Except for the pastures for raising horses and sheep, there is little arable land on Jeju Island, and the agricultural population depends on fishing and poor arable land to survive. Before Tamna submitted to Goryeo, it was a backward nomadic tribal state, and then imported grain and utensils began to enter the feudal sequence. Unfortunately, it was annexed by the army sent by the Chenji group before it was completely incorporated into Goryeo. At that time, the population of the island was only 70,000 or 80,000, and the army was less than 2,000. When encountering the well-equipped Chenji security guards (smuggling teams and pirates) and the armed merchant fleet at sea, they were immediately wiped out. Before the rabble could see the invading enemy, they abandoned Jeju Fortress under the bombardment of artillery. The rulers of Tamna were wiped out, and all of them signed unequal treaties that resembled deeds of sale, becoming small merchants and compradors, helping Chenji gain control of the entire island.

Looking down on the poor architecture and royal possessions of Tamna, the Chenji Group, which built a five-story office building in the newly built dock area, immediately became the object of the islanders' allegiance. Strong and benevolent became the influence of the islanders on the Chenji Group after the household registration reform.

Tax-free and low-interest loans for the development of agricultural industries have made many natives with brains to make a fortune and become "rich people" like the original Fu royal family and other families, and live a "high-class life" of eating white rice every meal.

Unfortunately, with the expansion of trade and the increase in immigration, the scale of grain imports has only partially increased the supply of potatoes and corn, and it has not been able to fundamentally change the fate of Jeju Island.

"No region can afford to feed the people who develop industry and commerce in areas where agriculture cannot develop, and no region can violate this iron law before globalization. Wangcheng, when you go to Jeju Island, you must not engage in heavy chemical industry and labor-intensive industry, Jeju Island cannot support more than 200,000 people. As long as you keep the annual growth rate of the profits paid by the company's overseas territories (tax exemptions can only be made through this form of planned economy profit retention) at an annual growth rate of more than 10%. The key is not in the development of this island, but in the control of other compradors in the region of Japan and South Korea. In addition to focusing on the main target, the Taira family, you also need to strengthen the company's influence in the East China Sea. The prosperity of Jeju Island, the headquarters, is not the key, the key is not the emergence of a force that can threaten us. It's good to leave other forces behind by your own development rate that is far above average, but it's hard, and it's also a way to stay ahead of the curve and suppress those who catch up or support the weak to contain the forces that threaten you. Wang Cheng remembered what the teacher had taught the five of them before parting.

Is my biggest threat the Heike family? Definitely not, the teacher can make the Heike the most powerful samurai in Japan in a year or two, and he can also make the Heike disappear in two years. The teacher once said that the biggest enemy is one's own arrogance, and the most dangerous enemy comes from within. Then my enemies are the saboteurs in the company. Who the hell is it?

At the end of the 8th year of Yuan You, Wang Cheng finally found the enemy, that is, the loophole of the system, a child of the Ping family found a loophole in the system of encouraging grain imports in the duty-free trade zone, and exchanged imported high-priced rice for equal weight and export quotas, and made a number in and out of the trade record, and the value of the grain import subsidies plus export quotas obtained by fraud was as much as 200,000 Chen base money. In fact, not a single grain of rice was imported, and in fact, all the coarse grains from the island, potatoes and corn were used. Since the policy only subsidizes according to the volume and weight of grain trade, as long as the specified weight of grain enters the company's subordinate warehouse. The warehouse receipt issued can receive the subsidy. Therefore, the island's cheap coarse grains can theoretically be stored in the same way as imported rice. The subsidy is calculated at 200 chenji per ton, which can account for almost half of the price of grain in storage.

This child of the Ping family, named Chungjeong, was very talented, and was the nephew of Ping Zhengsheng, who was only 17 years old when he took charge of the general affairs of the Hei family in Jeju Island (that is, the person in charge of purchasing). Wang Cheng naturally would not let go of such a talent, and personally took him to the Donghai Branch of the Chenji Chamber of Commerce in Dengzhou to meet Chen Guanxian, the president of Chen, who had inspected Dengzhou, hoping that this talented old brother could become his right and left hand, and asked Mr. Chen to write a letter of recommendation to Li Ji, urging Li Ji to agree to let this nominal retainer (Ping's is a retainer who swore allegiance to Li Ji) become his helper.

Wang Cheng thought like this: 'If you want to stay ahead, you must not only strive for self-improvement and continue to surpass, but also dig into the wall from other forces that may threaten you, which not only strengthens yourself but also weakens the enemy, and at the same time can form the effect of propaganda and export ideology'.

In the feudal world before the Industrial Revolution, were the biggest commodities in international trade not oil and iron ore, not manufactured goods and electronics, grain and cotton? Apparently not. For the core countries of the Eastern and Western worlds (China and Rome), silk, porcelain, spices, and luxury goods (ivory, precious stones, gold, silver, pepper, etc.) were imported and exported, and their scale and transaction value were not comparable to any class of commodities in modern society. In the 12th century, the world's total international trade was less than Brunei's total annual oil exports.

It is true that the cross-cutting people can reap the windfall profits from the export scissors gap by relying on advanced technology, but unfortunately they cannot rise to a level that exceeds the trade volume of China and Britain in 1840, for the same reason as Britain, that is, the consumption habits and purchasing power of the trading partners.

As the richest and most advanced economy in the world in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Great Song Empire was the source of 80% of the profits of the Guanzhong for at least 200 years. Li Ji's original intention was also to make the five apprentices realize the reality that in the end, they had to rely on blood transfusions from their home country to achieve their goals.

After seeing the letter, he naturally admired Wang Cheng's actions, and Wang Cheng had realized that it was impossible for him to build Jeju Island into an economy that surpassed Japan and South Korea, and proposed to focus on coastal areas such as Shandong and Jiangsu, and use the resources and profits of Japan and South Korea to develop his own economy, and put Jeju Island in the position of a pawn on Jingdong Road, Huainan East Road, and even Liangzhedong Road. Directly use these areas of the home country as their real sphere of influence to play a game of competition with Japan and South Korea.

The promotion of this pattern is the purpose of Li Ji. After seeing that there was an obvious progress and momentum in the letter that I wanted to see, I also replied to a domineering letter, the content is simple and clear, it is eight big words, agree, you can do it yourself.

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