"I went to Taipei for my father and found porcelain clay on the north bank of Tamsui, twenty miles north of the city. The increasing number of immigrants from Taiwan Island has a large market demand for daily necessities, and pots and pans need to be shipped from the mainland by merchants, and the prices remain high. Thinking about his father, he used the porcelain clay he found to build a local porcelain workshop to produce porcelain to meet the local people's demand for daily necessities such as bowls, and the price was definitely cheaper than the porcelain shipped by the merchants. ”

Zhu Dan said to his two sons that he went to Taipei County for seven or eight days to find business opportunities to develop business and make money.

"My father wants you to preside over the construction of the porcelain workshop, I don't know if you are willing?"

Zhu Cen is twenty-four this year, and he wanted to make achievements in the imperial examination, but he failed repeatedly, so he gave up the idea of finding a career from the imperial examination, and followed his father to take care of the family business.

After all, the imperial examination in the early Tang Dynasty was not as respected by the whole society as it was in the Song and Ming dynasties.

"The child is willing, but our family has never set foot in the porcelain industry, and we have to recruit a group of skilled porcelain craftsmen to build a porcelain workshop. The immigrants who moved from Taiwan were either the rich and powerful or the poor, and I am afraid that it would be difficult to recruit porcelain craftsmen, so they could only go back to Jiangnan to recruit talents. ”

Zhu Cen thought for a while and said.

"Dad, in addition to recruiting craftsmen, the porcelain workshop also has to build a kiln for firing porcelain, and the cost is not small, does the family have enough financial resources?"

The kiln for making porcelain is not the same as the kiln for firing pottery, and the construction is extremely expensive, requiring refractory clay that can withstand high temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius, and the cost can be high.

Zhu Cen has been taking care of the family business for several years, and the family has almost lost half of the family funds after the whole family moved to Taiwan. The fields acquired from the Governor's Office last year were swamps, barren meadows, and dense forests that had never been cultivated. More than 10,000 acres of land have been reclaimed by hundreds of family members at sunrise and sunset, and only one-third of it has been reclaimed. Only half of the reclaimed land was planted with a batch of rice when it was farmed, because it was the first time to cultivate, and the yield could not be compared with that of Suzhou, which barely ensured that the early rice maturity of the family this summer.

As for the sugarcane that King Yan advocated to make a fortune? Please, the rations are not guaranteed yet, so the sugarcane can only be planted on a trial basis for one or twenty acres to see the harvest.

What is wrong with the pit is that I only saw from the "Overseas Strange Stories" that sugarcane can be harvested in one year, but it is not specifically said when sugarcane will be sown and harvested? As a result, many immigrants have just opened up their fields, and in fact, they have planted sugar cane after the season, but they cannot collect and sell it when it is supposed to be harvest.

Even if those farmers who know how to grow sugarcane plant sugarcane in the right season and harvest it in December, because Taiwan has just begun to produce sugarcane, the output is very small, and the economies of scale are small, and there are no businessmen to collect sugarcane to extract sugar. In the end, he could only eat sugarcane every day for his family.

The current situation of the Zhu family is that the rations are planted last year, and the meat depends on the young and strong people in the family to go to the mountains and forests to collect some game.

Opening a porcelain workshop requires a lot of investment, the problem is that the Zhu family took out the old book and used it, what should they do before the porcelain workshop makes a profit?

"Eryang is worried that his father will simply cooperate with the Gu family to open a porcelain workshop thinking about this matter, and the two families will each account for 50% of the shares."

After pondering, Zhu Dan came up with a way to join forces with Gu Cheng, and the two families have been friends for a hundred years, and the situation at home is almost the same.

"Dad, then I'll go to the Gu family to discuss cooperation with them later."

Zhu Dan nodded and agreed.

"Dad, the eldest brother went to be a soldier, and the second brother is in charge of the porcelain workshop, so what should I do?"

As the third son in the family, Zhu Weixun, who has reached the age of eighteen, asked.

"You will temporarily take over the management of Eryang's fields and the sugarcane that will be planted in the middle of this month."

"Oh......"

Zhu Wei was a little disappointed, he was not interested in farming or clearing wasteland, he preferred to hunt, is there too much deer in Taiwan?

The mountains of Taiwan are home to sambar deer that are comparable in size to the cold temperate red deer of the northern hemisphere, and a large number of sika deer live in the plains and hilly areas. Before the Dutch arrived in Taiwan, Taiwan was almost everywhere with deer herds, and the local people would not exceed 100,000 at most, making it the most ideal habitat for deer.

With the large-scale migration of Chinese immigrants in the past two years, along with the clearing of deforestation and the reclamation of wasteland, immigrants began to hunt deer on a large scale in order to obtain meat, and the habitat of the deer herd in the plains was destroyed, and the population showed a decreasing trend.

Taiwan's abundant and cheap deer skins also became the most important commodity for merchants to sell back to the mainland to make money at this time.

The Zhu family and the Gu family jointly opened a porcelain workshop and recruited craftsmen in Beitou District, on the north shore of Tamsui where porcelain clay was discovered, and recruited craftsmen, which attracted the attention of businessmen and magnates doing business in Taipei.

It was only then that they realized that they had only seen the visible wealth on the island of Taiwan, such as animal skins and fields, but they had not seen the hidden wealth. As for the precious wood, now it is not the Ming and Qing dynasties where the rare timber in the mainland was cut down, there are some in Taiwan, and there are many in Jiannan, Shannan, Jiangnan, and Lingnan. There are really businessmen who transport timber from Taiwan back to the mainland, and they can lose all their money.

In Taiwan, there is not only porcelain clay, the upper reaches of the Keelung River are rich in gold, and other places may also have it, in addition to gold and porcelain clay, the discovery of other mineral deposits is also a great wealth. As for why these wealthy businessmen and magnates did not go to the gold idea in the upper reaches of the Keelung River, they had already been blocked by Feng Changming, the captain of the gold search guard who managed Taiwan's gold mining, and they had to wait at least the next year before they were qualified to compete for gold mining licenses.

In order to effectively manage private gold miners and prevent conflicts between them, control the number of gold miners entering the gold-rich areas, and combat banditry who kill people and rob their money.

Feng Changming strictly controls the gold mining permits, issuing only 1,000 gold licenses per year, dividing the mountains that may have gold into 1,000 blocks except for the rich ore points mined by Jinwei, each corresponding to a gold mining license, and the licensee has the right to mine gold for one year in the area.

The first teams of miners to mine gold had the right of first refusal, and as soon as the policy was implemented, well-informed miners snapped up their gold mining licenses.

Because this policy was implemented in conjunction with Li Yu's measures to allow private gold mining, the gold miners in the upper reaches of the Keelung River were in good order, and with the patrolling gold guards, there were very few murders and robberies. Feng Changming has recently been examining whether he should write to His Royal Highness and make the gold mining license an auction system, so that he can make a lot of money.

Compared with the gold mining license of 30 yuan, those gold miners pay a tax of one tael a month, and the harvest can reach 100 taels, and the less can be 7 or 8 taels.

The essence of Li Yu's permission to allow private gold mining is to attract mainland people to go overseas, and if he really makes the gold mining license into an auction, it will only cheapen those powerful and wealthy businessmen, but will not attract immigrants for Li Yu. The little money from the auction was not worth it compared to Li Yu's occupation of the overseas islands.