The master was calm and spoke slowly:

"First of all, seventy percent of us can speak Chinese, and ninety percent and a half of us can write our own script. Our homeland is Nantianzhu, which was once attacked by Emperor Ashoka, he believed in Buddhism, and of course it was the indoctrination of Buddhism that made him stop the war, he was a great king. In addition, our ancestors first came here 1,200 years ago, and later went to sea because their homeland was occupied. ”

This seems to be a good statement, but it is tantamount to a disguised recognition of their increasing number of people, occupying some Sinhalese territory.

Shira-naka thought it might be another quarrel.

But who would have thought that the Sinhalese would say, "We have two thousand years of records, and we have come here from the north." It was Ashoka who brought the Buddha to us. ”

"Well, can you put the war aside?"

"No, if we lose this port, we will lose a lot, and we will lose access to the sea to connect with our loved ones." The Tamil master replied very directly to the white crane.

Bai Minghe slapped his forehead, and said in his heart that you are too straight.

However, there is also a saying to Naoto: "Well, here I will expand the dock tenfold, and I can provide more ships, and there will be a lot of transactions with you." I will teach you how to farm, so that you will become richer, and the people will have more food and more clothing. ”

None of the three leaders spoke, apparently they didn't understand this condition.

Bai Minghe said again: "I will help you recover Tianzhu and return your homeland to you." And for the Highland Sinhalese, I will teach you how to grow tea. There are many ways to work together, and you can choose. Absolutely fair. And for the lowland Sinhalese, you can grow food, you can grow fruits. You can also grow more valuable plants. ”

"Tea, Daming's tea?" The Highland Sinhalese leader spoke.

But he asked, "We don't have tea seeds, and we don't know how to grow tea." Daming has countless tea plantations, do you still need our tea? We want to see real sincerity, even though you have made us feel sincerity. ”

"Well, you have a lot of mountains." Bai Minghe said in his heart that he really needed a different way to talk to these people.

After receiving an affirmative answer. Bai Minghe explained: "For example, a tea garden is given to the people of the Ming Dynasty to plant, and then the mountain of the tea garden is yours, but all kinds of investments are made by the people of the Ming Dynasty. Then the part of the income is divided into 28, that is, 20% belongs to you, and 80% belongs to the Ming people. However, your people work in tea plantations and there will be a standard value for their annual income. For example, in a month, you can get ten taels of silver. ”

Who understands ten taels of silver?

Bai Minghe learned a simpler technique from Fan Liang. He clapped his hands and asked people to prepare supplies.

According to the purchasing power of ten taels of silver, of course, it is the price at which it was sold here.

White linen, rice, porcelain, and other daily necessities are piled up here.

Very abundant goods, such a trade Sinhalese people are very satisfied, in Sinhala there is a strict hierarchy, the highest rank is called the cultivator, the lowest is called the washerman, of course this is translated according to the meaning.

"Then, the second distribution scheme. After you learn the techniques of growing tea, you can make joint stock investments. Of course, the money given to the tea farmers is the old price. This distribution ratio will change. In the end, it will even become eighty-two, that is, you get eighty percent, and Da Ming will get two percent with technology, and he will also be responsible for purchasing tea. ”

"Planting tea, I buy tea every year, 500,000 stones!" The white crane spoke. Not to mention the Sinhalese people, even the Ming people are scared, how much tea is there in the Ming Dynasty at the moment, this small island is 500,000 stones, tea is not rice. It's valuable.

"The variety of tea is selected by us, and the grade of tea must be determined in advance, from the highest to the lowest, divided into seven grades. Of course, one leaf and one bud is the best, and the real first-class is divided into picking time and completeness. Don't worry about the rules, there will be samples to make it clear to you in advance. ”

Seems to work.

Most of the people here are slave owners, and in their opinion, those tea farmers have enough to eat, ten taels of silver, that's not a joke. This can be discussed with the Ming people, they are responsible for planting, and the Ming people can share some more proportions, what is called the wages of tea farmers.

It's ridiculous, pay the slaves.

Of course, if Da Ming is willing to teach the art of roasting tea, a first-class tea copyist should have a salary. This must be a noble work done by civilians.

When Shirakawa came up with the idea, these people began to calculate.

"Of course, you can't see the benefits of tea at a glance, the tea trees are planted in the first year, and the actual harvest will not start until two years later. However, within these two years, even if it is invested, once the tea trees grow well, many people can be picked. ”

After listening to the white crane, the lowland Sinhalese also asked them about the way out.

"Grow sugarcane, rice, rubber, etc., you can plant too much, and many of the things you have here can also be processed, and we will harvest them."

