Chongzhen's open life

Chapter 49 Plans for next year.

"Okay, now let me arrange your next tasks."

Zhu Youjian clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention and said.

The two horses immediately pricked up their ears and listened carefully.

I just heard Zhu Youjian continue: "Next, the focus of the Chamber of Commerce's work will be shifted. Although making money still needs to be made, it will be ranked second in the future. You must start preparing now. From next year, the Huangming Chamber of Commerce will take out Every year, [-]% of the profit is dedicated to grain storage. It is necessary to have a huge grain storage warehouse in the north in the shortest possible time. The grain in each warehouse must be enough to ensure that the local people can eat for three years. You must pay attention to grain preservation problems and the timely replacement of old and new grain.”

Hearing what Zhu Youjian said, Ma Yun couldn't hold back his complexion and said: "Master, the development of our Chamber of Commerce may be affected in this way, and the problem of food storage should not be the official warehouse of the imperial court? How can we reserve it?"

Zhu Youjian glanced at him, and then said coldly: "If those official warehouses really have food, do you think I'm willing to stockpile food again?"

As soon as Zhu Youjian said this, everyone fell silent.

That's right, there is no need to check. It's no wonder that the ethics of the gentlemen and the official warehouses have food in them. Considering the identity of the owner, it's no wonder that even if it affects the development of the chamber of commerce, it is no wonder that they have to store food.

After all, between the common people of Ming Dynasty and the chamber of commerce, the owner, as the emperor, was undoubtedly on the side of the common people, and the establishment of the chamber of commerce was probably for such a time.

After thinking of this level, Ma Yun immediately shut his mouth honestly.

Zhu Youjian ignored him, and continued: "In addition, the domestic climate may reduce food production in the future, and with the hindrance of those spicy chickens in Shanxi, it may be difficult for you to buy food in China.

How about this, tell me how many ships our chamber of commerce has now? "

Zhu Youjian sent greetings, and the chairman, Ma Hua, immediately replied after pondering for a while: "Boss, since you said you would intervene in marine trade three years ago, we have started to acquire many shipyards along the coast, because only in this way can we quickly form our Our own fleet, after investing a lot of money, the shipyard has built us a total of [-] large ships, [-] medium ships, and nearly a hundred small ships. Among them, only medium ships and large ships have the ability to sail in the ocean. Used offshore."

Zhu Youjian nodded, and then asked: "How much is the loading capacity of the big ship, and how much is the loading capacity of the medium ship?"

These materials have long been recorded in Ma Hua's mind, and he immediately replied without hesitation: "Boss, our big ship is built according to the design drawings of the boat you got from the Ministry of Industry. It is fifteen feet long and three feet wide. The draft is one foot three, and it is a big ship with a total of four thousand stones. Every time it goes to sea, it can carry nearly three thousand stones of goods except for some necessary navigation necessities.

Zhongchuan (made up, I don’t know what kind of ship to choose.) is a sea-going ship commonly used by sea merchants. It is nine feet long, three feet wide, and more than 200 materials. Except for the necessary necessities, it can load [-] yuan each time. Five hundred shi goods. "

After listening to Ma Hua's narration, Zhu Youjian secretly calculated that he now has 60 big ships, each of which can transport three thousand shi of goods, and the present one shi is equivalent to about [-] kilograms in later generations, that is, one ship can hold [-] shi. [-] catties of cargo!

I go!It’s not that I don’t know, but I’m taken aback, can’t my 1800 big ships at a time be able to carry the equivalent of [-] million catties of goods for later generations!
In addition to the 1800 million catties of cargo of 3600 ships of China Shipbuilding, all the ships of my own can transport [-] million catties of grain at one time!
Obediently boom!
Zhu Youjian was taken aback by the transportation volume he had calculated!

Calculated based on one catty of grain per day for an adult, according to the Yellow Book, the current population of Daming is about 2000 million, but this is not accurate, and there are still a large number of people who have been concealed by the landlords. The real number should be about [-] million.

(There is no conclusion on this, so the author took the middle number.)
I only need to transport these ships three times to bring back food for the entire Daming people to eat for a day. In ten days, it will be thirty times, in 30 days, it will be three hundred times, and in three hundred days, it will be three thousand times!
etc!I thought it was a lot, but it turned out that it wasn't much!

It’s not bad if my boat can go back and forth ten times a year, and it’s enough for everyone to eat for three days at most in one year!three days!Only three days!

Not to mention three thousand times, the transportation volume is still not enough!
(▼ dish▼#)
After the calculation, Zhu Youjian's originally excited expression immediately faded away.

Alas, the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard!
Moreover, it is impossible for all these ships to be used to transport grain. To buy grain alone is to sit and eat, and to keep some for trade to make up for the shortage of grain, so the transport volume will be even less!

Zhu Youjian shook his head helplessly after the calculation, and then said to Ma Hua: "Well, in the future, one-third of the ships will continue to sail to which line of Dongying for trade, and the remaining two-thirds will go to Luzon. As for the remaining food gap, we can only buy as much as possible in the south and transport it by water to make up for it.”

"it is good!"

Ma Hua nodded after hearing this, and immediately remembered the matter in his heart.

