0735 Catastrophe
Several people were talking, and the soldiers had already lifted many boxes from the boat. As soon as the boxes were opened, the dock was shining with golden light and silver light! The eyes of the others on the dock were straightened!
Because it was difficult to collect 500,000 taels of silver for a while, the Tokugawa family also paid a lot of gold to offset the bill. And Liu Pei was happy to do this. Because there were many volcanoes in Japan, the minerals were relatively rich, which led to the low gold and silver on the market. In the Ming Dynasty, the low gold and silver were low.
In other words, the more gold the Tokugawa family pays, it is invisibly equivalent to paying a lot of more silver. In Japan, one tael of gold can be exchanged for eight to nine taels of silver. In mainland China, one tael of gold can be exchanged for about ten taels of silver. At most, it is as high as twelve and three taels! Therefore, there is a huge price difference here.
Fang Degang was excited to check the quality of gold and silver one by one, muttering, "This silver is so timely!"
After looking through the boxes, Fang Degang gave up. Liu Pei saw that he stopped and said, "How is it? This time I have money in my hand, so I have the confidence to work, right?"
Fang Degang grinned and said, "Master, this money is just a matter of being able to respond to emergency!"
After saying that, Fang De first settled the accounts with Liu Pei one by one with his fingers. After winning the battle, the soldiers had to reward and pay pensions. The pig iron and gunpowder in stock were gone, and they had to be replenished. When there was insufficient food, they had to be replenished. Orders placed for merchants had already arrived one after another and had to be finalized. The slaves needed a large amount of materials to settle for the land reclamation, and the timber and various materials of the shipyard were purchased...
As he calculated, Liu Pei grabbed Fang Degang's hand and said with a look of rust. "Don't forget it anymore! If I continue to calculate, I still need to go out and rob!"
Fang Degang laughed and said, "Not only that, there is also the biggest expense that has not been calculated. Brother Xiang Fan's cavalry is still stocking up a large amount of grain. They reported a lot of silver and wanted to send a batch. Speaking of this, I would like to ask the Grand Marshal, what is the purpose of investing a lot of silver to him to buy grain? I have already allocated a lot of silver to him as the Grand Marshal's instructions, but I don't know why I did this?"
Hearing Fang Degang
After asking this, Liu Pei said proudly: "Let me keep it a secret! Please guess Brother Gui Ren now?"
Fang Degang said dissatisfiedly: "Master, this is a serious business, what is the snare?"
Liu Pei smiled and said, "Since that's the case, I'll tell you! Brother Gui Ren, what do you think you lack the most now is except money?"
Fang De said without thinking: "Population! The Grand Marshal drove slaves in large quantities, and even wasted the lives of slaves. He opened up farmland and farms in large quantities, which exceeded our current needs. Could it be that the Grand Marshal could get enough population?"
Liu Pei sighed and said, "According to the predictions of the old guys of the Academy of Sciences, an unprecedented drought will occur in Shaanxi and Shanxi in the first half of next year! At that time, it will probably be the scene of refugees rising from the crowd and changing children to eat!"
Fang Degang was shocked when he heard this and said, "Is that true?"
However, he thought about it immediately, then clapped his hands and laughed and said, "It turns out that the road opened by the Grand Marshal, Brother Xiangfan, is for this matter! If this is the case, a large number of refugees can enter Shandong directly and gradually enrich it to Ryukyu and Taiwan! This is a happy event, Grand Marshal!"
Liu Pei tilted his head and looked at Fang Degang with a smile and said, "Brother Gui Ren, if I tell you, there may be a million refugees next year. Can you still laugh?"
Fang Degang immediately lost his smile, his face pale and could not speak! After a while, he said, "Food! How could I have so much food for them?"
Liu Pei patted Fang Degang's arm and said, "We are going to have a hard life for a year! Fortunately, I have arranged for Brother Xiang Fan to raise food and grass vigorously. In addition, my tenants have made good harvests this year, so the reserved food should be able to meet most of the needs. Even if there is a part of the gap, it will not be too big. However, the resettlement of refugees requires the overall arrangement of your Government Council!"
Fang Degang sighed to the sky: "It's bitterness! It's bitterness!"
Then Fang Degang waved his sleeves and said, "Since that's the case, I'm going to arrange personnel and prepare! It's less than half a year, and the time is so tight and the task is heavy!"
Liu Pei gritted his teeth and said, "I led the meeting from Japan."
If a group of Japanese people come back, I will give you all! You can also recruit refugees from Japan and North Korea. Then you will buy a group of criminals from the shogunate to come back! You don’t have to worry about using these people, and use them to death! In short, you must open up enough farmland and residence according to time and quantity! And I will tell you clearly that among these refugees, I will only allow 20% of the population to die at most!"
Fang Degang shouted loudly: "Twenty percent? Grandmaster, aren't you just trying to make trouble? Not to mention starving to death, more than 20 percent of them died of illness on the way!"
Liu Pei said arrogantly: "I don't care about this! In short, this matter will fall on you. The army can cooperate if necessary. And from now on, except for the navy going to patrol the sea and attacking pirates, there will be no war! All forces must be devoted to the resettlement of refugees this time!"
Fang Degang nodded helplessly and said, "I'll do my best!"
Afterwards, Liu Pei left some of the silver in Taiwan, and he escorted most of the silver back to Shandong. As soon as the silver arrived in Shandong, it was spent like a flowing stream, and it was replaced by a large amount of grain and materials to be stored. After getting enough silver, Liu Pei's industrial system began to rotate steadily!
Liu Pei also ordered that all the materials will not be produced after replenishing the warehouse. Except for the shipyard, everyone will devote themselves to the work of land reclamation.
Liu Pei knew that the resettlement of refugees was a huge test for him, and it was also the basis for him to spread his wings and take off. If he could really accept millions of refugees and successfully resettle them, he would have 100,000 strong soldiers in his hands in the future! As long as he rested for a few years, sweeping the world was no longer a dream!
After Liu Pei returned to Shandong, he handled the government affairs. After paying Wang Ya and his son for a while, Liu Pei went through the time and space gate to modern times. It has been more than half a year since he saw Yu Lina, which made Liu Pei miss him quite a lot.
After Liu Pei returned to the present, he changed his clothes in the warehouse and went to a club where he often went to take a bath. He waited until dawn to go back to his villa.
Chapter completed!