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Chapter 854 Salted fish also have dreams (first update, please subscribe)
The British Empire accepted the challenge!
This doesn't even require intelligence personnel to collect information, just look at the price of rubber on the London Exchange-almost overnight, the price of rubber on the London Exchange rose from 6 shillings per pound to 10 shillings. shilling.Then it quickly rose to 12 shillings!

The price of a ton of rubber has exceeded 1000 pounds!

"Rubber, rubber, the whole world is desperately buying rubber!"

News about the skyrocketing price of rubber was everywhere in the London newspapers, and of course investing in the rubber business became the hottest topic.

Rubber is very versatile!
It can be used to manufacture various commodities such as raincoats, airships, and shoe soles. Of course, the biggest use is to manufacture tires for carriages, cars, and bicycles. In short, it has a wide range of uses.

In 1870, the value of British rubber imports was only 3.5 pounds, but in 1875 it increased to 247 million pounds.The demand of the market stimulated the development of the rubber industry. Although as early as 1874, 22 rubber saplings cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden in London were sent to Singapore, it took time for the rubber trees to mature.

Prior to this, the UK could only import rubber from Brazil.

The war between Daming and Brazil will naturally affect the supply of rubber in Brazil, which is also the reason for the skyrocketing price of rubber.

Besides Brazil, there is another supplier - Daming.

The Congo Colony of the Ming Dynasty has been famous for its rubber production since the day it was built. After all, there are also a large number of wild rubber trees in the Congo River Basin. It is also the export of rubber that laid the early economic foundation of this colony.

However, although rubber laid the economic foundation here, the pillar industry of the Congolese colony is now palm oil. It is exported to European and American countries.

Because of this, investing in palm plantations has always been the most popular cause in the Congo colonies.

"Master, from now on, this will be your garden!"

Under the corridor of the bamboo building, Zuo Teng stood behind his master, pointing to the garden.

"That's right,"

Ding Dashuan proudly pointed to the 2000-acre plantation. After more than two years of renovation, not only was it full of oil palms, but half of them had begun to mature and bear fruit, thanks to the construction of the garden. The batch of 3-year-old oil palm saplings transplanted from Boss Chen's garden at that time.

"This year we will be able to produce oil in our garden, and after another two years, the thousand acres of oil palm will almost produce oil..."

Three years ago, when he first came to this place, he only dreamed of owning his own plantation one day, but now his dream has finally come true.

After studying in Chen Erqiang's plantation two years ago, like all immigrants, he got 1500 mu of wasteland. After buying tools with bank loans, he hired hundreds of local laborers, felled trees, burned waste, and used It took two full years to turn that rainforest into the current plantation.

With this plantation, it's time to look forward to it!
"Master, why are only half of our garden planted with oil palms?"

Xia Yuhe, who was dressed in a maid outfit, looked at the bare land on the other side in puzzlement. There were dozens of garden workers busy between the ridges.

"rubber!"

Ding Dashuan uttered two words directly.

"Rubber is the most profitable business. Mr. Chen once said that the cost of a catty of rubber is only [-] cents, but the price is as high as [-] yuan. Even if the transportation cost is included, it is twice the huge profit."

As soon as Sato finished speaking, Ding Dashuan spoke.

"That's in the past. I heard people say in the club yesterday that the price has doubled now. It costs two yuan a catty! One acre of rubber forest can produce at least 70 catties of rubber. You count the thousand acres of rubber forest. , just how much more money can be earned from the price increase..."

Seventy thousand yuan!
This is just the profit from the price increase!

"Ah, isn't that going to make a fortune? That's tens of thousands of dollars!"

Xia Yuhe, who was the housekeeper, asked a little puzzled.

"Master, since growing rubber is so profitable, why don't we grow more?"

"Housekeeper, things are so easy in the world. It takes several years for this rubber tree to mature. Our garden will take about five years."

Zuo Teng said somewhat helplessly.

"My lord, I heard that our rubber plantation area is now about 175 million mu, of which about 150 million mu has been planted in the last three years. The rubber trees in these gardens will be mature and ready for rubber tapping in six years at the latest. , when so much rubber is on the market, the price will definitely not be as good as it is now."

Ding Dashuan nodded in agreement with Zuo Teng's words.

"So, we only planted a thousand acres of rubber, but with this thousand acres of rubber trees, we can borrow another sum of money like a bank. With this money, our garden can be expanded several times, and then Mortgage the garden, expand it, the money will be rolled out, and it will naturally come out..."

Listening to the old man talking about the business experience of "money rolling money", Zuo Teng didn't say anything. In the Congo, this method is the most common method. As long as you are from Daming, you can work hard for a few years , you can have a plantation of tens of thousands of acres.

Of course, this is only limited to Daming people - the identity of a Daming person is worth ten thousand gold!

For people like Zuo Teng, this is not enviable. Even if Dongying has been merged into Daming, he is not a real Daming person, but Zuo Teng will never have any dissatisfaction. When he was in Japan, he No, this is an ordinary person, but now?But he is the chief foreman of the plantation, the master is a close confidant.

In the colonies, everyone has their place. The Ming people are superior masters, while the Dongying overseers are the "foremen". After naturalization, they are also naturalized citizens!You can also buy land to build a plantation.

Of course, in Zuo Teng's view, even if he is a naturalized citizen, he should be attached to the patriarch. It is extremely shameful to betray the patriarch. Therefore, in Zuo Teng's view, this plantation is his home, not only his and will also be the home of his son.

As for Ding Dashuan in front of him as his master, he has already considered it. After he is naturalized, he will change his surname to Ding, just like the housekeeper Xia Yuhe. His father was a white captive. The reason why he changed his surname to Xia was because he first The planter who worked was named Xia.

In the colony, it is very common to take the owner's surname as the surname. Even if the native workers envy them, they will not envy them. After all, changing the Huaxia surname is a gift in itself!Not everyone can change it.

"Wait another two years, and we will be able to have the surname Ding..."

While thinking about it in his heart, his eyes involuntarily looked towards the belly of the housekeeper Weilong. It was the master's child—the second child.

Seeing her milk-and-coffee complexion, Zuo Teng sighed inwardly.

She is really a woman who doesn't know her status, that is, a woman who uses her beauty to seduce her master.

However, if his daughter can win the favor of the master in the future, that is really a daughter's blessing!

Thinking in his heart, Zuo Teng cast his eyes on Hanako who was wearing a maid outfit not far away, her dark skin glowed charmingly in the sun, and the skin color of the daughter next to Hanako completely followed his, looking at the daughter who was only three years old , Zuo Teng had a proud smile on his face.

Daughter, you have to grow up quickly. When you grow up, marrying a Daming person is the best thing.

When it was over, he also knew that this possibility was very slim, after all, his daughter's status was there.Even if she grows up in the future and has the opportunity to marry a Daming person, she will only be a concubine.

However, it is possible to become the concubine of the Ming people.That is also a gratifying thing!

(End of this chapter)