Win the Ding 1617

Regarding the next step of Taiwan Guard's plan, how should it develop, and quickly turn this barren land in the eyes of others, the lone overseas thieves, into an important link in the Li family's economic system, it is Li Huayu who gave his father The most important part of this post.

In order to remind his father, he even marked some key passages with cinnabar.To remind the father to pay attention.

In Huayu's plan, in addition to continuing to immigrate in large numbers from Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Chaozhou, Huizhou and other places to Taiwan for reclamation, in addition to increasing the land planting area and increasing the grain planting area, more considerations in his planning are Planting of commercial crops.

"Father commander, thanks to the water conservancy projects such as Pi and Zhen built in various places, coupled with the use of various metal tools, fertilizers, and pesticides produced by our Nanzhong, the Vaisaya, which is known by the ancient population of Taiwan, has been reduced. It has really become a paddy paradise with some outlines."

Visaya is an ancient Sanskrit word, which means paddy soil, and Shaye means solemnity.Taken together, it is probably the solemn land of rice, which means rice paradise and heaven.

However, no matter how good the natural conditions are, before the arrival of immigrants, especially before the Southern Cantonese Army captured the so-called Formosa from the Dutch, Taiwan was just a piece of indigenous people who only knew how to shoot and kill birds and animals. Simple gathering activities were used to survive. The whole level of productivity is in the land of primitive society.

The initial development is in the hands of Zheng Zhilong.Taking advantage of the severe drought in Fujian in the early years of Chongzhen, tens of thousands of hungry people were recruited from Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places, and each person was given three silver dollars.Three people and one cow were transported to Taiwan by sea boat, and they were asked to cultivate land and build houses.In autumn, the harvest is more than double that of my hometown in Fujian.

The scope of immigration covered Zhang, Quan, Hui, Chao and other places. People who lacked land and means of livelihood came to look forward to the wind, and continued to open up wilderness, turning pieces of wild land into fertile fields with fragrant rice flowers.

However, the agricultural technical means in this period still stayed after planting seeds and left them to fend for themselves.On the level of extensive planting and low harvest.It is completely dependent on the sky.The real increase in food production was only after the Southern Guangdong Army reached into Taiwan, which was then known as Dayuan, and a large number of iron farm tools were used. Iron farm tools, improved seeds, cattle, and soil chemical fertilizers were used to raise rice fields. Fish form a virtuous circular chain of agricultural production.

"My son has done some calculations. This year's grain production in various parts of Taiwan. According to the situation reported by various farms, it should be able to harvest 800 million shi of rice. Not to mention being completely self-sufficient, there can be at least 300 million shi of rice. Food exports."

"Export? Where to export?" Shou Han looked at his son with a stern expression on purpose.But he was very happy in his heart. His son was able to analyze the current situation and propose a solution by himself, which showed that Li Huayu had matured rapidly.This is what any father would be happy to see. Even if the solution he proposes is naive and ridiculous, at least he has his own ideas, which are the most precious.

"Are you planning to take advantage of the convenient location to sell Taiwan's surplus grain to Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, western Fujian, northern Fujian, and even southern Jiangxi and southern Zhili?"

Shou Han speculates about the sales scope of Taiwan Surplus Grain.

"However, this area has always been the sales area of ​​Nanzhong's surplus grain. In order to prevent the surplus grain from flowing out, the office has established a strict grain sales quota system. Once your millions of stones of grain flood into this area, it will inevitably cause grain spillover. , if any food is resold by profiteers to the Liaodong rebels, then you and my father and son will be in trouble again!"

"Father! The export that my son mentioned will not exceed 20 shi, except for some sales in the mainland, and the amount will not cause too much impact. More, my son plans to sell it to Japan and other places!"

"Sell to Japan?"

Shou Han had to say that his son's idea was a good idea.This is a great trump card for further controlling Japan's economy and politics.

"In addition to exporting, my son plans to forcefully promote the Siwucang and Changping warehouse system that my father has promoted and operated in Nanzhong for many years in Taiwan. Whether it is a Han village or a Fanmin village, there must be at least one year of food rations in reserve. rice. In this way, the pressure on exporting grain can be slightly reduced.”

"With Fanmin's bold and unconstrained character, this system is not harmful to them. You can do it freely. However, before implementing this system, you must preach it well among the Fanmin, so as not to cause misunderstandings. "

"Well, please don't worry about this, Commander-in-Chief. Many of my son's subordinates are married to Fanmin women. Let them preach the benefits of building food reserves when they go to the father-in-law's house. However," Li Huayu said slightly There was a pause.

