The wind blows from the South Sea

Chapter 110 Agricultural Recycling
Feng Guohui is a dog-faced person, so he can change at will.

Just now, he had a lively conversation with General Santos, a mixture of flattery and envy. After seeing General Santos walking over with suppressed anger, he forced a flattering smile on his face.

He actually turned his head, his head held high with a look of disdain.

Just this one action

He directly knocked General Santos to the point where he stood there in a dilemma, his whole old face turned dark.

The meaning is already very obvious;
You'd better not come over here to make yourself look bad, I don't sell anyone's face.

Speaking of which, we just met, how much is your face, General Santos, worth?

Who the hell are you?

General Santos was so angry that smoke was coming from his nostrils. After being dragged back by several Spanish businessmen, he discussed with an ugly expression for more than half an hour, and finally reached an agreement.

Aren't they just two sail frigates?
sold.

These barbarian ghosts are afraid of power but have no morals, do not obey the king's rule, and do not know loyalty and filial piety. They are all white-eyed wolves who have not been raised well. Never expect too much.

The second is a total of 8 reserve naval guns stored at the bottom of the box of the "Royal Tuscany". The more than 2000 French Republic ninth-year-style flintlock guns carried by Spanish soldiers were worth 4.19 silver coins. In addition to the down payment for 50 new steam engines and a batch of machinery and equipment, the total value is about 19.6 silver coins.

Simply hand over the extremely experienced Spanish sailors, helmsmen, gunners, boatswain, etc. as mercenaries to the Nanyang Army for one year.

If you don’t do one thing, you won’t stop doing the other thing.

Doing so will further demonstrate the sincerity of cooperation.

After solving this big problem, the large transaction of 600 tons of spices was finally implemented. After the price increased by 35%, the total transaction amount reached 311 million silver coins.

Every overture of kindness arouses more greed.

As the gorgeous sunset filled the sea and sky again, the three-masted sailing ship "Royal Tuscany" slowly left the Semarang Port pier.

"Commander, this has offended the Spanish to death. Will it be detrimental to future interactions?" Second uncle Feng Zhaoliang looked at the Spanish galleon going away, with worry in his eyes.

The Spanish businessmen brought a total of 85 tons of silver ingots, which were offset by a total of 255 million silver coins. The shortfall was offset in two parts, and was approved after negotiation.

“Whether it’s a red-blooded ghost or a Spanish ghost, they are all in the same boat, and they all have the logic of Europa’s gangsters.

The dozen or so sails on the ship were filled with sea breeze, and they quickly turned around flexibly in the bay, sailing toward the northeast and disappearing on the sea reflected in the sunset.

One is to use two Spanish sailing warships, together with artillery and other equipment, plus 532 Spanish sailors for one year as mercenaries, for a total discount of 32 silver coins.

Only by steadily developing the strength of our Nanyang Army and further strengthening it will be the fundamental strength for us to take root in Java Island. Everything else is just clouds and quicksand.

In the end, these Spanish businessmen and generals succumbed to the huge interests and chose to sell these two sail frigates.

Feng Guohui smiled casually and said;

The right way is to seize all the time to develop ourselves and consolidate the foundation of our Nanyang Army's rule in the Semarang area! "

After the deal is concluded

Anyway, there are still two sail warships on the books, but they are in bad condition after being damaged by the storm, and the repair costs are high, so they can only be abandoned at the Navy Pier.

Anyway, the Luzon Islands Colony is far away from the sky and can be fooled by any excuse. If it doesn't work, I can get two sailboats back in Malacca to offset the debt.

More than 2000 people worked together to load and unload the goods. Soon more than 600 tons of spices were loaded into the "Royal Tuscany", and a large amount of silver ingots, weapons and equipment and spare guns were unloaded from the ship, completing the transaction.

After listening to his words, his second uncle Feng Zhaoliang felt that the burden on his shoulders was so heavy that he was a little out of breath. He replied solemnly;
“I don’t know, the three wood processing plants in Jepara and Semarang have been completed recently, and I have also quickly arranged for people to select sites to build brick kilns and lime kilns to prepare for future construction.

When the next batch of machines arrives, preparations will be made for rice mills, oil mills, garment factories, and sugar mills.

When the convicts from the south arrive one after another, the construction of related factories, bridges and roads will also be carried out, so that as many people as possible can have jobs and food to eat.

The commander-in-chief focuses more on military equipment. We will try our best to do more civil affairs. I have asked Zhaofeng and Zhaoyang to come over to help me and try my best to share the pressure for you. "

"Well, Zhaofeng and Zhaoyang are young, literate and eye-catching. They can be trained well, but they must be trained more and do more practical things." Feng Guohui nodded and approved the two people.

In this overseas Nanyang region, thousands of miles away from the family's hometown, the township party members of the Feng clan are exceptionally united, like grasshoppers tied on a rope.

As long as he works hard, Feng Guohui doesn't mind supporting a few more Feng clan township parties, as that is his basic base.

