I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 631, Yizhou who walks on one leg

After the prefects in the mainland gained benefits, they became more active in dispatching immigrants. In the first year, 2 people came to Yizhou. These people started to build sugarcane farms in the southern part of Yizhou, where the early personnel had planned. .

And in order to make these farms have enough manpower, Bao Xin is also vigorously buying wildlings, even the big man's caravan is the same.With the special product of brown sugar, the caravans of the Han people are also willing to come to Yizhou for trading.

Because for the businessmen of the big man, although the savage trading is highly profitable, after all, they have to go deep into the land outside the big man to catch the savages. The fighting power of the savages is not strong, and it is difficult to cause casualties to them. , All kinds of poisons may cause casualties to their subordinates. If they are accidentally infected with the plague, they will lose everything.It can be said that the slave hunting industry is a high-input, high-risk, high-return industry.

Going to Yizhou to sell the savages in their hands can not only get the highest profit, but also buy brown sugar. The profit earned by this trip is much higher than that in the mainland of Dahan, so the merchants of Dahan are willing to come to Yizhou for transactions.

And a large number of laborers entered Yizhou. Although they could only do some simple things, their participation made the progress of field reclamation several times faster.Under the leadership of the Han people, they reclaimed the wasteland in the south of Yizhou and planted sugar cane in the fields.Bao Xin and Tian Feng were delighted to see this scene.

Tian Feng said: "Lieutenant, news came from the big Han merchants that Lu Bu broke away from the big Han and established a city in Jiuzhen County. It is said that half of the barbarian residences we bought were captured by Lu Bu and the others. Our manor has been reclaimed so quickly. It can be said that it is thanks to the labor force sent by Lu Bu!"

"Lu Bu?" Bao Xin thought for a long time and remembered who Lu Bu was. After all, in this world, Lu Bu hadn't won any battles, and he was sent by Liu Bei, so he was not famous at all!

Then Bao Xin said with a smile: "It seems that the Han court is about to collapse, and even generals like Lu Bu have escaped from the Han. Obviously, they are not optimistic that Liu Bei can win the battle of Hanzhong. If the tree falls and the monkeys disperse, people like Lu Bu will see it." When the big man is about to die, he wants to escape early! I want to tell the news to the ruling party!"

Tian Feng said: "Lu Bu's behavior is a great thing for us in Yizhou. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have such a sufficient labor force. This year's brown sugar should be doubled!"

Bao Xin also laughed and said: "Our first batch of savage tribes are about to leave their teachers, and now they can be regarded as the real big-gan people, let them bring the old with the new, and there will be more and more big-handed people in Yizhou , our Yizhou will become more and more prosperous!"

Dagan's policy is not to allow slaves, slaves, even in newly reclaimed land like Yizhou. This is a red line for Dagan, and those who cross the border will die.Because most of the high-level officials in Dagan used to be either slaves or serfs. Even the Hu people were mostly slaves. Under the influence of Xu Wei, they hated the system of slavery very much and resolutely suppressed such things.

Bao Xin was also born as a servant of a noble family before, and his birth alone did not allow Dagan to appear as a slave again.But there is an obvious shortage of labor force here, so he asked Tian Feng for advice on how to solve the problem, and the solution Tian Feng gave him was to use brown sugar to attract businessmen from all over the country to buy savages to Yizhou.Then he bought it again.

Of course, Tian Feng originally wanted to use these savages as slaves, but Bao Xin firmly refused. Instead, he used three years of work to repay the cost of buying these savages, so that the government of Yizhou would not suffer, and the savages could become normal ordinary people. , you can also learn life skills such as farming from the hands of the Han people, and you can also increase the number of cadres with this method. Otherwise, the number of savages will continue to increase like this, and the number of cadres will not increase. Unrest will occur in Yizhou. Using this method, the savages from Yizhou can quickly integrate into Dagan and become the people of Dagan. It can also increase the stability of Yizhou. It can be said to serve multiple purposes!
Bao Xin continued: "Yizhou can't just rely on the brown sugar industry! We have to keep up with other industries. The ruling party said that the future is an era of industry, and we in Yizhou must catch up!"

Tian Feng wondered: "The number of our craftsmen is too short, and there is a lack of talents in this field if we want to build our own factories!"

Thanks to the location and climate of Yizhou, sugarcane in Yizhou can be planted for three seasons. As long as the fertility is higher, sugarcane can be planted all the time. So now Yizhou’s brown sugar production has doubled, but with the rapid development of the sugar industry However, although other industries in Yizhou have also developed, they are far below Bao Xin's expectations.

Although there is still a shortage of primary labor in Yizhou, it is much better than before. The population of Yizhou is rapidly approaching 20, and it is growing at a rate of more than [-] per month!Bao Xin knew that within a few years, there would be no shortage of people in Yizhou. After all, Yizhou was just a small island, barely the size of a county in Dahan, and a county with a population of one million was also a very prosperous place in Dagan.

However, there is still a shortage of intermediate and senior talents in all walks of life, such as intermediate and senior carpenters who manufacture ocean-going ships, and their own blacksmiths. Without these talents, Yizhou's machinery manufacturing industry cannot develop. Like waterwheels, Yizhou manufactured Not only is it low in efficiency, small in shape, but also expensive. If it weren't for the fact that it would be difficult to transport inland, the water trucks in Yizhou would not be sold at all.The reason for all this is the low level of carpenters in Yizhou.

There is also the iron and steel industry that Bao Xin wants to develop. Even after more than two years, Yizhou can’t even manufacture the most primitive first-generation blast furnace in Mayi. Yizhou only has some low-efficiency blacksmithing workshops. The iron smelting furnaces commonly used in Dahan now are of poor quality, and blacksmiths can only repair agricultural tools in Yizhou. Even if Bao Xin wants them to make steel plowshares, such a blacksmith can only shake his head at Bao Xin Saying that it can't be done, Bao Xin is so angry that he is half dead.

There is also the shipbuilding industry that Bao Xin is concerned about. After all, Yizhou is an island, and the development of any industry must be outward, and transport ships are indispensable, and Yizhou has a large number of virgin forests. Among them, there are countless century-old giant trees, all of which are the best. Raw materials, according to Bao Xin's vision, Yizhou's shipbuilding industry has such raw materials, and it should be able to become Yizhou's second pillar industry besides the sugar industry.

However, the shipbuilding industry in Yizhou has been developing for more than two years, but it has disappointed Bao Xin. The carpenters in Yizhou have wasted countless century-old giant trees and a lot of money. Up to now, they can only manufacture some small fishing boats of about 2 shi. To repair the transport ships docked here, the pressure on Yizhou's technical talents is still huge.

(End of this chapter)