Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1103, Daming's Sugar Storehouse
Talking while walking, Zhao Ming and Sun Hongli also came to Danhe City.

Danhe City is a new city, which was built with the arrival of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty. It is located at the mouth of the Danhe River, with a good port and convenient transportation.

In just a few years, Danhe City has also developed to a considerable scale, larger and more prosperous than the local traditional county towns.

A series of spacious cement roads lead to the four directions. These cement roads were not built by the imperial court, but the plantation owners here raised funds to buy cement, and then let their slaves build them.

At this time, on the concrete roads, a large number of four-wheeled carriages full of sugarcane gathered, all of them were plantation owners like Zhao Ming and Sun Hongli.

When meeting acquaintances, they are also greeting each other.

There are many plantations around Danhe City, and they are basically planting sugar cane. After all, the sugar cane planting technology is very mature, simple, easy to manage, with low risk and good returns.

A cartload of four-wheeled carriages came with a large amount of sugar cane. When they gathered together, the scene was very spectacular. At first glance, the sugar cane was like a mountain, and there were too many.

"Sun Xiucai, who are you selling your sugar cane to?"

Zhao Ming looked at the many four-wheeled carriages in front of him. These four-wheeled carriages drove in several directions. At the end of the direction was a large factory building, which is currently the most important industry in Danhe City, the sugar factory.

"Of course it was sold to the Ryukyu Sugar Industry. The price of the Ryukyu Sugar Industry has always been the highest, and it has always been the most fair. Although the prices of the other companies are similar, in general, they are still not as good as the Ryukyu Sugar Industry. of."

Sun Hongli said without thinking.

"My sugar cane has always been sold to the Ryukyu Sugar Industry, let's go, let's go together!"

Zhao Ming also smiled and said, he also took the lead to walk to the sugar factory run by Ryukyu Sugar Industry.

There are many people who sell to Ryukyu Sugar, and more than half of them choose to sell sugar cane to Ryukyu Sugar. This is an industry under Liu Jin's command. It has always had an excellent reputation and has signed acquisition agreements with many plantations. protocol.

The Ryukyu Sugar Industry Sugar Factory covers a very large area. Carriages of four-wheeled carriages come here with sugarcane. There is a huge open space where a large amount of sugarcane is piled up like a hill.

In the factory building, you can see a lot of busy figures, basically slaves, and a few Daming people are managers, and the machinery driven by steam power emits bursts of roar.

Accompanied by the roar of the machine, a large amount of sugarcane was crushed, and the sugarcane juice burst out, and then gathered together, and sent along the pipeline to the sedimentation tank, the cooking tank here.

In the cooking area of ​​sugarcane juice, the huge boiler is burning very hotly, and slaves are constantly shoveling coal into the boiler, accompanied by billowing black smoke continuously coming out of the tall chimney, and bursts of fragrance are scattered in all directions.

"It's really shocking!"

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhao Ming couldn't help sighing.

"Yeah, it's really shocking!"

"I have visited several other sugar factories, and none of them can compare with the sugar factory of Ryukyu Sugar Industry."

"The sugar factory of the Ryukyu Sugar Industry uses a large number of machines, and these machines are driven by steam engines. I saw that this juicer is not available, and its efficiency is very high."

"Most of the other sugar factories still have very primitive sugar-making technology, and in many cases, they rely on manpower to squeeze sugar cane."

Sun Hongli also nodded.

To be honest, even though it was not the first time I saw this scene, it was still shocking.

The huge machine in the factory building, it is hard to imagine how such a huge machine turns. The steam engine that can be turned by burning coal is very magical. It has great strength like a cow and a horse, and it does not know how to get tired.

"I heard that these machines are all shipped from Beijing and Tianjin."

"Well, it was shipped from Beijing and Tianjin. I heard that in Liaodong, Beizhili, Hexi and other places, there are special steam cultivators, steam harvesters, etc."

The two first took the sugar cane to the process, and after the weighing, they got a bill, and then took the bill to the factory's financial side to collect the silver.

The process was very simple. In less than a quarter of an hour, the two of them exchanged the sugar cane they brought for white silver dollars.

At the same time, in the factory of Ryukyu Sugar Industry, Li Yuanshan, the person in charge of Ryukyu Sugar Industry, was inspecting the sugar factory in Danhe City.

Li Yuanshan, a native of Northern Zhili, was famine caused by heavy snow in Northern Zhili. He fled to the capital and was recruited by Liu Jin's Xishan Coal Industry to work.

Because he was diligent in doing things and good at learning and thinking, he soon became a manager and was gradually promoted. Later, Liu Jin took the lead in developing Ryukyu and it was Li Yuanshan who was in charge.

He was responsible for the construction and development of Ryukyu City. The main industry in Ryukyu at the beginning was the sugar industry, which was very profitable.

