The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 480 When it comes to making money, the relatives don't recognize it

When Ding Yi came last time, there were only a few thousand horses here. It has only been more than a year, and it is not easy to reach more than 3. After reaching [-], one to twenty thousand horses can be guaranteed every year. Unqualified for transportation.

When Ding Yi came here, 20 yuan was less than 31 mu of grain fields, but now it is [-] mu. It has only been a year and a half, and the fields have increased a lot.

The output here is good. Last year, the actual harvest was 72 shi, a record high. The main reason is that some fields did not come and planted in summer, so the autumn harvest was much less. On average, the yield per mu was close to 2.7 shi.

Last year, North Korea shipped 20 shi ([-] grains of rice and [-] soybeans). Due to the loss of summer grain in Lushun, [-] shi was sent, and then [-] shi of soybeans were used to raise horses and sheep.

The whole island of Jeju Island used about 16 shi, and another 30 shi (mainly soybeans) was added for raising horses and sheep. In addition to the people’s own storage, Ding Yi distributed it to Muhu, and Zhong Zhennu finally left nearly [-] shi stone.

What kind of concept is this? After occupying Jeju for a year and a half, there is so much surplus food here. Even the former county magistrate of Jeju Park Zhixuan, Jeju natives Chen Haisheng, and Zhang Meng admired it very much.

When the same field came to Ding Yi's hands, the production immediately increased.

This is due to Ding Yi's great emphasis on farming.

But the output here is still limited, because the land where grain can be grown is at most about 50 mu, and it is estimated that there will be no place to grow it after one year.

Zhong Zhennu asked them to produce more than 1 mu of soybeans near the mountains, and the owner used them to raise horses and sheep.

So the output here is more than 100 million stones.

All kinds of fruit trees now cover 15 mu, and pigs, cattle, and chickens are all in the thousands. They are mainly raised by the common people, and then sold to Jeju Prefecture. There are 15 sheep, and [-] sheepskins were produced last year. Ding Yi’s Dongjiang town is used to make clothes, hats, shoes, etc. Now the whole army’s winter clothes rely on these sheepskins. As for mutton, it goes without saying that both Jeju and Dongjiang eat it, which greatly relieves the shortage of other food.

Huang Bin also said that there are currently 500 people here, organized into two battalions, 2000 in the first Jeju battalion as infantry, and 500 in the second Jeju battalion for the navy.

Ding Yi immediately asked that all 500 people be able to shoot guns and board ships, and all of them should be trained as infantry battalions and sailors.

There will be a new ship from Lushun, and they will be training on the ship.

Huang Bin wrote it down immediately.

Xiang Huailai's Lushun [-] soldiers have not yet left, and they will leave in half a year. By then, there will only be [-] local soldiers.

Ding Yijue said that for every 1000 immigrants in the future, fifty soldiers must be recruited.

If there are five thousand, two hundred and five troops will be recruited, and the three battalions will be recruited first.

Everyone remembered.

Finally, Ding Yi is very concerned about last year's income and expenditure.

In last year's expenditure, not to mention food, 30 shi of grain was stored, and the remaining 40 shi were either used or kept by the people themselves.

Last year, it cost 2 taels to raise horses, 5000 taels to harvest sheep, and 4000 taels to harvest cattle, chickens, and pigs.

It cost 9000 taels for various fruits, and 3000 taels for various seafood.

Military expenses, mainly guns, cannons, knives and guns, bows and arrows, armor and equipment, 500 people spent 12 taels. (The army here still only distributes food, reduces taxes, and does not distribute silver.)
The military expenditure is still a big one, but considering that the early equipment is a large expenditure, the military expenditure this year and next will be greatly reduced.

All officials, petty officials, craftsmen, doctors, and teachers, a total of more than 500 people, including the consumption of students studying, spent 11 taels.

In addition, a construction army of 3000 people was originally formed, and [-] people were formed later with immigration.

These 5000 people work on Jeju Island every day. Ding Yi provides food and reduces taxes, and does not pay wages. However, many construction materials require money. In this regard, nearly 10 taels were used. Of course, many materials are still available. It is piled up, and it will not be used for a while.

So Ding Yi was dumbfounded after hearing this. Last year, all expenses in Jeju reached 43 taels.

If you subtract 72 shi from the 30 shi when the grain was harvested, it is equivalent to using 42 shi of grain.

Based on the price of grain at this time, 1.5 taels per shi (near the capital) is 60 taels based on the Ming price. In Shaanxi and other places in the same period, at least three to four taels a shi.

Based on this alone, nearly 100 million taels of silver were used in Jeju last year.

It costs more than Dengzhou, and the population and soldiers here are less than Dengzhou.

The main reason is that Ding Yi bought a lot of things here.

Because of the high grain output, Ding Yi finally spent 43 taels of silver.

However, Ding Yi still has 30 shi of grain in storage. Just looking at the grain storage, he has already made ends meet. I have to say that taking down Jeju is really profitable, which is better than raising Dengzhou.

At this time, Clock Town slave happily reported his income.

Although the expenditure is huge, the income is also gratifying.

The horse was given to Lushun for free, and a penny was confiscated. Zhong Zhennu said that he suffered a blood loss.

The sheep are sold to Dengzhou in Dongjiang Town. There are a large amount of mutton, sheepskin, and 15 sheep. Jeju uses [-]% of them for itself, and sells about [-] to Dongjiang.

Of course, Dongjiang did not pay the money first, and first got Dengzhou, Japan, and North Korea to sell.

Cows, chickens, pigs, etc. are almost the same, as are fruits and seafood. Special fruits are sold very well in shopping malls in Dengzhou and Dongjiang Town, North Korea and Japan.

These special products, including those handed in by Jeju Islanders on behalf of taxes, sold about 16 taels throughout the year.

Ding Yi only collected sheep for three renminbi here, but when they were sold in Dengzhou, they could be sold for more than one or two yuan, and tripled.

As for their citrus, the North Koreans here receive a penny per catty. When they arrive at the store in Lushun, they are sold to craftsmen and officers. That is a penny per catty, ten times as much. Even Ruan Wenlong said that Ding Yi is black and desperate Earn your own money.

It's just that there must be losses and labor expenses in this process, including Dongjiang Town, which also needs to take part of the profits. In the end, Zhong Zhennu got 11 taels at the checkout.

They spent [-] yuan on this piece, and it seemed that they didn't make much money.

But I ate some of it myself, and used some of the sheepskin, etc., and Dongjiang Town also shared some, so these things actually made a lot of money.

At this time Ding Yi said: "The citrus is very profitable. Let's see this year, can we grow more?"

"..." Everyone was speechless.

"Don't underestimate this little thing. Last year, the Japanese shogunate and the Korean royal family earned 5000 taels of oranges. We also sold more than 6000 taels in our own Phi Island and Lushun."

The income from Dengzhou has not been counted, but the income from Dengzhou has been counted.

They spent several thousand taels of citrus here, and sold nearly 3 taels, a tenfold increase.

"North Korea, Japan, and Ming Dynasty are all regarded as the exclusive privileges of the nobles, and we must earn them hard." Ding Yi gritted his teeth.

Now, everyone laughed helplessly. When Mr. Ding talked about making money, his relatives didn't recognize him.

Zhong Zhennu hurriedly said: "This year's production will only be high, not low, don't worry, my lord."

(End of this chapter)