After Fan Xian's fleet dropped off more than 5,000 refugees in the northern part of Yizhou, he took Bao Xin and the others all the way south to the southern part of Yizhou.
Daqian established two strongholds in Yizhou, occupying the north and south respectively. Since the land in the south of Yizhou is flat and wide, Bao Xin cultivated most of the fields in the south, and all the sugarcane plantations are in the south, so now the sugarcane harvest During the season, he is going to the southern part of Yizhou!
As soon as the fleet came to ride the wind and waves, they arrived at their destination a day later. Fan Xian then left Bao Xin and others behind, got fresh water, fruits and other supplies in the southern part of Yizhou, and then continued southward!
Tian Feng was surprised when he saw this scene: "Dagan still has a chassis in the south?"
Yizhou was already the end of the world to Tian Feng. As he continued to go south, Tian Feng would suspect that Da Qian's fleet was about to reach the horizon.
Bao Xin smiled proudly and said: "There are islands in the south of Yizhou. It is said that they are bigger than Yizhou and the land is more fertile. There are also precious spices on the islands. Fan Xian and the others went to discover these spice islands!"
After Bao Xin accepted Tian Feng these days, he has always admired his ability. He even felt that if he hadn't followed Xu Wei, Tian Feng would be more suitable to become Yizhou Captain than himself. But there is something he doesn't know today. Naturally, it is easy to be a teacher.
Tian Feng was extremely surprised when he heard this. Da Qian, a man with great ambitions to govern, had not yet unified the Han Dynasty, and he actually began to think about opening up territories. However, Xu Wei's idea also surprised Tian Feng. Most of the people were marching towards the north or the western region, but the ruler Da Qian was marching towards the smoky land in the south?
But soon Tian Feng smiled bitterly again. He suddenly thought that his ruler had already occupied the entire desert before he could dominate the world. If it weren't for the support of hundreds of thousands of cavalry in the desert, the Daqian army would not be able to rely on Bingzhou. Such a barbaric land has swept the entire world. There are no enemies in the north anymore. If Lei Gong wants to continue to expand the territory, it seems that the only direction is the south!
At this time, Bao Xin had already reached the front of the team. He asked everyone to stop and shouted: "As the captain of Yizhou, I would like to welcome everyone to Yizhou. First of all, I would like to assure you that when you come to Yizhou, Each household can be allocated a house and 100 acres of land, or even more land. Yizhou is all wasteland. As long as you are willing to cultivate it, even if it exceeds 100 acres, as long as it is not too much. Already."
"Also, everyone must not have much property when they come to Yizhou, and right now there is a bumper harvest of sugar cane here in Yizhou. You can help me harvest these sugar canes. Food and accommodation are included for everyone, and there is a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan. !For the sake of Yizhou, where everyone has just arrived, the first month’s salary can be paid first!”
Hearing this, the Han people who had fled were in a stir. The land and houses could not be seen yet. Maybe it was Dagan who painted the pie, so everyone was not surprised. But a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan, especially if it is paid first, is not a painting. It was a big deal. Such a high monthly salary was rare among Han people! Without thinking much about it, all the Han people who escaped from the disaster chose to help Da Gan cut sugar cane!
Zhu Hai and others who fled to the south of Yizhou were even more surprised!
Zhu Haidao: "Village chief, if what the official said is true, we will soon be able to establish a family business in Yizhou!"
Only the village chief said worriedly: "Dahan officials have always kept their promises. Now that Daqian officials are giving us such good treatment, are they trying to trick us into doing dangerous things? Now that all of us in the village are here, what if What should I do if something goes wrong?"
Marluo said calmly: "Village chief, now we are in other people's territory. Whether we want to live or die depends on Da Gan's face. There is no need to deceive us. But judging from our six months of contact with Da Gan's army, they Our reputation is extremely good and we basically keep our word!”
Hearing this, the village chief and others were relieved. As long as they have credibility, they have been deceived by the Han Dynasty for decades! Now they can only hope that the people in the Daqian court are different from the Han Dynasty!
Bao Xin came to the Wubao in southern Yizhou, summoned the local officials and said: "More than 5,000 people came this time. Can you arrange them? At least let them have a place to live!"
Army Sima Chen Jianjun was puzzled: "Lieutenant, our Wubao only has more than 3,000 people. It is difficult to arrange housing for more than 5,000 people at once! Otherwise, my subordinates will give them saws and axes and let them cut the wood and build wooden houses by themselves. Here There is no shortage of wood, and if the family works together, they can build a wooden house that can shelter from wind and rain in less than a month!"
