Chapter 334: Overseas
After Fu Qian shouted a few words, he returned to Xu Zixian's side to rest, sat down with his ass, and then wiped his sweat with a towel. In a short period of time, this once unwilling literati became lean, black and thin, his eyes were full of essence, and his speech was decisive and powerful, and even Fu's wife was extremely satisfied with her husband.
The only dissatisfaction is that Fu Qian once considered taking a concubine, after all, he now lives in a three-entry mansion, more than forty rooms, in addition to his wife and a few children, there are five or six hired domestic servants and servants, and the room is empty when there are fewer people, it is conceivable that Fu Qian will accumulate more money and family business in the future, and if he has more money, he also hopes to have more children and grandchildren to inherit.
This matter was dispelled by Xu Zixian, there are many cases of brothers fighting for property and causing trouble in the Ming Law School in preparation, most of which are the contradictions between wives and concubines and children, and after Fu Qian showed a thick stack of files, he really stopped mentioning the matter of concubines.
"We'll have to be busy for less than five days." Fu Qian said to Xu Zixian: "Now there are more than 30,000 people working in the fields, planting about five acres per person every day, from morning to night, in less than ten days, the area we planted is 1,273,620 acres, well, almost this number." ”
Fu Qian half lay down and muttered: "Junhou, if I didn't do this myself, others told me that the Eastern Domain had planted more than 1.2 million mu of beans, and in this short period of time, I am afraid that I would think he is a madman." ”
"Migration starts after the year." Xu Zixian was also half-lying, and said with a smile: "It's been half a year, it's nothing." ”
It's really nothing.
The timing of this historical time and space is relatively vague, but it can still be judged that this is about a hundred years after the Renaissance, when Europe began to revive and compete with the Celestial People for territory from Eastern Europe to the Middle East.
At sea, the Europeans began to colonize, and everywhere they fought with the Celestials for colonies and wealth.
All countries began to develop greatly, commerce flourished, the original small-scale lordship system began to collapse, large-scale guilds of all kinds took over, and in another hundred years, the royal family and nobles stood aside, and the power of capital began to dominate everything.
It was also around this time that Britain had a sheep cannibalism movement and a large number of hired man-like estates.
The lords of the estates expelled the homesteaders from their estates and began to use hired labor.
They found that the land that would have been cultivated by twenty families, employing five able-bodied laborers, using abundant animal power and good tools, yielded more productivity and higher output than more family organizations.
A large number of peasants lost their land and were forced to look for work in the cities, just as capital was emerging, a large number of textile factories absorbed strong laborers, overseas colonization absorbed more bankrupt peasant families, and a large number of British and Irish poor people stepped on the ship of decolonization, and global colonization began.
In the Eastern Domain, Xu Zixian had no intention of turning all the official households into hired laborers, but in the subsequent sugarcane fields, tea plantations, and bean fields, a large number of hired laborers were bound to be used, and the hired workers and the official households formed a benign competitive relationship, which was the most powerful situation for Xu Zixian, the owner of the large manor.
The official household of the small family model is the cornerstone of stability, and it is also the largest source of officials in the future, and it is the best conscription target.
They will aim to protect everything they get, stability, perseverance, and daring to fight.
This is also the government soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, and the Jiedu envoys in the middle and late Tang Dynasty also have considerable combat power, and they use professional soldiers. However, in the territory from the early to the middle of the Tang Dynasty, countless famous victories were fought by the government soldiers under the leadership of the general.
The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty came from the homesteaders, from the land granted in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and each family was given enough land by the state to live well-off, and then they served the country, prepared their own horses, horizontal knives, riding spears, bows and arrows, and then served the country, born and died. Even if they die in battle, they will have children to inherit the family business, and their lives will not be difficult, so the government soldiers have the courage to rush and defend everything they have.
When the government soldiers rushed to kill, behind them were their own fields, their families, and their lives of sufficient food and clothing.
When the land annexation began, the inequality between the rich and the poor, bullying and bullying, the government soldier system collapsed, and the Tang Dynasty could only change the government soldiers to recruit soldiers, and grant the degree of moderation to make the town for a long time, which was the source of the disaster.
Everything in the Eastern Domain is now doing everything right, encouraging industry and commerce, foreign trade, the largest output is grain, the largest group is homesteaders, all the land is legally owned by the Nan'an Hou Mansion, but people have obtained sufficient land, food and clothing to a well-off life, men are bound to throw their blood for these willingly, this is another form of government military system.
The more high-end, more people can get more benefits, such as the establishment of a trading company, and the higher the dividends for each person who invests more.
Land, homesteaders, merchants, fleets, trade, and the army, this is a higher-end government military system, which will produce a certain number of professional soldiers, but full of the sense of responsibility of the government soldiers.
The fact that a small island bursts out with stronger power is not a miracle or a dream, but based on the progress of the times.
If it was in the Han and Tang dynasties a thousand years ago, the control was stricter, the manpower was less, the ships were fewer, and the trade was small, and there was no other way out except to be the most primitive tuntian.
And the Tuntian on the desert island will not have any results, it can only develop on the mainland, such as Cao Cao and the Li family, Cao Cao is a combination of the eunuch power and the scholar power, his foundation is not as good as the Yuan family, so it is quite difficult for him to defeat the Yuan group, and he can sweep away the weak forces such as Zhang Lu and Liu Biao.
When it came to the Tang Dynasty, it was nothing more than the support of the Guanlong armed group that originated from the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Li Jiatuntian raised troops, Li Shimin could sweep the heroes, and the logistics ability of the Tang army was the most important reason, nothing else.
