Zheng Zhilong is still a little uneasy about Taiwan's agriculture that does not grow grain by itself, but relies on buying grain outside. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although intellectually, he also admits that there seems to be nothing wrong with what Zheng Sen said. First of all, it is easier to store more silver from growing sugar cane than from growing rice. Secondly, at least for the time being, the Zheng family's access to rice from the Nanyang region is very smooth, and no one seems to have the ability to block this channel in a short period of time. As for the potatoes on Jeju Island or something, Zheng Zhilong didn't know what it was, but he knew that Zheng Sen wouldn't brag about such a thing. So, there shouldn't be much of a problem in terms of food security. However, his habits over the years still made him have an indescribable resistance to the practice of not growing food in the countryside. So he thought for a long time before saying: "Although what you said is not unreasonable, but the things in the world are not afraid of 10,000, only in case." Therefore, it is necessary to have a batch of grain in hand. Well, Arsen, how much grain is stored in the granary in North Harbor? ”

"Daddy, according to the rules, there are enough food for the troops and workers in Beigang to eat for three months, and if you save some food, you can survive eating for six or seven months. In this way, even if something happens, there will be enough new food to be planted. As for the countryside, it depends on how much they have saved. Zheng Sen replied.

"You don't have to worry about it." Liu De, who was on the side, explained, "In fact, the people who come to the island today are all starving, and they have saved more food than we have in Beigang." They buy their food through us, and although we can't keep track of how much food each household buys, we still know the amount. On average, each family has enough food for more than a year. ”

Liu De's statement was also confirmed during the afternoon inspection, Zheng Zhilong casually found two peasant households, checked their granaries, and found that indeed as Liu De said, these farmers had enough grain at home.

Over the next few days, Zheng Zhilong went to visit several estates, and then went to check the accounts related to these plantations. Then he said to Zheng Sen:

"Arsen, you're doing a good job. When your father and some other brothers first came to Taiwan, they only knew that the island of Taiwan was very large and there was a lot of open land. Now you are presiding over this Taiwan, but you have made this kind of land so profitable. It's not easy, it's better than your father and me! ”

"Daddy, the most difficult part of Taiwan's development is that Daddy laid the foundation, and then the third uncle took charge of the helm for a period of time, and only after he was completely on the road did he hand it over to the child. This is like planting a peach tree, the tree was planted by the father, the watering and fertilizing and catching insects were done by the third uncle, and the child just did the last thing to pick the peaches, and he deserves such praise from his father. Zheng Sen hurriedly said modestly.

"Hehe," Zheng Zhilong just smiled, of course he knew how his third brother presided over Taiwan in the first place, that was basically just becoming a Japanese emperor.

"Asen, the last time you mentioned that not letting them grow food is convenient for tying them around my house, but it also makes a lot of sense. Now I see these villages, with us, their lives are good, if it were not for our coordination, if we did not buy their things and sell them food, they would not have such a life. In this way, when we want to hire people in the future, when we want to do great things, we are not afraid that no one will follow us. Hehe, I think back then, Li Chengliang had 8,000 families, and he was dominant for a while, but now my family relies on these immigrants, and I am afraid that 80,000 loyal people can get it. Speaking of this, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but laugh again.

"Dad, my family is in Taiwan, and the biggest advantage is that I can connect all the people up and down in Taiwan and twist them into a rope. The so-called 'everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high'. Daddy, millions of people in Taiwan today rely on my family for life and death, and my family's decrees, even the most subtle, can be used by acquisition personnel and technical guidance personnel to spread to any corner. Even in the villages, the peasants were subject to military training. Dad also knew that when the child and the third uncle first arrived on the island, the island was still full of shengfan, these shengfan were hiding in the mountains, and they had to send troops to fight, they drilled into the mountains, and we couldn't beat them, it cost a lot of money, but the effect was very limited. Later, we simply sold weapons to various villages and sent people to teach them the art of warfare so that they could protect themselves. Later, our model army used a lot of muskets, and we sold them muskets and taught them the same array. Now these farmers have their names in our minds, and the Department of Military Affairs sends people to check their training every month, and every six months, there is a big competition between the villages, and if the training is not good, the performance is poor, and the model army will not recruit their people when they recruit soldiers. Daddy, you also know that although the model army has fought a lot of battles, there are not many casualties, and the military salary is also high, and priority is given to buying a daughter-in-law. In Taiwan, ordinary immigrants, if they are not from the model army, will definitely not be able to get a Chinese daughter-in-law, and even the North Korean daughter-in-law will have a hard time, so they are also very serious in training one by one, although they are not as good as the model army has daily drills, but they can basically guarantee that they can drill once every three or five days. Daddy, look at Japan, the population under the Tokugawa shogunate was far more than Taiwan. But if we compare how many people we can pull, can the Tokugawa family pull more people than we do? Zheng Sen said again.

