Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1835, Plantation Economy
A plantation near Crescent City. Here, Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin are visiting this huge plantation. The owner of the plantation, Mr. Qian, is also enthusiastically accompanying them and introducing the situation in the plantation to them in detail.

"The scale of my plantation is not too large. It only has more than [-] acres of land. Several thousand acres of land were rewarded to me by the government when my family first immigrated. The rest are plantations that have been continuously developed over the years."

Master Qian looked at Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin beside him. They looked like ordinary people with dozens of servants around them. Each of these servants was tall, well-trained, and had a clear division of labor. They always kept the two people in front of them Surrounded by the core, there are people protecting it in all directions.

I was listening to their accents, the accents of the Beijing-Tianjin area. This is obviously a nobleman from the Beijing-Tianjin area. Since I am interested in coming to play in my plantation, it is my honor.

"More than [-] mu of land isn't that big, is it?"

Upon hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi asked with a smile.

"So-so, the real large-scale plantations here are tens of thousands of acres, or even hundreds of thousands of acres of land, and some even the entire big island is a plantation, so it is called a large plantation. , thousands of slaves are needed.”

Master Qian shook his head with a smile and said: "My plantation is of a normal scale, and now the plantations in Nanyang can generally reach this scale, and they are all family-based plantations. Compared with those large plantations, there is still a big gap. Big."

"However, although my plantation is not large, the output is still very good."

"The 5000-acre rubber forest in front of me is currently the biggest source of income for my plantation."

Master Qian proudly introduced his rubber forest to the two of them.

"Is this the rubber tree?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he immediately became interested, and quickly took a closer look at the rubber tree in front of him.

"Yes, this is the rubber tree."

"Rubber is actually the sap that flows out of the rubber tree. It's similar to cutting rosin. Cut some holes in the tree, and what comes out is rubber."

Master Qian nodded, pointed to a basin of rubber rubber and said.

"Master Qian, your 5000 mu of rubber forest can earn a lot of income a year, and the price of rubber is not cheap now."

It was also the first time Liu Jin saw a rubber tree, and he looked at it curiously. Thinking of the current price of rubber, he also said.

"Haha, it's okay, it's okay~"

When Master Qian heard this, he immediately said with a smile.

The price of rubber is really rising. It is used in many fields, such as medical blood transfusion, infusion, industrial chemical products, tires, etc. Rubber is indispensable for these, and many of them are irreplaceable.

Over the past few years, with the rapid development of Daming's automobile and bicycle industries, the demand for rubber has also increased, and the price of rubber has also risen, and has soared all the way.

Mr. Qian was reluctant when he first planted rubber, because everyone was planting sugar cane at that time. Not only was there no profit in planting rubber, but the investment was also large, and it would take seven or eight years before the rubber could be harvested.

Unexpectedly, Feng Shui took turns, and in the blink of an eye, the price of sugarcane was getting lower and lower, and the price of rubber was getting higher and higher. The income of his plantation in one year exceeded those who had grown sugarcane for more than ten years.

"It's still you plantation owners. In our capital city, everyone works in factories and commercial banks, and only a few taels of silver a month. Although food and clothing are a problem, compared with your Nanyang plantation owners, there is still a big difference. Far away."

Liu Jin said with a smile.

"Haha, that's, that's, working in a factory or a commercial firm is, after all, doing things for others, and the wages are limited. We are our own bosses, and it's up to us to make as much or as little as we want."

"Of course, this plantation is not so easy to manage. It still needs to be managed carefully."

"Some people are not very good at managing their own plantations, and they don't even save a few silver dollars a year. The expenses in this area are also very high."

"It's like my plantation, although the scale is average, but I bought more than 200 slaves to manage it. These 200 slaves cost tens of thousands of taels of silver. Just eating every day is a big problem, and I have to eat a lot. the rice."

"No matter where it is, those who are capable make money, and those who are lazy and incompetent are definitely not good at it."

Master Qian enjoyed Liu Jin's compliment very much.

To say that the most comfortable one now is naturally the plantation owner in Nanyang.

