In the Governor's Palace, the lights in the hall were not extinguished, and Ming soldiers in plate armor were guarding outside the Governor's Palace.

It wasn't until early in the morning that a thin old man came out of the governor's palace.

As the old man's figure faded into the end of the street, a carriage sped by.

The carriage stopped outside the governor's palace, and a richly dressed man slowly stepped out of the carriage.

Su Langqing's face was happy, and he walked quickly towards the Governor's Mansion, and the elite of the Ming Army Huben Town guarding outside the mansion did not stop him, because this person was the richest person in the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, and he was also a big celebrity beside Liu Yu.

Liu Yu had a detailed conversation with Chen Ande for a night, and Liu Yu gave understanding and respect to this old man who still cared about the Ming Court in his sixtieth year.

Even if he had persuaded Liu Yu to give up Luzon.

"My lord, Su Langqing asks to see you." A butler walked briskly down the hall and spoke.

Liu Yu took a sip of tea, he still drank seven or eight cups of tea last night, if it weren't for the refreshing of the tea, he would have been unable to support his coma.

"What's the matter?" Seeing Su Langqing walking into the hall, Liu Yu asked.

"My lord, this morning the Clippers of Sailor Town have sent back good news and the head of Mohanvili." Su Langqing couldn't suppress the joy in his heart and hurriedly said.

"Oh." Liu Yu took another sip of tea.

"Passing the word about Rawag so quickly." Liu Yu smiled.

"My lord, since Muhanvili is dead, the Luzon pirates will definitely flee from the wind, and they will no longer be able to stop the conquest of the Ming king, and the merchants from all over the world are crying with joy and have asked your lord to open the sea today."

Glancing at Su Langqing, Liu Yu smiled.

It's no wonder that this kid ran to the governor's mansion early in the morning, these days by land and sea, Ming Hai was banned from navigation by Liu Yu under the loss of a lot of losses, as soon as he heard that the pirates were defeated by the Ming army, he immediately asked Su Langqing to ask for the navigation order from himself.

"The headquarters of Fubo and the headquarters of the sailors defeated the pirates in the Babuyan Sea, and now the islands off the coast of Luzon are also accepted as Ming soil, and now the pirates are just lost dogs, and it is really not a matter of concern." Liu Yu nodded.

After hearing Liu Yu's words, Su Langqing knew that there was a drama in the sailing order.

"These days have been hard for Lu Hai and Ming Hai, oh yes, how has the profit of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce been in the past six months." Liu Yu asked.

As if knowing that Liu Yu would ask, Su Langqing took out an account from his cuff.

"Land and sea, Ming Sea, mountains and seas, and the far seas are all in this account for most of the half year's profits, please take a look." Su Langqing respectfully handed it to Liu Yu.

"No need." Looking at the accounts handed over by Su Langqing, Liu Yu had no intention of taking them.

"Just tell me Sihai's profit in the past six months."

Seeing that Liu Yu didn't even look at the accounts, Su Langqing's face was shocked, but his heart was shocked.

This is clearly a trust in yourself and the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.

Su Langqing nodded emphatically, and hurriedly said: "Back to my lord, in the past six months, the land and sea, the Ming Sea, the mountains and seas, the far sea in the South Seas, the mainland maritime trade, and the opening of land trade routes such as Ming City, except for the loss of pirate attacks this month, the four seas have made profits, and the four seas have earned a total of 380,000 taels of silver in the past six months. ”

After Liu Yu's efforts for more than half a year, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce has made significant development.

There are more than 800 major ships in the land, sea, mountain and sea, and far seas, including more than 200 large ocean-going ships.

From Laoag to Manila, to Guangdong, Quanzhou, and all over the South Seas, there are ships from all over the world.

Despite the pirates off the coast of Luzon, they did not curb the development of the four seas, and ships from the far seas still sailed in the South Seas, but did not take the Babuyan Strait.

"Silver rolls in, and naturally it rolls away." Liu Yu shook his head.

"Tell me, how about the cost of the four seas."

