The next day, before dawn, there was already a sea of people on the Quanzhou wharf, 80,000 immigrants gathered in one place, the sky was not yet dawn, people were gathered together in threes and threes, waiting quietly, the woman held the child, gently patting the child.

Fanning and a few of his attendants patrolled the crowd, listening to what they had to say.

"Da Lang, can we really get the land?" A woman with a child in her arms whispered to her husband, and the other child fell asleep on her mother's back.

"There should be! I've heard a lot of people say that if you go overseas, you can get at least two hectares of land, and there are fewer people overseas, and land is not so valuable, but I don't really want land. ”

"You want to live in the city?" The woman asked, surprised.

The man nodded, "Now the grain is cheap, and we can't make much money from farming, let's live in the city, first of all, the government gives three acres of homestead land, and then I can enter the factory and earn at least ten yuan a month, which is one hundred and twenty yuan a year, and I don't have to buy seeds and farm tools or anything, if I farm, how many fields do I have to plant to earn one hundred and twenty yuan a year, and there are few people over there, everyone has a job, where do we go to find hired workers?" ”

Fan Ning nodded secretly, this man is quite shrewd, but he is only a little shrewd in front of him, he has two hundred acres of land, and he can buy more in the future, it is not worth it now, but he can leave a fortune to his children and grandchildren in the future, you must know that in Beidao, if you are not a farmer, you are not allowed to buy farmland, you can only buy residential land in the city.

However, Fanning doesn't plan to break it, this kind of thing, when they go, they will choose for themselves.

'Woo-'

The whistle sounded on the dock, and the first big ship had slowly approached, and their large luggage had been sent to the ship, and everyone had only some carry-on luggage.

There are three floors above each big ship with 100 large cabins, which can carry 100 households, about 6 or 700 people, which is relatively generous, and if it is fully loaded, a large ship can carry about 1,500 people.

Therefore, the bottom warehouse is not inhabited, and it is used to store luggage and the like, but even so, 12,000 households only need 120 large ships are enough, but Beidao sent 300 large ships of 10,000 stones.

In fact, only 200 ships were used to transport people, and the other 100 were cargo ships, loaded with steel, sandalwood, white copper, tires, tobacco, peanut oil, spices and precious timber purchased through the South Seas, and so on, which were transported to Quanzhou and handed over to the Quanzhou trading houses for distribution throughout the Great Song Dynasty.

Then they carried silk, tea cakes, and pottery from Quanzhou to the south, some of the silk and tea cakes were needed by Beidao itself, and the other goods would be sold in Nanyang Trading House, and then rubber, sugar, and cotton were purchased from Nanyang back to Beidao.

After deducting the seafarers' salaries, fuel, ship losses, supplies along the way, etc., the net profit earned by Beidao was about one million taels of silver.

Tobacco needs to be popularized at least five or six years, starting from the capital, starting from the powerful and high-ranking officials, and then influencing businessmen and then ordinary people.

Fanning still rode in his own 25,000-stone ship, with more than 100 retinues on the same ship.

Akihito and Fanning are also on a large boat.

The two of them stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the fleet in front of them, Fanning suddenly noticed that the Wanshi ship actually had a mast, and he also raised the sails, he asked a little strangely.

"Aren't they all steam engine ships? How did you go back to using the sails. ”

"This was reinstated three months ago, unanimously approved by the Council of Elders, and signed by the Princess."

"I don't care about this, but I want to know why?"

"The reason is that a liner to the southern continent, the steam engine suddenly broke down, the ship drifted on the sea for more than 20 days, and was finally found by the search and rescue ship we sent, because of this incident, we decided to restore the mast and sails, and use them in case of emergency, in fact, it does not affect the chimney of the steam machine, and now it is the north wind, with the help of the north wind, the steam engine will save effort, at least thirty percent of the fuel can be saved."

"Can the mast be erected if it is said to be erected? Masts have not been used for many years. Fanning asked again in confusion.

"The position of the mast has always been preserved, and the same is true for the new ship, ready to be used."

Fanning nodded, and stopped asking about it.

On this day, the fleet arrived in Luzon, the fleet needed to replenish fresh water, to anchor for three days, the immigrants could go ashore or enter the city to play, in order to alleviate the troubles caused by seasickness, which is also the immigrants seasickness more, had to come up with a solution, after resting in Luzon for three days, then take the boat will not be so serious seasickness, and Luzon has a herbal soup, which can greatly relieve seasickness after drinking, which is also an important material for the fleet to supply.

But a hundred cargo ships anchored for a day, and after buying sugar and cotton in Luzon, they were going to Newport to unload a batch of silk and porcelain.

