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Yang Yi didn't care what they thought, and then said: "Planting mulberry and raising silkworms, the most labor-intensive is leaf picking, after increasing the speed of leaf picking by four or five times, a person can raise two or three times more silkworms than the original, so do you still have to worry about the problem of not having a large population in Guangnan?"

And you also undercalculated an account, due to the warm climate and short winter, Guangnan can raise a batch of silkworms more than Suzhou and Hangzhou every year, and the annual output will not be worse than that of Jiangnan;

It is true that the area south of the Yangtze River is densely populated, but the wasteland has basically been reclaimed, even with this mulberry leaf picker, the total amount of silkworm cocoons can not change much, there is no need for us to support, we can set up cocoons, silk reeling, and weaving factories at most;

In other words, in Jiangnan, unless we pay a high price, we can't control more sources of silkworm cocoons.

Guangnan and Jiangnan are different, now there are still few farmers who grow mulberry and raise silkworms, and there are a large number of slopes suitable for planting mulberry have not been reclaimed, with the advancement of the construction of one port and two roads in Guangnan, Quang Nam is bound to have great development, and population increase is inevitable;

When we go to the farmers over there to support silkworm raising, the cocoons produced locally are basically monopolized by us. Of course, there are many workarounds, there is a lot of ownerless wasteland over there, we only need to spend a small amount of money, we can buy it and grow mulberry and silkworms by ourselves. ”

"Let's plant mulberry and raise silkworms ourselves?" Wang Zhicheng, a wealthy businessman in Suzhou, couldn't help but blurt out a question, and what he asked was also what everyone wanted to ask, buying some wasteland is not a problem, but let everyone go to Lingnan to raise silkworms, isn't it a joke? I can't believe that this was said by Yang Yi.

Yang Yi pointed to his brain and said, "You probably think my brain is broken, right?" Actually, you didn't use your brains. I didn't let you go to Lingnan to raise silkworms in person, what's the hurry? There are a lot of people in Nanyang. Why can't we invite some people from Nanyang or elsewhere to raise them? Hahaha........."

Yang Yi said the word "please" very seriously, and finally laughed. These spirits sitting there immediately sniffed out their inner meaning, Yang Yi didn't say hire, but said "please", this is simply to get some free labor! For his ingenious idea, everyone who heard it was excited.

"My lord, is this possible?" Lin Ruhai asked cautiously.

"If the official says yes, he will do. The imperial court has always advocated the simultaneous development of agriculture and mulberry, and we went to Lingnan to plant mulberry and raise silkworms to help develop Lingnan. To increase taxes for the imperial court, as long as there is no trouble, and there is an official to bear it, who would dare to trouble the trading company?

Please believe that not only will there be no trouble, but the official will also be able to obtain some preferential policies from the imperial court, and the specific preferential treatment will be known at that time;

And I want to tell you another point, this official intends to invite the eldest princess of the Qin State to be the honorary chairman of the West India Trading Company. Well, the eldest princess of the Qin Kingdom will also invest a few hundred shares, let's just share some dividends with her appropriately, she does not participate in the daily management of the trading company. Just have a name, do you have any comments? ”

The twenty-six people sitting there were all overjoyed when they heard it, and the Lingnan Mountain was far away from the emperor. It was enough for them to be reassured by having Yang Yi in the way, and then they would pull out the banner of the eldest princess of the Qin Kingdom. Isn't that invincible? The benefits are endless!

As for whether the eldest princess of the Qin State will be talked about by the ministers of the DPRK and the central government as the honorary chairman, this is a matter for Yang Yi and the eldest princess of the Qin State. These people don't care so much.

Everyone stood up one after another and said: "Everything is up to the country." ”

Yang Yi smiled faintly: "Besides, the products go to sea from Qinzhou, which is much closer than going to sea from Hangzhou and other places, which saves a lot of transportation costs. ”

"Yes, yes, Grandpa Guo is far-sighted, and the villain is too late."

"That's right, that's right, it's hard for Grandpa Guo to be able to reach him, and I'll just listen to Grandpa Guo, that's right."

"Do you have any questions about cotton farming?" Yang Yi then asked calmly.

Yes, of course, cotton is a new industry, no one has ever been exposed to it, and it can be said that among the four main commodities, cotton is the most questioned by everyone.

Yangzhou giant Ji Zhongliang immediately asked: "My lord, now cotton is planted more in the south, and the people are easy to accept, so we can promote it with half the effort, why don't you choose to promote cotton in the south and choose the north?" ”

This question is well asked, Ji Zhongliang's meaning is not only that it is easy to promote in the south, but also that he has seen that the Lingnan Mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and he is ready to get some free labor planting in cotton planting, so that it can save a lot of costs compared to what contracts are signed with farmers.

Yang Yi replied: "As far as I know, cotton is heat-loving, light-loving, drought-tolerant, and stain-resistant, and is suitable for planting in loose and deep soil. The south has a lot of rain, the climate is humid, cotton is easy to get sick, and the yield is not as high as in the north, you have probably heard that the climate in Gaochang is dry and sultry, but cotton grows well in Gaochang, and the yield is much higher than in the south, so the official decided to choose to promote cotton in the north. ”

In fact, Yang Yi is not very clear about the habits of cotton, but in later generations, the north of the Yangtze River is the main cotton producing area, and the south of the Yangtze River is relatively small, presumably there must be an internal reason;

As for whether it was the reason he mentioned above, I don't know. In his mind, since this trend appeared in later generations, it should not be wrong to promote cotton in the north.

