Chapter 169: Brother Ding

All of a sudden, more than half of the Ming soldiers in the camp ran away.

Some ran to the Military Supervision Department and scrambled to take the silver taels hidden in the barracks treasury, while others ran back to their homes.

"Erya, you kid is clever, go to the prison army and take out the thirty silver yuan we saved first, that is the newly minted silver coin of the Ming Court, but don't be secretly taken away by others." Li Liu shouted loudly at Erya, who was as thin as a monkey.

At this time, he also hurriedly walked briskly outside the barracks, muttering in his heart how to talk to his mother-in-law at home, and took out the ten taels of silver stored under the stove and put them in Minghai Bank.

How good it is to put it in Minghai Bank, anyone with a discerning eye knows that it is Lord Liu's money bank.

With Lord Liu looking at his silver taels, it is better than putting them under the stove to eat ashes, and letting the stove prince guard it reliably.

Thinking of this, Li Liu couldn't help but speed up his pace and walked towards a village not far from the barracks.

In order to make it convenient, the Ming army specially built a village next to the barracks for the families of the soldiers.

At the same time, in order to strictly enforce military discipline, family members are not allowed to enter the barracks on weekdays, and the soldiers of the Ming army in the army are not allowed to enter the village to see their wives and children at will.

This made the Ming soldiers complain, and even many veterans who followed Liu Yu from birth to death were also opposed, but Liu Yu still forcibly carried it out, and even severely punished several Ming soldiers who couldn't stand the pain of love and ran home without permission.

However, for these soldiers of the Ming Army who became families in Luzon, they could not see each other across the barracks from their families, and it was never a solution to solve them.

Liu Yu finally ordered that the officers and soldiers who had already married in Huben be allowed to take three more days of family leave per month, and that they should be allowed to reunite with their families in Luzon.

And this military policy gradually spread to other land towns such as auxiliary towns, which also made more and more Ming officers and soldiers begin to marry wives and have children in Luzon.

Su Langqing and other Chinese businessmen in Minghai never imagined that Minghai would be so prosperous when he opened a money bank.

For several days, there was a long queue outside the bank, including merchants, family members of the Ming army, and even some English who did business in Laoag.

Boxes of silver, silver yuan of the five account gentlemen of the money village are all swollen and dizzy, the ten men and miscellaneous servants originally hired can't even take care of eating, and Ming Hai also hired ten more people for this.

"This?" Watching the boxes of counted treasure chests being carried into the cellar of Qianzhuang, Minghai merchant Ding Ge gasped.

"I really didn't expect that so many people would deposit silver into our bank." Brother Ding, the owner of the merchant ship in Minghai, was crazy with happiness.

Of course, the Chinese businessmen in Minghai also knew that the reason why Qianzhuang could continue to run and be so successful was naturally the influence of the Ming Court, and Guan was influenced by Liu Yu to go to Minghai Qianzhuang to save money, and there were thousands of Ming army soldiers and officials.

Although the soldiers of the Ming army in Luzon did not accumulate much silver taels, and an officer and soldier was only a few taels, it added up to a lot, and the soldiers of the Ming army alone saved more than 8,000 taels of silver.

The families of the officials of Laoag have also deposited their money in the Minghai Bank these days.

The king of Minghai Qianzhuang carefully counted and calculated, and in the first three days alone, about 80,000 taels of silver were deposited into the bank, of which 50,000 taels of silver were deposited by local officials and generals in Luzon.

The Minghai merchants present naturally knew why these Luzon officials rushed to deposit silver in Minghai Bank, after all, the person in charge behind Minghai Bank was Liu Yu.

"And that's just the city of Laoag." Su Langqing, who was dressed in Confucian clothes, looked at the long queue, shook his fan and said with a smile.

These days, thanks to the leadership of officials and wealthy merchants, even the craftsmen and wealthy families in the city have come to save money.

Although there is no income of tens of thousands of taels a few days ago, so many retail investors can also bring a lot of savings.

After listening to Su Langqing's words, the other Minghai merchants present gasped.

"My lord, it's hard for Minghai to open a money bank." Merchant Ding Ge looked at Su Langqing with a shocked expression.

"Hehe, Mingcheng, Vigan, Pasalen and even overseas Dayu Island, in the future, Annan, Manila, as long as our Chinese merchant ships arrive, there will be our Chinese merchants' money bank." Su Langqing said loudly.

Su Langqing's words shocked the Minghai businessmen present.

Yes, how can a mere Laoag city be enough, the treasure ship of Chinese merchants goes to the South Seas, from Guangdong to Annam, and then to Manila City, where there is no footprint of Chinese businessmen in the world, where there is no treasure ship of Chinese businessmen.

Brother Ding, a merchant in Minghai, couldn't help but burst into tears when he heard this.

He was not the first Chinese merchant to be loyal to the Ming court, when the Ming army moved south to Luzon, shaking the whole of Manila.

Fearing that the Spaniards would once again wield their butcher's knives at Chinese merchants, Chinese merchants in Manila fled to other cities in Luzon and even other islands such as Mindanao.

For example, Su Langqing, Zhaozhou and other Chinese businessmen actually had their industries in Manila at the beginning, but because the Ming army went south to Luzon, they fled to Wigan and other places because they were worried about the ripples, and finally there was really no way to cooperate with the Ming army.

The hundreds of Manilan Chinese businessmen led by Dandingo did not leave Manila, and they preferred to trust Governor Juan's promises than the Ming army.

Of course, more importantly, they are reluctant to give up the property in Manila.

But who would have thought that the Ming army would break the Spanish coalition army in Mingcheng, go north to Laoag, break through Laoag City, and in just half a year, northern Luzon fell into the hands of the Ming army.

Dingo and other hundreds of Chinese businessmen who remained in Manila were put in water prisons by the enraged Spaniards, tortured, and every day was worse than death.

Until the Ming army negotiated peace with Manila, the Spaniards in Laoag and other places were exchanged for thousands of Chinese, including Dingo.

Ding Ge, who lost his property and his wife and children, gritted his teeth and survived, relying on the connections he had accumulated before to lease a merchant ship, when the pirates attacked the Ming Sea merchant fleet, and a large number of merchants from all over the world did not dare to sail for the Ming army because they were afraid of pirates.

Ding Ge directly went to sea with a boatload of medicines and more than a dozen sailors.

Unlike other Minghai merchant ship owners who fled after sending the supplies to Dayu Island, Ding Ge, a master of art, directly sent a shipload of herbs to Babuyan Island, startling Li Du, who had just won the battle against Muhanvili.

It was also with the help of this boatload of precious medicines that many wounded Ming soldiers were saved.

Because of this, Ding Ge and other businessmen were also invited by Su Langqing into the Ming Sea.

Now he also has six large ships under his command, although it is not as good as the previous industry in Manila, but in Laoag it is more reassuring to Dingo and other Chinese businessmen.

At least this is the land of the Ming people, and the Chinese merchants don't have to live under the butcher's knife of the red-haired ghost every day and night.