Hanoi city.
Li Jin, Lan Yu, Fu Youde and others were sitting on the ground dividing the stolen goods.
Regarding the land issue, several people reached a consensus and completely obeyed Li Jin's division. However, everyone wanted to know what exactly Li Jin wanted to use Annan's land for?
Li Jin casually put aside the bowl and chopsticks, and drew the outline of the map of Hanoi on the table with his fingers.
"Annan is located in a tropical area. Although it is full of miasma, the products are absolutely abundant."
"Not to mention the countless fruits here, just in terms of rice production, it can easily surpass the Jiangnan region."
"Rice here can be grown three seasons a year. This alone is enough to surpass most areas in our country."
"Therefore, Annan is destined to become the granary of our Ming Dynasty and an important grain-producing area in the future."
"It's just that the land here is sparsely populated, so I decided to implement a large estate system to reform agriculture."
As soon as Li Jin finished speaking, Fu Youde couldn't wait to ask:
"Master Li, did you make a mistake?"
"These places in Annan are not vast and sparsely populated at all. Millions of people are spread across all prefectures and counties in Annan. How can we say they are vast and sparsely populated?"
"Old Fu, you are so stupid!"
Hearing this, Lan Yu patted Fu Youde's arm and said:
"These Annan people will have to be dealt with in the future. How can we still let them live here safely?"
"Do you know how the Japanese people on the Japanese island were dealt with before?"
"How to deal with it?"
Fu Youde asked stupidly:
"Did you kill them all?"
"Get rid of it? How wasteful is that? God has a good nature, and we are not murderers. We are going to massacre millions of people. That would be too harmful to the harmony of heaven and earth."
Lan Yu hurriedly retorted, and then explained:
"We just sold all those people to Ming Dynasty and asked them to contribute their own strength to Ming Dynasty's infrastructure."
"What's the meaning?"
Fu Youde still doesn't quite understand.
"I just sold them all and made tens of millions of taels of silver."
Seeing that Fu Youde was not understanding, Lan Yu pointed it out directly and stopped beating around the bush.
Fu Youde gasped. Lan Yu thought he was disgusted with the slave trade and hurriedly tried to comfort him, but Fu Youde's next words almost broke Lan Yu's waist.
"Ten million taels of silver? Are these Japanese people so valuable?"
"Then so many Annan people can be sold for so much money? Aren't we going to make a huge fortune again?"
Lan Yu glanced at Fu Youde angrily, "Money, money, money, I know money."
"Even if these people want to sell, they won't be able to sell out overnight."
Li Jin smiled slightly and said:
"Yes, these Annan people are indeed going to be sold to the Ming Dynasty, or to the Japanese island."
"In order to ensure the stability of Annan in the future, all the indigenous people must be removed, or in other words, exterminated."
"History tells us that those who are not of our kind will have different hearts."
"Even though we have conquered Annan now, the Annan people and our Ming Dynasty will never be of the same mind."
"In this case, in order to ensure that Annan will always become my Ming Dynasty's territory in the future, there is only one way."
"While we are buying and selling the population of Annan to inject cheap labor into our Ming Dynasty, we are also recruiting people from the Ming Dynasty to come to Annan to enrich the local population."
"In this way, the local population composition can be quickly changed. When the Han people become the main or even the only ethnic group in the area, Annan will become an inseparable part of our Ming Dynasty."
"Do you agree with this plan?"
"I agree, of course I absolutely agree. Whatever Mr. Li says, we will do it!"
Lan Yu was the first to express support, and then asked again:
"It's just Mr. Li, what kind of plan is this so-called large estate plan?"
"As for a large manor, it is natural to build a manor in Annan. This kind of manor must be large. A small one will require dozens of acres of land."
Li Jin slowly said his plan:
"Of course, the strength of one of these people is definitely not enough, so the manor owner needs to purchase slaves and use the slaves to plant various cash crops to create economic benefits."
"Such a large manor would require at least a thousand slaves, right?"
Fu Youde looked incredulous, "Then where can we buy these slaves?"
"It's very simple. Naturally, I go to Wajima Island to buy it."
Li Jin pointed to the east and said:
"The Japanese have a large population, and they are exactly the source of slaves we need. As long as we establish contact with the Japanese islands, it is not difficult to purchase a large number of slaves."
"In addition to ourselves, the people who immigrated to Annan will also implement the large estate plan."
"My idea is to build Annan into the largest grain producing area and other agricultural producing areas in the Ming Dynasty in the next ten years. It will become the next economic center of the Ming Dynasty."
"In addition, I also want to build the largest shipyard in the Ming Dynasty here, and make use of the rich forest resources here. In the future, the main ships of the Ming Dynasty will be produced here."
"Everyone, occupying Annan is just the first step in our plan to make a fortune. This is an old hen that can lay golden eggs. We must guard it and let it bring us greater wealth!"
