In early March, Meaux received the booty shipped back from Luzon.

I didn't ask for a single book, all of them had been burned in Luzon, and most of the cultural relics were gold artifacts, but there were not many artistic things.

According to estimates, the "seized" goods in this attack on Manila were worth more than 2 million taels of silver.

Not only was there a lot of gold in the palace of the Luzon kings, but there was also a lot of gold in the homes of these merchants.

Yan Zheng also saw the spoils of war and realized that there was so much gold in the South Seas.

He looked at the newly polished crown of gold, ordered all the gold to be melted into gold bars, and planned a national treasury.

He did not intend to use the gold, he planned to wait for the gold reserves to be sufficient, and he planned to "abolish the two yuan" and issue silver coins on the gold standard.

In this way, the silver dollar will gradually be transformed from a precious metal currency to a purely "monetary" function.

This required a lot of gold, and Yan Zheng had to issue a special order, ordering that foreign trade could be settled in gold, but in Eastern Qin, it had to be exchanged for silver before it could be used.

Accumulate day by day, year by year, and one day the work will be completed.

What's more, the gold exploration operation of Eastern Qin has made great progress, after sending exploration teams to the deep mountains many times and attracting many deep mountain tribes. Finally, the distribution of ore veins in the Jinguashi mining area was determined, and more than a dozen mountain streams have begun to pan for gold.

At this moment, the road is being opened, as long as the road is opened, the gold mine in the Jinguashi area will be able to raise Yan Zheng fat.

……

Red Room, Lan Ya, and Kaori are all wearing a full set of gold jewelry and are showing off triumphantly.

The advantage of having a big belly is that the monarch responds to their needs, they ask for gold jewelry, and Yan Zheng gives them a set.

However, Yumo doesn't like these jewelry very much, her aesthetic is plain and elegant, and she likes the milky white bone china produced in the Eastern Qin Dynasty the most.

The three of them sat together, pulling a maid, playing mahjong while chatting about some interesting things.

In order to relieve their boredom, Yan Zheng deliberately made mahjong, but now they are idle, but the matter is all on Yan Zheng.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Commerce officially took charge of the factories and commercial affairs of Mocheng Dongqin at the beginning of this year, which made the burden of the monarch a lot lighter in an instant.

Yan Zheng was on the recliner on the side, flipping through Chen An's report.

After reading Chen An's idea, he sighed silently.

"No one knows colonization better than I do!"

This was Yan Zheng's previous opinion, but now, these people are actually self-taught!

He didn't even need to hint, these people had already shown this talent.

Yan Zheng thought about this question, and suddenly a burst of horror rose!

Because the things of various Western colonizers in history are similar to each other, do they learn from each other?

No! By chance, there is necessity, Spain and Portugal were colonial bosses of the same period, but they did similar things in the colonies.

They are also self-taught, and they don't want to learn, so they do it naturally. The human nature of profit-seeking is prompting people to make such a choice.

So whoever has the opportunity to colonize will replicate this process over and over again.

It seems that human nature is like this, and there is no need for Yan Zheng to arch a wave of fire.

He approved Chen An's various resolutions, and only amended one of them, that is, "Sumu and Xiangmu" should be excluded from the list of high taxes on luxury goods.

These two specialties are luxury goods and medicinal herbs that take many years to grow and are generally found in the jungle.

Therefore, ensuring the profit margin of these two things will help the greedy businessman to explore in the deep forest.

Even allow the greedy people to form an adventure team to explore, so that they can find a forest and make a fortune.

After such a myth of wealth is hyped, the entire jungle of Luzon will disappear at an accelerated rate, not to mention the wild people inside.

After dealing with this matter, Yan Zheng picked up the investment applications of Huaxia Sugar Company, Textile Company, and Development Company.

All three companies were keeping an eye on Luzon, and when the Huaxia Daily issued a resolution on the government's development of Luzon, they immediately sent in the application.

Yan Zheng smiled faintly and granted the three companies 50,000 mu of land reclamation qualification certificates, allowing them to build plantations and factories there.

