"I know, I know." He Bin laughed and said, "As soon as I said, I have to eat food bite by bite, and I can't take too much steps. We always have basic food guarantees. When Brother Xu Wen has told the people all the people, they will open up sugarcane fields and plant sugarcane for us. I think the yield will increase greatly."

Taiwan was previously positioned as a main trade transit and strategic base, and a large number of factories made muskets and cannons, of course, the top priority was warships.

Zhang Han has always spared no effort in Taiwan, and it is also where his strategic vision exceeds that of ordinary people.

At the beginning of Taiwan's development, the situation was quite difficult. It was not that Hutchison's foundation in the north continuously provided a large amount of silver and manpower, and handed over all the benefits of trade such as iron to Taiwan. How could Taiwan achieve such prosperity in a few years?

You should know that from Yan Siqi and others establishing ten villages in Bengang, Taiwan, to Zheng Zhilong, then giving up returning to Xiamen to run the Zheng Navy, and then the Dutch's management in Taiwan for decades, it was already the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty when Zheng Chenggong occupied Taiwan, and more than 40 years have passed since Yan Siqi founded it!

For more than 40 years, whether it was Yan Siqi, Zheng, or the Dutch, they were attracted and supported by Han merchants and Han people.

The main reason was that the island barbarians were strong. At that time, Tainan only had a small number of plains near the sea where the Han people lived, and they built villages to resist the indigenous people. The Dutch kept sending people to recruit Han people from the coast of Fujian before and after the construction of the city by the officials, and of course they paid more attention to the Han merchants.

The Dutch killed a lot in Taiwan, but mainly wooed the Han people.

After more than 40 years of this, when Zheng Chenggong entered Taiwan, more than 100,000 people entered Taiwan, which led to the establishment of prefectures and counties in Taiwan.

Later, during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, he attacked Taiwan and established prefectures in Taipei and Tainan. Taiwan's development was still lagging behind Fujian, but it was decided that this place would belong to China.

Hutchison has been operating in Taiwan for less than five years, and now it has a population of more than 100,000, many castles and a large number of Tunbao villages, and of course there are continuous storage areas and workshop areas. The shipbuilding workshop is many times larger than the small Dutch boat yards in Batavia.

This is why I have the confidence and strength to compete with the Dutch at sea in advance and defeat them!

After solving the problem of the Netherlands, Taiwan, in addition to re-export trade and collecting safety conditions at sea, began to vigorously import raw silk tea and other goods from Fujian and Zhejiang areas to increase the scale of trade. At the same time, according to Taiwan's characteristics, it began to open up tea mountains and plant sugarcane in large quantities. If it wants to complete the annual output of tens of millions of kilograms of sugar, it is conceivable how large the area and how much manpower is needed to grow sugarcane.

The Japanese and Dutch, including the Spanish and Portuguese, all need a lot of tea. Taiwan’s climate and land are also very suitable for planting tea trees. Large tea mountains may appear on the hillsides of Tainan in a few years or more than ten years, and then they will make huge profits.

The two senior officials chatted, and the rest were not idle either. The people who came from Pi Island and the staff of various departments and military personnel from Tianjin were chatting with each other. People were holding umbrellas or standing in the rain, and the atmosphere was peaceful and comfortable.

It’s been so long since time has passed, and it’s already winter. I heard that it has snowed in the capital area, and it’s probably snowing on the grassland several times.

For southerners like He Bin, winter in the north is the most difficult. He Bin frostbite in the Russians' territory. It's okay in the south, but when he arrives in the north, his hands itchy, but he doesn't show any expression, just shrank his hands into his sleeves, and continues to ask about the situation in the north of Han.

Some workers kept moving the goods, first moved the ship, checked the quantity of the goods, put them in the warehouse and stored them, and then distributed them to various places in batches.

Han Tong pointed to the unloaded sugar bag and said, "Part of these sugars are sent to Zhangjiakou, part of them enter the capital, and part of them go west. There are also a small amount left in Baoding and Daming Prefecture, which should be until Kaifeng. The sugar in the south is not too short because it is produced, so we can't compete with local snakes for the time being..."

"What's the situation in the grassland? I heard that the soju is selling well, and it is starting to be sold in large quantities. It is estimated that the military department's revenue will increase significantly next year?" He Bin didn't have time to pay attention to these things. This time, he used the schooner Datong Zuowei to transport cargo. Even if the ship was 55 meters long and had 660 tons of water, except for other goods transported, the number of black sugar and white sugar transported was relatively limited. The main thing was to open the market first and let the people of the world know that Hutchison began to produce sugar... Just like sweet potato wine, in addition to supplying Kulun's trade with the Russians, Hutchison's spirits have also begun to be sold in his own business. Some were previously released one after another, and if the quantity was insufficient, they were released slowly first, mainly creating a wind direction.

