"Stand upright!"

In the loud shout of Mao Jue, more than 1,700 young and middle-aged people lined up in six rows, neatly under the bottom of the mountain, Mao Jue's personal soldiers played the functions of the officer corps to the fullest, and each row of the old and the new supervised each row.

It seems that he has really inherited the essence of the Qi family army to his bones, although these young people all have resentment in their hearts, but under the order, the formation is quite neat, and it is much stronger than the idle Dongjiang Town Tunmin when he first trained, which is indeed commendable.

Although a little annoyed by the cold reception a few days ago, but Mao Jue is not exhausted and fishing, the only son in the family does not want, the old do not want, the too young do not, and the family does not have an heir, the famous Yiwu soldiers, he recruited more than nine hundred, and the rest are still recruited in Yongkang, Jinhua and other places, although the number of people is less than half of the three thousand three who were planned to compete with the Qi family army before, but the quality is definitely the essence.

Although it has paid so many young people, but these village elders of Yiwu Shili and Eight Townships are really relieved, Mao Jue said that he officially handed over the title deed of this mountain to these villagers, and now legally, Babaoshan Silver Mine belongs to Shili Baxiang, they are justified, and they are no longer like the past mine theft, and they have to be afraid of others to rob.

And the changes brought by Mao Jue are far more than that.

Nowadays, the main crop in the south of the Yangtze River is rice, and occasionally some miscellaneous grains are planted, but these need plains, and the terrain of the entire Yiwu County is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the land is barren, which is also the reason for the poverty here, but now, many mountain people are organized by Zhao County, and they have started to fight against the barren mountains and forests.

Halfway up the mountainside, the next fire burned, and the original barren grass and vegetation were burned clean, and those sweet potatoes, corn and other grain seeds, Mao Jue handed them over to Zhao County as promised, and began to take root in these barren mountain fields, but just these are not changes at all.

On a larger scale, what Mao Jue allowed these mountain people to cultivate was a kind of bud like bamboo shoots.

Sugar cane!

In later generations, Yiwu was full of bosses, luxury cars were not driven, people drove helicopters home for the New Year, and they didn't know how much better than Mao Jue's hometown, but before that, Yiwu's cash crop was this sugarcane.

The warm and humid environment around the mountains, as well as the vast mountain fields, provide an excellent growth environment for sugar cane, and in this era, sweetness is definitely a luxury, just look at the main commercial pillars of the British in the Age of Discovery, the thirteen colonies of the New World became independent, and it did not touch Britain much, but when France began to compete for the British colonies in the Caribbean, it seemed to move their lifeline, which is the core economic region of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the sugar produced by plantations throughout the Caribbean, Rum and the like supported the Royal Navy's dream of an empire on which the sun never sets.

In the Ming Dynasty, sugar is also a luxury, and many of the delicacies in "Golden Vase Plum" mention sweet snacks, because this era is a taste that only the rich can enjoy, China is still good, and Japan is even worse in this era, and they can't eat sugar, so that when their aristocratic women get married, they can bring a lot of chestnuts are very face-saving things, because chestnuts bring scarce sugar, for this reason, the Dutch planted sugar cane plantations in Taiwan, and the bulk commodities dumped in Japan are also sugar.

In these years, salt and iron are monopolized, but sugar is also monopolized! This market has not been excavated, and there is a lot of gold in it.

Fortunately, Luo Ning, her Luo family really has extensive transportation, and in five days, under the help of Mao Jue, she got sugarcane seeds from Guangxi, and they are in large quantities, otherwise she would really not be able to catch up.

Mao Jue planned so big that the labor force in Yiwu was not enough, and he had to hire a group of laborers in Yongchang, the old enemy of the Yiwu people, and then excavated, on the hillside, rows of farmers bent down to plant the sugarcane sprouts, and hired strong men to clean up the stones in the sugarcane field, and on the edge of the field, they were also digging ditches to lead the mountain spring water to the ground, and on the higher mountain, Mao Jue ordered to cut rattan, tie up railings, and enclose the woodland. Circles of neat fences began to appear on the map, and the whole landscape changed little by little.

At the foot of the mountain, a group of villagers were excitedly greeting, and a large carriage pulled a nest of chickens from nearby states and counties was picked up.

"The output of bud rice and sweet potatoes is large, enough to fill the food of people, and the rest can also be used as feed, feed chickens, feed pigs, chickens can be raised directly in the sugarcane field, in addition to eating insects to save a part of the grain, chicken manure just fertilizes the field, the sugarcane beaten down in the autumn after the juice is mixed, you can also feed the chickens and pigs, the sugar made of sugarcane will be made with your various Zhuangzi, we will follow the wholesale price, how much each year, how much will be collected! There is also the sugarcane molasses that is separated in the sugar making process, Ben will teach you to make wine, and how much wine is brewed, how much will this general collect? ”

While walking with Zhao County, there were still some local village elders, while Mao Jue looked back at the working mountain fields.

