Zhang Gui then explained to Tianqi in detail the particularity of rubber, such as plasticity and high elasticity.

After hearing this, Tianqi, the technical house of the emperor, became as excited as Jiajing when he heard that there was a blood meridian of Zhang Zhenren, and hurriedly instructed Wei Zhongxian:

"Then your East Factory will send more people to escort the Franc machine to find it!"

"According to Uncle Guo's proposal, let those Franco slaves pick rubber for me day and night!"

"Be sure to pick up more! I really want to see this amazing thing! ”

"Yes!"

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly agreed.

The king of Chu has a thin waist, and many people in the city starve to death.

The apocalypse decreed, and Dongchang naturally did not dare to slack off.

Velasco and these Franc people had to be forced by the people of the East Factory to embark on the long journey to the Americas.

"Report! I found out earlier that there was a rubber forest mentioned by Uncle Guo, which was exactly the same as the drawings drawn by Uncle Guo! We've driven and hunted the wild people and beasts here! It's time to go collect. ”

On this day, a patrol fleet from the East Factory in South America was escorted to the East Factory, and soon after arriving at the South American coast, a hundred households from the East Factory Patrol Fleet quickly stepped onto the warship available to the Thousand Households Qiao and reported.

After hearing this, Qiao Ke said: "Then drive these Franco slaves down immediately, let them collect rubber, and they are not allowed to stop, and whoever is lazy will be whipped with a whip!" The vegetables are already almost consumed, and there is no need to bring so many slaves back, so it is better to simply exhaust a few more here. ”

"Understood!"

The hundred-household agreed and went to do so.

Syllable!

Syllable!

Syllable!

……

Next, after these Franc Robot people were driven into a natural rubber forest somewhere in South America, the official school of the East Factory drew a long whip and walked towards these Franc Robot Figures.

Syllable!

Then, these Dongchang official schools first whipped the Francophone in front of them, and shouted: "Cut!" ”

Vicolas, who was also here, was also really whipped at this time, grinning in pain, and then he had to take out a small knife and scratch it on a rubber tree in front of him according to the method that Dongchang had taught them.

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As the rubber juice flowed out, Vikras also left tears in his eyes.

He was really sad now, sad that he was a dignified governor who had come to this point.

Syllable!

But when Vicolas was distracted, he was whipped again, only to hear the Dongchang official school behind him scolding: "Don't think nonsense, cut it quickly!" ”

Vicolas had no choice but to brace himself and continue to cut the rubber.

In fact, Vicolas is tired right now.

Because he had just gotten off the boat, he didn't get a break at all, but he didn't expect that these people from the Ming Kingdom really didn't treat them as human beings, and let them work as soon as they got off the boat.

Vicolas suddenly felt that the Han people who had been slaughtered before were actually quite kind, compared to the Han people now.

In less than a month, because Dongchang was in a hurry to pick more rubber back to the Emperor of the Apocalypse, he was tired of hundreds of francs.

In the past, Song Huizong was curious about flowers and stones, and he started the flower and stone class, which exhausted countless people.

Today's great tomorrow Zhu Youxiao has started a rubber gang because of the magic rubber, and countless people are tired.

Once the emperor is good, it will indeed involve a group of people.

However, unlike Song Huizong's Huashi Gang, the rubber class of the Apocalypse will bring greater benefits to the Ming Dynasty.

The conversation turned back.

It was naturally a year or two before the Franc machine went to South America to pick rubber, and now the Ming Jingshi is still immersed in the rush to buy slaves.

Hongmaofan was the main force in global trade in this era.

After Zhang Gui instructed them to sell the Yi people to the Ming Dynasty as slaves, they did not refuse, and in the second year, that is, the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, a large number of foreign Yi were indeed transported into the country, and there were even many high-quality Yi slaves who were white and beautiful or strong, and there were many high-end Yi slaves who could cater to the respective needs of the Ming magnates and bureaucrats.

As a result, Hongmao Fan really profited a lot from it, and he was obsessed with this trade.

After ordering a large number of industrial products of the Ming Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, the Hongmao Fan went to Japan and Korea to sell, and after the sale, he cooperated with the powerful scholars and doctors of Japan and North Korea to order a large number of Japanese and Korean people from them, and then shipped them back to the Ming Dynasty to sell.

