parentshiftbook Chapter 596: Zhu Biao, Whose Heart Was Bleeding, Saw Money Falling On The Ground, But Had No Energy
Chapter 596: Zhu Biao, Whose Heart Was Bleeding, Saw Money Falling On The Ground, But Had No Energy
After leaving the Spice Islands, Prince Zhu Biao thought that there would never be another island like the Spice Islands.
Unexpectedly, Yan Changqing pointed to the oncoming islands and continued to introduce:
"This is Island No. 37. Preliminary detection indicates that there are more than thousands of tons of copper ore stored there. Mining is not difficult!!!"
"This is Island No. 42. Preliminary detection shows that there are probably more than tens of thousands of tons of iron ore stored there. It is not difficult to mine!!!"
"This is Island No. 56. There are no copper and iron mines, but there are many fruit trees. There are a large number of wild bananas, coconuts, sugar cane, mangoes, pineapples and other fruits!!!"
"These fruits are so ripe that no one even picks them up when they fall on the ground. In the end, only a small part will be eaten by wild animals because some of them are left in the ground!!!"
"As long as these tropical fruits are transported back to Daming, they can also make money like spices!!!"
"After all, they are all picked up for free. Even if you sell them for a pound or a penny, you can still sell them for dozens or millions of dollars!!!"
"This is Island No. 63. Preliminary detection shows that there are probably more than tens of thousands of tons of copper and iron ore stored there. It is not difficult to mine!!!"
"This is Island No. 72. Preliminary detection indicates that there are thousands to tens of thousands of indigenous people there. However, the land is fertile and there are three crops a year!!!"
."Nit"......
During this year, Yan Changqing not only built the four major control areas in Haizhou City, but also went out to sea to salvage and catch marine fish.
Another thing he did was to secretly explore the situation in the Nanyang Islands.
Every time the navy of the Ming Dynasty went out to sea to salvage and fish, they discovered some islands on the way.
He would send a group of royal guards, as well as some fortune tellers who were proficient in Feng Shui and Kan Yu, as well as interpreters who knew Nanyang dialect, to conduct a preliminary investigation of the situation on those islands.
For example, the storage of mineral resources on the island, the fertility of the land, local specialty crops, and whether there are savages and indigenous people, etc.
If the area of the island being explored is relatively small, these people will be brought back the next time they go out to sea for fishing.
If the area of the island to be explored is relatively large, then when the next time you go out to sea to salvage and fish, you will replenish it with supplies or send some additional manpower to it.
Therefore, under such circumstances, basically the Ming Dynasty, or Yan Changqing, basically has a general understanding of the islands discovered by the Ming Navy when they went out to salvage and fish.
The islands he introduced before were actually the Philippine Islands in his previous life.
However, there are so many islands in the Philippines, and it is impossible for Yan Changqing to know the names of all the islands by heart. After all, he is a human, not a god.
At most, he only knows a few individual names, such as the names of the relatively famous Spice Islands such as Seram Island and the surrounding Maluku Islands.
He didn't know the names of most of the other Philippine Islands.
During this period, most of the islands in the Philippine Islands had no names.
After all, if you want to name the island you live in, you must first realize that you live in an island, and then you can name it.
And after naming, it must be unanimously recognized by the group to which it belongs, then the name of the island can be truly determined.
And this kind of thing is undoubtedly a very difficult thing for the natives, who are still in the period of clan and indigenous tribes for the most part of their racial civilization.
Even if there were a few natives who managed to name the islands where they lived, the names they gave would be very difficult to pronounce for the Ming Dynasty.
So Yan Changqing simply doesn't care what the names of these Philippine Islands were before, or whether they have names now.
Except for a few islands that he has an impression of and can name.
All other islands are named after Island No. 1, Island No. 2, and Island No. 3.
As for whether it sounds good or not, we can decide later. If it doesn't work, we can just change the name then.
Anyway, this kind of thing is just a matter of his words.
As for Prince Zhu Biao, everyone was already numb when he heard the long list of islands with their own characteristics introduced by Yan Changqing.
He originally thought that there was only one treasure island like the Spice Islands.
As a result, I never expected that there are thousands or hundreds of treasure islands like the Spice Islands!!!
Yes, for Prince Zhu Biao, those islands no matter whether they have copper ore ore or local special fruits.
As long as it is harvested three times a year and the land is fertile, it can be called a treasure island in the eyes of Prince Zhu Biao.
Even in the view of Prince Zhu Biao, compared to the so-called copper-iron mines and some local specialty fruits, the importance of fertile land that ripens three times a year is far more important than the first two.
After all, no matter how many copper and iron mines there are, they will be dug out one day. No matter how delicious the local special fruits are, they cannot really be eaten every day.
