Liu Jin only stayed in Songhu for two days. He tasted the hairy crabs from Jiangnan and saw Songhu, which was just beginning to develop.
Of course, the most important thing is to reach a new consensus with these big families, big businessmen, and big landowners in Jiangnan, that is, to jointly promote the legitimacy of private armed trading firms.
Today's business houses still have no fangs. They are like sheep overseas and can easily be bullied. This is not good and is not in everyone's interest.
Major commercial banks must be allowed to have a certain amount of armed forces overseas, so that they can further promote the development of the colonial era.
If the major commercial banks in the north and south work together to complete this matter, there is still great hope that it can be achieved. However, Liu Jin has no time to be busy with this matter. He is going on an expedition to Nanyang. Liu Jin estimates that he will be there in about a year this year.
Spent it here in Nanyang.
Departing from Songhu, we successfully arrived in Ryukyu a few days later.
Ryukyu Castle, Liu Jin wandered around here very casually.
Today's Ryukyu City does not look like the Ming Dynasty city of this era, but a bit like the city of later generations.
Ryukyu Castle is basically composed of houses made of cement and steel bars. Everything is neatly planned. Concrete roads extend in all directions. The four-wheeled carriages coming and going on the roads look very busy.
In just a few years, Ryukyu City has become quite prosperous.
"Son~"
Li Yuanshan, the person in charge of Ryukyu Sugar Industry, received the news early in the morning that Liu Jin was coming to Ryukyu, so he returned to Ryukyu City early.
Now he is no longer the city lord of Ryukyu City. Ryukyu City has been handed over to the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. The imperial court established Ryukyu County here in Ryukyu. The entire Ryukyu City is under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province.
However, Ryukyu was invested and built by Liu Jin and others. Although it is now under the jurisdiction of the government, every plant and tree in Ryukyu City still belongs to Liu Jin's industry.
This is also the headquarters of the Ryukyu Sugar Industry, and the cane sugar produced every year is sold throughout the Ming Dynasty at home and abroad.
"Ryukyu's business is very good. I think you should not just be the person in charge of Ryukyu Sugar Industry. In fact, you can also be an official."
Standing at the top of Ryukyu Castle, holding a telescope and looking around Ryukyu Castle.
There are village buildings on both sides of the concrete road, with smoke curling from cooking stoves, bustling voices, playful children, leisurely chattering old people, and groups of chickens and dogs. Everything is so peaceful and comfortable.
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There are fertile fields as far as the eye can see. Some fields are planted with rice, but more are filled with fields of sugar cane, which is the most important economic crop in Ryukyu.
Liu Jin knew that the business model in Ryukyu City had changed. It was no longer the previous model where everything belonged to Ryukyu City.
In the past, Ryukyu City was responsible for building the city, organizing people to open up wasteland, and plant sugar cane. Everyone lived under the influence of the moon, but now it is different. It has gradually changed and it has gradually become a normal operation.
Except that the large area of land around Ryukyu City still belongs to the Ryukyu City Sugar Industry, which still employs people to plant it, the land further away is already private land.
They were all recruited to Ryukyu by the Ryukyu Sugar Industry in the early days. After arriving, they never wanted to leave. They owned a large amount of their own land and fields here and moved their entire family here.
The business model has also changed. Ryukyu Sugar is responsible for purchasing the sugar cane grown by everyone, and then hires people to boil the cane sugar, or simply buys the sugar water made from the fried sugar cane and uses it to boil sugar.
Relying on this model, the Ryukyu sugar industry also developed rapidly.
This is true for everything, only personal things are the most energetic.
Here in Ryukyu, those who obtained land moved here with their families. They worked very hard to plant rice and sugar cane, and they quickly became rich in a short period of time.
As they became rich, they naturally led their fellow villagers to migrate to Ryukyu, which caused Ryukyu's population to increase rapidly.
With the rapid increase in population, more than a dozen cities have appeared in Ryukyu in just a few years. Relying on these cities, the sugarcane planting industry has also developed rapidly.
Ryukyu Sugar quickly adjusted its business model. It no longer planted sugar cane itself, but instead purchased sugar cane or sugar water. The focus was on boiling cane sugar. This is a technology currently mastered by Ryukyu Sugar. Even if other companies are
There is no way to learn even if you want to. You can only plant more sugar cane and then sell the sugar cane to Ryukyu Sugar Industry. The profit is still considerable.