With a large area of ​​plantation, all the work is done by the slaves in the family, and the annual income is quite considerable, some have thousands of taels of silver income, and many like Mr. Qian have a large area of ​​rubber forests. The income is quite considerable, tens of thousands of taels of silver a year is possible.

The second is to immigrate to Golden Continent and overseas vassal states and colonies. Immigrants in these places reward a lot of land and slaves. Basically, they live a pretty good life. Many wives and concubines are in groups, and the things are bought by the wives and concubines. Do it yourself, sleep, eat, eat, sleep, and sow seeds.

Like the Golden Island, basically every household has many local native wives, a few less, more than a dozen, and a large number of female slaves who were sold from Europe. In addition, the land here is vast, It is fertile and can be cultivated casually.

Therefore, in the Daming people on the Golden Continent, the men are basically wandering outside in search of gold, silver and the like. When they are explorers, there are a lot of women in the house who are responsible for farming the land and taking care of their children.

In the land of Gold Island, people admire explorers the most, and their dreams are all about finding a big gold mine and getting rich overnight.

Next came the immigrants who immigrated to Liaodong, Hezhong, Western Regions, Central Asia, Black Soil, and Nanyun Province. They can often own large areas of land and adopt mechanized farming methods.

Every family uses thousands of acres of land, or even tens of thousands of acres of land, and has their own farms, pastures, etc. Although it is a bit tiring, life is obviously very rich.

The worst people in this life are those who stayed in Daming. The better ones can still work in factories and commercial firms.

The bad ones are those who are neither willing to immigrate nor to work in the city, guarding the one-acre three-point land in their hometown, always feel that the outside world may not be better than their own home, no matter what they say, it is useless, People who don't want to leave.

They are the poorest and most tired Ming people, and the government has nothing to do with them. They neither want to immigrate nor to work in factories and commercial firms. They stay in their original places and enjoy the dividends and policies of the times. If not, naturally you can only watch others get better.

This is almost the same as some farmers in later generations.

When everyone went out to work to earn money, some people just didn't want to go out, and didn't want to be restrained and managed by others. They stuck to the little field at home and planted it every year for a lifetime.

The price of food has not risen for decades, everything else is rising, and the money stored in the bank is depreciating. I can only watch others get better and better, get rich and buy houses in the city, and when I come here , I have worked hard all my life, and the money I have saved all my life is so useless. I get sick, buy a car for my child, get married, and so on.

Sometimes people just want to break through and move more. People move to live, and trees move to die. This is actually the truth.

Look at these immigrant Daming people, all of them have become plantation owners, living a comfortable life, the poor people in the past have now become lords.

"Well said, well said~"

Liu Jin, who has been a man for two generations, naturally deeply agrees.

"Haha, let me just say, there are many rich people in Beijing and Tianjin, and many of the plantations here belong to you."

"You Beijing-Tianjin people love to set up factories, commercial banks, and ship fleets, and do business all over the world. Each business is very big, and you are very generous in your work."

Master Qian also smiled and praised the people from the Beijing and Tianjin regions.

"Yeah~"

"It doesn't matter where they are from, they are all from Daming."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and said.

"Yes, yes, they are all Daming people~"

"This piece of rubber forest is in front of me. On the top of the mountain in the past, there are durians planted here. This durian smells stinky, but it tastes very delicious, and its shelf life is longer. It can be transported to Beijing, Tianjin and other regions. It is sold all over the world, so it is now one of the most important fruits grown in Nanyang, and the price is quite reasonable."

Master Qian took Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin to another planting area, and introduced them in detail as he walked.

His plantation has a scale of tens of thousands of mu, and he has planted rubber, durian, mangosteen, etc., and also planted rice, corn, sweet potato, etc. in some places with water.

Rice, corn, sweet potatoes, etc. are obviously grown for slaves to eat, so that they don’t need to buy grain, and they can have surplus grain to raise pigs, cattle, sheep, etc., and the rest of the land is planted with cash crops. Pretty good.

(End of this chapter)