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Chapter 909 Luzon Mine

In the porphyry copper mine area of ​​the Philippines, Xibao Teeth Mining Supervision is urging local indigenous people to speed up the mining speed.

New orders came from the Ming Dynasty, and this time the demand was high, resulting in the price of copper ingots rising by three percent.

The Copper Ming Dynasty has not been enough for the return of the order, but the sudden increase in this time still made the Spanish happy. After all, the Ming Dynasty now has less and less products produced in Spain, which has forced them to take out the real money and silver in their hands.

The Ming Dynasty had more colonies than Spain, and the products that Spain could provide were also produced in the Ming Dynasty's own colonies. As for industrial products, the Ming Dynasty is now the only industrial power in the world.

Not to mention handicrafts, Westerners could not understand the aesthetics of the Ming Dynasty at all, and their handicrafts were not interested in the Ming Dynasty at all.

So they either exchanged real money or the mines needed by the Ming Dynasty, which was unbearable for the Spaniards who had been plundering the world for the past two hundred years.

However, after the Ming Dynasty defeated the Mughals, the clamoring voices in Spain stopped one after another, and they learned to respect the power.

Daming would not tell him that the order for this batch of copper ingots was for the preparation of the following wired telegrams.

Anyway, the Ming Dynasty's orders were spilled, and copper mines all over the world began to expand production from the Philippines to South America to Africa.

In the past, the Spanish transported minerals and gold and silver to the Ming Dynasty directly for goods, but now everyone simply transported goods to the Ming Dynasty for paper money. Anyway, the paper money in the Ming Dynasty can always be used normally.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty banknotes can not only be circulated within the Ming Dynasty, but even when they go to Ottoman and Europa, they are willing to accept the Ming Dynasty banknotes as long as they engage in foreign trade.

Since its issuance, the currency value has been stable and strong, and no depreciation has ever occurred.

In Dave's opinion, there is endless gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty treasury. In order to buy 200 million taels of silver piled on the wharf, it is still a legend.

According to people from the Ming Dynasty who have been to the capital of Daming, every year the Ming Dynasty invites a group of elites to visit the Ming Dynasty Royal Silver Deposit, where the accumulated gold and silver can fill dozens of palaces.

Especially in recent years, the Ming Dynasty has been getting richer and richer. Paper money has become the common currency of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty vassal states. Some small countries simply canceled their own currencies and transported all the gold and silver in the treasury to the Ming Dynasty and exchanged them for Ming Dynasty paper money.

So gradually, the Europa people in Southeast Asia and South Asia also began to use Ming Dynasty paper money.

The Ming Dynasty banknotes are exquisitely printed and easy to carry. The exchange points are even spread throughout the Ming Dynasty and the important ports in the world. No matter who is, you can go to Huangming Bank to call the denomination of the banknotes or exchange them for gold and silver at any time.

Recently, the Ming Dynasty opened the currency business of banknotes to major countries in the world. Of course, there are not many countries that are recognized now. Currently, only the currencies of a few major countries such as France, Spain and the Ottomans were recognized by the Ming Dynasty.

As a Spaniard, Dave was very proud to hear this news. Spain was recognized by the Ming Dynasty. Doesn’t that mean that Spain is the most superpower in the world!

Dave took out the Ming Dynasty cigarette from his pocket, saying that tobacco was brought back from Latin America by Spain, and then it was introduced to the Ming Dynasty from the Philippines.

But who would have thought that the Ming Dynasty promoted this kind of thing to a wide range of smoking methods, including cigarettes, hookahs, snuff bottles, dry tobacco pipes, etc.

Of course, Dave’s favorite thing is cigarettes, because smoking cigarettes produced by the Ming Dynasty look particularly high-end when paired with lighters made by the Ming Dynasty.

The crisp sound of the lighter and the Mingmiao flame burning from the cigarette took a deep breath, and all the worries and fatigue disappeared in an instant.

When Dave started smoking, the miners could get a moment of breath because Dave liked to look at the sky when he smoked, as if looking at them would insult the noble cigarettes.

In fact, Dave likes to let everyone watch him smoke. When he looks at the sky at a melancholy forty-five degrees, what he smokes is not cigarettes, but identity, status and loneliness.

So he knew that the miners would take a break and watch him smoke, and he enjoyed the process very much.

After the smelting of this batch of copper ingots is completed, Dave will have the opportunity to follow the fleet to Tianjin Port in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that it is the ferry of the Ming Emperor. It is a great emerging city. It took less than ten years to exceed one million people.

There are trading cities specially built for them, such as foreigners, which are large enough to put down all the residents of Madrid.

For this opportunity, Dave even secretly learned Chinese. If it weren't for the fact that Chinese was too difficult, he wanted to take a CET-4 exam and would definitely find a decent job.

Either be a translator, sit in the classroom as a teacher, or be a personal trainer for a certain nobleman, you may even get to know the ladies or wives of the noble family and have a heroic love.

Unfortunately, Dave is only a semi-illiterate. Dave, who was born in a fishing village, doesn't even know Spanish, let alone the more difficult Chinese.

In fact, the class he enrolled in was just an assault class like "a hundred sentences often used in the Ming Dynasty", and the teacher did not even teach him to memorize the most basic thousand-character text.

A cigarette burned out, and seeing that there was still a piece left to suck into his mouth, Dave sighed, hearing that the nobles in the upper class used a cigarette with a filter.

That kind of cigarette is twice as expensive as this kind of cigarette without a filter, and the advantage is what can filter harmful substances and the like.

However, in Dave's opinion, the biggest advantage of the filter is that it allows him to suck every cigarette so that he will not be as afraid of burning his mouth and throwing it away for a piece.

When the miners saw that Dave had finished smoking cigarettes, they went to work silently. Dave inspected the mine again and walked towards the mineral export. A wind pump broke down there, and the water in the mine was still rising.

Dave had to arrange the miners on the bottom floor to pile them together to mine.

But this is not a long-term solution. The pump must be repaired as soon as possible. Otherwise, long-term soaking water in the mine will definitely lead to frequent accidents. It won’t be a big deal if the monkeys die at that time. If the mine is destroyed, it will be a big loss.

The Karl's mine next door went bankrupt due to a collapse accident.

However, I heard that the mine there was bought by a Ming merchant and was recruiting workers to resume production and expand mines.

Nowadays, the Ming citizens can be seen everywhere in the Philippines, such as mining, doing business, opening plantations, or doing lending business.

The Spanish Governor issued a special decree to allow Ming citizens to hold guns in the Philippines, allowing Ming citizens to recruit no more than two local people as bodyguards each.

Once there are vicious cases of anti-China or killing Ming citizens in the local area, the governor will often not need to issue a note from the Ming Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the governor will be cruelly suppressed.

Now many people say that the Philippine Governor has actually defected to the Ming Dynasty and became a citizen of the Ming Dynasty. He even obtained the Ming Dynasty nationality and has a house in Songjiang Prefecture, the Ming Dynasty, and plans to go to the Ming Dynasty to live after retirement.

Dave was also very suspicious about why the mine that made money like this was not handed over to the Spaniards but to the Ming people.
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