The Rise of the European Emperor

To be honest, Marin feels that such a day is super cool! Drinking rice wine, eating venison... Venison is a good nourishing food in later generations!

As for wine, Marin felt that the cost of making rice wine was still a bit high. The most suitable cost is beer, because 40 catties of barley can brew 100 liters of beer, that is, 200 catties of beer, and the yield ratio of grain to wine is 1:5.

As for rice wine, one catty of glutinous rice produces 4 catties of rice wine, and the yield is 1 to 4, which is lower than that of beer. Moreover, glutinous rice is much more expensive than barley. According to the price list given by Kong Tai, in Daming, a stone of glutinous rice costs 1 tael, which is much more expensive than ordinary rice. Barley, on the other hand, is a cheap miscellaneous grain, and the price per stone is only 0.5 taels of silver.

In this comparison, the cost of brewing beer with barley is much lower than that of rice wine brewed with glutinous rice. Of course, this calls for some hops. Therefore, some hops need to be sent to brew beer. However, the amount of hops does not seem to be large. Marin intends to grow hops in the North American colony, and then send a batch of dried flowers to Taiwan Island for beer brewing. In this way, the local colonial army and indigenous soldiers on Taiwan Island can drink low-cost beer. If it is chilled with cheap saltpeter ice cubes purchased from Daming, it will not be too refreshing...

Of course, professional things should be left to professional people. Therefore, Marin decided to send two brewers who were good at brewing beer from barley to Taiwan Island to serve under Kong Tai and help them use the hops shipped from North America and the cheap barley purchased from Ming Dynasty to brew cheap beer for the indigenous soldiers. In addition, a group of Ming Dynasty brewers were taught how to brew beer. After all, craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty were cheap...

Marin didn't know that because of his idea of ​​saving money, beer appeared in China hundreds of years in advance. Moreover, the practice of drinking cold beer in summer quickly became popular in Ming Dynasty literati circles and became a very fashionable way of drinking. Of course, drinking like this is really cool in summer...

Of course, these are secondary. Whether it was venison, rice wine or beer, Marin used it to attract indigenous soldiers to join the army.

Although these indigenous warriors were able to hunt, they lived a poor life due to lack of seasoning and poor technology. And if you join Marin's army to fight in the Philippines, you can live a good life of drinking and eating meat every day, which is very attractive.

Moreover, Marin plans to equip them with high-protection equipment such as rattan cards and rattan armors professionally made by Li Zizi and the others.

Although rattan armor has the problem of being afraid of fire, but the indigenous people in the Philippines have never read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so naturally they don't know about "burning rattan armor soldiers". Abusing the existence of indigenous Filipinos.

When the Philippines is occupied, the resources there are also very greedy. Moreover, the population is also quite large.

The natives of the Philippines belong to the Malay race,

Although these people have a low level of civilization, they are really fertile...

In later generations, the Philippines has a population of more than 100 million, which is very scary. You must know that the land area of ​​the Philippines is only less than 300,000 square kilometers, and most of them are mountains and hills. There are more than 100 million people, and I don't know how they are distributed...

I don't know about 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 has a large area, more than 10,000 square kilometers, much larger than the Tainan Plain on Taiwan Island. Moreover, it seems that during the Yongle period in the early Ming Dynasty, Zheng He once represented the Ming Dynasty and appointed a Hu Jianren named Xu Chai Lao as the governor of Luzon Island, responsible for managing the Chinese immigrants here and leading them to reclaim wasteland. It seems that the place where they reclaimed wasteland is right here, near Manila.

People in the Ming Dynasty called this place the Luzon Kingdom, but in fact, there were only some indigenous tribes at this time, and they had not yet formed a country. However, the arrival of Chinese immigrants such as Xu Chai Lao instructed the locals to cultivate land and increase productivity. Probably in the middle and late 16th century, the local area formed a strong local force and became a country. Unfortunately, this country was annexed by Spain not long after its birth.

Of course, Marin would not sympathize with Luzon. Because this country, during the Jiajing period, once massacred Chinese immigrants, killing more than 25,000 people. Many people don't know this history, thinking that the massacre of Chinese immigrants was started by Spanish colonists. But in fact, as early as the Jiajing period, because of a political farce, the local indigenous king actually slaughtered more than 20,000 Chinese. However, Spain will have to wait until the Wanli period to kill the Chinese.

