In the past few days, Yang Dayan has been taking a break and is very leisurely.
Occasionally, I would take my wife Liu Xiniu and several children to the large department store in Baitang Port and spend a lot of money.
What kind of bicycle can you buy for two hundred silver dollars?
Buy a mechanical watch for one hundred silver dollars!
Fashionable and comfortable new clothes, buy them!
There are also other daily necessities, etc.
The total cost was nearly five hundred silver dollars.
But Yang Dayan didn't feel any physical pain at all, and his wife Liu Xiniu didn't accuse him of being a prodigal. Anyway, he spent it as he spent it. After all, he usually eats in the manor for free in the canteen, and has his own big house for accommodation. Most of his daily life
Items are often given out for free, and there are very few places to spend money. Since it is a rare opportunity to spend money, you have to spend it to your heart's content.
Of course, the main reason is that in April last month, after ten months of full growth, another crop of white jade sugar cane matured and achieved a bumper harvest.
The sugar content is as high as 21.5%.
Sugarcane is growing better.
The output of sugar per mu was 1,098 kilograms, and the total sugar output reached 362,000 shi, an increase of 80% compared with last year!
It can be said that it has achieved very amazing results.
But the bad news is that the price of sugar has plummeted this year. The current market price is about 150 Wen per pound, which is less than one-fifth of last year's price.
As a result, the income of the sugar cane manor this year also plummeted, only less than two million silver dollars. Even though 80% of it was distributed as dividends, each strong laborer only received 200 silver dollars, which was less than half of last year.
This makes people feel quite disappointed. Things are rare and valuable. Getting rich depends on timing and luck. Now that the price of sugar has dropped, it will drop to about 100 yuan per catty in the future. You may earn even less.
and form a normal state.
However, after adjusting his mentality, Yang Dayan still accepted this reality.
After all, after the hard construction period in the first year, the rest is getting easier and easier. The sugarcane field does not require much energy to take care of. You can only plant one crop a year at most. Except for the period of plowing, sowing and harvesting, there will be a little time.
After working hard for more than ten days, the rest of the time is spent working two or three hours a day in a leisurely state, which has even led many villagers to develop personal hobbies.
For example, some people like to go hunting in the mountains.
Some people like to go to the beach to fish and pick up seafood.
Some people took advantage of the corners of the land and planted a large number of fruits and vegetables, and planted many fruit saplings.
Some people became small merchants and hawkers, started a small business of buying and selling, went to surrounding manors, and even went to the mountains to trade with the indigenous savages. They were extremely bold.
There are also people who have started side businesses and are simply not satisfied with the dividends from the sugar cane fields.
Yang Dayan invested in a sugarcane charcoal processing factory - the pressed sugarcane bagasse can be used. As long as it is dried, it can be processed into square shapes after crushing, drying, carbonization, forming and other processes.
Charcoal rods are high-quality charcoal with high calorific value.
The raw material of sugarcane bagasse is almost zero cost. The charcoal produced by the processing plant can not only be used as an industrial raw material, but can also be sold to the people of the Ming Dynasty for heating in winter. On average, each stone of charcoal can bring about a net profit of about 0.5 silver dollars, which is very profitable.
considerable.
Last year, the sugarcane charcoal processing factory in No. 1 Sugar Cane Manor sold 240,000 shi of sugarcane charcoal, with a net profit of 120,000 silver dollars, which is quite impressive.
It's just that Yang Dayan only owns 0.5% of the shares of this factory and can only get a dividend of about 600 silver dollars. There are nearly 200 shareholders like him, who can only make a small fortune.
In addition, there are sugarcane brewing, bagasse papermaking, sugarcane juice, sugarcane canning and other factories, which almost maximize the value of sugarcane. If Yang Dayan has too much free time, he can also go to work in these factories and work part-time.
Earn some extra salary income.
Anyway!
Regardless of whether the price of sugar will drop to a very low level in the future.
By taking dividends from the manor, investing in the factory, and working part-time in his free time, Yang Dayan's family's annual income will not be less than six hundred silver dollars.
Most of the farmers in No. 1 Sugar Cane Manor are like him. They engage in side businesses in addition to their main business, and become shareholders and workers. There are very few people who are satisfied with just one income because the surrounding environment is too complicated.
If you want to lie down, you will face a lot of pressure from public opinion, and even criticism and accusations from your family. Even if your annual income is two or three hundred silver dollars, it is enough to spend, it is not a lot at all, but when you are surrounded by people with annual income
Four or five hundred people, how can it be possible not to feel anxious in comparison?
It can be seen that the Chinese nation is a naturally involved nation. Even if everyone has an annual income of millions, as long as a few earn tens of millions a year, and see that no matter how hard they work, they can catch up. In this way
Under such circumstances, rolling up is inevitable.
It is in this atmosphere where everyone is crazy about making money.
vitality.
