While walking and chatting, Zhao Ming and Sun Hongli also came to Danhe City.
Danhe City is a newly emerging city that was built with the arrival of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty. It is located at the mouth of Danhe River and has a good port with convenient transportation.
In just a few years, Danhe City has developed to a considerable scale, and is larger and more prosperous than the traditional local county towns.
A series of spacious cement roads lead to all directions. These cement roads were not built by the imperial court, but by the plantation owners here who raised funds to buy cement and then had their slaves build it.
At this time, a large number of four-wheeled carriages loaded with sugar cane gathered on the concrete roads. They were all plantation owners like Zhao Ming and Sun Hongli.
When meeting acquaintances, they greet each other.
There are many plantations around Danhe City, and they are basically focused on growing sugar cane. After all, sugar cane cultivation technology is very mature, simple, easy to manage, low risk, and the returns are decent.
Carloads of four-wheeled carriages came carrying a large amount of sugar cane. When they were gathered together, the scene was very spectacular. At a glance, the sugar cane was like a mountain, and there were too many of them.
"Sun Xiucai, who do you sell your sugar cane to?"
Zhao Ming looked at the numerous four-wheeled carriages in front of him. These four-wheeled carriages were driving in several directions. At the end of the direction were large factories. This was Danhe City's most important industry at present, the sugar factory.
"Of course I sold it to Ryukyu Sugar. Ryukyu Sugar's price has always been the highest and the most fair. Although the prices of several other companies are similar, in general, they are still not as good as Ryukyu Sugar.
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Sun Hongli said without thinking.
"My sugar cane has always been sold to Ryukyu Sugar Industry, let's go, let's go together!"
Zhao Ming also smiled and said, and after that, he took the lead and walked towards the sugar factory run by Ryukyu Sugar Industry.
There are many people selling to Ryukyu Sugar Industry. More than half of them choose to sell sugar cane to Ryukyu Sugar Industry. This is an industry under Liu Jin. It has always had an excellent reputation and has signed purchase agreements with many plantations.
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The Ryukyu Sugar Factory covers a very large area. Four-wheeled carriages carrying sugar cane arrive here. In a huge open space, a large amount of sugar cane is piled up like a hill.
A large number of busy people can be seen here in the factory, basically all slaves, with a few Ming people working as managers. The machinery driven by steam power makes bursts of roar.
With the roar of the machine, a large amount of sugar cane was crushed, and the sugar cane juice burst out, and then gathered together and was transported along the pipeline to the settling tank and cooking tank.
In the sugarcane juice cooking area, the huge boiler was burning vigorously, and slaves were constantly shoveling coal into the boiler. With billowing black smoke constantly rising from the tall chimney, bursts of fragrance spread out.
“It’s really shocking!”
Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhao Ming couldn't help but sigh.
"Yes, it is indeed very shocking!"
"I have visited several other sugar factories, and none of them can compare with Ryukyu Sugar's sugar factory."
"Ryukyu Sugar Industry's sugar refineries use a lot of machines, and these machines are driven by steam engines. Seeing that this juicer does not have one, it is very efficient."
"Most of the other sugar factories still have very primitive sugar-making technology, and many times they rely on manpower to squeeze the sugar cane."
Sun Hongli also nodded.
To be honest, although this was not the first time I saw this scene, it was still shocking.
There are huge machines in the factory. It is hard to imagine how such a huge machine can turn. The steam engine that can turn by burning coal is very magical. It has the strength of an ox or a horse, and it does not know how to tire.
"I heard that these machines are all shipped from Beijing and Tianjin."
"Well, it was shipped from Beijing and Tianjin. I heard that in Liaodong, Beizhili, Hexi and other places, there are special steam cultivators, steam harvesters, etc."
The two first took the sugar cane to the process, and after weighing it, they got a receipt. Then they took the receipt to the factory's finance department to collect the silver.
The process was very simple. In less than a quarter of an hour, the two men exchanged the sugar cane they brought with them for white silver coins.
At the same time, in the factory of Ryukyu Sugar Industry, Li Yuanshan, the person in charge of Ryukyu Sugar Industry, was inspecting the sugar factory in Danhe City.
Li Yuanshan, a native of Beizhili, suffered a famine due to heavy snowfall in Beizhili. He fled to the capital and was recruited by Xishan Coal Industry under Liu Jin.
Because he was diligent and good at learning and thinking, he soon became a manager and was gradually promoted. Later, Liu Jin took the lead in developing Ryukyu and it was Li Yuanshan who was in charge.
He was responsible for the construction and development of Ryukyu Castle. The most important industry in Ryukyu at the beginning was the sugar industry, which was very profitable.
