warring states careerist

Chapter 887
The concubine Mi clapped her hands and said: "Brother, what we want is not land, but gold, silver and copper mines. The trouble is here. If there is no extra inch of land in Kyushu, it will be easy. There are hundreds of acres of land when you immigrate there. Everything is easy to say. The problem is that Kyushu still has land, and what is lacking is population, which is the population for mining.”

"A person who digs mines must have three or four farmers. This must be the situation where iron tools and oxen are popularized. Now they are still using stones, and they can't dig without eating or drinking."

"Occupation is simple, you are right, 300 people, using conflicts between tribes, is enough to gain a foothold. I was in Gaoliu back then, and it's not like I haven't seen such a thing before."

"But the problem is how to let these villages that still use stone vessels and return all the public land to the public to grow food, dig ore, smelt ore, collect logs, and build ships..."

Having said that, Shu Guitian felt that what he had just thought was too simple.

He envied the story of the 800 people breaking up Panyu, and felt that if the settlements were still impossible to use stones to slash and burn, 300 people would be enough to rebuild the South China Sea.

But after hearing what my brother said, I realized that my thinking was simple, and it was not the same situation at all.

In Panyu, the Mohists are really invincible: hundreds of people stormed the city, shot the nobles, destroyed the writing, and the priests were all thrown into the sugarcane fields for the crime of harming the people and cutting sugar cane, liberated slaves, redistributed the land, and outlawed the nobles The feudal obligation to seal the land gained a firm foothold there almost instantly by means of class struggle.

But if, as my brother said, there is no concept of a state, it is still like the primitive democratic deliberation system in ancient times. Even if you have learned a little bit of slash-and-burn technology, the land is still owned by the public. None of them are available.

There must be food for mining, and the most basic rule must be realized - even if it is the time when the school was founded in Sishang, how many people must be forced from each village to take turns to mine, it must be known to the local people what the meaning of the regime is, Otherwise, even if you can't beat it, is it possible that you can't run?Anyway, it's a life of bare hair and blood, so what can I do if I run to hide in the mountains?
Immigrants from Zhuxia?Then there is no need to think about it, Zhuxia has a lot of land, there are many places that have not been cultivated, and there is a shortage of people everywhere on Sishang, but who would be willing to take the initiative to go there if they die before reaching the point?

Shu Guitian frowned and said, "So, it doesn't matter where?"

Mi, the concubine, shook her head and said, "Take care, you must take care of it. Before... oh, yes, you were still at sea at that time. There were indeed several brainstorming meetings before, and we were discussing this matter."

"If it is a long-term plan, it is easy to use the land needed for survival after the population increases in the future. Slowly, there is no writing there, and even copper can't be used there. In the future, it can be used as one of the Xia and Kyushu states. Unknown."

"But isn't it a short-term solution now? Gold, silver and sulfur are alright, but copper is really scarce right now. Now the copper in Tongling naturally belongs to us, and the copper in Dayeshan belongs to the Chu people..."

"You don't know. The best guns are made of copper. Artillerymen don't like iron cannons. Copper cannons are far and accurate and not easy to blow up. Now they are training for the army. Every infantry brigade has three small cannons, and the number of artillery should be increased."

"There is a lot of copper and sulfur on the island. If it can be solved, not to mention the gold and silver, even the copper is enough to be called the world's greatest achievement."

Shu Pu Mi then smiled wryly, "So that's where the problem lies."

"Businessman seeks profit, Sishang Heavy Industry, and merchant's profit comes from the transshipment of goods. However, if the Kelin ironware from Sishang is transported there, what can be exchanged for it? Maybe it can also be exchanged for some furs, because there People have no money, even if they have learned how to plant, the price of grain has been so low in the past few years that the trade in the South China Sea has to go to the point where "one ship must carry a certain amount of grain or it will be multiplied". Is there a gold mine?"

"Mining to make money, the higher authorities will definitely not allow gold and silver to mine privately. If merchants want to mine, the cost is too high, and they have to support the locals to teach them to grow food, and it will take several years to let the locals know how to obey and trade... …If people are transported from Sishang, Nanhai and other places, not to mention the cost that the merchants cannot afford, even if there is a shortage of people everywhere in Sishang, how can it be the turn of those merchants to rob people? Have they robbed our Mo family?"

"Businessmen can't count on it, so they have to rely on the organization. But what the organization lacks now is copper, not land, and it's not that the population of Sishang is already too large to have no land to farm and has to go overseas. If you can't If you gain profits and get copper, then you can slowly develop it for hundreds of years, and there is no need to waste energy and talents there."

"So the above is still discussing this matter, it is difficult to decide."

Speaking of businessmen, Shu Pu Mi couldn't help muttering: "Businessmen are the most unreliable. Just wait and see, people there will be farming and mining in the future. The businessmen will definitely find a way to escape, and they will definitely smuggle away from the ship. Tariffs for commerce. You can count on them to develop there and complete the most difficult first step of creating something from nothing... Huh, why don’t they invest in places where they can make money faster and safer with all that money.”

