The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 615 Successful Fractionation of Petroleum
Ming people's buildings are very neat, generally a rectangular piece, about two acres in size, surrounded by bamboo fences or mud walls, and when you enter, you will find a large courtyard with various buildings inside.

There will be obvious signboards outside the mud walls, or such-and-such restaurants, or such-and-such shopping malls, and the exterior walls of various buildings will also have very obvious signs that can be seen from afar.

This is different from the shops in other places in the Ming Dynasty. The shops in ancient times were all directly a shop, like the Dayuan side, surrounded by bamboo railings or mud walls to form a rectangle.

Looking at it this way, a row of shops is like a rectangular wall, very neat and beautiful.

"A piece of land is about two acres." Ding Yi said: "After you get the land, you must first enclose the land with a wall."

"As for what kind of buildings to build inside and what kind of business to do, it's up to you."

"The place enclosed by the wall is yours."

Ma Du understands that if the two acres of land are enclosed, whether it is to build three buildings or open two shops, it is his own business and has nothing to do with the Ming people.

"What's the price for renting or buying?" Madu certainly knew that Mingren in front of him was not easy. He was able to snatch high-ranking officials from the Dutch, and his business was ten times better than that of the Dutch. Now the port is becoming more and more popular. The more prosperous you are, the sooner you want to make money.

"If you rent it, you can rent 200 taels per year for each piece of land. If you buy it, you can pay 1 taels per piece of land permanently."

"Whether you rent or buy, you will be charged one-twentieth of the tax every year. For example, if you sell 1000 buckskins a year in your land, you will pay 50 buckskins."

For the convenience of calculation, Ding Yi didn't use the profit, but used one-twentieth of the goods they sold.

This is obviously more shameless.

But these acquaintances don't understand, not only they don't understand, Zhu Xiangyang and the others don't understand either.

The land tax collected in the Ming Dynasty was even heavier.

He counted with his fingers and toes on the Matu board, and he felt that it was quite a reasonable tax.

The surname Ding is Bai Xiang who asked me for fifty buckskins, and I will give them to him too, not to mention paying taxes?

"We want five yuan." Ma Du hurriedly said, "Rent first."

Madou Club didn't have that much money to buy five yuan, and he wanted to see if he could make money.

So Madou Club took the lead and rented five pieces of land first.

In this way, Ding Yi asked them to choose five yuan at random, and they would build whatever was behind them, without Ding Yi having to waste manpower and material resources.

This should be done in modern times. If you rent a shop, you have to ask others to build it yourself, and others will not beat you to death.

But who knows in this day and age, Madou Club still feels that they have a big advantage.

Starting with the Madou Society, other fresh and cooked fans also expressed their desire to rent land, and then the local Han people who immigrated the first also expressed their desire to rent land, because the port is indeed the most popular, whether it is to make money or exchange materials. , all convenient.

Tainan City is a military city, only Ming people are inside and are not allowed to enter.

Xingang City is still under construction, it is not completely finished, and there are not many places to spend in restaurants.

And here is Ding Yi's largest shopping mall in the early stage, various restaurants, shops, etc., plus merchant ships from various countries entering, there are indeed many people.

The Dutch used to occupy this area exclusively, but now Ming people are willing to rent and sell it, and everyone is naturally rushing to rent.

So in less than one morning, Ding Yi rented out more than 100 pieces of land and got more than 2 taels.

Zhu Xiangyang, Zhao Dashan and the others were stunned. Mr. Ding is really amazing. Anything in his hands can be turned into money.

Zhu Xiangyang hurriedly said at this time: "There are also Daming and foreign businessmen who also want to open shops here, or rent a place to stay."

Ding Yi said: "They can't open a shop, they can rent a place to stay."

"Shops now give priority to our local brothers."

The raw fans and familiar fans were naturally overjoyed.

Why rent a foothold?
Because Ding Yi is bartering sugar here.

For example, there happened to be a Ming merchant ship arriving at the South Wharf at this time.

After going ashore, go to register at the nearest Dayuan Exchange (which Ding Yi specially uses to trade with them).

He will tell the officials how much cloth, how many cows, how many people I have brought, how much sugar, or how much deerskin and other materials I have brought.

In this way, Ding Yi's people will exchange as much sugar as they want according to his supplies and requirements.

If there is a foothold, merchants can send a resident official under their command, and ask the official to prepare sugar and other materials in advance, and they can exchange them as soon as they get off the ship.

Ding Yi and the others walked to the shore, and after seeing the Ming man coming out of the exchange, he immediately returned to the boat, not for a while.

A lot of cloth and herbs were picked off the boat, and then dozens of cows suddenly appeared.

On the other side, Ding Yi's people were transporting sugar from afar.

The two sides quickly traded on the shore.

Some raw and cooked fans have only now discovered that Ding Yi sold them cloth, herbs and other materials in exchange for white sugar.

And Ding Yi can trade everything, even cows can be traded for sugar.

But if they knew that Ding Yi had changed a lot of dogs to deal with them, I don't know how they would feel.

Of course, now the senior officials rarely change dogs, they are all their own dogs.

Ding Yi watched for a while on the shore. The people here are already very skilled, and there is an underground warehouse on the shore to store sugar.