But Bao Xin vetoed: "The important thing now is to harvest sugar cane. This income will determine whether the court will continue to strongly support us. You must know that we now spend 50 million yuan in Yizhou every month, and the court is already overwhelmed." If we can't bring benefits to the court, then the court's investment in Yizhou will definitely be reduced, and our development will also slow down. Therefore, this sugar cane harvest is extremely important, and we must pay attention to it! So in this batch of sugar cane We won’t have time to build houses until the harvest is over!”
Chen Jianjun thought for a while and said: "My subordinates arranged some tents for these people to live in! After the harvest is completed, we will help these people build houses!"
But Bao Xin thought for a while and said: "These are people who have escaped from the Han Dynasty. We need to let them see my sincerity, so that they will feel at ease to help me do my work. We will remove the houses in Wubao Let these people live in it, as long as they are squeezed in, it can be arranged, and the tents will be occupied by us!"
When Tian Feng heard this, he looked at Bao Xin in surprise. He couldn't believe that Bao Xin would actually give up the camp to the people. He was not afraid of causing resentment among the army!
But the officers present passed quickly, and no one raised any objection at all. Seeing this scene, Tian Feng suddenly understood why Lei Guong was so popular with the people. Even the nameless captain and army commander loved the people more than the big man with his reputation. Could it be that The big man was completely defeated in front of the big army!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Bao Xin continued to ask: "Is the sugar factory ready? After we start cutting down the sugar cane, the refining of sucrose must also be carried out simultaneously!"
“The government sent four master craftsmen to build a piece of sugar refining equipment in us. Now there are more than 200 workers in the sugar factory, just waiting for us to start harvesting sugar cane!
Bao Xin smiled and said: "Okay, we will start handing out machetes tomorrow and we will start harvesting sugar cane!"
That night, after Zhu Hai and the others had dinner in the canteen, they were taken to the military camp by Da Gan's soldiers!
Marlow was surprised and said: "This is asking us to enter the military camp. Do you want to capture us as soldiers?"
Ma Luo and the others also followed Guan Yu to Jiujiang County. Although they did not go to the front line, as civilians, they had seen too much in the camp. Although there were wooden houses here, there was no shortage of military facilities such as outposts, antlers, and horses. , this is obviously a military camp.
The others also looked panicked. It was too common to catch young men in troubled times, but they didn't expect Da Gan people to be so cunning!
But the soldier smiled and said: "Don't worry, we Dagan never recruit people to be soldiers, and there are no enemies in Yizhou, so we don't need you to be soldiers. The reason why you are here is because Yinan was founded and there are no houses for you to live in. And now it’s the sugarcane harvesting season, and everyone is busy with the harvest and has no time to build houses, so we can only arrange for you to live here.”
Zhu Haichi asked: "Your camp has been given to us, where will you live?"
The soldier smiled and said: "It's the same when we set up tents!"
Zhu Hai and the others didn't want to believe that such a thing would happen, but soon they discovered that there were many soldiers busy in the open space of Wubao. They looked and saw that tents were quickly set up one after another. These soldiers really wanted to live in these tents. !
The village chief sighed when he saw this scene: "The Dagan people are actually more benevolent and righteous than the generals. No wonder they want to take over the world!"
The next day, after having breakfast, the refugees who came here were organized by Bao Xin and came to an endless sugar cane field. There were tens of thousands of people standing not far from them. These were all local indigenous people. , but under the guidance of Chen Jianjun and others for more than half a year, he finally became somewhat civilized.
However, if you look closely at them, you can still see that they are somewhat wild, especially in Kuaiji County where there are more wild people than Han people like Zhu Hai.
Zhu Hai whispered to Maruo: "Brother Ma, these seem to have the aura of Baiyue people, I'm afraid they are not Dagan people!"
Marlowe's novel said: "The Dagan people should all live in Wubao. These people are probably local savages!"
Zhu Hai was surprised and said: "With so many savages, the Dagan people are not worried that Wubao will be captured?"
Marlowe said: "The general's hundreds of thousands of people can't defeat the Dagan people, let alone these tens of thousands of savages!"
Zhu Hai makes sense when he hears it!
Soon Zhu Hai and the others knew the purpose of these savages coming here. They saw that the Dagan people basically led 4 big Han refugees with one soldier. Then under the guidance of these soldiers, the 4 Han refugees taught the 4 big Han refugees how to do things for the savages. Very quickly There are almost 30,000 people in the entire sugar cane field!
Then they began to divide into groups and use their machetes to cut the sugar cane. With their efforts, the sugar cane quickly piled up like a mountain, and was loaded onto a carriage and quickly transported away!
