In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 155 A Slight Surplus
For the rest of the immigrants, Zhao and Rui provided seeds, cattle, and farm tools. According to the Song system at this time, the general land rent was [-]%.

But if the main household (Zhao and Rui) provides cattle and seeds, it will reach [-]-[-]%.

In other places in Zhejiang and Zhejiang, it will basically reach [-]% and be used to squeeze the people.

Zhao Yurui attached great importance to water conservancy, and Jintang Island is also a mountainous field. Even in later generations, it is a land of high production, with an annual output of six stones per mu.

Zhao and Rui only collected [-]% of the land rent, and the court tax was three buckets per mu.

The tenants who immigrated in this way deducted [-]% of the land rent and three buckets of tax per mu of land, and could get more than two stones per mu, which was quite good in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Last year on Jintang Island, counting the expenses of the navy, the expenses of sugar households, the cost of sugar production, and other expenses, from March to December last year, the total expenditure was more than 60 guan.

Chang An has a small notebook, and the notes are very clear. He didn't disclose it publicly, but only said a rough total. Only Zhao Yurui, Qin Zhuo and other important confidants knew the specific figures.

There are now 500 people in the navy in Jintang Town, and the monthly salary is nearly 1000 guan. All the family members of the navy are helping to plant sugar cane, sugar, fish, or farm, etc., paying wages and all meals, about 13 per month There are only more than [-] naval households, with a monthly expenditure of [-] guan and an annual expenditure of [-] guan. (grain is self-sufficient)
The Jintang Island Navy purchased more than 20 large and small warships this year, and spent more than 9000 rounds.

Many armors have not been matched yet, and the supply will not start until the Jeju Island Craftsmanship Bureau is established.

There are also ten medium-sized transport ships dedicated to traveling between Jintang Island and Dinghai, used to transport sugar, with an expenditure of [-] guan, and then hired sailors and porters and their families (all live on Dapeng Island), with an annual expenditure of [-] through.

The rest of the farm households need to pay for food without counting it, but sugar producers and small-scale farming and fishing households need to pay wages and food. The monthly wages plus food are 21 guan, and the annual expenditure is 2 guan , Among them, the sugar households also gave each household a year-end bonus last year, with a total expenditure of more than [-] yuan.

In addition, the resettlement allowance or relocation allowance given when immigrating also cost another seven or eight thousand guan.

Then, various costs such as the purchase of sugar juice and the cost of tanks in sugar making are 21 guan.

In this way, Jintang Island's annual expenditure has already come out.

From March to December last year, Zhao and Rui invested a total of 61 guan on Kim Yong Island.It is equivalent to more than 180 million members.

After the whole island's food was used up, there were more than 1 stones left, which counted as two pens and one stone.

Zhao Yurui still invested 59 yuan.

Zhao Yurui was also slightly shocked after hearing this.

On the small Jintang Island, there are only tens of thousands of people, and nearly 60 coins have been invested, which is really piled up with money.

So is there a loss?

At this moment, Gu Tian went on to speak again.

I had just planted sugarcane last year, a total of [-] mu, and the planting time was a bit late, and the yield was not high in the end, about two thousand catties per mu. At this time, the normal sugarcane field should be around three to four thousand catties per mu.

By the time of the Ming Dynasty, Xiatian was six to seven thousand catties, Zhongtian was seven to eight thousand catties, and Shangtian could reach nine thousand or ten thousand catties.

The variety of sugarcane in the Southern Song Dynasty was not as abundant as that of the latter, and the yield was basically around [-] to [-] catties.

Depending on the variety, the yield of sugarcane juice was between [-]% and [-]% in the Song Dynasty.

Let’s take the middle and calculate it as 12.00%. Taking 420 catties per mu as an example, the yield of sugar juice per mu is [-] catties. Limited by the technical conditions and methods of this era, about two catties of sugar juice can produce one catty of sugar, and the yield per mu is Two hundred catties of sugar.

About 17.5 catties of sugarcane yields one catty of sugar.In later generations, about seven or eight catties of sugar cane produced a catty of sugar, which was about twice as much as in the Song Dynasty.

Last year, Jintang Island produced a total of 60 catties of various sugars.

Among them, snow sugar is 35 catties, white sugar is 40 catties, rock sugar is 66 catties, and brown sugar is [-] catties. He has just been on the market for less than a year, and he mainly sells it by himself. According to his selling price Yiguan, [-] Wen, [-] Wen, and [-] Wen, sold about [-] Guan, with an average profit of [-] Guan per mu of sugarcane field.

In addition, the sugar juice collected outside is two sticks per hundred catties.That is to say, with more than eight guans per mu, it cost 16 guans to collect about [-] mu of sugar juice, and almost collected the sugar juice in Dinghai County, which is two hundred miles away from the two Zhejiang provinces.

If all these sugar juices are condensed into sugar, it can generate income of 130 million guan, and after deducting the purchase cost, it can earn 10,000+ guan.

But he has a few problems now.

First, he raised the purchase price of sugar juice. Originally, the price of sugar juice per hundred catties was the same in the market. Zhao Yurui doubled the price. The production of viscous liquid granulated sugar used by ordinary people in the market has been greatly reduced.

Ordinary sugar households make more money selling sugar juice than making granulated sugar, so they directly sell sugar juice to Zhao Yurui.

The low-priced sugar on the market disappeared almost instantly, and ordinary people couldn't afford Zhao Yurui's red sand sugar, so ordinary people could only use maltose.

However, the yield of maltose is not high, which makes sugar unaffordable for a large number of ordinary people.

