The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 554 Layout Southeast
Xingang City.

As the Qijiao of Tainan City, after nearly a year of construction, the east wall has been used to connect the earlier built forts into a line. According to Yao Xinhan, the entire outer city wall can be built by this time next year.

The local Xingang Society and Madou Society dispatched a lot of manpower to help, and they were also the main force in building the city here, but Ding Yi also paid a lot of materials such as sugar, salt, cloth, and iron.

According to Ding Yi's vision, Xingang City will take at least three to five years to build. After completion, Xingang City will be Ding Yi's headquarters in Tainan.

Because the city of Zeelandia in the Netherlands is too small, it can only garrison more than 1000 troops.

And Xingang City, which includes all the sites of the original Xingang Society (including some of their grain fields), is 2600 meters long along the north-south coastline, and 1800 meters wide from east to west. The easternmost city wall is longer because there are more plains here. , Ding Yi circled a lot of grain fields inside, with a total area of ​​about 1 mu.

After the construction was completed, half of the people from the Madou Club and all the people from the Xingang Club moved in. Most of the people who could live in were the old and the weak, women and children, who were responsible for hoarding the land, because Ding Yi also hoarded [-] mu of land for his own use.

The soldiers of Madou Society and Xingang Society are all trained intensively and live outside the city, living with Mongolian soldiers and Jurchen soldiers.Facts have proved that the design was still small at that time, and later Zhu Xiangyang and others built it bigger and bigger, and Xingang City became bigger and bigger.

afternoon of the twelfth.

In a simple wooden house in Xingang City, Ding Yi sat at the head seat, surrounded by Zhao Dashan, Song Fei, Xi Laojing, Pilut, Xu Erxian, Zhu Xiangyang, Yao Xinhan, Duan Gaolin, Xu Zhi, Arah, Na Qige, Xiaomisa, He Luguang et al.

Zhu Xiangyang told Ding Yi that since he became a senior official in November last year, he has spent 58 taels of silver in nearly a year.

Including the military expenses for stationing soldiers and horses in Taiwan, the labor costs for people to build the city, the labor costs for sugar production, and various other expenses, they are almost entirely paid for.

During this period, Ruan Siqing came once, shipped a boatload of sugar to Japan, and sold it for 10 taels.

But Ruan Siqing only came once a year, so for the whole year, the big staff lost nearly 50 yuan.

Of course, this year they have a lot of sugar to buy, and get population, cloth, iron, medicinal materials, and even cattle, horses, dogs and other necessary materials. Right now, there are a lot of materials in Tainan.

Because everyone knows that Ding Yi likes to stockpile supplies, so besides Ruan Siqing, the sugar here will come to sell to Japan, and the extra can be exchanged for supplies. Right now, there are a lot of supplies in Tainan.

In fact, generally speaking, the profits of Ding Yi's sugar production can completely offset his expenses in Dayuan, but he does not sell sugar, and uses it to exchange for purchases, so he hoards a lot of things and increases the number of people. What about the monthly military salary? They have to be issued as per the request, so the real money paid is more.

"Next year will be better." Zhao Dashan murmured, "Tainan City was perfected last year, and manpower can be spared to build shopping malls, bathhouses, and collect salaries."

Everyone knows that Ding Yi will find a way to recycle the salaries sent out. Right now Tainan is full of waste, and a lot of people are needed to build gun factories, gun factories, and shipyards, so there are no entertainment facilities yet.

Ding Yi nodded: "Last year there was a battle to be fought, and the navy was used. This year, I asked the Ruan Siqing Navy to allocate a few ships to sell sugar to Japan. I guarantee that I can make one or two trips a year. This will reduce costs, but overall For the next few years, senior staff will only continue to post money, and will post more.”

"My goal is to make back my money in four years, and make money in five years, which is considered good."

Everyone nodded, and this was the only way at the moment. Before beating the big officials, everyone knew in Lushun that money would be paid here. It would be considered good if they could stabilize their capital within three or four years.

"For the time being, the infrastructure is the priority, and the entertainment facilities can be delayed. This year, we will use sugar and food to maintain expenditure." Ding Yi is not in a hurry to recover the salary, and the infrastructure is more important.

"This year's autumn harvest can sell grain and make a small profit." Yao Xinhan said with a smile at this time.

There are already more than 17 mu of fields in Tainan, of which [-] mu are planted with new sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn.

The production of this thing is much higher, which greatly eases their food pressure, and will definitely expand production next year.

According to Yao Xinhan's estimate, the new sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes are enough to supply their more than 1 soldiers and horses for half a year.