If it was that era, it would be almost impossible for Xu Zixian's current status to obtain the financial and human support of the scholars.
When you're in a race for a buck, you may not have a chance to take a slow step.
Like Zhu Yuanzhang, he rose up with the trend, cut off the heroes, and defended the existence of the Northern Expedition, and he was the only one in the entire Chinese history.
"What is the average production capacity per mu?" Xu Zi sat up straight first, Fu Qian could not care about his image, but he could only relax a little, so many people were looking at him all the time.
The superior has the glory, power, and money of the superior, but there are also invisible bondage.
It is said that all the chairs of the Son of Heaven are not leaning on all sides, and the official family is rich all over the world, but there is no chair that can sit comfortably.
"It's hard to say." Fu Qian said: "The climate of the Eastern Domain is very suitable, and the beans also like warm weather, so it is better to be warm." As long as you pay attention to insect pest prevention, vole prevention, and hoeing grass from time to time, I think more than one stone per mu can be guaranteed, and I dare not say more. ”
"This is still what we have cultivated several times, the water conservancy is excellent, and we have also composted the river mud." Fu Qian said with a smile: "There are many new fields to grow beans, and it would be good to harvest a few buckets." ”
"I think I'll get two stones." Xu Zixian said: "We may collect millions of stones, more than 100 million catties of beans." ”
"Now beans sell for 300 yuan a stone," Fu Qian said: "Millet sells for 500 to 550 yuan a stone, and oil is much more expensive, so you can still make money by squeezing oil." ”
"Food prices haven't peaked yet." Xu Zixian said: "Oil extraction is definitely wanted, and you can also make some tofu for the workshops of various official villages to distribute to official households, the army, factories, shipyards, and fleets, you can give quite a lot of beans, our Chinese ships have always made tofu sprouts on the ship to supplement vitamins, this Tianfang people don't understand, and the Taixi people don't understand, so they often get sepsis." ”
"I see." Fu Qian said: "Beans should be dehydrated and moisture-proof for preservation, which is not easy to do in the Eastern Domain, but we can do it well, let's prepare for it now, and prepare to build a large warehouse." ”
"It's bigger than you think." Xu Zixian said: "There are rice, cotton, raw silk, tea, and sugar underneath, which should be classified and built in the barracks. ”
"Okay," Fu Qian sat up straight, agreed, and then said with a smile: "The prince is really good at everything, and he can think about everything, but I am far behind in comparison." ”
"When you can see it all, it's all pushing you to think about it more." Xu Zixian's face was also a little tired, and he said: "If you don't think about it thoroughly, then the final result will be difficult for yourself to accept, so don't embarrass yourself, think more about everything, it's better to think a few more steps." ”
"I don't know what happened to the prison." Fu Qian sat cross-legged and said with emotion: "We are thriving here, if the fleet establishes trade relations in Luzon and the Japanese kingdom first, our cloth, tea, silk, and sugar can be sold smoothly, and the Hou Mansion will really develop in the Eastern Domain." ”
"There's no need to rush this matter." Xu Zixian was very leisurely and said: "First, Prison Zhi is a very capable person, although he is a few years younger than me, he has been trained for a long time, and he is not comparable to ordinary people. Second, our goods are of high quality and low price, and it is a matter of course to open up sales channels, and even short supply. ”
Fu Qian nodded, reluctantly got up, and walked towards the fields in the distance.
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"Uh......" Chen Daojian spit out a few mouthfuls of sour water, shook his head, and finally came to his senses.
After several days of sailing, Fuku-1 finally arrived at the pier of Nagasaki Port.
This sea area is still the same as Penghu, the blue water, the simple wharf, the difference is that there are all kinds of people, a large number of sea ships are moored in the port, the sails are raised and lowered, and the ships are in and out, showing a busy scene that is completely different from Penghu.
A few days on board did not cause Chen Daojian to collapse mentally and physically, but he felt a little uncomfortable.
The mental and physical strength of the offspring who is less than twenty years old is at the peak of his life, Chen Daojian spit out a few sips of sour water, and drank a pot of water happily, and the whole person was relieved.
Zheng Shaolai, the captain of Fu No. 1, Lin Qingchen, the deputy captain, Lin Gui, the deputy envoy for trade, and Chen Daojian were of course the envoys, but everyone knew that Chen Daojian was mainly involved in person this time, and he would report to Nan'anhou afterwards to sum up his experience, and he could not serve as the envoy for a long time.
Huang Laigui, the deck chief of the ship, ordered the sails to be lowered, the ship will anchor here for a long time, after all, this time to establish long-term cooperative trade relations, looking for reliable trading partners, in terms of previous experience, there are many big businessmen here in the Japanese country, but it is best to find local daimyo to deal with, so that you can cooperate in business, and many rights and interests in the local area can also be guaranteed.
Zheng Shaolai pointed to the ships moored in a port in the distance, all of them were large ships and warships, and he whispered: "Chen Zhengzhi, that is Kang Tianqi's fleet. ”
"Are they one with the Watars?"
"Not really." Zheng Shaolai said: "Kang Tianqi just has a fleet here, his people live in Ryukyu, and most of his subordinates are in Ryukyu, usually he collects taxes from merchant ships from Western countries, and also sends his subordinates to go north and south to rob merchant ships, but it is not too much. This area of the sea is generally relatively safe, because only when there are endless merchant ships, Kang Tianqi's profits will not be interrupted. Compared with Pu Xingfeng, Yan Qi, Li Dan, Kang Tianqi and Wang Zhi have always been relatively peaceful pirates. ”