The negotiations in Sulu soon ended.
To the three kings, this was undoubtedly a huge surprise. They only needed to provide some slaves in exchange for things they had never thought of before.
Naturally, he would not hesitate at all.
The contract was concluded.
This was also the second " equality " treaty that Zhu Bai had signed with the overseas countries.
The first one was naturally an island country.
The second was the Sulu Kingdom.
After signing the contract.
A large part of the entire Luzon Island belonged to the Ming Dynasty, or more accurately, to him.
At the same time, Da Ming would enjoy absolute privileges in the entire Sulu Kingdom.
Sulu would provide Zhu Bai with no less than 5,000 slaves every year, and Zhu Bai would give Sulu the right to trade.
In the future, this was not an equal contract no matter how one looked at it. However, in this era, he was an equal contract. To the three kings of Sulu, it seemed like he had made a huge profit.
As for how to obtain slaves…
This was simple.
There were other countries around, and there were still barbarians in the mountains.
As long as they captured some, it would be enough to exchange for salt, cloth, cavalry, and so on from the Great Ming.
Such a good thing could not be exchanged anywhere.
As for Sulu's thoughts, Zhu Bai naturally understood what was going on.
However, he did not care. There would always be people who were bad people in this world. He did not want to capture slaves himself. In that case, he could only use the agent war to obtain enough slaves like the Europeans.
For these agents, this was an unprecedented opportunity.
What they needed to focus on was seizing the opportunity.
Soon, the three kings quickly returned to Sulu and began to clean up the slaves.
The first thing they cleaned up were the domestic slaves.
There were also many slaves in the country.
Therefore, the first transaction in three days began.
The Sulu Kingdom used about 3,000 slaves to exchange for a large amount of cloth and iron.
And Zhu Bai had also obtained his first batch of slaves.
The mighty mining began.
With these 3,000 slaves and the location of the pirate captives, there were nearly 8,000 people.
It was enough for the early stages of mining.
As for the later stages…
He believed that Sulu would continue to give him slaves.
Moreover, he believed that it would not be long before other countries would come to trade with him.
And in this kind of transaction, Zhu Bai would only acknowledge slaves for the time being and would not acknowledge anything else.
Under such circumstances, there was no need to worry about the number of slaves.
In fact, that was indeed the case.
In less than a month, a country next to Sulu came knocking on their door.
In the end, Zhu Bai also agreed to the deal, but the price was higher than that of Sulu.
That small country also gave them more than 2,000 slaves.
Following that, more and more small countries arrived.
Zhu Bai, who had already built Lai City in Malacca, could be easily replenished.
The transaction could be said to be ongoing.
Mining also began.
A large number of slaves joined.
The entire Luzon Island was bustling with activity every day.
A large amount of gold was mined.
Zhu Bai's stats rose once again at this moment.
By now, the silver mines in Japan and the gold in Luzon had been excavated in large quantities. For a time, the amount of gold he had had even vaguely exceeded the speed of collecting wood.
Moreover, it was growing explosively every day.
After nearly a year of excavation, the Ishigami Silver Mountain had already begun to show its greatest output value.
The amount of gold units he could provide him in a day was already around 10,000.
In less than a month, Luzon had been able to provide around 2,000 units. It wouldn't be long before Luzon had more than 5,000 units.
In this way, the gold units that the two places could give him in a year could reach more than 500,000.
This was undoubtedly a terrifying number.
Even if he had to provide Da Ming with some.
However, it was only a few million taels. It was just a drop in the ocean for such a huge number.
Now, he no longer needed to worry about the issue of gold resources.
The only problem was the population.
Compared to the 500,000 population required to level up in the Empire Era, the population required to enter the Post-Empire Era was more than 10 million.
Previously, it had increased by ten times. At this moment, it had increased by twenty times.
This was undoubtedly a huge number of people.
? Even if the farmers made it, 50 units per farmer would require more than 500 million food.
This was undoubtedly an astronomical figure.
