"As long as you give me money, I can rush into Beijing and capture Chongzhen's son for you!
"Sure, but you have to pay more."
"Helping others is our traditional virtue. We are happy to do something for you.”
Therefore, under the temptation of money, the noble people who would not bend their backs for five buckets of rice lowered their proud heads.
It was said that players who could satisfy the tycoons would get a free PS5!
This wasn't a pie in the sky, because the most active player had already received a priceless M1863 Mini Rifle. As long as he worked hard, he would be able to fulfill his dream. Who knew if he would become the lucky one?
This time, the players were full of fighting spirit. They wanted to rush to Fujian on a big ship and bring the refugees to Taiwan to reclaim the wasteland. They wanted to build a big city of 500,000 people in a day.
Hokkien and Cantonese with different tones suddenly rang out among the captives. Even if the standard of the captives learned from the TV series was only plastic level, the players could not care less and tried their best to find the Chinese compatriots around them.
No matter how inferior the pronunciation of the players was, or how big the language difference was over three hundred years, many natives of the Ming Dynasty were found.
Fishermen, hunters, farmers, carpenters, stonemasons, lime craftsmen, bricksmiths, blacksmiths, etc. There were more than 300 people who translated. They were indispensable talents for the development of the " High Official." In a sense, they were even more professional than the players.
Even if a player could search for videos of craftsmanship on the Internet and find the specific process of farming, it was almost impossible for them to replicate it without professional training and guidance.
And these craftsmen happened to be able to help the poor high-ranking officials establish the most basic handicraft industry. In history, the establishment and expansion of the " Zelanjo City " of the Dutch high-ranking officials relied on the Chinese stonemasons and bricksmiths.
Professionals should be respected wherever they were. Wang Kaizhi immediately expressed his cordial condolences and warm care to them. Each person was given three Dutch guilders as compensation for mental damage.
" Those who are willing to stay, feel free to stay. I'll hire you according to the monthly salary that the red-haired people give you. Those who are unwilling to stay, you can leave freely."
Wang Kaizhi's words made the Han people look at each other in dismay. Although they felt that this group of short-haired bandits was acting strangely, this group of people only killed the red-haired ones and did not touch the Han people of the Ming Dynasty. This made them believe that they might really be descendants of the Song Dynasty and the Chinese.
The natives of the Ming Dynasty smiled helplessly. These bachelors had left their homes and were lucky enough to cross the "black ditch" to come to the wilderness to reclaim land. They were just trying to survive. Since Red Hair had been defeated, it was better to work for his compatriots than to work for the Red Hair.
They all chose to stay and serve the Aussies.
Thus, in less than half a day after the battle, the natives of the Ming Dynasty resumed their work.
The fishermen slowly boarded the fishing boat and slowly headed to the nearby sea to catch fish.
The Hunter followed the dozen players to the forest in the north to hunt the deer.
The farmers returned to their own fields to tend to the fields. After the rice was harvested, they would plant sugar cane.
Carpenters repaired houses and made furniture. Blacksmiths entered the blacksmith shop in the town of Daguang to resume their work. The masons and bricksmiths took a sampan with the players to the Red Oak. They originally planned to build a brick kiln, but at the suggestion of the players, they decided to add one more.
- The cement workshop.
Of course, the captives could not eat and not work for free. Out of the 700 captives, only 300 of them were the Dutch merchants and soldiers of the High Official Merchant House. They were divided into groups of 30 people, a total of 13 groups, with a small army of players acting as supervisors for each group.
In order to pay for the sin of invading China's territory, the heaviest and most tiring work would be borne by them. They would work from dawn to dusk, cutting down trees to build houses to provide for the new labor force to live in, while they could only live in simple labor camps.
Time always flew after a war, and everyone was busy dealing with the aftermath.
Near evening, 1150 new laborers arrived.
They had come in two groups. One group had come by sea on a boat full of goods, while the other group had followed the tracks left by the players to the north.
The leaders of the 1,000-odd workers were divided into two. Wen Wen and Wu.
Captain Jiang Feng was appointed by Wang Kaizhi as the Chief Executive of the High Official.
Vice-captain Wu Ke was appointed by Wang Kaizhi as the sheriff and captain of the militia.
The 1,000-odd laborers quickly entered the city and took over all the affairs with the higher-ups. There were a total of nine sailing ships that were captured on the sea. One of them had a displacement of 300 tons, one of them had a displacement of 200 tons, four of them were 200 tons, and three of them were 70 tons. The number of cannons on the warships was uncertain, ranging from 6 to 12. Most of them were 9-pound cannons and 12-pound cannons. Only the largest armed merchant ship was equipped. They were equipped with two 24-pound cannons.
No one knew how to sail the five Dutch ships, so they could only be temporarily fixed on the surface of the sea. Only after they had roped in some captive sailors to teach them how to operate the ships could the transmigration group truly digest this batch of armed merchant ships.
After dealing with these trivial matters, the next step was to count the spoils of war.
The staff were walking around the warehouses in the Netherlands. The goods stored by the people were dizzying. There were hundreds of loads of spices such as cloves, pepper, and nutmeg.
Metal ingots of lead and tin, linen, boar's mane, coarse hair, more than two hundred pieces of deerskin, rattan baskets, straw bags, and raw silk, cotton cloth, porcelain, and silk that were obviously bought from the Ming Dynasty. There was a lot of goods.
This meant that Ming merchants would regularly deliver goods to the high-ranking officials to sell, and merchants only needed to transport raw silk and porcelain to exchange for large amounts of silver from foreigners.
The European colonists didn't have any special products that the Ming Dynasty was interested in. Therefore, rather than saying that the European colonists came to the Ming Dynasty to trade goods, it was better to say that the precious metal that was sold to the Ming Dynasty was the treasure of the Chinese. This was also the real reason why China was called the Silver Black Hole during the Ming and Qing Dynasties!
The food in the granary was also very rich. There was wheat, flour, rice, sweet potatoes, dried salted fish, and venison. It could feed 500 people for a year.
The inventory counting work continued. Under the supervision of Jiang Feng and Wu Ke, five people entered the most important building of the commercial building-a small vault.
The treasury was the core of the Official Merchant Hall. It stored the funds for the purchase of goods.
A large number of white silver coins were piled up in the coin box. Jiang Feng opened a black wooden box and a white snowflake came into view.
He reached into the wooden box and felt the clatter of coins as his fingers rubbed against it.
The Dutch guilder was one of the main currencies of the Dutch. There were many types of silver coins, such as half a guilder, 1 guilder, 2.5 guilders, and so on.
The highest value of 1 shield was equivalent to the purchasing power of 1 - 2 of Da Ming's.
In addition, the Spanish silver coins were widely circulated. This kind of silver coin was produced in the Spanish colony of Mexico, which was roughly equivalent to the purchasing power of 0.7 taels of Ming Dynasty. However, due to its high silver content, strong recognition, and convenient carrying characteristics, it was basically used as one tael.
In addition to the guilder and Spanish silver coins, the staff also found two wooden boxes in the corner.
Two simple but exquisitely decorated wooden boxes were placed alone in the corner of the wall. They looked inconspicuous, but the placement and decoration style of the three hundred taels of silver betrayed them.
The moment the two wooden boxes were opened, someone could not help but exclaim in a low voice,"Wow! It's gold!"
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