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507 Beautiful Ceylon

The master was very calm and spoke very slowly:

"First of all, 70% of us know Chinese, and 95% of us can write our own words. Our home is Nantianzhu, which was once attacked by Ashoka. He believed in Buddhism, and of course, it was Buddhism's education that made him stop the war. He was a great king. Also, our ancestors first came here 1,200 years ago, and later they went out to sea because their home was occupied. Not only here, but we were in the places where there was a sea."

This seems to be good, but it also means that more and more people admit their population in disguise, occupying the territory of some Sinhalese people.

Bai Minghe thought it might be arguing again.

But who would have thought that the Sinhalese people actually said: "Our records last for two thousand years, and we also came here from the north. It was Ashoka who brought the Buddha to us."

"Well, can you let go of the war?"

"No, if we lose this port, we will lose a lot and lose the sea outlet to contact our relatives." Master Tamil answered the white-name crane very directly.

Bai Minghe slapped his forehead and thought to himself that you are too straight.

But Naoto also said: "Let me do this, here I will expand the dock ten times, and provide more ships, and will have a lot of deals with you. I will teach you the skills of farming, so that you can become rich, and the people will have more food and more clothing."

None of the three leaders spoke, obviously they didn't understand this condition.

The white-named crane said again: "I will help you recover India and let your homeland return to your hands. For the Sinhalese in the Highlands, I will teach you how to grow tea. There are many ways to cooperate, and you can choose. It is absolutely fair. For the Sinhalese in the Lowlands, you can grow food, fruits, and more expensive plants."

"Tea, the tea of ​​the Ming Dynasty?" The leader of the Sinhalese people in the Highlands spoke.

But he asked again: "We don't have tea seeds and don't know how to grow tea. The Ming Dynasty has countless tea gardens. Do you still need our tea? We need to see real sincerity, although you have made us feel sincerity."

"In this way, you have many mountains." Bai Minghexin said that he really needs to talk to these people in a different way.

After receiving a positive answer, Bai Minghe explained: "For example, a tea garden is handed over to the people of the Ming Dynasty to plant, and then the mountains of the tea garden are yours, but various investments are from the people of the Ming Dynasty. Then the income part is 28%, which means 20% of it belongs to you and 80% of it belongs to the people of the Ming Dynasty. However, if your people work in the tea garden, their annual income will be a standard value. For example, you can get ten taels of silver in a month."

Who knows ten taels of silver?

Bai Minghe learned a simpler technique from Fan Liang. He clapped his hands and asked people to prepare supplies.

According to the purchasing power of ten taels of silver, of course it is sold here at the price.

White linen, rice, porcelain and other daily necessities are piled up here.

Very generous supplies, the Sinhalese people are very satisfied with such transactions. There is a strict hierarchy in Sinhalese. The highest rank is called the ploughing man and the lowest rank is called the laundry man. Of course, this is translated according to the meaning.

"Then, the second distribution plan. After you learn the technology of tea growing, you can invest in a joint stock. Of course, the money given to tea farmers is the old price. The distribution ratio will change. In the end, it will even become 82. If you get 80% of the technology, Daming will get 20% of it, and he will also be responsible for purchasing tea."

"Grow tea, I buy tea every year in the Ming Dynasty, and it is 500,000 stones!" Bai Minghe spoke. Not to mention the Sinhalese people, even the Ming people were scared. How much tea does there exist in the Ming Dynasty? This small island is 500,000 stones. Tea is not rice. This thing is expensive.

"We choose the variety of tea. The tea level must be determined in advance, from the highest to the lowest, and it is divided into seven levels. Of course, one leaf and one bud are the best. The real top-notch must be divided into the time and completeness of the picking. Don't worry about the rules, there will be samples to explain to you in advance."

It seems to be feasible.

Most of the people here are slave owners. In their opinion, those tea farmers are enough to eat. Ten taels of silver is not a joke. You can talk to the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they are responsible for planting them. The people of the Ming Dynasty can only share a higher proportion. What is the wages of tea farmers?

It's really ridiculous, paying the slaves.

Of course, if the Ming Dynasty was willing to teach the skills of tea stir-frying, the first-class tea-copier should have a salary. This must be done by ordinary people and a noble job.

When Bai Minghe came up with his idea, these people began to plot.

"Of course, you can't see the benefits at first sight. The tea tree can be planted in the first year and it will take two years to start harvesting. However, even if you invest in the past two years, once the tea tree grows well, you can pick many people."

After hearing the white crane's words, the lowland Sinhalla also asked them about their way out.