Feng Guohui paid great attention to hiring people. One was the remnant of the Taiping Army who had lived and died together, the other was a clan township party, and the other was a Chinese clan that had surrendered to Java.

For example, the direct line of the Zheng family in Sanbaolong was uprooted, and the concubine Zheng Ansheng could be reused because he was tied to the Nanyang Army's chariot. Zheng Ansheng's militia has been organized into the fourth battalion of recruits. He serves as the battalion commander of the fourth battalion of recruits and is undergoing closed military training.

This is a super-standard promotion and reuse. The other new battalion commanders are all company-level officers with outstanding performance.

purpose of doing this
It was to re-establish Zheng Ansheng as the helmsman of the Zheng Di family in Semarang. From then on, he became a mid-level officer of the Nanyang Army, and his status and influence were endorsed by the Nanyang Army.

As a result, the Zheng family had no other choice but to follow the Nanyang Army to the dark side, which would help stabilize the local rule.

In Feng Guohui’s view
You must be good at using the local Chinese forces to win over one faction, isolate another faction, and suppress another faction, so that you can firmly control the local situation in your own hands instead of superficially.

In terms of military strength building

The two remaining Spanish sailing ships have been taken over by the Nanyang Army, and 532 Spanish sailors were placed on four sailing ships, each with two or three Chinese apprentices.

The two new sail frigates that joined the Nanyang Navy were named "Zhenhe" and "Zhenhu" by Feng Guohui. The manpower needed to operate the ships was directly recruited from the sailors of civilian transport sailboats.

throughout Southeast Asia

Cargo ships owned by Chinese businessmen account for about 6% to 7% of all ships, and their routes are from Fuso, Korea, mainland China, Luzon, Southeast Peninsula and ports throughout the East Indies, almost all over Chinatown.

Boats and ships came and went in large numbers, occupying a major part of the maritime transportation line.

in this era

Fuso Island and the Korean peninsula are still in a state of severe seclusion. Although the Black Ship Incident opened the door to Fuso, fierce struggles between the reformists and the conservatives in the country have continued, and the vigorous "Meiji Restoration" movement has not yet begun.

In cross-border maritime transportation, Fuso merchant ships are basically invisible.

Taking advantage of this favorable condition, Feng Guohui was able to find all the required sailors at Semarang Port alone.

The Nanyang Navy, with Hu Huashan as the commander-in-chief of the fleet, has been organizing and training at sea in the past few days, gradually adapting to militarized training, and the prototype of the navy is gradually emerging.

9 April

Reports of Hu Laohu's victory came from Solo City in the south. At the same time, more than 1790 young indigenous convicts were escorted.

This is just the first batch, there are more to come.

With the arrival of these convicts, the second uncle Feng Zhaoliang also started to get busy. Six brick kilns and three lime kilns were selected for construction, and construction work began in full swing.

In the southern area of ​​the city, factory areas, new town commercial areas and handicraft workshop areas were successively planned. The scope was drawn with lime lines, and construction started one after another.

The second uncle, Feng Zhaoliang, was already very experienced in municipal construction. A group of people around him had experienced the factory construction boom in Surabaya. Now they were no stranger to repeated construction, and they quickly got started.

Factory conditions in this era were generally crude. As long as there was a factory building, a flat site, and manpower, and the main steam machinery was in place, a new factory was opened.

The scale ranges from dozens to hundreds of people. The main thing is that if you can do it manually, you won't have to worry about machinery. Keep everything simple and accumulate slowly.

Just like a sugar factory, the equipment is very simple.

It is mainly a rolling mill driven by a steam engine. This rolling mill consists of two rotating iron rods that can repeatedly squeeze the sugar cane to produce juice.

After this process, everything is done by hand.

Through repeated heating and refining in a huge iron nest, from one iron pot to the next, a thick syrup is finally extracted, and the crystallized sugar is old rock sugar with a dark yellow color.

Such a small factory, in fact, a small workshop, can produce tens of thousands of pounds of crystallized rock sugar every day. Whether it is exported or sold in the Nanyang daily necessities department store system, its value has increased by more than 10 times.

Such a sugar factory can provide jobs for more than a hundred people, because the cooking and transportation are all manual, and only the juice extraction process has been mechanized.

The sugarcane bagasse that has been juiced in the sugar factory is crushed and mixed with soybean meal from the oil refinery and bran from the rice factory to become the highest quality animal feed.

Utilizing these large quantities of animal feed, Nanyang Company built a series of centralized breeding sites such as horse farms, cattle farms, and pig farms to further deepen its utilization.

The manure from these breeding sites is finally spread into the fields through the traditional manure fermentation process, which can greatly increase the yield, especially for traditional spice crops.

All this practice
Not only have these indigenous people in the Nanyang region never heard of it, but even the white colonists have never heard of it. They maximize the value of agricultural products and create numerous jobs.

All this by the Nanyang Army adheres to the commander-in-chief's will and executes it unconditionally.

But with the passage of time, more and more people have discovered that there are endless mysteries in it, and it feels more delicious when smacked carefully.

I am obsessed with this method called "recycling".

(End of this chapter)