The scene of 30,000 people doing work was extremely spectacular. Bao Xin was extremely happy when he saw this scene and said: "There are 600,000 acres of sugar cane here. Everyone cuts one acre a day. It will take less than a month at most for all the sugar cane to be harvested." Finished cutting!”
Although Tian Feng was shocked by the scene of these 30,000 people working together, he still wondered: "Can this really make up for the cost of developing Yizhou?"
Tian Feng used to be an official in Jizhou, and Jizhou was the largest granary of the Han Dynasty. When Emperor Ling was still in power, Jizhou could provide 800 million yuan in fiscal revenue every year, which accounted for 30% of the income of the Han Dynasty. Yesterday, he heard Bao Xin say Since the development of Yizhou in Daqian, 300-400 million yuan has been spent. If this takes a whole year, I am afraid that the original annual fiscal revenue of Jizhou will be included in it.
Bao Xin said: "Let's first set aside 10 acres of sugar cane field and see how much sucrose can be produced from one acre of sugar cane!"
Then Bao Xin quickly asked his men to cut 10 acres of sugar cane, with each acre weighing about 1,000 kilograms of sugar cane!
Bao Xin said: "Even if one mu is 1,000 kilograms, here is 600,000 acres of land, which is almost 600 million kilograms of sugar cane!"
Bao Xin shouted: "Take these sugar canes to the sugar factory!"
Then Bao Xin followed the carriage to the sugar factory not far from the sugar cane garden. The people who stayed here were all women. They cleaned the transported sugar cane to remove the skin, and then sent the sugar cane to the next step. It is a huge iron rod driven by water. After the sugar cane is put in, it is quickly squeezed dry, leaving only some bagasse at the outlet!
The juice is caught in a giant vat to filter the residue, and another worker transports it to a large pot not far away. This is the core of the sugar factory. There are hundreds of large pots lined up here, and the entire factory Even though there is only a roof, it is still filled with smoke. It can be said that the environment is extremely simple. It is a black workshop!
After the sugar cane water comes here, it is poured into a large pot, the water is boiled dry, and then poured into the prepared grinding tool. After it dries, the jaggery comes out.
Bao Xin and Tian Feng watched the last step of the sugar coming out. Finally, Bao Xin picked up a piece of sugar and took a sip and said, "It's so sweet!"
Tian Feng also took a sip, and then said with a complex expression: "It's not much worse than bee sugar. The captain has found a way to make money for Da Gan again. Even if the sugar production rate is only one-tenth, it is still 60 million kilograms of sugar. According to the old price of hundreds of dollars per kilogram in the Han Dynasty, this is 6 billion yuan. Even if the general's expenses are doubled, the general still helps Daqian earn 5 billion yuan. With this merit alone, the general can become the prime minister of Daqian. !”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Tian Feng’s three views were shattered. Back then, even if the Han Dynasty increased taxes by 100 million, it still required the Han Dynasty’s top ministers to rack their brains and even bring down the world. Unrest may not be possible (here I will name and criticize Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty. At first, he took hundreds of millions of money from Jizhou, but in the end he launched the Zhang Niujiao Rebellion, spent tens of billions of money to pacify Jizhou, and created the thunder god. The gravedigger of the Han Dynasty!).
But now the Bao Xin in front of him is obviously a stupid person, but he can create a business that doubles the financial income of a big man in half a year. This is simply unreasonable.
He followed Bao Xin during this period and only saw Bao Xin acting step by step according to the orders of Lei Gong without thinking of his own at all. At that time, he thought Bao Xin was a follower of Lei Gong, just like Zhang Jiao back then, but now he saw that Bao Xin was a follower of Lei Gong. With these physical objects, Tian Feng had to admit that it was none of their ministers' business that the Han Dynasty had fallen to this level today. Then the Han Dynasty's enemy was an emperor for all eternity, but their leader was a waste like Emperor Ling. If It's the Young Emperor. How can a puppet like today's emperor possibly be able to defeat Da Ganjun?
Naturally, Bao Xin didn't know the complexity of Tian Feng's heart, and he even found the reason for the decline of the Han Dynasty.
He just smiled happily and said: "I just obeyed the orders. The main credit is our far-sighted governance. If it were not for the governance, we would have found such a treasure land in Yizhou!"
In the past, Tian Feng felt uncomfortable hearing such flattering words, but now facing this naked situation, Tian Feng had to admit in his heart that Lei Gong was indeed far-sighted, and Bao Xin's words did not mean any flattery!