"Now, how are the ocean-going sailors preparing?" Liu Yu suddenly asked.

"Back to my lord's words, the newly formed Ocean Town, in addition to the former town sailors who went south to escort the merchant ships in the open sea, the warships of the left and right towns, the sailors have been prepared, and they are currently practicing on Dayu Island."

"Tell Xu Ming of the Laoag shipyard to let him supervise the construction of the big bird ship and the tiger warship, and not cut corners because the Ming court urgently needs the warship." Liu Yu asked.

"The villain understands."

The warship is the most important thing, and Wuda naturally does not dare to slack off.

During this period of time, the expenses of the Ming Court were too much.

Shipyards need a lot of silver taels and manpower to expand their shipbuilding capacity.

The production of artillery and guns by the Firearms Division also requires a large number of manpower and materials.

The pig iron produced daily by the ironworks on the outskirts of Laoag also requires a lot of charcoal, wood and iron ore for wrought iron.

No matter which department it is, it is devouring a large number of Ming Ting's silver and manpower.

The current Ming court is extremely short of manpower.

Not only are there a shortage of craftsmen who produce firearms and shipbuilding, but even coolies are desperately lacking.

For this reason, the Ming court also had to explicitly prohibit slavery and trafficking in areas such as Rawagvigan.

The nobility of many of the princely states in northern Luzon kept large numbers of slaves in captivity.

In order to expand the source of manpower, the Ming court directly attacked these princely nobles.

In the major societies under the jurisdiction of the Ming court, the slave restriction order was implemented.

Limit the number of slaves under the princely nobles.

As a result, a large number of Fan people were enslaved in the hands of the princely nobles of various Fan Societies.

Of course, this naturally caused the dissatisfaction of a large number of princely nobles, but the Ming court was like a war machine, which would never stop after it was turned on.

Those natives who took the lead in the rebellion were thrown into prison by Liu Yu without saying a word, and several leaders were directly ordered by Liu Yu to be executed.

Today, the Ming court of Luzon has already gained a firm foothold in northern Luzon.

There is no need to compromise with these indigenous chiefs anymore.

Under the slave restriction order, in just over a month, the Ming court successively released more than 3,000 slaves from the major fan societies and the surrounding chiefdoms.

The Ming court distributed land to these slaves, and some of the able-bodied ones were recruited by the mining department and the ironworks.

"Go, call Su Langqing." Liu Yu said.

After receiving Liu Yu's order, Wu Da hurriedly walked out of the official hall and went to find Su Langqing.

Although it was already late at night, due to the banquet held in the Governor's Mansion today, a large number of merchants and generals slept in the wings.

Su Langqing didn't fall asleep either, but sorted out the accounts there. As Liu Yu's cronies, there is naturally a special room set up for him in the Governor's Palace.

Seeing Wuda coming to look for him, he hurriedly went to the official hall to meet Liu Yu.

"What's the matter with the adults summoning the villain late at night?" Su Langqing hurriedly walked to the official hall and saluted Liu Yu.

"You and the king of the household department are supervising the granary of Luzon, how much grain is hoarded on Luzon Island now?" Liu Yu glanced at Su Langqing and asked.

"Back to my lord's words, my Ming court hoarded about 1.3 million stones of grain and grass including rice and sweet potatoes on Luzon Island, and more than 6,000 barrels of whale meat, fish meat, dried meat and other meat." Su Langqing already knew all about these and reported truthfully.

After more than two years of transporting grain and storing grain to prepare for the war, the grain stored by the Ming Court in Luzon is enough to feed the people on the island for a year.

"The Four Seas Chamber of Commerce will no longer need to transport grain to Luzon from next month." After listening, Liu Yu nodded and said softly.

"Then do you still need to buy rice and other crops from Quang Nam and Siam?" Su Langqing was not surprised and asked.

