The autumn rain kept falling and hitting people, and the sound of shaking was made of oil cloth made of raincoats. People kept carrying the goods newly arrived at the Tianjin port and emptied the goods from the large ships one after another.

The original position of the hull gradually became lighter, and the hull, covered with moss marks, was raised a lot.

In the rain curtain, the trestle bridge at Tianjin Port is also in the misty rain. More goods are stored at the trestle bridge at the port and are covered with oil cloth to hide the rain.

Zheng Shaolai pointed to the large cargo pile area in the rain curtain, let out a breath of white breath, rubbed his hands, and said, "This piece is full of iron tools, used for baits. The bait cargo we transported here is sugar. After all, iron tools go to Japan and sugar go to the north, it is very profitable..."

Several people present nodded. This time, another group of people came to Taiwan north. The first wave was led by Li Pingzhi. The young official was ordered to return to the military office to report his duties. It depends on the senior management's intention, whether to put him back to Taiwan as the deputy of the marching department of Chang Wei, or to be transferred to the center for another appointment.

Then came He Bin led the team. The two teams had nearly 300 people, all of which were middle-level officers and officials from Taiwan. Some of them had ended the technical exchanges between the two sides. Some returned to the research institute, and some returned to the original workshop. Some were in Taiwan for more than a year, and at least for more than half a year. Now there are still many rotating personnel staying in Taiwan. Normal personnel exchanges basically arrived in Tianjin by land, and then Taiwan went north to the Tianjin port, and personnel and goods were diverted in Tianjin.

The situation here is already an open secret.

Hutchison's ships arrive at the port almost every day, almost all are large ships that are not available in the Ming Dynasty.

Three or four years ago, Hutchison's ships were the largest. Now, this kind of small boat is basically the one that runs to Fujian, transporting Fujian personnel and supplies to Taiwan, routes to Japan and Nanyang, as well as ships to Pi Island, Tianjin, Denglai, and Nanjing, at least the level of the Tianchengwei.

The ship He Bin and others were on the Datong Zuowei, which was a schooner with a streamlined hull.

During the last naval battle against the Netherlands, the ship was not yet built in the shipyard. It took nearly two months to launch the water. The second voyage was to transport goods and personnel to Tianjin.

The hull is long and has four masts and many-faced sails. It is more than twice as fast as the Fu Ship when walking on the sea, and the average speed is equal to the maximum speed of the Fu Ship.

This time, not only was there a personnel exchange, but it also carried a large amount of goods and important things. I brought a lot of them during the last exchange. This time, He Bin brought more, and the numbers were already quite terrifying.

It is quite obvious that Tianjin cannot hide people. On the side of Denglai, Hutchison's ships mainly load and unload small amounts of goods, and personnel exchanges hardly leave there.

Denglai was a base for the imperial court to exchange materials and personnel between Dongjiang, and it had a great military role.

Tianjin is a little further away, and it is not that taboo.

Moreover, the governor of Tianjin has changed from Li Banghua to Wu Zhiwang, which is something that Hu Ji likes to see.

I have dealt with Wu Zhiwang in Yulin, and both sides know the truth. Wu Zhiwang will not have any unrealistic plans or ideas, nor will he be unable to tolerate sand like those Qingliu officials.

The two sides can continue to communicate in a friendly and frank manner... that is, to give money to money and Wu Zhiwang to provide convenience.

The port is only a patrol inspector and the garrison of the Thousand Generals of the Army, of course, Hutchison has long bribed it.

"Is this the sugar-filled thing in Taiwan?" There were also senior executives from the port in Tianjin. Han Tong came here specifically from Pi Island, staring at Datong Zuowei in the rain in a daze.

Hantong was riding one of the merchant ships of the Xinpingbao series. It has been caused by several years and is much larger than ordinary merchant ships, but it is pale and much inferior to the Datong Zuowei in front of him.

The Datong Zuowei is a serious schooner with a long and long hull and numerous masts. When you look at it from a distance, you are like a silhouette on the sea. When you sail through the waves, you feel relaxed and happy.

Not only is the old blessed ship incomparable, but the other Western sailing ships are completely incomparable to schooners.

This should be a sailboat that was used in large quantities decades or hundreds of years later. It was also because of the emergence of Hutchison that Hutchison appeared on the sea early. The Dutch and Spaniards also began to imitate it, but they were already much behind. When they could use schooners in large scale, Hutchison should have controlled the entire Nanyang sea surface in their hands.

"It's just sugarcane-fighting sugar." He Bin was quite polite to Han Tong, the veteran deputy officer. The other party followed Zhang Hanshi and others as thieves at sea, and had no background at all. Even if Taiwan is developing well now, they should be more polite to each other.

Taiwan is isolated overseas. Although the military command continues to send people there, it is still inappropriate. In view of this, Chang Wei and Zhang Xuwen and others discussed and decided to actively propose to regularly exchange civil and military officials in Taiwan to the north, and lead the team to the north regularly, either for half a year, or for one or two years, and then return to Taiwan after the term is over.

The benefits of such communication are quite obvious. The military department will be more familiar with the officials and soldiers in Taiwan and will no longer feel a slight sense of rejection. The personnel going north on Taiwan will also have more centripetal force in the Hutchison headquarters and are more willing to regard the entire Hutchison as a family, rather than the separation between Taiwan and the north.

If there is no communication over time, a faint disgust and resistance in the heart will inevitably occur. Although no signs have been found yet, these things will be done early, which is much better than dealing with them when they are discovered.