The transaction is fast and smooth, and it is basically guaranteed that after a ship lands, as long as the number is counted, the exchange can be completed in the fastest time.

Of course, there are not too many ships coming here. When many ships exchange sugar here in autumn and winter, the area around the pier is extremely busy, and there is no place for people to stand, let alone a mountain of goods.

No wonder even the raw and cooked fans want to do business when they see the popularity here.

Ding Yi turned around and felt that there was no problem with the operation here, and it was very smooth. If this continues, this pedestrian commercial street will definitely become more and more lively and popular in the future.

When he was leaving, he said to Zhao Dashan and Zhu Xiangyang: "From one mile away from the port, we must set up roadblocks and arrange people to guard them."

"Where you can pass, build high walls and set up patrols."

This is to keep all outsiders in this area and prevent them from inquiring about other places on Dayuan Island.

Everyone nodded.

At noon, Ding Yi rode a horse, took some soldiers, several important figures, Zhao Dashan and other five people, and headed for the eastern mountainous area together.

This was originally Shengfan's territory, but of course it has now taken refuge in Ding Yi.

Because the road is a bit far away, Ding Yi walked it once last year. It took more than ten minutes to ride a horse from Tainan City, and many mountain roads were difficult to walk.

But when he ran again this year, not long after he left the main road, Ding Yi's eyes lit up.

I saw an asphalt road in front of me, which made the original mountain road very smooth, but it was a little narrow, less than two meters wide.

Riders can only line up in a file.

"Mito succeeded?" Ding Yi asked Zhu Xiangyang happily.

"Haha, I didn't tell my lord before, but I just wanted to surprise him. This road has just been built, and I told my lord that it was paved very quickly." Zhu Xiangyang and the others laughed.

Soon, Ding Yi and the others ran to the front of the two mountains in less than 6 minutes.

The last time I came here, the military fort was not perfect, but this time it was more complete, and there were more than a hundred guards.

Entering from the fort gate built between the two mountains, you will find Ding Yi's scientific research institute in Dayuan.

There are several huge underground warehouses here, which were dug out by the freshmen in the early stage, and they are still digging continuously.

In addition to storing oil, it also stores coal mines, copper mines and other materials.

"Last year, Oboi led troops to attack Dadushe, and found a coal mine in Dadushe near Chiayi." Zhao Dashan said with a smile at this time: "We took it here."

"However, we have never had the opportunity to dig on a large scale because it is too far away from us. The Dadu Society has not been destroyed, and we dare not garrison troops to dig. Now that the Dadu Society has been defeated, there are several coal mines over there, and we can start digging this year. "

Ding Yi nodded happily. In fact, when the Dutch occupied Taiwan, they organized coal mines, but they were closer to the raw and cooked ones, and they were not convinced by the Dutch. For example, like the Dadu Society, the two sides fought several times The Dutch returned helplessly.

After Ding Yi took over, he kept asking the people here to look for ores everywhere, all kinds of ores.

Right now there are copper mines, oil mines, coal mines, iron mines, etc. Although these resources are not many, but they are enough for him.

Moreover, it seems that there are more coal mines in the north and northwest of Taipei, and they are not in Ding Yi's sphere of influence at this time.

After entering the valley, I found that a new stone house was built inside.

Soon, Ding Yi saw Abbas Mito in a stone house.

Unexpectedly, Ding Yi also saw several Persians. It is said that Awei brought them here later to help Mito. They were all Persian craftsmen.

Ding Yi told Avi at that time that craftsmen were needed, and indeed Awei sent many craftsmen over, including shipbuilders, construction craftsmen, craftsmen and so on.

"Master Ding." Mito was very happy to see Ding Yi coming.

Because it seems that only Ding Yi understands and appreciates his abilities the most.

"Hahaha, I saw the asphalt road, it's really good, very good." Ding Yi smiled and said, "I want to see how you made it."

Mito was extremely excited immediately, as if his interest had been most approved.

He took Ding Yi to another huge stone chamber.

This stone chamber was built after the arrival of Persian craftsmen.

A basement was dug under the stone chamber, which was specially used for heating.

Ding Yi also saw his newly planted fractionator.

The utensils in the entire stone house were made by Persian craftsmen under the guidance of Mito.

Ding Yi has also seen the craftsmanship of Persian craftsmen on the glass level, and he must have made the glass craftsmen of Daming in Lushun.

He subconsciously turned his head and asked Zhu Xiangyang and the others: "Have we craftsmen learned?"

"They're all learning, I guarantee they will learn." Zhu Xiangyang and Yao Xinhan said in unison: "Everyone knows that Mr. Ding is the most important thing for you, why don't you learn."

"It must be learned, and these Persian craftsmen cannot let go."

"No." Everyone laughed.

There are several fractionation towers here, and Mito's workers are also separating. He explained to Ding Yi, and Ding Yi watched it very clearly and intuitively.

It is by heating the oil to separate out various materials such as gasoline, kerosene, asphalt, and even wax that Ding Yi wants.

In fact, Mito didn't even know that asphalt was called asphalt. It was Ding Yi who called it that, so he learned to call it.

The rest are sorted and stored separately.

(End of this chapter)