However, if the fertile land with three crops a year is used to grow food, it can ensure that you and your descendants will have enough to eat and will not starve to death for generations to come![!
In the eyes of Yanhuang people like Prince Zhu Biao, this is more important than anything else!!!
It can be said that the Yanhuang people's persistence for land, especially their desire for fertile land, is unparalleled in the world.
Even if technology in the previous life had developed to the point where people could go to the moon, the first thing the Yanhuang people cared about was whether they could farm and grow vegetables!!!
This can be regarded as a pursuit engraved deep in the blood and soul of the Yanhuang people.
Of course, although those so-called copper-iron mines, as well as native fruits in Prince Zhu Biao are not as important as the fertile island land itself that has been ripe for ten years.
But this does not mean that Prince Zhu Biao does not care about the copper and iron mines on those islands, as well as local specialty fruits.
After all, the copper and iron mines and local fruits on those islands are just like the Spice Islands before, they are all things that Ming Dynasty can pick up for free!!!
As long as you pick them up and transport them back to Daming, you can immediately sell them for cash!!!
As for the island resources that Yan Changqing just mentioned, if they were all transported back to the Ming Dynasty, they could be worth tens of millions of dollars at least.
【The sea is really a big treasure!!!】
[I originally thought that sea fish would allow the people of the Ming Dynasty to eat meat every now and then, and seawater sun-salt would help the people of the Ming Dynasty no longer suffer from lack of salt in the future. This would be the biggest treasure of the sea!!!]
[I never imagined that each of these islands in the sea is also a small treasure house!!!]
[A variety of rich mineral resources, unique island fruits, and most importantly, fertile land that is harvested three times a year!!!]
[If the Ming Dynasty does not take it, it will really be like "If God does not take it, you will suffer the consequences, and when the time comes, you will suffer the disaster"!!!]
Prince Zhu Biao couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart, and then he was about to subconsciously say that he would transfer these island wastes back to the Ming Dynasty...
However, Yan Changqing immediately poured a basin of cold water on him and said:
"But just like the Spice Islands before, the current Ming Dynasty Navy is also beyond its capabilities and is temporarily unable to exploit and transport the resources on these islands!!!"
"If you want to exploit and transfer the resources on these islands, you have to calculate based on the current shipbuilding capacity of Haizhou Shipyard."
"It is estimated that it will have to wait until the year after tomorrow at the earliest, or even five or seven years later, before the Ming Dynasty's naval fleet can be expanded to the extent that it can exploit and transport the resources on these islands."
"Before that, all the resources on these islands will probably have to stay here, or they will be wasted by the ugly people on the islands."
Speaking of this, Yan Changqing glanced at Prince Zhu Biao and said lightly:
"Of course, if His Highness the Crown Prince feels that salvage and capture of sea fish is not important, he can still choose to temporarily give up salvage and capture of sea fish, and instead let the Ming Navy fleet mine and transport various resources on these islands."
Upon hearing this, Prince Zhu Biao's face froze immediately.
Choose to give up fishing and catching marine fish?!!
it's out of the question!!!
Faced with the abundant spices in the Spice Islands before, he had not asked the Ming Navy Fleet to give up salvaging and capturing sea fish, and now it was even more impossible for the Ming Navy Fleet to give up salvaging and capturing sea fish.
After all, he promised that the people of Ming Dynasty would be able to eat meat every now and then!!!
However, if you don't give up salvaging and catching sea fish, you can only continue to wait like when you faced the Spice Islands.
It's just that during the three, five, or seven years of waiting until the Ming Dynasty's navy has expanded enough to have enough resources to exploit and transfer the resources of these islands, I don't know how many resources belonging to the Ming Dynasty will be wasted by the natives of these islands! !!
This is equivalent to money falling in front of him. Not only does he have no energy to pick it up, he even has to watch others pick it up!!!
When he thought of this, Prince Zhu Biao felt as if his heart was bleeding!!!
【Ship!Ship!!Ship!!!】5.1
[In the final analysis, the number of ships is still insufficient!!!]
[If the Ming Dynasty could now have 3,000 naval ships, 5,000 naval ships, or even 10,000 naval ships!!!]
[Then the Ming Dynasty no longer has to waste and wait for several years. Now it can immediately mine and transport all the spices on the Spice Islands, as well as the resources such as copper and iron ore on these islands, as well as local special fruits, back to the island. Ming dynasty!!!】
[And the island land that is harvested three times a year can truly be turned into the territory of the Ming Dynasty!!!]
[In the final analysis, the number of ships is still insufficient!!!]
[When I go back this time, I must persuade my father to build more coastal control areas such as Haizhou City, and strive to increase the number of Ming ships to 6,000 within the next year!!!]
[In this way, all these island resources can be mined and transferred back to the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible!!!]
Prince Zhu Biao added one more important thing to his mind when he returned home.
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