"Sugar?"

Everyone carefully looked at the white sugar in their hands that was as white as snow and as fine as sand, this kind of sugar had never been seen before, and it was a new thing made by Liu Jin.

"Lao Liu, can you make money with this thing?"

Zhu Houzhao licked his tongue, as if he was reminiscing about the taste of white sugar.

"Of course~"

Liu Jin said with great certainty: "Everyone usually eats this candy and thinks it seems to be very ordinary and commonplace, but for ordinary people, this sugar is a very expensive thing. ”

"Now the cheapest sugar on the market costs thousands of dollars a pound, and this kind of white sugar in everyone's hands can even be sold for three or four taels of silver a catty."

"This place in Ryukyu, with plenty of light and heat, is very suitable for the growth of sugarcane, we just need to recruit some people here to reclaim the land, plant rice and sugarcane, rice does not need to be planted too much, mainly sugarcane-based, and then use sugarcane to boil sugar, I have a new sugar-making process, which can greatly improve the sugar yield."

"When the time comes, it will not be difficult to boil these cane sugars 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 would earn one million taels of silver a year, everyone's eyes flashed slightly, and everyone naturally believed in Liu Jin's words, everyone was naturally very convinced, and everyone was able to make a fortune now, all by following Liu Jin to do business.

"It's not a difficult task to recruit people to develop the Ryukyus and reclaim land to grow sugar cane."

"Some of our Ming people are people, and some are landless people, as long as they are promised some benefits, provide silver and two homes and so on, it is not difficult to recruit tens of thousands of people casually."

Zhang Mao thought for a while and said.

At this time, it was the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the land annexation was already quite serious, and there were too many landless peasants, so it was not difficult to recruit people.

"However, if the Ryukyu miasma is rampant, mosquitoes are rampant, and diseases and deaths are easy to migrate, and if this problem is not solved, it will be very difficult to recruit people, even if you give more benefits."

Then Zhang Mao also raised a very practical question.

The treasure island is obviously very close to Fujian, why don't you go?

The key is that the miasma here is too powerful, there are too many mosquitoes, malaria is rampant, it is easy to be private, and the barbarians on the island are extremely fierce, even though everyone knows that the land here is fertile and sparsely populated, but everyone still does not dare to go, after all, life matters.

"It's not difficult to solve this problem, in the past, the Lingnan region was also full of miasma and mosquitoes, but now the Guangdong region is not so bad that people talk about tiger color."

"The two most important things are mosquito nets and mosquito coils, and if you use these two things well, you will not be afraid of mosquitoes, and in terms of various diseases, a very important reason is caused by drinking raw water, so if we organize people to immigrate there, we must encourage everyone to boil water to drink."

"There is also the disease of pendulum, there is a kind of bark grinding into powder on the Golden Continent that can treat this disease very well, and I have already explained that the fleet must find this kind of tree and bring the tree species back to our Daming."

Malaria was commonly known as playing pendulum in ancient times, because it was cold like falling into an ice cave when it was clinically manifested, and it seemed to be roasted by fire when it was hot, alternating between hot and cold, and people were stunned when they were sick, so it was called playing pendulum.

In ancient times, this disease was very popular, because the ancient people lacked health awareness, and more importantly, the ancient people did not have the habit of drinking boiled water, and habitually drank well water, drinking river water, etc., so not only malaria, but also various other diseases are easy to breed.

"Does the Golden Continent really have a medicine that can cure the pendulum?"

When Zhu Fu heard this, he hurriedly asked.

He has relatives who died of malaria, so he knows very well that there is no cure for this disease, but he didn't expect Liu Jin to know that there are tree barks on the Golden Continent to cure this disease.

"I'll know when the fleet comes back, it's not really incurable to fight the disease."

Liu Jin smiled and said very confidently.

"If you can solve the miasma, mosquitoes and various diseases, there is no problem with the development of Ryukyu, count me in, you can't be wrong with the stinky boy, if you lose money by then, I will rely on you."

Zhang Mao thought for a while and nodded and said.

“… Zhang Gong is not very good, otherwise, you don't want to participate in the shares. ”

Liu Jin was speechless for a moment.

"Go, go, there is a chance to make a fortune, how could I not participate."

Zhang Mao smiled, looking determined on Liu Jin.

"Count me in as a share~"

Xu Guangzuo, who had not spoken, also immediately followed and said that what his brother-in-law proposed should be supported no matter what, not to mention, he also felt that this business could be done.

Growing sugarcane and using sugarcane to make sugar, this business is really profitable, the price of sugar is too expensive, and the market demand is particularly strong.

"Everyone participated, there is no reason why I don't participate, count me in."

Zhu Fu also said with a smile.

"OK~"

Liu Jin nodded happily, and then looked at Zhu Houzhao, just waiting for you, the major shareholder, to speak.

"I'll take half of it~"

Zhu Houzhao said very generously, he is very rich now, and there is no place to spend a lot of silver.

Hearing that Zhu Houzhao wanted to take half of it, everyone was not only not angry, but they all smiled one by one, what they wanted was that you came out to take the lion's head, you took the lion's head, and many things would be easy to do.

This is going to immigrate to the Ryukyus, it is definitely not possible to rely on them to recruit alone, this matter has to be done by the imperial court, they can only pay money, without the recruitment order of the imperial court, everyone will not believe you at all, even if you have a three-inch tongue, it is not as influential as a piece of paper by the imperial court.

So, ah, this thing, you have to pull the Hongzhi Emperor and the crown prince into the water, and then the operation will be simple, Zhang Mao and they have a recital in the court, saying that there is too much population in such and such a place, there are many people and few places, and there will be a famine.

Then Emperor Hongji gave permission to the court, and they could directly recruit landless peasants to go to the Ryukyus side to reclaim land and grow rice and sugar cane.

Of course, there will definitely be some opposition to this middle, but as long as there is a big tree like Emperor Hongji, and there is enough silver to scatter it, it is not difficult to do this.

"Great, if His Highness joins, this matter will be done."

Liu Jin laughed happily.

"Don't talk about this nonsense, you have a lot of ideas, think of a way, how to exterminate pirates and pirates, I am angry when I think of these pirates and pirates, and I dare to plunder my merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, it is simply looking for death."

Zhu Hou took care of Liu Jin, didn't you come to me just to pull me into the gang, and said these nonsense, he is now full of things about suppressing pirates and pirates, and he can't wait to command the sailors of the Ming Dynasty to gallop on the sea and exterminate the pirates and pirates.

As for the matter of making money, it is enough to let Liu Jin operate this matter, just have him there, and wait for the cash to be collected with peace of mind.

"It's really difficult~"

Liu Jin's eyes suddenly darkened, even if I went to exterminate pirates and pirates, I didn't dare to let you go, unless I didn't want to die.