Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 929

[Chapter 929]

Governor’s Office.

Zhao Xu asked Battelle to sit opposite him, took out a quill pen from the ink bottle on the table, and started writing on a piece of paper.

For a quarter of an hour, he pushed the paper towards Battelle.

Battelle is literate because his mother was literate.

According to him, his mother and grandfather used to be a scholarly family in Daesong.

They were attacked by pirates and plundered to Manila.

“Your Highness, there are many things on this, I don’t really understand.” Battelle took the paper and looked at it carefully, feeling a little confused.

Zhao Xu then explained to him.

The first clause of this contract is that the Manila Governor’s Mansion has since been renamed the Southern Region Governor’s Mansion, and at the same time, all the property of the Frangji people in Luzon will be taken over by the Dasong court.

Battelle didn’t understand what the Protectorate’s Mansion was, but when he learned about the responsibilities of the Protectorate’s Mansion from Zhao Xu, instead of being angry, he was very excited.

King Dasong Yan said that he would support him as the king of Manila.

Although he is willing, but more is fear.

He feared that the native officials and generals in Manila would disobey his orders.

After all, he was nothing more than a slave before.

Now, there is a Protectorate in charge of guarding the Southern Territory in the whole of Luzon, and he immediately took a reassurance.

With the protection of Da Song’s army, who can do anything to him?

“The second article is about commerce…” Zhao Xu continued, the following articles are basically the same as those of Korea and Japan.

Of course, the most important one is to ban the Francophone currency circulating in Luzon, which should be the Song Yuan.

As for how General Battelle governs Luzon, he doesn’t care.

But there is one thing, as long as the Protectorate is there, no matter how Luzon’s throne changes, the Protectorate will protect Da Song’s interests in Luzon.

“Your Highness, everything will be as you wish.” After understanding all the terms, Battelle said respectfully.

Before the Frangji people arrived, the King of Manila would send envoys to pay tribute to the Central Plains Dynasty every year.

For him, this is just restoring the former order of the Eastern Land.

As for other terms, he doesn’t care.

Compared with the oppression of Lu Song by the Frangji people, King Yan can only be said to be kind to them.

After all, the former king of Manila did not have much freedom.

After discussing this matter, Zhao Xu handed Battelle to Zhou Yi.

After taking Manila, the navy was temporarily unable to act.

On the one hand, it is necessary to recover Cebu and Cotton Island, and on the other hand, it is necessary to take over the assets of Frangji.

Of course, there is another very important thing, which is to assist Battle to establish his own kingdom order.

Such as building an indigenous army that obeys Battle.

The muskets and cannons captured by the Frang robot can be used for this purpose.

After that, there are civil servants who obey Battelle, and he will take the opportunity to insert some overseas Chinese into this government affairs system.

In this way, the control over Luzon is perfectly closed.

After the two left, Zhao Xu left the Governor’s Mansion, walked east along the streets of Manila, and headed for the largest rubber plantation in Luzon.

In order to protect his safety, in addition to the guards led by Xu Lie, Pan Chang also led two thousand soldiers to accompany him for protection.

“This Manila is really prosperous and poor.” On the way, Xu Lie looked at the buildings on both sides of the street and said.

Throughout Manila, as long as the center is close to the coast, it is prosperous.

The buildings on both sides of the street there are basically white, and the road is paved with stone slabs, which looks clean and tidy.

There are many types of shops along the street, including tailor shops, taverns, casinos, and jewelry shops.

The aborigines in the shop are also dressed in clean clothes.

They all serve the Frangji people of Luzon.

And beyond this street it’s like a refugee camp.

The muddy dirt roads, the black igloos and the skinny and dark indigenous people.

“As long as it is a place where the colonists have been, it will be like this.” Zhao Xu snorted softly.

Xu Lie has never seen it, but he has seen a lot in history books and video materials.

The group chatted and arrived at the Manila plantation after half an hour’s trek.

At this time, the entrance to the plantation was already guarded by marine soldiers.

Seeing Zhao Xu and his party coming, the leader of the team saluted Zhao Xu.

After returning a salute, Zhao Xu asked, “How is the plantation? Has it been damaged?”

“Return to Your Highness, no, but the workers in the plantation have all escaped.” Zong Qi returned.

Zhao Xu was stunned for a while, then smiled helplessly.

He wasn’t worried. When the order in Manila was restored, these people would come back.

Thinking of this, he once again focused his attention on the rubber plantation in front of him.

It is said that the rubber plantation in Manila is the largest, but he wants to see for himself how big it is.

Now, at a glance, he has understood, and his heart bursts with joy.

In front of them, the rubber trees were neatly arranged, row after row, with an interval of about three meters between each row.

This is because the rubber plantation is artificially planted, so it pays attention to neatness.

And the rubber plantation is also very clean, there are no weeds under the rubber trees, obviously weeding regularly.

One meter above the ground of each rubber tree, there is an iron ladle with a wooden tube on it, and white rubber juice is flowing out slowly through the tube.

“This time I really made a profit.” A smile appeared on Zhao Xu’s face.

From south to north, from east to west, the rubber forest has no end in sight.

When he came, Battelle said that the rubber forest covers about 100,000 mu, which is true.

It can be said that this rubber forest is about thirty miles long and five miles wide.

This is just one of eight rubber plantations in Luzon.

Add up, the rubber forest in Luzon can reach about 500,000 mu.

Since the rubber forests in Luzon are all old rubber trees that are more than ten years old, the annual rubber production of one mu of rubber forest is 200 catties.

Luzon can provide Dasong with 100 million kilograms of rubber every year, equivalent to 100,000 tons of rubber.

A meal of contemporary rubber is about 10,000 yuan. Even if calculated at contemporary prices, winning Luzon is equivalent to obtaining an industry with annual sales of one billion yuan.

Besides, in this day and age, rubber is more expensive.

After walking along the rubber forest for a while, Zhao Xu went back happily.

Not only the rubber plantations, but Franz’s spice plantations in Luzon, cocoa bean plantations, and tobacco plantations are all his.

In addition to spices that are native to Luzon, cocoa beans and tobacco were imported from South America by Franz.

Both are tropical crops.

Due to the favorable climate, contemporary Philippine cigars and chocolates are also of high quality.

Previously, Frangji had both plantations and cigar and coffee workshops in Luzon, which is an industrial chain.

In addition to plantations, Luzon is also known as the kingdom of bananas and coconuts.

Just walking along the way, you can see banana trees covered with green bananas, which are as common as weeds on the side of the road.

These things are transported to Dasong, not only can provide Dasong people’s material living standards, but also can be used as industrial raw materials.

Coconuts can be used to extract coconut oil, and bananas can be used to extract medicinal materials.

These are agricultural aspects, and the mines left by Frangji are also of great value.

All in all, he really made a lot of money in the battle of Luzon.

(end of this chapter)