Five taels of silver per acre, one million mu will cost five million taels, two million mu will cost ten million taels, and ten million mu will cost fifty million taels... This money is used to build roads, and it is enough to lay concrete on the official roads across the country, and it is enough to build the water conservancy nationwide. The profits of trade have earned more than 20 million taels, but you can't spend that money!

There is no problem buying a three tael of silver in Dengzhou, but in other places, five taels of silver is less. If you want to squeeze one or two taels of silver, it is no different from robbing it.

Zhao Yan neither wants to spend money nor causes too much rebound. After thinking about it, there is really no way to do it. Shandong has no other monkey. And that approach is too violent after all. Unless it is very urgent, Zhao Yan would rather spend money to buy it than use that method.

"Let's do it! Rent it from them first, and give twenty kilograms of wheat per acre per year." Zhao Yan couldn't think of a good idea for a moment, so he could only use renting to occupy it in disguise.

Zhao Yan's garrison land, the rent that needs to be paid for per acre of land is about 60 kilograms of wheat, or 30% of it. It is distributed to the landlords twenty kilograms, and then pays ten kilograms of land quotas, and he has thirty kilograms left.

"Sir, if we pacify Liaodong, we will have a large area of ​​land. Then we can move refugees to Liaodong." Tang Zhengze looked ahead.

"Hey~! Yes!" Zhao Yan suddenly thought of a solution when he heard Tang Zhengze's words. However, he did not do what Tang Zhengze did at the same time, but thought of a better way - to exchange land for land!

The domestic conflict is caused by land annexation. If there is no violent method, the conflict can be transferred. If there is so much land overseas, it is better to change it with those landlords. One acre, one acre, or one acre, two acres! In this way, there will be pioneers in developing overseas and can resolve severe social conflicts.

"In the future, those landlords will be occupied by renting! You will give them 20 kilograms of wheat a year, and you can keep 50 acres of land for self-cultivation. You can rent them for five years first!" Zhao Yan immediately decided on the policy of treating those landlords.

"What about five years later?" Tang Zhengze asked, surprised. This was not in line with Zhao Yan's usual style! Zhao Yan had always planned to occupy the land for a long time.

"Who would have expected what happened five years later? Let's take one step at a time!" Zhao Yan smiled, "If you can build land overseas, you can return it with the overseas land number."

"Overseas?" Tang Zhengze was stunned. "Sir, there is no place where there is a barbarian land overseas. I'm afraid they won't want it for free."

"The barbarians will naturally make money better. There are barbarians everywhere overseas. They can be caught as slaves and open plantations without paying a share of their wages. It is more cost-effective than tenant workers." Zhao Yan smiled, "As long as someone tastes the sweetness, the resistance will be smaller in the future."

"In those five years, we have to conquer a piece of land. If there is no land, it will probably be difficult to deal with in five years." Tang Zhengze said.

"Well! Leave this to the Navy and Marine Corps. The Civil Affairs Bureau will first settle the landlords in Laizhou, and then give those self-cultivated farmers more publicity and the benefits of garrisoning land, so that they can join in." Zhao Yan said.

"Sir, the Laizhou Prefecture Prefecture has already taken office. If the Laizhou Prefecture Prefecture cooperates, the self-cultivated farmers in Laizhou can be directly included in the jurisdiction of the village."

"The Laizhou magistrate is here? What's the name?" Zhao Yan asked. Since Sun Yaoguang was crushed, the Laizhou magistrate has been vacant, waiting for the new official to take office.

"I'm called Zhou Fenglin, a Jinshi in the early years of Tianqi, and just took office the day before yesterday."

"Yeah!" Zhao Yan touched the bar and thought for a moment, and ordered Tang Zhengze: "You go find Chen Zhongsheng and visit Zhou Fenglin with him to test your attitude towards us. It is best to be able to cooperate."

"If you don't cooperate..."

"Then let him do it! It's the Buddha statue that is offered."

...When Zhao Yan was preparing for the war, at the end of May, the flying scissors F001, which was heading to the Americas, successfully returned to Qingdao Port. They brought back more than 500 kilograms of rubber, and at the same time, they brought back ten kilograms of rubber tree seeds, as well as the Far East Cooperation Agreement signed with the Spaniards.

Zhao Yan was overjoyed when he saw the rubber. He originally thought that it would not be so easy to find rubber, but he had to wait until other warships of the American fleet arrived in the Americas before they could unfold. Unexpectedly, the two flying scissors that set out first found the rubber.

With these rubbers, there is basically no suspense to build a watt-type steam engine except for the cylinder processing. Several steam engine research teams from the Academy of Sciences have all been stuck in the cylinder processing.

In fact, rubber is not necessary for steam engines. When Europe invented the steam engine, rubber had not yet been put into use, but what Zhao Yan wanted was a relatively mature steam engine.

The main problem of cylinder processing is that it is not fine enough and not smooth enough. In order to make more sophisticated cannons, Zhao Yan has already started to manufacture drilling and boring machines. After this boring machine is made, the processing of cylinders will no longer be a problem, and the cost of artillery will be further reduced.