The economic development of each sugarcane manor is full of vitality, and its performance is no less than that of the collective manor in the Jiangnan area. It is like an extremely strong economic growth engine, and it also brings huge benefits to Xujiazhuang.
In the past few days, apart from rest and relaxation.
Yang Dayan often rides his bicycle to the nearby Prince Manor No. 1, and follows dozens of shareholders of the sugarcane charcoal processing plant to form a group to visit.
What is there to visit here? Isn't it the Prince's Manor, which belongs to the royal family? It covers an area of only about 10,000 acres, and it is a relatively small corner land. There are only more than 3,000 immigrants, most of whom are ordinary people.
The people who maintain the safety are the Jin Yiwei, and the management are the eunuchs from the palace - the composition of the personnel is quite strange.
In terms of infrastructure, there are mostly low-rise wooden houses, the roads are dirt roads, which become muddy and difficult to walk when it rains, there are no factory facilities, and all kinds of daily necessities are not sufficient, giving people a simple and backward feeling.
This is the result of the large amount of free help provided by the surrounding sugar cane estates No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3.
After all, the royal family is too poor. A prince's manor only has a construction budget of 300,000 silver dollars. It is difficult to even build a rough project with this amount of money, let alone build it as beautiful, comfortable and well-equipped as their sugar cane manor.
.
even so.
Out of care for the royal family, with the help of surrounding sugar cane manors, six royal manors, including Prince Manor No. 1, were all built in a relatively short period of time, and sugar cane was planted in all of them, teaching everyone step by step.
Technology, the first crop of sugar cane, is finally maturing.
…
May 9th, morning.
Riding a bicycle, Yang Dayan and dozens of sugarcane charcoal factory shareholders arrived at Prince Manor No. 1 again in just ten minutes' drive.
Because today is an important day.
The 10,000 acres of sugar cane fields in Prince Manor No. 1 are generally only about three meters tall due to lack of fertilizers, only three-quarters of the sugar cane they grow, but the sugar content has already reached the standard and should be harvested in the next two days.
But Yang Dayan and others are not here to watch the fun today.
They are not here to help with work in the fields.
Instead, they are eyeing these 10,000 acres of mature sugar cane. After they are transported to the sugar factory for processing, they will not only get white sugar, but also a large amount of sugar cane bagasse.
Calculating six thousand kilograms of sugarcane bagasse per mu, that is a full amount of sixty million kilograms.
From about three kilograms of sugarcane bagasse, you can get one kilogram of sugarcane charcoal, which means you can make twenty million kilograms of sugarcane charcoal. However, half of the sugarcane charcoal will be consumed as fuel during the production process, and you can actually get one thousand kilograms of charcoal.
Thousands of kilograms.
That is 80,000 koku of sugarcane charcoal.
The net profit is about 40,000 silver dollars.
This is a big deal. After all, if you give one point to two hundred shareholders, each person can get a dividend of two hundred.
Therefore, they have to decide on the bagasse produced in the 10,000 acres of sugar cane fields in Prince Manor No. 1, and no one can compete with them.
However, upon entering the manor, there was no scene of immigrants starting to harvest sugar cane. Instead, a crowd of people gathered around and screams could be heard.
"What happened?"
Yang Dayan felt strange and sped up a bit, then got out of the car and walked over with the shareholders.
Then I heard a eunuch say in a high-pitched voice:
"Beat us, beat us hard, beat us to death!"
"Every sugarcane in the sugarcane field belongs to the royal family and belongs to His Majesty. How dare you, a bastard, eat it secretly? Who gave you the courage?"
"Forget it, beat this bastard to death. You all should take a look and remember. If anyone dares to imitate him and secretly eat sugar cane, he will never want to lose his life!"
"Hit, continue, pump harder!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A guard in Jinyi held a leather whip and struck the young man's back again and again, drawing out bloody traces and tearing the skin and flesh. It was shocking to see.
The man also kept begging for mercy, saying that he was wrong, that he only ate the thinnest and shortest sugar cane, and did not touch the big sugar cane, and only pulled out one. He had never eaten secretly before, so he begged for mercy once.
It's just that the eunuch supervisor didn't listen to his explanation at all, and instead kept urging him to continue beating until he died.
Therefore, after hundreds of lashes, the man who stole the food was beaten to the point where he was dying. He had too much air to breathe out but not enough to take in. If he continued to be beaten, he might really die.
Seeing this scene, Yang Dayan couldn't bear it, and immediately stopped him: "Stop, don't hit him again, or you will die if you hit him again."
Yang Dayan squeezed out of the crowd, walked over, grabbed the whip in Jin Yiwei's hand, and said loudly: "Isn't it just a sugar cane? Why does it matter so much? Just whip it a few times, but how about risking your life to pay for it?"