There is another question that Yang Yi has to consider, Jiangnan was originally one of the most prosperous areas of the Great Song Dynasty, but in the past few years, with the large number of people relocated by the imperial court to the Jinghu area, the development of Jinghu has begun to take shape, and now with the development of Lingnan, the economic center of gravity of the Great Song Dynasty will inevitably gradually shift to the south;

There is no doubt that this will lead to the weakening of the competitiveness of the northern economy, and the people's livelihood will be adjusted more quickly.

Some people may be upset, the south is so rich, I am so poor in the north, and Lao Tzu is better than you.........

Once such a heart arises, it can easily lead to mutual hatred between the north and the south, and then lead to social turmoil.

This is by no means unfounded, so far. There was still a strong north-south dispute in the Great Song Dynasty;

This is particularly evident in the struggle between the old and new parties, which are mostly northerners. Sima Guang, Han Qi, Wen Yanbo, Lu Dafang, etc. are all northerners;

Among the New Party, Wang Anshi, Lu Huiqing, Zhang Dian, Cai Jing and so on. Most of them come from the south, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the old and new parties are fighting between the north and the south.

This kind of antagonism between the north and the south must be eliminated in our hearts, so while vigorously developing the south, the economy of the north must also be taken into account, otherwise the huge gap between the rich and the poor will certainly aggravate the antagonism between the north and the south.

Since cotton is a good choice to support the economy of the north, Yang Yi naturally chooses to promote it in the north, and he will not say these ideas himself, with the explanation he just made. Lin Ruhai and the others had no objections out of trust in him.

Yang Yi will not interfere in the daily operation and management of the trading company, but in the direction of development, he must be in control, and he is too lazy to explain more, and then said: "You don't need to doubt the promotion of cotton planting in the north, if the official is not sure, he will not choose the north;

Gyeonggi, Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi have a large number of suitable places for growing cotton, and we don't do it. If we want to do it, we must act as soon as possible and strive to fully roll it out in the above-mentioned areas next year;

At the same time, there are a large number of ownerless wastelands in Longyou and Hexi, and the imperial court in these places encourages the people to go to reclaim it, and whoever reclaims it belongs to whom. As long as we invest a sum of money. It is not a problem how much planting area is cultivated;

As for the artificial aspect, there are frequent rebellions in the Western Regions, and the forbidden army is vigorously suppressing them. There were not a few people who were captured, and these people were tattooed. One is to be distributed to the army, and the other is to be sold into slavery. The price is cheap, which is very suitable for us;

In order to make the promotion of cotton more smooth, of course, but also in order to let us recover the investment faster, after the meeting, we immediately took action, in the Great Song Dynasty to buy cotton at a high price, the price of cotton is higher, then the people see the profits, they will compete to plant, and so on more people, we will buy at a reasonable price. ”

"Guogong, it's better to fry how much money a pound you want."

"It doesn't hurt to run ten or twenty times, and the cotton needed for a quilt is only four or five pounds, even if it is twenty pounds a pound, the cost we spend is about one hundred times, and it is not a problem to sell a few hundred pieces after processing it into a quilt;

Now it is an exclusive business, at this point, we can only make money, not lose, so don't be afraid to spend money, give me a high speculation, and the people of the world will look at it, so as to quickly drive their enthusiasm for planting cotton. ”

"Guogong, if the price is too high, we are afraid that we will have to pay a high price when we sign a contract with the farmers, isn't this lifting a stone to shoot ourselves in the foot?"

"The key to business is change, is there any need to worry about this? The people have volunteered to grow cotton, do we still need to sign a contract with them? After he grows cotton, we will give him a reasonable price, and if he doesn't sell it, then he can only process it himself. The processing technology is in our hands, we can fry the price, we can push the price down, what is there to worry about? ”

After Yang Yi made the decision, what else could Lin Ruhai and others say?

Yang Yi immediately took a pen and paper and recorded the amount of each person's contribution, and the Yang family came out with six million yuan by himself, which greatly stimulated Lin Ruhai and others;

If Yang Yi didn't have full confidence in the trading company, would he be able to invest so much money at one time?

Based on this realization, they also rushed to throw money into it, and finally the total amount of funds raised reached an astonishing 40 million yuan, and the West Indian Ocean Trading Company showed its giant figure from the first day of its birth.

Next, it is necessary to discuss the daily management norms of the trading company and various operating rules.

Yang Yi no longer interfered in these matters, and handed them all over to Han Bier to discuss with them, and this discussion lasted for three days before the various rules and regulations of the trading company were drawn up and written into written provisions, which were signed and sealed by all shareholders for confirmation.

On October 28, the third year of Wenchang, the West Indian Ocean Trading Company, which had assets of up to 40 million yuan, was formally established, headquartered in Tokyo, with Han Bier as the first president, Lin Ruhai, Shen Qingwen and Ji Zhongliang as vice presidents, and the daily operation of the general consul trading company.

From this day on, this commercial giant will show its amazing power like a giant.

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