"Rice in Quang Nam, Siam and other places can be purchased when the price is low, but not when the price is high, and you and other Nanyang maritime merchants should know these better than the court officials." Liu Yu said coldly.

"In the future, Ming Hai will concentrate on transporting grain and grass equipment for the Ming army, and there is no need to send ships to Guangnan and Siam to buy grain, grass and spices, and these affairs will be supervised by Yuanhai in the future."

The division of labor was clear when the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce was established.

However, because of the Ming Court's continuous major actions in these days, the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce was exhausted, and sometimes the ships and sailors were not enough, so they had no choice but to join hands to supervise the Ming Court's assignment.

"The villain understands, and he will talk to the merchant ship owner of Minghai tomorrow." Su Langqing secretly complained in his heart, so Ming Hai would have a lot less extra income.

Just buying rice from Siam in Guangnan and transporting it to Luzon can exchange it for 30,000 or 40,000 taels of silver from the Ming court, and now he has to hand over all the grain trade and transportation to the open sea, Su Langqing's heart hurts.

You know, it's all white flowers and silver taels.

"Tomorrow I have something to do with you." Liu Yu said suddenly.

"Do you remember when I sent a merchant ship from the Far Sea Chamber of Commerce to Quang Tong Tong?" Liu Yu asked.

"The villain naturally remembers that in order not to arouse the disgust of the countries of the South Seas towards the Ming court of Luzon, the trade agreement was generally submitted by the owners of merchant ships in the open sea, rather than by the officials of the Ming court."

"However, the envoy of the Sihai Chamber of Commerce who went to Guangnan last time was embarrassed, which damaged the face of my Luzon Ming Court." Liu Yu said coldly.

The fact that the lord of Quang Nam Ruan reprimanded the envoys of the Ming court in the court had already spread in Quang Nam.

Although the Yuanhai Commercial Bank deliberately concealed it, there were a large number of Chinese businessmen who could not stand Hoi An.

The various comptoirs had eyeliner here, so the news was also transmitted back to Luzon.

"This matter is also inappropriate for the Ming Court, in

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Before finding out the details of Guangnan, he sent a merchant fleet to Guangnan without authorization, but it was also abrupt in the Ming Dynasty, no wonder the Chamber of Commerce. ”

After listening to Liu Yu's words, Su Langqing was also relieved.

But after thinking about it, could it be that Liu Yu was going to send someone to Guangnan again?

Although Su Langqing is a businessman, he is very clear about the affairs of the court, and naturally knows what the next move of the Ming court is.

"If the Ming court wants to seize Qiongzhou, it must first appease Guangnan." Looking at the Nanyang chart on the desk, Liu Yu muttered to himself.

"The lord wants to send the villain to Guangnan to appease the ministers of Guangnan so that Guangnan will not affect the layout of the Ming court. Su Langqing said.

"Yes, Zhao Tianming sent an envoy to Batavia, and he was still on his way back at this time, although the Land and Sea Chamber of Commerce was powerful in Hoi An, and Wang Li was also in Jiading, it was easy to arouse the suspicion of the ministers of Guangnan, so you are the most suitable." Liu Yu said.

"What the Ming Court is going to do next, you must also know that Guangnan is the top priority, if Guangnan is unstable, the attack on Qiongzhou will inevitably come to naught, not only that, Jiading will also be in chaos." Liu Yu said.

Su Langqing also knew how important his mission was, and bowed heavily to Liu Yu.

"This matter is very important, I will send the officers and soldiers of the Far Sea Left and Right Zhenshui Division to Guangnan together with the Minghai Merchant Fleet."

In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Liu Yu finally made up his mind to let the newly formed Yuanhai Town go to Guangnan with Minghai.

This is to deter the monarchs and ministers of Guangnan, and the second is to let the Chinese businessmen in Hoi An and other places see the strength of the Qingming court.

Stabilize the clear heart of overseas Chinese in Quang Nam and other places.

Dear, this chapter is over, happy reading! ^0^