parentshiftbook Chapter 880: Sweet Deal, Rapidly Developing Three Parties [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
Chapter 880: Sweet Deal, Rapidly Developing Three Parties [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
Time passes by in the blink of an eye from the first year of Shengping (1390) to the summer of the third year of Shengping (1392).
In the past two and a half years, nothing particularly big happened in Ming Dynasty either domestically or abroad.
The North American continent where Jin King Zhu Fan is located, and the Oceania and Australia continent where Qi King Zhu Shu is located, have developed over the past two and a half years.
Each of them has initially established a firm foothold and built a capital city that is generally not inferior to Yingtian Mansion.
And they have gradually become self-sufficient. Even if there is no material support from the Ming Dynasty in the future, they can still feed the millions of people in their respective fiefdoms just by relying on their own output.
The ability of Jin King Zhu Fan and Qi King Zhu Shu to achieve this step was naturally inseparable from the material support given to them by the Ming Dynasty in the past two years.
In addition to the initial immigration, the Ming Dynasty sent a large number of naval fleet ships to help transport daily necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.
In the next two years, Ming Dynasty also continuously transported various daily necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation to North America, Oceania and Australia.
Otherwise, without such strong material support from the Ming Dynasty, Jin King Zhu Fan and Qi King Zhu Bo would not have been able to build a tall capital city that was not inferior to Yingtian Mansion in just two and a half years.
Of course, Ming Dynasty was not completely without gains.
Except in the first year, King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Shu of Qi had not yet established a firm foothold, and the collective situation in North America and Oceania and Australia had not yet been clearly explored.
Therefore, the naval fleet responsible for transporting supplies could only load some spices from the Spice Islands when returning.
By the second year, King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Shu of Qi had gained a firm foothold, and had a more in-depth exploration and understanding of their part of the continent.
Jin King Zhu Fan and Qi King Zhu Shu began to use materials that they could not use temporarily as rewards for the Ming Dynasty.
For example, when it comes to gold, it goes without saying that Oceania and Australia, where King Zhu Shu of Qi is located, was the third gold exporting country in Yan Changqing's previous life. The storage capacity of gold mines is much greater than that of the previous Japanese country.
There are only two places with more gold than Oceania and Australia where King Zhu Zhu of Qi lived. North America, where King Zhu Fan of Jin happened to live, is one of them. It was the second largest gold exporter in Yan Changqing's previous life. nation.
The number one gold exporting country is South Africa, a country in the southern African region.
But at present, King Zhou Zhu and his descendants are still young and have no plans to immigrate to Africa for the time being, so no one has occupied South Africa for the time being.
Therefore, if anyone in the world has the most gold on their territory, then it must be North America and Oceania and Australia where King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Shu of Qi are respectively located.
Gold may be very precious in the Ming Dynasty, but that is not necessarily the case in North America, Oceania and Australia.
After all, the reason gold is precious in the Ming Dynasty is because gold is linked to countless high-value items.
And you can exchange gold for other high-value items at any time, so gold will become the hard currency of the Ming Dynasty.
But it is different in North America, Oceania and Australia. North America, Oceania and Australia are in the Yuanshi social tribe stage.
At this stage of Yuanshi society and tribe, those indigenous people cannot even guarantee the most basic guarantee of food, clothing and clothing, let alone link gold with other daily necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.
In this case, the so-called gold is just a good-looking stone for decoration to the indigenous people.
King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Su of Qi might not be willing to use gold in exchange for daily necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation in the hands of their respective local indigenous people.
But if King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Su of Qi are willing to exchange the daily necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation produced by the Ming Dynasty for the gold in the hands of the natives, then the natives will most likely be willing.
In addition, King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Shu of Qi had just immigrated to North America, Oceania and Australia, and the output within the fiefdom was not even enough to feed the millions of people under their rule.
Under such circumstances, let alone linking precious metals such as gold with other high-value items, or with other daily necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.
So in a sense, for Jin King Zhu Fan and Qi King Zhu Su, gold at this time was actually no different from a pile of beautiful yellow stones.