After saying that the Sinhalese people, Bai Minghe changed his words: "Regarding the Tamils, you have two choices, continue to coexist peacefully in this land, or return to Tianzhu, and we will help you fight back." ”

The Tamils are reluctant to leave the island of Ceylon, at least not to give up such a place.

This is already their roots.

After getting permission, the three leaders who had just fought to the death sat together and began to discuss, Tamil did not believe that they could completely deal with the kingdom of Tianzhu Nadri, so they pulled Sinhala together, willing to divide some land in Tianzhu, and then join forces to fight back.

Whether it's for the sake of Tianzhu Sect or for Buddhism, it will be beneficial for both sides to fight back.

"It's much easier to do the next thing, build a harbor here, ten times as big a harbor. Then the Ming Dynasty would provide ships and then build a small port in the north and south of the island, which was bigger than this. As for this port, Daming hopes to lease it and build some places for Daming people to live, and also build a larger wharf. ”

"Our boat can still go here."

"Of course, you are the masters here. This is just borrowing the port, but there should be a rule since it is a port, how to stop the ship when entering the port, how to use the warehouse, and the rules on the wharf. That's fine! ”

"Nope!" The three leaders agreed in unison.

Bai Minghe silently thanked the eunuch Sanbao in his heart.

If it weren't for the Three Treasure Eunuchs who relied on a small number of troops to arrest the king here, they would not have been afraid of the battle power of the Ming Dynasty. Right now, with the cannon of the giant ship, it is easy to talk about it, also because the Ming Dynasty already had enough deterrence before.

Bai Minghe will not talk about the details, he will leave the corresponding people, or send people back to arrange officials from Daming to talk.

What Bai Minghe wants is just a sentence, this port has become a supply port for the Ming Dynasty.

I sent three guests off the boat and arranged for a boat to go back, without passing through Malacca and going directly to Siam West Port. A boat passing through Malacca is not very reassuring, not afraid that the enemy ship will dare to fight, but afraid that there are too many ships. It takes time to reload the artillery, in case a group of people who don't want to die will surround it.

It is difficult for a ship to protect itself, after all, there is a strait, and it can only rush hard and cannot make a detour.

Bai Minghe returned to the cabin, and a few people around him asked: "My lord, 500,000 stone tea leaves, that's 50 million catties." ”

"Is it much?" Bai Minghe asked rhetorically.

No one answered, when Bai Minghe said that he wanted to practice tens of millions of steel, or even 100 million stones, he thought that Bai Minghe was crazy, but now the steel is not enough, so was there more steel at the beginning?

"I heard that the brothers below have been learning to taste tea recently, didn't you guys only drink wine and not drink tea before?" For the people around him, Bai Minghe is still willing to explain. Hearing this, the people around him replied: "Drinking is a rough thing, tea is the way of elegance, and it is a shame to go out without drinking tea!" ”

Shira-namo looked to the west: "Actually, we didn't go to the Mediterranean to fight, but to do business. People drink tea there, and everybody drinks it. It's not the green tea we drink, but the black tea that is not too much on the market, and this kind of tea plus fruit, sugar, and milk is definitely what they are willing to drink. ”

What about sales? There is no need to ask this question, the Ceylon tea plantation of the white crane has not yet begun, and it is slowly cultivated in the market.

When the market is there, the output of tea has also come up, and the monopoly .......

Absolute monopoly, anyone who dares to sell tea at sea will be killed. Bai Minghe has enough confidence in this, and at present, in addition to the tea of the Ming Dynasty, there are only Wa Guo and Tianzhu. That's why Bai Minghe moved his mind to attack Tianzhu and crippled Tianzhu first, and the tea of the Wa Kingdom was not up to him.

On that day, there was only one family of Daming who sold tea in the world.

Of course, in South America, the production areas of coffee and cocoa are also all monopolized, plus the white name crane controls the whole of Asia, and then the spice trade is its own, and only the monopoly in this world can earn silver, and don't make money to earn the money of the Ming people, but to earn the silver of the European people, this is called making money.

Even if you can't earn silver, gold is fine, anything as long as the Ming Dynasty has a crush.

Sitting on the boat, Shirana Crane used a new ink-style fountain pen to write a notebook on a piece of stiffer white paper, followed by a detailed analysis of tea exports, especially the idea of monopoly management.

"Top secret, no one can read it except Banzai. In case something bad happens, it can't be seen if it ruins it. Noted down, this is a top-secret text jiàn. "Bai Minghe handed over what he had written to a forbidden palace master, although this master did not have a ranking of the golden pages.

But with a silverpage-level master, plus twenty guards, the white crane believed that this thing would not be in danger. (To be continued!)

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