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"He's scarier than a demon!"

The corner of Wang Zhi's mouth trembled violently a few times, "On the coast of Daming, my name is no different from that of a devil. However... I, a devil, can only run away from him."

"Who is he?"

The Governor of Spanish Duck asked curiously.

"His name is Lu Li, Marquis of Huating of the Great Ming Dynasty, General Hussars, Governor of Nanzhili and Governor of South China Sea."

When Wang Zhi said the name, his voice trembled a little.

"He once led [-] infantry and defeated [-] Tatar cavalry. He once led [-] destroyers and drove us here from the East China Sea."

"He is invincible! No one can stand against him."

Wang Zhi sighed, "Although he is my enemy, but... such a hero, I can't disrespect him."

"A marquis?"

The governor of the Spanish duck was full of admiration: "Amazing record, noble blood, this is a great commander."

Just as he was talking, dozens of warships rushing towards them with black smoke were already approaching the rear of the Japanese pirate fleet.

"Boom!"

A volley of dense artillery burst out, and the dozens of sailboats in the rear of the Japanese pirates were instantly blown to pieces.

"my Lord!"

The governor of the Spanish duck has been frightened.There is such a powerful warship in this world?

"That's why I ran away!"

Wang Zhi's face turned pale, and he quickly shouted: "Full sail, full speed ahead."

We pirates are not important in the eyes of Marquis Huating.He will definitely stop in Malacca and occupy this vital place.

As long as we escape the Straits of Malacca, we will be safe!

Chapter 4 and Ten

Wang Zhi's judgment was right.

Lu Li didn't mean to kill them all.After the destroyer fleet drove the Japanese pirates out of Malacca, they stopped chasing them.

Johor Port, which is later Singapore.This is the throat of the entire Strait of Malacca.

In this narrow waterway between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, there are also densely covered Riau Islands.

As long as a base is built here, a few forts are installed on both sides, and a fleet is placed, the sea route to the Far East has been cut off.

Of course, the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra are also the territory of Ming Dynasty.The aborigines here are all tribes, large and small, without the concept of a country at all.Plant a flag, saying that this is the territory of Ming Dynasty, and no one has any objection at all.

Lu Li boarded a destroyer and landed at Johor Port.

A brightly colored sun and moon banner was hoisted in the original Spanish Governor's Mansion, announcing that this place was officially included in the territory of Ming Dynasty.

The governor's mansion is well built, the stone European-style castle looks exotic.

It's just... After being ransacked by Japanese pirates, there shouldn't be anything left here.

Lu Li smiled and shook his head, but he didn't care.Grabbing things is secondary, taking up space is the key.

Walking to the gate of the Governor's Mansion, Lu Li suddenly stopped and found an unexpected harvest.

In the green belt outside the Governor's Mansion, a row of very special trees are planted.

This is... damn it!rubber tree!

Lu Li couldn't help laughing out loud, "This governor of the Spanish duck is really a good man. He actually brought all the rubber trees that originated in America?"

The value of rubber is simply inestimable.

With rubber, the sealing rings of various machinery and equipment can be solved.With rubber, tires can be manufactured.

With pneumatic tires, the significance to land transportation is simply immeasurable.

"Come on, hurry up and look around, how many trees of this kind are there? Be careful, this kind of tree is very valuable, and it is absolutely not allowed to cut it down."

Lu Li quickly gave orders to the guards next to him.

The guards hurriedly searched for rubber trees.After searching around the Governor's Mansion, the guards reported that a total of 35 rubber trees were found, of which only ten were taller than three meters tall, and the rest were small saplings.

Well, it's too early for rubber tires.

Lu Li shook his head, put aside the idea of ​​"soon to be able to drive", and walked into the Governor's Mansion.

"Grandpa, we found the warehouse of the Spanish Duckman, and there are a lot of coins in it."

Just after entering the Governor's Mansion, another soldier came to report.

coin?Spanish silver coins?

Lu Li also became interested, and followed the soldiers to the treasury next to the Governor's Mansion.

