Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 758
Before dawn the next day, the Quanzhou pier was already crowded with people. Eighty thousand immigrants gathered in one place. Before dawn, people gathered in twos and threes, waiting quietly. The woman held the child and patted it gently. child.

Fanning patrolled the crowd with a few followers, listening to their narration.

"Dalang, can we really get the land?" a woman whispered to her husband while holding a child, another child fell asleep on his mother's back.

"There should be! I heard many people say that if you go overseas, you can get at least two hectares of land. Overseas people have fewer people and more land, and the land is not that valuable. In fact, I don't want land."

"You want to live in the city?" the woman asked in surprise.

The man nodded, "Food is cheap now, and we can't make much money from farming. We live in the city. First, the government will give us three acres of land, and then I can work in a factory. I can earn at least ten yuan a month, which is 120 yuan a year." You don’t need to buy seeds or farm tools, if you want to farm, how many fields will you have to plant to earn 120 yuan a year, and there are few people there, everyone has work to do, where can we find hired workers?”

Fan Ning nodded secretly. This man is quite shrewd, but he is only a shrewd man in front of him. He owns two hundred acres of land, and he can buy more in the future. If you are not a farmer, you are not allowed to buy arable land on the island, you can only buy residential land in the city.

But Fan Ning didn't intend to tell the truth. After they went, they would choose for themselves.

'Woo—'

The siren sounded on the pier, and the first large ship had slowly landed, and their large luggage had been sent on board, and everyone only brought some carry-on luggage.

Each Wanshi ship has three floors above, one hundred large cabins, and can carry one hundred households, about six to seven hundred people. This is relatively generous. If it is fully loaded, a large ship can carry about 700 people.

So the bottom warehouses are no longer occupied, and they are used to store luggage and the like, but even so, 1 households only need 120 large ships, but Bei Dao sent [-] Wanshi large ships.

In fact, only [-] ships were used to transport people, and the other [-] were cargo ships, loaded with stainless steel, sandalwood, cupronickel, tires, tobacco, peanut oil, spices and precious wood purchased from Nanyang, etc. , and shipped to Quanzhou together, and handed over to Quanzhou commercial firms for distribution to all parts of the Song Dynasty.

Then, silk, tea cakes, and pottery were transported from Quanzhou to the south. Some of the silk and tea cakes were needed by Bei Dao.

After running this trip, deducting the salaries of the seamen, fuel, ship loss, supplies along the way, etc., the net profit made by Bei Dao is about 100 million taels of silver.

Tobacco needs to be promoted and popularized. It will take at least five or six years to start from the capital, start from the powerful and senior officials, and then affect businessmen, and then affect ordinary people.

Fan Ning still took his own 100 shi boat, with more than [-] attendants on the same boat.

Akihito was also on a big boat with Fanning.

The two stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the fleet ahead. Fan Ning suddenly found that the Wanshi ship had masts and sails, and he asked a little strangely.

"Aren't they all steam boats? Why are they using sails again?"

"It was restored three months ago. The elders unanimously approved it, and the princess also signed it."

"I don't care about this, but I want to know the reason?"

"The reason is that a steamer on a liner to the Southern Continent suddenly broke down. The ship drifted on the sea for more than [-] days, and was finally found by the search and rescue ship we sent. Because of this incident, we decided to restore the mast and the ship. The sail, used in an emergency, does not actually affect the chimney of the steam machine, and now it is the north wind, with the help of the north wind, the steam engine will save effort, at least [-]% of the fuel can be saved.”

"Can the mast be erected if it is said to be erected? It has been many years since the mast was used." Fanning asked doubtfully again.

"The position of the mast has been preserved, and the same is true for the new ship, which can be used at any time."

Fanning nodded and stopped asking about it.

On this day, the fleet arrived in Luzon. The fleet needs to supply fresh water. It will be moored for three days. The immigrants can go ashore or go to the city to alleviate the troubles caused by seasickness. The solution is that after three days of rest in Luzon Mansion, the seasickness will not be so severe, and there is a herbal soup in Luzon Mansion, which can greatly relieve seasickness after drinking. This is also an important supply for the fleet.

However, a hundred cargo ships were moored for a day. After they bought sugar and cotton in Luzon, they went to Xingang to unload a batch of silk and porcelain in Xingang.

Fanning finally decided to make a trip to Newport as his final stop in office.

Hundreds of cargo ships left the Luzon Bay early the next morning and sailed towards Xingang. Xingang is the Singapore of later generations, while the old port in Sumatra Island has declined a little bit. However, the domestic fleet basically goes to the old port for purchasing spices. It is a port for doing business with Westerners.

