The prefect of Wang found King Chunjun in the field who was wearing a hat and talking to the old farmer and working. This King Chunjun came to Hainan, really did things, never liked to socialize with officials, it seems that high-yield rice is just around the corner.

"The king of the county, the prefect of the king is here." The chamberlain reminded from the side.

Shen Bingzhu turned his head, saw the prefect Wang's mansion, and said with a smile: "Lord Wang, wait a while, this king's side will record it immediately." ”

"The prince of the county is talented, Wang admires." Wang Zhifu admired and said that when he was a child, his family was a small landowner, and his family had dozens of acres of land. When it's time to farm, I also have to follow the adults in the family to work in the fields.

About a moment later, Shen Bingzhu came up from the field, washed his hands by the stream, and asked, "Lord Wang, what is the matter with you coming here?" ”

Mr. Wang replied: "After the sugar making process is verified, the efficiency can be increased by 50%, the sugar output can be increased by 20%, and the white sugar produced is as white as frost and in good condition."

Now he wants to sell the sugar making process to several large sugar producers in the county. The money from the sale was used to build bridges and pave roads, and on the other hand, to promote sugarcane cultivation. Lord, how do you say that? ”

Shen Bingzhu thought for a while and nodded, "If it is sold to a large sugar producer, we will ask for a high price, and they are unwilling; If the demand is low, we will suffer, and the businessmen will seek profits, and we must prevent these businessmen from uniting.

Therefore, I felt that a competition mechanism should be introduced. As long as you have money, you can buy the sugar process, bring in new funds and merchants, and take the form of auction. In this way, let them bid against each other, and the highest bidder wins.

With the participation of merchants who are not traditional sugar producers, they will have to buy sugar cane in order to be able to produce sugar, and the price of sugar cane will also increase, which is better than falling into the hands of those large sugar producers. Of course, this is only the superficial view of this king, and Lord Wang and his colleagues think about it carefully. ”

"Thank you for mentioning it." After the prefect heard the words of King Chunjun, his eyes became brighter and brighter, especially the sentence that competitiveness can make progress, which is more reasonable.

"Lord Wang, don't worry about not being able to sell it if you have too much sugar." Shen Bingzhu reminded, "Because now Huang Ama agrees to increase overseas trade. Our sugar can be sold not only to the rich places of the Qing Dynasty, but also overseas. It can be planted wherever it is suitable for growing sugar cane. ”

When Lord Wang heard this, his expression was slightly hesitant, "Although sugar can be sold for money, the more sugarcane is planted, and the less grain is planted. The people take food as their sky, and the lower officials cannot reduce the arable land because of a little more tax. ”

Shen Bingzhu was surprised and smiled, "Okay, then when this king's high-yield rice is planted, more land can be used to grow sugarcane." ”

Xiaguan also expects the prince to succeed as soon as possible, which is not only a blessing for the people of Hainan, but also a blessing for the people of the Qing Dynasty, and a blessing for the people of the world.

In recent years, high-yield crops from abroad have been transmitted to China.

Corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and the yield per mu are all very high, feeding more people. If rice can also be more productive, the life of the common people will be better.

After Lord Wang went back, he reformulated the rules according to Shen Bingzhu's method, and finally auctioned off the sugar making process.

After some scrambling, six companies finally won the sugar industry.

Three of them are traditional sugar mill merchants, while the other three are large merchants in other industries.

Not only did they get 20,000 taels of silver from each family, but they also increased the competition.

With the auction of the sugar industry, the price of sugarcane rose the next day compared to before, and a sugarcane was two cents more than before.

Two pennies are nothing to other people, but if there are so many sugarcanes in one acre of land, you can harvest an extra three taels of silver.

If you plant a few acres of sugarcane at home, you can harvest more than a dozen taels of silver than in previous years.

This is all extra silver, which has greatly increased the income of local sugarcane farmers.

The people are very happy and say that this year's life is better than in previous years.

Governor Wang is very concerned about people's livelihood and is very happy.

However, the thought that more people will grow sugar cane in the future is very dangerous, and there is not enough food.

Therefore, the prefect began to order that each household could only grow five acres of sugarcane, and more than five acres would be taxed.

There are policies above, and there are countermeasures below.

As soon as this policy came out, the people ushered in a wave of separation.

Originally, some elderly people insisted that their parents were not separated, and the whole family worked together and ate together.

But now each family can grow more sugarcane, so these people immediately split up.

Generally, parents live with their eldest son, and the other sons who have married are separated, and a single independent household can plant an additional 5 acres of sugarcane forest.

Because the planting of sugarcane forests is very strict, and the investment is also very large, in the past, one mu of land could earn five or six taels of silver, but now it can earn eight or nine taels, or even ten taels of silver.

If the family takes good care of the sugarcane forest, they will be able to worry about food and clothing.

At the same time, those sugar merchants are making a lot of money.

Because of the good quality of the frosting, the price is higher than before, the output is also high, and the efficiency is high, so in the end, even if the price of raw materials rises, the merchants do not make less money.

A steady stream of frosted sugar was transported to the rich places in the south and north of the Yangtze River to make profits; There were also sea vessels, caravans, for overseas trade, and now there was another cargo, frosting. Overseas, the profits are even greater.

As soon as Shen Bingzhu came over, he brought happiness to Hainan, and under the deliberate propaganda of the Wang Governor's Mansion, not only the people of Hainan knew, but also wrote an excerpt and submitted it to the capital.

Two months after Shen Bingzhu and Liu Yiyi were in Hainan, that is, four months after leaving the capital, Kangxi in the capital received the official report.

As for the private recitals, they are sent through special channels almost every two or three days. Kangxi will check carefully every time and never say anything to the public.

I don't want others to know that he is very concerned about the old seven and his family, and he doesn't want to cause trouble to his son and daughter-in-law who are far away from the ends of the world.

After Shen Bingzhu and Liu Yiyi, Tuya and Baozhu arrived in Hainan, they prepared local specialties and sent them to the capital along with letters.

Liu Yiyi's gift to the Queen Mother was a conch picked up by the sea, placed in the tuyere, and the sound of the sea breeze could be heard.

Tuya gave a local pearl necklace, which was not as good as the tribute, but it was also quite beautiful.

Concubine Cheng and Xiao Seventeen also received gifts, and the gift Kangxi received was actually a good-looking stone.

Kangxi looked at the good-looking stone on the table and fell into deep thought, did Lao Qi send him another deep meaning in sending the stone?

But all the speculation disappeared after seeing the letter.

This is a good-looking, ordinary stone, and it comes from the southernmost state capital of the Qing Dynasty.