Of course, even in the Ming Dynasty, white sugar was not affordable for ordinary people. The sugar sold to Britain in the Ming Dynasty was 1000 Dan (154000 city catties) and 28000 eight units of Riyal (17612 taels), a total of 0.11 taels per catty. It is equivalent to more than 100 Wen per catty now, which is slightly cheaper in China.

The annual income of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty was about 10 taels, and the price of a catty of white sugar was about one percent of the income of people in the Ming Dynasty.Therefore, people in the Ming Dynasty probably ate sugar as much as people eat mid-to-high-end tea today, and it was not something that people could eat every day.

Zhao Yurui's act of collecting sugar juice at a high price has caused a sugar shortage in the Song Dynasty and Liangzhe Road, and the common people cannot afford sugar.

The second problem is that Zhao Yurui bought too much sugar juice. He originally wanted to encourage everyone to grow sugar cane, and then lower the price later to hit other sugar producers.

Unexpectedly, after purchasing so much sugar juice, he did not have so many manpower and space to make sugar.

Last year, he produced a total of more than 100 million catties of sugar. In addition to tributes and Japanese Koryo, he also used some for the first-class trade of various armies, and sold about 65 sugar.

It is basically the same as his expenditure, with a slight surplus.

Zhao and Rui met with the people on Jintang Island one by one, and after asking questions, they gradually summoned the heads of various ministries on Jeju Island.

On Jeju Island, Chen Xiaodao, Shi Gouer, Qin Yue, Liu Xin, Yan Ying, Li Pingxia, Li Pingbao, Li Pingshan, Qian Bin, Chen Tao, etc. are currently in charge of management.

Yan Ying first talked about the overall situation of this year's personnel. The official immigration of Jeju Island began in July. The first batch of craftsmen who came back from Fujian went to Jeju Island. After August, Li Quan and the others did not immigrate. In March, people from Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces also went there spontaneously.

"As of this month, Li Quan and others have immigrated a total of 430 households, 630 people, four sea trade (nine ships of the Qin family collected artisans, doctors, etc. from various places on Jiulu in the Southern Song Dynasty), and 5000 households have immigrated. A total of 18, 200 people, more than [-] people from more than [-] households spontaneously came from various places."

From July to December, in more than five months, there have been 4 more people on Jeju Island.

But because most of them are from the north, many elites have been forcibly recruited by the northern army leaders, so there are relatively few elites on Jeju Island.

Among the more than 6000 households, there are only 18 people aged between 30 and 1, and there is no one in each household.

"There are fewer and fewer people coming from the north, and military leaders everywhere are robbing people. I'm afraid there will be fewer people next year."

The military leaders in the north sold all the people nearby who could sell, and they had to fight for places farther away. Therefore, the population from the north was concentrated this year, and it must be less and less in the future.

"This year and next year are also the most difficult years for us, just get through it." Yan Ying said at this time.

Jeju Island has suddenly added so many people, and Zhao Yurui's good conditions can stabilize the hearts of the people, but many things are not in place. This year and next year will be the most difficult years.

The condition Zhao and Rui gave to the immigrants was that households should be divided first, and that except for those who live in farmland, other households should provide food for themselves.

This requires him to import a large amount of grain from Koryo, Japan, but this is still a trivial matter.

There are too few houses, and there is a shortage of farm materials. Now there are boats going from Dinghai to Jeju Island every day. Liu Cheng and Yan Ying also buy cattle from Goryeo.

The first two years were the two years of laying the groundwork. Zhao and Rui mainly ensured the living needs and supplies of the immigrants, and also established their own breeding farms to form self-sufficiency.

Jeju Island is a large natural pasture. It is very convenient to raise cattle and sheep, but it must be very difficult before the number increases. The food for the first two years has to be imported.

"The construction households are divided into [-] households. Adding the original [-] households, there are [-] construction households on the island."

"Tuntian households are divided into [-] households, plus the original [-] households, there are [-] Tuntian households on the island."

"There are [-] horse raising households, and there are currently [-] households."

In the past, the horse farmers were also responsible for raising cattle, but now there are newly divided cattle and sheep farmers, one for each, with [-] households each.

"There are also salt households, growers (fruit and vegetable households), fishing households, and pig farmers, each with [-] households."

"Five thousand sugar households."

The rest are all kinds of artisan households, about 1000 households, who will be placed in various workshops in the future, and some scholars will teach in the colleges opened on the island. The children of each household can go to school for free, mainly for literacy. After the age of thirteen or fourteen, most of them will be sent to various factories to learn their skills, and a few will be selected by Zhao Yurui to enter the palace.

He wants to slowly form his own model of training craftsmen.

Others, such as the Craftsmanship Bureau and the Firearms Bureau, are steadily under construction. There is still a shortage of people, and the key is the lack of labor. If there are 15 people, [-] laborers, the progress can be accelerated a lot.

"At present, 28 jin of raw copper, 46 jin of saltpeter, 52 jin of sulfur, 26 jin of rice, 20 jin of beans, 16 jin of wood, and 56 jin of iron are stored on the island." It was shipped from the Xinzhou mine)
The grain sold in Japan to the Song Dynasty is rice, and it takes [-]% to [-]% to convert it into grain. However, rice is easy to store. At present, it is stored in Jeju Island, and it will be sent to wherever it is needed. As for beans, there is no need to extract oil. , mainly for raising horses.

Zhao Yurui bought these things in exchange for sugar and copper coins, but Zhao Yurui feels that Japan's copper production is still relatively poor.

His Xinzhou Copper Factory has more than this amount in a month, and it takes only half a year to import raw copper from Japan. The 50 catties of raw copper that Liu Cheng promised him has not been shipped yet. There is no way, Japan’s output cannot keep up. On, money can't buy it.

(End of this chapter)