Chapter 238: If you admit your mistakes, you must be beaten seriously and stand at attention.

Author: tx Cheng Zhi

Chapter 238: If you admit your mistakes, you must be beaten seriously and stand at attention.

Chapter 237

Cheng Shijie was not in the mood to pay attention to the affairs of the capital. In fact, he had less and less scruples about the capital in his heart. Sometimes, he could not even remember that there was an emperor and the Ming Dynasty above him.

When Cheng Shijie arrived, he inspected all the more than 20 Chinese settlements and farms in Luzon. Generally speaking, the living environment of the Chinese in Luzon was not optimistic.

After the Spaniards occupied Luzon, they occupied the most fertile and broad farms and plantations as well as a small amount of rubber forests. Their planting techniques were too crude. After the soil was exhausted, they gave up and then looked for the most fertile land.

The Chinese could only pick up the land that the Spaniards did not want, pick up some residual juice and cold soup, and even cultivate the land themselves in remote places.

However, the Chinese are too hard-working. For nomadic people, they need at least 6,000 to 8,000 acres of dense grassland to feed a family. For white farmers, they need 100 acres of dense grassland.

acres, that is, about 600 acres of land, you can barely live a subsistence life.

But the people of Ming Dynasty only need twenty or thirty acres of land. If it is paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, they can solve the problem of food and clothing with two acres, ten acres or eight acres a year.

In later generations, many people looked down upon the small-scale peasant economy of China's rural areas, but in fact, any common people, if they have the only option, they should do their best to engage in side jobs, such as planting fruit trees, economic trees, and vegetables. Under the condition of ensuring food rations, they can then start

Raise various poultry.

The living environment of the Chinese in Luzon is actually far better than that of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. Most of them have farms, and each farm also breeds hundreds or thousands of chickens, ducks, and geese. If there are no chickens, ducks, geese, and cattle,

Sheep simply cannot afford to be a farmer.

Once chickens, ducks and geese are brought to scale, the profits generated will be considerable.

Especially in Luzon, the water resources here are very developed. Ducks and geese don't need to be raised at all. You can go to the lake and eat some small fish and shrimps. The eggs they lay are all red. The most popular ones on the market are cattle and sheep.

Also, as long as the sheep pen is big enough, there is no need to graze the sheep at all. The sheep will eat the grass and it will grow back as soon as it rains.

At least as far as Cheng Shijie's investigation knows, very few white farmers raise poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese, not because they are dirty or noisy, but because they are troublesome. And farms of the same area are more productive when operated by Chinese people than when operated by white people.

The profit can be increased by at least three to five times.

It is not surprising that Chinese people are rich. But the problem is that wealth is jealous, and then tragedy occurs.

Wu Shangzhi and Li Guoqun were accompanying them all the time. Both Wu Shangzhi and Li Guoqun were restless in their seats along the way. When walking, they were half shoulders apart from Cheng Shijie. Li Guoqun's eldest son, Li Sixing, was taller than Cheng Shijie.

Half a head tall, nearly 1.9 meters tall.

In front of Cheng Shijie, he didn't even dare to straighten up and bent his waist, making him appear shorter than Cheng Shijie. Cheng Shijie didn't feel anything unusual about the attitudes of Wu Shangzhi and Li Guoqun.

After all, in the Hansteel Group in later generations, there were people like Wu Shangzhi and Li Guoqun who behaved in an old-fashioned way. Because of his professional habits, Cheng Shijie had always been neither humble nor overbearing when receiving anyone. Even those with a lower status than Cheng Shijie, he would not

They will be unscrupulous, because Hansteel Group has the temperament of some troops. Maybe one of the old employees is the master of a certain boss. During holidays, even high-ranking bosses will go to the homes of ordinary employees and give gifts.

Otherwise, they will be said to have forgotten their roots. If they are the leaders of other private companies, they will definitely not care about the so-called rumors, because most of them do not have a good image in the eyes of employees. But Hansteel Group is different, this is the promotion of leaders

One of the assessment standards is democratic evaluation.

