Everyone looked carefully at the white sugar in their hands, which was as white as snow and as fine as grains of sand. They had never seen this kind of sugar before, and it was a new thing created by Liu Jin.
"Old Liu, can you make money with this thing?"
Zhu Houzhao licked his tongue, as if he was savoring the taste of sugar.
"Of course~"
Liu Jin said with certainty: "Everyone usually eats this candy and thinks it seems very ordinary and commonplace, but for ordinary people, this candy is a very expensive thing."
"The cheapest sugar on the market now costs more than a thousand taels per pound. White sugar like the one we have in our hands can even be sold for three or four taels of silver per pound."
"Ryukyu is a place with sufficient light and heat, which is very suitable for the growth of sugar cane. We only need to recruit some people to open up the land here and plant rice and sugar cane. We don't need to plant too much rice, mainly sugar cane, and then use sugar cane to grow
To boil sugar, I have a new sugar-making process that can greatly increase the sugar yield."
"When the time comes, we can boil the sucrose into this kind of white sugar, and it will not be difficult to easily earn a million taels of silver a year."
Hearing Liu Jin say that he could earn one million taels of silver a year, everyone's eyes shone slightly. Naturally, everyone believed Liu Jin's words very much. Everyone is now able to make a fortune only by doing business with Liu Jin.
"It is not difficult to recruit people to develop Ryukyu and reclaim land to grow sugar cane."
"We in the Ming Dynasty have a lot of people, and some people have no land. As long as we promise them some benefits, provide them with money to settle down, etc., it is not difficult to recruit tens of thousands of people casually."
Zhang Mao thought for a while and said.
It was the middle of the Ming Dynasty, land annexation had become quite serious, and there were so many landless farmers that it was really not difficult to recruit people.
"But Ryukyu is full of miasma, mosquitoes are rampant, and it is easy to die from diseases if you move there. If this problem is not solved, it will be very difficult to recruit people, no matter how many benefits are given."
Then Zhang Mao also raised a very realistic question.
Baodao is obviously very close to Fujian, so why doesn’t anyone go there?
The key is that the miasma here is too severe, there are too many mosquitoes, malaria is rampant, it is easy to get private, and the barbarians on the island are extremely fierce. Even though everyone knows that the land here is fertile and sparsely populated, everyone still dare not go. After all, it is a small island.
Life is at stake.
"It is not difficult to solve this problem. Historically, the Lingnan region was also plagued by miasma and mosquitoes were rampant, but now Guangdong is not so scary."
"The two most important things are mosquito nets and mosquito coils. If you make good use of these two things, you will not be afraid of mosquitoes. In addition, a very important reason for various diseases is caused by drinking raw water. So if we organize people to immigrate there,
We must encourage everyone to boil water and drink it.”
"There is also a disease called twitching. There is a kind of tree bark ground into powder here in Huangjinzhou, which can be very good at treating this disease. I have also told the fleet that we must find this kind of tree and bring the tree seeds.
Introduce the seeds back to our Ming Dynasty."
Malaria was commonly known as Dabozi in ancient times, because when it clinically manifests, it is as cold as falling into an ice cave, and when it is hot, it feels like being roasted by fire. It alternates between hot and cold, and people feel stupid when they are sick, so it is called Dabozi.
This disease was very popular in ancient times because ancient people lacked hygiene awareness. More importantly, ancient people did not have the habit of drinking boiled water. They habitually drank well water, river water, etc., so it was not only malaria, but also various other diseases.
Diseases can also easily breed.
"Is there really a medicine that can cure jaundice in Huangjinzhou?"
When Zhu Fu heard this, he quickly asked.
He had a relative who died of malaria, so he knew very well that there was no cure for the disease, but he didn't expect Liu Jin to know that there were tree barks in Huangjinzhou that could cure this disease.
"We will know when the fleet comes back. This disease is not really incurable."
Liu Jin smiled and said confidently.
"If we can solve the problem of miasma, mosquitoes and various diseases, no one will have any problems in developing Ryukyu. Count me in. You can't go wrong by following the brat. If you lose money by then, I will rely on you."
Already."
Zhang Mao thought for a moment and nodded.
"...Mr. Zhang, this is not very good. Otherwise, you should stop taking shares."
Liu Jin was immediately speechless.
"Go, go, there is a chance to make a fortune, how could I not participate?"
Zhang Mao smiled and looked determined to Liu Jin.
"Count me in too~"
Xu Guangzuo, who had been silent until now, immediately followed up and said that he must support whatever his brother-in-law proposed no matter what. What's more, he also felt that this business could be done.
Planting sugar cane and using sugar cane to make sugar is indeed a profitable business. Sugar is too expensive and the market demand is particularly strong.
"Everyone has participated. There is no reason for me not to participate. Count me in."
Zhu Fu also said with a smile.
"Okay~"
Liu Jin nodded happily, then looked at Zhu Houzhao, waiting for you, the major shareholder, to speak.
"I'll take half~"
Zhu Houzhao said very grandly, he is very rich now, and he has so much money that he has no place to spend it.
When they heard that Zhu Houzhao wanted to take half, everyone was not angry, but all of them smiled. What they want is for you to come out and take the majority. If you take the majority, many things will be easier to handle.
This requires immigrating to Ryukyu. Recruiting by them alone will definitely not work. The court must come forward and provide money. Without a recruitment order from the court, no one will believe you at all, even if you are not even close.
A bad tongue is not as influential as a paper from the imperial court.
So, for this matter, we have to get Emperor Hongzhi and the Crown Prince into trouble. Then it will be easy to operate. Zhang Mao and the others will write a memorial in the court, saying that such and such a place has too many people and too little land.
, if there is a famine, then what, what? Then Ryukyu has a vast land and sparsely populated areas, so I suggest that the court carry out immigration or something like that.
Then Emperor Hongzhi granted permission and sent a message to the court, and they could directly recruit landless farmers to reclaim land and plant rice and sugar cane in Ryukyu.
Of course, there will definitely be opposition from some people, but as long as there is a big tree like Emperor Hongzhi and enough money to spread, it is not difficult to accomplish this thing.
"That's great. If His Highness joins us, this will definitely happen."
Liu Jin laughed happily.
"Stop talking nonsense. You have many ideas. Think of ways to destroy pirates and Japanese pirates. I get angry when I think of these Japanese pirates and pirates. They dare to rob my Ming Dynasty merchant ship. You are simply seeking death."
Zhu Houzhao looked at Liu Jin. Didn't you come to me just to get me to join the gang? You also said such nonsense. His mind is now full of things about suppressing pirates and Japanese pirates. He already wants to command the navy of the Ming Dynasty right now.
Gallop across the sea and destroy Japanese pirates and pirates.
As for the matter of making money, just let Liu Jin handle this matter. As long as he is here, you can just wait for the money to be collected peacefully.
"This is really difficult~"
Liu Jin's eyes suddenly darkened. Even if you were to exterminate pirates and Japanese bandits, I wouldn't dare to let you go unless I don't want to die.
