After the governors in the Daqian mainland gained benefits, they became more active in sending immigrants. In the first year, 20,000 people came to Yizhou. These people began to build sugar cane farms in the southern part of Yizhou in the areas planned by the early personnel. .
In order to have enough manpower for these farms, Bao Xin also vigorously purchased savages, even from the Han caravans. With the specialty of brown sugar, the Han caravans were also willing to come to Yizhou to trade.
Because for the merchants of the Han Dynasty, although the savage trade is very profitable, after all, they have to go deep into the realm outside the Han Dynasty to capture the savages. The savages are not strong in combat and it is difficult to cause casualties to them, but these snakes, insects and rats thousands of miles away Ants and various poisons may cause casualties to their men. If they are accidentally infected with the plague, they will lose all their money. It can be said that the slave-catching industry is a high-investment, high-risk, and high-return industry.
If you go to Yizhou to sell the barbarians in their hands, you can not only get the highest lilan, but you can also buy brown sugar. The lilan earned in this trip is much higher than that in the mainland of the Han Dynasty, so the merchants of the Han Dynasty are willing to come to Yizhou to trade.
A large number of laborers entered Yizhou. Although they could only do some simple things, their participation made the progress of field reclamation several times faster. Under the leadership of the Han people, they reclaimed the wasteland in the southern part of Yizhou, and in the fields Sugarcane is planted among them. Bao Xin and Tian Feng were overjoyed when they saw this scene.
Tian Feng said: "Lieutenant, there is news from the Han merchants that Lu Bu broke away from the Han and established a city in Jiuzhen County. It is said that half of the wild residences we purchased were captured by Lu Bu and his companions. Our manor has been reclaimed so fast. It can be said that thanks to the labor force sent by Lu Bu!"
"Lu Bu?" Bao Xin thought for a long time and remembered who Lu Bu was. After all, in this world, Lu Bu had not won any battles, and was sent by Liu Bei, so he was not famous at all!
Then Bao Xin said with a smile: "It seems that the Han Dynasty is about to collapse. Even generals like Lu Bu have fled the Han Dynasty. Obviously, they are not optimistic that Liu Bei can win the Battle of Hanzhong. If they want to kill the monkeys, people like Lu Bu will see it." When the Han Dynasty is about to die, I want to escape in advance! I want to tell the governor the news!"
Tian Feng said: "Lu Bu's behavior is a good thing for us in Yizhou. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have such a sufficient labor force. The amount of brown sugar this year should be doubled!"
Bao Xin also laughed and said: "Our first batch of barbarians are about to leave. Now they can be regarded as real Daqian people. Let them lead the new with their old people, and there will be more and more Daqian people in Yizhou." , our Yizhou will become more and more prosperous!"
Daqian's policy is not to allow slaves or slaves, even in newly reclaimed land like Yizhou. This is a red line for Daqian, and anyone who crosses the line will die. Because most of the senior officials of Daqian were either slaves or slaves before. Most of the serfs, even the Hu people, were born slaves. Under the influence of Xu Wei, they hated the slave system very much and resolutely suppressed such things when they found it.
Bao Xin used to be a slave of a wealthy noble family. His birth would not allow slaves to appear in Daqian. However, there was an obvious gap in the labor force, so he asked Tian Feng for advice on how to solve the problem, and Tian Feng gave him a solution. Brown sugar is used to attract merchants from all over the world to buy savages to Yizhou. Then he buys them.
Of course, Tian Feng originally wanted to use these savages as slaves, but Bao Xin refused to allow it. Instead, he used three years of work to repay the cost of purchasing these savages, so that the Yizhou government would not suffer a loss and the savages could become normal common people. , you can also learn farming and other life skills from the hands of the Han people, and you can also increase the number of large cadres in this way. Otherwise, if you keep increasing the number of savages like this, the number of large cadres will not increase. The unrest that occurred in Xiliang Will appear in Yizhou. Using this method, the barbarians from Yizhou can quickly integrate into Daqian and become common people of Daqian. It can also increase the stability of Yizhou. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone!
Bao Xin continued: "Yizhou cannot rely on just one brown sugar industry! We must also keep up with other industries. The government has said that the future is an era of industry, and we in Yizhou must catch up!"
Tian Feng said: "We are too short in the number of craftsmen. If we want to build our own factories, we lack talents in this field!"
Thanks to the location and climate of Yizhou, sugarcane in Yizhou can be grown for three seasons. As long as the fertility is better, sugarcane can be grown continuously. Therefore, the brown sugar production in Yizhou has doubled several times, but with the rapid development of the sugar industry , although other industries in Yizhou have also developed, they are far lower than Bao Xin expected.
Although Yizhou is still short of primary labor, it is already much better than before. The population of Yizhou is rapidly approaching 200,000, and it is growing at a rate of more than 10,000 per month! Bao Xin knows that in a few years, Yizhou will be There will be no shortage of population. After all, Yizhou is just a small island, barely the size of a county in Dahan. A county with a population of one million is also a very prosperous place in Daqian.
However, there is still a shortage of mid- to high-level talents in all walks of life, such as middle- and high-level carpenters who make ocean-going ships, as well as their respective blacksmiths. Without these talents, Yizhou’s machinery manufacturing industry cannot develop. For example, waterwheels, which are manufactured in Yizhou Not only are they inefficient, small, and expensive, but for the difficulty of transportation in the mainland of Daqian, Yizhou's waterwheels would not be sold at all. The reason for all this is the low level of Yizhou's carpenters.
There is also the steel industry that Bao Xin wants to develop. Even after more than two years, Yizhou cannot even produce the original first-generation blast furnace in Mayi. Yizhou only has some inefficient blacksmithing workshops, which still use The iron smelting furnaces commonly used in Han Dynasty are of poor quality. The blacksmiths can only repair farm tools in Yizhou. Even if Bao Xin wants them to make steel plowshares, such blacksmiths can only shake their heads at Bao Xin. Bao Xin was so angry that he said he couldn't do it.
There is also the shipbuilding industry that Bao Xin is concerned about. After all, Yizhou is an island. The development of any industry must be outward, and transport ships are indispensable. And Yizhou has a large number of virgin forests, among which there are countless giant trees that are hundreds of years old, and they are all the best. Raw materials, according to Bao Xin's idea, Yizhou's shipbuilding industry has such raw materials, and it should become the second pillar industry of Yizhou besides the sugar industry.
However, after more than two years of development of Yizhou's shipbuilding industry, Bao Xin was disappointed. Yizhou's carpenters have wasted countless century-old trees and a large amount of money, and now they can only build some small fishing boats of about 100 dan. To repair the transport ships docked here, the pressure on Yizhou's technical talents is still huge.