Xing'an nodded approvingly, it seems that Bai Minghe still manages these people very strictly.

Ginger continued: "However, every general with the fleet has the right to act cheaply, and according to the rank, this one is also big or small. Like General Deng, each sergeant sharing within three buckets of rice at a time will definitely be able to settle the account, and Chen Adaa only has the right to seven liters of rice. ”

"Where's the white crane?" Xing'an asked again.

"Brother Bai ordered five buckets of rice for himself, but I haven't heard that he has used it. Every reward is that the generals at all levels are rewarding their subordinates, and so far there has been no big reward for the whole army, and Lord Deng only rewarded each of the whole army with two ivory mangs when he went north last time. After Jin Jie finished speaking, he motioned to the little eunuch to go to the warehouse immediately.

Mango is not very easy to preserve, and Bai Minghe uses a stupid method, which is an absolutely sealed wooden barrel.

At the end of the barrel sealing, some air is extracted by hand to prolong the storage time as much as possible.

Soon, there were a few mangoes, a pineapple, and a papaya on the table in Xing'an.

"Uncle Xing, there is research on the medical officer's side, and people have scurvy when they go to sea for a long time. Eating dried vegetables is one way, and these are the more advanced ones, and the best Siamese fruits taste extremely luscious. At the moment, there is no good way to save and transport, so Brother Bai said to slow down and pay tribute to the palace! ”

Xing'an nodded slightly.

There is one thing that Bai Minghe is not mistaken, good things dare not be sent to the palace constantly, if the mouth of the palace is eaten, if it is not supplied, it is still them who are slaves.

A little eunuch quickly cut a few fruits.

Xing'an was very satisfied after tasting it: "It's good, the order to sail." The road should be fast, and the miscellaneous family is already anxious to see the white-named crane. ”

Bai Minghe, who was in Luzon, sat on the slide bar and chatted with Deng Hailong about his understanding of Luzon without a word. The white crane has mentioned four times in a row a beautiful island called Long Beach, where the sand is snow-white and the sky is blue. The water is also blue, and it is very beautiful.

Deng Hailong is not interested in what is beautiful, he only cares about the soldiers in his hands eating well and dressing warmly.

It was Qinghe's yearning on his face, and he wanted to immediately see the same beautiful scenery that the white crane said.

Bai Minghe was reluctant to go with Qinghe, just because he was afraid that he would let himself write poetry again. Then I have to copy it from there.

On the first day of rest, a chieftain who had come from northern Luzon Minor offered him a gift, a box of brown sticks, like some kind of straw stick. After being inspected by an attendant, he decided that there was no danger before handing it over to Shirahima.

Shira-naka just sniffed it, and his eyes immediately lit up.

"Here, get a box of matches!"

Does the white crane recognize this? Many people's eyes are fixed on the white crane, even the chieftains of Luzon, who don't believe that the people of the Ming Dynasty will know this thing.

The white crane first roasted the finger-thick cigar with a large match. Then he lit this original handmade cigar with another match, and Shiramei Crane didn't know what the real history was, when the cigar was produced, but this thing looked like a cigar.

After igniting it, the white crane listens to the sound of burning.

"It's good, it's fresh." After that, I put it in my mouth and took a sip. And then spat out nine smoke rings very gorgeously. Then take a puff and pit the cigarette in front of you. After feeling the taste, he praised: "Although it is different from what I imagined, it is a very pure thing, and it is made from whole leaves, pure leaves." ”

Bai Minghe's words were translated by Wang Yang to the chief, and after listening, the chief gave Bai Minghe a solemn salute.

This thing. Not to mention the Ming people, even the people of Little Luzon don't know much.

It was a small boat that came from the sea to the east more than ten years ago, and it had this cigar on board, and some seeds. After more than ten years. It was only then that their tribe succeeded in cultivating and learning to roll cigars.

The white crane pointed at the chief: "You, you're going to get rich." ”

The chief who originally gave the salute fell directly to the ground, and the words of the white crane meant that he would become the top nobleman on the island of Little Luzon.

Bai Minghe took another one to Deng Hailong, and after briefly explaining the characteristics of some cigars, he said to the chief: "I will count ten stone rice for you for a load of sun-dried tobacco, and on the same size of land, you can earn more by growing tobacco than growing rice." The goods you trade from me can be exchanged for rice, and your income will increase. ”

"Thank you, thank you Daming!" This sentence is also a Chinese dialect that the chief does not know much.

Deng Hailong took a sip like Bai Minghe, felt very strange, and asked Bai Minghe: "What can this do?" ”

"The soldiers of the North will like it." After explaining to Deng Hailong, Bai Minghe instructed the chief to fetch tobacco leaves, and then rolled Deng Hailong's dough into a very small cigarette roll: "This is not so explosive, you should be able to adapt to it." But the good leaves must be used to roll this, and the leftovers are only rolled small. ”

"You can also make some wooden pipes and put the tobacco in them to light them. There must be disadvantages to this thing, and inhaling too much will hurt your lungs. But on the battlefield, people who may not even be able to save their lives still care about these. If you smoke this, you will have a short period of excitement and fatigue. ”

"Excited?" Deng Hailong asked Bai Minghe to explain the word.

