, a diplomat from the high command.

Negotiations between the two sides have reached an impasse from the very beginning.

The Ming side put forward several conditions, first: the Dutch compensated the Ming military expenses of 500,000 yuan and paid the prisoners a ransom. Second: the Dutch returned the people taken captive from China. Third: The Netherlands will not be allowed to trade with Japan in trade with the Ming Dynasty. Fourth, the Ming Dynasty sent officials to Batavia to administer the Han people in Batavia and ensure the rights and interests of the Han people in Batavia.

When Song Ke learned of this condition, he rejected it on the spot.

In particular, the prohibition of trade between the Dutch and Japan, and the Ming Dynasty's desire to send officials to Batavia to administer the local Han people, were completely unacceptable to the Dutch.

Similarly, the Dutch did not want to pay reparations.

There was little progress in the next negotiations, the Dutch were unwilling to accept these conditions, and it was even more impossible for the Ming side to back down, which was a condition set by the emperor himself, so naturally he could not back down.

After a stalemate between the two sides for half a month, the negotiations finally broke down. Li Dan, a sea merchant, was also involved in the negotiations, and when he learned of the court's conditions, he was obviously shocked.

Obviously, whether this negotiation succeeds or fails, it will be very unfavorable to him Li Dan.

Sure enough, not long after the imperial court issued an order to open the province of Taiwan, it issued a ban again, citing the Spaniards massacring the Han Chinese, the Dutch harassing the Ming Maritime Frontier, and the Japanese invading the Ming vassal state of Korea. Maritime merchants were forbidden to travel to Manila to trade with the Spaniards. It was forbidden for maritime merchants to go to Batavia to trade with the Dutch, and for maritime merchants to go to Japan and trade with the Japanese state.

For Li Dan. That's pretty much the majority of his trade goals.

The Spaniards and Dutch were out of trade with the Ming. The only people left were the Portuguese living in Macau, which was under the control of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and only allowed the Portuguese to live in Macau. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty built a city in Macau, and once the Portuguese rebelled, they immediately sealed the city gate and closed the Portuguese in the city, which could be quickly suppressed.

A series of actions of the emperor. It's all surprising.

First, the stage was opened, which allowed Daming to increase the territory of a province. After it was published in the newspaper, it was widely praised. Many people are excited about this. This is the first time that the Ming Dynasty has expanded its territory since its founding more than 200 years ago.

Then he stretched out his hand to the sea trade, which touched the nerves of many people, especially those maritime merchants.

The hardest hit this time were naturally those pirates involved in the maritime trade. Taiwan is the place where they rectify and supply. At this time, the imperial court announced the opening of the stage. As long as the imperial court has a firm foothold in Taiwan, there will be no way to gain a foothold in this place of supply rest.

In the past, these pirates invaded the coast, and if the government pursued them, they generally retreated to Penghu first. If the imperial court chased after Penghu, it would retreat to Taiwan. Generally speaking, it is common for the imperial court to chase Penghu, but it is rare to chase Taiwan. Only Shen Yourong once chased to Dayuan Port and exterminated the pirates.

These pirates often went to Japan to recruit ronins as thugs. At this time, the imperial court banned civilian ships from going to Japan, and it was hit the hardest. Naturally, these pirates are the ones.

It's just that most of the pirates were contemptuous when they got the news. The imperial ban apparently had no binding power on them.

Taiwan's Dayuan Port, a large fleet came on this day.

This fleet consisted of more than 200 merchant ships, carrying more than 2,000 civilians recruited from the northern provinces, as well as a number of various materials.

The Royal Agricultural Company and the Royal Trading Company soon began to operate in Dayuan.

For the small number of local Han people, as well as those indigenous people in Taiwan, the policy of the imperial court was to collect them, register the land they were cultivating, and establish a baojia system for management. All land shall be handed over to 20% of the land endowment.

If the natives were obedient, they assimilated and were all regarded as subjects of the Celestial Empire. If the cultivation of the Royal Agricultural Company is hindered, it will be exterminated by force.

At this time, the Taiwan Plain can be described as abundant and beautiful. In the endless wilderness, a large number of wild deer galloped and jumped in herds, and there were at least a million wild deer on the entire plain.

These herds of deer were the first resources to be exploited by the Royal Trading Company.

The Royal Trading Company established a deer hunting team and began hunting wild deer in the Ojin area. The Royal Agricultural Company set up the first large-scale plantation in the circle of tens of thousands of acres of land, and began to cultivate sugarcane and rice in Taiwan.

Both the deer hunting team and the Royal Agricultural Company adopt a hired labor system, including board and lodging, and a monthly salary of 3 yuan, and these hired workers from the northern provinces can choose to settle in Taiwan in the future, or they can return to their hometowns, which is just a matter of a ferry ticket.

The Royal Agricultural Company's mission is to turn Taiwan into a commercial grain and sugar producer, producing the most agricultural products with the least number of workers. But this minimum is not unlimited squeezing, but using more land to increase individual production capacity during normal working hours.

