Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1503 Beiyang Internal Meeting (Part [-])
When Luo Yuan finished introducing the situation in Luzon, all the nobles understood the main topic of today's meeting.It is nothing more than that after the battle of the Maritime Trade Alliance is over, whether the next step is to only take the area around Manila, or the entire territory of Luzon Island, or go further and fight the entire archipelago with Spain.

All the nobles first discussed in private, and most of them felt that it is a bit unreliable to just take Manila City, at least Luzon Island should be taken, so that the future defense will be more convenient, and it looks more like a successful victory for Luzon. The Kingdom of Song "survived and died".

This kind of thinking is more or less traditional Chinese style. If you want to take it, you have to take an entire area, like Portugal’s colonial strongholds in Asia, with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, and there are dots everywhere. It is really not something they can understand. .

However, they said they wanted to take the whole piece, but they thought that only Luzon Island was enough, and they were not too happy to continue to fight the entire archipelago.

In this expedition, apart from Jinghua, Cheng Guogong Zhu Yingzhen, who contributed the most armed transport ships, may be the most representative. He explained: "Rixin, I look at this matter in this way: take Luzon Island After that, we have actually completed the planned plan, which is to master the transit point of trade with the Spaniards, and we will no longer have to pay the Spaniards the fluctuating taxes and fees.

In addition, we only use Luzon to show our generosity, which means that we do not intend to kill them all.Seeing this, the Spaniards must not have the possibility of simply not coming to trade in a fit of anger.

And the last point is that we went out for a run. Although we said that we happened to capture the opponent's big treasure fleet and made a lot of money, it is not reasonable to spend a long time in the sea like this.After all... No matter what, our Maritime Trade Alliance is for business, so we can't just focus on fighting people, can we? "

Gao Yushi didn't make a clear statement, but nodded his head. Zhu Yingzhen's understanding of his action was that Gao Yushi could at least understand his own intentions.

That's right, the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance is a trade alliance after all. No matter what you do, you must first consider your interests.There are many kinds of interests, but the word "maritime trade alliance" already shows where the foundation of this alliance is.If you focus on fighting wars and put trade aside instead, is it still called the Maritime Trade Alliance?Just call it the War Alliance.

All the nobles originally promoted Zhu Yingzhen as a representative, but Gao Yushi only nodded but did not speak. They didn't want to stand up and express their views for a while, lest if Gao Yushi refused to agree, the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance would be trapped inside There's an impasse.

Although everyone is indeed talking about business now, they will not forget their roots after all-they are nobles first.What is honor?Xungui is a political figure, even if he usually belongs to a marginalized group in the court's administrative decision-making, but in terms of status, he is still an out-and-out political figure.

Politicians cannot only consider economic interests, because their economic interests are attached to political interests, so political interests must also be considered.And since they were talking about political interests, they were naturally unwilling to have a deadlock with Gao Yushi, who in their eyes would sooner or later be the chief assistant.

Especially when the age advantage of high pragmatism is so obvious, who knows how long he will rule the world in the future?If nothing goes wrong, it is not impossible for him to be the chief assistant for 20 or even 30 years in the future.During such a long period of governing, who offended him can have good fruit?
Therefore, after Zhu Yingzhen finished speaking, there was inevitably an embarrassing silence in the meeting room of Rixin Building.

The extremely rare Dingguo Duke Xu Wenbi also came today. Seeing this situation, he didn't intend to speak, so he finally coughed lightly, and said slowly: "Da Si Nong has won every battle, but now he has some unfinished business. Is it not enough to take Luzon only?"

As Gao Wushi was, when he heard Xu Wenbi's words, he knew that the old man was either trying to mess up, or he was deliberately provocative.

What do you mean by "the idea is still unfinished", and you think "the work has not been done"?Does that mean that if I want to continue to fight this battle, the reason is only because I don't want my reputation of "victorious in all battles" to be damaged?
"Mr. Dingguo's words are wrong." Gao Yushi smiled slightly, looked around at the nobles, with a little arrogance in his eyes, and said awe-inspiringly: "There is a way that barbarians fear power but not virtue, so "Zuo Zhuan" There was once a saying: Virtue softens China, and punishment strengthens the barbarians. Today Spain is the leader of the barbarians in the Western world, and our dynasty is so powerful that it will be fine if the sword is not out of the scabbard. The green front has been unleashed, so why cut off your fingers and turn back?"

