Chapter 169 Brother Ding
All of a sudden, most of the Ming soldiers in the camp ran away.
Some ran to the Military Supervisory Office and rushed to take away the silver hidden in the military camp and warehouse, while others ran back to their homes.
"Erya, you are smart, go to the military supervisor to take out the thirty silver coins we saved first. That is the newly cast silver coins from the Ming court, but don't take them away secretly." Li Liu shouted to Erya, who was as thin as a monkey.
At this time, he hurriedly walked out of the military camp, muttering in his heart how to talk to the wife at home, and took out the ten taels of silver stored under the stove and put it in the Minghai Money House.
How great it is to put it in Minghai Money House. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that it is Lord Liu’s money house.
It is more reliable to have Lord Liu looking at his silver than to eat dust under the stove and let the stove prince keep it.
Thinking of this, Li Liu couldn't help but speed up and walked towards a village not far outside the military camp.
Many soldiers in Huben Town married Tufan girls in Luzon. For convenience, the Ming army specially built a village next to the military camp to serve the family of soldiers.
At the same time, in order to strictly enforce military discipline, family members are not allowed to enter the military camp on weekdays, and the Ming soldiers in the army are not allowed to enter the village to meet their wives and children at will.
This made the Ming army soldiers complain. Even many veterans who followed Liu Yu through life and death opposed it, but Liu Yu still forced them to execute it, and even severely punished several Ming army soldiers who could not bear the pain of longing for love and ran home without authorization.
However, for these Ming soldiers who had been married in Luzon, they could not meet each other in the military camp, and it would never be a solution.
Liu Yu finally ordered that the officers and soldiers who had already started their families in Huben Town allow three more days of family leave per month to allow them to reunite with their families in Luzon.
This military strategy has gradually become popular among other Lu towns such as Auxiliary Bing Town, which has also led to more and more Ming soldiers starting to marry and have children in Luzon.
Su Langqing and other Chinese merchants in Minghai never expected that Minghai would be so prosperous to open a money shop.
For a whole day, there were long queues outside the money shop, including merchants, Ming army families, and even some English people who were doing business in Lavague came to join in the fun.
The five accountants in the bank had swollen heads and dizzy heads. The ten men who originally hired employed didn't even care about food. Minghai hired ten more people for this.
"This?" Seeing the boxes of treasure chests that had been counted were carried into the cellar of the money house, Minghai merchant Ding Ge gasped.
"I really didn't expect that so many people would deposit silver into our money house." Ding Ge, the owner of Minghai merchant ship, was so happy that he was crazy.
The Minghai businessmen present were also very happy. Of course, the Chinese businessmen in Minghai also knew that the reason why the money shop could be handled was so successful was naturally influenced by the Ming court. Guan was influenced by Liu Yu and there were as many as thousands of Ming soldiers and officials who went to Minghai Money House to save money.
Although the soldiers of the Ming army in Luzon have not accumulated much silver, and a single officer and soldier is only a few taels, the number of accumulated amounts is large, and the Ming army soldiers alone have saved more than 8,000 taels of silver.
The families of Lavag's officials also deposited their deposits in Minghai Money House these days.
The Wang Zhuan of Minghai Money House carefully counted and calculated. Just the first three days, about 80,000 taels of silver were deposited into the money house, of which 50,000 taels of silver were deposited by local officials from Luzon and generals.
The Minghai businessmen present naturally knew why these Luzon officials rushed to deposit silver at Minghai Money House. After all, the person in charge behind Minghai Money House was Liu Yu.
"This is just Rawag City." Su Langqing, dressed in Confucian clothes, looked at the long queue, shook his fan and said with a smile.
In these days, with the leaders of officials and wealthy businessmen, even the handicraftsmen and wealthy households in the city came to save money.
Although not as many as thousands or tens of thousands of taels a few days ago, so many retail investors can also bring considerable savings in deposits.
After listening to Su Langqing's words, the other Minghai merchants present sucked in air conditioning.
"Sir, can it be that Minghai still has to open a money house?" Merchant Ding Ge looked at Su Langqing in shock.
"Hehe, Mingcheng, Weigan, Pasalun and even overseas Dayu Island, in the future, Annan and Manila, as long as our Chinese merchant ships arrive, we will have our Chinese merchant money houses." Su Langqing said loudly.
Su Langqing's words shocked the Minghai merchants present.
Yes, how can a mere Lavag City be enough? The Chinese merchant treasure ship goes to Southeast Asia, from Guangdong to Annan, and then to Manila City. Where is the biggest in the world, there is no footprint of Chinese merchants, and where does the Chinese merchant treasure ship have no Chinese merchants?
Minghai businessman Ding Ge couldn't help but burst into tears when he heard this.
He was not the first Chinese businessman who was loyal to the Ming court. When the Ming army headed south to Luzon, it shocked the entire Manila.
Fearing that the Spaniards would wave their butcher knives at the Chinese merchants again, the Chinese merchants in Manila fled to other cities in Luzon, and even other islands such as Mindanao.
Chinese businessmen such as Su Langqing, Zhaozhou and other Chinese businesses were actually in Manila at the beginning, but because the Ming army went south to Luzon and was worried about being affected, they fled to Weigan and other places. In the end, they had no choice but to cooperate with the Ming army.
Hundreds of Manila Chinese merchants led by Dante Ge did not leave Manila. They were more willing to believe Governor Juan's promise than the Ming army.
Of course, what is more important is that they are reluctant to leave Manila's industry.
But who would have thought that the Ming army broke the Spanish Alliance in Mingcheng, went north to Lavague, and captured Lavague. In just half a year, the northern part of Luzon was fully in the hands of the Ming army.
Hundreds of Chinese merchants who stayed in Manila, such as Ding Ge, were imprisoned by the angry Spaniards and tortured, and every day they were not as good as death.
Until the Ming army negotiated peace with Manila, the Spaniards in Lavague and other places exchanged thousands of Chinese people, including Ding Ge.
Brother Ding, who lost his property and his wife and children, gritted his teeth and survived. With the connections he had accumulated before, he rented a merchant ship. When pirates attacked the Minghai merchant fleet, a large number of merchants from all over the world were afraid of pirates and did not dare to sail to transport food, grass and medicine to the Ming army.
Brother Ding went out to sea with a boat of medicine and more than a dozen sailors.
Unlike other Minghai merchant ship owners who fled after sending supplies to Dayu Island, Ding Ge, who was very skilled and brave, sent a ship of herbs to Babuyan Island, which scared Li Duke who had just won Muhanweili.
It was also with this ship of precious medicine that many injured Ming army wounded were rescued.
Therefore, Ding Ge and other businessmen were also invited by Su Langqing to enter the Minghai.
Now he has six large ships under his command. Although his industry is not as good as his previous industry in Manila, it makes Ding Ge and other Chinese merchants feel more at ease in Lavague.
Chapter completed!