Style evaluation will affect a person's future. Cheng Shijie does the same to his master. He serves as the deputy director of the agency office and is already considered a leader in front of his master. However, Cheng Shijie never behaves in front of his master and ordinary employees.

The leadership attitude.

When Li Guoqun returned home, Li Guoqun's eldest son Li Sixing smiled and said: "My father, General Cheng treats my father with the same courtesy that King Wen of Zhou treated Jiang Taigong!"

Li Guoqun glanced at Li Sixing: "What are you talking about? General Cheng is King Wen of Zhou. How can he be a father one ten thousandth better than Taigong Jiang?"

However, from the bottom of his heart, Li Guoqun still felt that Cheng Shijie indeed respected him very much, which made Li Guoqun very proud.

On August 22, the seventh year of Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie officially held the founding meeting of Chinese representatives from Luzon and the Luzon Executive Committee.

The old rule is that before everyone gears up to start a big fight, hold a development planning meeting to unify their thinking. Only by unifying our thinking can we think in one place and work hard in the same place.

Before the meeting started, Xie Jinglin naturally presided over the meeting and began to read quickly: "There are now 45,675 Chinese people in Luzon, and they are still growing rapidly. Today, there are Yongsiquan Town, Zhenghegang Town

, Fushan Town has a total of 23 towns, 312 large and small farms and agricultural plantations...a total of 8.9 million acres of farmland."

As Ning Haijun occupied Luzon and captured more than 4,600 Spaniards, their farms, plantations, minerals and other properties naturally became the property of Ning Haijun.

Of course, the current development of Luzon is actually only about 10%. In later generations, the Philippines had 5.3 million hectares of cultivated land, about 79.5 million acres. At its peak, it was 5.75 million hectares.

That's 86.25 million acres.

Cheng Shijie looked at the Chinese representatives and said: "The basic situation in Luzon is roughly the same. Let's talk about it. What do you think now?"

Wu Shangzhi raised his hand cautiously: "Commander, with so much fertile land, we can't let it go to waste, right? Why not sell it to us for management, and we'll recruit people and organize planting!"

Of course Wu Shangzhi was also testing Cheng Shijie's attitude. If Cheng Shijie and Ning Haijun really wanted to make a fortune and leave, they would definitely sell all their fields and minerals.

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "You can't eat these fields. Luzon was conquered by Ning Haijun. Naturally, part of the military land must be given to Ning Haijun. Among the 8.9 million acres of plantations now, a total of 1.2

One hundred thousand acres belong to the Chinese. I respect the interests of the Chinese plantations and you can continue to operate these fields. At the same time, the remaining 7.7 million acres of land are reserved for the Ning navy officers and soldiers to keep three million acres of cultivated land for themselves, and five hundred acres of cultivated land.

Ten thousand acres of grassland and six million acres of forestland, and the remaining 4.7 million acres of farmland can be sold to everyone for purchase!"

When Cheng Shijie said this, Li Guoqun raised his hand and said: "I want to buy 800,000 acres to plant corn, rice and soybeans!"

"I want to buy a piece of land to grow sugar cane!"

"I want to buy a piece of land to process seafood!"

"I want to buy a piece of land..."

The Chinese representatives saw that Cheng Shijie had left almost all the good farmland for him, and also occupied a large number of middle fields, leaving them only the middle fields and inferior fields. But the problem was that they felt relieved.

Because Ning Haijun has occupied Shangtian, they will not leave easily. As long as Ning Haijun is in Luzon, they are not afraid of the Spanish coming back again. You must know that when Ning Haijun attacks the Spaniards, they all see it. Ning Haijun attacks Spain.

People are like an adult beating a child, with no power to fight back.

"I don't know the price..."

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said: "One tael of silver for each mu of medium-grade land and three taels of silver for bad-grade land. You can pay it off in up to five years!"

Wu Shangzhi said: "I wonder how to collect this tax?"

