Mingcheng,

In the martial arts training ground, a red flag fluttered in the wind, whistling.

There were three square formations neatly arranged on the camp, and 1,500 Ming army soldiers were standing in line.

It started drizzling in the sky, and the rain wet the armor and hair of the soldiers. Drops of turbid raindrops slid from the armor of the soldiers.

Even in late summer, the sea breeze floating from the sea still gives people a feeling of cold wind.

"Your Majesty, it's cold, so let's go back first!" Liu Quan took a few personal soldiers and stepped on the muddy sand, protecting the King of Lu on the side to the big military camp in the center of the martial arts field.

"It's okay, my Ming soldiers were practicing on the spot. How could I hide in the army camp because of the light rain?" King Zhu Honghuan, Lu, stood in the rain and said with a smile.

The eunuch next to him quickly tried to use a canopy to cover the drizzle in the sky, but he also stopped him.

"Prince, this cold wind and rain are not frozen, don't freeze your body." The eunuch on the side said anxiously.

"Brother Zhu is my Ming Dynasty prince and the only vassal king in the Luzon Ming court. Don't be in the cold here." Liu Yu walked out of the army camp and looked at the soldiers who were still standing in the rain, and nodded with satisfaction.

These are not the Luzon Ming army in the true sense, but some rural brave men.

During these days, after the vigorous development of the Ming court and the introduction of Han immigrants from all over the Southeast Asian region.

The size of Han people in Luzon has long exceeded 30,000, most of them are Han men.

The Ming court gave them arable land and farm tools, and allowed them to engage in production labor.

Some strong and strong people were engraved as village heroes.

On average, two families have one village, and they are farmers during busy farming and soldiers during slack farming.

This year's summer harvest has ended, and these rural heroes are naturally gathered to train.

Of course, although it is just a village hero, no one should be left behind in the training.

Ming army officers and soldiers have a small exercise every three days and a big exercise every five days. There is also a big martial arts training every month to assess the actual combat capabilities of officers and soldiers of each town association.

The training of the township heroes is not bad at all compared to traditional officers and soldiers, and they also have to participate in the daily tasks of defending the city and patrolling.

"Since Xiao Wang left Mingcheng last time, he has never returned to Mingcheng. Now he has returned to his hometown to visit again. He feels that things are changing, and he can't help but feel a little touched." Zhu Honghuan smiled bitterly and looked at the soldiers in the field.

"When I saw my Ming soldiers practicing, Xiao Wang naturally wanted to encourage them with the soldiers."

After hearing this, Liu Yu nodded, "If the prince feels like this, it will be worth the thousands of Ming soldiers in this land that shed blood and sacrificed."

"But please ask the prince to return to the camp quickly." Liu Yu bowed and bowed, and six heavily armored soldiers behind him walked forward.

"Don't be rude." Liu Quan snorted coldly.

The six heavily armored soldiers were stunned, and then bowed and saluted Zhu Honghuan.

"Okay." Zhu Honghuan stopped insisting and followed the heavily armored soldiers back to the camp.

Liu Yu's personal soldiers were the Iron Man Army, who used plate armor seized from the Spanish.

The soldiers all came from the Qingmiao camp, which is the orphans of Han people recruited by the Ming army in Luzon. The earliest group of Qingmiao had already joined the Ming army, and some were recruited by Liu Yu to become personal soldiers.

Some were incorporated into various town associations and made great contributions to the Ming court's life and death, just like Lin Xu.

The Ming court officials present said nothing when they saw this scene.

Most of these Ming court officials were recruited by Liu Yu from the local Spanish colonial authorities, and they were all natives of the Irok ethnic group, so naturally they would not have the Confucian idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor.

Since taking down Lavag and establishing the Ming court, some generals have proposed to support King Lu as emperor and rebuild the Ming Dynasty.

But Liu Yu and Xiao Wu tacitly rude and make excuses, and no one mentioned it again.

Because everyone knows that although the Ming court today is Ming, it is exactly the same as the Zheng family in Taiwan. Although it is the Ming flag, it is not a real continuation of the Ming Dynasty after all, so naturally no one mentioned it again.

"Uncle, how about the summer harvest this year?" Liu Yu asked just now as Zhu Honghuan entered the army camp to hide from the rain.

"Yes, this year, the official and private fields are harvested, and a total of rice and sweet potatoes are harvested, not including the more than 200,000 stones of rice that are collected." Liu Quan said with a smile.

After hearing this, Liu Yu nodded.

After several years of development, the Ming court controlled a large area of ​​northern Luzon and established three counties (Lavag, Vigan, Mingcheng), the Eleventh Ming Society and the Big and Small Fan Society.

A large number of Chinese and Ming people from Southeast Asia, and even foreign merchants from various countries, traveled to Luzon and settled in towns such as Lavag and Vigan.

There are as many as 8,000 households in Lavag City alone, and there are more than two or three thousand households in Weiganming City.

With so many people, most of them are merchants, handicraftsmen and family members.

The pressure of its food input can be imagined.

Now, the Ming Dynasty has more than 10,000 households and 30,000 households in the Ming Dynasty. If you think about it carefully, the population of Luzon, which was controlled by the Ming court at this time, was about 170,000 or 80,000.

Of course, this is to count a large number of foreign communities, Yiluoke and Tagalog people from Tumen, including the Chinese and Tumen who moved from mainland China, Guangnan, Zhenla and other Southeast Asia to Luzon in the past or two years.

The Ming court measured one stone to 100 kilograms, which means that the harvest in just one season reached 550 kilograms per capita. Of course, a large number of sweet potato seed crops were mixed with.

But this still satisfied the Ming court officials.

Luzon is located in Southeast Asia, and rice can be ripe for two or even three ripe in tropical environments, which means that the Ming court can completely feed the people on Luzon Island and even feed back to other regions.

This can be said to be very exciting news for the Ming court.

"Sir, since the summer harvest this year has ended, can the purchase of rice from Sihai be reduced next month? It can also reduce the expenses of the Ministry of Revenue." A foreign official in charge of the Ministry of Revenue said in Chinese.

"No." Liu Yu shook his head and refused flatly.

Now every month, the Sihai Chamber of Commerce imports more than 50,000 stones of rice from Southeast Asia such as Annan, Siam.

Although Guangnan rejected the Ming court's official business request, he still supported private trade. After all, no one would be unable to get along with the silver.

Therefore, this year, Sihai imported 110,000 stones of rice from Guangnan.

In the seaports such as Beida Nian in Siam, and with the help of local English merchants, Sihai also imported crops such as rice in Siam.

In fact, the Luzon Ming court today is not short of food at all.

The rice and other crops transported from Southeast Asia alone from all over Southeast Asia every month are enough to feed the population of several towns such as Lavag.

But the Ming court still swallowed food from all over the Southeast Asian region like a bottomless pit.

This naturally brought a lot of silver to Guangnan, Siam and other countries, and also made Sihai Commercial Banks make a fortune.

But it made the officials of the Ministry of Revenue in the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming court of Luzon was not short of food, so even for commercial harbors like Lavag, the grain needed was exported, and the rice price was only seven cents per stone, while the rice price in Weiganmingcheng and other places was even lower, only five or six cents per stone.

This is naturally because the Ming court obtained a large amount of land from the Tumen's foreign people, and set it as official fields, civil fields, and foreign fields for farming among all ethnic groups, which made Luzon's rice harvest this year.
Chapter completed!