"Transporting people?"

Zheng Hongkui was surprised.

"Shizi wants us to help you send the displaced people to Taiwan?"

"It's not just Taiwan!"

Zhu Guoqiang waved his hand and said.

"And Zhenla, well, it should be the estuary delta area of Zhenla, just relying on one Taiwan, it is definitely not enough to settle millions of displaced people, so two months ago, I sent people over, and now they have built a local earthen city and reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of fertile land."

There are too many displaced people, Taiwan is too small, so we should look farther!

Fortunately, the world is so big, and there is always a place for the displaced people of the Ming Dynasty.

Sighing in his heart, Zhu Guoqiang said again.

"In recent years, there has been a great drought in the north every year, not to mention the displacement of the people, I don't know how many people have either starved to death, or become homeless, if the world wants to be stable, it has to solve the problem of displaced people, if you want to solve this problem, there is only one way, that is, immigrate, all of them are immigrated overseas, compared to the north of the disaster, Taiwan or Zhenla, but it is a good place! The four seasons are like summer, there is no worry about drought and flood, and that kind of place is suitable for settling the homeless, but there are too many homeless people! ”

Zhu Guoqiang sighed.

"Even if I try my best, it is impossible to transport all the displaced people out, and there are too few ships on my side, so I think since Zheng Zongbing has so many ships, you might as well help me transport the displaced people overseas, I don't know what Zheng Shengyi thinks?"

"This ......"

Zheng Hongkui said.

"This, this transports displaced people from Shandong to Taiwan or Zhenla, it must cost a lot!"

That's not 30,000 or 20,000 people, it's millions!

How long does it take to ship so many people overseas?

How many boats will you use?

It's simply unthinkable. After all, that's millions of people.

But then again, transporting these millions of people overseas is really bigger business, if nothing else, just the freight for these people, that's ......

Even if he is used to seeing big scenes, at this time, as long as he thinks of the money that so many people can earn by shipping overseas, Zheng Hongkui still can't help but hold his breath.

That's a lot, isn't it? That's big business!

"It's a lot."

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile.

"That's why I said I wanted to talk to you about a joke deal, and it's a big deal!"

"Oh?"

Zheng Hongkui said.

"I don't know what price the prince plans to pay?"

"Priceless!"

"What?"

"I'm not going to pay!"

His eyes widened in astonishment, and Zheng Hongkui was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

If he doesn't pay for it, will he let the Zheng family work for him in vain?

The Zheng family is indeed rich, but being rich does not mean that they can be so bad!

"The ...... of the Prince"

When Zheng Hongkui was about to speak, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"I plan to send one million displaced people to Taiwan and Zhenla next year, and one million people should be able to reclaim no less than five or six million mu of land, and my idea is to grant 50 mu of land to a household, tax exemption for the first three years, and ...... later."

Glancing at Zheng Hongkui, Zhu Guoqiang smiled.

"In the next 20 years, in addition to the land endowment, another 20 percent of the land rent will be collected, and whoever sends these displaced people over, the 20 percent of the land rent will be handed over to whomever he wants."

"What!"

Opening his eyes wide, Zheng Hongkui said in surprise.

"Does the prince want to use these two percent of the land rent as a travel fee?"

"It's not the cost of travel, it's the return on investment."

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile.

"Sending a million, or even two million displaced people overseas, I'm afraid it will cost tens of millions of taels of silver just for freight, and I can't pay for this money, and you can't pay it out, and no one can pay it out, so I plan to set up a company."

"Company?"

"Yes, it is to follow the example of Westerners to set up a company specializing in colonization, this company is responsible for the operation of the colony, but also responsible for the export of displaced people, everyone can subscribe to the "immigration ticket", a ticket is equivalent to a family of 50 acres of fertile land for 20 years of rent, only need to spend more than 10 or 20 taels of silver, you can exchange for 20 years of rent, this rate of return, at least dozens of times the return! ”

In the past few months, Zhu Guoqiang has been thinking about how to send immigrants over, Daming is different from European countries, they may be able to send immigrants over slowly, but God didn't leave much time for Daming. Now there are more than 2 million displaced people in Shandong, how can these displaced people survive? And there will be more inflows next year.

