Zhu Hao also knew that if Mingren stayed overseas and could not see his parents, wife and children at home for a long time, something would happen sooner or later.
Now it's just a matter of brainwashing people with the goals they set when they went to sea, letting the Ming people in the New World see almost endless gold and silver, and get more benefits, and even find them indigenous women to soothe their loneliness, but they miss their homes and relatives.
If the relationship is not resolved, sooner or later it will explode.
The most unacceptable thing for Zhu Hao now is the internal chaos in Mingren.
It can be said that the only people who have a chance to challenge his dream of conquering the world are not European colonists or people from the Inca Empire, but his so-called direct descendants brought from the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Hao's plan was to transport 10 million taels of silver back to the Ming Dynasty and redeem the families of these people from Zhu Si. At that time, Zhu Hao would only have to tell people that there were many silver mines in the New World and they were in urgent need of manpower to mine them. He wanted to use Jiajing's greed for money.
The extent may open the door to convenience, but it is estimated that an imperial envoy will be sent to follow the fleet to the New World and order Zhu Hao to return to the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible.
Of course, the families of these Ming people may not be willing to take a long boat ride across the ocean to the American continent, so they need to be resettled in places close to the Ming Dynasty, such as Dongfan Island, which is across the strait from Pinghai, Yongning, and Zhenhai.
, and the Nanyang Islands are no problem.
Of course, those family members who are willing to take the risk of crossing the ocean will definitely satisfy them and return them safely to the New World no matter how difficult it is.
In fact, there is another problem. The allegiance of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty is to the emperor of the Zhu family. One day, Zhu Hao will become the enemy of the Ming Dynasty. I am afraid that the Ming army under him will immediately turn against him. In this case, it is basically impossible for him to lead his men in the future.
When the Ming army returns to East Asia, this is something he needs to consider in advance.
After Lou Suzhen arrived at Shunfeng City, she handed over the account books of Northern New City that she brought with her to Zhu Hao.
"Over the past year, a large amount of silver has been mined and collected from local natives. Excluding the silver distributed to lieutenants and craftsmen, the amount stored should exceed 20 million taels. The quality is very good. The gold is less, with only
It’s about one million taels, but if it’s shipped back to the Ming Dynasty… it’s definitely an astronomical figure.”
Lou Suzhen seemed to support Zhu Hao's plan to redeem people, and began to calculate how much money would be most appropriate to spend on ransoming people.
Zhu Hao nodded: "The silver obtained here is also around 20 million taels, and we have strictly prohibited the circulation of silver in the jurisdiction, which means that silver cannot obtain more supplies from official channels. The only way is to use gold and our printing and issuance
Only the treasure money can be used.”
In the American continent, silver is a widespread currency. If the silver standard is implemented, many practical problems will arise. First of all, the people of the Inca Empire will take the silver that they think is readily available and exchange it for some from official stores.
They had never seen in-demand goods that could have been exchanged for more supplies.
Although Zhu Hao's men also mined silver on a large scale, the silver could not circulate on the market.
Zhu Hao uses gold and banknotes as the official currency, which is close to the gold standard. However, because gold has different fineness, it is difficult to negotiate the price. At present, the main force is to promote the circulation of banknotes. Fortunately, the banknotes produced by the printing technology invented by Zhu Hao,
Not to mention the indigenous people of the Inca Empire, even Europe today cannot imitate them. The use of various anti-counterfeiting technologies fully ensures the authority of banknotes.
Of course, this is also due to the fact that Su Xigui had accumulated some experience in promoting banknotes and other banknotes with Zhu Hao in the Ming Dynasty in the past few years.
Lou Suzhen said: "For me, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, silver is always a precious metal that can be returned to the land of China and converted into land, real estate, food and other items. I'm afraid that the young master's ban cannot be implemented, and there will always be circulation in private.
channel."
Zhu Hao nodded: "Then the people of the Ming Dynasty need to lose interest in silver. They have too much silver and have no place to spend it, so they will gradually feel that it is worthless...compared to carrying heavy silver ingots with them.
Paper money is lighter and easier to use."
Zhu Hao will inevitably encounter certain troubles if he wants to implement a new currency in the country he created.
First of all, the Inca people were not familiar with banknotes. They did not know how to keep them. With the roughness of their lives, banknotes were easily damaged and they would think that the Inca people were trying to harm them.
As for gold, South America’s gold production is originally quite limited, so there is no need to worry about depreciation.
When paper money was first introduced, it inevitably involved the exchange of silver and commodities. This made Shunfeng City, Mining City, Coal City, Tucheng and other places the busiest places were coin exchanges. Zhu Hao often purchased local indigenous products in the official name.
For food and other items, after issuing a note, let them go to the coin exchange, which is equivalent to a bank, to exchange the corresponding banknotes.
It was still the same as the original social structure of the Inca Empire. The nobles always had more materials needed by the Ming Dynasty, and they could exchange more banknotes.
The people at the bottom can only rely on their hands to work in the mines and receive banknotes in exchange for daily necessities.