Ryukyu is a place with fertile land, abundant rainfall and heat, which is very suitable for the growth of sugar cane. The yield is very high, and the sugar content is also high. Even for the simplest sugar cane cultivation, the profits of large and small sugar cane plantations are quite high.
This is also the reason why Ryukyu has developed rapidly. Money is everything.
In just a few years, the total number of people who migrated to Ryukyu from various parts of the Ming Dynasty has almost exceeded 2 million, and the population around Ryukyu City is more than 500,000.
You must know that these are not organized by the government. They are all spontaneous migrations by the people. They are all brought here by relatives and friends. After they have their own fields in Ryukyu and live a good life, they attract relatives and friends.
Like a snowball, more and more people are migrating to Ryukyu.
All of this is inseparable from the strategy Li Yuanshan set at the beginning. When he was in charge of Ryukyu City, he managed the place in an orderly and prosperous way.
This is why Liu Jin said that Li Yuanshan was very capable and could become an official.
"Young Master has promoted me~"
When Li Yuanshan heard this, he immediately smiled and continued: "I was originally illiterate, with my face facing the loess and my back turned to the sky. It was only because I met the young master that I had this great experience in life."
"I have never dared to think about being an official. My ancestors have been farmers for eight lifetimes. I just know what poor people like most and can give me some guidance."
"Everything is possible, gold always shines."
Liu Jin smiled and said.
"Tell me about the situation here in Ryukyu Castle."
"Yes~"
Liu Yuanshan nodded quickly, thought for a while and said: "Currently, there are seventeen cities in Ryukyu City, each divided into seventeen counties. Eight of them were built by our Ryukyu Sugar Industry Organization, and the other nine were built by others.
It was organized and established by commercial banks.”
"At present, the total population of the 17 cities in Ryukyu is about 2.2 million, mainly from the five provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Fujian, and Zhejiang."
"Ryukyu's current industry is mainly based on the cane sugar industry. There are large and large sugar cane plantations around major cities. The main purpose is to grow sugar cane, followed by rice."
"However, here in Ryukyu City, Tianjin Shipyard also established a Ryukyu Shipyard here. In addition, Tianjin Cement Plant also built a Ryukyu Cement Plant here. It is still under construction and has not been put into use."
"But once these two factories are put into use, Ryukyu will also have its own shipyard and cement plant, and development will inevitably be faster by then."
"In addition, because of the unique geographical advantage of Ryukyu, it is the transit area for our Ming Dynasty to go to Southeast Asia, so the ocean trade here is also extremely developed."
"Commercial firms from various land provinces of the Ming Dynasty transported large quantities of goods to Ryukyu, and then sold them to commercial firms that specialized in going to sea. These trading firms that went to sea then transported the goods to various places in Southeast Asia for sale."
"It not only saves time but also saves travel, so the transit trade is also very fast. Nine out of ten ships in this river bend port are like this."
Li Yuanshan began to slowly explain the situation here in Ryukyu.
Liu Jin nodded while listening.
Ryukyu was developed to a certain extent in later generations until the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, when Zheng Chenggong brought tens of thousands of people there from Fujian.
Because there were never many people, Ryukyu was occupied by the Dutch a few decades later in history, and was finally taken back by Zheng Chenggong.
But things are different now. Ryukyu has developed rapidly. It has seventeen cities and a population of more than two million, and has extremely close contacts with the mainland. The Ming Dynasty has also established seventeen counties here, which is very important to Ryukyu.
Take it extremely seriously.
It is simply impossible to let the Dutch occupy it, and naturally the following series of things will not happen.
"This is a treasure island~"
"The treasure island that belongs to our Ming Dynasty, the more prosperous it is, the better."
After hearing this, Liu Jin also let out a long sigh.
Li Yuanshan looked at Liu Jin and really didn't understand why he sighed like this.
This Ryukyu belongs to the Ming Dynasty. Is there any doubt about this?
Could it be that there are still people who dare to come and snatch Ryukyu from Ming Dynasty?
Of course he would not understand Liu Jin's feelings. Ryukyu in later generations had too many descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties entrusted it with too much emotion. This may be why Liu Jin strongly supported Ryukyu.
Everything we do is just for the sake of this piece of land that will never be divided by the Ming Dynasty, for it to belong to the Ming Dynasty forever, for the descendants of Yan and Huang, for it not to be stained by others, for the sake of it being the Ming Dynasty by rights, and it should be the same as other places as a matter of course.
They are the same, they are as close as brothers and there is no difference between them.