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The Forbidden City, Qinzheng Hall.
Liu Xiangke recounted the dispatch of troops in detail, and said: "Your Majesty, the eight northeastern islands of Ryukyu should be separated from Ryukyu County and set up as a separate county."
"How about the land, specialty products, and population there?" Zhao Han asked.
Liu Xiangke said: "The eight islands in the northeast of Ryukyu are not smaller than the main island of Ryukyu in terms of geographical area. The largest island among the eight islands is called Ufu Shima Island by the Ryukyu people, and Amami Oshima by the Japanese. This island There are many mountains in the middle, and there are hundreds of years of giant trees on the mountains, many of which are hardwoods, which can be used to build ships and other utensils. Although there are many aquatic forests (mangroves) around the coast of the island, there is also a lot of arable land.
The main crops are rice and sugar cane, and the islanders are good at making brown sugar. The brown sugar on this island was once the most stable fiscal revenue of the Satsuma clan in Japan. "
Brown sugar, a type of brown sugar, is boiled longer than ordinary brown sugar and is rich in iron.
? In ancient times when the sugar making process was underdeveloped, any commodity that had anything to do with sugar could get huge profits if it participated in sea trade. Amami Oshima's specialty brown sugar alone is enough to attract Zhao Han's attention, not to mention that there are many hundreds of years old giant trees on the island.
This time the troops are dispatched, and the profits will not be lost.
The war indemnities of Satsuma and Hirado are more than enough to recover military expenses. And brown sugar and wood will have income every year in the future. As long as heavy taxes are not imposed on agriculture, the island's self-produced rice can be self-sufficient.
If you switch to Western colonists, the islanders will inevitably be forced to give up growing rice and switch to sugarcane, which is more profitable-
This is called colonial plantation economy.
What Spain does in Luzon, the Netherlands does in Java.
Even, in order to facilitate the control of spices, the Netherlands used force to cut down the spice trees scattered all over Java. Then choose some islands, where there are spices, and a large number of spice trees are artificially transplanted,
And cut down the trees that cannot produce spices on the island.
There are three advantages to doing so.
First, large-scale planting and processing of cash crops to maximize profits.
Second, the most economic crops can be effectively controlled with the least amount of troops.
Third, the indigenous people in the relevant areas can no longer grow food, or rarely grow food. The colonists, on the other hand, could buy grain from other places and use it to control the natives in the area from rebelling.
This approach is very short-sighted and effective, but it seriously damages the natural ecological balance and social ecological structure. Once something goes wrong, such as the late arrival of the food fleet, the region will immediately fall into famine.
Zhao Han naturally would not do this, because he built Ryukyu and Amami Oshima according to the local conditions, and he must achieve food self-sufficiency as much as possible.
"Li Qing, how are you?" Zhao Han asked with a smile.
Li Banghua cupped his hands and said: "I didn't expect the overseas islands to be so rich in products. Your majesty is still wise."
It seems that there is still a conflict in my heart.
Zhao Han said to Li Xiangjun: "The decree is to separate the eight islands in the northeast of Ryukyu and set up a separate county. The name is"
Seeing that Zhao Han was still thinking of a name, Li Xiangjun smiled and said, "It's better to call it Fangzhang County."
"Good!" Zhao Han clapped his hands in approval.
Penglai, Yingzhou, Abbot, and the Three Immortals Mountains on the Sea.
Zhao Han also said: "The main island of Abbot County will be renamed Abbot Island in the future, and it can no longer be called Wufu Shima Island or Amami Oshima. To attract business from the people, once selected, you can recruit workers and immigrate to Abbot Island to cut down forests. Only 15 merchants will be recruited, and each family will be given 350 mu of forest. After the forest is felled, trees must be replanted. Each family is allowed to keep 100 mu of land, which will be reclaimed as arable land after felling. "
Abbot Island is rich in forest resources. Hundreds of years later, Japan had more than 400 logging farms on the island.
Zhao Han thought for a while, and continued: "Give Xu Ying two hundred acres of mountain land, and let his elder brother recruit people to go to the island for logging. The royal family will pay for the immigration expenses for recruiting workers."
Xungui veterans, in addition to granting fields, more or less have franchise licenses.
Of course, in order to prevent the unfair competition of nobles, the business scope of these exclusive licenses is not large. For example, you can mine a certain mine, such as the right to operate a salt shop in a certain county (a county has several salt shops, and Xungui only occupies one of them).
This is also to make the nobles feel psychologically balanced, otherwise it would be impossible to justify seeing merchants with a lot of money while they were born and died with only a few dozen acres of land.
Only Xu Ying has never accepted the exclusive rewards from industry and commerce.
Maybe it's because his identity is too sensitive, similar to the commander of Jinyiwei in the Ming Dynasty, he was afraid of getting involved.After eating good food in Nanjing for half a month, it was still tasteless when I returned to Champa. The food in the palace was not as good as the small restaurants in Nanjing.
Xiao Chongguo smiled and said: "Your Highness can sell the Champa Kingdom to the Datong court."
"Traitor?" Po Nan felt very fresh.
? Xiao Chongguo said: "500,000 taels of silver, 50 acres of land, ten-year operating rights of a salt shop in Nanjing, and then confer your Highness the Duke of Datong Zhanguo. How?"
Five hundred thousand taels of silver!
The mother-in-law took a breath.
In the small country of Cuoer, although Wangcheng is a commercial port, it really does not collect much commercial tax, because a lot of tax for entering the port is taken away by officials.
Even the guards in the royal palace can only support a few dozen. When fighting against the Zheng family in Vietnam, farmers had to be temporarily recruited into the army. If he wanted to repair the palace, he would also collect corv¨¦e. The king had never seen hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
Po Nan said: "After I betray my country, can I not live in Nanjing? The rewarded salt shop should not be rewarded in Nanjing."
His father and two elder brothers were both in Nanjing. He wanted to monopolize the traitorous interests, and he did not want his father and elder brothers to come to him to share the money.
"Yes." Xiao Chongguo said with a smile.
"Then let's talk about it," Po Nan asked again, "Aside from Nanjing, which other cities in China are the best?"
Xiao Chongguo said: "There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below. Both Suzhou and Hangzhou are suitable for enjoying."
Po Nan happily said: "Then I will go to Suzhou!"
One-third of the territory of Hainan Island was bought in this way. **
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