The experiment of salting in seawater was a great success, and his father, Tian Feng, almost no longer had doubts about the farming mode and the marine fishery plan, and allocated a large amount of money and grain from the family warehouse, increased investment, and carried out the "big farm plan", "big salt field plan" and "marine fishing company plan" formulated by Zhou Ming. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The big farm plan, as the name suggests, is to unify the land, tenant farmers, livestock, and farm tools, implement the semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral farming mode, promote agricultural mechanization, change the original work mode of tenant farmers who cultivate their own land, and work for hired workers, and then issue certain year-end rewards according to the final income of the land under the condition of ensuring that the tenant farmers have no worries about food and clothing.

This "big farm plan" is indeed a bit big, and the tenant farmers who are extremely dependent on land and can even be said to be the root of their life, have a lot of concerns, so his father Tian Feng can only do experiments on the 10,000 acres of "experimental fields" first, and cross the river by feeling the stones.

However, for some young tenant farmers who are less conservative in their thinking and still have a lot of energy in them, the new employment system has a unique appeal.

First of all, the tenant rent system with stable income and guaranteed income in drought and flood is much more stable than the tenant rent system of watching the sky and eating, two years of abundance and one year of flooding, and always worrying about not being able to pay rent (the landlords of this world, the rent is generally 6-7 percent), although the year-end reward is uncertain how much it will take, at least there is no need to worry about starvation and cold.

Secondly, to become a hired worker of a large farm, there are many benefits, a lot of strong cattle and livestock, advanced farm tools, fertilizers and pesticides, can be used at will, unified irrigation, saving time and effort, just like a soldier who goes to the battlefield to fight, wearing rags with stones, and wearing armor with a sword, the two feelings are completely different, that is, the cocoon that day can sow 100 acres, I don't know how many tenant farmers are greedy.

Not to mention, horse-drawn harvesters, threshing machines, windmills and other agricultural artifacts.

Finally, the work location of the employee is not fixed, the time is scattered and free, and there are many fields to choose from.

Because the farm work in the field is so little, relying on so many agricultural artifacts, the work in the land for two or three months a year will reach the top, and the rest of the farm leisure time, the hired workers can go to the salt farm by the sea to dry salt, or they can help cook and dry fish, and those who are more courageous can go out to sea to fish with the fishing company...... All of them have additional income, and much more than the income obtained from the land, which leads to some hired laborers who are a little aspiring, completely leaving the land and becoming professional "salt workers" and "fishermen".

In just three years, the big farm plan was a great success, and those tenant farmers who were originally reluctant to leave the land, seeing that those hired workers, within two or three years, built large brick houses one after another, married all the young and beautiful daughters-in-law, and one by one could not sit still, without the urging of their father Tian Feng, they took the initiative to apply, and all joined the "big farm".

However, among the three plans, the most successful is the "Great Yantian Project".

Salt is a substance that the human body must ingest, the ionization balance, pH balance, and osmotic pressure balance of human body fluids must rely on the participation of salt ions, if the human body lacks salt intake for a long time, there will be nervous system weakness, loss of appetite, weakness of limbs, dizziness and other symptoms, and more seriously, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, rapid heart rate, blurred vision......

Because of the indispensability of salt, the price of salt is generally higher in all parts of the Great Zhou Kingdom, because of transportation problems, the more remote and backward areas, the higher the price of salt, and even, the cost of buying salt has become the largest expenditure item accounting for 80% of the annual income of some poor families.

There are two main salt producing areas in the Great Zhou Empire, one is the sea salt produced in Yangzhou Changlu Salt Farm, accounting for about 80% of the market share, and the other is the brine salt produced in Lujing County, Changgong County, Shuzhou, because of the output, the market share, Shuzhou Gong Salt accounts for less than 20%.

However, this situation was soon broken.

Since the fourteenth year of Tiansheng, since the Tian family of Haiping County, Hedong County, Qingzhou, the salt field with an area of 5,000 acres created by the sea began to mass-produce salt, first in Qingzhou, the salt market of each county was quickly occupied by a kind of "Haiping salt" with white white grains, better taste and cheaper price, and the market share is constantly expanding, to the sixteenth year of Tiansheng, in Qingzhou, the market has basically not seen the existence of other salt brands.