Zheng Zhilong thought for a moment and replied: "In terms of the number of people alone, we can pull out more people than us." But there are not many who can really fight there, and it is difficult to say how many are truly loyal. If we really fight, we are definitely not our opponents at sea, or on land, hehe, how many of their people have seen what rice balls are like in their lives? If these peasants really lived once every three or five days, it would not be a problem to overthrow the soldiers under the shogunate who only had bamboo guns. ”

"In two months, it's time for the big competition, if Daddy is interested, he can also go and see it." Zheng Sen said again.

"We'll talk about it then." Zheng Zhilong replied with a smile.

Zheng Zhilong knew that Zheng Sen was not only reporting his achievements to him, but also telling him how beneficial Taiwan's governance style is to the Zheng family, and it is easy to make major changes.

"In addition to these immigrants, in fact, my father values the factories you built and the soldiers you trained. I'd love to see that now. Zheng Zhilong said again.

"Daddy is running around for days, and the child is afraid that Daddy is tired, so Daddy might as well rest in Beigang for two days first, and then the child will accompany Daddy to look around." Zheng Sen replied.

"You have filial piety." Zheng Zhilong smiled, "It's just that your father is not old now, so it's so useless there?" I think back then, your father and I ...... However, I think Taiwan's affairs are managed so meticulously, that is, in the countryside, everyone is about to be managed, and things are naturally indispensable. How did you manage it? ”

Zheng Sen said: "Just like my father said, this Taiwan is not big, but there are a lot of things. The child alone can't be busy anyway. Nowadays, children are just dividing all kinds of things into blocks, and now on the island of Taiwan, children's bars are divided into these categories: industry, agriculture, fishery, and military. Each category was divided into several sub-categories, and the children divided their followers into groups to sort out the things related to these things and then report them to me. These entourages are all from the Beigang Academy, although they don't read much, but they can also write and calculate, especially mathematics, which is better than most of the magistrates' curtains, and they can barely be used. After a long time, they have all become proficient, and all kinds of things are slowly on the right track, and it is much easier to deal with. The child also invited experienced people to help take care of specific affairs, for example, the smelting department hired a lot of good craftsmen from Guangdong. On the shipbuilding side, the two Tessie people that Daddy found back then were in charge of a shipyard, which was not bad. Speaking of which, the shipyard is the closest to us, and if Daddy is not tired, he can go to the shipyard tomorrow. ”

Zheng Zhilong nodded and said, "The shipyard really wants to go and take a look." They have had a lot of good ships there over the years, but now they don't have anything new there? ”

After hearing this, Zheng Sen replied: "Before I went to the north, the Metallurgical Department of the Industrial Bureau invited bids from the shipyards and asked the two shipyards to build a large sea ship for transporting coal. It is used for the transportation of coal across the sea. I don't know what's going on now. Liu De, can you help me check and see how this is going? ”

Liu De listened, hurriedly agreed and went out. After a while, he came in from outside with a scroll of paperwork and said, "Marshal, young general, these two ships are under construction, here is the plan they handed in, do you want to take a look?" ”

"Show it to me." Zheng Zhilong said.

Liu De handed the documents to Zheng Zhilong, and explained softly: "Dashuai, this is the design drawing, this is the quotation, this is the ......"

"So big? This is no longer smaller than the Endeavour, and it is about to catch up with the treasure ship of the Three Treasure Eunuchs back then, right? Zheng Zhilong looked at the design and was taken aback, "For such a big ship, is the keel like the Endeavour?" That's too expensive! ”

"Daddy, this is just a transport ship, naturally it is impossible to use a keel as good as the Endeavour." "And when we let them compete for the business of this kind of coal carrier, we set the highest price. As for how they did it, since the ship is already being built, won't the child and his father go to see it tomorrow? ”