Chapter 229: A sensation in the world, Chongzhen's regret
[The first batch of white sugar produced from Taiwan's sugar cane estates has arrived in Harbor City, worth more than 20 million silver dollars] Plus a picture of the transport fleet.
A picture of bags of white sugar packed in sacks piled up into a hill, as well as written interviews, etc. After reading this front-page headline from the "Oriental Times", the first chain reaction it brought about was the white sugar in the sugar shop.
The price has dropped by at least thirty or fifty cents from the original price of one silver dollar per catty or eight or nine hundred cents per catty.
Then there was a sensation in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other coastal areas. There was a sensation in the Jiangnan region. There was a sensation in Shandong.
There was also a sensation in the Gyeonggi region. The entire Ming Dynasty was in a sensation at the same time in no particular order. Then all the teahouses, business houses, prostitutes, roadsides and even government offices, there were countless people discussing enthusiastically
When it comes to this topic, it is undoubtedly the most popular.
"Twenty million silver dollars, just a sugar cane manor, can bring such a huge profit in one year?"
"Xujiazhuang has built fifty sugarcane estates in Dayuan. If each estate earns 20 million, wouldn't the total add up to one billion silver dollars?"
"It is impossible for every manor to earn so much. Things are rare and expensive. Now there is less sugar, so it can be sold at a higher price. When there is more sugar, it will not be sold at a higher price. It may only cost one or two hundred yuan per pound.
Already."
"Even so, the benefits of growing sugar cane are at least ten times higher than growing grain. A sugar cane manor like Xujiazhuang can earn at least one to two million silver dollars a year!"
"With 30,000 acres of sugarcane fields, about 5,000 manpower, and a seven-month growing period, we can only harvest one crop a year. The process is not very tiring, and we can earn at least two million silver dollars. There is a lot to do, there is a lot to do."
!" The landowner was moved.
"How can this return be so fast? Xujiazhuang announced its plan to expand overseas in October last year. In just over half a year, it has brought in more than 20 million silver dollars. Even if it invests hundreds of millions of silver dollars, it will not be able to recover the capital.
Is it really possible to expand overseas in a few years and have unlimited future?"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! At this time, no matter whether it is a sugar cane estate or a grain estate, almost all people are dead, and there are countless victims of the epidemic. Apart from the ashes that are transported back to the altar, where will there be any sugar transportation?
Come on? It’s fake, it must be fake!” This person felt unbelievable and couldn’t accept it.
"How could Xujiazhuang do something with no certainty? How could Xujiazhuang dare to colonize overseas in such a big way if there was no way to deal with the miasma in the south? We should have known long ago that with Xujiazhuang's level of medical care, we could reduce the fatality rate of colonization in Southeast Asia to
One percent, or even one thousandth, should not be a big problem. If not, Xujiazhuang would never send millions of people overseas rashly." This elegant middle-aged man analyzed.
"Mom, I can't live with this miserable life anymore. I work hard for my master's family all year round. I only get ten silver dollars, but the food in the store costs forty or fifty silver dollars per catty. I can't even keep food and clothing for the whole family. Mom,
They scolded me for being worthless, and my children were crying because of hunger. I quit! I risked my life to go to Nanyang, and I also want to go to Nanyang to plant sugar cane. Either I die outside, or I get rich!" The tenant man's face was filled with smiles.
said angrily.
"Go together, I will go to Nanyang with you! Fight for wealth and come back!"
"I'll go too!"... At the same time, in a certain business hall in Yangzhou City, Luo Houping, a businessman who has become a well-known wealthy businessman with a net worth of more than 10 million. In the Yangzhou business community, Luo Houping, now one of the most influential businessmen, is facing
There were hundreds of businessmen in the audience, none of whom had a net worth of less than 100,000 yuan. They talked freely: "Everyone, do you know why I, Luo Houping, have made a fortune and why I am known as the number one wealthy businessman in the new generation of Yangzhou business circles?"
"There is no other reason. I seized the opportunity and decisively seized the opportunity to cooperate with Xujiazhuang. Together with the Zheng family of Fujian, we monopolized the maritime trade with Japan and North Korea. I, Luo Houping, accounted for more than 70% of the fleet.
The total annual net profit exceeds three million silver dollars. Compared with this, the profit brought by snow salt is becoming dispensable, like worthless."
