The phrase "flower without period" is also what the little Luzon people want to ask, do you want so many abaca, are you worth the freight?

"My lord, something useful is always worth it. When we don't have to use it, if the price of a hundred feet of rope rises several times, or even ten times. It's not a matter of freight, and the abaca or the fine part of it can also be woven, so the students think that they have to buy it. ”

Lu Qiyuan was eloquent, and Bai Minghe nodded approvingly.

This nod seemed to others to be in agreement.

Lu Qiyuan turned around and asked very formally: "I don't know how to set the price for this, how much do we want?" ”

"What is the price of five boats versus a boatload of coconuts? If it is dried, the price is doubled. Several chiefs thought again and again, this thing also costs a lot of manpower, whether it is cutting abaca, or clearing the wasteland and replanting, drying, transportation, etc.

"That's it." Shira-naitsu didn't talk about the price any further.

A boatload of abaca, surely coarse hemp. When it comes to Daming, it will be subdivided and dealt with again. A boatload of 1,400 stone of linen can be woven into ten loads of fine linen. Bai Ming Hexin said, how can the processing process of this abaca also have one percent of the fine fiber.

Lu Qiyuan breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally got the main raw material right.

When entering the port of Manila for the first time, the white crane asked someone to cut a few plants and throw them on the boat, where there are professional people to calculate, although the current calculation results have not yet come out, but according to the analysis of the rest of the various hemp raw materials in the north of the Ming Dynasty, this price is very suitable, and the white crane also said that this ababa is very good.

Prepare to sail and return to the port of Marani.

The white crane has been in Luzon for more than ten days. The port of Manila is puffed by ship every day, and there are thousands of slaves on the docks. There is also a wooden house built specifically for the Ming Dynasty, and a huge mansion is also being built, which will be the place where the Ming people lived when they came to Manila Port.

What the white crane didn't know was that he was going around in circles here in Little Luzon. The Governor of Daming Dongchang has arrived at the port of Manila. I went ashore and walked around, watching the thousands of slaves carrying coconuts on the boat one after another, but I didn't see the white crane.

A general from Guangdong who stayed here told Sù Xing'an that the white-named crane had gone to patrol the island.

"Wait, wait, he'll always come back. It's hard work. "Xing'an's words are not the opposite, the white crane wants to patrol the island here, there must be a big plan, it seems that he did not run in vain.

Reluctant to live on a boat. He was also reluctant to let the people of Luzon know his identity. Just as Liu Mingxuan, he said hello to the Luzon people in the port of Manila. The people of Luzon came only as a steward of the fleet on the side of the white crane, and sent some fresh fruits and fish as gifts.

Xing'an lived in those wooden houses, but it had a different flavor.

"What are they up to?" Xing'an pointed to the other wooden houses, which were too busy to stick to the ground, and there were Ming soldiers guarding them, and no one was allowed to approach.

Liu Mingxuan can naturally pass. As soon as he flashed his waist card, he went in and asked, and soon came out with a person.

Xing'an still hasn't shown his identity. Jin Jie, who was introduced by Liu Mingxuan, said that this was a reliable person around Bai Gongzi, and came to ask about the situation here.

The man's face was excited.

First, he took out five or six things from the box, ranging from white to brown, and put them on the table, and then said: "Look, this hemp can reach up to one zhang at its highest, and the coarse hemp sea outside is not rotten. It is a first-class sea ship rope. And this white ultra-fine linen, and then carefully processed, I am afraid that it is no worse than cheesecloth, and it is a special fine linen material. This is also the first special product awarded by the Xingshou Academy. ”

Hearing that it was the first one, Xing'an's eyes narrowed.

He knew that the eyes of the people in the first courtyard of this line were poisonous. The mouth is sharp, and the mouth is tight. That tribute-level mat is only given a second-class grade, and if they can say that it is a special grade, it is definitely a good thing.

"I'm still working on the process, and it can be softer!"

Touching those fiber bundles, all of which are fine fibers in the heart of the petiole, it feels like touching the hair on a big dog, which is not very soft, but it is quite good.

"It's just a lot of work!" The old craftsman in charge of abaca is an old craftsman who has been weaving linen for 30 years. This hemp processing will require at least twice as much work as the original one. But the cloth woven from such good hemp is definitely the best price. There will be no more difference between one tael of silver, three horses, or five horses.

At least half the price of cotton cloth is definitely more than 100 taels of silver per load. and a fine linen cloth of four taels of silver.

Xing'an almost blurted out, to say that it was rewarding. But the words came to his mouth and swallowed back, this is Bai Minghe's territory, it's not that he hurt Bai Minghe's face because of his troubles, but if he breaks the rules, I'm afraid there will be chaos in the future.

"Can you stay here?" Xing'an asked.

"No, the samples of the Walk Chief. You need to have a letter from Lord Bai to leave the warehouse, this rule is still set by Lord Yang in Guangdong, I'm afraid that something will go out of the country, please forgive me. The villain is really ......"

"Do what you do, you're right." If he refuses Xing'an, Xing'an will definitely turn his face, but that sentence is afraid of being exiled to a foreign country and goes to Xing'an's heart. Xing'an is definitely loyal to the Ming Emperor, and in his opinion, this qiē good thing is all long live Lord's, so there is nothing wrong with protecting it well.

When the craftsman had left, a man with a sword came and saluted on one knee. Then hold your waist card in both hands.

