The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 495 Barter
Ding Yi wants to follow the Lushun model, and the Craftsmanship Bureau must maintain more than 1000 workers all year round, and these workers must be paid every month.

Lushun's side is five coins and silver, five buckets of rice.

The big officials who were in charge of city construction and security were also shocked, because they had no money before and only stuttered.

In addition, according to the difficulty of the project, we will recruit people appropriately.

For example, to build a new port city, at least 1 people are needed, and each person is paid a penny a day for food.

For every ten days of work, an extra five points will be given.

In this way, if you work for a full month, you can get four cents and five cents.

These people are equivalent to odd jobs, because some people still have to farm, and they have to go home to help when the farming is busy.

So the wages are calculated on a daily basis.

After the announcement came out, everyone was very happy.

Because there was no money in the past, even men had to bring their own food.

Now that Ding Yi is giving out money and providing food, many people will definitely rush to go in the future.

Ding Yi also stipulated that people should not be requisitioned as much as possible during busy farming seasons, but once they are requisitioned, they cannot be refused.

Everyone present was thinking, who would refuse the money you offered.

The Bureau of Craftsmanship has heavy tasks. Xu Zhi and several deputy directors, some can shoot guns, some can build cannons, some can build ships, and some can build forts.

In the early stage, forts were mainly built, and then gun factories, gun factories, shipyards, and various branches had to be established.

In the future, senior officials should also be able to do the same as Lushun, self-produced and self-supplied, and they will also be able to repair themselves.

Of course, currently artillery and guns are still mainly repaired, and then hoarding materials and minerals for future self-manufacturing.

Xu Zhi agreed one by one, saying that as long as Lord Ding gives him enough manpower and support, after five years, he will not be worse than Lushun.

Ding Yi thinks about it too.

When he first arrived in Lushun, his start was much worse than now, with only 800 people and more than a dozen craftsmen and workers.

Now when it comes to the senior officials, there are more than 7000 soldiers and sailors, 300 civilians, and more than [-] craftsmen and workers.

There are also lucrative industries.

As long as there is no wave at this starting point and no one comes to attack, Lushun will definitely be even better after five years.

Ding Yi asked Arah, the elder of the original residents, to help them cut down trees.

There are a lot of hard trees in the south and middle of Dayuan's side, and the boat and charcoal making are first-class.

He asked Arah to organize the tribe, build warehouses, cut down trees, stock up, and cooperate with the Craftsmanship Bureau to build a shipyard.

For the original residents, Ding Yi does not intend to give money, and it is useless for them to ask for silver. Salt, cloth and medicinal materials are more effective than silver.

Ding Yi asked Arah to gather the chiefs and chiefs, the more the better, to come and talk.

Arah thought for a while, and said, many patriarchs and heads are hostile to outsiders, and the Dutch fought several times with them before.

Ding Yi said, I am different from the Dutch, I will use salt, herbs, ironware, cloth, etc. in exchange for their support.

Arah nodded: "Then I will try my best."

Ding Yi met Arah again alone, and promised to give his people a lot of salt and cloth, herbs and iron, and Arah also left happily.

He wants to lobby the nearby original residents and tribes for Ding Yi.

In the Ming Dynasty, a benevolent General Ding Yiding came. He was very honest, more benevolent and civilized, completely different from the barbaric Dutch.
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After Zhao Dashan arrived in Quanzhou, he found out that Zheng Zhilong was not there. Given Shi Yong's bad behavior, he didn't dare to go to the door, and took two soldiers to stay first.

He waited until November 11rd and didn't come back. He bought a batch of things and went back to Dayuan.

I will go to Quanzhou again on November 11.

At this time, Quanzhou already knew that someone had occupied the Dutch city of Zeelandia. Zheng Zhilong's warships came to patrol many times, trying to land.

Ding Yi's fort fired a few shots unceremoniously.

Zheng Zhilong's boat did not dare to board.