"I know you are jealous of me and often scold me in private, saying that I, Luo Houping, kneels down and licks Xujiazhuang's ass. That's right! You are absolutely right in scolding me. I am just a dog of Xujiazhuang. As long as I have the overseas market agency rights, I, Luo Houping, will
If I want to lick Xujiazhuang until I die, and if I want my son and grandson to continue to be dogs for Xujiazhuang, I must not be disobedient."
"Contempt? I see contempt on your faces. It's good. I like this expression. To tell you the truth that you don't like to hear. Once the Luo family announces that it has given up its overseas market agency rights and does not want this bone, I guess
You will immediately pounce on me and become a more obedient dog than me, and you will lick Xujiazhuang even harder than me. You don’t have to open your mouth to refute, think about it in your heart, did I tell you the correct answer?"
"Have you all read today's "Oriental Times"? I wonder what you have seen? Opportunities, have you all seen opportunities?"
"Like you, I have also seen opportunities and opportunities to make a fortune. Of course, what I plan to tell you now but actually don't want to tell you in my heart is that this is an excellent opportunity to establish cooperation with Xujiazhuang and serve as a dog for Xujiazhuang.
Originally I would never say it, but the big shots in Xujiazhuang have authorized me to tell you all, so I can only tell you the truth." Luo Houping's words shocked all the businessmen present, and they all listened with rapt attention.
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"To develop overseas and colonize Southeast Asia, Xujiazhuang believes that its own strength is insufficient, so it plans to recruit troops and partners to more fully develop overseas resources."
"For example, in Taiwan, the land currently developed and utilized is only over 3 million acres. The potential cultivated land is at least tens of millions of acres. There is no problem in establishing hundreds of merchant sugar cane plantations."
"For example, in Hainan, there are more than five million acres of wasteland that can be reclaimed, and at least hundreds of merchant farms can be built."
"There is also an infinite vast land in Southeast Asia. As long as you have the intention to invest, you can invest in and build rubber estates, fruit estates, grain estates, seafood fisheries, gold and silver mines, etc. The number can reach hundreds or thousands.
Covering multiple fields, you can always find the one you are most interested in investing in.”
"Everyone, there are currently no detailed regulations on how to build and operate the merchant manor. It will be continuously improved in the future. I can only say that by relying on the big tree of Xujiazhuang to develop overseas, the risks will be greatly reduced and the benefits will be extremely high.
It’s huge, it can be said that you make money without losing anything!”
"Finally, I have 100 registration places. The minimum investment threshold is 300,000 silver dollars. The purpose is to build at least 100 merchant manors. If you are interested in signing up, you can raise your hand and come to me to sign up and pay." Luo Houping's
As soon as the words fell.
There was a buzz. All the businessmen present raised their hands. Then they stood up one after another, rushed towards him, and said one after another: "Brother Luo, I'm signing up, please help my brothers."
"I'll sign up too, even if I'm broke, I'll have to raise 300,000 silver dollars!"
"My total wealth is less than 200,000 yuan. Brother Luo, can I find someone to share the shares and count it as a quota?"
"Brother Luo, I'm willing to be your dog, please take me with you!" The scene suddenly became extremely chaotic. Seeing these businessmen rushing towards him like pugs, Luo Houping couldn't help but laugh and felt
Extremely enjoyable.
...In the capital, the Forbidden City, at the Wenhua Hall Cabinet Discussion Meeting, University Scholar Wang Yingxiong combined the intelligence data collected from all aspects and conducted an in-depth analysis: "Your Majesty, gentlemen, we were wrong, we committed a huge crime.
The civil and military ministers of the entire dynasty also made fatal mistakes."
"We underestimated Xujiazhuang, far underestimated the opponent of this imperial court, and did not take any countermeasures. Instead, we let it go and allowed Xujiazhuang's strength to increase."
"First, they underestimated the medical strength of Xujiazhuang. Judging from the information sent back by the Jin Yiwei who sneaked into the sugar cane manor, in more than half a year, only five people died of illness in No. 8 Sugar Cane Manor, and they were all over fifty years old.