Under the influence of the Ming Dynasty's frenzied suppression of the domestic handicraft industry in Japan and North Korea, coupled with the fact that the Ming Dynasty repeatedly bought grain at high prices from these countries, and because the magnates and bureaucrats of these countries themselves were greedy for money and lived a luxurious life, they frantically bought all kinds of luxury handicrafts of the Ming Dynasty, which made these powerful bureaucrats more and more ruthless in their domestic oppression of the common people, so there were many bankrupt people in Japan and North Korea, and there were many people who sold their children.

Therefore, it is also easy to buy people from the powerful bureaucrats of these countries.

For Japan and North Korea, it has alleviated their class contradictions, but because of the decline in the total population, there will be fewer and fewer powerful bureaucrats who can rely on excessive exploitation of their own people, accompanied by the bankruptcy of a large number of middle and lower class aristocrats, which will lead to more brutal political struggles.

"Kill the traitor and protect the Lord!"

An angry roar suddenly appeared in Edo Castle.

Tokugawa Tadanaga, who was secretly dissatisfied with Daming and Hongmaofan, was just about to enter the palace when he was stabbed by a Japanese samurai who suddenly appeared.

Tokugawa Tadanaga glanced back in surprise.

And the Japanese samurai did not pull out the sword, but simply let go of the hand holding the Japanese sword, pulled out the short knife directly from his waist, cut his abdomen, and fell to the ground with Tokugawa Tadanaga.

This incident immediately alarmed the entire Edo Castle.

"Gong Xu, the gift has been cashed, when will your firearms arrive?"

In a secret room, Sakai Tadashi asked Xu Du shortly after Tokugawa Tadanaga was killed.

This Tokugawa Tadanaga is the younger brother of the current Wakoku shogunate general Tokugawa Iemitsu, and he is also an advocate who wants to close off the country and break off relations with the Ming Dynasty and the Red Hair Fan, and intends to overthrow Tokugawa Iemitsu, so whether it is Tokugawa Iemitsu's henchman Sakai Tadakatsu or Zhang Gui's henchman Xu on the Ming side, they are very willing to see Tokugawa Tadacho, a Japanese nobleman who is in contact with Xu Du and oppose the Ming Dynasty, suddenly die.

Xu Du also smiled because of this: "Please rest assured, we will not only help you with firearms, but when necessary, we will directly send troops to help you suppress the recent dishonest daimyo for your shogunate." ”

Sakai Tadashi was overjoyed when he heard this: "In this way, my shogunate is naturally grateful, and I hope that the lord of the country will be honored for generations to come!" ”

Xu Du just smiled slightly.

The main object of arms trade in the Ming Dynasty is the Japanese Shogunate, followed by North Korea, and it can be said that it has earned a lot of silver from the Japanese Shogunate.

As a result, the Wa Shogunate continued to maintain its suppressive position over the daimyo in the country.

For the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty made a lot of silver because of the sale of arms to the Japanese State, but also continued to maintain a trade surplus status, and also maintained a surplus status to other foreign states, so that the Ming Dynasty still earns the world's silver, but compared with before, these silver are basically stored in the treasury, as a capital for the purchase of overseas grain and ore and other raw materials, rather than becoming the capital of the luxurious life of the domestic magnates and gentry.

But even though the silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty has been mainly used in exchange for raw materials such as grain and ore, the Ming Dynasty, as the empire with the largest global productivity and market size, has so much silver that the current rulers of the Ming Empire can do more things to make a difference.

"The Ming Dynasty is now full of treasury, the people live and work in peace and contentment, no longer starving all over the wilderness, and the households have surplus food, and the feudal domain has accumulated wealth. If there is any need to carry out reform, there is no need to rush to change it now, there is only one thing, in the opinion of contemptible, this dynasty has turned from decline to prosperity, and the so-called prosperous era of repairing books, is it now time to use the people's funds to build infrastructure, when the construction of culture is greatly revitalized, and conducive to the future of the nation and the future country? ”

Therefore, Zhang Gui also put forward a new idea at the Department of Planning on this day.

"What does Uncle Guo mean, what book do you cultivate?"

Chen Zizhuang asked.

Zhang Guidao: "When you suggest Your Majesty, reprint the Yongle Ceremony, and continue to write the Yongle Ceremony!" ”

"Reprint the Yongle Canon? Do you want to continue writing? ”