"In the next few days, I will send someone to send some cement from our Dongjiang region! After the farm is over, hurry up and repair the road! The aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys! There is no road, gold can not be transported in, this official road to Hangzhou to renovate, when the autumn and winter fattened chickens and ducks, pigs to Hangzhou to sell, and a sum of silver, if you buy more carriages, every day to Hangzhou, to the county to sell eggs, can make a lot of money, like this, not a few years, you Yiwu is not rich, Lao Tzu Mao words are written upside down!"

I remember that before Mao Jue crossed, there was a joke on the Internet, in order to spy on my country's intelligence, an American spy watched the Central Seven Military Channel every day, but after a year, he stopped doing it, and went back to farming and became a millionaire! Three-dimensional agriculture is not covered, it is really an oily cake, which was spread by Mao Jue in front of these Yiwu village elders, and it is really within reach, listening to Mao Jue's planning, several old men are simply excited, especially a few days ago, the one who negotiated with Mao Jue, couldn't help but pat his thigh and sigh.

"Oh my God! How many years have this poor ravine nested us, every year the baby is hungry, every year there is not enough to eat, I never thought that there are so many good ideas! General Mao, you are really our God of Wealth! Just give me the point, there are so many ways to make money!"

Mao Jue waved his hand there with a smile and was modest, listening to his side, Luo Ning couldn't help but be sour, what a god of wealth, Mao Jue is a boy who scatters wealth, this introduction of seedlings, seeds, cultivation, and even the purchase of grain, Mao Jue has to spend at least fifty or sixty thousand taels before and after, and he is not as good as giving fish to fish, I don't know how much stronger than simply giving silver.

No wonder he Mao Jue dared to despise Qi Jiguang, his military talent is not as good as just Yiwu, Qi Jiguang relied on the Yiwu children Nanping Wokou, the northern war Tartars, and even went abroad to fight with the Wako, I don't know how much Yiwu has achieved his wisdom with the blood of the children, but how many years have passed, how poor Yiwu should be, or how poor.

But Mao Jue is really a golden finger, Mao Jue said how to make sugarcane molasses, Luo Ning still doesn't know, but only sugar production, an acre of sugarcane land can harvest almost 3,000 kilograms to 5,000 kilograms, the sugar yield is between one-tenth and two-tenths, and one acre of land is about ten stones of sugar.

There are at least more than 100,000 acres of cultivated land here, and now Yiwu County has only 10,000 or 20,000 people, and it will develop 20,000 or 30,000 acres.

In these years, the market price of salt has reached about 12 taels and 11 stones, and the price of sugar is even more expensive, even if it is the same as the price of salt, only in Yiwu County, the annual sugar income can reach a terrifying figure of 5 million taels of silver, even if the seeds, transportation, purchase costs, etc., there must be a profit of about 80 to 1 million taels.

One million taels! Who would have thought that Yiwu is a poor place? In comparison, a silver mine is a fart? I'm afraid that now they themselves don't know how much they are worth, otherwise the mines will have to be thrown away immediately, and everyone will come to plant sugar cane. This number, she Luo Ning is very clear, this profit, even if the wealthy family in Hangzhou is like her Luo family, it is enough to be excited. She's got to get a foot in it anyway! Profits will never be swallowed by Mao Jue alone! While looking at Mao Jue, who was talking eloquently in front, the woman was thinking fiercely in her heart, how could she pry open this opening?

But suddenly, as if she noticed something, Mao Jue turned around abruptly and looked at her in a daze.

"Miss Luo, why do you think Ben will be so distracted?"

"Huh? General Mao, little woman ......"

If this is in the Northeast, what do you see! These words can definitely cause a scuffle, who knows that the Southern Ming Dynasty in this era is similar, Luo Ning was caught off guard and immediately blushed, but the plain clothes who had to support his body and followed him also skimmed his little brain melon angrily, and hummed strangely.

"My young master's methods are comparable to the God of Wealth! I'm afraid that some shameless women have moved their hearts! ”

These words seemed to remind someone, and he could vaguely feel the two currents of gaze facing each other in the air, looking at Su Yi's fiery eyes, and Luo Ning's thoughtful gaze, Mao Jue felt a chill in his back.

Women are not easy to mess with!

(End of chapter)