The King of Luzon, Hendry, was a carefully selected hedonist. At the moment, he only needed to be obedient and enjoy life. Nothing else was important.
Once Henderley died, there would be a second and third Henderley. Xiao Ruxun could casually appoint him as she pleased. She could confer him as she pleased and cripple him as she pleased. She couldn't give him the shackles of a family, otherwise, it would be hard for him to avoid having other thoughts.
Hendry was very clear about his situation. He was originally a poor man who came to Luzon to serve in the military. Now, he was lucky enough to become the King of Luzon. His life was quite luxurious, something he didn't even dare to think about before.
He had dozens of exotic beauties to accompany him every night. He was so happy that he forgot about home.
He didn't want anything other than the wonderful dream-like life he had now. He just wanted to enjoy it. He just wanted a paradise like this.
Hendry was a very realistic hedonist. He only came here to have more money and women in the future. As for building a career?
Sorry, he couldn't think that far.
To be able to enjoy the life of a king, the treatment of a king, and the status of a king, this was something he didn't even dare to think about. As for who would manage this country …
Not important, not important at all.
His guards were carefully selected from the guards around Xiao Ruxun. The missionaries taught them to speak Spanish in a short period of time. All the people that Hendry came into contact with were smart people. Except for his concubines, everyone else was smart. From daily life to all aspects, everything was taken care of by Daming.
With this arrangement, Hendry was guaranteed to be a very obedient King of Luzon until the day he died.
This put a lot of pressure on the Luzon Prime Minister. He needed a strong ability to deal with things here. He needed to maintain stability, maintain income, and maintain the balance between the natives and the Spanish missionaries.
Xiao Ruxun divided the missionaries into two groups. One group continued to preach among the natives, and the other group followed him back to Myanmar to prepare to attack the Myanmar natives.
The Luzon Prime Minister could control at most three thousand troops. He also had to separate some troops to explore other islands in the south. He also had to find more and richer mineral resources. He even had to wage war at any time because if there were natives who resisted, he would capture them as slaves.
Xiao Ruxun even had the idea of starting a slave trade.
Sometimes, it was not a good thing to capture too many slaves. There were about two to three million people in the Philippines, and it was impossible for all of them to cooperate with him. There would definitely be some who would not cooperate. Let's count it as a third. There were more than a million people. Did they need so many slaves? Could he afford it?
Besides, there were still two to three million aborigines in Myanmar, and most of them would be slaves. He could keep a small number for his own use, and most of them would be burdens. It would be a pity to kill them, and he could sell them.
At this moment, the Europeans were engaged in a triangular trade. They reached an agreement with the African tribal chiefs and the kings of the kingdoms. They exchanged money and firearms for these slaves, and then sold them to the Americas, which was in need of population, in exchange for a large amount of profit. This profit directly promoted the development of Spain and England.
Xiao Ruxun had no choice but to consider the possibility of slave trade. He found some Spaniards and asked them about some of their trading activities in the Americas. From them, he learned some details about the galleon trade.
Xiao Ruxun began to imagine that he could completely replace the Spaniards in the trade from Manila to Mexico and Latin America.
The Spaniards set out from Manila, carrying enough goods from China and Japan to sell in the Mexican and Latin American markets. At the same time, they expanded their trade and continued to buy luxury goods from China.
A large amount of silver they plundered from the Americas flowed into China, which contributed to Zhang Juzheng's silver standard reform, and laid a solid foundation for the later use of silver as currency in China. This was an opportunity to obtain a large amount of silver. Instead of looking for middlemen and agents, it was better to do it directly.
And unlike the Spaniards, who needed a large number of aborigines to work for them, China did not lack population.
Xiao Ruxun was worried that there was no place to free up a large amount of empty land to settle the Chinese people. Such a good thing fell from the sky. The millions of aborigines in the Philippines and Myanmar instantly changed from a burden to a treasure.
He did not want this primitive accumulation of capital to be monopolized by Europe. Such a good opportunity, an opportunity without moral condemnation, an opportunity without legal prohibition or even legal support, in this era of the mainstream of the world, if he did not participate, it would be stupid.
Xiao Ruxun could not think of any reason not to participate.
Only trading luxury goods with Europe could certainly open up the European market, but the European market alone could not satisfy him. Since he could also use this to open up the American market, why not?
Spain was now an arrow at the end of its flight. In Europe, there were Britain, France, and the Netherlands to contain the hostility. Internally, there was the unstable factor of the Portuguese. In Asia, there was the sudden emergence of Xiao Ruxun's forces. Their shortcomings were obvious. Now, Xiao Ruxun was not afraid of the Spaniards at all.
I will accept the market share of the American market without hesitation.
Xiao Ruxun sent away the surrendered Spaniards and began to formulate a new trade plan with the galleon.
Not only to seize market share in Europe, but also in the American market share, completely destroy the power of Spain, and let the power of China replace it.
There were many little-known inside stories about this galleon trade. As a country lacking gold and silver, China was able to achieve the silver standard, and the trade during this period was really indispensable.
At the latest in the 1680s, China silk had threatened the sales of Spanish products in the American market. At the beginning of the 17th century, Mexicans wore silk more than cotton. By 1637, the silk industry in Mexico used Ming Dynasty silk as raw material, and the native silk of Mexico was basically eliminated.
Peru, which was adjacent to Mexico, was also a huge market for Ming Dynasty silk. The price of Ming Dynasty silk in Peru was only one-third of the price of Spanish products.
Ming Dynasty silk not only flooded the American market, but also seized the sales of Spanish silk in the American market. It even bypassed half of the world and was exported to Spain, where it directly destroyed the Spanish silk production.
The goods of the Great Ming Dynasty were of high quality and low price, and by seizing the market share of other countries, they could even destroy the local production in Europe. If this kind of bug-like sales operation was directly controlled by the Chinese, then the damage to the local business in other parts of the world would increase exponentially.
Xiao Ruxun also sighed a little. Once upon a time, our products were recognized by the world as high-quality goods, selling well all over the world, invading cities and seizing territories everywhere, unstoppable. But even today, poor quality was still a shameful label that Chinese products could never get rid of.
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