According to this special situation, Zhou Lang's tea source was obtained by opening up sources and reducing expenditure.

The so-called open source, by land from Wuyi Mountain, a source of tea for thousands of miles, Zhou Lang has no ability to develop, no matter how strong Wei Lianli's communication skills are, first of all, it is too late in time, so it is a local source of goods in Guangdong.

Guangdong also produces tea, and even tea is planted on the Lotus Mountain outside Guangzhou, and the Wu Bingjian family moved from Jiangxi Nankang to Guangzhou, Guangdong in the early years of Kangxi, and planted tea in Lotus Mountain.

But Guangdong's largest tea producing area is in mountainous areas such as Heshan County, where Hakka people live.

In the past, the production and sales of tea trade were subject to monopoly, China was the influence of the Thirteen Lines, and Britain was the influence of the East India Company, and the strong monopolist had the absolute right to speak and controlled the price of tea. Now Zhou Lang broke the monopoly in two directions, internally, by raising the price of tea to procure, and externally, by providing smugglers with tea in large quantities to sell.

As a result, Guangdong's tea exports increased significantly, and this increase could not be brought about by the increase in production, because the large-scale increase in tea production in history was after the Opium War, in 1840, the country produced 50,000 tons of tea, and exported 19,000 tons, and by 1886, the national production and export volume reached 250,000 tons and 134,100 tons respectively, with a four-fold increase in production and a 6.06-fold increase in exports, more than doubling every 10 years on average. Because with the expansion of tea exports, tea cultivation has become profitable, and a large number of farmers have shoveled the grass on the mountain, cut down the trees on the mountain, and continued to open up tea gardens.

But this is a long-term effect, the tea garden can not be opened up for four or five years can not see results, so at present, there is no expansion of production sentiment, export growth, which means that exports squeeze the output of domestic sales, the result is that the price of tea on the market has risen by two percent.

Another source is throttling, or interception, which is more appropriate. Wei Lianli bought tea at a high price in Guangzhou, and the local tea merchants not only sold the tea that the Thirteen Banks could not collect to Wei Lianli, but also sold a lot of tea that should have been sold to the Thirteen Banks to Wei Lianli; Because of the agreement reached with the government and the merchants, the merchants were forced to transfer part of the shares that should have been sold to foreign merchants and sell them to Wei Lianli; This means that Wei Lianli not only withheld the supply of the Thirteen Lines, but also withheld the supply of foreign merchants, of which the most seriously damaged was the British East India Company.

In addition to supplying foreign merchants, more goods were sent back to Taiwan. Some of these goods are Zhou Lang's goods, which will be in the wind season after the arrival of merchant ships in India and other places, and part of them are goods ready to be resold to foreigners, obtained from Guangzhou, and then sold in Donggang, which will attract a large number of foreigner trade, but for the time being, most of the goods supplied to foreign merchants must also be delivered in Guangzhou, because Donggang, as a small port, is currently under busy construction, and the storage force cannot fully meet the demand for goods purchased from Guangzhou.

When the port is completed, it will even be possible to transfer a large number of business opportunities directly from Guangzhou. Because Zhou Lang was sure that in terms of management, the Guangzhou government would certainly not be able to compare with himself, and in time, it would be wise for merchants from all over the world to make a wise choice between the open Donggang and the difficult Guangzhou trade.

However, Wei Lianli's current behavior in Guangzhou is tantamount to harming the interests of the Thirteen Banks and the East India Company at the same time, and these two monopoly forces will definitely not be happy, and now there is the threat of Magalny, and the Guangzhou government does not dare to offend Zhou Lang, and when the crisis is resolved, it is estimated that they will rebound.

That's when new measures have to be taken.

Zhou Lang had a new plan to grow tea in Fujian, and tea production was in Manchu-controlled areas, which was never a long-term solution.

Zhou Lang is confident that he will seize a base near Fujian within a few years, but he is not confident that this base will be open to trade for a long time, after the Opium War in history, the British forced the Qing government to open five ports, including two in Fujian, Xiamen and Fuzhou, it is obvious that they are going to tea, but the Qing government switched, and the local forces are resisting the British, resulting in more than ten years later in 1853, the first batch of tea was exported from Fuzhou, but the potential immediately burst out like a volcano, In just over a decade, it has become a world-class tea trading port.

The British took the aftermath of the Opium War, and it still took more than ten years to open the trade route, Zhou Lang seized the coastal islands, as a rebel, how could he open the trade route quickly?

Therefore, trying to open up the mainland trade route, it is not as good as planting tea in their own control area, there was no condition before, and now Fengshan County is controlled by Zhou Lang has been as stable as Taishan, Wang Fuqian has gained considerable fame and appeal among the squire class, although it is still too early to get the support of the landlord class, but it has gradually been recognized by them.

In this case, Zhou Lang felt that he already had the conditions to carry out tea production and development in Fengshan County, and Taiwan's climate should be similar to Fujian, so there was no reason why Fujian could produce tea, but Taiwan could not produce it. Historically, after Japan occupied Taiwan, it vigorously expanded tea planting, and during the Republic of China, Japan's tea production surpassed China's, resulting in China, a country of tea, being surpassed by Britain and Japan successively, and could only rank third.

