A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 919 Good News

Under the banner,

Shi Shouxin wore a helmet and armor, sitting on the horse with a golden sword. The gorgeous imperial-given bright light armor made him extremely eye-catching, and everyone thought he was Wu Xianggong.

But the real Prime Minister Wu was not under the banner at this time.

Wu Huaiyu couldn't arouse the slightest interest in this fight. He already knew the outcome. A fight without any suspense was just garbage time.

Wu Xianggong, the majestic war god of the Tang Dynasty, who defeated the Turks and captured Jie Li alive, came to Liuqiu Island to bully the island barbarians, but he couldn't win with force.

Wu Huaiyu was in Anping Port,

Anpinghao is a trading company of the Wu family, which purchases local products on Liuqiu Island.

"This is camphor, also known as borneol. The price we purchased from the natives was eight guan per load. After we transferred it to Xiangdao, Guangzhou, the shipping price there was 16 guan. In Guangzhou, it can be sold for more than 20 guan. The purchase price of Hu merchants in Guangzhou Port reached 30 yuan..."

A load of one hundred catties,

Cutting camphor and boiling camphor is a very profitable business. All it needs are camphor tree resources and cheap labor.

The most indispensable thing here in Liuqiu is camphor trees, and there are many old camphor trees here. Just organize a group of people to go into the mountains to cut camphor, and then steam the camphor. It is not as technical as making charcoal, but it is more profitable than making charcoal. too much.

Once it's eight thousand, one kilogram is worth eighty yuan.

The natives felt that they were quite satisfied with the price, but the price doubled when the Wu family collected it and transported it to Xiangdao, Guangzhou, and when exported to Hu merchants, it even reached thirty guan per load.

Of course, when the Wu family purchases camphor, they don't give money directly, they all use barter.

The various exquisite goods can dazzle the island barbarians and make them unable to put it down.

Brown sugar, brown sugar, white sugar, rock sugar, cane sugar, all kinds of sucrose are in short supply, especially the white sugar and rock sugar purification and decolorization technology mastered by the Wu family. It can be said that it is unparalleled in the world. It is many times stronger than the yellow frost sugar of the Tianzhu people before, and it has a complete monopoly on white sugar. trading,

When supply exceeds demand, it is natural to expand production capacity. In recent years, one of the most popular financial management activities of Chang'an nobles is to buy land in the south, buy slaves, and build sugar cane or cotton planting estates.

The land there is very cheap, suitable for buying large-scale farms, and the slaves there are also relatively cheap. Buying a large number of slaves, planting them collectively, and doing some rough processing is very profitable.

But now Mr. Wu personally painted a better picture for them,

The owner of the Anping Hao said excitedly, "Let alone 100,000 dans a year, it's 10,000 dans. And if we only account for half, that's still 40,000 dans."

In particular, the various good wines of the Wu family are the most popular among the natives. Of course, they also like all kinds of ironware. The hand-making skills of the island barbarians are too weak.

Eight tons of camphor is quite valuable, but the various commodities sold by the Wu family are even more expensive. Every time the island barbarians come to trade, camphor, deerskin, rice, dried fish, dried meat, medicinal materials, etc., are exchanged for commodities. There are not many goods.

"The Anping is guarding the treasure island of Liuqiu. The future is extremely bright. You are the pioneers. You will naturally eat and drink this soup."

In the past, he was only the third shopkeeper of a branch of the Wu family. This time he was promoted to the top shopkeeper, and he was prepared to endure hardship first, but he did not expect that it would be better than he imagined.

Eight guan per load is collected, and when shipped to Xiang Island, it is 16 guan. It is as simple as doubling it. However, the business in Guangzhou sells it to Hu merchants and can sell it for 30 guan per load.

"Of course, if the camphor business gets bigger, we will definitely not have a monopoly by then. There will definitely be many people doing it together. But no matter how we divide it, we can seize a large share if we are close to the water, first come first served. This is the most advantageous thing. The meat must have fallen into our bellies."

In terms of the purchase price here alone, 100,000 dan per year means a transaction of 800,000 guan a year, which also means a gross profit of at least 800,000 guan.

