Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 521 Spread
Song Qingshu was really generous once. This time, the East India Company promulgated tens of thousands of hectares of land in one go. Including family members, more than 5 people broke away from the farming household system and became manor owners who cultivated by themselves.

Looking at it this way, it seems to be a rather big blow to the West India Company, the newly emerging beggar army. However, most of these manor owners are established in undeveloped areas north of Zhuoshui Creek, and the vacated manors will be filled with people. Just go in, and even if you operate independently, the output still has to be sold to the West India Company. The guaranteed supply of goods will make you a profit, and it also saves a lot of administrative capital and expenses, no matter what.

In the age of great voyages, this kind of economic situation prevailed in North and South America. Others succeeded, but they lost money for no reason. Moreover, manor owners were undoubtedly more attentive in managing their own land. The speed of developing Taiwan in this way was also much faster. The more you earn, the more Song Qingshu earns. This is a virtuous circle.

Of course, for the reclamation households themselves, it is also profitable. Each year, the West India Company invests about 800 taels, including board and lodging tools and wages, and the first-hand products produced are worth more than 4000 taels. Operating on his own, these profits fall into the hands of the reclamation households. Yesterday they were poor and did not even have a foothold. Today, they have more than 170 mu and become landlords. Li Laobai became rich overnight.

Moreover, he has become a middle-level manager of the West India Company, with a high salary of 200 taels per year. This time, not only his stupid son Li Xiaohei will not worry about his wife, but Li Laobai even has hope for his wife.

Carrying a hoe, tens of thousands of days passed in a blink of an eye.

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"Wahhahaha, who am I, tsk tsk, this outfit looks like those gangsters, old man Li, aren't you afraid that someone will arrest your father and son?"

On the pier, this Li Laobai was teaching his son a lesson, when the other end laughed out loud, which made him tremble in fright, and when he turned his head, his eyes widened and he stared at it for a long time before he recognized it, and immediately gave him a disdainful look He patted his thigh and said with a sneer.

"Who am I, isn't it just old man Wu? Hey, he really looks like a dog. He even wears a robe and a melon skin hat, but no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a master, but looks like a liar at the entrance of our village. Blind Zhao."

"Don't worry about Blind Zhao and Blind Li, old man Wu is happy! My son has married a wife! Dressed up festively!" His face was full of smiles, and Mr. Wu deliberately stretched out his red gown full of Xi patterns. , the old face smiled like the old chrysanthemum, patted his bulging belly and smiled: "By the way, old Li, when will your son get married?"

Hearing this, Li Laobai's eyes almost burst into flames, his fists were creaking, and Li Xiaohei backed away guiltyly.

This month, their plantation has also been built, and there is almost no spare labor in the market. However, the leader of the mountain people was almost wiped out by Song Yongzhong. Even if Song Qingshu still did not cross the moral barrier, it is the same as the Westerners using black slaves Enslaved these alien races, but most of the mountain people who had no leader to be slaughtered were forced to move down the mountain, with a population of 10. Although many strong men died, they still provided a large amount of labor.

However, in order to help these earliest manor capitalists accumulate funds, the salaries of these people were kept low enough by the West India Company, just enough to keep them from starving to death. Zhao Mutou, a friend of Tongzhuangzi, was found, and he combined his 200 mu of land in his own manor. He was regarded as a small shareholder and executive director. Zhuangzi didn't dare to go, and the Tongzhuang brothers who didn't have land rewards maintained it. A total of [-] employees and more than [-] mu of decent plantations were built.

Immediately something happened that made Li Laobai uncomfortable. He was optimistic about Zhao Mutou's daughter. The two single old men had already discussed it. Now that they got their first month's salary, Li Laobai even had a dowry gift. It happened, but Li Xiaohei made a moth.

In the battle of Gaoliang River, Li Xiaohei rushed to the front with his thorny temper, causing a mountain man to almost have a concussion with a shovel, and he was hospitalized in the county hospital for several days.It's a good thing that people are fine, but he fell in love with the nurse who rescued him in the county hospital, and he was about to marry her, which made Li Laobai feel very embarrassed in front of Zhao Mugou, and the nurse didn't like him either. .

Almost all the nurses under Song Qingshu bought Yangzhou skinny horses. They can be regarded as educated young women in this era. On the one hand, they are not allowed to marry before their service period is over. The shareholders are at least educated scholars. Li Xiaohei can't read a lot of Chinese characters, so it's no wonder that the nurse is willing to marry him.

Before leaving for work, Li Laobai wanted to settle his son's marriage, so that he would feel at ease even if he was buried in the ground, but in the last few days, such a moth happened, and he was so angry that he didn't eat for several days After dinner, just now on the pier, Li Laobai was training his son there.

But looking at the complacent look of his old enemy Wu Laobai, how could Li Laobai give up, he raised the gentleman's round cap, and he straightened the skirt of the suit that was originally straight, looking like a big boss. , laughing and slapped Li Xiaohei on the head.