"You can plant too many sugarcane, rice, rubber, etc., and many things that you are native to here can also be processed. We will collect them in the Ming Dynasty."

After talking about the Sinhalese, Bai Minghe changed the subject: "About the Tamils, you have two choices to continue to coexist peacefully on this land, or return to India, our Ming Dynasty will help you fight back."

The Tamils ​​were unwilling to leave Ceylon Island, at least they were unwilling to give up such a place.

This is their root.

After obtaining permission, the three leaders who had just fought to the death sat together and started to discuss. Tamil did not believe that they could deal with the Nadri Kingdom of India, so he brought Sinhalla together and was willing to divide some land in India and then fight back.

Whether for the Indian religion or for Buddhism, fighting back will be beneficial to both sides.

"Then it will be much easier to do next. Build a port here, a huge seaport ten times larger. Then the Ming Dynasty will provide ships, and then build a small port in the north and south of Ceylon Island, a larger port than this one. As for this port, the Ming Dynasty hopes to rent it, build some places for the Ming people to live in, and build a larger wharf."

"Our boat can just walk here."

"Of course, you are the owners here. This is just borrowing a port, but there should be rules since it is a port, how to stop the ship entering the port, how to use the warehouse, and the rules on the docks. In short, it should not be messed up. There is no problem with this!"

"No!" The three leaders agreed in unison.

Bai Minghe silently thanked the eunuch of the Three Treasures in his heart.

If the eunuch Sanbao had not captured the king here with such a little force, they would not have been afraid of the Ming Dynasty's combat power. At present, they could easily talk about it with giant ships and cannons, because the Ming Dynasty had already had enough deterrence before.

The details of Bai Minghe will not talk about, and will leave corresponding people behind, or send people back to arrange officials from the Ming Dynasty to discuss.

All Baiminghe wants is one sentence: this port will become a supply port for the Ming Ocean.

I sent three guests off the boat and arranged a boat to go back. I didn't have to go through Maluojia to go directly to Siam Siang. I was not very relieved to pass by Maluojia. I was not afraid of the enemy's ships, but I was afraid that there were too many ships. The filling of artillery takes time, if there were a group of life-losing surrounding me.

It is difficult to protect a boat, after all, there can only be a strait, not a detour.

Bai Minghe returned to the boat warehouse, and then a few people around him asked: "Sir, 500,000 stones of tea leaves are 50 million pounds."

"Are you too much?" Bai Minghe asked back.

No one answered. When Bai Minghe said he wanted to practice tens of millions of steel or even 100 million stones, he thought Bai Minghe was crazy, but now there is not enough steel. So was there too much steel at the beginning?

"I heard that the brothers below are learning to taste tea recently. Didn't you guys just drink alcohol and not drink tea before?" Bai Minghe was still willing to explain to the people around him. After hearing this, the people around him replied: "Drinking alcohol is a matter of rough people, tea is the elegance. It is embarrassing to go out without drinking tea!"

Baiminghe looked west: "Actually, we went to the Mediterranean not to fight a war, but to do business. People there can drink tea, and everyone can drink it. It is not the green tea we drink, but the small amount of black tea on the market. This kind of tea, fruit, sugar, and milk must be what they are willing to drink."

What about sales? There is no need to ask this question. Baiminghe’s Ceylon tea garden has not yet begun and is slowly being cultivated on the market.

When the market is available, the production of tea will also increase, and the monopoly will be...

It is an absolute monopoly, and anyone who dares to sell tea on the sea will be killed. Baiminghe has enough confidence in this regard. At present, only Japan and Tianzhu are the only ones except the Ming Dynasty tea. Therefore, Baiminghe has the intention to attack Tianzhu and has ruined Tianzhu first. It is not up to him to decide the tea in Japan.

That day, only Daming sold tea in the world.

Of course, when controlling South America, the origin of coffee and cocoa is monopolized. In addition, the white-famous crane controls the entire Asia. At that time, the trade of spices is the only one that can be made in this world. Only monopolizes can make money. If you earn money from the Ming people, don’t make money. If you earn money from the European people, this is called making money.

Even if you can't earn silver, gold will do it. Anything that Ming Dynasty likes is fine.

Sitting on the boat, Bai Minghe wrote a memorial book on harder white paper with a new sticky ink pen, and then a detailed analysis of tea exports, especially the idea of ​​monopoly management.

"The top secret, no one can read it except long live. If something bad happens, it will not be seen if this thing is ruined. Remember it, this is the top secret document." Bai Minghe handed over the things he wrote to a master of the Forbidden Palace, although this master did not have the ranking of the Golden Pages.
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