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Chapter One Who Will Use Tools

Since Yunfu's army has cleaned up Guangzhou, the city's trade has become extremely prosperous.

Why is there such a deformity?

It's entirely because the heart held by the businessmen in Guangzhou has completely landed.

Whether it's good or bad, when the result comes out, people will have corresponding countermeasures.

The businessmen here find it strange that the officials who came down from the Lantian imperial court regard the land as a lifeblood as a priority.

They are busy dividing the fields of large families and ignore the prosperous business activities in Guangzhou. As long as the merchants pay taxes, they will behave very well.

In fact, after there was no secret blackmail by officials, businessmen paid far less taxes than before.

This makes those merchants secretly pleased.

Many merchants who occupies a lot of land even joked that the Lantian imperial court was a soil bun imperial court when they met in secret. They only knew about the land and had no idea about business.

In a huge city of Guangzhou, to be honest, more than 90% of people eat business meals. As for farmland...that is a symbol.

Therefore, it is easy to implement land reform in Guangzhou. In many cases, local officials can even see the butlers with a slight sneer on their faces when dividing and distributing land.

After waiting for half a year, the merchants finally determined that the Lantian imperial court’s reform was focused on land, not on commerce. It can even be seen from the news from the Guangzhou government that Lantian imperial court is supportive of commerce.

The Lantian Second Fleet, which is responsible for blocking the sea, has also completely lifted the sea ban on merchants recently.

As a result, Guangzhou's long-repressed business activities broke out in an instant.

The world has gradually settled down, the war life of drifting away has gradually ended, people's lives have gradually been on the right track, and the demand for goods and materials has begun to rise, especially the spices and sugar that could not be sold before, and they are the focus of all goods. .

At this time, Fujian, Guangxi, and Taiwan have sugarcane, but the output here is far from enough to supply the huge market of Daming. In Lantian County alone, the demand for sugar has reached an astonishing 20 million catties.

Especially after the people in Guanzhong dilute the granulated sugar into a solution, and then crystallize the granulated sugar solution into rock sugar through the Huangnijiao and cotton rope, the people in Guanzhong have a greater demand for this kind of more pure sweet sugar.

However, the Royal Palace of Lantian has planted countless sugarcane forests in remote Malacca...

Palm oil, sugar cane forest, these are the cash crops that Han Xiufen specially developed in Malacca. Now, at least 60,000 Malacca indigenous people are taking care of these crops in these estates.

Not only palm trees and sugar cane forests, Han Xiufen also followed Yun Zhao’s instructions and specifically placed orders with Dutch adventurers, Portuguese adventurers, British, French, and Spanish adventurers four years ago. The price of gold was the 200,000 seeds of the "Tear Tree" native to the jungles of America.

Now, these tear trees are one foot tall, and in three years, these tear trees will produce something called rubber.

Although Han Xiufen didn't know what Yun Zhao wanted this thing for until now, she didn't understand why Yun Zhao knew that there would be such a strange tree in the distant place where the American cannibals were infested.

Moreover, the location of the tree growth and its appearance were drawn to life, so that the explorers, after going deep into the jungle, immediately found this strange thing.

And from the secret letter Yun Zhao gave her, she could feel that Yun Zhao paid more attention to this kind of tear tree than palm trees and sugar cane forests.

The person in charge of these three things is Liu Mingliang, and he hates this job.

The biggest problem is to open up wasteland!

Although it is summer here all year round, the trees and vines cover the land he needs so tightly, it is hard to burn it down.

Only the dry season of the year has a short month to be used, and the hurriedly burned wasteland, if the weeds and tree roots in the land are not ploughed out, after a rain, the burned wasteland will be again Will be full of life.

Therefore, to open up wasteland in this environment is completely using human lives to fill it.

Han Xiufen didn't care how many people died. She just asked Liu Mingliang for palm trees, sugarcane groves, and tears trees. As for anything else, she didn't even have any interest in asking.

For this, Han Xiufen distributed all the black sailors on hand to Liu Mingliang. This dark-skinned sailor seemed to be more adapted to life in the jungle than the people in Lantian's past. When they discovered that they could do whatever they wanted on this land. Time...The darkest time in Malaya has come.

As Han Xiufen's demand for palm trees, sugarcane forests, and tear forests is endless, there is also an endless demand for manpower for land reclamation and planting of these estates.

These black sailors and the surrendered Malacca natives hunted the Malacca natives in the woods.

It's hard to tell the fate of stout men and women who are left behind to sell money, and the fate of the elderly and children without strong labor protection.

When the Malacca people within a radius of five hundred miles were ransacked, the black sailors found that their profits had fallen drastically, and they began to target people who were as black as themselves.

In other words, they targeted all two-legged animals.

As a result, there are many more white-skinned people and brown-skinned people in the manor.

Liu Mingliang, who lacked manpower and was about to go crazy, naturally refused to resist, and he did not hesitate to increase the price of slaves time and time again to stimulate the enthusiasm of the black sailors and Arab pirates to plunder the population.