"My son is not afraid of being late for a good meal. He and Nurse Liu from the county hospital see each other right, but Nurse Liu is now working for the commander-in-chief and cannot marry within three years, so we can afford to wait!"

The intellectual youth is no doubt a class above the village girl, this bullshit also cheers up, mentioning Nurse Liu, Li Xiaohei even poked his head like a chicken pecking at rice, almost drooling That's right, these words really overwhelmed old man Wu, he hesitated for a while, and just now, old man Wu squeezed out a sneer again.

"Come on, who is Nurse Liu? A handsome person, who can read and write. If you want to marry, you have to marry a scholar. What kind of guy is your Xiaohei? You still want to marry someone!"

"Hey, what's wrong with my Xiao Hei? When something happened to our West India Company, my Xiao Hei went up with a knife and dared to fight for our commander. The commander personally met him, but it was someone who returned Yiwu's children. When the need arises, the father will come, and the son does not know where the cat is, tsk tsk."

At this time, old man Wu got himself into it. He also had selfish intentions. He kicked away a single seedling in his family. He was an old man who led his own Zhuangzi's children to beat the mountain people. Well, just because of this short family, Li Laobai was bragging about it, and he really believed it.

Fortunately, just when Mr. Wu was in a difficult situation, their former boss, Commercial Commissioner Cao, came, also wearing a black suit and a round cap, carrying this suitcase. To the two old men who had worked hard together, he Instead, he greeted him enthusiastically.

"Uncle Li, Uncle Wu, Brother Li, you came early enough!"

"Oh, Commissioner Cao!"

Usually, I am most afraid of his inspection. Two old men who are more than 100 years old and an uncle who is more than 30 years old bowed ninety degrees to the young Commissioner Cao. He quickly waved his hand helplessly.

"Uncle Li, Uncle Wu, you can't help it. Now that we are on the same level, we don't need these vain gifts. Otherwise, people should make irresponsible remarks to me. Now let's work together. You can call me Xiaocao or Cao Lie." !"

"Then, how about that, that, Cao, Cao Lie?"

"Hey, is that right!"

Smiling and slapping his thigh, Commissioner Cao took out his pocket watch to look at it again, and immediately clasped his fists again: "Uncle Li, Uncle Wu, Brother Li, it's still early, anyway, I bought a special cabin, we Just get on the boat first, I still have a lot of things to explain to you on board!"

With an annual salary of 200 taels, he is already a business specialist at the shopkeeper level. He was originally called a manager. If it weren’t for a later investigation, the manager is an official title in the imperial court. He was impeached by an old man, and Cao Lie’s position could still be called Cao. As for the manager, the commissioners at this level are generally old buddies who have worked in Jiaduobao for many years. It is the first time for the two newcomers, Li Laobai and Wu Dabangchui, who have been rewarded.

This time they were sent overseas, and the two old men were obviously quite nervous. They still carried the suitcase with a guilty conscience and followed Cao Lie's buttocks, and boarded the passenger ship moored on the Neijiang River.

Passenger ships are generally decommissioned by the navy. The one leading to Annan Kingdom was rebuilt from an early 50-meter-class warship in the navy. Half of the original gun bays were converted into passenger cabins, but half of them were left for Francophones. Cannon, after all, there are still some dangers at sea, and you may encounter pirates. The original cannon cabin window was opened, a table was placed in front of the window, and the lamp was lit. Cao Lie took out a lot of documents from the box and looked at them. With the densely packed small characters, the faces of Li Laobai and Wu Laobaichui suddenly turned pale.

Beside this passenger ship, an ancient Jumbo is also quietly lying in the sea. Following Cao Lie's instruction to the two, the workers on the port are like ants resisting boxes of goods one by one. to the boat.

After "falling in love and killing each other" with Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhilong's treasure ship technology was also distributed to Song Qingshu. The modified version of this big blessing ship is 200 meters long and 40 meters wide. More than half, the only advantage is that it can hold a full load of 1000 materials. After removing the ship building, it can hold more than [-] tons of cargo, which is definitely enough to support the Shanghai Giants.

The construction period of this thing is also very long. After occupying Taiwan, Song Qingshu had already ordered the construction. Now it has been more than a year, and more than 5 skilled workers have just built two, but the tenon joint method has been abandoned and the common parts have been replaced. The construction period is under the rush, but the effect of this thing is also obvious. Once Haidyu No. [-] and Haidyu No. [-] are released, they are directly equivalent to the capacity of a main fleet of [-] to [-] ships. .

After loading for five full days, the two Big Macs had just eaten their fill. Amidst the sound of roaring sirens, under the escort of three heavily armed Yingtian battleships, the two Big Macs swayed their huge bodies along the Roaring along the South Airway, it passed to the open sea.

This Taiwan has gained a firm foothold, and the bloodthirsty tentacles of the West India Company, a monster that can't eat enough, once again poked out in this concealed way, engulfing the next unaware prey...

(End of this chapter)