Yizhou can grow sugar cane, and the sugar cane can be used to squeeze white sugar. White sugar is an out-and-out luxury product in this era, and the price is even higher than that of silk. Xu Wei can guarantee that as long as Yizhou is built into a white sugar base, most of the Officials of Qiang should not say that they should give up on Yizhou. Maybe Yizhou will become the most important financial center of Qian in the future!
Bao Xin naturally believed deeply in Xu Wei. Since Xu Wei said that planting sugar cane can quickly make Yizhou a wealthy place, it must be true. Therefore, Bao Xin's orders to Xu Wei can be said to be uncompromising. Done, if you say plant sugar cane, plant sugar cane.
Now that these sugarcanes have matured, and it's harvest season, he happens to be short of labor here, so after knowing that Guan Yu is dealing with businessmen related to Daqian, he followed Tian Feng's advice and spread rumors to cause trouble in Yangzhou. The panic of ordinary people brought them to Yizhou! They helped Daqian provide sufficient labor force, so he is extremely happy to see these boats and boats of people!
However, Tian Feng next to him reminded Bao Xin: "Captain, please don't be careless. Those people are still on Haitan Island now. If Guan Yu leads his troops to conquer Haitan Island, all our efforts will be in vain! It may even be possible." Thousands of elites were lost!”
Bao Xin said solemnly: "Of course I understand that Guan Yu is not easy to deal with, but now Guan Yu's army is still in Yuhang County, and the way to Dongzhi is through barren mountains and wild mountains. Not only is the march difficult, but also it is difficult to obtain logistics supplies. If you want to reach Dongzhi, it is impossible to reach Dongzhi without marching for more than a month. The Han army marched 50 miles a day and was already a first-rate elite.
But on the ocean, this is like a turtle crawling. If our fleet has smooth sailing, it will be easy to march thousands of miles in one day. Fan Xian's fleet can reach Haitan Island in ten days at most, and then bring the people to Yizhou. In less than three days, unless Guan Yu's army can fly, they will only see an empty Haitan Island!"
Tian Feng didn't know much about things at sea, so naturally he couldn't comment on it, but he still said strangely: "Yizhou is a newly reclaimed land, and even food has to be transported thousands of miles away in Xuzhou, but the captain Let most of the land be planted with so-called sugar cane. Although I know that sugar cane is more profitable than food, Yizhou cannot be self-sufficient, so what is the use of making a little more money?"
This is the strangest thing about Tian Feng. In his opinion, the first priority of a newly developed place must be food self-sufficiency. But now, with Bao Xin's efforts, Yizhou still uses simple farming methods such as slash and burn farming. , barely managed to get 1 million acres of land, but most of this land is not used to grow food. This is simply inexplicable. In the case of lack of food, what is the use of money? Logically speaking, people who work hard cannot be like this. Unwise, this is something Tian Feng has never figured out!
But Bao Xin said confidently: "This is an order from the government, it can't be wrong!"
Tian Feng was speechless looking at the confident light. What was the difference between this and a foolish man and a foolish woman? He naturally knew that Lei Gong must have his plan. He wanted to know the plan, but Bao Xin believed in Xu unconditionally like a believer. Wei, the two sides are not on the same channel at all, it makes no sense at all!
Tian Feng sighed and waited for a good harvest of sugar cane to see what Lei Gong had in store!
On the other hand, after Fan Xian received Bao Xin's flying pigeon message, he immediately led his fleet from Yandu Pier, along the coastline, and arrived at Haitan Island in less than 8 days.
Fan Xian's fleet was all sea-going ships worth more than 10,000 stone, and the main ship was a giant ship with 50,000 stone. It took less than 10 transport ships to load the tens of thousands of people on the island, and then Fan Xian loaded all the people on the island. The people are then transported to Yizhou Island!
The next day, the huge fleet arrived at Yizhou Pier!
Bao Xin saw Fan Xian's fleet approaching him happily and said, "I'll trouble you again. Leave half of the people in the north and transport the rest to the south! A large number of people are needed to cut sugar cane there. I'll go with you." !”
Fan Xian said angrily: "I have almost become your logistics department since I joined the navy. For the past six months, I have either been transporting food or various iron tools for you!"
Bao Xin smiled and said: "This is not something that comes along for the ride, and there are enemies in your navy. If you don't do something like this and share some of the credit, I'm afraid that next time Niu Gui allocates funds, you will reduce your investment because you have no credit." !”
Hearing this, Fan Xian was extremely depressed. There were very few places where the newly established navy could make great achievements. It finally made the greatest contribution in the battle with Cao Cao the year before last, but in the end he was defeated by Guan Yu and returned. It was difficult for him to help his subordinates report their achievements, which made Fan Xian's subordinates depressed for a year.
What made them even more helpless was that when the imperial court made its budget, it was said that Daqian had established two naval divisions in Xuzhou and Yuzhou during this period, which would cost a huge amount. Officials like Niu Gui had already considered cutting back on naval construction.
According to Niu Gui, apart from their Dagan fleet, there are no other ships in the Han Dynasty. The navy has no enemies at all, so there is no need to build so many ships. The investment should be reduced and more naval forces can deal with it. Big men and navy soldiers can change their jobs and become transport fleets. Anyway, this is what they used to do.
Army generals like Wang Yong were also there to fan the flames, and even said that Daqian did not need a navy at all!
Fortunately, Xu Wei forcefully put a stop to Niu Gui's idea, but Fan Xian and his men did not want to be kicked out of the army just like this, and of course they had to find a way to show their value.
So Fan Xian and others formulated the idea of using Yizhou as a base to attack the back and rear of Yangzhou. This was because they wanted to use the same method against Cao Cao to deal with Liu Bei again!
At the same time, they also dug out the world map that Xu Wei had originally drawn. The world was so big. Of course, their navy soldiers had to open up territory for the people of Daqian.
So after Fan Xian and others discovered Yizhou, they kept sending the fleet southward to discover more land. If they discovered another land of wealth like Treasure Island, who would dare to say that their navy soldiers were useless!
After Bao Xin established a stronghold in Yizhou, Fan Xian's fleet continued to use Yizhou as its forward base and continued to explore overseas islands southward. Of course, they had to pass through Yizhou every time they went there. Daqian could not watch them waste their transportation capacity. So every time they came to Yizhou, they would bring a large amount of food, cloth and other supplies. Of course, Bao Xin would also help them prepare clean fresh water, canned fruits and other supplies for sea use, and at the same time allow them to recuperate in Yizhou. , so both parties have a mutually beneficial relationship!