Chapter 42 The hard work of opening up Jeju Island
When people feel uncomfortable, they can easily find someone to talk to. After Qi Ye walked out of Zhao Jiaren's yamen, he suddenly wanted to find someone to talk to. When he returned to the money shop, Qi Ye saw that the people he knew were all guys who had followed Zhao Jiaren for some time. With a little use of his brain, he could understand that Qi Ye could not pour bitterness into them. If these people who were desperately trying to get rid of poverty knew that Qi Ye wanted to use his existing wealth to buy shares first, they would definitely not really support Qi Ye.
Sighing, Qi Ye put aside the idea of buying shares when everyone was poor. Zhao Jiaren's refusal did disappoint Qi Ye and was a little sad, but this approach could not be miscalculated. Putting attention back to the accounts, Qi Ye saw that Zhao Jiaren's investment direction was making a comeback. Only Jeju Island, which started investing last year, was still in a major loss.
If there was no deficit caused by Jeju Island, I wonder if the brothers who followed Zhao Jiaren early could accumulate more wealth? Qi Ye couldn't help but start to think about it again.
The person in charge of Jeju Island is Liu Meng. If Liu Meng knew Qi Ye’s thoughts at this time, he would probably curse. At this time, a series of sail shadows appeared outside Jeju Island. Under each sail was a huge raft, which was tied into a dozen or even twenty large wood. The heroes on the raft were wearing thick cotton coats, and the outside was a straw coat. The straw coats were wet with splashed sea water, and the cotton coats inside were not very dry. It was really hard to beg for food on the sea with high waves and strong winds.
These wooden rafts were all from Kyushu Island in Japan. After Zhenxi pursued the brave combat power of the Song envoys to Heian Kyo with slightly exaggerated text descriptions, the shogun Kujo finally made up his mind to meet the Song envoys. After that, there was no exciting situation, and everyone should do what they should do. General Kyojo agreed to Zhao Jiaren to establish a shopping mall in Kobe, and also allowed the Song merchants to do business with various Jiujo family members.
Soon, Jinxi, Kyushu, had its first business with Hu Yuelian, who left Heianjing. It provided a large number of trees to Jeju Island, including oaks and elm trees, all of which were large wood, and the price was only one-tenth of that of Fujian Road. The Japanese manpower was reorganized and tied into wooden rafts by the sea in winter. Under the guidance and escort of a large ship, it used sea currents and wind to reach Jeju Island.
The raft gathered on a desolate shore, and the wood was hung up to a high slope, and then sent to a cave entrance through a hundred-meter railway track. Liu Meng asked the technician with anticipation and a little uneasy, "Can this cave really maintain 55 degrees?"
Faced with this problem, the technician was also a little uneasy. He joined Zhao Jiaren's team and went to school. After the basic courses, he studied shipbuilding. When he was subdivided, he learned wood processing. Steamed wood is widely used in Fujian Road Shipyards, but the school did not accumulate enough experience.
"...If the glass thermometer is correct, it should be possible." The technician gritted his teeth and replied.
Liu Meng knew that even if he could not do it, he would not understand it himself. He asked the question entirely because he felt uneasy. Since the technician said this, Liu Meng could only choose to trust the technician. The cave entrance was small and the belly was large, and the steaming house where the wood was placed was built with bricks and stones. The wood could not be put in and steamed now. He needed to place some of the wood that was shaded and sheltered from the wind to dry. Only after the wood was dried to a certain level could it be put in and steamed.
Although the dragon raised his head on February 2, the weather was not as hot as it was. Everyone was still wet with their close-fitting clothes, and even the thin cotton jacket outside was a little wet. After a round, everyone entered the stone house to rest. The cotton jacket was taken off and roasted with a charcoal stove nearby. Not long after, white gas came out. There was wine in the house, and fish was abundant around Jeju Island. When drinking, it was served with dried fish, which was quite in line with the habit of coastal Fujian Road.
"If this cave really works, how much wood can be steamed in a year?" Liu Meng did not mention the failure, but only mentioned the success.
"The cave can contain more than 200 pieces of wood. According to the calculation of 200, it takes 15 days to steam it once... Well..." The technician couldn't calculate it with his brain power, so he took a small stick and prepared to make a formula on the ground.
"You can steam twenty-four times a year." The one who was determined to make good calculations immediately. After finishing the calculation, he also made another calculation. "Two hundred at a time, you can steam 4,800 pieces a year."
Everyone saw that someone could do it, and those who were not interested were also interested. Now many people found things that could write and draw to start making formulas. Liu Meng didn't do that, so he raised his left hand and drew it on it with his right hand. Finally, everyone calculated the results one after another.
"Is there 5 days left?" Someone pointed out the deviation of the data.
The brother with good mental arithmetic ability said unhappily: "It takes 15 days at a time. Are these 5 days useful?"
Seeing that everyone was about to have a boring dispute, Liu Meng quickly shouted: "Stop talking nonsense. Talking about serious things. There are still a few useful caves now."
"The others are too far away. We don't have that many railroad tracks at all." The technician responsible for building this steaming room quickly replied. After finding this good place, they also ran around Jeju Island, but everyone soon found that transporting large wood was too tiring. A piece of wood would take more than a dozen people to carry it for a day, and there was no such much manpower on Jeju Island.
After a long discussion, the clothes were dried and their strength gradually recovered. Everyone continued to work. This time, hundreds of wood were purchased from Japan, and this one alone would have to steam for a few months. There were opportunities in the future.
In the spring, Jeju Island is busy not only with wood steaming rooms, but the entire island is busy. The land reclamators have begun to draw areas on various lands suitable for cultivation. While weeding and opening the land, some people also use stones to build stone walls on the land. After staying on this island for several months, everyone has experienced the strong wind here. The sea breeze blows without any obstacles and it is full of energy on the island. The soil is easily blown away. Fortunately, Liu Meng told everyone that the best way is to use local stones to build stone walls to block the wind and retain precious soil. This makes everyone feel enlightened.
But doing this means that labor is not only about opening up land, but also about more hard work. Everyone's face looks very bad. Even though they know the hardships of land reclamation, everyone did not expect to work so hard.
If there is endless work, life will pass quickly. The cows don’t grow fast enough, but the pigs grow rapidly. The Liaodong Peninsula is full of oak trees, which are oak trees, also known as oak trees. This tree can raise tusser silkworms. More importantly, the seeds of oak trees are acorns. This thing is the food that a squirrel loved in the Ice Ages. It is big and has a lot of starch inside. The fleet took advantage of the autumn to get more than 100,000 kilograms of pounds and transported them back to heat them with the geothermal heat of Jeju Island and then feed the pigs. After eating the pigs, they grew extremely obese.
Chapter completed!