At night, hundreds of fires were lit on this small island, roasting mutton and drinking Daming wine. The crew, scribes, medical officers, and especially the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were dancing around the fire with the locals, and it was not a problem to be unable to communicate in language, as long as they smiled, they were satisfied, and they bartered.

The white crane bites a cigar and sits on a shipwreck, grilling fish and looking at the sea at night.

A businessman came over to toast, and Bai Minghe took a drink, and then said: "Wealth, don't evade taxes!" ”

"Don't dare, our firm is willing to pay ten times the heavy tax for this trip, subject to the goods registered on board?" The white crane was taken aback, what, pay ten times the tax. These businessmen are certainly not crazy, could it be that there is some kind of treasure.

A huge pearl, large enough to eclipse the night pearl in the crown of the Ming Emperor, a natural pearl, a black pearl, was taken out of the merchant's arms. "My lord, this one doesn't count. Please accept it, on behalf of the small people to give long live, this is a little filial piety of the small people, please adults must accept it. ”

"Fifty times the tax." With a calm face, Bai Minghe took the huge black pearl, which was worthy of being called a top treasure.

But who would have thought, the merchant smiled with a smile: "Don't say that it is fifty times, but if you open your mouth, it will be a hundred times, and we and other small people will never dare to have the slightest suspicion, and we will not pay the slightest less tax." I just ask the adults to give me the bottom, what is next, don't let us exchange the goods in advance. ”

"Got it, you're a lobbyist!"

"Your Excellency, you're laughing." The merchant was not afraid, and still smiled.

Bai Minghe simply drew a map of Africa on the beach: "I told General Lan that there are a lot of gold mines here, and all the masters of the Ming Dynasty together can't compare to a fraction of what they do here." But you want money, and gold mines are small profits. Bai Minghe said that the gold mine was a small profit, and the merchant representative was so frightened that he almost sat on the beach.

Digging for gold is still a small profit.

"Don't just think about exchanging some goods. You have to use your goods to sign certain agreements with here. Then bring our people from the Ming Dynasty, people from Little Luzon, people from Korea. Keep opening here, and ask for medicinal herbs and trees here, all of which are treasures. If you knew about the ebony coffin of Lord Jin Lian, you would definitely appear here. Top African ebony several times better than that. Of course, this is just a kind of trade. ”

"My lord, please speak up, the little one can't stand it."

"There is a tree here, called the palm tree, and this tree has many uses, just one. Oil, which can be eaten, can also be used with oil. In about 100 acres of trees, 80 stones of oil can be produced. Oil eighty stones, pure oil. It is eighty catties per mu. Ten times more than soybeans and four times as much rape, does this thing work? ”

Needless to explain, precious goods are just a sale, and people's livelihood goods are long-term.

What will never change is the need for clothing, food, shelter and transportation. Among them, the tradition of the Ming Dynasty is still to eat, this oil will never be enough to eat, and the original people eat boiled vegetables. One of the important reasons why stir-fry can't be developed is that there is too little oil. Too little to eat.

"After negotiating an agreement, it will be directly processed into oil here, barreled and shipped back to Daming, where one million barrels a year is not a problem. In other words, the output value of oil alone is hundreds of millions of taels of silver. ”

"Your Excellency. If it is really a million barrels, the profit will be hundreds of millions of taels. The merchant added.

Bai Minghe smiled, he didn't argue about this number anymore, and it wasn't worth arguing about. Because when there is a lot of oil, the price of oil will drop at all.

The white-named crane pointed north: "Don't just think about Daming. We're going to sell to Europe and get their money back. I know why I didn't let you bring silver with me when I went to sea this time, but it wasn't because the silver took up space, but the price of gold in Europe, fifteen taels of silver and one tael of gold, and the rest was calculated by yourself. ”

Fifty times the tax, the white crane sells ideas, sells trade routes, and sells business opportunities.

Value!

The goods brought by these merchants are also sky-high, and they dare to say that they have a value of hundreds of millions of taels of silver, but Bai Minghe has paid more than five billion taels of silver in taxes, of course, it is impossible to pay them immediately.

Bai Minghe said again: "This official will monopolize the sea trade of the tea industry, except for the merchants registered in the Ming Dynasty, whoever dares to go to sea with their tea will be arrested by the ship, and the strict zhòng will not even save their wharf." On this sea, there are only registered merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and one family, not less than one million taels of route fees, and separate taxes. ”

"Shhh The merchant representative gasped, a terrifying thought.

And this benefit is too big to predict.

"Within a month, let you see the various industries that are really worth investing in, and remember, each one will pay fifty times the tax according to the value of the goods that go to sea this time. The one thought they had lost it, so they came to the official. The official will give a guaranteed 70 times the income, and you will get it in the next five years. ”

"Master Xie." The merchant representative was stumbling headlong in the sand.

Daming no longer needs to kneel, this kneeling is pleasing and convincing, and the white crane is worthy of the name of the god of wealth in the world.