The banknotes that Zhu Hao ordered to be forcibly promoted gradually became the currency of the entire Inca Empire. This is also related to Zhu Hao's strict restriction on the number of banknotes issued. Zhu Hao will not issue banknotes indiscriminately. In the future, banknotes will not only be circulated in the Inca Empire, but also in the Inca Empire.
Implemented in Central American New City, Chang'an and other cities.
As the population in the territory increased, Zhu Hao would migrate a group of Inca people to Central America to mine various mineral deposits. As the scale of industrial production expanded, the use of paper money was essential.
It is a pity that the iron ore and coal deposits discovered on the west coast of America are limited. Zhu Hao even had to consider whether to send a fleet to the inaccessible Australian continent at this time. The iron ore production and coal reserves there were extremely high.
Rich.
The only bad thing is that the living environment of the Australian continent is relatively harsh and needs to be reclaimed. Moreover, the climate and soil conditions are far worse than those of the American continent. I am afraid that the food output will not be able to meet the needs of its own development... Unless Zhu Hao is prepared to provide basic living materials.
, all transported from America.
The Australian mainland was indeed included in Zhu Hao's development plan, but he felt that he could only send a group of people to take advantage of the opportunity of sending a fleet back to the Ming Dynasty to "pay tribute" to the emperor and pay a ransom to bring out the family papers of the soldiers who went to sea.
Go to the Australian mainland to colonize.
At present, in the American continent, large-scale wars with European colonists have not yet broken out, there is no shortage of basic resources, they are basically self-sufficient, and even have a lot of surplus left, so Zhu Hao is not in a hurry to develop the Australian continent.
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As time goes by, the rainy season arrives.
Although the rainy season can promote the growth of food crops, it also brings about many geological problems. The mining of coal, iron and other minerals has been hindered to some extent. Especially this year, there has been too much rain. Sometimes it even rains for about ten days in a row, which makes Zhu Hao vigorously
The industrialization process promoted has been hindered to some extent.
It happened that at this time, European merchant ships arrived in SF City for the first time.
Originally, Zhu Hao could have sent warships to sink the European merchant ships, but looking at the way the European merchant ships drove in, it seemed that they had already known that there was a new city here. This was mainly because the Inca Empire was vast, and Europeans were not the only ones to build cities in Panama.
To build a ship, take this path from the north to the south.
When the Europeans learned that there were foreigners like them occupying the backward country of the Inca Empire and colonizing the country's coastal areas, what they thought of was to get a share of the pie.
A Spanish captain, with two followers, rowed the boat to the shore. Accompanied by several indigenous people from the Inca Empire, they passed by the towering temple that had been built and arrived at the special post house.
Zhu Hao did not receive them immediately, but he heard that they brought the so-called "credentials".
Zhu Hao knows English, but not Spanish. He has been learning it recently because he knows very well that it may involve problems in dealing with Europeans in the future. Among the Aztecs Zhu Hao brought from the north, many of them
They are familiar with the use of Spanish, but they still know little about the written language.
Can only communicate through language.
As the lord of Shunfeng City, Lou Suzhen personally went to meet the visiting Spanish captain Milanna.
When Lou Suzhen came back to see Zhu Hao, she shook her head and said: "It's like a chicken talking to a duck. I don't know what the difference is. Fortunately, there are 'Beiyuan people' who follow them and can probably understand their words. They need to be translated again. I vaguely know that they want to exchange gold with us.
They said that as long as we are willing to give out gold, they can continuously send materials here."
Zhu Hao originally thought that Europeans wanted to buy advanced firearms, but now he realized that these guys were more concerned about immediate benefits. For them, gold could be taken back to Europe in exchange for desirable goods. After all, they were not prepared to stay in the American continent for a long time.
Business, that is to say, this group of people has a way out.
As for what products SF City has, they don't know much about it, and they don't seem to care much about those things.
"They are very curious, we are also yellow-skinned people, why are we so strong? Europeans think that we belong to the same race as the local indigenous people, but they seem to know that we come from the ancient ancient country in the far east, and they also know our country
It’s called Ming Dynasty!”
Lou Suzhen's words immediately made Zhu Hao realize that even if the news of his survival had not been transmitted back to the Ming Dynasty for the time being, his existence might be made known to Zhu Si in the inner garden of the palace through the mouth of Fo Langjiren.
As the war with the Europeans breaks out, news of the Ming Dynasty's colonization of the American continent will spread throughout the world in the next year or two. After all, there is a trade relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Francois.
"The goods they call are just local products plundered from other places in the New World and brought here in exchange for our gold."
Zhu Hao sneered, "This is not something they produced themselves, and I don't care at all. If they set a precedent, they will send more ships to plunder the entire continent, and then take away what they want from us. We
If necessary, why not come in person?"
Lou Suzhen said: "Starting trade with the Folangji people can still save us some effort."
Zhu Hao shook his head: "The plunder of the Folangji people is destructive and leaves no room for anything. But we are trading with the aborigines, which is completely different in nature. Money cannot fall into their hands. This continent is ours.
You don’t need to discuss with the robbers how to do business!”