A few years ago, the Ryukyu Sugar Industry could bring tens of millions of taels of profit to Liu Jin every year. Therefore, Li Yuanshan was appreciated by Liu Jin and became the person in charge of the sugar industry under Liu Jin. He was mainly responsible for
Ryukyu sugar industry and many plantations in Southeast Asia.
"Brother Li, the sugar business is really hard to do now. Many people are snatching our business."
"Taking this sugar cane as an example, it used to be purchased by one of us, but now there are several more companies."
"Also, the price of sugar is also constantly falling. It is not an option to continue like this. Although the turnover of our Ryukyu Sugar Industry has been growing in the past two years, the profits have been falling year after year."
"Although Mr. Liu didn't say anything, if this continues, it will not be good for you."
Next to Li Yuanshan, He Zhiqiang, the director of the Danhe City Ryukyu Sugar Factory, said with some concern.
"If there is any disadvantage, we just need to do our best for the young master and don't think too much about other things."
Li Yuanshan said nonchalantly, grabbing a handful of snow-white snow candy in his hand, which is currently the flagship product of Ryukyu Sugar Industry.
Even though there are many companies that are engaged in sugar refining business, until now, only Ryukyu Sugar Industry can produce this kind of snow-white snow sugar with extremely high purity.
The price competition for ordinary sugar is fierce, but the price of snow sugar has always been relatively strong. It is not only very popular in the Ming Dynasty, but also in Europe, the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, Tianzhu and other places.
Even here in Europe, being able to eat snow candy is considered a status symbol.
"Well, the snow candies produced by this machine are quite good."
"Originally, I was worried that there would be problems with the quality of production using machines, but now it seems that my worries are unnecessary."
Li Yuanshan tasted it carefully and nodded with satisfaction.
The industries under Liu Jin's command have been constantly exploring new fields and boldly trying to use new technologies and machines according to Liu Jin's requirements.
As far as the sugar industry is concerned, sugar production in most areas is still based on traditional techniques. Only the Ryukyu Sugar Industry is beginning to boldly use new technologies and new machines to produce sugar.
This sugar factory in Danhe City is the latest to use new technologies and new machines. This time Li Yuanshan came here to see the sugar production situation of this new machine and new technology.
"I was worried at first, but I didn't expect these machines to be very easy to use."
"Steam presses are very efficient. It used to take hundreds of people to press sugar cane, but now only a few machines are needed. The press is cleaner and the juice yield is higher."
He Zhiqiang nodded solemnly.
"So you should buy as much sugar cane as possible."
"Now several provinces in Nanyang have become the sugar warehouses of our Ming Dynasty. Our Ryukyu Sugar Industry has always been the leader of the sugar industry. At the same time, the sugar industry is also an extremely important industry among the many industries under Mr. Liu's command."
"We must pay great attention to it."
Li Yuanshan looked at the mountain of snow sugar in front of him and said: "Although there is still sugar production in Ryukyu, the proportion has dropped too much. The most important thing is the Nanyang provinces."
"Your factory uses a new steam machine to make sugar. This can be considered as a start for everyone. If it is feasible and the benefits are good, I will quickly use these new steam machines to make sugar in other sugar factories in Nanyang."
"We need to use new machines to improve efficiency as much as possible and expand at the same time to ensure the status of our Ryukyu sugar industry and keep the title of our Daeming sugar warehouse."
"Yes~"
"I will definitely perform well."
When He Zhiqiang heard this, he immediately nodded in agreement.
He knew that he was able to get this position because of Li Yuanshan's appreciation. There were many people who wanted to come to Danhe City to be factory directors.
The internal competition in these industries under Liu Jin's command is very fierce. Competition between managers, competition between factories, competition between various plantations, etc. are all very fierce.
If the ability is not good, there is no way to sit firmly in one position for a long time. This is why he is worried about Li Yuanshan.
Because Ryukyu Sugar's performance has declined sharply in the past two years. To be precise, it is not as good as other industries under Liu Jin's command, such as real estate, shipyards, steel plants, banks, cement plants, textile factories, and machinery manufacturing.
It's very gratifying. Management at the same level as Li Yuanshan also outperformed Li Yuanshan. You must know that in the past, it was Li Yuanshan who overpowered them.
"Well, the better you behave, the less pressure I will feel."
"Sugar production is considered a traditional industry. Now we must seize the time and opportunities to rapidly expand our production capacity and market share and maintain our position as the Daming Sugar Depot."
"If you work hard, there will be many opportunities. When the year-end report comes, I will take you to the capital to meet the young master. Maybe you will have the opportunity to be on your own in the future."
"Young Master has many industries and needs many talents."
Li Yuanshan looked at He Zhiqiang, patted his shoulder and said.