Wan Shuhui said: "We can develop the Acropolis. And we developed three acropolis at once. But these three acropolises will be like Qingchun City in two or three years, so what should I do? ”

Chen Wenhui said with a smile: "The South China Sea is so big, we have developed Luzon Island, and we can also develop Mindanao, Java Island, Sumatra Island, and more distant islands." In the future, after the development of the South Seas, we can go further to India, Europe, Africa, and North and South America. Anyway, I watched it, and I can't finish developing it in my lifetime. ”

Wan Shuhui smiled and said: "It turns out that you have expected these things for a long time, is it because of this that you took the initiative to choose not to rely on the place of Yizhou Island to build a city, it turns out that you have long had ideas about Mindanao?" ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Anyway, as long as the people of Dachu and Qingchun City are willing to farm, I will find a place for them to plant." If one island is not enough, we will look for a second one, and we will go to a larger continent. However, I do think that farming does not have to be. Can't our people do anything but farm? ”

Wan Shuhui was stunned for a moment and asked: "If there is no land in a city, there is no food, how can it survive?" ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Are we hungry now? From the very beginning of our land, I have deliberately guided the people to grow as many cash crops as possible, whether it is not fragrant flowers, bananas, sugarcane, mangoes, or rubber. However, I am also not opposed to them growing cotton, corn, sweet potatoes, rice, wheat. Grow what you want. But, you see, those who grow rice. How much can you make with corn, sweet potato? Those mountains and forests have no choice but to plant sugarcane or fruit trees, and the fruit trees have not yet seen benefits. But what about the fragrant flowers? What about those pineapples? What about the cotton and stuff? And those who grow medicinal herbs? Aren't they all making more money? ”

Wan Shuhui said: "This is true. It must be that these things are more than before the rice. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "But are we hungry in this way? We grow enough for ourselves. There are also some landless people, and it doesn't matter. We rely on Tongren City, a big city that produces food. Still hungry? Half a day's work can bring a lot of food by boat, how much do we pay? It's just some precious embroidery. Or maybe it's some fine furniture, some fine porcelain. ”

Wan Shuhui said: "These things are naturally more valuable than food. A good porcelain vase can be exchanged for a boatload of grain. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "So, I think it is a good thing to liberate the peasants from the land. What good workers these liberated peasants were, and how many things they could make for the workshop at once. That's how many porcelain bottles. How many bottles of flavor, how many snowflakes of candy. How much fine cotton? Then the things we participate in trade will be varied, so don't we make more money? Our market is booming, isn't our City Lord's Mansion making more money? ”

Wan Shuhui nodded slowly.

Chen Wenhui continued: "What about the people? They worked in the fields all year round, tired and half dead. But it's just an overcharge. But what if you work in a workshop? It's hundreds of dollars a month, and even a good skill can get one or two pieces of silver, which is much more than the income of an acre of land. It doesn't have to be that hard. ”

Wan Shuhui said: "Part-time work is indeed faster than farming. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "There is more. Ordinary people farm because of poverty. They can only farm with one hand. But what about those who have the money to farm the land? They bought good seeds, they bought the wonderful tools of the black family, they bought the big livestock. When people are used to plow the land, it will take several days to dry an acre of land. But a person, using the new plough of the black family, using three oxen, can plow an acre of land well in a few clicks. You say, doesn't this save a lot of manpower? ”

Wan Shuhui said: "That's right, those tools of the Hei family are really easy to use. Also, ploughing the fields with oxen and plowing the fields with people is completely different speeds. Not to mention three cows. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "So, I am in favor of land concentration, such a farmer, employing a dozen or so people, buying a lot of tools, and raising a group of livestock, can cultivate thousands of acres of land." However, if it is not concentrated, it may take three to five thousand people to cultivate the land well by giving the people a few acres per person. Isn't this equivalent to saving thousands of manpower? ”

Wan Shuhui was silent.