As for the manpower, it is not within the scope of the government's consideration, and these Ming shareholders have to recruit tenant farmers and buy slaves on their own if they want to obtain this real profit.

"Luzon is just the beginning!"

Yan Zheng sighed with emotion and stood up slowly.

The system he has created now is comparable to the ultimate version of the colonial empire - Great Britain.

Even in terms of advancement, it is already much stronger than that of the British. After all, all companies in Dongqin have the shadow of mixed ownership, which makes colonization and development not a bottom-up business behavior, but a top-down planning behavior, that is, Yan Zheng gives a goal and lets the funds go to that place.

Coupled with advanced management experience and productivity, this kind of colonization is more efficient, and the colony can achieve balance of payments more quickly and create greater value.

In terms of population, he was backed by a Ming dynasty, and after he had the right to inland waterway navigation and the right to recruit workers, the entire Yangtze River became a collection point for displaced people.

As long as there is a contradiction between man and land in the Ming Dynasty, then he will always be able to gather the displaced people.

As long as he has the right to mint coins, he can rely on coinage to buy the population all the time, which is equivalent to turning around, and solving the displaced people for Daming, and leaving the money to Daming.

Of course, it is still the people at the bottom who are injured, and they have to bear the cost of exchanging bad money for good money in the matter of copper coins.

Yan Zheng walked to the card table, glanced at Kaori's card, and reached out to touch one for her.

"Huh!" A big red was slammed on the table.

…………

A few days later, the first batch of armed migrants was sent to Manila.

This group of people were all prisoners of the Ming army, and after ideological education and labor changes, all of them had shaved their heads and changed their clothes.

In order to make them more qualified armed migrants, they are even deliberately trained to teach them some rainforest do's and don'ts.

The most important things they brought were artemisia and betel nut, which they chewed daily to prevent malaria.

Yan Zheng's plan is very simple, that is, to let this group of armed immigrants gain a firm foothold first and develop Luzon Island more.

The leader of Mona also came, and they were a group of more than 500 people, except for their wives and children, only 200 men.

They sat on the boat for two days in a daze, and when they saw the dense forests of Luzon, they all became happy.

"We're going to open up a new hunting ground here!"

The leader of Mona was very heroic, and Ana on the side was also full of smiles.

Ana was the former leader of the Ana tribe, and since the beginning of farming, his tribe and hunting grounds have disappeared.

"Rainbow Bridge, Ancestral Spirit, there are headhunters on it!" The Mona leader said excitedly.

Ana smiled and said, "We can live the old days again!" It's just that there's no going back to the past! ”

The leader said: "I have already agreed with the king, and he promised to set aside a piece of mountainous area so that we can live on it, and when we are short of food and clothing, we can also exchange special products." In this way, we will be able to sacrifice our ancestral spirits with blood, and we will not be exactly the same as before! ”

"That's good! I just want a hunting ground to hunt, and the matter of blood sacrifice to the ancestral spirit, leave it to the young man! Ana laughed.

"Haha! Our totem can also be passed on! The leader glanced back, and there were only a dozen young men in their entire team, all of whom were the sons of some old man.

There are more than a dozen families who don't want to live the old days, and they can't worry about the old people in the family, so they decide that the son will follow his father by drawing lots.

These sons who followed out did not have a little excitement and joy on their faces, but more of a deep reluctance.

Not long after, Zhang Sanfeng and An Shan, who learned the news, also hurriedly ran to greet them.

The chief was even more glad when he saw them, and hurriedly pulled the two of them and asked, "Which of the mountains behind them was assigned to us by the king?" ”

Zhang Sanfeng smiled bitterly: "Chief, the place that the monarch has assigned to you is not here, and you have to wait for us to fight it." This is not the high mountains and dense forests of Luzon, in order to take care of you, the king has specially approved the vicinity of the tortoiseshell port, where can you go to pick a mountainous area, where the forest is close to the port, and you can go to the port to find a garrison in the future. ”

…………

…………