At this moment, there are countless supplies scattered around the treasury, apparently left over from the looting by Japanese pirates.

Walking into the warehouse, Lu Li saw hundreds of large boxes piled up in the warehouse, all of which were filled with shiny silver coins.

"My lord, there are at least 10,000+ taels of silver in here."

The soldier pointed to the silver coins in the warehouse and introduced them to Lu Li.

Hearing this, Lu Li was slightly taken aback.It's not because of 10,000+ taels of silver, but... Lu Li suddenly remembered that the currency of the Ming Dynasty was still in a mess!

The official currency of the Ming Dynasty was paper money, also known as Baochao.

It's just... Even the emperor doesn't recognize the value of the treasure notes, and no one regards the treasure notes as money.

The widely used currency is still silver and copper coins.

The currency reform of the Ming Dynasty is also imminent.A chaotic monetary system is not conducive to the development of industry and commerce.

It was not difficult for Lu Li to come up with a brand new currency.

The Nanyang Islands are rich in minerals, including gold mines, silver mines, and copper mines.Luzon has 4000 million tons of copper reserves and 6000 tons of gold reserves.Indy Papua has [-] million tons of copper reserves, [-] tons of silver reserves and [-] tons of gold reserves.

In addition, the Cochin Annan area has 12 billion tons of iron ore reserves, including 67 million tons of Shixi iron ore reserves, with an iron content of [-]%, and open-pit mining.

In the Nanyang mining field, there is great potential for iron, copper, gold, and silver smelting.

As for the manpower to mine the mines, there is no shortage at all. There are natives everywhere. As long as you give the tribal leaders some glassware and steel knives, you can recruit as many people as you want.

Zhang Juzheng was asked to carry out the currency reform of the Ming Dynasty.The Nanyang area... I have the final say!

Thus, Lu Li started a new plan.

This program is called "Show Your Wealth"!

Nanyang's resources are too rich, Lu Li can't occupy them all by himself, and there is absolutely no need to occupy them all by himself.

Just showing off the benefits that are ready-made, countless people from the Ming Dynasty who want to make a fortune can flock here.

With an order, the [-] troops who arrived in Nanyang immediately dispatched to start a large-scale search.

Two months later, Lu Li's transport fleet returned.

More than 300 transport ships are filled with special products from all over Nanyang, all kinds of precious wood, all kinds of ivory and rhinoceros horns, all kinds of coral clams, all kinds of pearls and gems, all kinds of gold, silver, copper and iron...

The mighty fleet of ships from Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Ningbo, Songjiang, Dengzhou all the way to Tianjin.

Every station deliberately stopped the ship and docked, and deliberately displayed all kinds of belongings to show off, until Jinmen landed, and when the goods were unloaded, the mountains of gold and silver treasures made countless people's eyes turn green.

Of course, deliberately promoting Nanyang's rich products and gold everywhere is also what it should be.

More than 300 transport ships unloaded a load of treasures.It took three consecutive days for the continuous convoy to transport these frighteningly large amounts of wealth into the capital.

The capital is a sensation!Crowded!

Countless people gathered outside the yamen of the household department to watch the cartloads of gold and silver treasures being sent into the treasury.

Of course, Emperor Jiajing's share of these wealth is indispensable.

"The Duke of Yue handed over property, including: 120 carts of silver, 350 carts of gold, 630 carts of copper, 58 carts of fine iron, three carts of pearls, four carts of precious stones, sixteen carts of beautiful jade, five carts of ivory, two carts of rhino horns, and four carts of coral. carts, five carts of giant clams, [-] carts of spices, and southern Jiamu...the Neiku wood yard was piled up."

Hearing the data read out by the eunuch Lu Fang, Emperor Jiajing's eyes widened.

The national treasury and the internal treasury...are both filled by Duke Yue?

Nanyang is full of gold?These gold and silver treasures can be picked up by bending down?

"Your Majesty, the Duke of Yue has sent you a secret package."

The chief eunuch, Lu Fang, handed over another secret letter from Lu Li.

