Chapter 252: Sugarcane Plantation

In the Maotong Department in the southwest of Keelung Port, there are more than 3,000 tribes and more than 1,000 warriors who can fight, and they make a living from hunting.

In the western Huansi Department of Keelung Port, there are more than 5,000 tribes and more than 1,000 warriors who can fight, half-farming and half-hunting for a living.

In the southeast corner of Keelung Port, there are more than 3,000 tribes and more than 1,000 warriors, who make a living from fishing and hunting.

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Li Su has a piece of information in his hand, here he returned to Keelung on the third day, and the tribes involved in the attack on Keelung have finally investigated clearly, and now all of them are recorded on this piece of paper in his hand. Li Yu counted carefully and found that there were a total of eight tribes, with a total population of more than 30,000, and more than 10,000 capable warriors, but the capable warriors here refer to all the adult men of these tribes, although the number is large, but the combat effectiveness is extremely poor.

"Yanbei, what do you think should be done with these tribes?" Li Su passed the information in his hand around the hall, and after everyone had finished reading it, he asked. Attending this meeting were not only Yan Bei, Lu Qing, Cui Wei and other people from the Qi Palace, but even Li Ke, Li Yun, Cui Yu, Wang Guo and others were also among them.

"Sixth brother, what else can I do, just order the army to kill them directly, and then kill them without leaving a piece of armor, and only in this way can we get this evil breath out of our chest!" Before Yan Bei could speak, Li Zhen next to him preemptively said. The words that Li Su reminded him before, he only remembered the cruelty to the alien race, and as for using his brain more before speaking and doing things, he obviously hasn't understood it for the time being.

"King Yue is right, we have controlled the periphery of Liuqiu, for the natives inside the island, it is inevitable that there will be conflicts in the future, so it is better to kill the chickens and make an example, first take these eight tribes to open the knife, and then take revenge with cruel means, and then spread the news within the natives, let them know our methods, so as to suppress the people!" Yanbei also agreed with Li Zhen's suggestion, and what he said made some sense.

"Rokuro, there are more than 30,000 people, if we kill them all, doesn't it seem that we are too cruel? And this method seems to be simple and effective, and it also deters the natives on the island, but in this way, it will also plant a seed of hatred in the hearts of the natives, and if there is a change in the future, it will be a big trouble! Li Ke has read too many sage books, and he is a little resistant to the instinct of slaughter, and his subsequent analysis is also very reasonable, in the long run, slaughter is indeed not a good way.

Hearing two completely different opinions, Li Su also thought carefully in his heart, although he also felt that the slaughter was inappropriate, but if he didn't kill, would it seem that he was too weak to be bullied? Thinking of this, Li Su suddenly felt a little undecided. At the same time, he also regretted sending Wang An out to do errands, otherwise if he was here, he would definitely be able to help him think of a better idea.

"Your Highness, I have an idea here, I don't know if it's feasible?" At this moment, Cui Yu, who had been whispering to Wang Guo, suddenly stood up and saluted Li Yu and said. Li Ke and Li Yun are Li Su's brothers, and it is naturally nothing to express their opinions on such an occasion, but they belong to the guests, and it is indeed a little abrupt to suddenly stand up and express their opinions.

"Oh? Brother Cui has any opinions, please tell me quickly! Li Yu didn't regard Cui Yu as an outsider, and he did feel a little undecided, so as soon as he heard Cui Yu's words, he immediately asked eagerly.

"Hehe, in fact, this is also the result of discussing this matter with Brother Wang just now." Cui Yu said, stretched out his hand and pointed to the king next to him, and Wang Guo smiled and saluted Li Su, and then only heard Cui Yu say again, "This time, His Royal Highness invited me and Brother Wang, as well as various aristocratic families in Chang'an, to come, in fact, the main thing is to let everyone enclose land on Liuqiu Island, and then plant sugarcane on a large scale, and then use sugarcane as raw material to produce sugarcane, but now there is an old-fashioned problem, presumably His Highness can also guess it." ”

"Lack of people!" As soon as Li Yu heard Cui Yu's words, he immediately shouted along with his words, and at the same time understood the meaning of the other party's words.

Li Su came to ask for it this time, but he brought a lot of people, mainly those in Chang'an City who had the same interests as Li Su, such as various wealthy nouveau riches, major businessmen, and people like Cui Yu, Wang Kuang and the Lu clan who were fooled by Li Su. The reason why they willingly followed Li Su to a place like Liuqiu was naturally not for nothing, most of them came to seek wealth on the island, to be precise, for the sugar cane on the island.

After Li Su sent Lu Qing back to Liuqiu, he asked him to vigorously promote the cultivation of sugarcane, and then the sugarcane juice was boiled into sugar, as for the purification technology of white sugar, at first it was the technology from Tianzhu, and then Li Su thought of the ancient yellow mud water drenching sugar method, so that the craftsman experimented for a long time, and then finally came up with the technology that can produce white sugar on a large scale.