Su Langqing's smile was obviously stiff, he flipped through the accounts, and said with a somewhat bitter face.

"If you go back to your lordship, the four seas will pay a total of more than 98,000 taels of taxes for the Ming Court."

"In addition to the daily maintenance and docking costs of more than 3,000 taels per month, the merchant shipowners who need to pay other chambers of commerce dividends of more than 40,000 taels, and the crew of our fleet receive more than 22,400 taels of dividends, which add up to nearly 70,000 taels.

This is about to be the New Year, and the four seas still need to prepare thousands of sailors' annual salaries, which is estimated to be more than 30,000 taels of silver. ”

"Mingcheng is still under construction, building houses for Mingcheng merchants, providing rice seeds, farm tools, etc. for the displaced people in Luzon, and Shanhai has also spent more than 20,000 taels of silver." Su Langqing counted them one by one.

"This month, because of the pirate attack, the pirates plundered six ships in a row, hundreds of sailors lost their lives, and the four seas still need to give a large amount of compensation, plus this month the mountains and seas have not been able to go to sea due to the ban on navigation, and they have suffered many losses."

"Forget it, Sihai made a total profit of 160,000 taels of silver." Su Langqing said.

Counting 160,000 taels is indeed a lot, but to divide it with four trading houses, each branch of the trading house has an average of only 40,000 taels of silver, which is still a monopoly on the trade routes in northern Luzon.

Liu Yu put down the tea and looked at Su Langqing, the source of the Ming Court's financial income was still relying on the commission of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce.

Huben Town, Weiwu Town, Auxiliary Soldier Town and other land towns, plus the Fubo General Town, the water division and Shengfan's military salary, add up to 130,000 taels, and there are more Mi, Jiaxiang and other items plus 40,000 taels of silver.

This does not include the 40,000 taels given to Xiao Wushui's general town, and the military expenditure of the Ming court was as high as 210,000 taels.

The Chamber of Commerce of the Four Seas took more than 90,000 taels of silver, which was not used at all.

Among the military expenditure items, some are subsidies for the families of Ming officers and soldiers, after all, everyone will go to Luzon with their heads, marry a mother-in-law or something, and naturally have to pay for the court, give the land and give the house, and the soldiers betrayed the Spaniards, risked the risk of the tribe being slaughtered by the Spaniards, and worked for the Ming people, naturally, for the silver taels, and of course, the daily purchase of firearms and armaments.

More than 20 towns, large and small, such as Laoag, Vigan, Mingcheng, and Tulaugebang, have paid roughly 200,000 taels of silver yuan this year, which is equivalent to more than 130,000 taels.

The population of Luzon was small, and the population of a town could only be compared to the population of the towns under the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty, and the bulk of the tax revenue was basically the local merchants and craftsmen of Wigan and Laoag.

As for the taxes of the local indigenous chiefdoms, the Ming court replaced the taxes with sweet potatoes, rice and other crops, which were used to replace the salaries of the officials of the major towns.

After all the calculations, the Luzon Ming Court did not lose money this year, and of course it did not make a profit.

"Wuda, you are also in charge of the camp and the grain depot, let me ask you, is the military food enough?" Liu Yu asked Wuda on the side.

"There are still more than 40,000 stone of rice, sweet potatoes and other military rations in the big people's reserve, and more than 2,600 barrels of all kinds of dried fish, dried meat, and whale meat, which are enough to supply the whole army for a year and a half." Uda replied.

"Hmm." Liu Yu nodded.

Although there were not many Ming people living in Luzon, Liu Yu absorbed a large number of tribal forces that originally belonged to the chieftains of the princely states, and these local forces were cultivated for the Ming court.

It has been a hundred years since sweet potatoes and other high-calorie foods were brought into Luzon by the Spaniards from the Americas, and more than 100 years of cultivation have long made sweet potatoes suitable for the environment of Luzon.

With the merchant fleet, the Ming court also vigorously fished for fish resources off the coast of Luzon, and also specially dispatched sailor ships from the open sea and Fubo Town to form a whaling team to be responsible for whaling in the open sea.