After reading the content of the "Far East Cooperation Agreement", Zhao Yan couldn't help but be very satisfied with the agreement signed by Cao Li and the Spaniards. He actually asked for 10,000 pounds of rubber in one breath, which is nearly 10,000 kilograms, or every year.

At the same time, it also confirmed the trade relations between Asia with the Spaniards. The trade against Japan obviously did not last long. Although Japan was called the "Treasure Island", there was not much gold and silver itself. In another two years, the profits of trade against Japan could only be supported by brass.

Trade with the Westerners can open up a new way of wealth. In particular, the Spaniards, who have a large amount of gold and silver mines in the Americas and produce a large amount of precious metals.

At the same time, the Spaniards could also resell goods to other European countries. Most of the Spanish plundering of American wealth flowed into the pockets of other countries, mainly because of their low productivity and the grabbing of large amounts of gold and silver caused prices to soar, and they were very dependent on the import of goods.

Therefore, the Spanish lost their maritime overlord status, and the Dutch were about to lose their maritime overlord status due to insufficient industrial capacity.

The productivity of the Ming Dynasty was the highest in the world, with a GDP reaching 2/3 of the world. It is now in a state of deflation, so there is no need to worry about inflation.

The main goal of overseas plunder and maritime trade in this era is precious metals. In fact, it is like printing money. If you have more money, you will generally choose to print more money and grab money from the pockets of ordinary people. However, in this era, there is no market for banknotes, and the government does not have the ability to print money, so you can only obtain more money from the outside. No matter how depreciates within the country, this kind of money can still play its original value in other countries.

Therefore, how to keep these precious metals that have been obtained will not flow out of other countries in places that are not important to development, has become a problem that marine hegemony needs to be paid attention to. If you even have to pay real money to buy food, clothing and use to buy food, clothing and use, it will be just a cheaper one.

If this real money can be used for development and to purchase important resources from other countries, it will be considered to be the right place to use it.

This is one of the reasons why Western countries can still develop rapidly after World War II. Their precious metals can be continuously mobilized to the world's resources.

The minimum annual Chinese goods stipulated in the agreement is a bit small in Zhao Yan's opinion. With a trade volume of 5 million taels per year, he can only earn more than 2 million taels of silver at most.

However, the transportation capacity is not strong now, and only eight fly-scissors are the fastest and most convenient. The 50 1,000-ton fly-scissors that were launched this year are not so fast. At least they have to wait until the second half of next year.

Another thing in the "Far East Cooperation Agreement" is military cooperation to jointly eliminate pirates in the Far East. The largest pirate in the Far East is Zheng Zhilong.

How can you let others snore on the side of the bed?

The dispute between him and Zheng Zhilong was bound to arise, which he had expected before he intervened in the maritime trade, so Zheng Zhilong would be the enemy he had to face.

As for the two sides' righteousness, national justice, cooperation, etc., it is unrealistic in both Zheng Zhilong and Zhao Yan's opinion.

First of all, Zheng Zhilong does not have this consciousness.

Although Zhao Yan was so conscious, he did not have much affection for the Zheng group. Zheng Zhilong was just a pirate figure and basically had no awareness of the national justice. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty would only surrender after entering the pass. As for his son Zheng Chenggong, he had strong ambitions and was not a good cause for great achievements.

Even if it is cooperation and gives them a share of the interests of maritime trade, Zhao Yan is unwilling to do so.

Whoever gains the dominant position of the Chinese sea will be able to monopolize the foreign trade rights of Chinese goods. The interests can be imagined, otherwise the Zheng group will not be rich.

Just when Zheng Zhilong planned to attack Zhao Yan, Zhao Yan was also thinking about how to deal with Zheng Zhilong. With Zhao Yan's current strength, although he could not fight Zheng Zhilong head-on, Zheng Zhilong would definitely not be able to do anything to Zhao Yan's maritime power.

First of all, although Zheng Zhilong had many ships, with a terrifying number of thousands, most of them were small boats. Not only were they slow and there were not many artillery guns, it was even more impossible to concentrate these ships together to fight at all times.

If he really had sex with Zheng Zhilong, Zhao Yan would definitely be able to take the initiative, so Zhao Yan was not afraid of Zheng Zhilong. The hegemony of the ocean has always been closely related to cannons.

As long as the cannon is advanced than other countries, it can gain a corresponding position in the ocean. Zheng Zhilong's tactics largely retain the naval combat method in the era of cold weapons.

However, the Far East Cooperation Agreement has not yet been informed to the Filipino Spaniards, so Zhao Yan immediately asked the trade fleet to organize a trade with Manila.

At the same time, let the servants plant the seeds of the rubber tree and instruct the servants to take care of the rubber tree seedlings carefully.

Rubber trees grow in the tropical areas, but they can also grow in colder areas, but they cannot cut rubber. It is not too late to transplant them into tropical areas after these rubber trees grow into saplings.
Chapter completed!