When talking about maritime trade these days, it’s actually smuggling.
According to the ancestral laws of the Ming Dynasty, except for the tributes brought into the Ming Dynasty by the Shipping Department, everything else is illegally smuggled.
Chang Ningwei has not participated in smuggling since the death of the old man. If it weren't for Su Ze's previous reward and punishment argument, Lin Mojun would have refused on the spot.
Su Ze said: "As long as we can dock at Changningwei and move the goods to Changningwei, it will be fine."
Su Ze continued to add:
"Twenty percent of the proceeds from sea trade will be given to the hundred households, and 10 percent will be given to the ancestral halls. What do the hundred households think?"
In fact, according to the smuggling sharing relationship, this share is considered low. However, Su Ze only wants to borrow the port of Changningwei and does not need the participation of Changningwei military households. This share is considered reasonable.
Lin Mojun thought for a while and said: "You are not allowed to do business with Zhenwa."
"This is natural!"
"The sale of grain, salt, iron and ordnance is prohibited."
"I will definitely not do anything related to the Japanese."
"In that case, let's do it."
Lin Mojun also knew that Su Ze was a capable person. Nowadays, there are sieves everywhere in the southeast region, and there is unscrupulous smuggling in Yuegang. The entire province of Fujian knows about this den, and no one is going to destroy it. The connections behind it are deep
Makes one's scalp numb.
If Su Ze really wants to smuggle, he can find a way. It is better to let him do it within the control area of Changning Guard, so that the risk can be controlled.
This is not because Lin Mojun is standing still, but because Chang Ningwei really can't hold on anymore.
The imperial court was in arrears with military pay, and the farmland of the guard station only produced so much. If Su Ze hadn't found the refined salt for the last time the fined silver was fined, Lin Mojun would have had to pawn her dowry to pay the fined silver.
Su Ze’s “understanding of righteousness” also has a prerequisite, which is to “eat enough food.” If you can’t even eat enough food, how can you talk about personal beliefs?
When Su Ze came out of the Hundred Household House, it was already dark, but he was in a happy mood. From the perspective of Su Ze, a modern man who had experienced the wave of trade, Chang Ningwei was guarding the golden rice bowl and begging for food.
Changningwei is located in a remote location, but on the other hand, it is a natural smuggling port.
It is very close to Yanping Prefecture and Fuzhou Prefecture, which are both places where trade is prosperous, especially Fuzhou Prefecture. Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian, including the three yamen of the Provincial Government Envoy, the Provincial Envoy and the Capital Commander.
Fuzhou Prefecture.
In addition, the Fujian Municipal Bureau of Shipping Office, the Fujian Joining Army Office, and the General Office of Beiwa Bureau are also located in Fuzhou Prefecture. It can be said that there are many dignitaries and nobles gathered here, and their spending power is extremely strong.
Su Ze's plan was to set up a sugar mill in Changningwei, buy smuggled Cochin brown sugar, purify it into white sugar and sell it.
The unit price and profit of sugar are much higher than that of salt, and the people who can buy sugar are the powerful officials and gentry. Su Ze's business does not cheat the poor.
Relying on the "sugar making" skill that he learned in the sugar making workshop last time, Su Ze still knew how to build a simple sugar making workshop.
However, Su Ze was not sure whether the "yellow mud water drenching method" written in "Tiangong Kaiwu" could produce snow-white sugar.
You must know that although the book "Tiangong Kaiwu" is claimed to be an "encyclopedia"-style technical book, many of the contents were written into the book by Song Yingxing through hearsay and have not been verified by him.
According to Song Yingxing's method, you only need to melt the brown sugar and pour yellow mud water into it to get clean syrup naturally. Su Ze was also quite skeptical about this.
The yellow mud water is equivalent to an adsorbent, which absorbs and precipitates the dark substances in the brown sugar. The principle is the same as that of modern sugar factories using activated carbon as an adsorbent, which is correct.