Old people, and under normal circumstances, this kind of group is also prone to death from illness, so it means that there is no outbreak of disease in the sugar cane manor, just like in the Ming Dynasty, the immigrants have all adapted to the local soil and water without any discomfort. "
"Secondly, I underestimated the development model of Xujiazhuang. The veteran found that the most fundamental reason why Xujiazhuang is extremely restrained and never expands blindly and does not intend to change dynasties is that Xujiazhuang only pursues positive returns and never seizes negative assets.
So they want to occupy the most fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, but the entire Ming Dynasty is not interested because there are too many bad assets and they cannot swallow them all. It is not because they have no ambition."
"That is to say, Xujiazhuang's behavior pattern is: make money by doing business, and never do money-losing business! Eat the fattest meat, don't touch the bones with little oil and water; and send troops to seize the most valuable land.
, a barren land without any nutrition, without even looking at it, and even in slightly inferior areas, they are unwilling to run it themselves, preferring to support puppets and agents."
"This is the reason why Xujiazhuang's overseas colonization will be successful. It takes less than half a year to ship back sugar worth 20 million silver dollars. What Xujiazhuang wants is just a few hundred of the fattest and best from Taiwan, Hainan, and other places in Southeast Asia.
It is just a piece of land, and it is not swallowed up entirely. The actual scope of business is only more than two hundred manors and ports, just like the more than two hundred market towns in the Ming Dynasty. The total may only be two or three states, but it has invested
Hundreds of millions of silver dollars and millions of people immigrated will naturally produce quick results, just like the Ming Dynasty invested tens of millions of taels of military expenditure in just one army. How could it not create an elite force?"
"It's just that Xujiazhuang can do this kind of concentrating a lot of resources to develop the most fertile land, but Daming cannot do it, because our stall is too big and we can't give up any place. Xujiazhuang has no such worries.
There is not so much baggage. If the walls of the manor are built taller and thicker, the army will not need to be recruited. Most of the problems can be solved easily. If it doesn't work, just abandon a few manors, shrink them, and come back when the strength is restored.
."
"Your Majesty, Xujiazhuang's system is impeccable and perfect. If we can learn from it, many difficult problems can be solved. Overseas areas that are difficult to explore can actually be developed. Some places that are difficult to conquer may not necessarily be conquered.
No, it’s just that it’s difficult, it’s difficult, it’s too difficult to learn, and the timing is too late, so it’s impossible to achieve similar results to Xujiazhuang.”
"And we can draw two conclusions. First, the Ming Dynasty should be safe. Xujiazhuang will not annex and destroy the Ming Dynasty. At most, it will build a group of collective estates; secondly, if it continues to develop like this, Xujiazhuang will become richer and richer.
We are getting stronger and stronger, leaving the imperial court far behind, and we will never be able to catch up. In the future, not only will we not be Xujiazhuang's opponent, but we will continue to be controlled by Xujiazhuang. Even if there is no war, Xujiazhuang may have a way to make the imperial court
Surrendering will eventually become like a puppet or a doll." At the end of the analysis, Wang Yingxiong made a bold guess.
After listening to what he said, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian, who was sitting at the top, was not only surprised in his heart but also had a very solemn expression on his face. In fact, he also had endless regrets.
It’s not that I regretted not being able to organize Xujiazhuang’s overseas expansion. It’s that Qichunnian, the representative of Xujiazhuang’s business affairs, took the initiative to go to the palace to ask for a meeting, offered cooperation, and invited the royal family to explore Nanyang together. There was no need to invest too much money, as long as he sent more
Just provide some imperial edicts in the name of supporting Xujiazhuang's colonization in Nanyang, and let those vassal countries fully cooperate and not interfere. As long as they cooperate and do this, they will bring at least millions of silver dollars to the royal family every year, or help the royal family.
Build some manors, etc. In short, there are many benefits.
But Zhu Youjian refused without hesitation. The reason was
"A gentleman only cares about his name and his tools, and cannot pretend to be a person." But when he saw the headlines on the front page of the "Oriental Times" and saw that sugar worth 20 million silver dollars was delivered to Harbor City, he remembered what he said again.
, I wanted to give myself a slap in the face at that time. A sugar cane manor can earn 20 million. If I agree to cooperate and build a royal sugar cane manor in Taiwan, even if I don’t earn 20 million, I can still earn 30 to 5 million.
Well, why was he so stupid as to refuse? This chapter has been completed!