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Chapter 734: Daming becomes the gathering place of world wealth

"The emperor said that according to the draft agreement reached by our dynasty with the Dutch, as long as our official army captured Manila, the Dutch who illegally occupied Taiwan would be moved to Luzon.

Now Manila thinks that our dynasty is in charge, how should the Dutch restrain their people after moving to their land in the future? How should the laws and regulations of the State of Luzon be formulated?"

After Zhu Youjian stated the great significance of the miscellaneous grains and the cabinet ministers nodded to express their education and firmly implemented it, Li Banghua stood up and asked Zhu Youjian for advice.

"Li Qingzhi's proposal is very good.

The cabinet can write to officials of Taiwan's government, so that they can inform the Dutch people from Taiwan Province, and that they will start the relocation from now on, and that all their employees will be evacuated before the 15th Festival of Chongzhen!

Officials stationed in Luzon in the cabinet can choose a suitable place in Manila for the Dutch to establish a place for living.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in the future, the laws and regulations should be promulgated and implemented by the court in a simplified version of the laws and regulations of the Ming Dynasty. Except for the troops stationed in our dynasty, all residents on the island, and some nationalities, must be implemented according to this law; for those who violate the laws, regardless of nationality, status, must be implemented in accordance with the law!

Because Luzon is essentially a vassal of our Ming Dynasty, except those who hold the Ming Dynasty citizen ID card, those who travel or stay in their territory in the future must treat their own people equally, and no one shall be above the law!

This point must be solemnly stated in the law!

In the writing, the cabinet should declare to the Dutch that the State of Luzon prohibits any armed forces outside the Ming Dynasty!

In addition to the army, Luzon should allow other people from all over the country to enter and exit freely, and everyone can enjoy the convenience of fair trade. The Luzon court and the Ming army can protect the legitimate rights of everyone!”

Li Banghua's words reminded Zhu Youjian.

According to the nature of Europeans who follow the law of the jungle and pragmatism, after the Dutch moved to Luzon, they were most likely to establish an independent kingdom and intend to establish an extra-legal land in Luzon, trying to override local laws.

"The Taiwan general should send heavy troops to move near Jelanzha City to monitor the Dutch during the evacuation process, and no other unexpected situations can occur, and can decide to take any measures at any time based on the facts!"

In recent years, with the stability and improvement of the situation, the Ming Dynasty's official troops stationed in Taiwan have been ordered to expand their troops.

Wu Qun recruited 2,000 people from the immigrants to join the army, and the total number of Taiwan's troops has reached 6,000. Among them, the latest Miner gun was also issued with 300. This type of different weapon can firmly suppress the Dutch's firepower.

Zhu Youjian ordered the Taiwanese government troops to advance towards the city of Rhelanzha in order to prevent the fierce reaction of the Dutch after learning that they could not garrison the troops in Luzon.

If the Dutch did not evacuate on time, the Ming army would take tough measures to launch a ruthless military strike against them.

The agreement is for tearing it down.

If the Dutch could strictly abide by the agreement and evacuate Taiwan Island on time, the scene of the two armies clashing again would not occur.

And if the Dutch went back on their word, they would definitely be the charge of tearing down the agreement.

Looking back now, I was negligent at the beginning.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the Dutch did not mention in the agreement whether it could retain appropriate force after relocating to Manila.

Zhu Youjian estimated that after receiving a notice from the Ming cabinet, the Dutch would definitely send envoys to negotiate again, demanding that certain privileges be retained in Luzon.

But these conditions will never be allowed to exist, no matter what excuses the Dutch used.

The Ming Dynasty's official army was confident in defending the principle of fair trade and would fully protect the legitimate rights and interests of personnel from all countries in Luzon. Whether you are here to do business or work, as long as you do not violate the law, your private rights will be effectively protected.

If you have a superior mindset and want to enjoy privileges beyond others at all times and everywhere, then I'm sorry, you will be disappointed.

Zhu Youjian speculated that after the Ming Dynasty's official army won a series of strong victory, the Dutch would eventually adopt a compromise strategy and would not insist on retaining the army in Luzon.

Compared with a greedy and arrogant country like Spain, the Netherlands is now in a period of vigorous national strength. The country still aims to earn more wealth from top to bottom. Moreover, their main interest is to monopolize the distribution rights of Ming products in Europe, so they will not break up with the Ming Dynasty because of this.

Besides, the Dutch dared not.

After the battle to capture Manila, the strong combat effectiveness of the Ming army was once again fully demonstrated in front of them. Europeans who bully the weak and fear the strong would automatically choose to be friends with the strong rather than enemies. Moreover, the strength of the Ming Dynasty was not only reflected in military strength, but also incomparable to other countries in terms of economy.

"The cabinet will select personnel from the general bureau and the Mint to open a branch in Manila, explore chalcopyrite in Luzon, and then mint coins on site for trading with Luzon and surrounding countries, purchase corn, cotton, soybean and other grains and transport them back to China, which has been supplied to the development of the animal husbandry industry in our country.

Sihai Business, especially Sihai Sugar Industry, should enter Manila as soon as possible, squeeze sugar on-site after purchasing sugar cane, distribute it on-site or hand it over to the Dutch to sell it to Europe."

Luzon's copper mine resources are what Zhu Youjian is most greedy, and food and other cash crops are still the second.

Montage is a profitable business and a money tree for the financial income of the Ming Dynasty.

It sounds like an extremely wonderful thing to trade other people's resources for others' resources.

The Ming Dynasty, which had been strong for more than two hundred years, had an unparalleled influence on the surrounding countries, which can be fully reflected in the fact that the Ming copper coins became the main circulating currency of Southeast Asian countries.

However, due to the extremely lack of brass resources in the Ming Dynasty and the large-scale circulation of copper coins in various markets after being cast, the number of copper coins in Ming Dynasty has dropped for several years.

According to statistics from the Yousi Department, only more than 300,000 copper coins were cast in the Ming Dynasty last year, which seriously affected the quantity of various commodities purchased by the Ming Dynasty from overseas.

Luzon's bronze and chalcopyrite not only has huge reserves, but also has a very high grade.

The Ming Dynasty used local materials to smelter and then purchased a large amount of goods from South Asian countries nearby. The price paid by the Ming Dynasty in the whole process was almost negligible. The people of South Asian countries could have wealth after selling the goods. Why not do such a win-win situation?

With the significant increase in the amount of copper mines and the amount of coins minted, the taxes born in the Ming Dynasty have the conditions and motivations to lower the taxes.

Live water rolls in the source, do you still need to exploit the people of your country?

Besides, this process did not exploit or oppress other people.

South Asian countries sell goods that they don’t care about to Ming merchants, and then they can get their favorite copper coins. Then they use these orange treasures to buy silky satin, exquisite porcelain, and gorgeous Ming clothing. What a perfect process.

If you accidentally, the Ming Dynasty became a gathering place for world wealth. With this flowing land foreign wealth, the court should use it to feed back the people of its own country.

However, using copper coins alone is not enough, and the value of copper coins itself is too low.

When trading commodity, you can’t drive a cart of copper coins in a ox cart, as that will cause great inconvenience to both parties.

The minting of silver and gold coins has been on the agenda.

Zhu Youjian believed that with the strong national credit endorsement of the Ming Dynasty, gold and silver coins would quickly occupy the markets of Southeast Asian countries.
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