Of course, they won't eat this every day. With other grains and taxes, they can have at least [-] shi of surplus grain this year.

On the officer's side, Ding Yi originally collected [-]% of the tax from the cooked and uncooked potatoes because he planted new sweet potatoes, while the people of the Ming Dynasty collected [-]% of the tax.

Sweet potatoes are harvested before rice, and the local raw and cooked fans are ecstatic when they see the output, and there are various ways to eat sweet potatoes brought to them by the Ming people, so they unanimously agree to a [-]% tax.

But considering that many Fanbing families are tax-free, so on average, the overall tax is equivalent to [-]%. (This tax-free measure has also made local Fan tribes rush to become soldiers.)
The rice has not yet been confiscated, but it is estimated that about 65 shi can be received for various food crops throughout the year.

This is because there are relatively few sweet potatoes and potatoes today. The results of the trial planting in the first year will definitely only increase next year.

Ding Yi can get 20 shi for tax collection.

I have nearly 12 soldiers and craftsmen, etc., and I will probably use [-] stones. (Because his soldiers and horses still need food.)
There is a surplus of [-] shi in the whole year.

Ding Yi must ensure that the [-] shi are all rice and wheat, which will be used for storage and selling.

But they also need to stockpile grain. This year, they will keep [-] shi in stock, and the population will increase year by year.

Therefore, it is estimated that only [-] shi can be sold this year.

Right now, the price of grain in Fujian is fairly stable, and it can be sold for 4 taels.

Then this year's shortfall can become 46 taels.

After listening to Ding Yi, he nodded slowly: "There is a shortage of money here right now, except for food storage, the surplus will be sold."

There will be no food shortage here for the time being, and the surrounding environment is good, so they can sell their surplus food as much as possible.

Doing the math in this way, after hoarding the fields next year, there will be more grain sales.

As long as the population grows and the land is hoarded, it is hoped that after two years, the big staff will be able to achieve a balance of income and expenditure, and even start to have their own income.

Ding Yi also said that next year, he will add more sweet potatoes and corns, study storage methods, make the storage time longer, diversify the eating methods, and keep everyone's love for him.

By increasing the use of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn in grain, more rice can be sold.

At this time, Ding Yi spread another map on the table.

This was brought over by Pilut and the others from the East India Company. It has the approximate locations of the countries in the nearby sea areas. Ding Yi added a few strokes based on his memory and the map instrument he just got, but he didn't know whether the drawing was accurate or not. Not sure.

"This is Macau. In the future, Seinfeld and your navy will strengthen ties with people in Australia and Portugal, bring a lot of sugar, and copper ore (which Ruan Siqing will bring from Lushun) to buy their artillery and come back. When it is time, we will sell our products to the Luzon area along the way."

"This side is mainly - Luzon, Malaysia, um, Malaysia may not be called by this name -"

"It seems that there are Brunei and Aceh over there, and the most powerful dynasty is called Aceh." Pilut said at this time.

Ding Yi knew about Brunei, but he obviously didn't know about Aceh. He didn't say much at the moment, and pointed to the map to remind Sein Fei: "Here is Luzon, Brunei, etc., and here is Le Chao Mo Chao (Vietnam), which used to be called Cochin, Annan, this is Siam—"

The task Ding Yi gave him and Fran was to explore the road, mark the map, and determine what countries and dynasties there are, how many forces there are, what attitudes each force has towards Daming, and the approximate population and military strength.

After he finished speaking, he thought about it again, and asked Seinfeld to make two trips, first to Macau, bring the cannons back, and then go to various countries with their goods, because in this era, Luzon and the Malay Peninsula, there are Where gold and pepper are mass-produced, there are all things that can make money.

In the early stage, it was mainly to show goodwill and make friends with the locals. There are also Chinese people over there. I want to know more Chinese people and express my attitude. I went for business.

Both Seinfeld and Fran nodded.

Zhao Dashan listened with admiration on his face, Mr. Ding really looked far away, not long after he just finished fighting Japan and North Korea, he had already set his sights on Nanyang.

Indeed, for Ding Yi, as long as the East India Company doesn’t come over, one year later, Ding Yi can make good arrangements for Nanyang affairs. In the early stage, he still needs to do business to make money, build good relations, find out the situation, and wait for him to unify the country. There is a chance to attack there.

Since you want to fight over there and control the important Strait of Malacca in the future, you must prepare in advance, and the route at this time is still very profitable. Zheng Zhilong used to go here often.

(End of this chapter)