Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 353 Colonial Institutional System
How does this colonization create benefits?

Some people may think it is very simple.

Just grab it directly!
Didn't the great powers in the Age of Discovery always do this?

Isn't the strength of the great powers the strength of the bandits?
Indeed, there is nothing quicker than a cash grab.

It's cool to grab money for a while, and it's cool to keep grabbing.

If you can really grab it all the time, it will be great.

Question, where do people keep grabbing so many things for you?
Just like the civilians in Xishan County, what are you robbing?
They still want to grab food!

Therefore, the method of directly robbing has been proved to be ineffective.

At least, not where resources are scarce.

Where in this world are there so many resource-rich places that you can keep grabbing?
Therefore, if you want to create benefits through colonization, you can't just think about robbing.

At this moment, Taichang is exploring the method of economic colonization, and Daming Western Company is, to put it bluntly, a structure that implements economic colonization.

Economic colonization is not that simple. Without a mature and complete institutional system, not only will it not be able to create benefits, but it may make you stay with you until you don't even have to wear your pants.

Of course, the maturity and perfection of this institutional system did not happen overnight.

From the very beginning, Taichang trained more than a dozen directors of the Daming Western Company, and introduced the idea of ​​economic colonization to them in detail.

In the future, it will be up to these people to explore and perfect it.

Xu Erjue can be said to be the best among these directors, because he has a clear understanding of how to colonize the economy and how to create benefits.

This ma pengfei is better.

For these, he can be said to have eight skills and seven apertures, and he knows nothing!
There is no way, few scholars learn these things these days, and now the Daming College of Arts and Sciences has just started classes, and has not yet cultivated relevant talents.

Xu Erjue had no choice but to teach patiently: "Master Ma, it's not enough to just dig coal, you have to be young and strong to dig coal, and you can only create benefits by making full use of everyone."

Well, everything you say makes sense.

You are a god!
The question is, how do you get the most out of everyone?

You say it!

Ma Pengfei's face was full of longing, he just wanted to get into Xu Erjue's head and have a look.

Xu Erjue still said calmly: "For example, these old and weak women and children at home, you have to let them work, you have to let them create benefits!"

Uh, this.

Ma Pengfei was puzzled: "How can they create benefits? The food grown here is probably not enough for them to eat!"

Don't stare at the ground!

Lift your head up and widen your horizons a little.

Xu Erjue pointed to the continuous mountains and forests along the coast and said: "The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains depends on the water to drink water. Of course, they may have eaten up all the fish and shrimps near the sea, but you can find a way from the mountains!"

Find a way out of the mountains?

Ma Pengfei looked at the trees all over the mountains and plains and couldn't help but suddenly said: "Master Xu, what do you mean, let them cut down trees?"

Xu Erjue nodded slightly and said: "Well, there is a huge demand for timber at the moment, and cutting down trees can create a lot of benefits at the beginning, but the tree will be gone after it is cut down, and it will not wait for more than ten years or even decades. , Don’t even think about creating benefits from wood.”

Uh, this.

Cutting trees and logging is indeed a one-shot deal, which is a bit like fishing out of water.

Ma Pengfei asked anxiously: "Then what should we do, Mr. Xu, what should we do after the tree is cut down?"

This is not easy!
Xu Erjue said without hesitation: "That is naturally a more valuable thing."

Ma Pengfei couldn't help asking: "Master Xu, what is the most valuable thing to grow on the mountain! You can tell the lower officials, and the lower officials will let them grow it."

You think you can grow whatever you want!

This is the importance of agronomy. If you say that you, a local official, don't understand agronomy, what can you do?
Fortunately, the Xu family's agronomy inheritance is quite good.

Xu Erjue looked around, then looked at the sky, and then said lightly: "The climate here is mild, the water source is abundant, and the light is sufficient. It is very suitable for planting cinnamon and tobacco leaves."

Cinnamon and tobacco?
Ma Pengfei couldn't help asking: "Master Xu, the cinnamon you're talking about is cinnamon, right?"

Xu Erjue nodded slightly and said: "Yes, cinnamon bark is the bark of the cinnamon tree. However, the bark of the cinnamon tree is not only valuable, but also the bark, leaves, flowers and first-cut fruits of the cinnamon tree. Those are precious spices, Westerners bacon and dim sum can’t do without these things, so these spices are very valuable.”

Hearing this, Ma Pengfei couldn't help being pleasantly surprised: "Master Xu, what do you mean, as long as the original books are chopped up and planted with cinnamon trees, you can make a lot of money, right?"

Xu Erjue nodded slightly and said: "Yes, as long as the cinnamon is harvested, you can make a lot of money. However, this harvest has to wait at least six or seven years, and when the cinnamon is harvested, the trunk is usually cut down, leaving only the roots , so that even if the roots are pulled out again, it will take at least another five or six years to harvest."

