The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 494 I want to double the output

On the morning of November 11, Zhao Dashan took Ding Yi's letter and some gifts, and took a boat to Quanzhou to meet Zheng Zhilong.

On the same day, Ding Yi called all the important personnel of the senior staff to the scene, first visited the sugar factory, and then held a meeting to assign tasks.

According to Pilut, Dayuan now produces more than 5000 tons of granulated sugar per year. At that time, a load of sugar was 120 catties, about 60 catties.

Mainly sold to Japan and Persia (Iran).

Those who sell to Japan are mostly Ming merchants, such as Ding Yi.

Those sold to Persia are basically merchant ships from other countries.

Ding Yi took the Dongjiang generals to visit the sugar making process and workshop first.

The place where sugar is made here is called Tangsha, which consists of a shed for pressing sugar cane and a sugar house for boiling sugar.

The sugar it produces is brown sugar, that is, brown sugar. Some of these sugars will pass through the "sugar room" and use soil to filter out impurities, and then processed into white sugar with higher purity.A sugar shop is a small sugar processing factory.

It is relatively simple to make brown sugar, and everyone has read about making white sugar.

Workers use clay and paper to filter brown sugar, and the time is a bit slow.

The person in charge of sugar production here is Duan Gaolin, who was originally from Quanzhou. The first batch of immigrants came here for 11 years.

Duan Gaolin is in his 40s, with a friendly face and can speak Dutch fluently.

According to him, he is responsible for sugar production, and the sales are from the Dutch.

Most of his workers are women, there are children over 12 years old, and a few middle-aged men.

Adult men of prime age, either farming or building forts, sometimes come to help.

Ding Yi and others turned around a few times and found that he had many people under him, but the efficiency was very poor.

Lots of kids playing in their spare time and women chatting.

For example, in a sugar shop, only four or five people are needed to cook sugar, but there are more than a dozen people around.

Most people are chatting, waiting.

Very inefficient.

Duan Gaolin is still a local elder. As an elder's benefit, he paid five shi less per family every year for his family's fields.

After reading it, Ding Yi first asked Duan Gaolin: "How many people are under your command now? Only women are counted, and there are adults. Anyone under the age of 15 cannot be counted."

Duan Gaolin hesitated: "Probably, like, six to seven thousand people."

He immediately added: "But not all of you are here. Sometimes the family is busy, and sometimes other places also need staff."

In short, it is not fixed. He just guarantees that [-] catties of sugar will be produced every month.

Ding Yijue's sugar production can be greatly increased.

"Do the women get paid?"

"No, for stutterers."

"From next month, I will produce [-] catties per month," Ding Yi said.

"How is it possible." Duan Gaolin stared: "My lord, you didn't even kill us."

3000 catties per month, only 6000 catties per day, you have [-] to [-] people, you can do whatever you want.

Ding Yijue's weight is less than [-] catties.

Immediately added another sentence: "One hundred thousand catties is the least."

"There are not so many sugar canes." Duan Gaolin shouted.

Only then did Ding Yi remember, but he was not in a hurry, and looked at the places where sugarcane was planted one after another.

After he came back, he called Duan Gaolin, the person in charge of the sugar factory, and more than [-] small bosses.

"I took a look at the sugarcane, and there is no major problem. Some are planted far away, and you don't send people to get them, all of them are nearby."

Duan Gaolin's face was flushed, and the little bosses remained silent.

But he still insisted: "Take it all back, it still doesn't meet the requirements."

"Increase planting and improve planting methods." Although Ding Yi did not remember Zheng Chenggong's time in Taiwan, he imported new sugarcane seedlings, improved technology, and increased production a lot, but he knew that everything can be done if he is willing to think of a way solved.

Everyone looked at each other without making a sound.

Ding Yi said again: "Tomorrow I will announce it to various places and send someone to read it out." This is to prevent some people from being illiterate.

When you look at Ding Yi, you don't know what he wants to announce.

"Select people with excellent sugarcane planting technology as managers."

"I want to set up a sugar bureau"

"There is one director and five deputy directors. No matter how many years you have been in Taiwan, no matter how high your prestige in the local area is, as long as you have excellent sugarcane planting technology and can improve sugar production technology, you can take up the post."

Duan Gaolin and the others looked even more ugly.

"The director is ten taels of silver per month, and the deputy director is five taels of silver per month. You only need to pay [-]% for each Jiatian."

Ah, everyone was shocked. Looking at each other, many people looked eagerly. The [-]% tax is quite attractive.

Duan Gaolin's eyeballs kept rolling.

"Anyone who can improve technology and increase production, and who has made a greater contribution, will be rewarded with ten to one hundred acres of fertile land, and ten to one thousand taels of silver, depending on how much the production has increased."

The people shouted again and shook one after another.

Ding Yi said again: "This month, the sugar production will be suspended, and a new sugar factory will be built. I checked, and there are too few sugar factories, and many workers are relaxing."

"In the future, the Grain Bureau will approve [-] workers to come to work every day."

"Seven to eleven in the morning (the ancient time is not used here, save some Baidu time.) From twelve to five in the afternoon, six in summer."

"Every seven days, you can take one day off and take turns to rest."

Ding Yi changed the labor system in Lushun, talked about it with eloquence, and said that he would recruit workers for everyone in the form of an announcement.

Duan Gaolin had a bitter face: "I do this every day, I'm afraid I won't be able to recruit people. Sometimes when the farming is busy, everyone has to go home to help."

Ding Yi ignored him, and continued: "Each worker, five coins a month, plus lunch."

"In the future, every year I work, I will add one more money."

Hiss, everyone gasped in unison.

Now I'm afraid that the women on the whole island will rush to come.

In the past, it was only for stuttering, and it was very simple. Master Ding is so generous, and he still gives out money, so why don't everyone rush to come?
Duan Gaolin has 8000 people under his command, which means that many people are not qualified to enter.

"In the future, the number of workers in each sugar factory, how many workers transport sugar cane, how many workers make white sugar, how many people make brown sugar, and how many workers each delivery room, all must be standardized, no more, no less."

"If you take my salary, you can't be lazy. If you catch one, you will be fired immediately. If the circumstances are bad, you will be severely punished."

"I will announce the specific relevant system and let everyone know."

"Duan Gaolin, tell me now, when will the monthly production capacity reach [-] jin." Ding Yi finally said sharply.

Duan Gaolin blushed, and after holding back for a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "February."

It's November now, three months to go.

Ding Yi didn't force him, nodded: "Okay, I'll wait."

Ding Yi continued to explain.

Xu Zhi, the craftsman brought from Lushun, was responsible for the construction of various cities and bastions. He participated in the construction of many forts in Lushun and Pidao, and he has very rich experience.

This time, Ding Yi did not bring many craftsmen along with the boat, mainly the craftsmen who were waiting in Songjiang along the road, and those brought by Lushun, a total of more than 300 people.

Xu Zhi was the director of the bureau, and several others were selected as the deputy directors. According to the rules of the officials, each person would be given a piece of Jiatian first, and only [-]% should be handed over.

Everyone was very happy.

(End of this chapter)