So immediately Zhou Lang asked Wei Lianli to operate, recruited more than a dozen experienced old tea farmers from Heshan County, the largest tea-producing county in Guangdong, and smuggled out more than 100 tea seedlings that were not easy to smuggle, as well as 100,000 tea varieties that were relatively easy to smuggle.

This is also because Wei Lianli opened up the relationship in Guangzhou, otherwise these things would not have been obtained.

Now that there is a place for the locality, there is a seed for the seed, and even experienced tea farmers are employed, and all obstacles to the development of the tea industry have disappeared.

Zhou Lang directly handed over the people and seedlings to Wang Fuqian.

Wang Fuqian is completely managing the civil affairs of Fengshan County in accordance with the traditional way, Zhou Lang does not care at all, he has no ability to carry out reforms now, the talent pool is far from enough, he can only cage a few ports in his hands, and implement more efficient commercial management.

The traditional society is an agricultural society, the management method is backward, but everything revolves around agricultural production, not to mention the level of land reclamation, at this time China dares to say second, it is estimated that no one can call it the first. At such a level of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Taiwan's flat land was basically completely developed in less than two hundred years, and it is not scientific enough to say that the Chinese are industrious, and the Europeans have colonized Africa for hundreds of years and have not been able to develop a mature agricultural economy. Therefore, the management of agricultural production is also very important.

After Wang Fuqian got these seedlings and Zhou Lang's opinion, he was quite excited and told Zhou Lang that opening the mountain to grow tea does not occupy arable land, and second, it can give the livelihood of the little people, and there is no better good governance than this.

This is probably why the Manchu Qing Dynasty never restricted the place where tea was produced, and many local county chronicles recorded that some of the local magistrates encouraged tea cultivation in their localities because they did not have to occupy arable land. In contrast, the Manchus repeatedly restricted the trade in silk and silk fabrics, and even the trade in cotton cloth, because cotton and mulberry trees would compete with grain for land.

Wang Fuqian is now in a positive state of mission, many unnecessary things, but also to do it himself, after he dealt with the urgent work at hand, he immediately took the tea farmers and tea seeds into the mountain. Zhou Lang was very worried, because many mountainous areas did not belong to the jurisdiction of the government, but were managed by the feudal society, and the familiar fans near the foot of the mountains had long accepted the management of the government, but there were still a large number of raw fans who were not subject to the king's transformation.

These raw production methods are backward, unlike the cooked fan, who have long learned to farm, and the economic exchanges with the Han people are extremely close, and the government also taxes the cooked fan, recruiting the mature fan as a soldier, but ignoring the raw fan; The students are also out of the era of safari economy, and the vast mountains in central Taiwan are full of their hunting grounds. Not only will they kill their own prey, but they will also kill anyone who intrudes into their hunting grounds, because entering someone else's hunting ground is often a bloody battle.

In history, because of this misunderstanding, there are more people who will be killed by Shengban, Magellan was involved in the conflict of the indigenous people in the Philippines and died, in 1871, the Ryukyu tribute ship was washed to Taiwan because of the wind and waves, and was killed by Shengban in the southernmost part of Fengshan County, and then Japan took the opportunity to invade, which is the famous Peony Society incident.

It would be a pity if Wang Fuqian was killed by Shengfan because he strayed into the realm of Shengfan. So Zhou Lang insisted that he take the army in, Wang Fuqian finally listened to the advice, and he would pay attention, try not to occupy the hunting ground of Shengfan, and also brought some familiar fans as translators, as much as possible to communicate with the familiar fans on the mountain.

In addition to the economic benefits of opening up tea gardens, Zhou Lang also used the value of tea gardens to the extreme, that is, to continue to use them to endorse the China (East India) Company, and the company will control its own tea production, which is a huge benefit for a commercial company. The trade status of tea in this era is like the launch of the next generation of chips by chip companies, which will inevitably cause a rise in stock prices.

With this benefit, it can greatly enhance the confidence of shareholders and maintain the stability of the stock price in the case of continuous non-dividends. Even if necessary, it is possible to continue to issue new shares to raise funds.

Zhou Lang is not short of money at present, but it does not mean that he will never be short of money, and the 20 million silver dollars blackmailed from Guangzhou have already spent a lot. But a large part of this improper money was indeed spent on the company, and the construction of the port wharf, Zhou Lang did not pay through the company's account, because he did not plan to transfer these assets to the company's name, but belonged to the local assets of Fengshan County. The weapons that can be procured, as well as industries that are difficult to make a profit in the future, such as shipyards, are assigned to the company and covered as the cost of maintaining the company's operations.

The money was spent, but the money came from the wrong way, it was lent to the company by Zhou Lang in the name of borrowing, left hand to right hand, but the nature was different.

Now there is such a good thing as a tea garden, to make better use of this benefit, the best way, Mo used to let the shareholders come to see it in person, and at the same time he also took this opportunity to solve the problem of borrowing, Zhou Lang hopes that the debt owed by the Chinese (East India) Company to himself, converted into shares, which is equivalent to Zhou Lang's injection of capital into the company, so that Zhou Lang can increase his shares again and strengthen his control over the company.

So he decided that the next time the merchant ship went to India, he would invite the major shareholders to come and hold a shareholders' meeting in Fengshan at the same time!