Fanning eventually decided to make a trip to Newport as his last stop in office.

Hundreds of cargo ships left Luzon Bay early the next morning and headed for the new port, which was the future Singapore, and the old port in Sumatra was a little declining, but the domestic fleet basically went to the old port to buy spices, and the new port was mainly a port for doing business with Westerners.

Xingang belongs to Baozhou, also known as the Malay Peninsula, which is the most important rubber producing area, and there is also a rubber plantation covering 10,000 hectares in the North Island, but it is still far from being developed.

Akihito pointed to a coastline in the distance and said: "Over there is the country of Srivijaya, at least after the defeat in the last war, the power of Sriwijaya has greatly declined, commerce has withered, the hegemony of local merchants and deliberately created pirates have made them notorious, no one wants to do business with them anymore, and now that Xingang has completely replaced Morajaya, Sriwijaya is now a spice supplier." ”

"What is the most profitable cargo in the North Island tripartite business?"

Akihito thought for a moment and said, "At present, the most profitable is of course white copper, which is equivalent to directly mining silver ore, followed by steel. ”

"Steel is profitable?"

"Of course, the refined iron smelted in the Song Dynasty can not be compared with our refined steel at all, the price of our refined steel is the same as that of iron, in the private market, it is ten times the price of ordinary iron, but it is a pity that we ourselves have to use a large amount of iron, the pig iron production of the Song Dynasty is low, can not make up for our needs, maybe from next year, we will not sell steel."

"Can we find a replacement?" Fanning asked.

"At present, it seems to be rubber, we buy rubber raw materials, make rubber tires and sell them to Da Song, which has 50 times the profit, and the demand for Da Song is very large, and the market is basically monopolized by us."

"What about tobacco?"

Akihito smiled bitterly, "In five years, there may be a lot of money, but you also know the temperament of the imperial court, after they find out the profits of tobacco, they will definitely implement the government sales system, and we can only provide raw materials, so although it is beneficial, the majority is not with us." ”

"Then we will occupy the markets of Goryeo and Japan, the markets of the West, Akihito, you are the president of the Chamber of Commerce, you should be more able to do business than me, you have to make tobacco into a product, not cut into shredded tobacco."

"Can you elaborate?"

Fanning patiently said to him: "For example, we need to wrap the tobacco ourselves with a tobacco leaf, so why not wrap the tobacco before selling?" Let the craftsman make a cigarette maker, then wrap it in paper, and finally pack it in a carton, a box of twenty or fifty cigarettes, and sell it to the West, we don't sell tobacco, is the profit higher, the same is true of the Great Song Dynasty, not selling tobacco at a fraction, only selling finished products, in this way, the profit will be greater, don't you say? In addition, tobacco seeds must be closely guarded and never allowed to flow out. ”

Akihito nodded again and again, "We thought of this problem at the beginning, all the tobacco seeds except for the reserve seeds, all the others were destroyed, and none of them could flow out, dozens of tobaccos were found in Yuecheng County last year, and they were traced down, and the result was brought out after the birds pecked, so the tobacco garden was also equipped with a special person responsible for expelling the birds." ”

Fanning thought for a while and said: "On the South Island side, just hand over the glass-making technology to them, don't teach tobacco, at most provide them with some tobacco leaves, let them roll their own cigarettes." ”

"The South Island side hasn't made this request yet, and they don't realize how profitable the cigarettes are."

As he spoke, the whistle sounded, and Newport arrived.

Fanning got off the ship, he did not reveal his identity, there are many official institutions in Xingang, there are county orders, there are the Great Song City Shipping Supervisor, and the Nanyang Branch of the Great Song Overseas Economic Strategy Prefecture, which is mainly responsible for the garrison, and the Trade Bureau, which is directly under the jurisdiction of Shangshu Province, which is mainly responsible for official trade.

As soon as you get off the ship, the bustle on the pier is greeted by hundreds of ships of all sizes moored in the harbor, in addition to the North Island caravans, there are also a large number of ships from the West, ships from the Great Song Dynasty, delivery ships from Sriwijaya and so on.

The wharf is crowded with heads, speaking all kinds of words, the wharf laborers are basically Sriwijaya people, and the high hanging tower, mainly used to unload and load the ship, pulled by the steam engine to pull the thick hemp rope, this is the most advanced wharf machine in the Great Song Dynasty, has been popularized in the North Island, Yangzhou and Quanzhou began to use last year, I did not expect the new port also appeared.

Dock laborers mainly push wooden wheeled carts, and they only see deliveries coming and going from the docks and warehouses.

It was some strange language that Fanning heard, and when he turned around, there were a dozen blonde Europeans standing behind him.

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