Not to mention that they still needed to produce other troops.
Moreover, with a population of 10 million, even if he could produce 50,000 people in a month, it would take a full 200 months, which was close to 17 years, although as time passed, his population would increase faster and faster.
But thinking about it, without seven or eight years, it was basically impossible to level up to the post-imperial era.
Within a short period of time.
There was basically not much hope.
Fortunately, after entering the era of emperors.
Actually, to Zhu Bai, it was already enough to satisfy him.
All the basic buildings had been opened.
The only thing left was gunpowder technology.
However, in this era, which was only at the end of the 14th century, whether gunpowder was opened or not was not as important as one might imagine.
With what he had now, it was enough for him to build a maritime empire.
In Southeast Asia.
His figure was busy.
Under the control of his consciousness, the Peasants began to complete the construction of the buildings and the gathering place.
A large number of farmers were producing them continuously.
As for the number of town centers, he had increased it to four.
There was one in the Strait of Malacca, one in Luzon, and another on the big island next to Luzon.
With three more town centers, the production speed of the farmers had undoubtedly increased by a large margin.
Although the increase in the number of people did not reach the level of 70,000 to 80,000, the number of people increasing every day could be considered to have stabilized at 50,000.
A large number of farmers were produced.
Then, it was time to reclaim the farmland.
Now that a large number of people were being produced, the food in Qiongzhou Prefecture alone was not enough.
After all, reality wasn't a game. Even the farmers who produced food couldn't possibly not consume food. In fact, farmers who worked forever consumed food all the time.
The number of units per day was about five.
With a population of 500,000, plus the hundreds of thousands that had migrated over, the population under Zhu Bai's rule had now exceeded 600,000.
If the beauty consumed five units of food per day, then that would be three million units of food per day. In a year, that would be thirty-six million units of food.
This was undoubtedly a terrifying number.
Even if he had enough farmland now, and with the harvest from fishing, the annual unit of income had already exceeded 50 million units, he would not be able to withstand the consumption of 36 million units a year if he did not expand.
After all, he was not just expending energy.
He also needed to recruit system characters.
But it was still alright.
Now, he had taken over the entire Southeast Asia.
The vast Southeast Asia was the best food for him.
A large number of farmers were created, followed by the cultivation of fertile land and large-scale fishing.
As the number of people increased, the amount of food he had also increased.
It could be predicted.
As the 23 years of Hongwu passed, his food production would rise to another level.
Once the entire Southeast Asia was completely developed by him, then his food problem would not be a problem at all.
As the most famous place for producing food in the future, Southeast Asia produced several times more food than India with less than half of its population.
With the system, even if there was a gap in the food production of Southeast Asia compared to the future, it would only be half.
Not to mention supporting a ten million-level country, even supporting a 40 million-level country would not be a big problem.
Therefore, Zhu Bai was still very concerned about this.
After all, whether it was his development or assisting Da Ming's development in the future, the importance of food was unquestionable.
Compared to gold, food was the most important thing.
Therefore, in Zhu Bai's plan, he would only develop in Southeast Asia for the next two to three years.
He would only consider other options when 2 had completely developed Southeast Asia.
As for the Ming Dynasty.
And his big brother.
Zhu Bai didn't even consider that much, even though it was almost the 25th year of Hongwu.
It was the same.
Time passed quickly amidst this busyness.
The last day of the 24th year of Hongwu passed.
In the 25th year of Hongwu.
The entire Southeast Asia, at least near the Strait of Malacca, had completely changed.
The Great Ming flags were planted all around.
The Strait of Malacca had become a place for pilgrimages from various countries.
Over there, a giant city had completely risen from the ground.
There was even a huge palace.
It was the castle that Zhu Bai had built.
He had entered the era of emperors and was now in Southeast Asia. Of course, he did not mind building a castle for himself.
The castle built by the system belonged to the Chinese style and was not too abrupt.
Zhu Bai also temporarily stayed here.
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