Wanli 1592

Chapter 488 Galleon Trade

King Hendry of Luzon is a carefully selected hedonist. At present, he only needs to be obedient and enjoy, and nothing else is important.

When Hendry is dead, there will be a second and third Hendry. Xiao Ruxun can appoint him at will, and he can be sealed or abolished if he wants to. You can't give him the fetters of his family, otherwise he will inevitably have a different heart.

Hendry himself is very aware of his situation. He was originally a poor man who came to Luzon to serve in the military because he was thinking of wealth and danger. I dare not even think about it.

Accompanied by dozens of beauties with exotic styles, singing and singing every night, I have long been reluctant to leave.

I don’t want anything, as long as I have a dreamy and wonderful life now, I just want to enjoy, I just want this kind of paradise.

Hendry is a very realistic realist hedonist. He only came here to have more money and women in the future. As for making contributions?
Sorry, can't think that far.

To be able to enjoy the life of a king, the treatment of a king, and the status of a king, this is something that I dare not even think about. As for who will manage this country——

Not important, not important at all.

His guards were carefully selected from the guards around Xiao Ruxun, and the missionaries taught them to speak Spanish in a short period of time. All the people Hendry came into contact with were Ming people, except for his "concubines" , all are Ming people, and all aspects of daily life are all handled by Daming.

Under such an arrangement, it can be guaranteed that Hendry will be a very well-behaved King of Luzon until his death.

As a result, the pressure on the "Prime Minister of Luzon" is very high, and a strong ability is needed to deal with the affairs here, maintain stability, maintain income, and maintain the balance between natives and Spanish missionaries.

Xiao Ruxun asked the missionaries to be divided into two parts, one part continued to preach and preach in the tribes of Liangmin natives, and the other part followed him back to Burma to prepare for the Burmese natives.

The Luzon Prime Minister can control no more than [-] troops, and a part of the army must be allocated to explore and discover other islands in the south, and to find more and richer mineral deposits. To be captured as a slave.

Xiao Ruxun even had the idea of ​​wanting to do the slave trade.

There are too many slaves captured, sometimes it is not a good thing. There are about 200 million to 300 million people in the entire Philippines. It is impossible to cooperate with him. There must be some who do not cooperate. It is good to count as one third, more than 100 Ten thousand, more than one million people, do you need so many slaves?Can you afford it?

Besides, there are still 300 million aborigines in Myanmar, and most of them will be slaves at that time, leaving a small part for personal use, most of them are burdens, it would be a pity to kill them, and they can be sold.

At this moment, the Europeans are playing triangular trade, reaching an agreement with African tribal chiefs and kingdom kings, exchanging money and firearms for these black slaves, and then selling them to the Americas that need population, in exchange for a large amount of profit, this profit The income directly promoted the development of these countries such as Spain and Britain.

The current overabundant slave population forced Xiao Ruxun to consider the possibility of the slave trade. He found some Spaniards and asked them about some of their country's trade operations in the Americas, and learned some details of the galleon trade from them.

Xiao Ruxun began to imagine that he could completely replace the Spaniards in the trade from Manila to Mexico and Latin America.

The Spaniards set off from Manila and carried enough Chinese and Japanese goods to sell in the Mexican and Latin American markets. In exchange for high profits, they expanded trade and continued to buy luxury goods from China.

The large amount of silver they plundered from the Americas flowed into China in this way, which promoted Zhang Juzheng's silver standard reform and laid a solid foundation for China to use silver as currency later. This is an opportunity to obtain a large amount of silver instead of looking for middlemen , it is better to do it yourself directly.

And unlike the Spaniards, the Spaniards need a large number of natives to work for them, and the last thing China lacks is population.

Xiao Ruxun was worried that there would be no place to free up a large amount of free land to accommodate the Chinese. Such a good thing happened from the sky, and the millions of aborigines in the Philippines and Myanmar instantly changed from a burden to a treasure.

He doesn't want this primitive accumulation of capital to be monopolized by Europe. Such a great opportunity, a time without moral condemnation, a time when there is no legal prohibition or even legal support, an era of the mainstream of the world, if you don't participate, then Just stupid.

Xiao Ruxun couldn't think of any reason not to participate.

Only trading luxury goods with Europe can certainly open up the European market, but the European market alone is not enough for him. Since it can also be used to open up the American market, why not do it?

Spain is now at the end of its battle. In Europe, there are Britain, France and the Netherlands to contain and hostile. Internally, there are Portuguese instability factors. Xiao Ruxun, a Spaniard, is not afraid at all.

The market share in the Americas, I accepted it bluntly.

Xiao Ruxun sent away the surrendered Spaniards and began to formulate a new galleon trade plan.

Not only to grab market share in Europe, but also in the Americas, to completely defeat the power of Spain and let the power of China replace it.

There are still many little-known inside stories about this period of galleon trade. As a country lacking gold and silver and other metals, China was able to realize the silver standard. The trade during this period really contributed.

As early as the 1680s, Chinese silk had threatened the sales of Spanish products in the Americas. In the early 1637th century, Mexicans wore silk more than cotton. By [-], the silk industry in Mexico used Ming Dynasty silk as raw material. The native Mexican silk was largely wiped out.

Peru, which is adjacent to Mexico, was also a huge market for Ming Dynasty silk. The price of Ming Dynasty silk in Peru was only one-third of the price of Spanish products.

Silk in the Ming Dynasty not only flooded the American market and seized the sales of Spanish silk in the Americas, but even went around half the world and was exported to Spain, directly destroying the silk production in Spain.

The high-quality and cheap goods of the Ming Dynasty were exported overseas to seize the local trade share of other countries, and even destroy local production in Europe. If this kind of bug-like sales operation is directly controlled by the Chinese, it will destroy local businesses in other parts of the world. Power will be multiplied.

Xiao Ruxun also sighed a little. Once upon a time, our products were high-quality products recognized by the whole world. They were sold all over the world and conquered cities and territories everywhere. Today, poor quality is still a shameful label that is difficult to get rid of for Chinese domestic products.

With this in mind, Xiao Ruxun became more determined to continue the Manila galleon trade.

(End of this chapter)