He has a lot of opinions on the businessman, and he is quite dissatisfied with some of the above policies. He couldn't help complaining through his drunkenness.

Shu Guitian didn't care about the nature of the businessman, and understood that what his brother said was right, like the place he sailed before, the businessman would definitely go there without fear of losing his life, because there is already civilization there, and trade can be exchanged for gold and silver wealth .But as for the island that is still under slash-and-burn cultivation at this time, it is impossible for businessmen to go there.

However, he already understood what he wanted to know. He frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly tapped the dining table with his chopsticks and said, "Brother, the copper issue now...is a question of whether it is available, not whether it is beneficial or not." ,Right?"

The concubine Mi nodded and said: "That's right. Let's put it this way, now there are money, people, food, various handmade goods, and cloth, but... there is a lack of copper and sulfur, because the army is expanding. It is a big problem that money turns into copper. Because banknotes are mostly used in Sishang now, money cannot be directly turned into copper, and the copper used to cast cannons is different from the copper used for coins."

"Copper is not copper coins now, but copper for casting guns. These two are not the same."

Shu Guitian's heart was pounding, because he suddenly thought of a possibility, and asked: "Then since there is no shortage of money, there are still many 'long-term workers' in the south of the South China Sea, and there are also many miners in Tongling and other places. There really is a big copper mine there, and it’s okay to ship it directly, for example, to work for three years, but pay the commission here for six years, and the higher-ups will specialize in it and have special personnel to manage it, isn’t it a problem?”

The concubine Mi smiled bitterly and said: "Brother, you are on the boat and don't know about marching on the road. Now to go there, you have to cross the South China Sea, go to Sishang, cross Qi, go to Laidi, cross the sea, and reach the border of Jizi North Korea. South, along the coast to the southeast, to Juli, and then south across the sea..."

"Don't say tens of thousands of miles, but the distance of thousands of miles is not an empty talk. How much will it cost? How much time will it take?"

Shu Guitian smiled and said: "Brother, what you know on land is the land affairs, but you don't know the sea affairs. Every April, the South China Sea will blow up the wind and blow straight to the northeast. Then why do you have to go through Jizi North Korea?" How about going along the coast of the country to Juli and then crossing the sea? What if there is a sea route from the land of Wuyue in the South China Sea to go directly there?"

"It's not impossible to transport people there, mine copper mines, and return after Qi Qi."

He turned to the common gentleman and asked: "Sister, you surveyed and mapped the Kyushu of Yu. Presumably, your classmates must have surveyed the longitude and latitude of that island the last time you sailed there for the first time?"

The gentleman who participated in the compilation and drawing of the geographical map of mountains and rivers naturally knew it, and said: "I know. Wait a minute, I will take a look and remember it."

She hurried back to her room, took out a notebook, and said, "If the southernmost point is used..."

After reading a longitude and latitude that both she and Shu Guitian could understand immediately, but the rest of the people at the table didn't quite understand, Shu Guitian rubbed his head and shook his head as if he wanted to shake all the wine he had drunk before. With some wine on the chopsticks, he murmured: "Let me do the math... let me do the math..."

The gentleman stretched out his chopsticks, opened the chopsticks where his younger brother was counting, and said with a smile: "I am not as good as you when it comes to Zhang Fan sailing, and you are not as good as me when it comes to number nine."

"If you count from the southernmost point, the latitude is similar to that of Kuaiji City; if you count from east to west, the closest point is no more than Shangqiu to Nanzheng."

She didn't say the distance between numbers, but gave an intuitive distance between cities.

Shu Guitian believed that his sister could not make a mistake, and said overjoyedly, "Looking at it this way, it's not far away. If there is an air route, it would not be too far to transport ten-year long-term workers from the north of Panyu, or transport miners from Kuaiji to Tongling." Difficult."

"In the northeast of Panyu, there is a big island. If you can go to the northeast along the island, the road may not be unreachable."

He is a person who has spent his life in the south of the South China Sea. He sailed all the way along the coastline and found the person who was said to be as rich as the Central Plains. It was a few years away. For this kind of thing, it is only the distance from Shangqiu to Nanzheng. Take it to heart.

If the higher-ups are willing to support... Naturally, there are many risks, there may be strong winds, the ship may be destroyed and people may die... But once you find this route, your meritorious deeds will be remembered by future generations, so that this life will be worthwhile.

He calculated that three years was enough for those who could sail to the north to find copper, gold, silver, and sulfur, and enough for the villages there to learn how to grow and trade food.As long as a shorter route can be found to transport people there to solve the urgently needed copper mines and rich gold and silver, the higher-ups are willing to pay the price of 200 people, as well as the property and manpower needed to support the voyage.

The more I thought about it, the more excited I became, and said: "Sister, in a few days, you can get me a map drawn by you. If it is troublesome to print and draw, money is not a problem. I can find someone to do the drawing without printing."

(End of this chapter)