Therefore, Marin did not have the slightest favor for these Filipino natives. It is a good idea to hire the Gaoshan indigenous warriors on Taiwan Island to conquer the local natives.

Although Luzon Island is backward, there are still hundreds of thousands of indigenous people. After all, the aborigines in this place are really capable of giving birth, otherwise the population of future generations will not exceed 100 million.

Thousands of Gaoshan aboriginals in Taidao, after wearing rattan armor, holding rattan cards and swords, defeated the local aboriginals very easily. After all, even metal is rare for the local aborigines. It seems that the local metals are all smuggled from the Ming Dynasty, not a lot.

As long as a few thousand Gaoshan indigenous fighters are mobilized to capture Manila and the Central Plains of Luzon, the local indigenous people can be driven to help with farming. The central plain of Luzon covers an area of ​​more than 10,000 square kilometers, and hundreds of thousands of indigenous people are arrested to cultivate the land, so the food output must be very high.

If Champa rice is grown locally, it will be harvested three times a year, and there will be more than enough food to eat.

Moreover, there are also many local Chinese immigrants. When the massacre of Chinese immigrants by the king of Luzon broke out in the 30th year of Jiajing (1551), the local Chinese immigrants had reached more than 30,000, and they were the main force of local agriculture.

Now it is 1516, even if there are not more than 30,000 Chinese immigrants in the local area, there are still tens of thousands. Otherwise, Zheng He would not have appointed Xu Chai Lao as the governor of Luzon. Obviously, the Chinese have a high economic status in the local area, and they are also the guides of local civilization.

In addition, according to historical records, it seems that this Lusong Kingdom has not yet formed, and it will not go to the Ming Dynasty until Jiajingzhong to pay tribute, and then conflicts will arise.

In other words, at present, Lu Song Kingdom is not recorded as a vassal state in the Ming court. Although Zheng He also brought a Luzon king to pay tribute during the Yongle period, it was just a small barbarian chieftain in the Manila area and could not be the Luzon king. Otherwise, Zheng He would not have appointed Xu Chai Lao as the governor of Luzon.

Obviously, even if someone as great as Zheng He brought a small barbarian chief to pay tribute near Manila, it was just to create the illusion of prosperity of "all nations come to court". After all, the feudal Confucian dynasty liked to play this trick. Although Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was decisive in killing and attacking, he was also a little overjoyed. Zheng He brought back the "King of Luzon" just to please Zhu Di, and it was purely a matter of making up numbers, and the Ming court didn't take it seriously.

Sure enough, after Zheng He's voyages to the West stopped, there were no "Luzon countries" to pay tribute. Because the country has not really formed here, and there is no ship to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty... It was not until the Jiajing period that the tribute began, which shows that a decent country appeared at that time. But immediately, because of a farce, the two parties broke up...

In other words, it is no problem for Marin to send troops to conquer Luzon at this time. Moreover, no native barbarian chieftain of Luzon would go to the Ming Dynasty to file a complaint. Because Luzon has not paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, and has long since lost the "establishment" of the Ming Dynasty...

Marin intends to first send troops to occupy Manila and build the city based on the future Manila Bay. Then, the Gaoshan warriors were dispatched to occupy the entire central Luzon plain, and the locals were driven to develop and farm. The local Chinese can become the local "agricultural technology instructors" and teach the locals how to farm. Then, the central plain of Luzon gradually became an important granary...

In addition, Marin will 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-gold mine that 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, when the time comes, send people to conduct on-the-spot surveys, and you will always find that large-scale copper-gold mine. At that time, Marin will not be able to develop the same frame in the deserts of Chile.

It should be known that the Chilean desert area is difficult to supply fresh water and sparsely populated, which is not suitable for the development of copper mines. The Toledo Copper Mine in Cebu Island is different. It is close to the sea and the transportation is convenient. Moreover, it is very convenient to find miners. There are a lot of indigenous people in the area. At that time, just grab tens of thousands of people and go to the mine to mine...

In short, Marin's big plan is to bring the Philippines into the territory of the "Eastern Kingdom". In addition to the development of the central plains of Luzon Island with great agricultural potential, the copper and gold mines on Cebu Island can also bring huge benefits to the "Eastern Counties". As long as it is well developed, the "Dongfan Boguo" will have plenty of food and finances in the future...