When the boat arrived in Penghu, some people came up again, all of whom were elderly people around 60 years old, and most of them were alone, either men or women.

After these people boarded the boat, the craftsmen found out that they were the families of naval officers and soldiers or infantry recruited in Penghu recently. There were many idle people in Penghu, and everyone had a very hard time. In the past two or three months, the Nan'an Marquis Mansion of the Dongfan has successively recruited more than 2,000 people from Penghu in Penghu. This has not been very helpful to Penghu's food supply, prices, and the market's people.

The elderly people who boarded the boat were in a very happy mood. Their clothes were very ragged, their luggage was just a small package, and they were not allowed to bring bulky furniture in the Dongfan area. In fact, they had nothing decent to do.

Pigs, chickens, cattle and sheep must have been dealt with. After the cash, the farm tools and furniture were very ragged. Dongfan even converted some of the lowest prices for them, and they threw them away or gave them to them in Penghu.

Many people boarded the boat alone with smiles on their faces. They knew that in the Dongfan, there were people in charge of three meals a day, or had a ready-made courtyard for their homes, and the family could reunite in the Dongfan, rather than being trapped in Penghu, which was no less than a new life for many people.

Many people have worked hard all their lives, their hands are covered with calluses and their faces are full of wrinkles. They are all white in their fifties and look like 80-year-old men. Their teeth are shaky, their teeth are blind, and their bodies are a little hunched. This is caused by long-term nutritional deficiency and calcium deficiency.

But they are still very strong. They have overdrawn their bodies for a long time and do heavy work, so that their muscles have not yet atrophy. They can still work in the farmland all day long. Their hands are full of calluses and rough patterns are still strong.

Sitting on the boat, these people were almost huddling in the corner. Later, the craftsmen slowly started to talk to them, and then everyone gradually started to laugh.

Even if the atmosphere was harmonious, no one took the initiative to talk to Lin Yangxian and Chen Duzhu, and the classes on both sides were very different.

The small whistle boat stayed in Penghu for less than a quarter of an hour. After getting on, the people paddled out with their oars. After adjusting the direction of the sail, a group of sailors took turns paddling until the wind speed came up, and they stopped.

Due to the close distance and strong wind, there were not many people on the small whistle boat. After it was dark in the evening, they continued to drive on the sea. Before getting up, the sleepy Lin Yang and Chen Duzhu felt the hull shake, and then they heard someone talking in a daze. Then they saw the lights on. A sailor came over and told them: "Two masters, Huaxi Port in Dongfan has arrived."

The two of them got up one after another, feeling that the port was built quite large and grand. The port area was very large, and there were many brick and stone roads and buildings on the shore. Straight avenues led directly to the port and led to the distance in the dark.

"No wonder it costs a lot." Lin Yangxian narrowed his eyes and said, "It is said that money investing in Dongfan is like flowing water, and that money flows out like sea water. Now it seems that what you say is not necessary."

Chen Duzhu smiled and said, "I haven't been here once. It was originally a broken place, but now it's really earth-shaking."

"Not?"

The two of them saw a very large port area. The sea boats were not close to the beach, especially large ships worth hundreds of tons. They were very heavy after being filled with cargo. It was quite difficult to enter and exit the shallow waters of the port and needed to be pulled and driven by a small boat.

There must be a parking area, a delivery area, a delivery area, and a storage area, and then leave the dock area and go to the place where the business area is located to trade.

This is the way a normal port looks, whether it is Mingzhou Port in the Great Wei Dynasty, Yuegang in Zhangzhou, or Quanzhou Port, all of which are the same, without exception.

The port here in Dongfan was originally very small in size, and it was enough to have a place to park and ship goods.

Originally, the trade deals of dozens of ships a year were at most, and it was enough to have the previous scale.

But now it is more than ten times bigger, which surprised Lin Yangxian and Chen Duzhu.

"Brother Zhu, Brother Yangxian."