Like all Hutchison production, Hutchison's soju wine was of great quality. At that time, the soju wine was produced in small workshops, with varying quality. Some tastes were better than Hutchison's, but most of them were quite inferior. Hutchison's strengths and advantages are that they can maintain all the productions on the same standard line. Buying one and buying ten times is similar. After a large number of sweet potatoes were planted on the grassland, and the raw materials were sufficient, the amount of wine was also greatly increased. Since the summer of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Hutchison put out soju wine on a large scale and other lines. There were quite a few people drinking soju wine in summer. By now, shoju has begun to be sold on a large scale on a large scale, and the sales volume has increased sharply. It is expected that at least one million jars will be sold by next summer. With a net profit of two cents of silver, a profit of more than 200,000 taels can be regarded as a profit of more than 200,000 taels.

In addition, tobacco is also ready to be sold domestically, and the scale will not be small.

Zhang Han was unwilling to dump tobacco on a large scale in China. It was intended to be a harm to people, but all the men around him almost smoked. Many women in the north smoked, and even the big girls had no smoke pot on them. The north was bitter and cold. When it snowed heavily in winter, the snow was deeper than the knees. Except for necessary, people did not go out. They burned the pit and did some work on the pit and chatted to pass the time. There was no film and television books for leisure in this era. Smoking a cigarette during chatting was a favorable and easy pastime.

In view of this, Zhang Han did not intend to go against the trend. People hundreds of years later realized that health is the priority. At this time, a cold can kill people at any time. Let’s talk about tobacco that is not good for the body... Let’s forget it.

With sugar and tea, the scale of foreign trade has expanded. Now even people from trading departments like Hantong don’t know what level of income will reach next year.

"It's hard to say, it's hard to guess." Han Channel: "I guess it will reach about 1,200 taels next year."

"And." Han Tong said again: "It depends on you."

"We have already had a great harvest this year." He Bin smiled and pointed at the dark boxes in front of him and said, "You don't know what this is."

"Two batches of silver are sent over," Han Tong smiled and said, "The military department's investment in Taiwan has finally paid off. Everyone breathes a sigh of relief. There is a light on your face, and we are also happy. Everyone is a family."

He Bin also laughed and said, "We did eat more before, and now it's really time for us to give back."

In the past five years, Taiwan has used at least 8 million taels of silver, not counting as aid to Taiwan's materials and personnel. The year before yesterday, Hutchison started to build ships, and Hutchison said that it had sent at least 200,000 kilograms of iron in the north. The iron nails alone were built and more than one million were built.

There are also a large number of sails. How can Taiwan have so many qualified cloths? Wasn't Hutchison made it from the textile factory in Lizhuang and the grassland and then transported it by sea?

There is no need to mention the personnel. There are quite a lot of Fujianese on the island now, but mainly Tunbao farmers and naval officers and soldiers, and more than 70% of the land and naval warriors are from northern China.

More than 90% of the officers are from the north to the south.

The same is true for officials. At most, there are no more than 10% of the local officials in Fujian and Taiwan. It is not that the upper class of Hutchison intends to suppress it, but there are too few qualified personnel.

Grassland and Lizhuang have been conducting literacy education courses for at least eight years. In addition, there are examinations at all levels and everyone is used to it. Military officers need to take the exam, and officials and officials must review the exams. Only when they pass the exam can they be qualified to take the officials.

The same is true for people in the business. The apprenticeship system is changed to a student system, which is easy to mobilize and distribute and is easy to cultivate talents.

This time, taking advantage of the opportunity of northbound trade and transportation of materials, the north and south sides also had a great exchange of talents. Taiwan was dominated by officials and soldiers from the south, while the north side had drawn back personnel who had been in office for a long time, leaving the core to remain intact. A large number of newcomers were sent to the south to serve. When the future expansion and expansion in the Nanyang area, these officials and soldiers who had worked and served in Taiwan would become quite qualified backup talents.

Zhang Han intends to include all countries such as Luzon and Batavia.

There are also Chameng and Siam Myanmar, which may also be directly included in the colonial system.

Direct rule of Japan is not as good as indirect pressure. The nationality of the Japanese nation is quite interesting. If you are not strong, he will bully you. If you are stronger than him, he will obey you sincerely, and be quite proactive and conscious. The indirect pressure rule is more worry-free than direct colonization.

Even if the colonial system may collapse in a few hundred years, countries such as East Asia and Southeast Asia should remain within the Chinese civilization circle. China's influence is by no means comparable to China's hundreds of years later.

The large amount of wealth that can be plundered can also be called China to enter industrialization earlier. Perhaps in a few hundred years, the international system will be dominated by the Chinese system, rather than everyone learning the Western system. China's civil servant political tradition was actually quite mature in the Ming Dynasty. Apart from some bad things, it is actually quite stable. China can become a unified empire for two thousand years. Although there are continuous changes in dynasties, it cannot be said that this system is of no use...

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I was busy going home and updated again. It was much late. Sorry.
Chapter completed!