Section 414 interests are always coveted

Yang Niansong was indignant: "Is my dad a usurper of the dynasty?" ”

Wei Dongsheng continued to reassure Yang Niansong: "Don't get me wrong, this is just my selfish thoughts. ”

After all, she is only an eighteen-year-old girl, Yang Niansong quickly calmed down her anger: "You must not spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain in the future, my father will be angry." ”

Wei Dongsheng apologized first and then made a request: "Think about it, I should really learn some skills to govern the country and level the world." However, it is easy to learn without thinking, so why don't I take Batang County as a test site and practice while learning? ”

Yang Niansong mistakenly thought that Wei Dongsheng had lost his way and returned, and said happily: "Okay." ”

Wei Dongsheng continued to pit Yang Niansong: "The government often affects the whole body, why don't you ask my father's opinion for me first?" ”

Yang Niansong didn't know what was at stake, so he happily agreed.

More than a month later, Yang Niansong was disappointed: "My dad didn't agree. ”

This is the answer that Wei Dong's business expected.

If Yang Xinning really had no selfish intentions, why did he put Wang Reclamation next to Wei Dongsheng, and why did he order the Praetorian Guards to only look forward to Yang Nian and Song Ma. Wei Dongsheng risked his life to reluctantly relocate to Batang County, which was three or four thousand meters away from Xiagang, Yang Xinning took precautions against Wei Dongsheng to such an extent, how could Wei Dongsheng be allowed to gather cronies based on Batang County?

Batang County's invitation was just to make Yang Niansong realize the difference in interests between her and Yang Xinning.

The queen is still a tainted princess, and Wei Dongsheng believes that Yang Niansong will definitely give preference to the former. When Yang Niansong began to realize that Yang Xinning was threatening her interests, the rift between father and daughter must have intensified, and finally forced Yang Niansong to Wei Dongsheng's camp completely.

Wei Dongsheng did not ask Yang Xinning why he was unwilling, nor did he ridicule Yang Niansong's wishful thinking towards Yang Xinning, nor did he take the opportunity to criticize Yang Xinning's authoritarianism, but hypocritically stood in Yang Niansong's position to exonerate Yang Xinning: "Perhaps, my father thinks that we are too young to take on great responsibilities." In this case, let's first plant sugarcane in Batang County for a few years to exercise. ”

Yang Niansong was silent.

After Ba Tang's invitation failed, Yang Niansong's personality suddenly became much calmer, and he no longer chattered that Wei Dongsheng did not plant sugarcane imaged. Although Yang Niansong still despised laborers, she began to consciously help with things, such as some trivial tasks such as financial management.

In order to continue to operate the sugar industry chain, Wei Dongsheng established the Song Sheng firm in early 1298. Song is Yang Niansong's Song, and Sheng is Wei Dongsheng's life, Wei Dongsheng hopes to tie his interests with Yang Niansong's interests through the organization of Song Sheng's firm, and then use Yang Niansong's identity to seek opportunities to oppose customers, and dismember Yang Xinning's team.

Similar to the construction of a series of companies in the real world, Wei Dongsheng did not have the luxury of fully controlling the sugar industry chain from sugarcane cultivation to sugar trade. Therefore, it is not necessary to wait for the harvest of sugarcane plantations to start the construction of sugar production one after another. Approaching the sugarcane crushing season that year, Song Sheng began to try to travel around the Shunta Kingdom to purchase sugarcane from Shunta yeoman farmers and Javanese natives on a small scale, and took the lead in starting the trial production of sugarcane.

The production of sucrose is slightly more difficult than Wei Dongsheng imagined, because of the limitations of contemporary sucrose production technology, sucrose is similar to a labor-intensive high-tech industry, the first requires a large amount of labor to cut down sugarcane, boil cane juice, the labor intensity is abnormally high, not many people are willing to regard it as a happy life; Second, from the perspective of the people of Shunta, sugar production is a contemporary high-tech industry, which requires the painstaking hiring of skilled workers.

Of course, these difficulties were not difficult for Wei Dongsheng, who used the experience of the leader of the Spring and Autumn Period to call for wind and rain, and soon pulled the sugar industry chain on the right track with great difficulty.

But even with an outstanding capitalist like Wei Dongsheng, Song Sheng's firm still can't offset the shortcomings in all aspects. Taking the sucrose production process as an example, most of the technicians hired by Wei Dongsheng with high salaries in the early days were a group of low-eyed or talkative pit goods, and the quality of sucrose in the first stage of small-scale experiments was not as good as that of the indigenous Javanese indigenous sugar. It was not until Wei Dongsheng continued to eliminate the indiscriminate generation with technical standards, and slowly gathered a multinational technical team with different cultures, including Mengyuan refugees, Indian slaves, and unemployed refugees in Champang, that the quality of the sucrose produced by Song Sheng's firm was barely raised to the eighty percent level of Mengyuan's high-quality sucrose.

Although the quality of cane sugar is far inferior to that of high-quality cane sugar from Mengyuan and other countries, Song Sheng was able to effectively take advantage of its geographical advantages and barely get a piece of the Nanyang maritime trade. You know, sucrose is in short supply at this time. In the distant continent of Europe, the nobility of the nations had just learned what sugar was, and it was once more expensive than gold. In places such as the Mengyuan provinces and the Indian subcontinent, where the history of cane sugar is relatively long, sucrose is also a light luxury in absolute sense, and ordinary people dare not dream of eating sugar at every meal.