Chen Wenhui continued: "Some people are business-minded, such as Gui Yuxia, who told me about their family. Her husband is very talented in business, so he is doing very well in business now. But his grange is a bit difficult to take care of. But he also needed the Grange, because the Grange could give him a steady supply of fragrant flowers for him to process and sell. It's a bit hectic. Her two brothers-in-law saw that her brother-in-law was so profitable in business, so they wanted to follow along, and they learned well, but when the business was good, the natural fields could not be managed. But their business is related to the production of their respective fields, and they cannot lose it. And her little brother, the milk supplied in our city lord's mansion is supplied by her little brother. How good the business is. But the same field is not well managed. But her eldest brother was different. That person, who has no talent for business, does not want to do business, and has money in his hands, has a lot of slaves, and takes good care of his grange, but he can't make a fortune just by relying on that small grange. I gave her the idea to simply ask her eldest brother to set up a workshop dedicated to taking care of the farms for others, and give him all the farms to take care of, and pay him the fees, so that those who should plant fragrant flowers will also grow fragrant flowers, and those who should plant sugarcane will also grow sugarcane. The cotton is also planted. Isn't it good? ”

Wan Shuhui's eyes lit up and said: "Oh, this is good, if you want to grow crops, you can keep growing crops, and growing crops can also become a business, so won't it make more money?" If you want to do business, you can take care of the grange for people, so that you can concentrate on doing business more attentively, and the production you need is not less at all, that is, after paying the fee, the field is not very profitable, but the business can be done wholeheartedly, naturally it can be much better, maybe you can make more money. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Yes, I think that when Gui Yuxia's younger brother's farming workshop is well run, not only can he farm for a few relatives, but after his reputation comes out, he can take care of the farm for more people, and when he sees that he makes money, there will naturally be more farming workshops." Won't our land be carefully managed by professionals? Then our fields will produce more things. People who do business can also concentrate more on doing business, and they can improve the workshop and do it deeper. ”

Wan Shuhui said more clearly: "For example, Gui Yuxia's husband was originally just an ordinary fragrant flower business, and he could only sell dried flowers, and the profit was not high. Later, I bought a patent, and now I have started to make more deeply processed flavors, which naturally makes more money. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "We just want to guide those businessmen to process our agricultural and sideline products at a deeper level. In this regard, our Nanyang Bank has a role to play and lend more to workshops that use new technologies. So they can afford to buy those patents. When people who sell patents make money, they will be more motivated to specialize, so that they can invent more technologies. Slowly, our industry will be able to lead Luzon, and even lead Dachu. For example, Yizhou Island and we both produce sugar cane. In particular, the ancient family on Yizhou Island has been running a sugar factory for generations. The freight from Yizhou Island to Dachu is cheaper than the freight from Luzon Island to Dachu, and it is the same sugar, how can we sell them. However, now that we have snowflake candy and fruit candy, our prices are higher than theirs, and we can buy them faster. ”

Wan Shuhui nodded.

Chen Wenhui said: "In the future, with the expansion of the market, more sugar will be invented, such as marshmallows, nougat, brushed sugar, and so on. At that time, the sugar industry will not be the monopoly of the Gu family, and our Qingchun City will not be on the same route as their brown sugar at all. Ours is better. There are other industries that are also like this, and only deep processing can make more money. You go back and study this more. The reason why I attach so much importance to education and educate children for free is that I hope that our Qingchun City will become a big city of science and technology in the future. ”

Wan Shuhui was stunned by such an economic theory, Chen Wenhui said: "This is not a day or two can be said clearly, you think about it, go out for a walk, observe, go back and study, one person counts the short, two counts the long, the two of us discuss, it is better than I want to come alone." ”

Wan Shuhui smiled and nodded.

I couldn't help but be shocked again in my heart, Chen Wenhui is really talented. She must have known these theories for a long time. It's just that she can't show it in Da Chu. Although Chen Wenhui was born in a family, her family background is very good, and the top is good, but Chen Wenhui is a girl, and more importantly, the forces of Da Chu are criss-crossed, and it is even more difficult to carry out reforms. But Qingchun City is different, there is a blank here, all the forces were established by Chen Wenhui, it can be said that they are all dependent on Chen Wenhui, such as himself, not only the deputy city lord, but also the Wan family and a group of people standing behind him, it can be said that one person is above ten thousand people, but what is his identity? His life was saved by Chen Wenhui, and every one of his own qiē was given by Chen Wenhui. Can you not listen to her? In addition to herself, others, such as Qiu Bi, are directly Chen Wenhui's big maids, can you not listen to her? Therefore, Chen Wenhui has absolute rights in Qingchun City, no wonder she wants to leave Dachu and come here to open up a wasteland and build a city, just so that she can take revenge here, right? (To be continued)