Jiajing took a look at the secret booklet, and Lu Li said on the secret booklet that there are 6000 million tons of copper, [-] tons of silver, and [-] tons of gold on Jinzhou Island in the South China Sea.Lu Li also stated that one ton is two thousand catties.

In addition, all kinds of precious woods such as red sandalwood and golden nanmu, various spices, and pearls from the coast are everywhere.

Emperor Jiajing said shit!

Nanyang is so rich?mine!mine!All mine!

"Lu Fang, send people immediately, from Dongchang and Jinyiwei, go to Nanyang immediately, pick up the Yueguo bus, and dig mine for me quickly."

6000 million tons of copper, [-] tons of silver, and [-] tons of gold. With these things in hand, I don't need to ask the treasury for money!

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When Emperor Jiajing was dazzled by silver, the officials of the various ministries in the court were also dazzled by silver.

Nanyang... so fucking rich!

How could Duke Yue occupy such a cornucopia of places by himself?Everyone has a share!

Didn't Duke Yue send up all the maps of Nanyang?Didn't it mean that all of Nanyang is the territory of Ming Dynasty?Then... let's make a fortune together!

Zhang Juzheng took the opportunity to propose to set up state capitals in the Nanyang Islands and send officials to control the various places.

This suggestion was immediately unanimously approved by the court.

In addition to the official actions, the private actions are much bigger.

Family members with maritime merchants set sail immediately to enclose land in the Nanyang Islands and wantonly carve up the resources of Nanyang.

The common people are also full of interest in the gold-filled Nanyang, and they bring their own dry food and take sea ships to search for opportunities to make a fortune in various places in Nanyang.

All of a sudden, countless people from all over the Ming Dynasty poured into Nanyang, the shadows of sails on the sea were continuous, and the shadows of people on the island were crowded.

The great development of Nanyang in the Ming Dynasty officially kicked off.

Lu Li immediately built a mint in various bases in Nanyang.

The stamping machine driven by steam power is a coin at a time. The speed is extremely fast, and the coins are very exquisite.

Coins are divided into copper coins, silver coins and gold coins.The face value of copper coins is one penny, the face value of silver coins is one tael, and the face value of gold coins is the same.

Lu Li didn't put Jiajing's head on the pattern of the coins. This was to avoid some troubles. He directly used the banner of the sun and the moon, coupled with patterns such as the gate of the imperial palace and the Great Wall, to make a set of coins.

After the currency was produced, Lu Li directly ordered that the new currency be used in all parts of Nanyang, and gold and silver cannot be used as currency transactions.

Then there is a new institution-the bank.

As early as the beginning of the formation of the army, Lu Li began to popularize mathematics knowledge.This tradition has continued until now.

Now in Lu Li's 20 troops, every soldier has studied mathematics and knows how to calculate.For the time being, all the staff of the bank are filled by soldiers under his command.

In the Nanyang territory, no one dared to disobey Lu Li's orders.In less than a month, the countries in the Indochina Peninsula unified their currencies and fully used Lu Li's new currency.

As for the Nanyang Islands... the aborigines had no concept of currency, and the currency was mainly circulated among the Ming Dynasty people who traveled to and from Nanyang.As for the natives, as long as they know that this thing can be exchanged for goods, they will definitely accept currency.

In order to facilitate the flow of people, Lu Li asked Zhang Yuan to build a steam-powered large passenger ship, which was used to communicate with all parts of Nanyang and the inland of Ming Dynasty.

The time has come to the end of the 42nd year of Jiajing.

Over the past few months, the area around Nanyang was in full swing, and countless people from Daming who dreamed of getting rich had traveled all over the Nanyang islands.

Officials sent by the imperial court also arrived one after another, officially taking over the jurisdiction of the Nanyang Islands.

Lu Li didn't make things difficult at all, on the contrary, he was very cooperative.Except for a few military bases at key nodes, everything else was handed over to Ming officials.

At this point, the Nanyang Islands were officially incorporated into the territory of Ming Dynasty.

Lu Li's gaze also turned to the next place - Australia and Tianzhu.