"One-tenth, if an acre yields one stone, just pay one dou!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the crowd and said: "If you sell overseas, you need to pay another one-thirtieth of the transaction tax."

Everyone here smiled happily when they learned that the tax was so low. In fact, for most of the Ming Dynasty, the ratio of commercial tax or agricultural tax was not very high, but the indifferent guys below were added layer by layer.

After breaking the bones and absorbing the marrow, the people were finally breathless. The court wanted to charge an extra tael of silver and spread it to the people, which turned into 10 taels. It would be strange to think that this way of playing the game would not die in the future.

What Li Guoqun was most worried about was actually his safety. He asked: "Commander, there are only a few Chinese in Luzon, and the indigenous people are numerous and violent. But what if..."

Cheng Shijie chuckled. Like a magic trick, he conjured a revolver with a total of six bullets. However, because the smaller the caliber, the more difficult it was to make, so the revolver made by Ning Haijun was a quarter-caliber, which meant that the revolver was

The caliber of the pistol is 12.6 mm.

"That's all you need!"

Cheng Shijie loaded the bullet into the revolver, loaded the gun, and immediately fired six shots at a bottle of statue in the synagogue.

"Bang bang bang..."

The entire statue, which was carved out of marble, was beaten until stone chips flew into the air.

Cheng Shijie said: "This is a revolver produced by the Ning Haijun Gun Bureau. It has a caliber of four points and an effective shooting range of thirty steps. Even a child can easily kill a strong man with this gun. One shot in

If anyone dares to break into a house and threaten your life and property, you don’t need to say anything, just shoot him an arrow and then reason with him!"

"This is the Shansang Crossbow produced by Ning Haijun. It has a range of 180 steps. Of course, it can directly shoot armored targets within 120 steps. If conditions permit, you can buy a revolver for self-defense.

You can purchase crossbows, spears, knives and other equipment.”

You know, in the past dynasties, crossbows have always been banned, but bows have not been banned. Folks can own bows and arrows, but they must not own crossbows. The reason is that crossbows are accurate and powerful. An ordinary person can skillfully shoot them after just a few days of learning.

Use skills to kill a warrior who has been practicing martial arts all his life with one arrow! "Ten thieves use crossbows, and hundreds of officials dare not step forward." If the private sector possesses such weapons, it will pose a great threat to the government, so it must be banned.

Crossbows. How strict is the ban on crossbows? Anyone who has three powerful crossbows among the people will be punished!

Cheng Shijie didn't have so many scruples in Luzon. Not only did he sell guns and crossbows, he also planned to set up a shooting club to cultivate the martial spirit of the Chinese in Luzon.

"I wonder how much this revolver costs?"

"It's not expensive, it's only 10 taels of silver a piece, and it comes with a box of 30 rounds of bullets! My personal suggestion is that if you buy a left-hand revolver, you can buy six boxes of bullets. Six boxes of bullets are also 10 taels of silver. You can use

long time!"

"Where's the crossbow?"

"This one is cheaper, five taels of silver each, and comes with two pots and fifty arrows!"

They all agreed with Cheng Shijie's decision to arm them. Although the Spaniards were not in danger now, the natives were so fucked up that they treated them as sheep in their own sheepfold. If they had no ability to defend themselves, you would have them sucked into mummies.

It's enough to force the whole family to die! With weapons, they should restrain themselves a little, right?

Wu Shangzhi asked: "Can we have short knives?"

"Okay, one tael of silver a handful!"

Cheng Shijie's plan is to turn Luzon into a place where the folk customs are fierce and everyone is martial. In the tragedy of the massacre of Chinese by the Luzon natives, it is obvious that the Chinese are much taller than the Luzon natives because of their good nutrition and tall horses. But the problem is that the Chinese

Under the massacre of the natives, heads were rolling and blood flowed like rivers.

The reason is not that the Chinese cannot fight, but that they lack the spirit of martial arts. He can't do anything to the whole world, but he can at least turn Luzon under his jurisdiction into a place with fierce folk customs, so that anyone who dares to get involved in this area can

No return!
To be continued...