As soon as these snow-white cane sugar were put on the market, they were immediately sought after by countless nobles, although the cost was not high, but the price of white sugar on the market was extremely high. And after learning that these white sugars were made by Li Su, all the people who could get on Li Su's relationship came up, after all, they all knew that with Li Su's character, they would never eat alone.

To say that these business visions that come to the door are indeed not bad, the sugar industry is a cornucopia of money, and Li Su really didn't want to eat alone, so they let them prepare competent manpower and follow him to Liuqiu. Immediately upon arrival in Liuqiu, these people rode around the island in large ships like cats smelling fish, hoping to take possession of the most fertile land and the most suitable place for growing sugar cane.

The reason why Cui Yu and Wang Guo didn't go was because Li Yu had already left two huge pieces of land near Keelung for them to use as sugarcane plantations, so they didn't have to work as hard as others. In addition, it is worth mentioning that Wang An also set off by boat with those people, of course, he naturally did not go to seize the land, but had other important things to do.

If you want to start a sugarcane plantation, land is only one of the most basic conditions, and there is also a problem of manpower to be solved, those who came with Li Su are the right-hand men of various forces in Chang'an, these people naturally will not go to the field to plant sugarcane in person, after all, they are all managing talents, not front-line workers.

There were few Han Chinese on Liuqiu Island, and if they hired Han Chinese, they would need to pay wages, which was too costly, so these black-hearted plantation owners invariably turned their attention to the local natives.

The natives on Liuqiu Island are actually divided into two parts, one is more friendly to the Han people, they learned to cultivate the land from the Han people, as well as more advanced fishing tools, etc., these advanced production methods have changed their way of life, from the original safari to settle, and generally live close to the Han people's gathering places, and usually use their own production of things to exchange with the Han people, which is the predecessor of the later ripe.

And the opposite of the familiar fan, is to live in the deep mountains and old forests of the shengfan, these shengfan for various reasons, and the Han people have less contact, still retain the primitive safari life, although the number is relatively small, but the folk customs are strong, both men and women can become murderous warriors, and often have hostile eyes to the foreign Han people, and even some of the Shengfan have headhunting customs, and the Han people on the island are the target of their headhunting, and because of this, almost all the Han people on the island of Liuqiu live in groups, although the internal strife is endless, But in the face of these lives, he still stands on the same side.

The position of raw and cooked is not static, for example, taking familiar fan as an example, when the productivity of these natives who accept the Han civilization increases, the population also grows very fast, but after the population increases, the resources they originally possess are not enough to feed the extra population, and when they want to increase their own resources with population advantages, they will find that good resources have been occupied by the surrounding Han people, which makes them dissatisfied in their hearts, so between the familiar fan and the Han people, there are often some disputes, However, now Liuqiu Island is still in a state of vast land and sparsely populated, so this contradiction is not prominent, and in general, the relationship between Shufan and the Han people is still good.

The plantation owners brought by Li Su first turned their attention to the well-related ripe fan, which is cheaper than the Han people, after all, the population of these ripe fans is growing too fast, and it is already very difficult to feed them in the tribe, and they can reduce the pressure of the tribe without them, so almost all the leaders are very willing.

Of course, these leaders are also very shrewd, they will not hand over people for nothing, but make an agreement with the plantation planters, that is, people can give them, and they must pay food and shelter, and they only need one-third of the wages of these people, but this third is not for the natives who work, but all of them must be handed over to these tribal leaders.

Cui Yu and these plantation owners discussed the requirements of these heads, and felt that the price was okay, so they agreed, anyway, they only had to pay for people, as for where the money was used by those heads, it was not up to them.

Although the practice of employing familiar fan solves the problem of some workers, but the gap is still very large, for this reason some people want to fight the idea of Shengfan, but the Shengfan of Taiwan Island is not easy to deal with, they live in the deep mountains and old forests, if you set up a slave catching team to capture, you have to take a great risk, and even some people deliberately calculated the account, and found that instead of catching slaves on the island, it is better to take a sea ship to Java to transport Kunlun slaves, after all, now the sea ship is fast and stable, as long as it does not encounter a storm, there is generally no danger, and the cost is even lower. As for the pirates, Lu Qing and they were originally the overlords of this area, but now after taking refuge in Li Su, there are almost no pirates in the sea areas of the mainland and Java who dare to pick up the tiger's whiskers.

Of the eight Turen tribes besieging Keelung under Li Su's hands, most of them were shengfan, and two were familiar with the Han people. And the reason why Cui Yu stood up was to remind Li Yu that instead of killing them all, it was better to arrest them and send them to the plantation to work as laborers......

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