Heifu asked Zhang Ping to go back to prepare for the arrival of the imperial court appointment letter, and he went straight into the inner room of the house, where a man dressed as a merchant was roasting a fire by the charcoal basin, and there was still frost and snow on his body that had not yet melted.

"Brother has seen less Shangzao!"

It's Heifu's cousin Yan who helped him run a brown sugar business in Nanjun and hasn't met for a long time......

Well, it's time to call him "Sugar Yan".

Ever since Heifu got a clan, no matter how distant his relatives are, they want to come and get a stick. For example, Yan's mother, she is the sister of Heifu's cheap father, it stands to reason that Yan will never have the turn to be with him, but these Jingchu rural people are not so particular, and they insist on letting Yan touch Heifu's light.

It was Heifu's mother, who wisely refused the matter, but accepted Hiko as a fake, and said to him:

"Since others call me Sugar Concubine, then you will be called Sugar Yan in the future, it is a name, and you don't have to be naturalized."

This turmoil of the Rub family was stopped, and the brown sugar workshop of the Heifu family was also logically named "Sugar Family".

The slogan of the workshop, Heifu also helped them think of it: "No sweetness, no joy!" ”

Heifu looked at Yan's dress, but saw that he was wearing a fur coat, and the nouveau riche had a strong atmosphere, and then looked at what he was wearing, but he didn't get carried away enough to wear silk clothes and step on embroidered shoes. This was illegal in Qin, and even if a merchant had money and went outside, he had to wear Ge Ma clothes to show his low status.

If you don't cross the law, Heifu didn't say much, on the surface, Yan is also a businessman with a net worth of millions, if he wears too shabby, he will lose face.

Heifu was not polite, let Hiko sit down, and talked about the things that could not be said in the letter.

"Let's get started, one by one."

Hiko began to report at length on the expansion of sugarcane plantations in the south last year.

It's been nine years since Hefu moved his first wild sugar cane to his field. Relying on the improvement of the sweet sugarcane in the old palace of King Chu, although the sweetness is still not as good as that of later generations, it can already chew out the taste, unlike the beginning, which is as light as water.

In addition to the gradual improvement of varieties, the area under cultivation of sugarcane is also expanding rapidly. The Qin Dynasty did not allow land annexation, and Heifu now has less titles, only 84 hectares of land, scattered in the two counties of Anlu and Nanchang, and this land alone certainly cannot produce enough sugar cane to make sugar.

So Heifu asked Hiko to give a large number of sweet cane seeds to the villagers for free a few years ago. Hearing that sugarcane could be sold to brown sugar workshops for money, the Anlu Township Party and Nanchang immigrants began to follow suit, and after several years of development, the sugarcane fields have now spread to the entire Nanjun and Yuzhang counties.

Yan happily reported: "Nowadays, sugarcane fields can be seen in the entire Yunmengze and Dajiang River in Nanjun, and almost every county has hundreds of hectares of sugarcane fields, and the sugar mills opened in various places have an endless source of raw materials. ”

"Didn't the local government stop it?"

Heifu was most concerned about this, because the land in each county was limited, and if a large amount of fertile land was used to grow cash crops such as sugarcane, it would inevitably affect food production. This is related to the local government's plan, even if the sugar mill will pay a lot of taxes to the local government, even if Heifu has a strong local background, they will not sit idly by.

Yan said as a matter of course: "Who dares to find trouble with Shao Shangzao? ”

Heifu frowned: "Didn't you let you wait to bully others?" ”

Yan hurriedly said: "How dare my brother do this, according to Shaoshangzao's instructions, he sent someone to tell the sugarcane farmers in all counties of Nanjun that sugarcane should be planted in low-lying places where grain production cannot be produced, or at the edge of grain fields and ditches, and try not to crowd the millet ......."

As long as it doesn't affect food production and can increase taxes, why not? As a result, the county government used sugarcane as a common orange tree in Hanshui and Gangneung to collect taxes, and planting fruit trees was also an industry greatly encouraged by the imperial court.

Not to mention Yuzhang, the terrain is low and the climate is humid. The main economic sources of the local area were originally bamboo, wood and gold, but bamboo and wood were too common to sell for a price, and the mineral reserves were limited, and transportation was inconvenient, and the mining income was not enough to cover the expenses.

Therefore, planting sugarcane, boiling brown sugar and shipping it to Jiujiang and other places for sale has become the biggest source of revenue for Yuzhang County, which can not only be suppressed, but also vigorously supported.

Not to mention, Yin Tong, the newly appointed lieutenant of Yuzhang County, worked together with Heifu in Beidi County.