Shortly after the two men got ashore, a group of gentry surrounded them.

Everyone bowed and bowed to each other. Those who came before may have arrived in the morning or last night. They were all gentry who arrived at the Dongfan in the past few days.

Most of them are from a big family, or family members of a large business company, big shopkeepers, or high-end professional brokers.

These people have the same identities as Chen Duzhu and Lin Yangxian, and their goals are the same, of course they come for the salt of the Dongfan.

This time the amount of salt was extremely large, and it was not difficult to eat all of Changwen Hou Mansion, but if you want to open up all the channels at once, sell a large amount of salt in a short time, destroy the original private salt network, seize the entire Fujian market, and even distribute it to Liangzhe and Lianghu. Changwen Hou Mansion is obviously not qualified.

In addition to the people from Fujian Road, there was also a group of merchants from Liangzhe and Huguang. Of course, they did not come from Liangzhe Road or Liangzhe Lake, but were originally stationed in Fuzhou.

In Liangzhe and Lianghu, a large amount of goods also go to sea from Fujian, or buy local local goods to trade back and forth in Fujian.

The two lakes produce the most grain, and the other is a large amount of local products.

The business in Liangzhe is also quite developed, with the Mingzhou port for foreign trade. However, several mountainous prefectures and counties such as Quzhou are closer to Fujian through Jianzhou and Minjiang River to enter the sea, which is much more convenient than to go to Mingzhou, so it is not surprising that there are more merchants from Zhejiang here in Fujian.

A group of people exchanged greetings, and Chen Duzhu and Lin Yangxian were of course the core of the crowd, and these people were originally here for them.

"Brother Jiuzhen, Brother Yanda." After the greetings, Chen Duzhu smiled and said, "The situation here in Dongfan has been confirmed. Have you been there to see it?"

"I haven't gone yet." Wei Jiu was a middle-aged gentry in his forties. He smiled and said, "We came here in the afternoon. It was almost dark. Later, a clerk from the Marquis' Mansion here told us that the two brothers will arrive tonight, so we might as well wait."

"The relationship between the Wei family and the Dongfan side actually doesn't have to wait."

"No, no." Wei Jiuzhen made a powerful hand gesture and said: "No rules can lead to a square, of course we have to wait."

The Wei family, Xu family, and the rest of the families nodded. The Nan'an Marquis Mansion and Changwen Marquis Mansion were the same. This time, the Dongfan Salt was also assigned to the Changwen Marquis Mansion to take responsibility.

Each company is buying goods from Changwen Hou Mansion, and it is estimated that the shipment price is slightly higher than that of the Dongfan, but this is normal. Even if it is a little higher, the business is still very profitable. Each company can make at least several cents per catty.

For a business that sells tens of thousands of pounds or even tens of thousands of pounds, this is much more profitable than food.

The Wei Jiuzhen family is the Wei family in Fuzhou, and it is deeply rooted in Fujian Road. People in the family are also officials in many places, running grocery transactions, and underwriting tens of thousands of stones of salt a year is also a small matter. After all, salt is an irreplaceable hard currency.

The Wei family and Nan'an Marquis' Mansion and Wei Yi's existence are of course quite close to each other. Wei Jiu is really Wei Yi's uncle, and this relationship is very close.

As for Xu Yanda, he is Xu Xingwei's cousin, not far apart, and Xu Xingwei's relationship with Nan'an Marquis Mansion is also quite close.

The other families have close relationships with Changwen Hou Mansion and are also powerful figures who have relationships with various prefectures and counties.

Only these people dare to blatantly sell Dongfan salt. You should know that although the imperial court has a law that allows Dongfan to be fried, boiled and salt for sale, which is not considered private salt, the name of official is two-word. If an ordinary merchant dares to sell it openly, he will not be a problem first and then lock up the person. If he makes trouble, even if the person is released, who dares to come to buy salt again? It is better to buy private salt secretly. It is better to have an accident under the eyes of the government.