But whether the effect is as good as in "Tiangong Kaiwu", Su Ze can't be sure since he has never made sugar.
However, sugar production also requires concentrated syrup in the end, which also requires fuel. It is definitely not possible to just rely on burning reed poles, and you also need to purchase fuel.
Su Ze only felt a little headache, why other time travelers could build nearly modern workshops just by giving instructions, but he had to painstakingly plan every process, even worrying about what to burn in the furnace.
Refined salt requires fuel, refined sugar also requires fuel, and Jiu Gu's mother-in-law's beans have also been used up. It seems that we still have to go to the ghost market at the end of the first ten days.
Last time when he was in the ghost market, Su Ze seemed to have seen a shop selling charcoal.
In fact, China has been mining coal for a long time. Coal dug out of the ground is called coal, which is different from charcoal made from wood.
Charcoal burns fully, does not contain sulfur and other impurities, and burns with less smoke, so it is basically used by dignitaries.
For example, "The Charcoal Seller" written by Bai Juyi in the Tang Dynasty is about "cutting firewood and burning charcoal in the Nanshan Mountains". What was sold was charcoal, which was also snatched by the eunuchs in the palace for use in the palace.
Coal has "charcoal poison". During the Song Dynasty, ordinary people in Kaifeng Prefecture burned coal for heating. Many people died every year due to "charcoal poison", but if they did not use charcoal for heating, they would freeze to death.
At that time, there were coal shops specializing in selling charcoal. Once the price of charcoal increased, a large number of poor people would freeze to death. In the Song Dynasty, there were already special agencies responsible for mining charcoal mountains.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were also special charcoal fields in the north, and a large amount of Shanxi coal was transported to the capital every year for the people of the capital to keep warm.
Ordinary people in Fujian basically still burn grass and wood, and charcoal is mainly used in the surrounding ironworks.
Nanping County is rich in iron ore. There are not only a large number of mines outside the city, but also iron smelting workshops and iron forging ironworks.
The coal trade in Yanping Prefecture is booming. There is a charcoal mountain in Zhenghe County, Jianning Prefecture, not far from Yanping Prefecture. There are specialized coal merchants who transport the coal to Yanping Prefecture for sale.
Among them were charcoal merchants who sent them to the ghost market to sell them. If Su Ze wanted to make salt and sugar, a charcoal stove would be a stable fuel.
But before that, Su Ze had one more important thing to do. Early the next morning, he came to the area where wasteland was being reclaimed on the mountainside. He only saw Arhat Jiao and Zhu Qi's salt workers digging and hoeing the land.
A scene full of excitement.
When the Arhats saw Su Ze, they quickly called out "Sir" and stood respectfully.
Zhu Qi's injury was almost healed. He held a hoe and looked at Su Ze with vigilant eyes. Yan Ding who was with him stood behind him and stared at Su Ze with his eyes.
The guards sent by the ancestral hall immediately picked up their clubs and hammers, and Su Ze signaled them to put down their weapons.
Su Ze found a place under the shade of a tree to sit down and said to Zhu Qiyi and the others:
"I'm going to give a lecture. If you want to listen, come here. If you don't want to listen, just go to work."
After saying this, Su Ze began to talk about the content of enlightenment to the Arhats.
When facing these arhats, Su Ze basically picked interesting historical stories to tell, such as "Zhou Chu eliminated the three evils" or short idiom stories. His explanations were easy to understand, and his enlightenment experience began.
rise.
Su Ze's voice was loud, and gradually several saltmen put down their hoes and followed behind to listen.
There were fewer and fewer people behind Zhu Qi. When Zhu Qi saw that all his brothers were gone, he put down his hoe with a sigh, came to the back of the crowd and sat down cross-legged, listening to Su Ze's lecture.
[Tian Lang lectures, "Enlightenment" experience +2, experience +5 has been upgraded. Enlightenment: Lv5, 0/500]