The situation was very good, just when his father Tian Feng was about to expand the scale, expand the area of the salt field to 10,000 mu, and want to enter the surrounding Youzhou, Jeju and other markets, Zhou Ming stopped him and told him not to rush to expand the scale, and to build a good relationship between the government and the government first.

Zhou Ming said: "Father, now the Haiping salt exposed in our Haiping Salt Farm can bring more than 300,000 yuan of income to the Tian family every year, but if you want to expand the scale and occupy a larger market share, it is not possible to have a good relationship with the officialdom...... In this way, in the name of cooperative shareholding, give Chen County Ling Yicheng's shares in the salt farm, and let him not make a stumbling block for us behind his back. In the name of paying the salt tax, he gave two percent of the salt shares to Lord Qingzhou Thorn Shigao, and asked him to allow the Haiping Salt Works to continue to operate...... Otherwise, if the Haiping Salt Farm is targeted by the imperial court, the fat sheep of the Tian family will be bitten hard sooner or later, it is better to release a little blood and let Gao Tingshi give an explanation to the imperial court. ”

The supreme ruler of any feudal dynasty, in peacetime, is most worried about the following clans, after having huge capital, threatening their supreme rule, for any clan, the supreme ruler, suspicion and vigilance, are restricted and suppressed attitude, therefore, those clans, low-key pretend to be grandchildren, but it is best not to be caught, do not create a handle, otherwise once the ruler seizes the opportunity, even if it is a thousand-year-old family, there is a possibility of extinction.

The current Haiping Tian family is not a big family, at best it is just a big landlord with a little money, the government wants to take it up, I don't know how many ways there are, just throw a few dead people over, saying that they were poisoned to death after eating "Haiping salt", and the Haiping Tian family even has the risk of going to prison for a lawsuit.

Therefore, before the Hai Pingtian family has fully grown into a "big fat sheep" that everyone covets, before this "big fat sheep" grows claws and sharp head horns, it is necessary to cut some meat and put some blood to relieve the hunger of those "hungry wolves", so that they no longer stare at the Haiping Tian family.

"Okay......"

Throwing out thirty percent of the sea salt income at once, his father Tian Feng, it is impossible to say that it is not painful, but what the son said makes sense, how many families, because of the copper mines, iron mines, gold and silver mines underground, were remembered by the imperial court, and finally disappeared, offending the family of the imperial power, even if it will not die at once, but the officials sent by the emperor also have ways to repair you and torture you.

After the income of 30% was given out, the Haiping Salt Farm continued to develop steadily, and it did not encounter much hindrance, but with the continuous expansion of the market share of "Haiping Salt" and the occupation of half of the four or five states, the share of salt tax paid to Qingzhou Thorn History by the Haiping Salt Farm has also increased from the initial 20% to 40%, and then in the future, it is believed that it will increase...... However, this is all a later story, at that time, Zhou Ming's development focus was no longer on the salt farm, but fully turned to the marine fishery and marine transportation industry.

Yes, Haiping Salt Farm is just a springboard for accumulating raw funds in all of Zhou Ming's business plans, and his strategic focus is still on the ocean!

In the middle of the sea, there are endless fish stocks, countless maritime trade routes to the land of wealth, and most importantly, there are countless islands and islands that are either occupied by indigenous people or uninhabited...... There is no so-called feudal dynasty or so-called emperor on these large and small islands, and he can completely occupy all these islands, plan and develop them as he pleases according to his own ideas, do whatever he wants, and be the king and hegemon.

And the overseas islands, together with the endless sea, are all forbidden things in Zhou Ming's eyes, all of them belong to him, and no one wants to touch them!

This is also Zhou Ming, after being restricted by the rules of the system, taking a step back, combining the geographical advantages of Haiping County, and preparing to take the path of the ocean hegemon.

"However, the marine strategy, is a long-term, long-term planning, long-term practice of the road, now, the marine fishing company has been established for more than five years, more than 500 materials (displacement of 100 tons) of large ships, so far there is no one, the largest ship is more than 300 materials, professional fishermen are few, the total is less than 1,000 people, to develop to a thousand ships, 100,000 crews, at least twenty or thirty years......

"Take your time, I'm still young, and I can still afford to wait for twenty or thirty years......"

"Leave all these things to my father, who is more concerned than I am now...... Moreover, I'm going to study at Wenyuan Academy soon, I don't know what kind of excitement awaits me there?"

In the room, Zhou Ming, a 12-year-old boy, muttered to himself while sorting out his bags.