All the nobles were shocked when they heard this.They are quite familiar with their highly pragmatic temperament, and they are generally "easy to talk to".But everyone knows that if anyone thinks that high pragmatism has only a talkative side, it is not far from disaster.There are already too many lessons learned from this matter, and it is not even necessary to give examples.

They are very clear about the nature of high pragmatism: when he thinks the conditions are negotiable, you ask for a higher price and ask for more, he is easy to talk to and is willing to give you face; when he thinks the conditions are not negotiable, you If you dare to continue to oppose, then he will kick you away to do it yourself, and at the worst, he will deal with your stepping stones, and you will not be able to turn over when you step into the ground.

So when Gao Wushi said this, Xu Wenbi couldn't help but frowned, and asked, "Since that's the case, is Da Sinong trying to take all of the islands?" , but I am old and dull, but I don’t know what is the purpose of taking all these islands, and is it worthwhile?”

The other nobles also looked at Gao Yushi at the same time, waiting for his explanation.

Gao Yushi didn't appear to be sullen, and he still said slowly: "It is better to pursue the poor with courage, and not to be known as the overlord. The usual trick of the Westerners is to first occupy a stronghold, and then take advantage of the opportunity to gain momentum, to be unawares And launch a surprise attack in an attempt to subvert. Therefore, this battle is not only a battle of strength, but also a battle of absolute danger. I will definitely defeat it completely, and I can only rely on my breath before withdrawing troops.

As for whether it's a good deal...you have been cooperating with the Jinghua Beiyang Fleet for a long time, but you don't know the results of the Nanyang Fleet. I naturally understand.However, since you have also been involved in the East Ocean this time (see the previous chapters, the Philippines is counted as the East Ocean in Daming’s mouth), I would like to share with you some of the investigation results that were not made public. "

As soon as Gao Yushi's words came out, all the nobles immediately cheered up.Zhu Yingzhen seemed to have forgotten that he was the first honored representative who expressed his displeasure to continue the fight, and immediately asked, "What is the result?"

Faced with this problem, Gao Yushi was very generous. He didn't hide it at all. He seemed to have forgotten what happened just now, and said with a smile: "There are two aspects, one is the prospect of mining, and the other is the prospect of agriculture. Of course, with this The two are also related to their respective processing industry prospects."

Zhang Yuangong couldn't help but interjected at this time, and asked, "What's the situation in the mining industry?"

Gao Wushi glanced at him briefly, and said calmly: "The archipelago is rich in gold, silver, and copper, and [-]% to [-]% of them may come from Mindanao, the southernmost big island, followed by Luzon."

"Oh……"

"what!"

"Oh……"

Surprises and exclamations suddenly rang out among the nobles.They had seen all the maps published by Jinghua, and this time they were attacking the Philippine Islands. Although they only had to sit in the mansion and wait for the news, they had already figured out the major islands of the Philippine Islands, and they were no strangers to Mindanao.

Zhu Yingzhen immediately asked: "Since it is said to be rich in production, how about the reserves?"

"Copper may be half of my Ming Dynasty, gold is about [-]%, but silver is not sure, only some native folk rumors can prove it. But the gold, silver and copper mines in the Philippine Islands are mostly associated mines. Since there are a lot of gold and copper , presumably the silver is not too little."

Gao Wushi’s statement is half-truth. Liu Xin introduced the metal mineral reserves of the Philippines to him before, and the mineral reserves per unit area are indeed not bad. Its gold ore reserves rank third in the world, and its copper ore reserves rank first in the world. Fourth place, nickel ore reserves rank fifth in the world, and chrome ore reserves rank sixth in the world.

However, the premise here is "mineral reserves per unit area", which is not an absolute value.For example, for copper mines, the mineral reserves per unit area of ​​the Philippine Islands are the fourth in the world, but if we only look at the absolute value of the total reserves, it has dropped to No. 13 and No. 14 in the ranking of countries in the world in later generations.

Of course, having said that, the Philippines is still rich in gold and copper reserves.But silver is different. Gao Yushi's so-called "presumably there is not too little silver" is purely intentional ambiguity.Liu Xin told him that until she crossed over, the silver mine reserves in the Philippines were not high, to the point that even she "didn't know how low".In his mind, Gao Yushi actually ignored the silver reserves of the Philippines.

After Gao Wushi's half-truths and half-false words were finished, the nobles really cheered up and whispered one after another.This is not a surprise to Gao Pragmatic. After all, the Philippine Islands have a land area of ​​only about 30 square kilometers, which is less than the size of two Shanxi provinces.

