I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

The worst places to colonize are those islands in the South China Sea that have no special products and are not on the waterway. Even if you want to rely on the supply of ships to make money, you can't do it.

Not to mention that there are no special products on the island, and the number of savages is extremely rare. If you want to develop, you have neither special products nor labor force, so you can only endure decades of hardships dealing with savages, and work hard to train savages step by step. Slow training to become a slightly more qualified farmer.

Then they opened up plantations in the South China Sea, planted sugar cane and palm trees, and squeezed brown sugar and palm oil, two special products, to accumulate funds for construction.Sugar cane and palm trees can be said to have the most stable prices among cash crops, and their earnings are several times higher than farming.

But because the reclamation process is too long and the cost is very high, this kind of land is the worst, almost bad land, but such land is common in the South China Sea, so cattle are quite expensive After the old brother ran to the South China Sea, he once again experienced the hardships of building Mayi, and it took several times longer.

However, they also knew that this was building their own kingdom. Since they had made the wrong choice at the beginning, they still gritted their teeth and ate it.Because they know that as long as they endure this hardship, their future will be bright!

From the very beginning, the top management of Daqian felt resentful towards the old brothers' behavior, but soon took the initiative to help these old brothers develop the deserted islands in the South China Sea, and even Niu Gui would often mobilize the old brothers who had such ideas.

There are not many reasons, but economic factors are at play, because senior officials like Niu Gui found that since Li Aimin and others drove the upsurge of developing desert islands in the South China Sea, although only a few hundred thousand people in the entire Dagan went to the South China Sea, But each of the islands they ruled has savages dozens of times their population, and their development sites are short of people, so it is naturally impossible to watch these savages running around.

Under normal circumstances, after the officials of Dagan came to the island, they first established a stable camp, and then began to send troops to capture the savage tribes on the island. When there was no longer any opposing force on the island, they began to open up wasteland and build cities. Waiting for construction, and this construction is an incomparably vast market.

Originally, Niu Gui had been very troubled by the problem of excessive grain harvest in recent years. He wanted to change the land tax from collecting grain to collecting money several times, so that he would not have to buy grain at a loss.

But Xu Wei has always disagreed. He knows the methods of merchants in later generations. The abundance of grain hurts the farmers, and the debt of the grain hurts the farmers. It is also the most basic national policy of Dagan to be able to control the prices of goods in Dagan.

But after these colonies appeared, these old brothers could not even be self-sufficient in food for the first two or three years, and all of these food had to be provided by Dagan, which almost made Niu Gui laugh. You must know that Dagan The granary in the village was so full of grain that the pigs had to eat the old grain.

He even asked Qianpu to lend money to farmers in various places to let them expand production and find a way to make these pigs eat more food. What do you think this is.

But now Dagan suddenly has a grain market with tens of millions of people, and can consume 2 million shi of grain every year. Originally, Dagan lost hundreds of millions in grain storage every year, but now he sells all of them at a fair price to his old brothers , You can earn hundreds of millions, and this time is equivalent to earning more than one billion from the imperial court.

And this earns more than the food money. Even if these islands are barely self-sufficient in food, pots, pans, cloth, farm tools, iron tools, etc. basically need to be purchased from Dagan. The food market is bigger and more profitable.

And this is a brand new market for the newly born industrial system. The savages who originally had no purchasing power, but because they have become the subordinates of these old brothers now, these old brothers are responsible for food, drink and housing. Purchasing power has been increased, and the purchasing power of the market has increased by tens of millions at one time.

Because of the development of deserted islands in the South China Sea, the entire economy of Dagan began to embark on a rapid development highway. It cannot be said that the supply is in short supply, but it is true that any business is very good, and even canned fruit is very popular.

The economic systems of the islands in the South China Sea are also extremely complementary. Whether it is to establish sugarcane plantations, palm oil plantations, or cotton plantations in the South China Sea (yes, cotton in this era can also survive in the South China Sea, and the output is not bad. !), these plantations can provide Dagan with the raw materials that industrialization wants.

It can be said that the entire South China Sea has become the commodity production and raw material origin of Daqian industry, and the exchanges between the economic systems of the two sides are extremely active. It can be said that these old brothers of Dagan and the big businessmen behind them have developed an incomparably huge industry for Dagan. market, and the market is still expanding.

Seeing this method of reclamation, Xu Wei was dumbfounded for a while. Could it be that different civilizations chose different development methods, so different colonization methods appeared, because Xu Wei found that Daqian's colonization method was somewhat similar to that of the later Celestial Dynasty , all focus on development and construction rather than plunder.

Although this method is laborious, it will not cause much trouble, and it can also greatly expand the market, and it can also bring civilization and progress to this primitive area (I think that killing the locals is the price of civilization. , are all shameless! This kind of thing can only be called barbaric and brutal, but it is not at all civilized!)
But also because of seeing the end of these old brothers!Let the other old brothers be extremely cautious when choosing a reclamation site. There is no father-in-law with a wealth of wealth, and few friends with billions of dollars.

Everyone prefers an island like Cao Cao with a population of more than one million and special products, but even if you can’t see such an island in the South China Sea, only in the Western Regions or Tianzhu can meet this condition.

But the tens of millions of people in Tianzhu frightened the high-level officials of Daqian, and they did not dare to treat Tianzhu in the same way as they treated the savages in the South China Sea, and the west of the Western Regions is too far away, and there is a powerful empire like Guishuang, so in the past few years There are very few old brothers who want to go out and build a country.

But this time Liu Bei has taken Tianzhu's skin. Many people think that Liu Bei can defeat the ten countries of Tianzhu. It is not too much for them to occupy a country in the past!With the connection of the sea, thousands of miles away is not too far away.

Niu Guidao: "When you are in power, you mean to support us old brothers to occupy Tianzhu?"

Xu Wei nodded and said, "We really want to have influence in Tianzhu. We can not only monitor Liu Bei's development, but also expand our maritime business in Tianzhu!"

Then Xu Wei pointed to the map of Tianzhu and said: "We want to occupy this Sinhala country!"