This is also the problem that King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Shu of Qi encountered when they immigrated to other continents overseas. That is, there is no money under their rule [or in other words, there is gold, silver, jade, gems, etc. worth a lot of money under their rule. Compared with Valuable items for Ming Dynasty.
But the "money" represented by these valuables cannot be converted into the daily necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation they need!
To put it bluntly, gold cannot be eaten as food!
It's such a simple truth.
Therefore, after realizing this problem, King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Bo of Qi also paid attention to the first chapter of "Dragon Slaying Skills: The Second Core of [Money and Profit]" once taught by Yan Changqing.
-The Origin and Essence of Money", and gained a deeper understanding.
Fortunately, although these gold, silver, jade, and gemstones are not of much use in North America, Oceania, and Australia, they will be of great use in the Ming Dynasty.
After all, the gold, silver and other precious metals in the Ming Dynasty have become less and less after being buried with emperors, princes, ministers and wealthy families in the past dynasties.
Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has always had the problem of gold and silver shortages.
This is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to use Ming Dynasty currency notes after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It was not that Zhu Yuanzhang really liked using banknotes.
But the Ming Dynasty, which had just founded the country at that time, was really poor. If it wanted to use gold and silver as currency, it could not find so much gold and silver.
This is the same situation as when Liu Bang founded the country, the emperor could not find a few horses of the same color.
This is how the Ming Dynasty's shortage of gold and silver was initially alleviated after the Japanese expedition to the east and the Jinshan and Silver Mountains of the Japanese were found.
But even if the gold and silver from the original Japanese country flowed in, it does not mean that Ming Dynasty looked down on gold, silver and other precious metals from North America, Oceania and Australia.
Daming still liked precious metals such as gold and silver very much.
After all, even if the princes, nobles and wealthy gentry of the Ming Dynasty had gold and silver, they also liked to use gold and silver for burials.
So one is short of gold and silver, and the other two are temporarily unable to use gold and silver, so they hit it off immediately.
The Ming Dynasty transported as much daily necessities as food, clothing, housing and transportation to Jin King Zhu Fan and Qi King Zhu Shu, and Jin King Zhu Fan and Qi King Zhu Shu returned to the Ming Dynasty a certain amount of gold or silver of the same value or super value.
Under such circumstances, Ming Dynasty dumped its overproduced low-end daily necessities to Jin Wang Zhu Fan and Qi Wang Zhu Zhu, and Jin Wang Zhu Fan and Qi Wang Zhu Zhu exchanged gold and silver that they could not use temporarily to Ming dynasty.
Both parties are satisfied with the deal.
This is why the ministers in the DPRK had no objections to the Ming Dynasty's continuous transportation of hundreds of thousands of ships of supplies to King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Su of Qi.
After all, in the eyes of the ministers of the DPRK and China, this kind of transaction was taken advantage of by the Ming Dynasty, and they had no choice but to continue this kind of transaction.
In addition to the most common gold and silver, North America and Oceania and Australia, where King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Bo of Qi were respectively located, also had many native animals and plants that were not found in the Ming Dynasty and played a very huge role.
For example, cotton was grown in ancient China from African cotton in Africa and Asian cotton in India.
These two kinds of cotton fibers are thick and hard, short in length, not white enough, have little mercerization, and have low yields. They were eliminated in Yan Changqing's previous life, and were replaced by fine-staple cotton and long-staple cotton native to the Americas.
The fiber length and fineness of fine velvet cotton in America are moderate. The cotton is white or milky white, with a mercerized finish and high yield. It is the cotton with the highest yield in the world, accounting for 85%. It is also the most important cultivated cotton species in Yan Changqing's previous country. .
Long-staple cotton is the highest-grade cotton. The fiber is not only long, but also thin and soft. It is white or light yellow in color and rich in mercerization. However, it is more selective in the place where it is grown. "In Yan Changqing's previous life, it was only grown in parts of Xinjiang.
Bringing cotton seeds from the Americas back to the Ming Dynasty will undoubtedly bring the cotton cultivation of the Ming Dynasty to a higher level.
In addition, there is rubber that is most important to Yan Changqing!
Rubber is a crop with very high economic value. It not only has excellent wear resistance and long life, but also has good elasticity.