Fortunately, Zhao Dashan was carrying the White Tiger Flag, and no one stopped him.

During this period, a businessman from Ming Dynasty came to Dayuan to buy sugar.

Basically, brown sugar is the main source of purchase now, supplemented by white sugar. At this time, Daming Songjiang white sugar is about 4 cents to 5 cents per catty, which is relatively expensive. Brown sugar is 1 cent per catty, which is more suitable for ordinary people to eat. Brown sugar, rich people and officials eat more white sugar.

The Dutch used to sell white sugar for 5 cents a catty, and the price was more expensive, but the output here is more, and the quality is better than Songjiang, so now Ming businessmen like to go here.

Ding Yi can now sell it to Japan himself (the Japanese have a sweet taste and like to eat white sugar very much, they are the main consumers of white sugar), and the profit is quite high. The price of ordinary businessmen selling it in Japan is about five times. Ding Yi sells the shogunate and famous , It can be sold for about seven-ten times.

So he thought for a while and decided that it is fine for merchants to ask for sugar, but I don't want money.

The output is 5000 catties of sugar a month, and if it is sold in the big staff, it is only [-] taels, which is barely enough for Ding Yi's salary, but it can be sold in Japan for [-] taels.

But Ding Yi did not lack the 5000 taels.

So he asked for sugar in the future, barter, cloth, tea, medicinal materials, cattle, even human beings, or dogs. He also set the price of white sugar as high as 1.5 yuan per catty, tripled.

That's right, Ding Yi even wants a dog, which makes everyone very strange, and many businessmen don't understand.

What Ding Yi wanted was easy to get, but his price made merchants from all over Daming unhappy. In the past, the Dutch only sold it for 5 cents, so you just tripled it?What shall we eat?We sell it at the original price in Japan?

Ding Yi said don't panic, I will bring you something and designate a place for you to sell it, and you will be charged three dollars there, and your profit will remain the same.

And if you have other things, you can also sell them a little bit, and the profit will be higher.

Ding Yi helped them set the price, and sold them to the shogunate in the name of Ding Yi's own people.

Of course, Ding Yi asked them to give kickbacks to the Japanese principals as well. It seemed that the profits were reduced again, but according to Ding Yi, the prices of the things they sold were generally high, and the profits still came back.

Most businessmen don't believe that Ding Yi is so good, and some businessmen are willing to try.

The boss is not in a hurry, slowly spent several months, selected more than a dozen partners from all over the country, and in the future, except for these partners, white sugar will not be sold outside, only brown sugar will be sold.

These people traded with the shogunate in the name of Ding Yi in Japan, and the price of their shipments was higher than that of ordinary merchants. In the case of weight rebates to the Japanese side, their profits were higher than before.

The businessmen and the Japanese principals made money from the shogunate together.

And every time these people came to get sugar from the senior officials, they would bring Ding Yi a large amount of cloth, tea, medicinal materials, cattle, human population and even dogs, etc., which the senior officials urgently needed.

This saves Ding Yi from sending a boat out to buy and collect everywhere.

A year later, Ding Yi became more standardized, and stipulated with various merchants the quantity of varieties to trade in Japan each time, and in Japan, Ding Yi's people verified.

Because someone would barter [-] catties of sugar from Ding Yi, and then go to Songjiang to buy [-] catties of sugar, and then trade with Japan.

Therefore, after Ding Yi stipulated the number of varieties, only the items within the regulations could be traded with the shogunate, and those outside the regulations could be sold by himself.

Through his local influence in Japan, Ding Yi quickly gathered a group of merchants from all over the Ming Dynasty who were willing to bring goods to the big officials. He brought the items Ding Yi needed from all over the place, exchanged the goods for Ding Yi’s white sugar, and then sold them at a high price. The Japanese shogunate, daimyo, and merchants made profits, while the development of Ding Yi's daimyo was getting faster and faster.

(End of this chapter)