"The son is going to ask his father for a favor."

Shou Han was a little strange. Since he was a child, since when did he speak so politely?

"Tell me, did you fall in love with a woman from a Fanmin family, afraid that your mother would not want you to live in the house? It's okay! Dad is very enlightened on this point. He said that if you marry a Fanmin woman as a concubine, you will marry the emperor of the Japanese kingdom. Get it, Dad will support you too!"

Shou Han said this just casually, but he didn't know that the Emperor of Japan at this time had already made him a cheap grandfather.

Li Huayu blushed. Although he was not unfamiliar with Father's attitude, it was the first time he had encountered father and son talking.He also knew that father and aunt didn't care about the women in the room at all. Father himself had all kinds of women from north to south, from east to west. Ao Lei Yilan was the wife of Qifang, and also took in two women from Shandong. His father's attitude also affected Li Huayu.

"No! No! My son won't bother his father because of such a trivial matter!" Li Huayu waved his hands to clear himself.

"My son wants to ask my father to help me find a few presses, cooking pots, etc. in Nanzhong, and come to Taiwan to squeeze oil and make wine."

After the grain crops are processed, the grain is brewed into wine, or oil is squeezed out, and the value of the primary agricultural product of grain is improved after processing with technology.Not to mention export sales, it is a huge piece that can be consumed by the more than one million people on the island.

"It's very simple! You write letters to the Hu family, Li family and other companies in your own name. They have followed my family since the Hejing period, and they have always been loyal and loyal. Now you have a business opportunity here and take the initiative to come to the door , it can be regarded as you supporting them."

Shou Han has another meaning that he didn't express. He thinks that Li Huayu should appear in all walks of life in Nanzhong to establish his own network of contacts.You can't let yourself get ahead of everything.

"You are the young marshal of our Southern Guangdong Army, and now the commander of Taiwan's guards. You personally wrote a letter inviting them to come to Taiwan to build a factory and make a fortune. There is something to save face here. If they don't come, that's the way to go." What a fool!"

I heard my father's ridicule.Li Huayu was determined.It turned out that I was on the edge of a dead end.

After his heart became quiet, Li Huayu felt a lot more relaxed, and ordered the soldiers outside to make tea for his father, "Father, please taste the tea made in Taiwan. It is said that it can ward off miasma and relieve summer heat. "

Watching the tea soup as colorful as pineapple being poured out of the small purple sand pot.Suddenly, Shou Han's heart moved, and he remembered another thing.However, he didn't plan to say it for now.See if your son can think of this.

Sure enough, after drinking a few sips of tea, Shou Han felt a feeling of clouds growing under his ribs. The most indigenous tea in Taiwan is really good.

The father and son sat opposite each other and drank tea.

"Father commander, apart from the mill and cooking pot, my son plans to continue planting sugarcane vigorously in Taiwan. At the same time, he will buy some livestock and poultry young from Nanzhong and the mainland to breed in Taiwan. As a result, there will be more people living everywhere. Not to mention livelihood, food can also be consumed."

This is slowly getting to the point!Shou Han became more and more happy in his heart, and the more he looked at his son's face, the more he felt pleasing to the eye.

Taiwan's sugar cane, or sugar extraction industry, has been the main industry for export in exchange for cash and foreign exchange since the Dutch colonial period.According to the "Diary of Batavia City", by February 1640, in Tainan alone, farmers could produce 2 million catties of white sugar and brown sugar from the harvest of sugar cane, which provided the Dutch with Japan and the Middle East. Exports in exchange for a lot of profits.In order to ensure the planting of sugar cane, the Dutch provided a series of preferential policies, such as providing loans, providing cattle, exempting relevant taxes, etc., to ensure the planting of sugar cane.

Even in order to facilitate the acquisition of sugar cane, the Dutch rebuilt a section of road from Chikan City to Xingang, and built a hospital to provide medical and health care for Chinese people who fell ill from planting sugar cane.

Why can't we do things that even the red-haired barbarians can do?

"My son intends to plant a large area of ​​land in the west of Taiwan's mountains, or plant rice, or plant sugar cane and other crops. Unfortunately, tea cannot be planted. Otherwise, a large number of tea from Fujian will be transplanted to the mountains of Taiwan. It may not be worse than the tea from Wuyi Mountain. Go. Western merchant ships traveling to and from Heishuigou can carry these tea leaves to the west, and the large amount of rice grown by my son in Taiwan can also be sold to them!"

