"Is this the largest port on Jeju Island? I didn't expect that the prosperity of the port in this foreign place is no less than the Dengzhou port from which we departed. "As the eldest of the five lucky ones, Wang Cheng was sent to Jeju Island, the poorest of the islands, and originally thought it was a small fishing village, but he did not expect that the originally weak Tamna state government on Tamna Island would become so orderly after being wiped out by the company.

Jeju Island (named Jeju Island for convenience), which is equivalent to the overseas territory of the Tohae Company, a subsidiary of the group company, is equivalent to the territory occupied by the British East India Company in the early days, and its ownership is equivalent to that of Hokkaido, Japan, which is subordinate to Lee Ki and others.

All the land is owned by the company, and anyone only has the right to lease and operate the land, and the maximum lease period is 99 years. The people who can show their strength here are the original heroes of Japan, Goryeo, and Jeju Island, who are closely united around the Chenji Group. Merchants of the Great Song Empire rarely had the idea of settling here, because there was not enough arable land to feed the population, and most of the land was grasslands suitable for grazing, and the prospects were not too good, and it was difficult to give impetus to the new commercial capitalists or landlords who wanted to buy houses and land.

But this duty-free zone-like island has access to a large number of products from the Great Song Empire and goods from the Chenji Group, making it a huge attraction for merchants from Japan and Takada, who are eager to import. You don't have to cross the East China Sea, you can buy goods produced by the Great Song Empire nearby, and the cost is naturally lower and the profit is higher!

In just a few years, this impoverished island nation has become a dazzling pearl in the East China Sea. Every month, hundreds of merchant ships, large and small, came in and out of this trading hub, bringing with them the specialties of the archipelago and the peninsula, and taking with them all kinds of goods from the Great Song Empire.

"What is this?" Wang Cheng, who had seen a lot of dock equipment, asked puzzled when he saw the row of shelves next to the dock.

"Wang Gongzi, this is a wooden frame used to hang pirates, it just so happened that yesterday, those corpses were taken away, you may have just come from the Great Song Dynasty, and you don't know our rules here. Naturally, there were few pirates in the Great Song Dynasty, and it was easy to make a living in a wealthy place, so there was no need to take risks. However, it has only been a few years since the development of our isolated island, which is a tripartite intersection of China, Japan and South Korea, and many pirates have set their sights on our merchant ships entering and leaving. You know, we went out and came in with big ships full of good things, and they robbed a hundred small fishing boats on top of one roof, and the pirates who took risks were always exterminated. In order to deter the pirates, the pirates with blood on their hands were hanged and hung on the edge of the harbor. ”

After listening to the captain's explanation, Wang Cheng sighed and said, "Oh, our escort fleet has also gained a lot, right?" ”

"No, it's a loss! How can those poor pirates have property, and the goods they grabbed are sold for only 3% of the price at most, and now we are cracking down on pirates so strictly, they can grab a ship in half a year that can keep their families from starving to death. ”

"What's the matter with these bare-chested women at the dock market?" "O these people! They are ama, the girls of the indigenous fishermen's families on the island, they are all girls from poor families who go to the sea to collect seafood and pearls, etc., and they can't afford to buy cloth to make clothes, and the sea water will also corrode clothes. ”

Wang Cheng couldn't help but sigh when he saw the crowded fish market and wharf roads, and his predecessors were not ordinary people. The fact that a fishing village has been able to develop into a prosperous port with a population of tens of thousands in just a few years shows its deep strength.

Jeju Island itself was short of natural resources, and all kinds of building materials for the construction of the port had to be imported, and judging from the company's financial statements, it was possible to complete the infrastructure with little funding from the higher authorities, all thanks to the new policies and the means of the predecessors who mobilized the enthusiasm of foreign traders to trade in Hong Kong.

When visiting the Jeju Commodity Exhibition Center, Wangseong was shocked by the size of the building that was no less than the dining hall of Chenji Academy. The building is 3 floors, each floor is 5 meters high, and the indoor space of more than 40,000 square meters is divided into more than 30 small exhibition halls by 50 pillars and board walls. From small needles and threads to large port equipment models, all kinds of civilian and military commodities are available. The exhibition area of the Great Song Empire covers 95% of the area, and the Japanese display of raw silk, swords, Tang armor, lacquerware, ivory carving crafts, sake, ceramics, seafood, mineral specimens (gold, silver, sulfur, etc.), furniture, furs, and dyes displayed in the north corner of the 1,500-square-meter third floor was very attractive to the merchants of the Great Song Empire. However, it is far less attractive to foreign merchants than the steel farm tools, kitchen utensils, knives, cups, clocks, salt, sugar, candy, matches, kerosene lamps, glass products (mirrors and utensils), ceramic sanitary ware, calico, medicinal herbs, paper, jewelry, books and other manufactured products exported by the Song Empire on the first and second floors. For example, the black-hearted price of 20 taels of gold for a hand-pressed pump made Wang Cheng gain insight (he had used it hundreds of times at the wellhead next to the gymnasium of the academy, and the price he saw in the agricultural store when he was shopping was only 150 Chenji silver coins, and the discount was only 1.5 taels of gold).

This kind of scissors poor mentioned by the teacher is simply a robbery, and you can easily become a multimillionaire by dumping these goods every day. The task turned out to be easier than expected.

After three days of adaptation and getting to know Jeju Island, Wangcheng had a clear idea of his mission. I am a person who is sandwiched between the predecessors who planted the trees and the descendants who enjoy the shade. If you want to complete the task perfectly, just sit at home and wait for the company to develop and grow, you can't eat and wait for death in your good years, this island is not a good place to make a fortune, at most it is a transit port and horse farm can not support too much army and population, and the ultimate goal of dominating Japan and South Korea can never be achieved by commercial profits alone.

As for the goods exported by Japan and South Korea to China, they are insignificant, limited by their backward production capacity, the scale of primary products cannot be increased, and the output of handicrafts is low, so the growth rate of the import and export market in recent years may decline.

Colonization and industrial development, and the expansion of the army still depend on industry. What to do? Wangcheng hopes to find a pillar industry that can be scaled up to accelerate its development, and replace the saturated Japanese and Korean markets as the new driving force for the group's development.

Jeju Island, where Japan and South Korea are the sales channels, is the site that the teacher has demarcated for me, and it can be said that it is the most unsuitable place for the development of industry, first, there is no fertile plain soil to develop agriculture to provide raw materials for light industry, second, there is no large-scale mineral deposits to develop the raw material industry necessary for heavy industry, and third, there is not enough labor force to develop labor-intensive industries. It seems that there are basically no advantages other than convenient transportation.

If Wangcheng wants to perform well, he can only rely on business to drive the economy. The markets of Japan and South Korea are basically saturated, and if you want to develop, you still have to rely on the vast land and resources, and the purchasing power is at least 100 times that of Japan and South Korea.

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