The merchant walked away, and Wang Cheng leaned over. Bai Minghe handed the huge black pearl to Wang Cheng, Wang Cheng took it with a smile, and his subordinates knew. They used two horses of fine white linen, plus five wooden combs, and some worthless knick-knacks, which were more than a hundred times more profitable.

"Sue them, an exchange is an exchange, leave some gifts before leaving, don't be too dark!"

Wang Cheng touched the pearl on his hand and replied, "My lord, my subordinates know." After saying that, he took the pearl and left, and the merchants did not get hot eyes on what they exchanged, and the soldiers had a reward for the soldiers, and part of the heavy taxes of the merchants was a reward for the soldiers.

Wang Cheng took the pearl and gave it to Huaiyu, only saying that the merchant wanted to give it to Banzai.

Long live, Huaiyu is not afraid, and he will be deducted directly. Even if you want to offer it, let yourself keep it for a year, and maybe soon there will be something even more magical that can replace this as a tribute. Huaiyu knows that it will take at least a few months, or even half a year, on this journey.

"There are so many treasures!" Qinghe checked the account book, and she naturally also had private goods. However, her private goods are of high rank, and she did not arrange merchants, but let the sergeants take care of them, a reward is definitely indispensable, and it is okay to do some small business in private, and Qinghe also sent people to trade some.

There are also a few pieces of ambergris, as well as things like large pearls.

The real valuable goods have not yet been sold, these things are safer, all of them are loaded on several frigates of the Sagara Dragon King, and it is safer to put them here, there are really civilian officials who have something to say, this is also Huamei's Sagaro fleet for business, just pay taxes according to the law, and it will not fall into the hands of people.

An island, a port.

Next, in the later port of Dar Es in Tanzania, artillery was set up at the port. It was occupied by the Persians, who no longer had a state of their own, and their kingdom was occupied by the Turkic nobleman Timur, now the Timurid Empire, which was in opposition to the Ottoman Empire, and was completely impudent to the existence of the Ming Dynasty.

The artillery was mounted in the harbor, and the white crane only gave a pillar of incense time, either surrender or die.

To surrender is to become a member of the Ming Dynasty, to swear allegiance to the Ming Dynasty, and to become one of the managers of the Ming Dynasty here. Of course, the chief official here must be the officials of the Ming Dynasty, and all the Persians become the Ming Persians, and they can move to the Ming Dynasty or settle here.

In a word, the white crane wants this port.

What's more, the white crane needs this important port on the east coast of Africa, and for the safety of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, the white crane cannot choose mercy, and his mercy will bring disaster to his own soldiers.

However, if the Persians choose to submit, they can protect their property, but for the African natives, the white-named crane has begun to prepare for them to integrate into the Ming Dynasty and become a member of the Ming Dynasty. They will be taught the language, they will be taught the habits of the Ming Dynasty, and they will also turn this place into the territory of Buddhism and Taoism.

The Persians surrendered, just over a thousand people, it's okay to bully the locals, but against the Ming Empire, they can't.

Continuing southward, the white crane stopped again on an important island.

On the island of Madagascar, there are already Indonesian and Arab immigrants who intermarry with the locals and slowly begin to build a state. In the 14th century, a state-like organization was established here, which can also be called the Union of Great Chiefs. is a higher state organization than Little Luzon.

It will not be more than 200 years before the country really appears.

The fleet is already decreasing, and the distance to the north of the island, according to the observation of the forward fleet, is less than half a day's sea route.

"My lord, have you not given an order yet?" Wang Cheng urged on the side.

Bai Minghe pressed his forehead with one hand: "I'm thinking about whether to fight or talk." We are not enemies here, and it would be against our conscience to fight. Talking, just like for little Luzon, can be slowly assimilated. Whether to fight or talk, I can't make up my mind, I don't want the fleet to become a bandit! ”

Bai Minghe said very seriously, and there is no problem with the food and fresh water of the fleet at the moment.

The entire fleet of people with identity knows that Bai Minghe is hesitating, and the reason for the hesitation is that he chooses to fight or talk here.

Lan Hai motioned for a telegram to Shira-naka Crane, and he wanted to ask for the details of the island.

But before the telegram from the blue sea went out, the telegram from the pioneer Liu Mingxuan came: "My lord, the forward pathfinder ship docked, and they saw it, vanilla." Boundless vanilla, tens of thousands of hectares of vanilla. The weeds here are vanilla, and there are as many weeds as there are vanilla! ”

The telegram was transferred to Shiro-na, who was helpless, because he knew that the inner bay where the fleet was going, that is, the west of the island.

There is only a trail of grassland here, and there are as many herbs as there are grasslands, and there are countless varieties. This small island has the largest vanilla export volume in the world in later generations, and it is the first place steadily. It accounts for two-thirds of the world's total exports.

"Electricity, there is a natural vanilla pasture here......" Bai Minghe stopped, and Wang Cheng was looking at him.

After sighing softly, Bai Minghe said: "A conservative estimate of 300 million mu, I estimate that it is close to 500 million mu." (To be continued!)

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