The charm of sucrose is well known.

In this era when sucrose is in short supply, as long as the quality is so bad that it is difficult to swallow, there must be people who are willing to pay for it.

Unfortunately, science and technology are the primary productive forces, and the current crude sugar production process has greatly pushed up the production cost of sucrose. The key to whether the sugar industry can become Wei Dongsheng's money-making machine is not whether people like sugar or not, but whether the sugar trade can bring considerable profits.

It's hard.

In 1298, the Song Sheng firm unfortunately did not make a profit.

In fact, if Wei Dongsheng did not have the discernment to eliminate a group of indiscriminate and indiscriminate generations, and set up a multinational technical team in time to introduce the sucrose production process, Song Sheng's firm would have lost everything with a high probability. Everyone knows that cane sugar makes money, so why aren't many people willing to set up sugar workshops in Java and other places? The current problem faced by Song Sheng is the core reason why Shunta does not have a sugar industry.

Large-scale sugar production is so expensive that even a king of a country like Wei Dongsheng needs to be cautious, let alone the impoverished Mengyuan refugees who have fled? Both the technical hurdles and the intensive labor required by the sugar industry can discourage the vast majority of investors. During the loss-making operation of Song Sheng's firm, even Yang Niansong had a retreat: what is the significance of such a career after working hard for a year, instead of making huge profits, he lost a sum of money?

Not many people are willing to do a loss-making business.

Wei Dongsheng insisted on the construction of the sugar industry chain.

It is not because Wei Dongsheng is willing to lose money, but the prospect of the cane sugar industry chain is worth looking forward to.

With the development of the real economy in the 21st century, it is difficult for many industries to make a profit when they start working in the same year, such as panel manufacturing, memory, and chips in the smartphone industry chain. Taking Zhuwei series of subsidiaries and joint ventures as an example, it is not uncommon for them to operate at a loss for three or five years in a row, but even if these companies have been losing money, Zhuwei Group needs their existence.

In addition, for many businesses with attractive prospects, it is worth the venture capital bet. The future prospects of the sucrose production chain are excellent, and in Wei Dongsheng's view, it is acceptable not to say that it will lose money in 1298 and lose money for three consecutive years.

Of course, this is the heritage brought by Wei Dongsheng's status as the king of Shunta.

If Wei Dongsheng's first life was a destitute Mengyuan refugee, the first thing he worried about would definitely be how to survive, and how would he be qualified to operate the sugar industry chain at a loss. What kind of ability to do what kind of thing, this is Wei Dongsheng's creed. Since he was fortunate to be reincarnated as the king of Shunta, Wei Dongsheng must prepare for the construction of the sugar industry chain with the idea of the king of Shunta and do what the king of a country should do.

The topic returns to the sugar industry chain.

With the practical growth of employees and the gradual formation of the trade network, the production cost of cane sugar is getting lower and lower, the quality of sucrose is getting higher and higher, and the profits of Song Sheng firm are becoming more and more considerable.

In 1299, Song Sheng Firm broke even.

In 1230, Song Sheng not only expanded its sugarcane plantation to 500 acres, but also made a profit for the first time in history. Note that the profit here has been deducted from the plantation's development expenses. If we consider the income from fixed assets such as sugarsugar plantations, the profits of Song Sheng Firm after surviving the loss stage are extremely terrifying.

In just three years, the impression of Nanyang maritime merchants on the Shunta Kingdom has become: real estate cane sugar.

However, the benefits are always coveted.

Threats such as peer competition are not mentioned for the time being, and only the worries of Yang Xinning, the powerful minister that Wei Dongsheng is most concerned about.

From 1297 to 1230, Wei Dongsheng honestly followed the example of Liu Chan and devoted himself to the construction of the sugar industry chain. In order to prevent Song Sheng's firm from attracting Yang Xinning's taboo, Wei Dongsheng first took the initiative to delegate power to Yang Nian Song to make him manage his finances, and then "tolerantly" squeezed the eyeliner sent by Yang Xinning and granted them the position of Song Sheng's firm. The specific methods are very complicated, such as sowing discord and intensifying the contradictions of the eyeliner, allowing the eyeliner with a lower status in Yang Xinning's power to hold a higher position, and beating the eyeliner to fight the eyeliner; For example, money corruption, when Song Sheng's position is more profitable than when Yang Xinning's eyeliner, will they still be loyal to Yang Xinning? Wait, wait. I won't go into detail about these trivial little means.

However, it is clear that these measures can only delay the contradictions.

When Song Sheng's business developed to the scale of a sugarcane plantation of 500 acres, even if Wei Dongsheng pretended to be like Liu Chan who couldn't think about it, Yang Xinning still became more and more restless. Mo said that Song Sheng's business quietly weaved a network of contacts, and only 500 acres of sugarcane plantations was enough to make Yang Xinning fearful.

Although sugarcane plantations are not as fundamental to farming as rice and wheat, their tied farmers and labourers are a potential force to be reckoned with. You must know that the foundation of the Shunta Kingdom lies in maritime trade, including patrolling to maintain law and order, and there are only 250 troops in total. If Wei Dongsheng instigated the laborers of the sugarcane plantation in an emergency, he would not have been able to capture the thief and capture Yang Xinning first.

In 1230, when Song Sheng's firm was at its best, the contradiction between Wei Dongsheng and Yang Xinning gradually intensified.