The eunuch supervisor Lu Jing was furious at first, but when he saw that it was the people from Xujiazhuang who stopped him, he calmed down his anger and said helplessly: "This is not a trivial matter like a piece of sugar cane. There are more than 3,000 people in this prince's manor. If everyone
If you imitate this bastard and eat it secretly, how can you grow sugar cane? How can we communicate with the prince and your majesty?"
"Eunuch Lu, what you said is wrong. No matter how important sugar cane is, it is just sugar cane after all. How can you grow sugar cane without people? Our manor is people-oriented. There is a sugar cane field specially reserved for our own people. There is no need to steal it. It is for everyone to eat.
If you have too much, if you are tired of eating it and no longer care about it, no one will steal it, and then you will work harder and more steadily. But today you beat one person to death for a piece of sugar cane, and tomorrow you beat another person to death, and you are repeatedly banned, and finally work
There are fewer people, and the sugarcane output has dropped. This is a loss that outweighs the gain. Furthermore, why does he secretly eat sugarcane? Is it because he doesn’t have enough to eat? Is the food so poor that he is willing to take this risk? Can’t find the root of the problem?
, punishment by whipping only treats the symptoms but not the root cause."
Yang Dayan's words made the people around him nod their heads.
Some people boldly said that what they eat every day is old grain shipped from internal funds. It tastes very bad and has little oil and water. It is normal to have the urge to eat sugar cane.
Hearing these voices, the eunuch supervisor Lu Jing was very embarrassed. He glared at those people who were talking nonsense, and maybe he made a mental note that he might retaliate as long as he waits for the Xujiazhuang people to leave.
Seeing that most people agreed with his reasoning, but it was not appropriate to offend Eunuch Lu, Yang Dayan said: "Eunuch, give me some face, spare his life, and immediately send two people to carry him to the sugar cane manor for treatment. If you go
It's too late, the wound is infected, and this little life may really be lost. As for the treatment costs, we will bear it, and we will pay for the loss caused by stealing the sugar cane. How about just paying 10 silver dollars? We will pay for it!"
Parts of Taiwan Island are tropical, with high temperatures and high humidity, making wounds extremely susceptible to infection. Prince Manor No. 1 has been established for more than a year, and no one has died from the disease. However, because of mistakes, he was whipped as a punishment, which led to wound infection and further
There were several cases of death caused by sepsis, which was equivalent to being beaten to death.
"Forget it, it's just a piece of sugar cane, it's not worth ten silver dollars."
Lu Jing shook his head repeatedly, how could he dare to accept this so-called compensation, and the Prince Manor could take root here, overcome all kinds of difficulties, and successfully grow so much sugar cane. It would be impossible without the help of Xujiazhuang. Yang Da
He must give him the respect of his eyes.
So with his acquiescence, two young men pushed a flatbed truck over and sent the flogged man to Sugar Cane Manor No. 1 for treatment and treatment.
Yang Dayan talked about cooperation with Lu Jing and learned that the sugar cane in Prince Manor will be officially harvested tomorrow. They just need to pay how much it will cost to transport the sugar cane to the sugar factory in No. 1 Sugar Cane Manor and process it into white sugar. But they really
Difficulty, I don’t have any money at the moment, I wonder if I can get it on credit?
"No need for credit, we can ask the sugar factory to help you process sugar cane for free, and we will pay the cost."
Yang Dayan said: "What we want is the sugarcane bagasse left after processing. This stuff is of great use to us, and you got white sugar in vain. I wonder if father-in-law would agree to this cooperation?"
"I agree, of course I agree, this is a great good thing for us!"
Lu Jing said excitedly, he was originally worried about how to process the sugar cane, but he didn't expect someone to bring him pillows without spending a penny. This was a timely help. As for the bagasse, it was completely worthless garbage.
Some people regard it as a treasure and make a lot of money.
"Then it's settled. Tomorrow you will officially start harvesting. I will organize manpower to help with transportation and processing, so as to complete the harvest as soon as possible and give His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Majesty the Emperor a surprise." Yang Dayan said.
"well!"
Lu Jing smiled from ear to ear, these words spoke to his heart.
…
Successfully reached cooperation.
On the way back by bike.
While Yang Dayan and the shareholders were happy, they couldn't help but discuss the episode that just happened.
"The immigrants in the Prince's Manor live without dignity and freedom, and suffer a lot of oppression."
"I heard that in a royal manor, because the eunuch supervisor was too cruel and overbearing, the immigrants secretly went to our sugar cane manor and wanted to join us, but they were rejected."
"Who dares to work in a place like this if you risk your life if you steal a piece of sugar cane?"
"Anyway, if it were me, I would have to escape from the royal estate even at the risk of losing my life. That is no place for people to stay."
"Not everyone is a saint like the owner of the village, especially the emperor and the royal family. They are born to be superior to others and dominate. In front of them, your life is not your own, and you still want to live a good life? No.