Finally, it came to what Shou Han wanted to hear!

In this era, people still believed that tea trees could not be transplanted, but could only be grown locally, so this is why tea has been a huge surplus in China's foreign trade for thousands of years.It wasn't until the British stole the tea trees and successfully planted them in India that Indian black tea gradually replaced the market position of Chinese tea, that China's trade surplus turned into a deficit.

Instead of waiting for the British to steal it, I would like to make a big attack and grab all the places where tea trees can be planted, and then plant tea trees!

Sugar cane, tea, and rice are the main pillar industries of Taiwan’s agriculture. After the Qing Dynasty ruled Taiwan, the three counties of Taiwan, Fengshan, and Zhuluo produced more than [-] baskets of sugar every year, and each basket was one One hundred and seventy eighty catties.A hundred catties of green sugar is worth [-] silver coins, and a hundred catties of white sugar is worth one, two, three, four.Calculated in this way, it is a huge number. If it is combined with the metal sugar extraction technology, the sugar yield will be even higher.

"Boy! Are you waiting for Dad here?" Shou Han deliberately made an expression as if he was just waking up from a dream, and looked at Hua Yu with a tigerish face. "Just now you said that you want to build a mill. I'm afraid it's not as simple as oil extraction? Sugar extraction is your goal!"

His little trick was exposed by his father, Li Huayu just smiled and said, "Father, you are a man of your word! You will never regret what you say!"

The sugarcane planting industry in Ha Tinh and other places has become a complete and mature industrial chain, and it is autumn and winter every year.Carts of sugar cane are harvested by sugarcane farmers with sharp machetes, and then transported to nearby mills for processing. The sugar juice squeezed out by those heavy and huge metal reels is rough processed into so-called brown sugar, and then processed Purified, it becomes crystal clear white sugar, which produces a lot of wealth for the Nanyue Army and Li Shouhan every year.

The white sugar produced in Ha Tinh has been sold to Yongning Temple in the east, Japan, and Korea, and the Netherlands and Spain in the west.Those Indian sultans, earth kings, Arab chiefs, and Turkish sultans.Japanese daimyo, shogun.The two groups of children in North Korea, the dignitaries, traffickers and pawns in the northern and southern capitals, and the nobles and princes in Europe are all crazy about this snow-white fetish.

If Taiwan is turned into a huge sugar cane plantation.How much benefit will this bring to the defenders of the Han Dynasty and the Southern Guangdong Army?

Shou Han vaguely remembered.It seems that Taiwan's sugar cane production was once able to rank fourth in the world.If you add the sugarcane production in Nanzhong and the Luzon area suitable for sugarcane cultivation, then. "I'm good enough to manipulate the global price of sugar!"

Shou Han laughed wildly in his heart.

"Okay! The mill equipment you want, I'll ask the stewards made by He Jing to produce it for you as soon as possible, but when it's time for you to come forward, you must do it yourself, don't rely on me for everything. The eight words of courtesy and virtuous corporal are easy to say, but difficult to do, but if you really do it, the rewards will be far greater than dozens of times the effort.”

At this time, Shou Han was completely a father who taught his son how to behave, not a commander who commanded thousands of troops and could determine life and death, wealth and wealth with a single word.Right now Shou Han has entered middle age, the imminent problem is not how to conquer the city and land, but how to train and select successors.

He didn't want to turn his son into a waste who didn't know the hardships of farming, the ways of the world, the sinister heart, and the hardships of the world. In that case, even if they left them with millions of soldiers and thousands of miles of land, it would only be a disaster.

"As long as the father agrees, the rest of the affairs will naturally be handled by the son and the Taiwan Wei Yousi Yamen. Everything will be done according to the regulations." After being a local official for this period of time, Li Huayu has also matured. Quite a lot.

"As for your suggestion of exporting grain, I plan to go back and let your uncle's convener make a calculation. In addition to Japan, there are Tianzhu to the west, Tianfang (Arabia) to the west, Spain, Portugal, etc. In the country, even if our food is transported as ballast, we can still earn money."

"Father, my son's vision is short-sighted! I only calculated that if Taiwan Wei's surplus grain is exported to Fusang, it will be deducted from warehouses such as Siwucang and Changpingcang, as well as cooking pots, mills, and livestock breeding. In addition to the consumption of pigs, millions of shi of grain and rice can be sold to Japan every year, and it is still very easy for a daimyo to digest more than [-] shi of grain and rice. I don’t want my father to have a long-term vision!"