The output of 100,000 tons of camphor per year alone made several shopkeepers of Anping Hao gasp in shock.

The Wu family's business has long had a mature operating system. From the shopkeeper to the boss, everyone is eligible to receive top shares, which is job bonus. The more the business earns, the more they share.

Camphor is an important medicinal material with a wide range of uses and can also be used as a spice.

"After this war is over, we will start to build a camphor farm and cut down camphor and burn camphor while acquiring it."

Moreover, the climate in Liuqiu is so good and the land is so fertile that sugar and rice can also become bulk export goods. In addition, the mountains are also suitable for growing tea, tea, cotton and betel nuts. Plus sulfur, copper, and fisheries, it is simply a matter of digging. Endless treasure mountain! "

Anpinghao is a newly established business. Several shopkeepers and a group of business backbones are all transferred from other businesses in the Wu family.

"Guarding such a treasure island, let me tell you, if the future is stable, we can purchase more than 100,000 pieces of deerskin and more than 100,000 tons of camphor a year.

Sucrose is as valuable as camphor,

The usual Xin Jin is incomparable in comparison.

In the past few years, the Wu family has cooperated with many families, expanding many sugarcane plantations from Qianshu to Lingnan. The sucrose production has been increasing every year, but it still cannot keep up with demand.

This is also the reason why the island barbarians got angry and wanted to overturn the table later. They were not stupid either. They felt that they suffered too much in this transaction, but they had no pricing power. They wanted to exchange for things from the Tang Dynasty, but they had nothing to exchange for. In anger, he decided to grab it directly.

Liuqiu has extremely high-quality camphor tree resources.

The camphor industry is one of the pillar industries planned by Wu Huaiyu in the future. This industry will definitely have to go into the mountains in the future, and it will inevitably have to deal with raw and even wild crops.

Wu Huaiyu had been thinking about Liuqiu Island before. In fact, he was just thinking about the huge resources here.

Not to mention the camphor resources here, just growing sugar cane to make sugar is also very impressive.

The demand for sucrose was too great. The domestic demand in the Tang Dynasty was huge, and the demand for foreign trade was even greater. It can be said that the demand for this stuff is no lower than the demand for silk, porcelain, and tea.

The foreign trade of tea at this time was actually not large in volume. The foreign trade of sucrose has now surpassed the export of tea.

Although cane sugar can be grown in many places, it is not easy to achieve a certain output, not to mention that the Wu family also controls high-end products such as white sugar and rock sugar.

"I hope Liuqiu's cane sugar production can reach 100,000 tons next year,"

One hundred thousand deer skins, one hundred thousand pounds of camphor, one hundred thousand pounds of rice, one hundred thousand pounds of sucrose,

Listening to the astronomical figures one after another, the shopkeepers were all stunned. This is impossible. Even if there is still a year's buffer this year, how many islands and barbarians can be conquered and how many lands can be captured in one year? The most important thing is How many people can be moved from the mainland to settle down this year, and how many people can be recruited to cultivate wasteland. But in my heart I believed in Xianggong Wu.

If Prime Minister Wu says it can, then it means it can.

Anping Pier is not big now, and the transfer was completed in a while. Wu Huaiyu went to find Wang Governor.

New year and new atmosphere,

Neither of them was interested in the fighting over there and didn't take it seriously.

"After fighting this battle, we can go ashore to reclaim wasteland and farmland. We must encourage wealthy families to hire workers to build commercial villages, and we must also encourage landless people from the interior to immigrate. As long as they come, each household will be given 200 acres of land. Ding Nan One hundred acres, middle-aged men will be given fifty acres,"

As long as there are people, there will be development.

"However, Liuzhou Yamen also needs guidance. The fields cultivated in Liuzhou should be planted with more cash crops such as sugar cane and cotton while ensuring food rations."

Liuqiu is an island after all.

If all cultivated fields are grown for grain, there will be a surplus. As grain is a bulk commodity, transportation costs are extremely high. Moreover, grain prices have been very stable and low in recent years, and you can't make much money by shipping them out.