Yan is perennial between Nanjun and Yuzhang to run, so he said:

Lieutenant Yin was very shocked and recommended him to be the official of Nanchang Yu, specializing in the management of the mountain and woodland. He also strongly advised Yuzhang County to guard, saying that he would not sell wood for a hundred miles, and would not sell wood for thousands of miles, live one year old, plant it with grain, and plant it with wood, and at the age of ten, the tree would be wood. If Yuzhang wants not to be poor and rank the lowest in the country every year, he has to vigorously plant sugarcane wood! ”

Yin Tong instigated Yuzhang County Shou like this: "There are thousands of jujubes in Anyi; The swallow has a thousand chestnuts; Shu, Han and Jiangling have thousands of oranges; There are a thousand trees between the rivers; Chen and Xia have thousands of acres of paint; Qi and Lu have thousands of acres of mulberry hemp; There are thousands of acres of bamboo in Weichuan...... All over the country is rich in this, why can't the land south of the Yangtze River in Yuzhang set up thousands of hectares of sugarcane? ”

After being moved by Yin Tong's words, Yuzhang County Shou decided to take sugarcane and brown sugar as the main business of Yuzhang County in the next ten years!

First, this thing is not like grain, which requires too much energy to be intensively cultivated, and second, Yuzhang has vacant land, and he is not afraid of crowding out the grain field at all!

The only problem is that because the local population is seriously insufficient, they can only use the Chu people captured in the war that year as foremen, and the Yangyue people captured from the mountains and forests as vassals, cut off the big toes, and specialize in taking care of the sugar cane fields.

Therefore, the main work of Heifu's old department in Yuzhang every year is to bring people into the mountains to suppress the Yangyue people, plunder their population, and bring them back to the city, and a unique plantation economy has sprouted in Yuzhang. And Heifu's brother, Wu Rui, the titular chief of Ganyue, also took advantage of Yugan's geographical advantages to transport Yue slaves from Ouyue and Minyue in the east to Yuzhang......

Therefore, the sugarcane fields and brown sugar industries in Yuzhang County are different from the spontaneous planting of the people in the counties of Nanjun County, and then the raw materials are handed over to the Heifu family workshop for production.

Speaking of this, Hiko peeked at Kuroo's face and asked a question that had been bothering him for a long time.

"Less Shangzai, my brother has been doing business for more than ten years, and I saw that the businessmen in this world, once they have any rare goods, they are all hidden tightly, but Shaoshang is different."

"In the second year of Xianyang, Shao Shangzao dedicated the recipe for making brown sugar to Shaofu, but the north is cold and can't grow sugarcane, so Shaofu didn't care."

Later, Shao Shangzao sent the recipe and a lot of cane seeds to Ba Zhong of Ba Shi, so that he also began to grow cane sugar along the Bashu River. Last year, Yuzhang County was first built, and I wanted to change my workshop into an official camp, and I could refuse to do so, but I also sold them all to the government happily, why is this? ”

In Hiko's opinion, Heifu is too "selfless"!

If it weren't for Heifu's generosity, their family's brown sugar business would have run through the middle and upper reaches of the entire river, from Bashu to Yuzhang, all of them were merchant ships and workshops under the banner of "Sugar Clan"! Make a profit every year, how can it only be millions of dollars sold in Nanjun and Xianyang, and it should be tens of millions!

Although Yan was just a candy seller in the past, he followed Heifu to Xianyang a few times, and gradually became more ambitious.

He hopes that the "Sugar Family" can compete with the two families of Pakistan and Ukraine and become the three most successful businessmen in the world!

Unexpectedly, Hiko's ambition was only revealed a little, and it was doused with a basin of cold water by Heifu!

Heifu said: "You are right, the Wu clan is the king of the throne and is in the same dynasty as the ministers, and the widow of Ba is a guest of His Majesty. One is a contemptible shepherd, and the other is a widow in a poor township, but she is courteous and famous, and she looks very majestic...... But do they get all this just because they are rich? ”

Hiko didn't know how to answer, didn't he...... No?

Heifu glared at Yan: "Qin has always been a light businessman, regarded as one of the five stupid people in the country, you have been a small businessman, you should know that you can't even wear beautiful clothes on weekdays, and when you encounter a battle, you are the first to be recruited." ”

"Even if it is like Pakistan and Wu, it seems to be honorable, but in fact, it is also dangerous. His Majesty's words, Ba Widow Qing was moved to Xianyang to be placed under house arrest, and most of his tens of thousands of servants were disbanded, and the well salt business that she had done before was also obediently dedicated to the government. Because the world is unified, Ba Shi has no other use except to offer Dansha to His Majesty to make mercury! Your Majesty doesn't need him to be in Bazhong, and his words are more effective than Ba County Guards and Lieutenants! ”

"And Wu Shilu, I have seen him many times, and the richest businessman in the world has a bitter face all the time, because he knows that how long his business can be done and how big it can be depends on whether His Majesty still needs to get him......"