At the same time, it is also one of the most indispensable substances in modern life in Yan Changqing's previous life, playing a role in various aspects such as industry, national defense, transportation, medicine and health, and daily life.
For example, rubber pipes can be used to collect and transport water, air and other substances.
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Another example is rubber tires, which can absorb a lot of vibration energy and help vehicles drive smoothly. Even in ancient times with backward production technology, they were still effective.
Another example is the steam engine that Yan Changqing has been trying to make by hand in the past few years. Even the internal combustion engine also requires rubber.
This does not mean that if you want to make a steam engine, an internal combustion engine must have rubber.
But if you want to really promote the production of steam engines and internal combustion engines on a large scale, then you really can’t do it without rubber!
Because whether it is the airtightness of the cylinder, or the airtightness of the fuel tank or water tank, rubber plays an important role, even a decisive role.
This is evident from the development of rubber into one of Yan Changqing's strategic materials in his previous life.
In Yan Changqing's previous life, he began to introduce rubber in 1904, but the actual production of rubber only began in 1952, and the annual output that year was only 0,400 tons.
But in Yan Changqing's previous life, an ordinary truck required 240 kilograms of rubber, and a 35,000-ton warship required 68 tons of rubber.
One can imagine how low rubber production was at that time.
Therefore, in 1952, the slogan "One seed is one tael of gold" was even proposed, with the purpose of expanding rubber planting and thereby increasing rubber production.
However, the ecological habits of rubber are very picky, and it could not be grown in many places in the country in Yan Changqing's previous life.
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Only some areas in Hainan, Yunnan, Fujian, and Guangdong and Guangxi can plant rubber trees.
In the past two years, Yan Changqing finally obtained rubber tree seeds through transactions with Jin Wang Zhu Fan.
In the past few years when the Ming Dynasty Navy fleet went to North America to explore, they could not find the rubber trees that Yan Changqing wanted.
After all, the main task of the Ming Navy in the past few years was to determine the route from the Ming Dynasty to North America.
Therefore, after the Ming Navy basically arrived in North America, they just searched the area near the shore and did not really explore deep into North America. Naturally, they could not find rubber trees.
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That is to say, Jin King Zhu Fan immigrated to North America. After initially settling in North America, he explored and found the rubber tree mentioned by Yan Changqing, and then asked the Ming Navy ships to transport supplies later.
The team brought back the rubber tree species Yan Changqing needed.
After Yan Changqing obtained the rubber tree seeds, he immediately asked students from Wanmin Agricultural College to start cultivating them in Hainan, Yunnan, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi and other areas.
Plant rubber trees.
However, it is probably a long way off for the time being for the rubber trees in Daming to be self-sufficient.
Even the country in Yan Changqing's previous life took nearly a hundred years to slowly complete the process from introduction to actual production and then to becoming a major rubber producer.
Therefore, Yan Changqing feels that in his lifetime, he will probably not be able to achieve self-sufficiency in rubber production in Daming.
Rather than hoping that the Ming Dynasty could produce its own rubber, it would be better to write two more letters to Jin Wang Zhu Fan and ask him to transport more natural rubber back to the Ming Dynasty.
At least with the shiploads of rubber being shipped back, Yan Changqing and a group of scientists from the Wanmin Academy of Sciences have already built several simple steam engines by hand.
And a crude train was built, which was able to travel continuously for 20 kilometers on the experimental railway track.
Although the cylinder exploded on the spot afterwards, it was not a big problem.
For an epoch-making invention, the most difficult thing is to go from zero to three.
After it appears, it is not that difficult to increase it from one to ten, provided that there are enough manpower, material resources and other materials.
In addition to rubber, other native animals, livestock, and plant medicines from North America or Oceania and Australia also played a great role in the Ming Dynasty.
So from the current point of view, the Ming Dynasty, Jin Wang Zhu Fan, and Qi Wang Zhu Bo are all in a sweet trading period.
As for whether there will be psychological imbalance, conflict, or even war due to these transactions in the future, it probably depends on the third generation successors of the three parties, or
This is the idea of the fourth generation successor.
But currently, at least the three parties are developing rapidly because of such a transaction.
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