Xingang belongs to Baozhou, which is the Malay Peninsula, and is the most important rubber producing area. There is also a rubber plantation covering an area of ​​[-] hectares here in Beidao, but it is far from being developed yet.

Akihito pointed to a coastline in the distance and said, "Over there is the Three Buddha Qi Kingdom. At least after the disastrous defeat in the last war, the national power of the Three Buddha Qi has declined greatly, and business has declined. , no one wants to do business with them anymore, and now Xingang has completely replaced Marayu, and Srivijaya is now a spice supplier."

"What is the most profitable commodity in the three-party business of Beidao?"

Mingren thought for a while and said, "Currently the most profitable is of course cupronickel, which is the same as direct mining of silver mines, followed by fine steel."

"Stainless steel is very profitable?"

"Of course, the refined iron produced in the Song Dynasty can't compare with our refined steel. The price of our refined steel is the same as that of fine iron. In the private market, it is ten times the price of ordinary iron. It's a pity that we have to use a lot of iron. , The production of pig iron in the Song Dynasty was low, which could not make up for our needs, and maybe starting next year, our fine steel will not be sold outside."

"Can there be a replacement for that?" asked Fanning.

"At present, it seems to be rubber. We buy rubber raw materials, make rubber tires and sell them to Dasong, which has [-] times the profit, and Dasong's demand is huge, and the market is basically monopolized by us."

"Where's the tobacco?"

Akihito smiled wryly, "Five years later, there may be a lot of money, but you also know the nature of the imperial court. After they find out the profits of tobacco, they will definitely implement the government's sales system. We can only provide raw materials, so although it is beneficial, it is big. Not with us."

"Then we will occupy the markets in Korea, Japan, and the West. Akihito, you are the president of the chamber of commerce, and you should be better at doing business than me. You have to make tobacco into a product, not shredded tobacco."

"Can you tell me in detail?"

Fan Ning patiently said to him: "For example, we need to wrap the shredded tobacco with a tobacco leaf, so why not sell the shredded tobacco after wrapping it? Let the craftsman make a cigarette rolling machine, then wrap it with paper, and finally pack it in a cardboard box Well, a box of [-] or [-] sticks is sold to the west. We don’t sell shredded tobacco. Is the profit higher? It’s the same in the Song Dynasty. We don’t sell shredded tobacco for retail, but only sell finished products. In this way, the profit will be greater. Don’t you think so? Also, tobacco seeds must be closely guarded and never allowed to flow out.”

Mingren nodded repeatedly, "We have thought about this issue from the very beginning. Except for the reserved species, all the tobacco seeds are destroyed, and none of them can flow out. Last year, dozens of tobacco seeds were found in Yuecheng County. After tracing them down, The result is that the birds took it out after eating it, so the tobacco farm also has a special person to drive the birds away."

Fan Ning thought for a while and then said: "In the South Island, just give them the glass-making technology. We don't teach tobacco. At most, we can provide them with some tobacco leaves and let them roll their own cigarettes."

"That requirement hasn't been made on the South Island side, they don't realize how profitable cigarettes are."

Just as he was talking, the siren sounded, and Xingang had arrived.

Fan Ning got off the ship. He did not disclose his identity. There are many official agencies in Xingang, including the county magistrate, the ship supervisor of Dasong City, and the Nanyang Branch of Dasong Overseas Economic Bureau, which is mainly responsible for the garrison. The Trade Department directly under the jurisdiction of Shangshu Province is mainly responsible for official trade.

As soon as you get off the boat, the bustling atmosphere on the pier will rush towards you. There are hundreds of ships moored in the harbor. In addition to the Beidao caravan, there are also a large number of ships from the West, ships from the Song Dynasty, and ships from Srivijaya. delivery ships, etc.

There are crowds of people on the pier, speaking all kinds of words. The dock workers are basically Sanfoqi people, and there are tall hanging towers, which are mainly used for unloading and loading ships. The steam engine pulls the thick hemp rope. It is the most advanced wharf machine in the Song Dynasty. It has been popularized in North Island. Yangzhou and Quanzhou began to use it last year. Unexpectedly, Xingang also appeared.

Dock laborers mainly push wooden wheeled carts, and deliver goods to and from the docks and warehouses.

It was Fanning who heard some strange language. When he turned around, there were actually a dozen blond Europeans standing behind him.

(End of this chapter)