Faced with so many problems, Bao Xin looked worried. He was a military general and didn't know much about government affairs, let alone straightening out the sugar industry chain. It was difficult for him to make long-term plans.
We can only take one step at a time.
At this time, Bao Xin was glad that he had promoted Tian Feng. After all, he had been an official in Jizhou for more than ten years, and then followed Yuan Shao for a short period of time to manage a population of millions in Sili. But now Yizhou doesn't even remember a population of 100,000.
, managing this population is not a problem at all for Tian Feng.
So when Bao Xin asked him for advice, Tian Feng helped Bao Xin sort out the population needed at each stage of the entire sugar industry from the beginning, so that the entire industry chain could run like water without wasting manpower. At the same time, he found ways to improve sugar production.
For example, after he learned that there were coal mines in the north of Yizhou, he immediately used the few transport ships in Yizhou to transport coal to solve the energy problem of the sugar factory. After all, hundreds of pots were working day and night.
Burning consumes a lot of wood, and it also requires a lot of manpower. After making honeycomb briquettes, a lot of wood can be saved, and the sugar production capacity can be greatly improved.
Under Tian Feng's cleanup, the entire Yizhou sugar industry chain retained less than 5,000 people. He then arranged for the extra people to build new factories and new camps until Daqian's equipment arrived.
After that, production capacity can be expanded immediately here.
After Bao Xin's flying pigeon message came to Jixian, it also caused a sensation in the entire court!
Sugar is naturally valuable in Daqian. The precious honey candy costs more than a thousand yuan per catty. Not many people can afford it in Daqian. Even the cheap stone honey costs more than a hundred yuan per catty. During the festival,
It is more than 200 yuan, which is more expensive than one stone of grain. The reason why it is so expensive is because there is no cane sugar in Daqian, so we can only rely on transportation from Jiangnan to Daqian!
Now Niu Gui knows that Yizhou can produce tens of millions of kilograms of stone honey. This batch of sugar alone is worth several billions of dollars, which is more than the income or even the entire state. This is naturally not something to be taken lightly.
Niu Gui even found Xu Wei, gave Bao Xin's flying pigeon letter to Xu Wei to read, and then asked: "In power, sugar production is so profitable. Our investment in Yizhou has actually started to make a profit this year. The court wants
Increase investment in Yizhou, especially in sugar-making machinery, and we cannot let this batch of sugar cane go to waste!"
Niu Gui has now begun to expand the sugarcane plantation tenfold in Yizhou. Yizhou can pay 10 billion in taxes a year, so that he will have some living money in his hands. There is no way Niu Gui can take over this family.
It is very difficult. Although Daqian's income has risen to 50 billion yuan, its expenses have not decreased, not to mention the infrastructure construction in various places.
Xu Wei's administration also led Niu Gui to increase investment in education and medical care. He said that each county should have a medical center and a primary school, and the requirements were not low. The medical center required 10 doctors and 100 patients to be hospitalized.
, it can be said that it is completely the model of Daqian Field Hospital, except that the tents are replaced by houses, but the cost has become even higher. A medical hospital costs 10 million yuan, which is not to mention expensive. After all, it is a one-time hospital.
However, the monthly salary of 10 doctors exceeds one million yuan a year. This is an annual investment. Now there are 1,500 counties in Daqian. They all have to spend on this scale, which is equivalent to an extra ten dollars of expenditure every year.
Hundreds of millions of dollars.
The primary school that the ruling party wants is not ordinary. It must have dozens of teachers and can accommodate thousands of students. The cost of this school is not bad, but the monthly salary of the teachers alone is several billion a year. In terms of money, if Xu Wei's plan was not still being rolled out slowly, there are now dozens of medical clinics and schools, and the cost is not too high. It is unimaginable how expensive it will be after it is fully rolled out.
He just wants to end his term as prime minister as soon as possible. It is too difficult to be the prime minister under the ruler. But this time the flying pigeon message from Bao Xin surprised Niu Gui. It seems that the plan to rule is really possible. If Yizhou can hand over 10 billion yuan a year, which can meet Daqian's medical and education expenses!
Niu Gui now looks at Xu Wei in a different light. This is an exhaustive plan for governing. No wonder he dares to spend such a huge price to build medical clinics and schools. It turns out that he has the confidence to be in power. As expected, he should not argue with the ruler about money. matter!