For example, in Taiwan's agricultural line, a farmer can only cultivate 10 acres of land under the mode of intensive cultivation. But if you adopt an extensive farming method and let a farmer be responsible for the work of 20 acres of land, the result will be very different. Although the yield per acre will decrease, the amount of agricultural products produced by a labor force will increase considerably.

Taiwan now has a lot of land and a small population, so it is obvious that an extensive agricultural model is more appropriate.

Naturally, the Royal Agricultural Company will plant rice and sugar cane the most, but it will also plant some tea trees, fruit trees, pepper and other crops. Huangzhuang will adopt a fine management model to obtain the maximum labor value under the limited labor intensity pressing. It is to let employees have something to do every day, unlike rural farmers, who have nothing to do when they are free, and are busy to death when they are busy.

Cultivation techniques were constantly improving, and under the management of the Royal Agricultural Company, the agricultural infrastructure and the use of agricultural techniques were very good, so that even if they did not produce with serfs as in the Westerners, they could create considerable benefits.

The most important thing is that when employees get paid, they will also spend, which can naturally drive the economy. Even if you don't make money, you feed people! If these people consume again, it will not produce benefits.

It is obviously impossible for the Royal Agricultural Company to lose money in this model, even if it is to give employees better treatment. The salary of three yuan per month is really not a very high level, and it can only be said that this is the general cost of hiring a cabbage. However, the Royal Agricultural Company has other benefits for employees, such as housing, medical care and pensions.

Zhang Xiucai, a government clerk who followed the fleet to Taiwan, was a native of Henan. After coming to Taiwan, he saw an incredible wealth of products here.

The rice fields here can be planted with three crops of rice a year. It is very common for an acre of paddy field to produce two stones of grain in one season, generally only two crops of rice are planted, and then replanted when encountering disasters such as typhoons, and there are two seasons of harvest in a year. One acre of land can harvest four stones of grain.

There are also a lot of vegetables and fruits grown here, and the plains are full of deer.

As soon as they arrived at Dayuan, the deer hunting team was busy. Every day, a large amount of venison was brought back, and everyone could get a share, and a lot of venison was processed into jerky and transported back to Beizhili.

The abundance of products here is not at all comparable to the barren Henan. After all, Henan has been cultivated for thousands of years and has too many people. In Taiwan, there was no one to cultivate before, the water and grass are abundant, the land is fertile, and there are still few people. Surviving here is hardly the pressure to survive.

"What a great place!" Zhang Xiucai couldn't help but sigh.

The deer hunting team went deep into the grassland, hunted tens of thousands of wild deer and then stopped hunting activities, because spring has come, and it is not appropriate to kill too much when everything is growing.

The Royal Trading Company also has a hunting quota of no more than 100,000 wild deer per year. As a traverser, Zhu Youxiao naturally has a sense of protecting animals. At this time, there are many deer herds in Taiwan, and there are not many places to develop, so it is still possible to hunt 100,000 heads every year.

When there are more places to be developed in the future, the living space of wild deer will naturally be continuously compressed, and then a protected area will be established.

If human beings want to develop, they must also compress the living space of other populations.

The profit of deer hunting is still very considerable, and the price of these deer skins in Daming is not bad. Venison is more popular though, especially in towns and cities.

Deer can grow horns and be yang. The food is still grass and clean. Venison is naturally more nourishing, and it is normal to be popular.

These deerskins were obviously more profitable to sell to Japan, and the Japanese preferred deerskins. In addition, Japan's purchasing power for precious metals is even lower.

In addition to the deer herds, there are also abundant fish schools in the Taijiang River waters. Inland streams bring with them a variety of nutrients needed by microorganisms, which in turn provide abundant food for fish. And on land, there are also many water nets, and there are also many fish in them.

For those who come from the north, Taiwan is like paradise. It's just that the facilities are a little worse, but the facilities can be built, and a good life has always been created with both hands.

In addition to the employees of the Royal Agricultural Company, many laborers also came to Taiwan by ship. These laborers mainly come to build various facilities, build houses and roads, and work as temporary workers in the Royal Agricultural Company when the farm is busy, helping to harvest and grab seeds.

It is also possible to grow three crops of rice in the paddy fields of the Royal Agricultural Company, as long as there is enough labor to mobilize and there are horse-drawn carts to transport the rice, it is perfectly fine to grow three crops of rice in a year.

The wages of these laborers are even higher, about 4 yuan a month. Without this salary, they are reluctant to come to Taiwan.

Logging, quarrying, road repair, transportation, house repair, water conservancy, sugar extraction, fishing, shipbuilding, ship repair, dock loading and unloading, and so on all require people, and many of them are naturally far away.

Almost every three or five days, a number of ships from shipping companies will come over and bring a steady stream of people from the north and Fujian to Taiwan.

Dayuangang has become a big construction site, and planning and construction are happening everywhere. (To be continued......)