"Master Li is mighty and mighty. My admiration for Master Li is like a surging river, endless!!"
"If there was no Master Li in the Ming Dynasty, eternity would be like a long night."
"Master Li is our beacon, illuminating our path forward."
Zhu Di Lanyu and Fu Youde offered rainbow farts one after another, but Li Jin just smiled indifferently and said:
"Now the emperor has decreed that all parts of the country should start to form chambers of commerce. I plan to form a chamber of commerce in Annan, which will be responsible for all development and investment in Annan. I wonder if you are interested in joining?"
Hearing that Li Jin was going to form a chamber of commerce again, Lan Yu looked excited and was the first to stand up and said:
"I, Lan Yu, will be the first to join."
On the contrary, Fu Youde was a little hesitant and asked hesitantly:
"I wonder how much money it will cost to join the Chamber of Commerce?"
When Lan Yu heard that Fu Youde was so picky, he immediately mocked:
"Old Fu, you are too young again."
"There are only three melons and two dates in total, and you are still holding it like a treasure. Could it be that your gold ingot can still lay eggs?"
"I don't want to think about who Mr. Li is, the God of Wealth of the Ming Dynasty. Can he treat you and my brother badly?"
Fu Youde blushed and had a rough neck after being squeezed by Lan Yu. He scratched his head in embarrassment and said:
"Isn't this what you used to be afraid of when you were poor?"
Li Jin stretched out his hand to signal the two of them not to get excited, and then said:
"Gong Liang and Ying Guo should not argue. This chamber of commerce is personal and has nothing to do with the government. It was Li's whim to form a chamber of commerce and develop the Annan area."
"How much you want to invest depends on your personal wishes, but it cannot be less than one hundred thousand taels of silver."
"Whatever proportion you take, if you make money in the future, you will divide the money according to the investment proportion."
"As the sponsor, I will make a statement first. I will personally invest three million taels of silver!"
Seeing Li Jin's statement, Lan Yu followed closely and said loudly:
"I invested one million taels. Anyway, this 1.2 million taels was earned in vain."
"I believe Mr. Li."
"I will also invest one million taels!"
Zhu Di did not hesitate at all. Only Fu Youde looked confused and said hesitantly after a while:
"Then I'll invest twenty...five hundred thousand taels."
Lan Yu had a look of disdain on her face. She was really petty. She was about to say something taunting, but was stopped by Li Jin.
"Now that everyone has made up their mind, let's use 5.5 million as the principal to start the establishment of the Annan Chamber of Commerce. I hope that everyone can make a lot of money in the future and the goods will rotate."
"Wait a minute, my eldest brother's share is not included!"
Zhu Di suddenly interrupted and mentioned Zhu Biao. Li Jin scratched his head, thought for a moment, and said:
"Your eldest brother was not present, so how can you count his share?"
Zhu Di took heart and said boldly:
"I make the decision for my eldest brother, and I am willing to invest one million taels of silver. Just deduct it from his loot."
Li Jin nodded slowly and said:
"Well, our total capital is 6.5 million taels of silver, and then we need to start a big fight in Annan."
"The most critical step now is to implement the ethnic cleansing plan. If Annan is not cleaned up, how will our Ming people live here?"
"Regarding this, I want to form a slave trading guild, just under the Annan Chamber of Commerce, and prepare to start the slave trade in Annan."
"I heard that the current chief envoy of Japan is Yang Xian. Does any of you know this person? If we can build a bridge and sell the Annan people to Japan, and then buy the Japanese from Japan, it will be the best of both worlds."
After Li Jin finished speaking, Fu Youde and Lan Yu looked at each other, Yang Xian? They are really unfamiliar.
After waiting for a while, Lan Yu spoke up and explained:
"Master Li, we are really unfamiliar with Yang Xian."
"That guy is from eastern Zhejiang, and we are all from Huaixi. Now in the court, the battle between eastern Zhejiang and Huaixi is very fierce, so naturally we will not have contact with him."
"So, some of you look at Li in a different light because I am also from Huaixi?"
Li Jin then remembered that he was also from Huaixi. No wonder Fu Youde and Lan Yu were so close to him.
"That's right, we are fellow villagers after all. Who would cheat a fellow villager?"
Lan Yu looked matter-of-factly, looking at Li Jin with eyes full of trust.
In this era, local feelings cannot be expressed clearly in a few sentences. Some people recognize fellow villagers and become relatives when they meet fellow villagers. Lan Yu is obviously such a person.
Li Jin nodded clearly, and then looked at Zhu Di:
"You can only rely on your father for this matter!"
"As relatives of the emperor, and you have the emperor's trust, it shouldn't be difficult to build a bridge for Yang Xian, right?"
"I...I'll try my best."
