The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 475
The Huang family captured thousands of sailors and gunners from various countries in Xiyi, including many excellent captains, and many of them may be officers from their country. Huang Sheng estimated that there should be people with titles among them.

The Xiyi captives who exchanged their labor for daily necessities soon found an opportunity to live a comfortable life. They could become limited free people if they participated in the death squads and received amnesty for their military exploits.

Why limited freedom?Because the Huang family can recruit them to become sailors, gunners, or soldiers, and they will be paid monthly as usual, but they cannot leave the Huang family to return to their hometown, and they will be punished as deserters if they leave the team without asking for leave.

There is another job opportunity that pays better, but only a few people can get it: becoming a teacher.

The illiteracy rate of Xiyi is comparable to that of Ming Dynasty, and there are only a few scholars. Therefore, most of the people who get this decent job are captains or officers. They teach all the latest military and civil research results of Xiyi.

Even if many of the Huang family, who thought Xiyi was very advanced academically, scoffed at them, the students would listen patiently. The Huang family would learn from each other's strengths, or learn from them, and accumulate a wealth of knowledge and insights to expand their knowledge for the Huang family's flourishing development.

Now there are more than 100 teachers in Xiyi, and there are dozens of them in the military academy. All the captains of the Huang family can master more than two sets of navigation techniques. You can use the traditional compass of the Ming Dynasty plus a star board for positioning in the vast sea. A quadrant invented by British navigator John Davies.

Of course, the compass has now been replaced by a compass with scales, and astrology, one of the nautical inventions of the ancient working people of the Han nationality, is still widely used today.

The Huang family seized a large number of Xiyi warships and merchant ships. Of course, many books of all kinds were seized along with the ship, including reference books, philosophy, astronomy, and other scientific and technological books. And other tools are almost everything.

Huang Sheng comes from modern times, but he has never looked down on the Westerners who were in charge of the wind and rain in the age of great voyages. All Western reference books have been translated, and all tools and positioning and measurement methods different from Ming Dynasty have to understand the theoretical basis and record them in words.

In this way, the ever-improving Huang Family Naval Exercise Code is of course learning from others' strengths.

The more than 50 people who volunteered to go to Liaodong to participate in the war last year have all been freed. Each of them has received no less than [-] taels of silver. Bring your mouth to "Huaxia Island" to settle down.

Most of these people became black heavy soldiers who took one or two or four silver coins for a month, and hundreds of them became the first auxiliary soldiers and armored carriage drivers who took one or two or eight silver coins.

The news that they became free citizens of the Huang family made others who were still reforming through labor envious, including more than [-] people who had been treated as traitors in reforming through labor.

I heard that the Huang family was going to recruit laborers to go to the south with the army, and all the reform-through-labor prisoners signed up for selection. More than [-] Koreans also clamored to join the war, and many of them even bit their index fingers and wrote blood letters to show their loyalty.

The hearts of the people are available, and of course Huang Sheng will not refuse anyone who comes, and he is ready to take them all to Annan to expand the soil. Naturally, too many people will fill their vacant labor positions.Because after the capture of Dai Viet, too many people in the Le Dynasty who refused to surrender would be sent here for labor reform.

The master came to "Huaxia Island" to guide the work. Zhao Rui was the happiest. She was as happy as a little girl every day. Her daughter Huang Xin was three years old and she was not naughty at all. She might have been educated by Zhao Rui's feudal remnants based on female taming and female precepts. Toxic.

Zhao Rui has only one hope now, she wants to give birth to a son for the master, so of course she seizes the rare opportunity to monopolize her favor.

Huang Sheng took his daughter and concubine on his arm and strolled through Huaxia City. The main building here has been completed, row upon row of small buildings, the wide and clean stone streets are bustling with people, and the voices of shop assistants on the street can be heard endlessly.

This city already has 10,000+ permanent residents, and the entire "Huaxia Island" has no less than 35 residents, not all of whom are from the Huang family, and there are many merchants who have settled from outside.

Of course, there are mostly Ming people, and there are also Westerners, Orientals, and Luzons. The number is as many as [-] to [-], but there are almost no Koreans.

This time, with [-] Korean laborers whose freedom was restricted, they went to Annan to expand the soil. It is unknown that the Koreans on "Huaxia Island" may become the smallest minority.

Huang Sheng took a close look at his first overseas territory, and realized that this free trade island with a unique geographical location has a bright future. He told his concubine Zhao Rui to free his mind and accept all rivers and rivers. As long as they do not carry weapons, merchant ships are allowed to enter the port. trading.

As long as taxes are paid according to the regulations, the legitimate rights and interests of merchants must be protected regardless of nationality. Of course, those who dare to violate the laws of the Huang family will not tolerate them and will be severely punished.

The merchant tax of "Huaxia Island" also copied the European Scandinavian tax collection method. The tax paid by merchant ships depends on the width of the deck. There are too many European merchants and sailors captured by the Huang family, and the tax rates of the ports of various countries have been completely arranged. Chu.

In order to stimulate trade, the tariff on "Huaxia Island" is half of the average value of other countries. Paid services for repairing ships can also be provided here, and everything is needed for supplies.

Zhao Rui is in fact the highest civil officer of "Huaxia Island", and no one refuses to accept it.

Not only her patriarch's concubine status, but too many civil officials and military officers are her students. This is the benefit of Huang Sheng asking all the literate women to help teach Jia Ding to read because there are too few scholars at the beginning.

The Han people respect their teachers and teach them the most. It is said that one day a teacher will be a father for life. Of course, Zhao Rui's status is outstanding.

Huang Sheng naturally lived in Mr. Xinhai's mansion in "Huaxia Island". Li Guozhu, this Mr. Xinhai, felt very conscious. He never came to "Huaxia Island" after the last military parade. King's mind.

He is now colluding with the Dutch to deal with Japan's Satsuma domain. Peter Nuiz, the Dutch Taiwan governor, was not sentenced to dismissal as in history, but continued to be the Taiwan governor.

This is entirely because Peter Nuiz got the trade treaty signed with Huang Sheng, which made the Dutch East India Company huge profits.

And because the parties involved in the Hamada Yahei incident were all beheaded by Huang Sheng by mistake, the Netherlands did not have the result of the protracted peace talks with the Japanese shogunate.

The trade of the East India Company in Japan was restricted by the Japanese shogunate, and too many businessmen were expelled. Peter Nuiz had an old grievance with Japan and added a new one. He hit it off with the Chinese captain Li Guozhu and agreed to attack the actual control of the Satsuma domain of several islands.

The Dutch wanted to take the Ryukyu Islands and Osumi Islands, the territory of the Satsuma Domain, so as to control the routes here and achieve the strategic goal of controlling Japan's trade.

Li Guozhu wanted to get Hirado Island, the territory of the Hirado Clan. If he could do his best and didn't mind taking the Five Islands, his goal was to crack the soil and seal the king. This was completely stimulated by Huang Sheng's operation to seize Jeju Island.

Li Guozhu fantasizes about running a large island like the Huang family, and becoming the owner of the island for generations.

Huang Sheng met Li Guozhu's messenger and was very happy to see his ambition, so he immediately expressed his strong support.

This is not just in words, because Li Guozhu is a real ally, and helping him capture Hirado Island and the Goto Islands is of great benefit to him.

Huang's flintlock rifles have become an industrial product manufactured on an assembly line, and the processing speed of parts has been improved, but it is limited to the bottleneck of the rifled barrel, resulting in excess production capacity of other parts except the barrel.

(End of this chapter)