Han Tong asked someone to open a bag of sacks, reached out to dig out the candy, looked at it, and said, "The particles are a bit coarse, red and black in color. Is this brown sugar?"

"That's right." He Bin nodded and said, "Look at the bag next to him."

Han Tong opened another bag and saw that the bag was full of fine white sugar. He smiled and said, "This sugar is the best."

"It's good, there are many steps to squeeze red and black sugar." He Bin said: "We learned the method of squeezing red and brown sugar from the Japanese. It's strange that the Japanese have good skills in squeezing sugar, but they don't produce sugar. Later, some people said that the Japanese bought raw materials in China since the Song Dynasty. The method of rough squeeze was because it was not easy to get, so they kept striving for excellence in technology."

"The Japanese are pitiful." Han Tong said irresponsibly: "They are really barren land, but there is so much money, so we can make a fortune."

Everyone on the side laughed. This was indeed a very pleasant topic.

He Bin also smiled and said, "Last year we produced 7,000 dan of sugar. After defeating the Dutch, we grabbed all their sugarcane fields and expanded the scale on a large scale. We hired many experts in planting in Fujian and Japan, as well as sugar-pressing masters. From February to September to plant sugarcane, we harvested it. This is the first batch of sugars made before the festival. After the New Year, it is the beginning of the real large-scale sugar-pressing."

Korean Channel: "Say that, more next year?"

"It is expected to reach more than 10,000 dan next year. The specific amount is really not calculated now. It depends on the sugarcane reserves, manpower distribution, weather, and insufficient machines..."

"Ten thousand dans are still not enough." Han Yong is a member of the Trade Department and is quite clear about these things. He frowned and said, "We Hutchison still want to open the sugar market in the north. In the north alone, 100,000 dans a year is not too much. The south needs more. The southern people are fond of sweetness, and they still have to continue selling it to Japan, and they also have to open the markets in Southeast Asia and India, and the Russians also want..."

He Bin waved his hand and smiled, "I can't become fat in one bite. Now I'm eager to pay ten million burrs a year. I have to have so many sugarcane fields and manpower."

The Taiwan Marine Department is a government funded the construction of sugar-boiling equipment and raising cattle and horses to form a large-scale official business. The source of manpower is to use the nearby garrison troops. The Fourth Regiment's combat troops did not participate, and the island's baggage troops have exceeded 10,000. In addition to the garrison troops stationed in the garrison and guarding against the indigenous people, the other baggage troops entered the sugar field in shifts and worked every month.

He Bin knows the bitterness of squeezing sugar.

The jelly sugar is fine, but the white sugar is quite labor-intensive and requires a lot of middle-aged labor and a considerable equipment to squeeze out the white sugar.

Whenever the sugar is squeezed, the baggage soldiers have undergone a considerable period of physical training. However, whenever they work in the workshop, they sweat like rain and are exhausted.

This is also the reason why the baggage soldiers are at most for one month. The sugar-grapping period is quite long. Unless the baggage soldiers are directly converted into sugar workers, no baggage soldiers are willing to continue working in the sugar shop.

Even if the equipment and sugar workers are sufficient, they are subject to the production of sugar cane.

Taiwan's sugar-making method is more advanced than the method of recording materials in Tiangong. The process is also quite complex. It consumes a lot of manpower and material resources after multiple pressing and extraction.

"No wonder Taiwan needs us to provide a large number of cattle and horses." Han Tong and others bowed in a stern manner, and Han Tong said: "If you don't talk in person, we can't understand that this thing is really hard-earned."

"According to normal terms," ​​He Bin said: "A dozen cows plus a dozen sugar workers can produce thousands of kilograms of jelly sugar a day, and there is very little white sugar. Now, in order to seize the market, we must increase the output. We will produce three million kilograms of sugar next year, and we will squeeze it out in two to three months. In three years, it may exceed tens of millions of kilograms. Of course, we need a lot of cattle and people."

"In terms of price, we already have a great advantage." Han Channel: "To be honest, sometimes it is not a matter of money at all. People can't afford it, and even wealthy families don't often buy candy. After all, not to mention it is too expensive, the market is often out of stock. Northerners want sugar, mainly to make snacks, while southerners use sugar, and I heard that it is also used to cook vegetables. If you ask me, don't worry about foreign trade, it will be a big deal if you make the sugar industry in the north and south of our Ming Dynasty, the benefits will be significant."

If sugar is supplied smoothly, according to the population and average consumption of the Ming Dynasty, it would be like selling hundreds of thousands of dans and tens of millions of kilograms a year. When Zheng presided over Taiwan, he had a production of tens of millions of kilograms a year. Japan alone was imported several millions of kilograms a year. Otherwise, Japan was not poor in the early days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, at least it was quite wealthy. Silver mines such as Ishimi Yinshan supported the comfortable days of Japan's Daming for nearly two hundred years. It was easier for the people to live in the people because there was no longer any war. Luxury goods such as sugar were not only bought by the aristocrats and the rich, otherwise, if the purchase of millions of kilograms a year would not be consumed by those rich people every day.

If Han Tong said that it would be snatched the supply of sugar from the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, tens of millions of kilograms per year may not be enough to sell it. Moreover, Japan and many trading countries, and Russians are also very interested in sugar. The Russians have more honey, which does not mean that they are not interested in sugar.
Chapter completed!