Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 477 Food, a lot of food!

It's no wonder Xiaobao is making such a fuss. Looking around, there are really countless ships on the sea. The shadows of sails have become a large piece, which stretches for at least a few miles. Standing on the mountain southwest of Zeelandia City, use a special telescope Can't even see the side at a glance.

It would not be surprising if this was a Dutch warship that the East India Company came to retaliate against. The problem is that almost all of these ships have straight and stiff sails. Small boats, the largest of which are only more than 30 meters long. In this era, only Eastern ships have this shape. , known as the Junker Ship by Westerners.

In the South China Sea, the biggest pirate leader is Zheng Zhilong, and there are too many ships like this in his hands. The problem is that the Zheng Group is now an ally, and Yingtian's company production base has provided him with a large number of cheap goods. Recently, Zheng Zhilong is considering buying shares The firm has also become one of the shareholders, and Zheng Zhilong's eldest son, Zheng Sen, is still here. After his identification, this banner does not belong to the Zheng family.

The huge mysterious fleet also seemed to be quite afraid. Seeing the warships of the Qihuo Army patrolling the open sea, they broke down and stopped, and confronted the two squadrons of Kunpeng and Canghai in the outer encirclement.

Today is the first cannon cast in the local area. If these guys attack, Song Qingshu is really a little caught off guard. After staring at it for a while, he has to make two preparations. The teacher came to support, and the Ming man went to He Bin to come over and negotiate with the other side to find out.

At this time, a ready-made negotiator came over.

"Your Excellency, General Ming, I protest to you on behalf of the Dutch East India Company! Sir Robert, Mr. Duncan, and Commissioner John are all gentlemen, nobles, and high-class people in our country. Your forced labor on them is against humanity!"

"Hmph, how many local princes and dignitaries in the East India Company conquered the colonies, didn't you kill them as soon as you said? It's inhumane when it's your turn? If the city of Zeelandia doesn't surrender for a day, they will have to give it to Japan. Keep it cool!"

Feeling irritable all over, Song Qingshu threw Kwai Yi, the former leader of Chixian City, aside without even thinking about it, replied angrily, and picked up the binoculars again, but Kwai Yi didn't leave. The old major with a big beard also raised his eyes to watch the past. After two glances, the old guy muttered an unclear sentence in Chinese.

"It seems to be the fleet of Annan's Guan Yun Chao Phraya."

"you recognize?"

Song Qingshu immediately turned around in shock, but to say that he was indeed from the East India Company, Kui Yi, an old guy, immediately shook his red beard: "Your Excellency, please stop enslaving our gentlemen immediately! Otherwise, don't even think about getting anything from me." Any information!"

And let this old guy make a move. Zheng Sen next to him is worthy of being the eldest son of a pirate, and he threatened him with a knife without even thinking about it. However, Song Qingshu is a real businessman now, so he pushed Zheng Sen back calmly, and immediately Actually showed a smile.

"Okay, I can agree to this, but if your information is worthless! Hehe~"

Hehe, Song Qingshu didn't say anything, but Kuiyi knew it in his heart.

The home court returned to the edge of the port again. Kui Yi seemed very confident. He opened his mouth and asked for another boat. Seeing the back of Kui Yi who was paddling out of the Dutch military uniform with two beggar soldiers, Zheng Sen was still a little unwilling. Muttering, but watching with arms folded, Song Qingshu nodded confidently.

"Kuiyi is also from a noble family in the Netherlands. If he dares to bully us, he will send those Dutch nobles back with one arm chopped off, and see how his family can survive in the aristocratic circle?"

Hearing this, Zheng Sen was speechless. If he wanted to say that he was really black-hearted, he was a businessman, and he was much more ruthless than the pirates.

Kuiyi went there for almost half an hour, not to mention, that huge fleet actually followed the pilot ship of the Qihuo Army and bypassed the range of the cannons of Zeelandia City, entered the Neijiang River from the excavated Luermen Channel, and put it down. sail, and at the same time lower the landing ladder to the port.

Amidst the sound of clattering footsteps, thousands of infantry soldiers of the beggar army ran over from all directions with their rifles in hand. Their black muzzles were pointed at the port. Seeing the murderous appearance, the few Annan people who had just landed in an instant Cold sweat broke out on the back.

"Don't shoot! It's not a pirate! It's a merchant!"

At the front, Kui Yi was also pretending to be big, raising his hands and yelling loudly in his battered Nanjing Mandarin.

Looking at it, it really doesn't look like they are looking for trouble. After all, no one can send a fat man with eight red and sapphire rings on his hands, a few kilograms of gold and silver jewelry on his body, and a weight of more than 200 kilograms. Even if he really came to fight It's not called fighting, but sending meat.

But even so, Song Qingshu didn't relax, tilted his head, and Song Yongzhong led the front-running army and ran up quickly in strides, and went up one by one along the ladder where several Annan people disembarked. After many hours, when Song Qingshu, Zheng Sen and others were getting impatient, Song Yongzhong personally pushed and pushed a large group of captains, and the first officer came down from the landing ladder again.