How do millions of displaced people get overseas?

Zhu Guoqiang also wanted to send them all over at once, but it was estimated that not to mention the ship, even millions of displaced people could drag him down!

What to do?

Fortunately, with the vision ahead of the times, Zhu Guoqiang came up with such a "subscription" by drawing on the experience of Western colonial companies, and subcontracted the freight through the method of "share subscription", a ferry ticket is only worth 30 taels of silver, but it can be exchanged for dozens of acres of fertile land, 20 years, or even 30 years of long-term returns, this rate of return is extremely amazing. Of course, its investment is not large, and even ordinary middle-class families in Jiangnan can come up with this silver.

Dozens of taels of silver, in exchange for a long-term return of a few hundred taels, who would refuse such a deal?

Zhu Guoqiang deliberately calculated the account.

"Over there in Zhenla, three crops a year, fifty acres of land, at least 150 stone of grain, twenty percent of the land rent, a year is thirty stones, these grains, according to the market price, are worth at least sixty taels of silver, this is a good deal!"

"Lord Shizi, the account is not calculated by you, it is true that you can produce thirty stone of grain, but the local grain price is not so high."

As a member of the Zheng family, how could Zheng Hongkui not know the local food prices?

"I know, I can ship it to Daming at this price."

"Shipped to Daming, what about the freight?"

"How much can I cost?"

"Food!" Zhu Guoqiangdao,

"The people take food as the sky, not to mention that there are many people in the southeast of Fujian and little land, that is, the south of the Yangtze River, which is known as the land of fish and rice, is now because there are too many cotton and mulberry trees, so there is always a shortage of food...... There is always a need to fill it in from the outside. ”

"Transporting grain from Zhenla to Jiangnan?"

Zheng Hongkui frowned,

"That's too far, isn't it?"

Although I know that the price of rice is very cheap in Chenla and Siam, the cost of transportation by sea is probably not profitable.

"Not far, not far!" Zhu Guoqiang said.

"Transporting grain from Zhenla to Jiangnan, or to Tianjin, if the wind is smooth, it will be a month's time. Although it takes longer than Cao Yun, if you really calculate it, sea freight is definitely cheaper than Cao Yun. As long as it is grain that is brought in, it is purchased for one tael of silver, and you see, is there any profit from this transaction? ”

Zheng Hongkui frowned and began to calculate the accounts,

"Lord Shizi, a ship with a sea will carry five or six thousand stones of rice at most, and the rice over there will cost four or five dollars of silver and one stone to transport it on the ship, and the difference in the price of a boatload of rice is only two or three thousand taels, if it is a small sea ship, it will also transport two or three thousand stones, deducting the sailor's wages and the expenses on the ship, but there is really not much benefit!"

Zhu Guoqiang laughed:

"Shengyi, your account is wrong!"

How could it be wrong? Zheng Hongkui said in his heart, in the past, the Zheng family's accounts were all in my hands, and I never missed millions of accounts a year.

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile.

"Our business is like this, you are full of people to transport over, it is impossible to come back empty, so naturally you will transport rice over, this time the profit is really not low!"

Of course, in fact, this is all for colonization.

Colonize!

Colonization is not a good business!

As far as Zhu Guoqiang knows, colonization, unless there are mines in the local area, is basically a loss, especially the colonization promoted by the power of the state, which is often a loss, and the colonization of the country is to occupy territory, which itself is a long-term money-burning investment.

There are two kinds of colonization to make money, one is to make money, such as the Dutch East India Company and the trading bases of Portugal, Britain, Spain and other countries in this era. They all expanded externally as trading bases, and of course some of them succeeded, and some of them failed.

There is also a local mine, such as South America, which is controlled by the Spaniards. There's a silver mine!

There is such a big silver mine, no one can lose money!

But such a good place, there is really no one next to Daming.

It's good that Japan has a silver mountain, but it's not easy to win it!

What to do?

What did the Ming colonization cause use to support?