To be honest, Marin thinks that such a life is super cool! Drinking rice wine and eating venison... Venison is a nourishing thing in future generations!
As for wine, Marin thinks that the cost of brewing yellow wine is still a bit high. The most suitable cost is beer, because 40 kilograms of barley can produce 100 liters of beer, that is, 200 kilograms of beer, and the yield ratio of grain to alcohol is 1 to 5.
As for rice wine, a pound of glutinous rice produces 4 pounds of rice wine, and the yield rate is 1 to 4, which is lower than beer. Moreover, the price of glutinous rice is much more expensive than barley. According to the price list given by Kong Tai, in the Ming Dynasty, a stone of glutinous rice is 1 tael of silver, which is much more expensive than ordinary rice. Barley is a cheap grain, and the price of one stone is only 0.5 taels of silver.
In this way, the cost of brewing beer with barley is much lower than that of brewing rice with rice wine. Of course, this requires some hops. Therefore, you also need to send some hops to brew beer. However, the amount of hops seems to be not large. Marin plans to grow hops in North American colonies, and then transport a batch of dried flowers to Taiwan for beer brewing. In this way, local colonial troops and indigenous soldiers on Taiwan can drink low-cost beer. If you use ice cubes made from cheap saltpeter purchased from the Ming Dynasty, don't be too cool...
Of course, professional matters have to be left to professionals. So, Marin decided to send two brewers who are good at using barley to brew beer to Taiwan, and serve under Kong Tai, helping to use hops transported from North America to buy cheap barley purchased from the Ming Dynasty to brew cheap beer for indigenous warriors. And, he taught a group of Ming Dynasty brewers to learn to brew beer. After all, Ming Dynasty craftsmen were cheap...
Marin didn't know that because of his intention to save money, beer appeared in China hundreds of years in advance. Moreover, the method of drinking cold beer in the summer quickly became popular in the circle of literary people in the Ming Dynasty and became a very fashionable way to drink. Of course, drinking this way is indeed very pleasant in summer...
Of course, these are secondary. Whether it is venison, rice wine or beer, they are methods used by Marin to attract indigenous soldiers to join the army.
Although these indigenous soldiers can hunt, they live a poor life due to lack of seasoning and poor technology. If they join Marin's army to go to the Philippines to fight, they can live a good life where they can drink and eat meat every day, which is very attractive.
Moreover, Malin planned to equip them with high-protection equipment such as rattan cards and rattan armor professionally created by Li Crook, which would be a complete blow to the natives of the Philippines.
Although the vine armor is afraid of fire, the indigenous people in the Philippines have never read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so naturally they don't know about the "fire-burning vine armor soldiers". Using elite indigenous soldiers to wear vine armor and hold rattan cards is definitely a complete defeat of the indigenous people in the Philippines.
When the Philippines was occupied, the resources there were also very enviable. Moreover, the population was also quite large.
The native Philippine people belong to the Malay race. Although these people are low in civilization, they are really capable of giving birth...
In later generations, the Philippines had a population of over 100 million, but it was very scary. You should know that the Philippines' land area is only less than 300,000 square kilometers, and most of it is mountains and hills. I don't know how to distribute the more than 100 million people...
I don’t know other places, but Marin knows that there seems to be a large plain area north of Manila, which is one of the main grain-producing areas on Luzon Island in the Philippines.
This plain is very large, with a size of more than 10,000 square kilometers, much larger than the Tainan Plain on Tai Island. Moreover, it seems that during the Yongle period in the early Ming Dynasty, Zheng He appointed Hu Jianren, a man named Xu Chailao as the governor of Luzon Island on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, responsible for managing the Chinese who immigrated here and leading them to reclaim land. It seems that the place where they reclaim land is here, near Manila.
The Ming Dynasty called this place the Luzon State, but in fact, at this time, only some indigenous tribes had not yet formed a country. The arrival of Chinese immigrants such as Xu Chailao guided the locals to farm and improve their productivity. It was probably in the mid-to-late 16th century that the local area formed a powerful local force and became a country. Unfortunately, the country was annexed by Spain shortly after its birth.