Ah!
Doesn't that mean you didn't say anything?
I can basically work here for three years, and at most six years!
What do you mean, I'll cut down the tree now, plant the cinnamon, and wait for someone else to harvest it?
How does that work?
At least, not just cinnamon.

Hearing this, Ma Pengfei couldn't help asking anxiously: "What about the tobacco leaves? What are the tobacco leaves?"

Xu Erjue didn't answer and asked instead: "Master Ma, you are not from the south, are you?"

Does this have anything to do with tobacco?
Ma Pengfei nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, Mr. Xu, the next official is from Shandong."

That's right, no wonder you don't know about tobacco leaves.

Xu Erjue introduced unhurriedly: "In the Wanli period, the "Lu Shu" written by Yao Lu recorded that there was a herb in the Lu Song Kingdom called Danba wild rice, and its name was drunk. Burn one end with fire, point the other end to the mouth, and smoke it. The air enters the throat from the pipe, and then... Some people brought it to Zhangzhou to grow it, but now it is more than Luzon, and it is sold in other countries. Tamba wild rice is also found in Puzhong today, and it is commonly called Jinsi drunk."

then what?
Ma Pengfei was puzzled and said: "Master Xu, is this thing very valuable? What do people in Luzon use this thing for? To treat diseases?"

Uh, this thing is not used to cure diseases, but to make people sick!
To be honest, this thing is really not a good thing.

At the moment, Tamba wild rice is a bit flooded in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili, and many people are using it.

However, if the sons of officials dare to use this, they must be beaten up by the elders in the family.

Alas, it is not easy to make some money!

Xu Erjue sighed secretly in his heart, and then explained: "To put it bluntly, this thing is a bit addictive, and people who are used to it don't need it, so don't worry about the sales. There is a great demand in Nanyang, and the price is not bad."

It won't take another few years to get a harvest, right?
Ma Pengfei asked cautiously: "Master Xu, how long will it take for the tobacco leaves to yield a harvest?"

Xu Erjue said without hesitation: "This tobacco leaf is similar to vegetables. It can be harvested in a few months. Usually it is planted in March and April, and it can be harvested in August and September."

OK, plant this!
Ma Pengfei clapped his hands excitedly, then his expression changed, and he said awkwardly: "Master Xu, where do you buy the seeds for this thing, and how do you plant them?"

You don't have to worry about these.

Xu Erjue said without hesitation: "Our company will send someone with seeds to teach you how to plant it. You just need to organize people to cut down the tree and turn over the fatter land on the sunny hillside. Also, the cinnamon tree You'd better bring some race, our company can prove it to you, and it can be regarded as your achievements as an official."

Oops, that would be great.

Ma Pengfei repeatedly bowed his hands and said, "Thank you, Mr. Xu, thank you, Mr. Xu."

This time, he finally understood how to create benefits.

Next, he started working according to the guidance documents issued by the Ministry of Officials.

First of all, based on the statistics of the yellow book, selling fields and mountains from door to door.

Those who bought the fields, all the harvests belonged to each family, and they only had to pay [-]% of the tax.

I bought a mountain one, and taught you how to grow things to make a lot of money. With money, you can eat whatever you want, and wear whatever you want!
Of course, both the fields and the mountains have to be counted as money, and the fields are limited to one mu per person. Anyway, there are many mountains. If you have the courage, you can buy more. Anyway, they have to be counted.

It doesn't matter if you don't have money, you can borrow from Daming Bank, and the interest on the loan is also very reasonable, but the money must be repaid.

It doesn't matter if you don't borrow money or buy land, you are simply not cooperating with the official's work, starving you to death, and the official is not responsible!

The money was also lent out, and the land was sold, followed by teaching others how to pay back the money.

The job of cutting down trees, whether you do it or not, is worth cutting one by one, and you have cut down a lot of valuable things!

In addition, the Daming Western Company recruited a large number of people to mine. Iron mines are a bit tiring, and the wages are not very high. Coal mines are dirty and tiring, and the wages are high. Whoever is willing to go, is willing to sign up, and they will be picked up for free every year.

It doesn't matter if you don't go, when the time comes, you can't pay back the money, so clean up your bastard!
In this way, more than 20 counties in the three prefectures have already arranged the next work for others while the city is being built, and the colonial institutional system has slowly begun to operate.

Of course, it is not a matter of a day or two to create benefits, it is a long-term process.

In the beginning, Daming Bank and Daming Western Company even invested some money in it.

However, this benefit is long-term and stable.

Once the entire Japan is won, the income will be even more astonishing!

(End of this chapter)