Soon.

For the "New Silk Road Plan of Civilization" taken out by Xujiazhuang, we see the railway plan with a length of 3,500 kilometers from Sichuan to Yunnan, and then into Myanmar to the other side of the ocean.

Qin Liangyu read the content of the plan.

She thought about it.

In the end, he nodded and agreed to participate, serve as the general superintendent of the railway, and continue to shine for the benefit of the people of Daming.

Although she knew in her heart that although this railway was to promote economic development, it actually had the purpose of facilitating the conquest of other countries and vigorously developing resources.

As long as this road is built, to a certain extent, she is an accomplice and plays a role in facilitating oppression.

The construction period is about five years, and it may take longer, and at her current age, it would be a great thing to live for another ten years, and it is more likely that there will not be such a long time, at most to do the last large-scale railway project, and then it will be a success, a real retirement, let go of all burdens, and live a happy life.

But no matter what, there is nothing wrong with the infrastructure of the railway, it will only bring economic prosperity, bring massive wealth, and hope to get rid of poverty and become rich.

The benefits are unimaginable.

At least for the Ming Empire, this is a huge credit, and it is a matter of great benefit, just like those water conservancy facilities in the past.

In short, there is no harm in all benefits, and in the history books of later generations, there is only high praise, and there will be no belittling and criticism.

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This project is dry.

For the sake of the well-being and interests of the people, who will feel completely relieved if she Qin Liangyu does not come out of the horse?

Anyway, this is the last project, after doing this one, she will really announce her retirement, no longer contaminated with mundane affairs, and return to the identity of an ordinary old lady, whether it is praise or abuse, she does not stop, everything is left to future generations to comment, she herself feels clear conscience.

So the forces of all parties soon took action, and the legions ready to attack Burma began to be formed, and a steady stream of materials converged towards Yunnan, and a dark cloud was heading towards the Kingdom of Burma, but the top and bottom of the country knew nothing about it, and were still in a frenzied expansion operation, and they had not yet realized that their end was coming.

……

The fourteenth year of Chongzhen, in April.

In the past few days, in the public opinion field of Daming, a topic has suddenly become extremely hot, which has caused countless discussions among people in Daming.

It also made many people see the opportunity and outlet to make a fortune, and they were extremely excited and wanted to invest money and participate in it.

Naturally, this project is not a high-profile railway.

It is another special industrial raw material, which is extremely widely used, and is a consumable item, the annual consumption is very high, and because it is almost completely dependent on imports from modern society, the price is also very expensive, and even becomes one of the most valuable parts on the bicycle, and it has become a bottleneck that restricts Xujiazhuang to continue to develop rapidly, unless the problem of self-sufficiency is solved, it can bring faster development and increase the vitality of the economy.

That's right.

This raw material is rubber.

The white liquid collected from rubber trees, after various processing, to obtain the desired cost, and the performance cannot be replaced by industrial synthetic rubber, is one of the most important industrial raw materials in modern society.

Recently, the reason for the sudden heated discussion of rubber in the Ming public opinion field is that dozens of rubber estates located in Borneo in the South Seas, after seven or eight years of planting and careful cultivation, finally let the rubber trees grow taller, cut the bark, and successfully flowed out the first drop of plant rubber, and obtained the first batch of rubber raw materials.

It is then quickly transported to the rubber processing plant, where it undergoes dehydration, vulcanization, evaporation and other processes to finally obtain a black finished rubber product.

It can then be used to make vehicle tires.

It is used in the production of commonly used gaskets.

Manufacture resilient items.

Craft toy items.

Everyday items.

Safety umbrella supplies.

And so on and so forth.

The use is not generally extensive.

As for the price, the purchase price of a standard barrel of rubber liquid raw materials in 30 catties is 5350 Wen / barrel.

And with the sharp increase in demand, the price is still rising, and it is not impossible to break through 5,500 Wen, 6,800 Wen and even 10,000 Wen / barrel.

Xujiazhuang's "Oriental Times" has written a special article to analyze and report, believing that the rubber products that Daming and Xujiazhuang will need in the future will increase from the current 5 million barrels per year to more than 30 million barrels, an increase of more than six times.