But Niu Gui didn't know that Xu Wei was also surprised. He asked Bao Xin to plant sugar cane in Yizhou. Naturally, he knew that sucrose was a profitable cash crop even in modern times. In this era, there was no need to worry about selling it. Yizhou had There would be no setbacks in the development of this pillar, but Xu Wei would not have thought that Bao Xin would produce hundreds of millions of kilograms of sugar cane in half a year, so that the sugar factory he prepared in advance would not be able to consume the sugar cane! Nor would he have thought that Yizhou would now It can be profitable, but this is good. With sucrose, Niu Gui and the others will naturally pay attention to Yizhou.
He thought for a while and said: "Immediately send someone to quickly transport a batch of sugar frying machinery and thousands of iron pots to Yizhou. We must not miss the sugar production in Yizhou!"
Niu Gui thought for a while and said: "Yizhou can make billions of dollars just by making sugar this year. If we transport more young people there and expand Yizhou's sugar industry several times, Yizhou can become another big business for me." A Mayi!"
Even now, the tax revenue of Mayi still accounts for one-tenth of Daqian. It can be said to be the economic capital of Daqian. The order of Mayi even has more power than the prefect. And now Yizhou has the potential of Mayi, so Niu Gui pays so much attention to it now!
Xu Weidao: "It is still necessary to proceed step by step. Even if Yizhou is not self-sufficient in food now, not to mention that other living materials cannot be produced on the island, if too many people are transported, I am afraid it will break the balance of the island. It will also increase our logistical pressure!”
Now there are only 400,000 acres of land on Yizhou Island to grow food. Because it is newly reclaimed land, only 400,000 shi of rice has been harvested this year. To turn this into white rice, it will be reduced by 30%, which means that Yizhou's summer harvest will only be less than 300,000 dan of grain can barely feed less than 20,000 people.
And now there are nearly 100,000 people working under Bao Xin alone. Yizhou's current development is entirely dependent on the transportation of food by Dagan, and Yizhou's current ironware, cloth, and various tools are not self-sufficient. , everything must be transported by Daqian. The logistics volume of 100,000 people is already very large. Xu Wei is worried that continuing to increase the population will affect the normal operation of Daqian's transportation network. After all, Daqian's transportation team will not only go to Yizhou In addition, a large amount of materials must be transported to Liaodong and Japan.
Niu Gui thought for a while and said: "Indeed, except for salt, Yizhou is now self-sufficient, and everything else depends on large-scale labor. Transporting too many people there will put huge pressure on our logistics!"
Then Niu Gui looked at the map and said regretfully: "It would be great if Yangzhou is in our hands now. We can directly support Yizhou from Kuaiji County. This reduces the distance by 10 times and the logistical pressure will be much less!"
Xu Wei said with a smile: "We really occupied Yangzhou, so why should we build a sugarcane plantation in Yizhou? Wouldn't it be better to build a sugarcane plantation directly in Yangzhou? After all, the infrastructure in Yangzhou is more than a hundred times better than that in Yizhou!"
Xu Wei's words reminded Niu Gui, and he asked: "Zheng Zhi, can this sugar cane be planted in our hinterland, even in Xuzhou, so that it will be convenient for us to expand production capacity!"
"I'm not sure about this. Sugarcane is a product of the south. It needs an environment with lots of sunshine and rain to grow. It's not clear whether sugarcane can be grown in Xuzhou and Yuzhou!"
Xu Wei knew that sugar cane was a product of the south. In later generations, there seemed to be many sugar cane industrial parks in the Yunguang area. There were also some sporadic sugar cane in the south where Xu Wei lived, but they were used for eating, not for crushing sugar.
But I thought that sugarcane is also good as a fruit, so I said: "You can try a small amount in Yuzhou and the south of Xuzhou!"
When Niu Gui heard that sugarcane was a plant from the south, he had no choice but to put down the idea of promoting it. However, after having sucrose as a cash crop, Niu Gui changed his mind about letting Yizhou go as he did and began to take things seriously. Bao Xin wanted to He rushed to collect all the machinery and cauldrons, and then loaded them on the fastest sea-going ship in Daqian, and transported them to Bao Xin at full speed!
Just like this, half a month later, a new batch of sugar refining masters and machinery were transported to the south of Yizhou. A factory with a production capacity exceeding 10 times the original production capacity began to operate, and the sugar cane mountains in front of Bao Xin began to shrink!
Through this incident, Bao Xin gained an intuitive understanding of Tian Feng's abilities. From now on, he would hand over all the government affairs of Yizhou to Tian Feng, while he would only focus on Yizhou's military affairs.