Of course, Marin would not sympathize with the Luzon State. Because this country had massacred Chinese immigrants during the Jiajing period and killed more than 25,000 people. Many people did not know this history and thought that the massacre of Chinese immigrants was the beginning of Spanish colonists. But in fact, as early as the Jiajing period, due to a political farce, the local indigenous kings massacred more than 20,000 Chinese. Spain had to wait until the Wanli period.
Therefore, Marin has no favoritism for these Filipino indigenous people. It is a very good idea to hire the alpine indigenous soldiers on Tai Island to conquer the local natives.
Although Luzon is behind, there are still hundreds of thousands of indigenous people. After all, indigenous people here can really live, otherwise the population will not exceed 100 million in the next life.
Thousands of Taidao Gaoshan natives wear rattan armor, hold rattan cards and swords, and it is still easy to defeat the local natives. After all, local natives are rare even metal. It seems that the local metal was smuggled from the Ming Dynasty, not many.
As long as thousands of alpine indigenous soldiers were mobilized to capture Manila and Luzon Central Plains, local indigenous people could be driven to help farm. The central plain of Luzon is more than 10,000 square kilometers, and hundreds of thousands of indigenous people are captured to farm, and the grain output will definitely be very high.
If you plant Chameng rice locally, it will be ripe three times a year, and you will definitely not be able to finish the food.
Moreover, there were many local Chinese immigrants. When the Luzon King massacred Chinese immigrants broke out in the 30th year of Jiajing (1551), the number of local Chinese immigrants had reached more than 30,000, which was the main force of local agriculture.
It is now 1516. Even if there are not more than 30,000 Chinese immigrants in the local area, there are still tens of thousands of people. Otherwise, Zheng He would not have appointed Xu Chai Lao as the governor of Luzon back then. It is obvious that the Chinese have a high economic status in the local area and are still the guides of local civilization.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! In addition, historical records show that it seems that the Luzon Kingdom has not yet been formed, and it will not take until Jiajing to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and then conflict will occur.
In other words, the Luzon State was not recorded and archived as a vassal state in the Ming Dynasty. Although Zheng He also brought a Luzon King to pay tribute during the Yongle period, he was just a small barbarian chief in the Manila area and could not be the Luzon King. Otherwise, Zheng He would not have appointed Xu Chailao as the governor of Luzon.
Obviously, even if Zheng He was as great as Zheng He, he would take a little barbarian chief to pay tribute near Manila just to create the illusion of prosperity of "all nations come to pay tribute". After all, the feudal Confucian dynasty liked to play this trick. Although Zhu Di, the Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, was decisive in killing, he was also a little happy with merit. Zheng He brought the "King of Luzon" back just to please Zhu Di, which was just a matter of making up the numbers, and the Ming court did not take it seriously.
Sure enough, after Zheng He stopped voyage to the West, there was no "Luzon" to pay tribute. Because, a country had not yet been formed here, and there were no ships to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty... It was not until the Jiajing period that the tribute began, which meant that a decent country had appeared at that time. But immediately, due to a farce, the two sides broke up...
In other words, it was fine to send troops to conquer Luzon at this time. Moreover, no Luzon native barbarian chief would go to the Ming Dynasty to file a complaint. Because Luzon had not paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, he had long lost the "organization" of the Ming Dynasty...
Marin planned to first send troops to occupy Manila and build cities based on the Bay of later generations. Then, he dispatched alpine soldiers to occupy the entire central Luzon plain and drove the locals to develop farming. The local Chinese could become the "agricultural technical mentors" of the locals and teach the locals to farm. Then, the central Luzon plain gradually became an important granary...
In addition, Marin will also send troops to occupy Cebu Island. Because there is a Toledo copper mine on Cebu Island, which was once the largest copper mine in Southeast Asia in history, producing tens of millions of tons of copper.
Moreover, this is a copper ore, and it also produces a small amount of gold. As for Toledo, it seems to be on the west coast of Cebu Island. As long as you remember where it is, you can send someone to survey it on the spot and find that large-scale copper ore. At that time, Marin will not have to develop the same frame in the deserts of Chile.
You should know that in the desert area of ​​Chile, freshwater supply is difficult and the population is sparse, so it is not suitable for developing copper mines. The Toledo copper mine on Cebu Island is different. It is located near the sea and transport is convenient. Moreover, it is very convenient to find miners. There are many natives in the local area, so at that time, you can just catch tens of thousands of people to mine in the mine...
Chapter completed!