"There are people from the Marquis' Mansion waiting there." Xu Yanda and Wei Jiuzhen pointed to the official road together. They walked less than two miles from the beach port and entered the normal area. Under the moonlight, you can see houses everywhere. Chen Duzhu, who once came to the East Fan when he was young, expressed his surprise. He said in a deep voice: "When my ninth brother came to the East Fan, I used to laugh at him. Except for Zhongzhai, this place is a deserted island. Now it seems that I am too shallow."

Wei Jiuzhen said: "I was shocked when I came here. I am afraid that such a big move can be done by Marquis of Nan'an."

"The Changwen Hou Mansion has also made great efforts." The families are very close to each other, and Xu Yanda joked: "The noble Hou Mansion has spent 300,000 yuan on the villa built for the Nan'an Hou, and a large number of houses have been built."

"If the two families had not worked together, there would have been no such great achievements." Chen Duzhu smiled and said, "But to say that if it were Changwen Hou Mansion, he would not have made such a big decision and spread such a big stall."

According to Changwen Hou Mansion's idea, it must be enough to expand the port warehouse and build a few main roads.

Because people who farm do not have to enjoy it too much, and the trade scale on the island is definitely limited, so there is no need for such a large port and large areas of trade and storage areas.

But I had already made it like this, so I could only accept it.

"With Nan'an Hou's economic approach, the future of the Dongfan is really unlimited." Xu Yanda, Wei Jiuzhen and others agreed with each other, and said this at the same time.

Chen Duzhu could only nod his head silently, but he still felt a little dissatisfied.

Even if there is really a large amount of sea salt in Dongfan, it can produce more than one million stones of salt every year, and the output is quite amazing. Changlu Salt Field only has a few million stones a year.

Taking Fujian Road as a calculation, a population of about 15 million and a geographical environment with many mountains and few fields in Fujian, this population density is quite large, which also makes Fujianese people dare to venture and fight, and have a tradition of developing and immigrating overseas.

As long as the Dongfan area develops well and there is no need to encourage and mobilize, those Fujianese who have lived in difficulties in their hometowns will immigrate spontaneously.

As for salt, a family of six is ​​a normal family combination in Fujian. Of course, this is the state of a small family. Many families are not separated, and it is normal for a family of twenty or thirty people to be together.

Based on a family of six, the minimum standard is that more than fifty kilograms of salt are required a year.

Later generations had 400 grams of salt, and ordinary families would have to eat more than ten or twenty bags a year. This is still the snacks I usually eat, and takeaways contain sufficient salt.

In this era, the only way for most people to supplement salt is to consume it directly, but there are no snacks to supplement them with extra salt.

Therefore, a person has about ten kilograms of salt a year, and it is impossible to be lowered any more.

This is the minimum standard. Failure to meet this standard will lead to insufficient salt intake, leading to large neck disease, swelling, weakness and weakness.

People may not know any scientific principles, but the consequences of not eating salt are quite serious, which is something that everyone understands.

There are dozens of kilograms or hundreds of kilograms, and at least one million households in Fujian, and they need tens of millions of salt or even over 100 million kilograms of salt every year. If Dongfan salt is snatched off the entire market, the output will probably be in short supply.

Of course, there is no need to do this, and we cannot do it. We will seize most of the private salt market and push sales to two lakes and two Zhejiangs. The current salt farm in the Dongfan stage has a production of only a few million pounds a year of up to tens of millions of pounds, which is too far apart.

The sustainable development path is to be sustainable by being able to spread the private salt network and then expand the salt field on a large scale.

"Nan'an Hou is also a wonderful person." Some chubby official and gentleman smiled and said, "It's really a wonderful idea to sell official salt through private salt channels."

"No?" someone answered: "I heard that there was a salt pond for drying salt here. I thought that Nan'an Hou Mansion had the right to cook salt, so the court would have a headache. Now, he was scrambling the market with private salt dealers, and the court could not suffer any losses, let alone say nothing."
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