Although the two boats were just the most common Galen boats, and some branches were not vigorous enough due to long-distance transportation and could only be counted as 0.1 yuan per branch, they were sold for a high price of 600,000 yuan in total!
Get rich overnight!
After getting the money, several Francois happily played in Xinghai City for a whole month before taking advantage of the last monsoon to rush back to South America.
Well, they are also planning to come back as soon as next spring and bring more white lacquer tree branches!
In fact, even more than one million rubber branches are far from enough to meet the huge demand of Xinghai Kingdom.
After capturing the Malacca Castle, the Fifth Division quickly attacked, not only taking the Malacca Strait into its hands, but also repelled the Fjou army that came upon hearing the news.
Well, Forou's army originally planned to take advantage of the war here to capture the Malacca Castle. After all, no matter how powerful the Xinghai Kingdom is, the Helan people are not weak. When two tigers fight, one of them will be injured. Forou
Da Jun happened to pick up a peach that fell to the ground.
But they underestimated the strength of Xinghai Kingdom, and ended up being beaten to pieces and fled back.
Not only failed to capture the Malacca Castle, but they lost a large area of land.
Not to mention that Forou immediately sent envoys to Xinghai City to appeal to the Xinghai Kingdom. He only said that the land occupied by the Fifth Division belonged to the Xinghai Kingdom.
As 80,000 coolies were transported, Elder Zhang Gang, the special commissioner in charge of the construction of the Malacca Strait and the future governor of Malacca, immediately launched the twin castle plan.
That is to say, another castle will be built at the western exit of the Strait of Malacca, and new rubber plantations will be opened up on the wide land between the two castles.
This veteran Zhang Gang came with the ambition to make great achievements.
He wanted to develop the Strait of Malacca into the richest area of Xinghai Kingdom.
Therefore, in addition to port supplies and tax collection, the rubber plantation, an important project that determines the upper limit of Xinghai Kingdom's science and technology, has become the focus of his attention.
In order to have enough manpower for the rubber plantations, he even dispatched the army to recover all the indigenous tribes along the way and assigned them to the rubber plantations for work.
The people who supervise these indigenous labors are the coolies assigned from the country.
Of course, after these coolies settled in the Malacca area, they were registered and converted into naturalized citizens. However, their technical levels had to be improved step by step. But for these coolies who struggled to survive in the mines, this place was a paradise!
Compared with the situation in the mines where they had no food, clothing or warmth, and they would die if they got sick, now they just go to the castle construction site to contribute, usually guarding the rubber plantation, waving the whip and acting as a supervisor, and the state also pays wages and bonuses.
And what about overseas work subsidies, etc.
After saving money for a few years, you can buy a hundred acres of land here. You can plant whatever you want, raise whatever you want, marry a wife, have a litter of babies, and cuddle up to your wife on the hot bed.
If you want to eat white rice, you can eat white rice. If you want to eat rice noodles, you can eat rice noodles. When you are greedy, you can go to the canteen to buy a few kilograms of meat and let your wife cook twice-cooked pork. This kind of life would not change even for an emperor.
It must be said that the changes in status and treatment have made these former coolies, now naturalized citizens, full of energy.
However, compared to the vast land of the Strait of Malacca, only 80,000 people are still too few.
After the Fourth Division of the Xinghai Kingdom cooperated with the Zheng Jiajun to launch the Hu Jiannan Offensive, the recruitment of immigrants was expanded to the immigration working group in the Hu Jiannan South, and the work was very effective.
After the spring of 1650, in just three months, the immigration working group recruited a total of 200,000 refugees from southern Hu Jian.
Half of these 200,000 refugees stayed directly on Nanhai Island.
After all, developing Nanhai Island is the highest-level development strategy of Xinghai Kingdom, and various factories, farms, and other units are still short of people.
The remaining 100,000 refugees were distributed to overseas ports and cities.
Since Malacca Straits City is a strategic point for the southward movement, with the help of veteran Zhang Gang's sharp tongue, 60,000 refugees are expected!
It must be said that these 60,000 refugees have greatly alleviated the manpower gap in Malacca Straits City.
But obviously, the total population of 140,000 before and after is still not enough.
The bill to convert local indigenous people into naturalized citizens was rejected as soon as it was sent to the Senate.
No way, not to mention other reasons, the number of local indigenous people alone exceeds 300,000. If all of them were converted, Zhang Gang might not be able to control the situation.
It happened that after the victory of Hu Jian's southern offensive, the Fourth Division of Xinghai Kingdom captured more than 20,000 Qing troops. The Zheng family army seemed to have a better reputation among the surrendered troops, or was closer to them, which made the Qing troops they captured The number reached 40,000.
Where does the Zheng family army have so much surplus food to feed these prisoners of war?
If they were to be killed in a trap, the reputation of the Zheng Family Army would be damaged. Otherwise, they would simply sell these prisoners of war to the Xinghai Kingdom.
After Xinghai Kingdom took over these prisoners of war, the number of prisoners of war in its hands exceeded 60,000.
It was not safe to store all these prisoners of war in the mines, so they were simply transported to Malacca Straits City for resettlement.
These prisoners of war also came from the Ming army to surrender to the Qing army. After leaving their hometown, they could not cause any trouble.
After all, in the first few years, their food, drink, and food were all supplied by the Malacca Straits City. Besides, wouldn't it be better to be a naturalized citizen and work as a supervisor than to be a prisoner of war and work in the mines?
Anyway, it is impossible to swim back, so we can only settle here.
The authentic Eight Banners soldiers who were captured in many battles were organized into death camps by the Xinghai Kingdom's Ministry of Military Affairs.
Well, there is no way, there are not enough prisoners, there are only more than 300 people in total, so they can only be reorganized into battalion-level units.
This death camp was also transported to the Straits of Malacca City, mainly to adapt to the climate here, and to be used in the attack on Suilan Island after the fleet heading south was completed.
This is also a helpless thing.
After the fall of Malacca Castle, the Helan people improved the defense system of Suilan Island.
According to reports from some grape merchants, the Helan people built a large number of trenches around the castle on Suilan Island and stationed a large number of soldiers in these trenches.
To put it simply, the Helan people imitated the tactics of the Xinghai infantry and used this tactic in reverse, forcing the Xinghai people to give up their sharp guns and enter the rhythm of hand-to-hand combat.
Well, obviously, the Helan people are still very smart.
After all, the soldiers of the Star Sea Kingdom have basically never been exposed to teachings such as hand-to-hand combat during the recruit training stage.
In fact, apart from chasing the defeated army after a great victory, they did not have much time for hand-to-hand combat.
This is also why the Helan people chose this tactic to target the Star Navy, because they have seen the weaknesses of the Star Navy.