Chapter 213: The Song Family's Great Cause of Reclamation
After Song Zixing saw the Dongfan copper coin, his reaction was not as contemptuous as Song Laoqi, but he felt that this time was not trivial.
He didn't believe that the people of Dongfan would make such a mistake, and he didn't believe that Dongfan had recruited so many Han people, and there would be people who couldn't understand the quality of the copper coins.
After thinking about it, Song Zixing only felt terrified, if Dongfan minted copper coins of this color, and it was profitable, then it would be too terrifying.
He also hoarded copper coins in his early years, and even asked someone to mint copper coins privately, so he knew the way here.
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he was, and even faintly felt a little frightened, he put himself in the perspective of the short-haired king, and thought about this question for a while.
The conclusion is to mint coins in the dead and go to the north and south of the river to exchange money, so that the profit is definitely more than one million a year!
Thinking of this, he didn't dare to think about it anymore, although he didn't know any economic laws and didn't understand any finance, but he had many years of business experience, and knew that the future Dongfan copper coins would run rampant in the Ming Dynasty, unless the imperial court could order a strict stop.
But he also knows that he can't help it! The imperial court can only realize it later, and the moment it knows, it is already impossible to change.
He hurriedly found Song Jilin, and also found Song Derong by the way.
"Daddy!"
"Sir!"
After the two arrived, Song Zixing handed over a string of copper coins and said, "This is the copper coins of Dongfan!" ”
Song Derong took it and tasted it with Song Jilin.
Song Jilin complained: "The color is good, but the castable is really ugly, this text is extremely untidy, and there are four strange shapes behind it." ”
Song Derong smiled and said: "The shape is similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, Dongfan suddenly thought of minting money, is there also a copper mine on Dongfan Island?" ”
Song Zixing sighed: "The ship of Dongfan on this trip sent 150,000 pieces, saying that they were sent over for money!" ”
"Money?" Song Jilin's eyes lit up and said, "Okay! Pi money (local coinage) for Dongfan money, two or three for one penny, we may all have earnings! ”
Song Derong's brows were furrowed, he looked at the money carefully and said, "Could it be that the people of Dongfan also have a way to mint money?" If you don't have to make money, I believe that the short hair will not come to exchange money, but should prevent the money from flowing out! ”
"Maybe the short-haired king doesn't understand!" Song Jilin said.
"Nope! Shorthair doesn't understand, so many Ming people have passed, how can they not understand? Song Derong shook his head.
Song Zixing took a breath, looked at the two of them and said, "Now I understand, how terrible the people of Dongfan are!" ”
Song Jilin stopped talking, looked at the copper coin in his hand and pondered.
Song Derong arched his hand and said: "Master, if Dongfan can really make a profit by making money, then we can't do anything, as for whether to mix with it or not, it seems that there is no choice, since it is profitable, we can't give it to others!" ”
Song Zixing glanced at him and said in a low voice, "Do you think I'm worried about making money here?" I'm worried about the fields over there! ”
Song Derong's heart trembled, and Song Jilin also looked at his father fiercely.
Since Song Jilin came back from a trip to Dongfan, he really spent 5,000 taels of silver to let 50 slaves take 1,000 tenants of the Song family to Dongfan to reclaim the famine.
He deliberately avoided Dog Bay and chose to go a little north, and finally went up a river and found a large field of reeds.
In another time and space, Yan Siqi landed here to reclaim, so the existence of Yan Zheng accelerated the process of opening the stage.
Song Jilin felt that the land was fertile and the water and heat were abundant, so he chose a piece of land there and gave the tenants cattle and farming tools, so that they could reclaim the land there.
A few months later, his subordinates wrote down that they had been attacked by brutes.
He originally had the intention of retreating, but when he heard that more than 10,000 acres of land had been reclaimed, he immediately sent more manpower.
He also sent people to the surrounding area to search for these wild tribes, and it turned out that several tribes were willing to trade.