Bai Minghe thought for a while: "To explain it in another way, it is that the two armies are fighting, and the enemy army is strong. It's normal for people to be a little scared, but when people are excited, such as drinking, they will be bolder. Regardless of whether your enemy army is strong or not, first cut a few knives, Lord Deng should be able to understand that in many cases, the brave wins! ”

"This is less expensive than wine?"

"I haven't done the math, but the cost of wine is not low. And wine is not as good as this transportation, the most important thing is that this thing is the same as wine, and countless men will like this thing. To put it mildly, I want as much as I want for this thing, and the rolled one is added to two percent as a manual fee. ”

Shira-naka Crane needs this very much, even if he knows that this thing is harmful.

"Since you've decided, you're going to do it." Deng Hailongxin said that there was no need to affect the interest of the white crane for this little thing.

There were as many as they wanted, but the chief was uncomfortable, and he only had a few loads of stock. If it was a large-scale plantation, it would be a year before it would become a big business, but it's always a good thing.

On the island of Luzon, the rice of the Inner Lake Plain, as much as you want.

The chief in the north has decided to unite all the chiefs of the North Island of Luzon, all the places that are not suitable for growing rice, and plant a large amount of tobacco leaves, and the Ming people have already said that they will harvest as much as they want, and this thing will definitely not rot in the ground, and the Ming people are rich, and their reputation will not be affected because of this small business.

Little Luzon, 100,000 acres of natural coconut groves in the south, looking at Lu Qiyuan is like seeing a gold mine.

Standing on the top of the hill, looking at the coconut grove that is as far as the eye can see, led by the white crane, Hua Wuji and others are biting a cigar, with a smile on their faces, a lot, this is afraid that there are tens of millions of coconuts a year.

The white name crane heart said, is it much?

In the later generations of Qiong Island, there were 640,000 coconut groves, and only 240 million coconut fruits.

Not even five thousandths of global production. This coconut is still too small compared with the future demand of Daming.

"Wang Yang, this coconut grove is ten times bigger. I will spend 1 million taels of silver to help you build a factory in Manila, which will be used to extract coconut oil and process coconut peripheral products, so that your income will increase several times. But at the moment, there are still too few coconuts, not even 100 million, too little, too little. ”

100 million coconut fruits, isn't that a mountain?

Wang Yang hesitated on his face, increasing the coconut grove tenfold, how much manpower and material resources do it take.

Bai Minghe said again: "Either so, I pile up a hundred stones of gold in the harbor, are you afraid that I will regret it in the future?" ”

"No, absolutely not." Wang Yangna dared to be suspicious, and immediately consulted with several big chiefs, and immediately decided that the plan of a million acres of coconut groves in the southeast of small Luzon would start immediately. Bai Minghe also said that he could first support 500 quintals of silk as a deposit, only for coconut fruit.

"Continuing south, we'll go around Taal Lake and rest for a few days."

There are other local names for the name of Taal Lake, but Wang Yang soon understood that the white crane was going there. They are located in this location, and within half a day's walk, there is a walk to Taal Lake.

It is scenic, formed by a huge volcanic crater. There is a small island in the lake, there is a world's smallest volcano on the island, and there is a small lake with a diameter of more than 1,000 meters in the middle of the mountain, forming a strange natural landscape of mountains in the lake and lakes in the mountains. In later generations, Shira-naka Crane wanted to go and see it, but he never had a chance.

Right now, now that we're close, it's a pity not to take a look.

This time, Bai Minghe didn't get on the slider and only said that he wanted to walk, because he could see that Deng Hailong had something to say to himself.

"Xiaobai, I remember you mentioned hemp, but why haven't you mentioned a word until now. It's not that the old brother is talkative, this is more important in the old brother's heart than the tobacco leaves and rice you said. ”

When Deng Hailong spoke, there were all his people standing around, and he didn't let the people of Luzon get close.

The white crane smiled and tore off a large leaf on the side of the road, pretending to block the sun.

"Lord Deng, you know this kind of tree now!"

"Know, this tree they say is not to be eaten, but it grows very fast. Even if you cut it down from the roots, it will grow again in a few months, and if it doesn't grow for ten or eight years, the tree will grow again as long as the roots are not cut out. In this little Luzon, there are more weeds than weeds, and there are too many to count. ”

Deng Hailong was stunned for a moment when he said this.

It is impossible for the white-named crane to mention such a tree without a reason. Could it be ......

Bai Minghe smiled and nodded: "The best, and it is irreplaceable with a cable in the water division." Master Deng said, why don't I talk about it all the time? "Deng Hailong understands, this damn weed is growing, it is really calculated in acres, there are millions of acres. (To be continued......)