"When Your Majesty wants to destroy the Xiongnu and Yueshi, the Wu clan is terrified and wants to die, if the two states are destroyed, he, the middle merchant, will still exist? It wasn't until it was discovered that there were still countless city-states west of the Yue Clan, and it wasn't until the first woolen coat belonging to the Wu clan was woven that the Wu clan had a new reason to be used by the imperial court, that he laughed heartily and said to me, 'Before I die, the Wu clan will have no worries'! ”

Heifu has been in Guanzhong for so many years, and Qin Shi Huang's attitude towards businessmen has been thoroughly understood: if it is useful to me, he will hold it and pet it, and once it is useless, he will abandon it like a piece of paper!

The Qin Dynasty and the Legalists were engaged in big government, salt, copper, iron, wine, and grain, and they were eager for all economic activities to be arranged by the government, and they would never allow any market freedom.

The Dingtao Tao Zhu clan in the Kanto region, the Kong clan of the Wei State, and the Guo clan of Handan were also wealthy merchants who could fight against the feudal monarchs, and after the Qin Dynasty ruled those places, didn't they wilt? Either businesses are curtailed or forced to relocate.

In this situation, what industry monopoly do you want to engage in, and what kind of business banks do you want to engage in the world? I'm afraid that if I don't eat too much brown sugar, I don't think I have enough black spots on my body!

Heifu is sure that even if he doesn't let his cousin offer the formula and doesn't automatically abandon Yuzhang's workshop, sooner or later he will be called by Qin Shi Huang for questioning: "I heard that the Qing family's industry has spread all over the river, and it is rich enough to rival the country?" ”

He didn't want to receive such a proposition one day, and Zhao Gao was still snickering beside him.

"The business in the world is so big, can a family monopolize it?"

Heifu said to his trembling cousin: "Don't think about expanding outward, just draw your own land as a prison and occupy Nanjun, which is enough to make a profit." Although Yuzhang's sugar cane field brown sugar is an official camp, my brother Wei is shocked, and there is the old department of the township party, who doesn't profit from this industry? ”

"As for Ba Shi, I have an agreement with Ba Zhong that he only sells sugar in Bashu Qianzhong, and does not cross Wushan by half a step! And the price will never be lower than my home. ”

"Brother understood." Yan was sweating and didn't dare to mention it again.

"You understand, how can you understand."

Heifu smiled, he wanted to make the candy world...... No, it's the idea of the overall situation, how can Hiko know? Compared with the money, it is more interesting to watch the times change more and more under his influence.

Yan also has a worry: "It is not difficult to boil brown sugar, since the beginning of this year, not only some county tycoons and township tycoons in Nanjun have secretly made sugar. Even in Huainan and Huiji in the distance, there were old Chu nobles who began to follow suit, planting sugarcane fields and boiling brown sugar. In the long run, my family's brown sugar will probably sell worse and worse. ”

"Oh?"

Heifu thought it was an interesting change and smiled, "Let them go!" If one day the brown sugar doesn't make money, you start selling the brown sugar you've made! ”

After tossing for a few years, Yan only evolved the process of large pieces of brown sugar to be able to make brown sugar, and I don't know how far away it is from more mature white sugar and rock sugar, but Heifu is not worried. When white sugar is popular all over the world in the future, the slogan of "Sugar" can add a sentence of "sugar plus three spoons".

Yan Wei only agreed, and Heifu said: "I have something for you to do." Nowadays, the shops of the 'Sugar Family' are only in Jiangling, Wancheng and Xianyang, and you can ask people to go to Pei County, Surabaya County, and open a place to verify the Talisman Festival and the permission of the government, and I will let someone do it for you." ”

"Pei County, Surabaya County?"

Yan was a little dumbfounded, not to mention that Surabaya County is thousands of miles away from Nan County, besides, in a small place like Pei County, not many people can afford brown sugar, and the profit may not be enough for cost and freight, right?

"Don't worry about the cost."

Since the system and environment of the Qin Dynasty doomed him to use the money earned from brown sugar to expand reproduction, it was better to use it to do useful things.

"You just need to send a few clever people over, take root in the market, and take Pei County from the county order, the county commander to the Cao officials, and even the pavilion chiefs in various places...... Well, especially the pavilion chief! Just inquire about these people's names, origins, and preferences! ”