"Transporting people?"

Zheng Hongkui said in surprise.

"Your Majesty, you want us to help you send the refugees to Taiwan?"

“It’s not just Taiwan!”

Zhu Guoqiang waved his hand and said.

"And Chenla, well, it should be the estuary delta area of ​​Chenla. Just relying on Taiwan will definitely not be enough to accommodate millions of refugees. So two months ago, I sent people there, and now they are already there

Earth cities were built and tens of thousands of acres of fertile farmland were cultivated."

There are too many refugees and Taiwan is too small, so we still need to look further ahead!

Fortunately, the world is so big that it can always accommodate the refugees of the Ming Dynasty.

Sighing in his heart, Zhu Guoqiang said again.

"In the past few years, there has been a severe drought in the north every year, and the people have been displaced. I don't know how many people have starved to death or become bandits. If the world wants to be stable, it must solve the problem of refugees. If you want to solve this problem, there is only one

The solution is to immigrate all of them overseas. Compared to the north where disasters are a constant problem, Taiwan and Chenla are both good places! It’s like summer all year round, and there are no worries about droughts or floods.

The place is suitable for settling the refugees, but there are too many refugees!"

Zhu Guoqiang sighed.

"Even if I try my best, I can't transport all the refugees out, and there are too few ships here. So, I think since Mr. Zheng has so many ships, he might as well help me transport the refugees overseas. I don't know.

What does Zheng Shengyi think?"

"this……"

Zheng Hongkui said.

"Here, it will cost a lot to transport the refugees from Shandong to Taiwan or Chenla!"

This is not 30,000 or 20,000 people, but millions of people!

How long would it take to transport that many people overseas?

How many boats will be used?

This is simply unimaginable. After all, there are millions of people.

But having said that, transporting these millions of people overseas is indeed a big business. If nothing else, just the freight for these people is...

Even though he was used to big scenes, Zheng Hongkui couldn't help but hold his breath when he thought about the money he could earn by shipping so many people overseas.

This is too much! This is really big business!

"It's really quite a lot."

Zhu Guoqiang smiled.

"That's why I said I want to talk about a business deal with you, and it's a big deal!"

"oh?"

Zheng Hongkui said.

"I wonder what price the prince plans to offer?"

"priceless!"

"What?"

"I'm not going to pay!"

His eyes widened in astonishment, Zheng Hongkui was so shocked that he was speechless.

If he doesn't pay, can he let the Zheng family work for him in vain?

The Zheng family is indeed rich, but being rich doesn't mean they can waste it like this!

"Your Majesty..."

When Zheng Hongkui was about to speak, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"I plan to send millions of refugees to Taiwan and Chenla next year. One million people should be able to cultivate no less than five to six million acres of land. My idea is to grant land to each household according to fifty acres, with tax exemption for the first three years, and then

Well……"

Looking at Zheng Hongkui, Zhu Guoqiang smiled.

"In the next twenty years, in addition to the land tax, another 20% of the land rent will be collected. Whoever sends these refugees there will receive the 20% of the land rent."

"What!"

Opening his eyes, Zheng Hongkui said in surprise.

"The prince wants to use the 20% of the land rent as travel expenses?"

"It's not the toll, it's the return on investment."

Zhu Guoqiang smiled.

"Sending one million or even two million refugees overseas would probably cost tens of millions of taels of silver just for shipping costs. I can't pay this money, you can't pay it, and no one can pay it, so

Well, I plan to set up a company."

"company?"

"Yes, it is to imitate the Westerners and set up a company specializing in colonization. This company is responsible for the management of the colony and the export of refugees. Everyone can subscribe for an "immigration ticket". One ticket is equivalent to 50 acres for a family.

Twenty years of land rent on fertile land can be exchanged for twenty years of land rent for only a dozen or twenty taels of silver. This rate of return is at least dozens of times higher!"

In the past few months, Zhu Guoqiang has been thinking about how to send immigrants there. Ming Dynasty is different from European countries. They may be able to send immigrants slowly, but God did not leave much time for Ming Dynasty. Now Shandong

But there are more than two million refugees staying there. How can these refugees survive? And there will be more refugees arriving next year.

How to send millions of refugees overseas?

Zhu Guoqiang also wanted to send them all there at once, but not to mention the boat, even the millions of refugees' freight would be enough to drag him down!

what to do?

Fortunately, with his vision ahead of the times and drawing on the experience of Western colonial companies, Zhu Guoqiang came up with such a "subscription". Through the method of "share subscription", the freight was subcontracted, and a ship ticket was only

It is worth thirty taels of silver, but it can be exchanged for dozens of acres of fertile land. The long-term return in twenty or even thirty years is extremely amazing. Of course, its investment is not large, even for ordinary Jiangnan middle-class people.

If you have a family, you can come up with this money.

A few dozen taels of silver in exchange for a long-term return of several hundred taels. Who would refuse such a deal?

Zhu Guoqiang deliberately settled the accounts.

"Over there in Zhenla, three crops a year and fifty acres of land can produce at least 150 shi of grain. The land rent of 20% is 30 shi a year. According to the market price, these grains are worth at least sixty taels of silver. This purchase

What a bargain!”

"Your Majesty, it's not your calculation. It's true that it can produce thirty shi of grain, but the local grain price is not that high."

How could Zheng Hongkui, a member of the Zheng family, not know the local food prices?

"I know, but you can get this price if you ship it to Daming."

"How much does it cost to ship to Daming?"

"How much will the shipping cost?"

"Food!" Zhu Guoqiang said,

"Food is the most important thing for the people. Not to mention the large number of people in the southeast of Fujian and the lack of land, even Jiangnan, which is known as the land of plenty, is always short of food because too much cotton and mulberry trees are planted... There is always a need to start from

Fill in the outside."

"Transporting grain from Chenla to Jiangnan?"

Zheng Hongkui frowned,

"Isn't this too far?"

Even though we know that rice is very cheap in rice-producing areas like Chenla and Siam, when the cost of transporting thousands of miles by sea is added, there may not be much profit left.

"Not far, not far!" Zhu Guoqiang said.

"Transporting grain from Chenla to Jiangnan, or directly to Tianjin, if the wind and water go smoothly, it will only take a few months. Although it takes longer than water transportation, if you really calculate it, sea transportation is definitely cheaper than water transportation.

As long as the grain is shipped in, it will be purchased at one tael of silver. Do you think this business is profitable?"

Zheng Hongkui frowned and began to calculate the accounts.

"Your Majesty, a large ship can only carry five or six thousand taels of rice at most. It costs four to five taels of silver per stone to transport rice there. The price difference for a ship of rice is only two to three thousand taels. If it is a small sea ship,

It only costs two to three thousand dan, and after deducting the sailors’ wages and the ship’s expenses, it’s really not much profit!”

Zhu Guoqiang laughed:

"Shengyi, your calculation is wrong!"

How could it be wrong? Zheng Hongkui said to himself, in the past, all the accounts of the Zheng family were handled by me. The accounts amounted to several million a year, and I had never made a mistake.

Zhu Guoqiang said with a smile.
To be continued...