Zhu Yuanzhang: I Forbid The Sea, But The Sun Never Sets On The Sea

Chapter 71 The Beginning Of The Sea Empire* (Subscription)

Negotiations in the Sulu country soon ended.

For the three kings, this time is undoubtedly a big surprise. They only need to provide some slaves, which is enough to exchange for things that they could never think of before.

Naturally, there will be no hesitation in this regard.

The contract is here.

This is also the second “equality” treaty Zhu Bo signed with overseas.

The first natural island country.

And the second one is this Sulu country.

After signing the contract.

A large part of the whole of Luzon belongs to Ming, or more precisely to him.

At the same time, Daming will enjoy absolute privileges in the entire Sulu country.

The Sulu Kingdom will provide Zhu Bo with no less than 5,000 slaves every year, and Zhu Bo will give the Sulu Kingdom the authority to conduct transactions.

In later generations, this is not an equal contract by any means, but in this era, he is an equal contract, and for the three kings of the Sulu Kingdom, he seems to have made a lot of money.

As for how to get slaves.

It’s not easy.

There are other countries around, it’s really not good, there are savages in the mountains.

Just catching some is enough to exchange for salt, cloth, iron cavalry, etc. from Daming.

Such a good thing cannot be exchanged anywhere.

As for Sulu Kingdom’s thoughts, Zhu Bo naturally understood what was going on.

But he doesn’t care, there will always be people in this world who are bad people, and he doesn’t want to capture slaves himself, so he can only use proxy wars to obtain enough slaves like the Europeans.

And for these agents, this is also an unprecedented opportunity.

Seizing the opportunity is what his 22s need to focus on.

Soon the three kings returned to the Sulu country quickly, and then they began to clean up the slaves in a mighty manner.

They first cleaned up the domestic slaves.

There are also many slaves in the country.

So in three days the first trade started.

The country of Sulu exchanged about 3,000 slaves for a large amount of cloth and iron.

And Zhu Bo also harvested the first batch of slaves.

The mighty mining also kicked off immediately.

With these 3,000 slaves, plus the location of the pirates’ captives, the number is close to 8,000.

It is enough for early mining.

As for the latter.

I believe that the Sulu Congress will give him a steady stream of slaves.

And I believe that it will not be long before other countries will come to trade with him.

In this kind of transaction, Zhu Bo will only recognize slaves for the time being, and will not recognize others.

In this case, the number of slaves is absolutely nothing to worry about.

In fact it is.

In less than a month, a country next to Sulu came to the door.

In the end, Zhu Bo also agreed to the transaction, but the price was higher than that of Sulu.

And that small country eventually gave more than 2,000 slaves.

Afterwards, small countries came one after another.

Malacca has already established Zhu Bo of Lai Chengchi, and it is extremely simple to add it.

Trading can be said to be ongoing.

And mining has also kicked off.

A large number of slaves joined.

The whole of Luzon is in full swing every day.

A lot of gold was mined.

Zhu Bo’s value increased again at this moment.

By now, the silver mines in Japan and the gold in Luzon have been excavated in large quantities. For a time, the amount of gold in him even vaguely surpassed the collection speed of wood.

And every day is spreading in an explosive growth.

Iwami Ginzan, after nearly a year of excavation, has begun to show its maximum output value.

The number of golden units that can be provided to him in one day is already around 10,000.

On the Luzon side, in less than a month, the number of units that can be provided is about 2,000. I believe that it will not be long before the Luzon side breaks through 5,000. It may not be a problem.

In this way, the golden units that can be given to him in just two places a year can reach more than 500,000,

This is undoubtedly a terrifying value.

Even if you need to provide some Mingming.

But it is only a few million taels, and it is only a drop in the bucket for this huge base.

By now, he doesn’t need to think about the issue of gold resources at all.

The only problem, perhaps, is the population left.

Compared to the 500,000 population required to upgrade in the Empire Age, the population required to enter the Post-Imperial Age needs to be more than 10 million.

It was ten times before, but this moment is straight, and it is twenty times.

This is undoubtedly a huge number.

Even if peasants make it, 50 units of a peasant and a population of 10 million will require more than 500 million food.