Of course, the two Shanxi provinces are not too small, but in the eyes of all the nobles, a place like the Philippines cannot be compared with Shanxi itself, so it is worthy of everyone's envy for having so many gold and copper reserves. .

There was light in the eyes of the nobles, only Duke Ding Xu Wenbi was still able to hold back, but at this moment he couldn't help asking: "Did Sinonong seem to be talking about agriculture just now? Could it be that there are many fertile fields in this archipelago? "

To be honest, from Gao Yushi's point of view, Xu Wenbi's question is not level, because although "fertile land" is an important part of agriculture, agriculture is not just about fertile land.Of course, people in this era have such a superficial understanding of agriculture, so it cannot be said that Xu Wenbi's problem is alone.

According to Liu Xin, the later generations of the Philippines have a size of 3000 million hectares (30 square kilometers), of which 47% is agricultural land, and the main agricultural land is concentrated near cities and densely populated areas.The rest is forest land, 1580 million hectares, of which 1420 million hectares are usable land, and 93% of this (1300 million hectares) is agricultural land—almost the size of Anhui Province.

Among the 1300 million hectares of agricultural land, it is divided into food land, other food land and non-food land.Food land accounts for about 31%, or 401 million hectares; other food land accounts for about 52%, or 833 million hectares; non-food land accounts for about 17%, or 220 million hectares.

后世菲律宾的粮食用地中，玉米334万公顷，水稻331万公顷。其他食物用地中，椰子最多，为425万公顷；甘蔗67.3万公顷；工业作物59.1公顷；各类果树14.8万公顷；蔬菜和块根作物27万公顷；牧场40.4万公顷。

Of the entire agricultural land, 78.31% are most suitable for agriculture, and 610 million hectares are most suitable for cultivation.However, Gao Yushi is not very interested in growing rice, one of the domestic staple foods, because he knows that there are enough people coveting the production of this staple food, so many that he doesn't need to pay too much attention and interfere in areas other than Liaodong.

However, he didn't intend to pack up the "good land" on the Philippine Islands and give them to the nobles after drawing a big cake. In fact, he didn't want the nobles to participate in rice planting, and he made it clear.

"Everyone, I don't recommend going to the archipelago to plant rice, and Jinghua doesn't plan to get involved. I don't think the agricultural economic interests of our Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance in the archipelago are not in rice."

Xue Cheng, Marquis of Yangwu, was surprised and said, "Not farming? Then what are you doing?"

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "I will introduce you to a way to get rich—sugar making." All the nobles suddenly realized, but they were still waiting for Gao Wushi's next words.

Gao Yushi was also unambiguous, and introduced: "My wife was originally the chieftain of Siming Mansion in Guangxi. You all know this. Her hereditary hometown was originally quite barren. When I was the censor of Guangxi, I made a contribution to Guangxi's economy. After some planning, especially the two industries of timber and sugar are currently developing the best.

Not to mention wood, but sugar.After the Huang family moved out of Guangxi, the original Siming Prefecture and surrounding counties vigorously planted sugar cane, while Jinghua set up sugar factories nearby to manufacture various sugar products.Everyone knows, what was the gross profit of Jinghua Qinzhou Sugar Factory last year? "

All the nobles were from the north, so they shook their heads naturally as they didn't know about Jinghua's sugar factory in Guangxi.

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "The Qinzhou Sugar Factory alone produced about 37% of the sugar products in Ming Dynasty last year, and the gross profit was about [-] taels."

Zhong Xungui took a deep breath, but Gao Wushi didn't finish his sentence. He continued to speak casually: "However, the supply of sugar products is still in short supply in various places. Jinghua's internal statistics show that even if the current sugar production of Ming Dynasty is increased by five times , and don't worry about sales at all.

What's more, the sugar production of other surrounding countries is not very good, and they will not refuse us to sell sugar to them... In other words, even if we build ten more enterprises like Qinzhou Sugar Factory, we don't have to worry about the products being unsalable.Oh, by the way, Europeans have a higher demand for sugar than our Ming Dynasty, and the same is true in Tianzhu, which can use sugar very well. "

All the nobles looked at each other, and they also believed Gao Yushi's words. It seems that sugar has always been in short supply, and it has never been heard that it cannot be sold.But what everyone cares about is, is Jinghua willing to hand over this deal?
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