open sea

Chapter 1083 Justice
In July, Chen Mu still stayed in Muye, not only because of the beautiful scenery here, but also because Muye was already the pocketbook of the whole Asia.

The power of merchants is formidable. A merchant, Li Yuxi, who took over the tobacco plantation on the east coast of North Asia, urged the imperial court to implement laws on plowing, logging and planting tobacco.

But the starting point of the law is not wanton plunder.

On the east coast, due to the vigorous development of the tobacco industry, the Japanese military government planned 460 forest farms. Most of the aboriginal tribes lived on logging and hunting. Each forest farm was divided into [-] areas. The wooded areas are pastures and hunting grounds.

The tobacco planting industry also has the same plan. The land of each tribe is divided into farmland and tobacco field. The imperial court does not manage the farmland much except for the land tax, but the tobacco field is divided into four parts forcibly. Tobacco can only be grown on one piece of land.

Li Yuxi sees this matter as thoroughly as Yang Tingxiang of the Eastern Military Mansion - if he uses Tongbao to open the way, wantonly cut down forests and grows tobacco, a large number of aborigines will leave their land and move to the central region, and his business will worsen .

And in the end, it caused the confrontation between the aborigines and the Oriental military government.

Li Yuxi even suggested that the Dongyang military government implement the decree on the metal mines and coal mines of the Great Lakes, and suggested that resources such as iron mountains and coal fields should be dug for one year and then buried, and the mountains should be closed for 20 years before digging.

Moreover, Li Yuxi was not the only one who had this idea, like Yang Tingxiang, Governor of Spain in the Ming Dynasty, Zou Yuanbiao, Changsheng County Magistrate, and even Zhao Shizhen, a staff member of the military government.

It made Chen Mu dumbfounded.

The resistance to this matter is indeed a bit high, not because of others, but precisely because of their own internal reasons.

If in the hinterland of Daming, it would be difficult to keep the ironworks open all year round, with two blast furnaces for each, one for ironmaking and one for repairs, it would be difficult to replace them every [-] days. .

But the aboriginal workers employed in Asia are different. The blast furnaces here can make steel in three shifts around the clock. The workers do not have such traditions, and agriculture and industry are easily separated.

But management doesn't want to.

They are people-oriented and think that people need to rest. Based on this, they think that since people need to rest, so should blast furnaces, and even mines. After digging, they have to be buried with soil, and once buried, they will have to rest for 20 years. .

Li Yuxi paid for the construction of many spare blast furnaces, but they were useless at all. The workers wanted to use them, but the officials refused to let them use them.

"You call this knowing the weather, I think it's sustainable development, and the hardware is different."

When Chen Mu said this, Zhao Changji from the Mechanics Unit was full of contempt, and whispered to Yang Zhaolong, the magistrate of Muye who was sitting at the long table: "I used to say so vigorously when I said Xiyi was short-sighted, now it's our turn."

Chen Mu thought this might be the golden mean?Every one of them was against getting things done, even in the matter of mining iron ore, which had been full of resistance from the beginning of the Great Lakes Ironworks.

Even Bald Zou, who was far away from Changsheng, couldn't restrain his desire to spray something, so he wrote a long letter to dissuade Chen Mu from continuing his business of increasing production.

"No, why?"

Chen Mu was very confused, he knew very well that this matter was different from what he had encountered in the past, and it was not something he could do alone, so he spread his hands and complained: "You said that workers should rest, yes, Chen also thinks that workers should rest Although there are three shifts, there is one worker for the day shift, and two workers for the middle shift and evening shift. They work for four hours and rest for twenty hours, and all workers have two days off every ten days.”

"It is said that the blast furnace should be rested. In the past, the blast furnace was designed to take 45 days to either repair or rebuild. Now I shorten this time to 45 days. 30 days is not [-] days. Every blast furnace has a spare... But you say Are the mines and coal fields going to stop?"

"The ones that can't be dug in the ground are all resting." Chen Mu patted the table helplessly, he was really incompetent and furious about this question: "Where did we just dig? We can't finish digging!"

The output of mining, ironmaking, and steelmaking before industrialization and the output after that are completely a drop in the bucket.

Everyone looked at him without blinking, and without saying a word, their expressions had already expressed the meaning in their hearts clearly.

"You have seen how Oroyi mines. They dug big pits everywhere in Potosi, day and night, all year round, and dead people. Can their output be low? Now we are digging only No one knows how many outcropping mines are underground."

"We have protected the mines well. In a certain year in the future, there will be countless iron and steel in Europe. They will drive our descendants from this land and use these ores to make things to beat us. At that time, the people who will be beaten are My offspring are your offspring."

"Our industrialization requires steel and wealth. I don't want to rob anyone, even if I dig a mine here - pinch the cigarette for me, no smoking!"

Zhao Shizhen had just lit a small pipe, holding the pipe in his hand and planning to say something, when he suddenly saw Chen Mu standing up and waving his big hand at him to let him put out the smoke, his hands trembled in fright, and almost dropped the pipe to the ground, he paused Soothe the mind and then said cautiously: "If you don't let me smoke, you won't let me smoke. Why are you bothering me?"

Chen Mu didn't object to his subordinates smoking before, but when Li Yuxi made tobacco a weapon for harvesting gold and silver, he was very opposed to this pastime.

Because this means terrible power, just 1000 taels of Muye smoke, which allowed Li Yuxi, a merchant of the Ming Dynasty, to earn a net profit of more than [-] taels of silver, and at the same time paid more than [-] taels of tax for the Eastern Military Government, which is still in short supply in Europe.

With this career, Li Yuxi even became a guest of the Eastern Army, serving the Ming Empire from his perspective.

Just talking about the concept of 5000 taels of tax is the annual income of a thousand households. Zhu Xiaoen's National Restoration Army did not spend so much money from its establishment to the completion of training and going out.

1 boxes of Muye Tobacco was earned, so next year Li Yuxi will sell another [-] boxes?
Europe is a natural dumping ground. Since the Spaniards landed in the New World, they have long developed the habit of chewing tobacco and smoking pipes. Makino tobacco with excellent quality and taste, more exquisite packaging and higher value is naturally a better choice for them. .

And it is difficult to replace. Europeans can't make decent cigarette paper, and they don't have baking technology. Even if they do make their own tobacco, they can only sell it at a low price and earn a hard-earned money.

Chen Mu doesn't think this business can last for a long time, but according to the huge upstream and downstream tobacco planting industry, logging industry, paper industry, and cigarette industry with hundreds of thousands of people working in the east coast, as long as it maintains its peak in ten or twenty years Not only can the gold and silver plundered by Europa from the New World and Africa for decades be taken back, but even the wealth of the Crusades can be gathered in their hands.

In Chen Mu's view, letting Europa return to Europa should look like it is his greatest just cause in this world.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)