But now there are only about 30 rubber estates in Nanyang, planting about 500,000 acres of rubber, and the average annual output of rubber trees per mu is about 200 catties, a total of 100 million catties, equivalent to 3 million barrels, which can only meet the self-sufficiency rate of about 60%.

It's just that the demand will grow rapidly, but the rubber tree has to grow slowly for about eight years before it can mature and harvest and reach a bumper yield, even more than ten years.

This means that in the next ten years, rubber is in short supply, belongs to the buyer's market, how much price the rubber estate offers, you have to pay obediently to buy, unless you really don't want to use rubber, otherwise the price will continue to rise, there is no reason to say.

Tuyere.

This has made countless businessmen, nobles, and officials see a new outlet for making a fortune.

The construction cost of the rubber plantation is not very high, the rubber tree is not expensive, and it is relatively easy to survive and easy to maintain, although it needs to pay a long wait, but the total cost is indeed not particularly high.

As for the rate of return, as long as the rubber matures, the price of a barrel of thirty catties is estimated to rise to more than two silver dollars, which is much higher than any grain and fruit, and the economic rate of return is very good.

It can be said that it will far surpass the sugarcane manor and grain manor and become the representative of the daily progress.

In terms of time, even if it is ten years, there are countless investors who are willing to wait slowly until the day when the rubber trees mature and begin to harvest.

As a result, there were countless forces, waving banknotes in their hands, recruiting a large number of people, setting off a wave of going to the South Seas to plant rubber, shouting all kinds of inspiring slogans:

"The rubber tree is the fortune tree of the new era, as long as you plant one, you can eat it for at least twenty or thirty years, you don't need to take care of it carefully, you don't have to serve the uncle, you don't have to fertilize and water it often, it can live very well, but the rubber liquid produced is a very valuable thing."

"As long as you contract a 100 acres of land and build a small rubber plantation, ten years later, you can earn hundreds of thousands of silver dollars every year."

"I also think this risk is worth taking, the market is indeed too big, even if tens of millions of acres of rubber trees are planted, it may not be able to meet the needs of the future, because there are too many things to use rubber."

"Oh, what kind of rubber tree is this, it's clearly a cash cow, but unfortunately it can only survive in the tropics, if it can be planted in the Ming Dynasty, it would have been all over the mountains and wilderness."

"I can't farm, planting trees is a good hand, I have made a lot of money by planting fruit trees in recent years, and I can learn to plant rubber, so it shouldn't be difficult...... Or the water and soil over there in the South Seas are good, too suitable for the development of agriculture and forestry, the four seasons are like spring, there are countless fruit trees, feeding countless indigenous lazy people, if you can make full use of it, it will definitely bring great value! ”

……

Song Xiaohua, male, from Fujian, a young man of 20.

He was originally a member of the Zheng family in Fujian, and began to come to Nanyang at the age of thirteen to work hard, serving the Zheng family for a long time and making great contributions.

In the Zheng family's sugarcane estate, the sugarcane that has been planted for five years not only gets excellent performance every year, but also because of his seriousness and responsibility, he is promoted to a small steward, managing dozens of people, and the salary is not very low, and he can save thirty or fifty silver dollars every year.

But then he chose to change jobs and went to work in a rubber manor in Xujiazhuang, and it has been two years now, so he made up his mind that he must take root in Xujiazhuang and do not want to join any other forces.

Because Xujiazhuang is indeed a free, inclusive and full of opportunities, there are mistakes to be punished, meritorious rewards are rewarded, rewards and punishments can be clear, the reward system is very perfect, and the welfare protection is also very good.

In the Zheng family manor, he felt that he was a house slave and was born inferior, but in the rubber manor of Xujiazhuang, he was a member of the manor and had an equal status.

Not to mention the salary, at least more than double the difference, there is no comparison.

In terms of finding a blind date, he will take the initiative to help him match, introduce suitable objects, and smoothly let Song Xiaohua set a family affair, his fiancée is a beauty, and in the Zheng family manor, a girl he likes was first taken by the son of the owner of the manor, played for a few months, and after getting tired of playing, he was thrown to a relatively high-level housekeeper, and when he was finally introduced to him, he had become a girl with several hands, although he was also a beauty, but Song Xiaohua felt that his head was green, where did he dare to ask for this kind of woman, so he quickly chose to change jobs, Avoid being forced to cuckold.