"Back to Commander, there are 86 ships in total, with about [-] sailors, [-] cannons, and all the ships are loaded with food!"

At the beginning, Song Qingshu still had no expression on his face, but the last sentence made him suddenly change color and yelled inconceivably.

"What? It's all food?"

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Annan is Vietnam, the monkeys who are always thinking about the South China Sea in later generations, but this place, which is bigger than the palm, is a land of grain production. The hot climate can be cultivated in three rounds. The rice output of later generations in China is more than 3000 million tons. Here There are more than 500 million tons of rice, and a province the size of a place produces a lot more rice than one-third of China.

Now Song Qingshu is facing the strong production directly. A ship can hold up to 86 tons, at least 6 tons, [-] ships, a total of about [-] tons of grain, and more than [-] tons of rice. The warehouses are piled up with flowers, and this is only a small half of the output of a head family's farmland.

That's enough to feed a million people for two months.

What makes Song Qingshu even more excited is that in the past few years, his fleet has been traveling thousands of miles to Annan and Siam, looking for local Chinese to buy and sell pieces, but this is the first time someone has delivered the rice to the door, although the rice is not sold Instead, the trade agreement originally signed with the East India Company was transferred to the Batavia headquarters through Taiwan, but it can still be let out by Song Qingshushou.

After experiencing a false alarm, this Guan Yun Chao Phraya received the warmest welcome in the begging army. Song Qingshu personally held a ceremony for him in the original Chihan City Dutch Governor's Mansion, now in the Xincheng Mansion Hall. At the reception, in order to prevent this guy from being too lonely, he even let the Dutch nobles mentioned by Kui Yi go, and let them come to accompany him, but the banquet format was a typical Chinese banquet, with one person and one big table.

It is estimated that this is also the most exciting day for Guan Yun Chao Phraya, an international friend from the South China Sea. Although he has never seen pirates, he was indeed frightened by thousands of guns pointed at his head as soon as he got off the boat. Son Song Qingshu was so enthusiastic again, which actually made the monkey from the South China Sea feel uneasy.

Halfway through the wine, this guy was the first to congratulate Song Qingshu with his fists in his guilty conscience: "The little people of Huawai didn't know that the general of the Celestial Dynasty took back the land that was seized by the Red-haired Fan, and felt deeply guilty. Now, these rice are used as a gift and given to the general Let's do it! To show the little people's heart to the heaven!"

The signboard of Daming is really good, but having said that, the people of Annan really feel that they have lowered their heads towards Daming. During the Yongle period, Ming Chengzu once sent troops to take advantage of the civil strife in Annan to occupy it, and ruled here for more than 80 years. Unfortunately, because The corruption of officials in the Ming Dynasty did not take hold, but even so, after the Ming army retreated, Annan was still a territory of the Ming Dynasty in name, and the king was not allowed to be king, and Annan was appointed as the governor.

However, Guan Yunchao Phraya was not sincere, but was really frightened. The food had been transported to the warehouse of the Ming army. With more than 1000 rifles pointed at him, would he still dare to take it?

Seeing the sad look on this guy's face, Song Qingshu felt his cheeks hurt, and he didn't want to make a one-shot deal, so he stretched out his hand to block Zhang Huangyan's push, and said with a smile: "You are welcome, Zhao Phraya, our army Food is indeed needed, but how can the kingdom of heaven take things from people for nothing? In this way, I will pay as much as the Dutch pay for it, and Chao Phraya will pay for it!"

And this good thing?The big fat man covered in gold, silver and treasure was really stunned for a moment, and then he rubbed his fingers carefully.

"The Dutch give one silver coin for a load of grain, 86 ships with [-] loads of grain, a total of [-] Dutch silver coins! That's it!"

He took out a small silver coin with a picture of a red-haired fan imprinted on it. He took it out and weighed it in his hand. Taking a breath, Zhang Huangyan yelled in disbelief.

"Tell me, how much is the total?"

Thinking it was going to be too much, the rich man in Annan hurriedly waved the big gold ring in his hands again, and his chubby face was dripping with fat.

"General Tianchao, as much as you say, as much as you want!"

Looking at the silver coin, Song Qingshu's eyes also straightened, not too much, but too little!
A Dutch guilder only weighs about two or three renminbi, excluding other miscellaneous metals inside, the total price is estimated to be only one and a half to two renminbi, which is equivalent to two hundred copper coins, but a load of rice has already risen to three in the Jiangnan market. Two, and in some places, the price difference has even risen to forty-two or forty times!Even if Shi Lang purchased and transshipped along the coast, the cost would be five or six hundred cash a load, and the quantity and quality were not reliable.

And what era is it now?At the end of tomorrow!Little Ice Age!Great famine!What is human heart, food is human heart, its value is no longer as simple as measured by money.

"No, that's the price! But I want more than just this food!"

"Oh? The general of the Celestial Dynasty still needs rice? How much?"

This time the Dutchman was done playing, so he thought that this source of income would be gone. Hearing what Song Qingshu said, Guan Yunzhao Phraya's round eyes suddenly shone again, but Song Qingshu slapped the table.

"As much as you want!"

(End of this chapter)