After talking about buying grain overseas, Zhu Youjian remembered something related to grain, so he asked: "By the way, how are the three crops, including potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes that I bought from Hongmao, doing now? gone?"

Traveling to the Ming Dynasty, at least one thing is better than traveling to the Song and Tang dynasties, that is, you don’t have to send people to America thousands of miles away to obtain these three high-yielding crops, you just need to spend money to find them. These three crops can be easily obtained by the Europa merchants who come over and ask them to help bring the goods.

Although Zhu Youjian remembers that sweet potatoes and potatoes already existed in Fujian and other coastal areas, isn't there such a thing as corn?
So he simply asked the Huangming Chamber of Commerce to purchase a batch of crops that could be planted from some Europa sea merchants, and under Zhu Youjian's instructions, the crops began to be planted as soon as they returned.

At that time, when Zhu Youjian talked about the output of the three crops, Erma still didn't believe it, but after the first planting and harvesting, seeing the real grain, the two fell silent.

Then there was a burst of ecstasy!
This is the yield of more than a dozen stones per mu of land. The yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes is nearly [-] catties per mu, and although there are few corns, there are about [-] to [-] catties!
As for the ordinary grain output of Ming Dynasty today, the output per mu of rice is only four stones!That is about [-] catties, but this is the highest yield, and it can only be achieved when the year is good and intensive cultivation. The average family can have a yield of [-] catties a season, thank God!
In this way, the comparison is obvious. One side is six hundred catties, the other is three thousand catties, and at least one thousand five hundred catties. This is a difference of five times and three times!

How could this not make Erma ecstatic!
After getting the output results of the first season's harvest, Erma immediately stopped hesitating, and started to buy a large amount of land according to Zhu Youjian's instructions, mainly in the north, and sweet potatoes and potatoes did not choose land, even the inferior bad fields were It can be planted, so soon the Huangming Chamber of Commerce hoarded a large amount of land in the north and began to plant these three crops. Now it has been two years and they don't know what the output is, so Zhu Youjian asked this question.

When it comes to Tudou Mahua and Ma Yun, there are sincere smiles on their faces.

Ma Hua said: "Boss, after the first year of breeding these three crops, we have obtained enough seeds for more than 1 mu of land. We planted [-] mu of corn and [-] mu of corn at a ratio of three to three to four. Sweet potatoes and four thousand acres of potatoes.

Among them, sweet potatoes and potatoes are harvested twice a year, and corn is harvested once a year. So far this year, we have harvested 13 shi of sweet potatoes and 18 shi of potatoes. Corn can only be planted once a year, so there are fewer corns so far this year. It won't be until next month, but last year there were nearly [-] stones stored except for the seeds.

I actually want to suggest to my owner, our chamber of commerce, whether we should acquire some more fields to expand the planting of these three crops this year. "

After listening to Ma Hua's narration, Zhu Youjian nodded after pondering for a while and asked, "How much money does our chamber of commerce have in its books?"

MCA replied: "Although the chamber of commerce has had a lot of income these years, it has also spent a lot of money, such as personnel expenses, the purchase of shipyards, the construction of ships, the expansion of the chamber of commerce, etc., and now there are more than 100 million taels of silver left in the chamber of commerce. use."

"More than 100 million taels?"

After pondering for a while, Zhu Youjian immediately said: "Okay, let's do this. I remember that the price of land today is fairly stable. The price of an acre of upper field is only ten taels, seven taels for middle fields, and five taels for lower fields. We will take out 200 million taels for two purposes." To buy fields, corn is better than potatoes and sweet potatoes. Use 70 taels to buy a thousand hectares of middle fields to plant corn, and the remaining 130 million taels are all used to buy bad fields to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes.

In this way, there are 340 hectares of land for growing potatoes, 330 hectares of sweet potatoes, and [-] hectares of corn. "

"My requirements are not high. Next year's potato reserves should be at least 200 million shi, sweet potatoes should be 200 million shi, and corn should be at least 70 shi! Are you confident?"

"Have!"

Ma Hua and Ma Yun went together.

The amount that Zhu Youjian said is completely the output of these grains for one season after purchasing the field, which is the difficulty of corn. Other output can be achieved, and the two of them can guarantee it naturally.

Zhu Youjian nodded in satisfaction. Up to now, the purpose of coming today is considered over. He encouraged the two of them and took Wang Chengen back to the palace.

After Zhu Youjian left, the two horses immediately arranged for it, and the Huangming Chamber of Commerce, which hadn't made any big moves for a long time, started up again, which caused a shock in the business world.

However, after seeing that the Huangming Chamber of Commerce was only frantically buying land in the north, and did not make any major commercial moves, they were all relieved and didn't pay much attention to it.

After all, other chambers of commerce have also done a lot of things like buying land. For the descendants of Yan and Huang, everyone has the same desire for land. After all, this thing is not like a business that will lose money. Wherever this thing is left, it is real estate!

Absolutely impossible to lose real estate!
ps. I will go!All kinds of data calculations in this chapter make my brain hurt. I searched all kinds of information, but I can only make up if I can’t find it. Please bear with me, sorry!
In addition, the data in the article are not for reference, please do not take it seriously, after all, this is a novel, not a historical material.

Please be more tolerant!
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