On the contrary, it is cane sugar and cotton, the most popular good products nowadays, with high economic prices.

Even planting sugar cane and cotton can drive some primary industries such as sugar workshops and cotton processing on the island. Furthermore, Liuqiu Island is now close to the trade routes. Sugar cane cotton cloth is now also a hot-selling foreign trade commodity, which is very convenient for export. And make money.

If an ordinary household comes to settle down and is allocated 200 acres of land, then the food rations may only require 20 acres of land. If they are left with one land tax grain or additional unified grain purchase, such as ten acres and twenty acres, they still have a lot of land. Can be used to make sugar cane or cotton, tea, etc.

In this way, the immigrants can ensure self-sufficiency in food rations, and can also provide commercial grain and taxes for the officials, military, merchants, and workers in Liuzhou.

If you grow cash crops on the remaining land, your income will increase. Exports here will also increase, and tax revenue will also increase. The port can also be stimulated, and it can also stimulate the processing industry.

"The military prime minister has arranged it well. There will be no stability without farming, no wealth without work, and no life without business."

The two discussed the reclamation plan, growing grain to ensure self-sufficiency and paying taxes, while growing sugar cane and cotton would increase farmers' income and promote the development of the Liuqiu industry.

Not only will the Liuzhou Yamen not stop people from planting sugar cane, cotton, tea and other cash crops, but they will also guide them and provide some technical support.

Of course, we also encourage powerful families to come over and support them in buying land for cultivation.

This policy will naturally benefit the Wu family the most.

The Wu family received the Liuqiu Development Order before Liuzhou was established. Now that Liuzhou is established, the Wu family, as a pioneer, can still receive support from many policies.

Anyway, Wanda said directly that the Wu family would enclose any piece of land they liked. The Yamen would immediately measure and register the stakes, and issue the land deed for a token fee.

In all places, the Wu family has priority.

Wu Huaiyu purchased land for cultivation in the name of various Wu family businesses, and such business villages could also enjoy the same preferential treatment.

Wanda now hopes that Wu Huaiyu can encircle more land, because according to the agreement, the land must be cultivated and cultivated and must not be left uncultivated. Otherwise, he will be fined in the lightest case and taken back in the worst case.

What Liuzhou lacks most now is land, and what it lacks most is people.

"Within this year, the Wu family will find ways to open twenty commercial villages in Liuqiu,"

As soon as she heard this, Wanda became energetic.

The Tang Dynasty has also been building military camps in the border areas, from Hexi to Liaoxi, from Shuofang to Longyou, and from Nanzhong to Lingnan. A standard military camp is fifty hectares, with one hundred households in each camp, and each soldier receives fifty acres of land. The rationing of cattle and farm tools was carried out, and the implementation of "securing the border and guarding the captives, ensuring food supply first" was implemented.

There are also Shaotuns, each with twenty hectares.

Wu Huaiyu is obviously talking about Datun. One village is five thousand acres, and twenty acres is one hundred thousand acres. One mouth requires one hundred thousand acres of land to be cultivated a year. The border army has one hundred troops in one camp and two thousand men in twenty.

However, whether Wu Huaiyu brought over two thousand slaves or recruited two thousand long-term laborers, it seemed that it was not a problem for him. As for getting thousands of cattle, seed farming tools, etc., it was not a problem.

"Prime Minister, there are only twenty tuns, let's get a hundred tuns," Wang Da pushed further.

Huaiyu chuckled, "Don't rush, take your time, these first batch of twenty villages will be developed by various companies,"

"Report!"

A speedboat sailed into Anping Pier. A tooth soldier jumped out of the boat and rushed to Wu Huaiyu.

"Report the strategy, great victory,

Our army has severely defeated the coalition forces of the Daoyi tribes. The enemy has been defeated and is fleeing in all directions. Our army is carrying out a large-scale cover-up."

Huaiyu was not surprised at all when he heard the news. He looked up at the sky and saw that the sun was about to set.

The sunset fills the sky and is extremely beautiful.

(End of this chapter)