Over the past few decades, from south to north and from east to west, Shouhan has also listened to countless flattery, and he is already a little tired of this kind of thing, but today he is a little elated when he hears his son's sincere praise from it.

"Don't flatter your father!"

He deliberately gave Li Huayu a glance.

"As for the expansion of sugarcane planting area you said, you can send people back to Nanzhong and Chaozhou to purchase sugarcane seedlings, and plant them in Taiwan."

"As for the introduction of tea trees?"

Shou Han was in a bit of trouble.He only knows that Taiwan's tea is good, and the cultivation of tea trees is related to the altitude. The higher the altitude, the better the taste and the more expensive the price.The tea produced in Alishan Township, Meishan Township, and Fanlu Township in Alishan District, the highest tea-growing area in Taiwan, is the best among Taiwanese teas!

However, these teas seem to have no biological relationship with the Shuisha Lian tea that I just drank. They are all introduced from Fujian and other places. The tea trees in Wuyi Mountain and Anxi were first planted in northern Taiwan. Because of the abundance of rain here, Taiwan's tea can be harvested all year round, and spring and summer are the most prosperous.

But how should tea planting be carried out?Those mountain peoples in the Alishan Mountains have always been known for their toughness, and the most famous things are grassroots and headhunting.Even in the period of Japanese occupation, the Wushe incident broke out.The Takasago Volunteer Team during World War II also played well in the Pacific Islands!

Shou Han once again gritted his teeth out of habit.

Hua Yu knew that this was his father's subconscious action when he was thinking about the problem, so he couldn't help but calm down, for fear of disturbing his father's thoughts.

"It's difficult! Fujian is at war now, if Zheng Zhilong isn't dealt with, I'm afraid the tea seedlings and seeds won't be able to reach Taiwan!" After a while, Shouhan finally let out a long sigh, giving Huayu an answer.

"Then, what does Father Marshal mean?"

"This matter can't be done overnight, but it can't be shelved either. You will go to find your Uncle Wang Bao tomorrow, and ask him to use the name of the battalion office to find Fujian soldiers among the Fujian frontline army, and choose those whose families are in Anxi, Wuyishan and other places. Those who have dealt with tea will go back to Taiwan with your subordinates to survey the terrain and see where it is suitable for planting tea trees. After this trip, I am afraid that the affairs of the Zheng family will be settled!"

At that moment, the father and son decided how to promote sugarcane planting in the western plains of Taiwan. According to Li Huayu, those Pingpu people can also participate.

"Since this generation is kind to us, we must let them experience tangible benefits. My son intends to give them the method of planting sugarcane, and then provide them with rations and other daily necessities. After the sugarcane matures, we will buy it at the same market price."

"You are the commander of the Taiwan Guard. You have to make up your own minds about these administrative details. You have no ideas and your staff. Remember, anyone can do it, except Zhuge Liang can't do it! "

"In the future, tea trees will be planted in various places, and my son also plans to use this method to promote it."

After listening to Li Huayu's words, Shou Han just nodded slightly, but didn't say any more.

Neither of the father and son mentioned the benefits of tea planting and sugar cane planting beyond economic benefits.

However, after a few years, the huge benefit hidden in the sweet and sweet taste will surface.

Among the Basai villages located on the banks of the Danshui River in northern Taiwan, there is a bulletin board next to the shrine of the Jinbaoli Shrine. The tone urged Basai mothers to send their school-age children to school. (This tribe still belongs to the period of matrilineal society.)

Several women in short dresses and long skirts made of extremely bright red, yellow, and black cotton cloth surrounded the bulletin board and heard the leader read the north coast between Jinshan and San Diaojiao and the scenery behind it. In the hilly land, after purchasing sugar cane prices and dates in the entire tribal area, they cheered and danced to their own fields with a cane machete.

"Slow down! Slow down!" The leader with deep wrinkles on his face called them.

"The yamen's notice says that children who have reached the age must go to school. The books and pens are provided by the government. The children go to school to take care of the food every day, and those who live far away will give out half a catty of rice every day. If there is a child in the village Don't go to school, get disqualified from trade."

The dignified face of the leader swept across the women present, "Can't the whole village be involved for the sake of your own child?" (To be continued...)

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