And this year, No. 2 Rubber Manor, tens of thousands of acres of rubber trees, a total of 80,000 barrels of rubber liquid were harvested, the purchase price was 5 silver dollars per barrel, and the gross income was 400,000 silver dollars, and the young and strong people of the manor were a total of 800 people, with an average income of 500 silver dollars per person, but after deducting various costs, each person took 300 silver dollars.

In another three or five years, when the rubber trees enter the harvest period, each tree can produce three or five catties of rubber liquid a year, and the maximum yield per mu may reach 1,000 catties, and the income from selling more than 300 silver dollars will be sold, and the gross income of the entire estate will reach at least 3 million silver dollars.

There are only about 800 young people who share the money, so the dividends that can be distributed in a few years will be a rather exaggerated number.

Song Xiaohua also realized for the first time that the original rubber planting was so promising, and he had every chance to achieve prosperity and live an unimaginably good life.

But for the upcoming rubber investment boom and rubber tree boom, Song Xiaohua couldn't help but feel a little worried and unhappy.

Although rubber is a good thing, extremely versatile, high economic value, but if many people swarm to grow rubber, then in another ten years, the industry will not be able to mix, will definitely plummet, vicious competition, no one can make money, and eventually end up in a mess.

Sooner or later, prices will collapse.

He hopes that the above can take care of this matter, standardize it a little, avoid a swarm of bees, and must ensure stable and orderly development and healthy competition, otherwise it will be the result of everyone losing.

However, for this matter, the senior management of Xujiazhuang must have relevant arrangements, and they will not allow a chicken feather to happen.

What's more, the saplings of rubber trees are in the hands of Xujiazhuang.

Planting and management techniques are also what Xujiazhuang is best at.

There is also in dealing with the indigenous tribes, if there is no strong force, it will definitely be subjected to endless harassment by the natives, don't want to plant trees at all, let alone make money, small lives are very likely to be lost, the land of the South Seas, after all, is a relatively primitive and backward place, full of rules of the jungle, if you are not hard enough, there will be no good results when you come here.

Besides, there is still ten years to go, during which the rubber is definitely not enough, the price must maintain a high trend, make good use of this precious window period, you can also make a lot of money, and you can keep a small profit on the line, if there is a significant surplus of rubber, Xu Yuan can also transport a batch, resell to the modern society, this is also a very good business opportunity, make a few hundred million dollars a year should be no problem.

……

The other side.

Beijing, Forbidden City.

Emperor Zhu Youzhen has been quite happy recently and is in a very good mood.

Earned.

Because he's earned it again recently.

The five rubber estates belonging to the prince and princess in the land of Nanyang have a total output of 200,000 barrels of rubber, and after selling to Xujiazhuang, they will make a net profit of about one million silver dollars, and when the rubber production increases next year, the profits may double, and if the price doubles, it means that they may earn four million silver dollars, which is a number that can make him breathe heavier, even if these profits have nothing to do with him, they are all going to enter the pockets of the princes and princesses.

But he still feels happy and happy.

After all, this time, the royal family did not miss the wave of rubber, but ate the dividends of this time, and they can eat it for more than ten years.

After a while of joy.

Thinking of the current financial situation of the royal family, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but sigh again, feeling very difficult, and always couldn't help but have the idea of whether to just lie down.

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Tired.

Since the past few years, he has forged ahead and launched the 'Chongzhen Reform', vigorously cracked down on corruption, promoted useful ministers, reformed departmental institutions, introduced and learned from Xujiazhuang's advanced experience, and a series of measures have been tossed for five or six years, doubling his aging speed, and he has to deal with government affairs for an average of ten hours a day, which can be said to be the limit of what he can do.

Even personal enjoyment has been put aside, dreaming of sleep, the purpose is to come to a reborn reform, so that Daming is no longer the previous Daming, to inject unprecedented vitality into Daming, rejuvenated, so as to have a strong competitiveness that is not weaker than Xujiazhuang.

So did he succeed in his efforts to carry out reforms? Did he get to where he wanted to be?