This is undoubtedly an astronomical value.

Not to mention the need to produce other arms.

And with a population of 10 million, even if it is based on the base that he can produce 50,000 people a month, 10 million will take a full two hundred months, which is nearly seventeen years. Although with the passage of time, his population The rate of growth will be faster and faster.

It can be imagined that without seven or eight years, it is basically impossible to upgrade to the post-imperial era.

within a short period of time.

Basically there is not much hope.

Fortunately, after entering the era of emperors.

In fact, it is enough for Zhu Bo.

All basic buildings are basically opened.

The only thing left is that Gunpowder Technology has not opened the curtain.

But in this era, at the end of the fourteenth century, whether the gunpowder is pulled is not as important as it seems.

With these now, it is enough for him to build a sea empire.

in Southeast Asia.

His figure is busy.

Under the manipulation of consciousness, farmers began to complete the construction and the construction of gathering places.

A large number of farmers are producing continuously.

As for the number of town centers, he increased it to four.

Among them, there is one in the Straits of Malacca, one in Luzon, and the other is the same big island next to Luzon.

With three more town centers, the speed of farmers’ production has undoubtedly increased a lot.

Although the increase in the number of people has not reached the level of seventy or eighty thousand, the number of people increasing every day has stabilized to the value of fifty thousand.

A large number of farmers were produced.

Then came the reclamation of farmland.

Nowadays, with a large number of people being produced, it is not enough to rely on Qiongzhou’s food alone.

After all, reality is not a game. Even the farmers who produce it cannot not consume grain, but work forever. In fact, farmers are consuming grain all the time.

The unit per day is basically about five units.

With a population of 500,000, plus hundreds of thousands of immigrants, the population under Zhu Bo’s rule now exceeds 600,000.

If the beauty consumes five units per day, this day, that is the consumption of three million food units, and a year, the consumption of 36 million units.

This is undoubtedly a terrifying value.

Even if he has enough farmland now, plus the harvest of fishing, the annual unit has exceeded 50 million units, but facing the consumption of 36 million units a year, if it is not Expansion is really unbearable.

After all, he is not just consumption.

System characters also need to be recruited.

But okay.

Now it has taken all of Southeast Asia.

The huge Southeast Asia is in his best forage.

A large number of farmers were created, followed by the cultivation of fertile fields, and large-scale fishing.

As the number of people increased, so did the amount of his food.

can be expected.

With the passing of Hongwu’s twenty-three years, his grain output will directly rise to a new level.

Once the entire Southeast Asia is fully developed by him, his food problem will not be a problem at all.

As the most famous grain-rich place in later generations, Southeast Asia has produced several times more grain than Tianzhu with less than half of the population of Tianzhu.

Today, with the system, even if the food production in Southeast Asia is somewhat different from the future, it is only half.

Not to mention supporting a country of tens of millions, even if it supports a country of 40 million, I am afraid there will not be too many problems.

So Zhu Bo is still very interested in this.

After all, whether it is his development, or to assist the development of Ming in the future, the importance of food is beyond doubt.

Compared with gold, food is what really needs the most attention.

Therefore, in Zhu Bo’s plan, in the next two to three years, he will almost only develop in Southeast Asia.

Until 2 has fully developed Southeast Asia, he will not consider the others.

As for Daming.

and his big brother.

Zhu Bo didn’t think about it that much at all, even if he would soon enter Hongwu for twenty-five years.

The same is true.

And in this kind of busyness, time passed quickly.

When the time passed by the last day of Hongwu’s twenty-fourth year.

Into Hongwu twenty-five years.

The whole of Southeast Asia, at least around the Strait of Malacca, has changed radically by this time.

The Daming flag was planted almost all around.

The Strait of Malacca has become a place of pilgrimage for all countries.

And there, for them, a giant city has been completely erected.

There is also a huge palace.

It was the castle built by Zhu Bo.

Entering the era of emperors, and now in Southeast Asia, he certainly doesn’t mind building a castle for himself.

The castle built by the system belongs to the Chinese style and is not too obtrusive.

And Zhu Bo also lived here temporarily.