So it was out of control, and he got another thousand victims in one go.
Song Zixing was also very happy when he learned that the reclamation could be done and that there was another source of deerskin, and he could get deerskins from these savage tribes at a lower cost.
But after thinking about it, he decided to come up with a plan for four families to reclaim, that is, to bring the remaining three wealthy families in together to set up a reclamation number.
In addition to cultivating acres of land, this reclamation number is also engaged in fur trade, with the Song family accounting for 4 shares, and the remaining three wealthy families sharing the remaining 6 shares.
In this way, the other three wealthy families were successfully united, and they were prevented from continuing to sail out to find the short-haired king.
Not only is the speed of land reclamation faster, but their Song family can continue to monopolize the trade with the short-haired king, and they also leave the other three families speechless.
The four of them also took advantage of the situation to create a Qiu Yitang, specializing in the monopoly of fur.
Of course, the Song family only dared to do this quietly, and did not dare to let the short-haired king know.
But now that I look, the short-haired king not only built a big ship, but also minted a copper coin, and his ambition is not small!
"What's the fear of reclamation?" Song Jilin said angrily: "That place is not his short-haired king's, we have reclaimed it, it is ours, in the future, he will come to the door, it is a big deal to pay taxes to him!" ”
Song Derong lowered his head silently, he had the most contact with Yan Zheng, and he knew what kind of temper this group of short hairs was, since people had decided that Dongfan was theirs, I was afraid that it was not just as simple as paying taxes.
Song Zixing also felt quite difficult, he thought for a while and said: "Reclamation can't be stopped, the other three won't agree, and now that so much silver has been smashed over there, and a group of displaced people from Guangdong have gone up, and the fur trade is also good!" Can't stop! ”
Song Jilin also said: "Not only can't it be stopped, but also more reclamation, dad, think about how good the land is over there!" And no one collects taxes, and if it is reclaimed, it will be our own, and in time, there will be hundreds of thousands of acres there, or even hundreds of thousands of acres! ”
Song Zixing sighed, looked at the copper coin in his hand, gritted his teeth and said: "Then continue to cultivate, let's simply pull in the thousands of households in the Zhongzuo Institute and the Liuao Institute, compared with the short hair, we are just no soldiers in our hands, with the thousands of households in these two guards mixed in, the short hair will have to weigh one or two more at that time!" ”
"Sir!" Song Derong arched his hand and said: "I don't think it's appropriate, those Qiu Ba in the guard, how can they be so easy to dismiss, as the so-called invitation to God is easy to send God, it's better for them not to get involved in this matter!" ”
Song Jilin agreed: "That's right! Dad, we can't let the guard and the government interfere, otherwise we will lose a large part of the reclaimed fields by smashing such silver! ”
Song Zixing stroked his beard, but he reacted and felt that this move was indeed inappropriate.
He looked at Song Derong and asked, "Then what can you do?" ”
"I've been to that short-haired Meaux many times, and the most elite soldiers under short-haired men are nothing but brutes! And there are many tribes around, and there are also brute soldiers in their hands, and these tribes do not directly obey the orders of the shorthair, but only pay the shorthair a tribute every year. In this case, why can't we befriend these barbarians, we have cultivated the fields, and we have already had trade contacts with six or seven tribes, if we make friends with one or two, they may not be able to do things for us! Song Derong said.
"Great idea!" Song Zixing praised: "This is a barbarian system!" If we reclaim acres of land at the same time, we also collect the surrounding tribes, wouldn't we also be another short-haired king! ”
Song Jilin said happily: "Not only that, but we also have to train the village bravery, isn't that short hair more weapons and armor?" Let's spend money to buy a batch of them, and then our townsmen will have armor and blades, and build a city over there as a nest, won't they be able to divide one side! ”
Song Zixing nodded, and hurriedly ordered: "Send someone to invite you lords quickly, and say that there is something important to discuss!" ”
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