Now, even the British and the remaining Portuguese feel that this is a way to make money. When they catch people at sea again, they no longer kill casually, but tie them up and sell them to Liu Mingliang.

The current Liu Mingliang, even hard-core brothers like Liu Chuanli are reluctant to communicate with him. After all, as long as it is an individual, after seeing the slaves working in the plantation, he will stay away from Liu Mingliang.

This makes Liu Mingliang very sad...

He wanted to escape this shackle very much, but it was a pity that both Yun Zhao and Han Xiufen had a solid heart towards him.

When he came to Paradise Island to report on his duties, Liu Mingliang, who was tall and bright in the past, disappeared. He was very thin and dark.

A pair of eyes sunk deeply into the sockets, and the eyeballs are still slightly yellow. This is a sick reaction.

"I can't hold it anymore."

Liu Mingliang curled up his thin body in a large rattan chair and talked to Han Xiufen.

Han Xiufen poured a cup of tea ceremony for Liu Mingliang: "Be patient."

Liu Mingliang shook his head painfully and said, "What I am doing now is seriously inconsistent with the education I receive, and it is even a retrogression."

Han Xiufen frowned and said, "Is it serious?"

Liu Mingliang smiled bitterly: "A hundred people came in to fill enough manpower. Two months later, I need another hundred people to maintain the scene."

Han Xiufen frowned and said, "How did these people die? The supply you gave them doesn't seem to be bad."

Liu Mingliang shook his head and said, "It's mainly due to illness and death, plus poisonous insects and leeches. People are very fragile in the jungle."

Han Xiufen nodded and said, "The environment in Malacca is too bad. We need Java Island, where there are large plains."

Liu Mingliang arched his hands towards Han Xiufen: "Can you replace me?"

Han Xiufen said, "If you don't go, Liu Chuanli will have to go."

Liu Mingliang said in pain: "Let him go, it is better for me to continue to stay, to destroy the names of two people, it is better for me to carry all the sins alone."

Han Xiufen said: "Your Majesty also knows this matter. Therefore, only a few of us are aware of this matter. Therefore, there is no extra manpower to ration you. However, you can cultivate some of your own manpower and gradually change yourself from Freed from this shackle."

Liu Mingliang looked at Han Xiufen and said, "It can only be a foreigner, right?"

Han Xiufen nodded and said: "Blacks, whites, Arabs and even the indigenous people of Malacca are all okay, but we can't be Han Chinese."

Liu Mingliang heard the words and took a deep breath: "Okay, it's okay if you agree, I don't have to pay attention to this matter."

Han Xiufen didn't speak any more, Liu Mingliang was relaxed, and after a while he nestled in a wicker chair snoring like thunder.

Not having to live like a ghoul was a great relief for him.

Many times, people need to deceive themselves and others to survive. When we hear tragedies from far away, our heads tend to play down these things automatically, and at the end we sigh a few times, and we can continue to live our lives by hurting ourselves. .

If these tragic things were witnessed by oneself, or by one's own hands, then it would be a catastrophe for a person who still has some conscience in his heart.

At dinner, Liu Mingliang ran into Leonie who came back from the sea. The first thing Leonie who came back hurriedly saw Liu Mingliang said was to ask him why he was not as good as the Dutch in the matter of robbing slaves. Today, she encountered three slave ships on the route, which were full of slaves from India.

After asking, I learned that these people are the property of the Dutch East India Company.

When Liu Mingliang heard Leo Ni's words, he immediately turned his pleading gaze on Han Xiufen.

Han Xiufen put down her chopsticks, looked at Leo Ni and said, "Are you interested in this work?"

Leo Ni laughed and said, "At least I can do better than Liu Mingliang!"

Liu Mingliang heard this, tears came down, choked up and said to Han Xiufen: "At this point, I'm not as good as Miss Leo Ni, I can't keep up with it."

Han Xiufen frowned and looked at Leo Ni, "Have you seen a slave ship?"

Leoni laughed and said, "When I was six years old, I could tell what a mooing tool is~www.wuxiahere.com~ what is a talking tool and what is a non-speaking tool.

I have also seen the motto "Recognize yourself" on the wall of the Temple of Apollo in Greece.

In my opinion, Mr. Liu Mingliang’s work is dereliction of duty. He consumed too many slaves and gave them too many benefits. He did not even know how to maximize the value of those talking slaves.

Therefore, I suggest that I should replace Mr. Liu Mingliang to manage the palm forest, sugar cane forest, and tear forest that His Majesty is very fond of. "

Liu Mingliang stretched out his trembling hands, trying to hold Leo Ni’s hands, but Leo Ni arrogantly threw them away. Liu Mingliang did not feel any humiliation, and even sincerely said to Han Xiufen: "I apologize, I will do this. I am writing to your Majesty, and also to the Governor. I seriously agree that Captain Leoni will replace me, a useless person, to manage the three crops that your Majesty values."

Leo Ni raised her head proudly, looked at the roof and said leisurely: "You should have been like this!"

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