"Get up and speak!"

"I don't know that the factory supervisor is here, and his subordinates are rude. Do you want to belong to the stall here? ”

"What is he up to?" Xing'an asked.

"In recent days, many chiefs have come to this port, the chiefs of the tribes here. They carry a lot of goods, and they want us to see if there is anything worth our eyes and willing to trade. Once Lord Bai had an order, no matter what it was, the head of the house had seen it and then ordered it to be good or bad, in order to worry that there were people from other countries who delivered goods into the inner courtyard of the head of the house, so the head of the stall personally led people to stare at the east gate in the past few days, and everyone who came in and out had our people secretly staring. ”

"Since it's business, don't call him. The Governor rested here for a few days and waited for the White Crane to return. Go ahead! ”

Xing'an waved his hand, and the foreman of the East Factory, who was in charge of guarding, gave a salute and then retreated.

Dongchang is different from Jinyiwei, which is a regular army. However, the East Factory has another set of functional systems. For example, Xing'an, the supervisor of the East Factory, is the position of the fourth product. But who dares to think that he is an official of the fourth grade. There are big stalls down, which is equivalent to thousands of households. The head of the stall is equivalent to 100 households. Further down, there are the foremen, foremen, households, chiefs, and servants. Fan service is also the origin of the name of Dongchang Fanzi. It's the lowliest creep.

Two days later, the white crane returned to the port of Manila, full of spring breeze.

As soon as he heard that Dongchang Xing'an had arrived, Bai Minghe was blindsided on the spot. It is speculated that the capital may send someone to deal with the big case of rebellion, but what did Xing'an do in Manila, don't do anything out of the ordinary himself.

If you think about it, it's nothing.

It must be impossible to hide, and after Bai Minghe explained some things to be done at the moment, he immediately went to see Xing'an.

In the room where Hung Yen rests. The white-named crane bowed: "Xingdu is well." ”

"Ben Governor has come to you with good news. Give something to the Doll as a gift! Xing'an smiled and helped the white crane. Bai Minghe almost didn't think about it and said: "A gold mine has been signed here, and it is estimated that there will be fifty stone of gold a year in the first few years, and I will pay for the five hundred quintals of silk required every year." ”

Hahaha! Xing'an laughed loudly: "Okay, you white-named crane, you really didn't make the miscellaneous family feel sorry for you." Don't want the gold mine miscellaneous, you ......" Speaking of this, Xing'an's eyes narrowed. He originally wanted to say that Bai Minghe would give this gold mine to Empress Dowager Sun. But when you think about it, fifty stone gold is definitely not a small amount.

And when I was in Fuzhou. Lan Hai and Lu Han have both spoken, and the white crane speaks with proportion. Dare to say fifty quintals, I'm afraid there are as many as 100 quintals. With so much gold, it is not a good thing to give it to the Empress Dowager Sun. But Dongchang didn't dare to stay, it was too empty to dedicate it to Banzai, and Banzai couldn't care about such a gold mine.

The white crane itself is a huge gold mine.

"White Crane. You give this mine to Yu Qian! Xing'an thought about it for a long time and thought that the white crane was the most practical to give to Yu Qian.

"To the military department?" The white crane was a little incomprehensible.

Xing'an shook his head: "Wrong, it's for Yu Qian." Yu Qian is known to the Governor, and he is also one of the few people whom the Governor admires. This foreign gold mine belongs to him, and no one dares to touch his position as the secretary of the military department. And Yu Qian's personality will not swallow this gold mine privately. As for how to use it, it's a bit interesting! ”

Bai Minghe had a look of sudden realization, and Jiang was still old and spicy.

A gold mine with an annual income of five or six hundred thousand taels of silver, there will naturally be people in the capital who are red-eyed, but is Yu Qian easy to bully? And on the other hand, he also confirmed the reason for his attack on Luzon in disguise, and it is easy to explain it to Long Live there. And there are many gold mines here.

Thinking of this, Bai Minghe asked again: "Xingdu, I don't dare to say that the gold mines here are everywhere. But the islands of all sizes here, I am afraid that there are not as many gold mines in the entire Ming Dynasty as they are. ”

"Take your time." Xing'an took a sip of tea: "This governor taught you a trick, you give a gift to the palace in the New Year, and go to ask for ten or eight earldoms, which allows the wild people to see what it means to be a big Ming." ”

"High!" Bai Minghe also thought about this trick, but he couldn't implement it. Even if his tricks are more clever than Xing'an's, at this time, he must put on a high hat for Xing'an, which is the way to be an official.

Xing'an motioned for Bai Minghe to sit down. personally poured a cup of tea for Bai Minghe, and then said: "Bai Minghe, the miscellaneous family knows that Long Live is optimistic about you." But there are also many people who are staring at you and looking for your trouble. The most troublesome thing is that your piece is no longer fat, but a mountain of gold. ”

"I know!" The white crane nodded silently.

"In Fuzhou, there are some people who move your mind, and the miscellaneous family respectfully tells them. But are they the only ones? Kill a few, and more people will be tempted. Have you ever thought about it? Xing'an asked, Bai Minghe's heart was warm, this is really for his own good, but what can he say, there are some radical means, Bai Minghe can't even think about it. (To be continued......)

PS: The optical fiber is finally installed, and the wall line change is really a door technology, but unfortunately, it is less than 30 trillion at the moment.