A few years ago, the Ryukyu Sugar Industry could bring Liu Jin tens of millions of taels of profit every year. Therefore, Li Yuanshan was also appreciated by Liu Jin and became the person in charge of the sugar industry under Liu Jin's command. Ryukyu Sugar Industry and many plantations in Nanyang.

"Brother Li, the sugar business is really hard to do now, and many people rob us of our business."

"In the case of sugar cane, it was purchased by one of us in the past, but now there are several more."

"The price of sugar is also constantly falling. It is not an option to continue like this. Although the turnover of our Ryukyu Sugar Industry has been increasing in the past two years, the profit has been falling year after year."

"Although Mr. Liu didn't say anything, it's not good for you if you go on like this."

Beside Li Yuanshan, He Zhiqiang, the director of the Liuqiu Sugar Factory in Danhe City, said worriedly.

"What's the disadvantage? We just need to do things for the young master with all our heart and responsibility, and don't think too much about other things."

Li Yuanshan said indifferently, and grabbed a handful of snow-white, snow-white snow sugar in his hand, which is currently the flagship product of Ryukyu Sugar Industry.

Don't look at the fact that there are many commercial companies engaged in the sugar business, but until now, only the Ryukyu Sugar Industry can produce this snow-white, snow-white snow sugar with extremely high purity.

The price competition of ordinary sugar is fierce, but the price of snow sugar has been relatively firm. Not only is it very popular in Daming, but it is also very popular in Europe, the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, Tianzhu and other places.

Even in Europe, being able to eat snow candy is considered a symbol of status.

"Well, the snow sugar produced by this machine is still very good."

"Originally, I was worried that there would be problems in the quality of production with machines, but now it seems that my worries are unnecessary."

Li Yuanshan tasted it carefully and nodded in satisfaction.

According to Liu Jin's requirements, the industries under Liu Jin have been constantly exploring new areas and boldly trying to use new technologies and machines.

As far as the sugar industry is concerned, sugar production in most areas is still traditional technology, only the Ryukyu Sugar Industry is boldly using new technologies and new machines to produce sugar.

This sugar factory in Danhe City is the latest to use new technology and new machines. This time Li Yuanshan came here to see the sugar production situation of this new machine and new technology.

"I was also worried at first, but I didn't expect these machines to be very useful."

"The efficiency of the steam press is very high. In the past, hundreds of people were needed to press sugar cane, but now only a few machines are needed, and the press is cleaner and the juice yield is higher."

He Zhiqiang nodded solemnly.

"So you have to buy as much sugar cane as possible."

"Now the provinces in Nanyang have become the sugar warehouses of our Ming Dynasty. Our Ryukyu sugar industry has always been the leader in the sugar industry. At the same time, the sugar industry is also an extremely important industry among the many industries under Liu Gongzi."

"We have to take it very seriously."

Li Yuanshan looked at the snow sugar that was pushing like a mountain in front of him and said: "Although there is still sugar in Ryukyu, the proportion has dropped too much. The most important thing is the provinces in Nanyang."

"Your factory uses new steam machines to make sugar, which can be regarded as a start for everyone. If it is feasible and the benefits are good, I will quickly use these new steam machines to make sugar in other sugar factories in Nanyang."

"We need to adopt new machines to maximize efficiency and expand at the same time to ensure our status in the Ryukyu sugar industry and keep our title of Daming Sugar Bank."

"Yes~"

"I will do well."

When He Zhiqiang heard this, he immediately nodded in agreement.

He knew that he was able to get this position because of Li Yuanshan's appreciation, and there were many people who wanted to come to Danhe City to be the factory manager.

These industries under Liu Jin's command have very fierce internal competition, such as competition between management, competition between factories, competition between plantations, etc., are very fierce.

If the ability is not good, there is no way to sit firmly in one position for a long time, which is why he is anxious for Li Yuanshan.

Because the performance of Ryukyu Sugar Industry has declined sharply in the past two years. To be precise, it is not as good as other industries under Liu Jin, such as real estate, shipyards, steel plants, banks, cement plants, textile factories, and machinery manufacturing. It was very gratifying, and the management at the same level as Li Yuanshan also overwhelmed Li Yuanshan. You must know that in the past, it was Li Yuanshan who overwhelmed them.

"Well, the better you guys express, the less stress I'll have."

"Sugar making is considered a traditional industry, and now we must seize the time and opportunity to rapidly expand our production capacity and market share, and maintain our position as the Daming sugar bank."

"You work hard, there are many opportunities. When the year-end report is made, I will take you to the capital to meet the young master. Maybe you will have the opportunity to be alone in the future."

"My son has many industries and needs a lot of talents."

Li Yuanshan looked at He Zhiqiang, patted him on the shoulder and said.

(End of this chapter)