At the same time, the first batch of brown sugar landed in Youzhou, causing a huge sensation. In the past, there was no sugar in Jixian County, but only in small batches of several thousand kilograms. But this time Bao Xin transported 500,000 kilograms of brown sugar to Jixian in one go, making the entire Jixian county Sensational, this is the first time even the people of Ji County have seen such a large amount of brown sugar, and the value of this batch of brown sugar is high, the first batch alone is worth 50 million yuan, and it is said that there are tens of millions more kilograms in the future, worth tens of billions of dollars.
This is even greater than the sensation caused by the discovery of the Jinshan Mountain. After all, the Jinshan Mountain will be finished after digging. But the sugarcane plantation in Yizhou has always been there. It can earn billions this year and will still earn billions next year, even because of its expansion. Production capacity can earn more.
Da Gan was inquiring about sugar cane from top to bottom. After all, a barbaric land can make billions of money. Such a thing only happened when the government occupied Mayi. Although many cities later developed rapidly, there was no such thing again. There has been a transformation from a small county town to a capital city like Mayi, and now Yizhou seems to have such potential.
Of course, ordinary people don't care about the speed of Yizhou's development. They just want to know whether it is profitable to grow sugar cane in Yizhou!
Among the teahouses in Ji County!
A tea doctor took out a piece of Jixian Daily and said to the people below: "This newspaper said that planting sugar cane on one acre of land in Yizhou can harvest 1,000 kilograms of sugar cane in one season, and 1,000 kilograms of sugar cane can produce 50 kilograms of sugar. According to the current Jixian County Calculated at 90 yuan per kilogram of brown sugar, the income from this acre of land is 4,500 yuan!"
This number immediately made people in the teahouse exclaim. The profit is too high. Even if the land in Youzhou is fertile and fertilized, the yield of 5 shi per mu is already a rare figure. Calculated based on a household with 100 acres of land, it is 500 Stone, based on the purchase price of Daqian grain of 100 yen, is only 50,000 yen, but this includes struvite, farm tools, and taxes. The real cost is more than 20,000 yen.
In Yizhou, just 5 acres of sugarcane planting can exceed their income of 100 acres in Youzhou. Everyone knows that Daqian is a state-owned land policy. Even the people of Yizhou will be allocated 100 acres of land to each household. , if they all grow sugar cane, the gap is close to 20 times, and they don’t earn more than 200,000 a year. How can this not make people jealous!
Immediately, someone was unconvinced and said: "This must be a lie. How can someone make more than 200,000 yuan just farming? Yizhou must want to immigrate and use this method to deceive people, just like they deceived us to go to Liaodong." Just like farming!"
But Dr. Cha smiled and said: "But many people who went to Liaodong have become rich. One percent of the wealthy businessmen who came to our Jixian County were local tycoons from Liaodong. They didn't talk about farming. They just cut down a century-old tree. You can make thousands of dollars, which is comparable to cities like our Jixian County. It is difficult for us to see a 10-year-old tree here!"
"Yes, there are indeed a lot of rich people from Liaodong and Japan in recent years, especially those from Japan. I can't stand it the most. They always throw away gold and show off, as if no one else has seen gold! "
These words aroused criticism from everyone. After Jixian became the capital of Daqian, the people of Jixian also had a sense of pride in their imperial roots. However, this pride was seriously attacked by local tyrants from other places.
Dr. Cha smiled and said: "We all live a stable life in Jixian, but while we are stable, it is difficult to get ahead. Places like Liaodong, Wadao, and Yizhou are almost barbaric places, but places like this are suitable for the rise of grass. If If you all have some ideas of making achievements, you can go to these places, and maybe you can also strive for wealth!"
"Just like Yizhou now, there may be nothing but brown sugar, but after a few years of construction, it may not lose to our Daqian County. You can do the math. If you go to Yizhou to plant sugar cane, you can earn hundreds of thousands a year. , or you can earn more money than you can spend in a lifetime in less than ten years. It’s up to everyone to consider whether the ten years of hard work is worth it.”
Dr. Cha said that there are really many people who have the idea of immigrating to Yizhou. Many people are willing to spend ten years to get rich! They are just afraid that their efforts will be in vain!
So from that day on, the immigration office in Daqian inquired about moving to Yizhou every day. However, they heard that it was very difficult to go to Yizhou now and that they had to wait for a quota to go. This made it even more difficult for ordinary people to want to go. Things about Yizhou.
After knowing that Bao Xin was lucky enough to get into a profitable business, the governors of the prefectures and counties also became friends with Bao Xintao one by one. They could not grow sugar cane, but they could help Bao Xin make a small fortune selling brown sugar.