Chapter 148 Exorcism
King Philip, far away in Madrid, would never have imagined that the Mingxi trade he was thinking about would be launched in this form on the Mingxi border of the New World.
His citizens actually sold food in the New World. In the richest country in Europe, the Spaniards actually sold food in the New World, and were led by the Duke of Real Power Alva.
This is really embarrassing.
But this can indeed bring benefits to them.
The first person to sell food on the pole was not Alva, but the owner of the Western Border Planters who heard the news as soon as the news came out.
The land of the New World is constantly changing with policies.
On the west side of the border, with the orders of the Eastern Military Office, each village gathered the local scattered local people and formed a set of autonomous systems centered on village lieutenants as a continuation of the local system of the Ming Dynasty.
Except for the village lieutenants of the 240 villages on the border who serve as small banner officials, the village lieutenants of the inland villages who serve as a banner officer. Each village implements orders from the military office, and their autonomy is lower than that of the local villages, but they also have the habit of becoming a custom in clan form to serve as the grassroots unit.
Since the natural resources and population resources of each village are different, Beiyang officers are required to allocate resources in their jurisdictions. Villages with more indigenous people should tilt human resources to villages that lack local tribes, and mineral resources and food resources are also allocated and coordinated.
With the fast horse running on the official road, in accordance with the orders of the Dongyang Military Palace, villages successively set up post stations called Sili Road, used manpower to build four-mile dirt roads on the edge of the village, and set up Chinese literature schools and clinics with different abilities in each village, and formulated the obligations required to immigrate.
Taxes and corvee.
For example, driving donkey carts and pushing trucks, each village drove four miles to the next village. This corvee service was initially only implemented in two villages on both sides of the official roads. Later, after the roads in various places were first completed, all villages had to carry out this corvee service, and twenty people were assigned to undertake this mission. In return, when they performed corvee service, the rest of the village had to cultivate land for them.
Some villages first use the system of hiring corvee, using quantitative commissions or grain to hire immigrants or homeless natives who cannot farm, which is distributed equally by the entire village.
Some villages also ask the military government for instructions to change the way because they are located on high slopes, and one or more villages provide commissions to one or more villages that can transport them.
The easy-to-go roads were naturally screened out, and finally became four main roads transported from the west coast of Mexico to the eastern border.
This can reduce the pressure on the military government to transport goods to the border. Of course, not all goods need to be transported through labor. Some merchants close to the county government will choose to hire Lifu in the county government to purchase donkey carts to transport them by themselves.
Under Chen Mu's instruction, the Dongyang Military Prefecture opened the first sewing factory in Changsheng County, employed more than 60 female workers to weave cloth, mainly to weave cotton bags of certain specifications of cotton bags transported by ship. There is a cotton rope on the exquisitely crafted cotton bags that can be used to tie them tightly. The finished cloth bags are printed with ink with the words "Half-stone of the grain bag".
These local female workers have the experience of sewing cotton armor for the Spanish in the past, and now it is easy to sew cotton bags with cotton cloth.
White cotton cloth is ready-made in China, and all it needs is cutting and sewing. It can produce 2000 bags a day. The most skilled female workers can even make seven a day, which is fast and good.
Then the bundles of white cotton bags were transported to the border by officials from the Dongyang Military Bureau's Commerce Bureau to sell to the Spanish.
This is very interesting. No one in the entire New World is under great pressure like the planters on the east side of the border. They do not think that the Ming Dynasty people who look like people on the opposite side are people.
The arrows they hunted even flew into their plantations from time to time. A man ran into the plantations with a bow, looking for their feathered arrows with fearless and friendly smiles.
The planter who was acting in a mighty manner in front of slaves could only launch slave labor and search for it in a large scale, and then handed over the feather arrows back... Not every Spanish is so easy to talk to, but the border is really unsafe.
Every planter can swear that they are not afraid of those Ming Dynasty immigrants standing on the hills or flat grounds, nor are they afraid of those immigrants carrying muskets or moving at any time, who can shoot hundreds of flying stones into his plantation with tiger squatting cannons and headscarves.
They are much more scary than this.
In the urban legends belonging to the border of New Spain, the most eye-catching one is that a arrogant baron wielded his whip the day before and frightened his plantation to find the Ming Dynasty immigrant who lost his turkey. Later, he proudly preached his great achievements at the banquet.
If the nobles who attended the banquet had not found that there were more than a dozen well-equipped mercenaries on his plantation, people would have thought he was not afraid.
After passing by calmly for a week, just as this incident spread across the border, everyone thought that the people of the Ming Dynasty were not as terrible as Chen Mu, someone sneaked into a heavily guarded village at night.
That night, the Baron, his family and the mercenaries hired a lot of money slept harder than usual. When they woke up, everyone was in a splitting headache and didn't hear any movement.
The intruder did not kill anyone, but all seven hundred and twenty slave workers in his plantation disappeared, and together they disappeared, the weapons and armor of fourteen mercenaries, the grain of the warehouse, all the livestock in the plantation, including more than sixty turkeys, nine horses, twelve donkeys, the baron and the baubles, the property and jewelry worth 2,700 silver coins, all disappeared without a trace.
The Baroness, who should have been sleeping in the bed, woke up in the empty stable. The Baron himself was still sleeping in the bed, but there was a turkey with his head chopped off beside him, and there was also a portrait of his ancestor who had won the title in the war three hundred years ago.
It is said that when he woke up, the Baron, who had many lower body diseases, was frightened and peeded. The planter next to him discovered that on the same morning there were twenty-seven more female slave workers suffering from Spanish disease and doing nothing in his plantation.
It is said that the people who sneaked into the manor were people wearing green cloaks, who came and roared and walked away, took everything away, asked who had an affair with the planter far from the manor, and sent them to a place not far from the other plantation to leave food, and the others disappeared.
No one felt more fearful than the planters on the border, which made them all feel threatened, and almost all planters heard that there were traces of green capes in the jungle near them.
At this time, they heard that the western border of Ming Dynasty opened the sale of grain and satin porcelain, and white cloth bags were sold?
They only have one answer.
Grain? Sell! White cloth bag? Buy!
What should I do if I buy it? Keep it.
Chapter completed!