blenderwars Chapter 288
Chapter 288
Chapter 288
After getting Zhang Qingfeng's permission, a few days later, Zhao Rong, who holds the highest military power on Yizhou Island, gathered thousands of people into the mountain.
Those who accompanied them into the mountain included the aborigines who had been assimilated for more than half a year.
As the leading party, they mainly lead the Song army.
Just when Zhao Rong led the army into the mountains to arrest the labor force, Zhang Qingfeng finally waited for the convoy from the mainland to deliver supplies.
After unloading the supplies, Zhang Qingfeng filled the fleet with food and left Yizhou Island with the fleet.
A few days later, Zhang Qingfeng came to Quanzhou Port.
Quanzhou Port is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road. Quanzhou Port is also called Erythrina port because it is full of Erythrina.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, some Indian monks came here.
During the Tang Dynasty, it became the three major ports of foreign trade, and the other two were Yangzhou and Guangzhou.
During the Five Dynasties, Quanzhou Port was further expanded and became a very important port for foreign trade.
After the Song Dynasty, it became the largest sea trade port. No matter going north, east, or south, you can stop or set off at this port.
By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou Port had business relations with merchants from more than 70 countries.
Therefore, in the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou Port was very large. Although it was not as good as Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was also called a "temporarily prosperous" city together with Lin'an.
By the mid-Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou's population had grown to tens of 10, making it very lively and prosperous.
During his five-month stay in Quanzhou, the Italian Jewish businessman James called Quanzhou the City of Light, which means that the night is as bright as the day.
After Zhang Qingfeng came to Quanzhou City, he immediately called on Zhou Xinghong, the prefect of Quanzhou.
"I have seen the magistrate." Zhang Qingfeng saluted Zhou Xinghong.
Although Yizhou Island is located overseas, it was brought under the jurisdiction of Fujian Road after Song Dynasty prepared to immigrate to the island. Quanzhou Mansion happened to be the superior government office of Yizhou.
Therefore, Zhang Qingfeng can also be regarded as Zhou Xinghong's junior official.
"Sanlang doesn't need to be too polite." Zhou Xinghong smiled and gestured to Zhang Qingfeng.
Before landing on Yizhou Island, Zhang Qingfeng had already met officials at all levels in Quanzhou when he stayed in Quanzhou Port.
Zhang Qingfeng, as an immigration official personally appointed by the court, has a very respected family member, so most officials in Quanzhou Prefecture are very polite to Zhang Qingfeng.
"Master Zhifu, I am here this time to ask for your help." Zhang Qingfeng said to Zhou Xinghong.
"San Lang has something to say, I will help if I can." Zhou Xinghong said to Zhang Qingfeng.
"Master Zhifu, I have been developing Yizhou Island for more than a year, and have achieved a good harvest of grain. Now the grain on the island is piled up like a mountain. If you don't deal with it, it will rot."
Zhang Qingfeng said to Zhou Xinghong: "So I would like to ask the magistrate to help introduce the grain merchants in Quanzhou City. I want to sell grain to them."
"So that's the case, how much food is there on the island?" Zhou Xinghong asked Zhang Qingfeng.
"It's about a million stones." Zhang Qingfeng said to Zhou Xinghong, the magistrate.
"So much food?"
Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, Zhou Xinghong was taken aback.
In the Song Dynasty, one stone was about 92 catties, and a million stones was about 10 million catties, enough to feed [-] people for two years.
However, there are only more than 1 people on the island, and it is obvious that they cannot eat so much food.
"Your magistrate doesn't know that Yizhou Island has hot weather and can grow rice and other food three times a year, which is equivalent to three years in other places." Zhang Qingfeng said to Zhou Xinghong.
"Three seasons?" Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, Zhou Xinghong was taken aback again.
In coastal areas such as Fujian, due to the promotion of Champa rice and the suitable climate, it is possible to grow two seasons.
Unexpectedly, three seasons of rice could be grown on Yizhou Island.
Zhou Xinghong knew that the imperial court wanted to immigrate to Yizhou Island, but he didn't take it seriously.
Yizhou Island is full of miasma, diseases are rampant, and there are dangerous undercurrents, no one wants to go there.
What he didn't expect was that in just over a year, Zhang Qingfeng led his people to develop Yizhou Island into a place capable of producing millions of stones of grain annually.
Although a million stones is not a big amount for Quanzhou, the profit in it is very large.
"Sanlang, don't worry, I will ask some grain merchants to contact you tomorrow, and the million stone grains on the island are guaranteed to be eaten." Zhou Xinghong said to Zhang Qingfeng.
Sure enough, some merchants found Zhang Qingfeng the next day, and they were naturally some big grain merchants in Quanzhou City.
After negotiation, Zhang Qingfeng ordered all the grain at half the market price.
"Master Yang, I wonder if it is possible to grow mulberry and raise silkworms on Yizhou Island? There are also tea, cotton, sugar cane, etc. We all need a lot of goods." A businessman asked Zhang Qingfeng.
"This……"
After hearing the words of these businessmen, Zhang Qingfeng suddenly became excited.
He had been thinking about it before. He thought that a variety of grains would solve the food problem of some people in Song Dynasty.
But now he discovered that the transportation cost of growing grain and transporting it from the strait is very high.
Moreover, people on the island can't eat enough to grow too much food. Instead of this, it is better to plant more cash crops, so that everyone can make more money.
If you want to attract people to develop on Yizhou Island, the most important thing is profit.
As long as the benefits are big enough, people can come spontaneously.
"If you want, I can get people to grow these crops when I go back."
Zhang Qingfeng said to a group of businessmen: "If you can find someone to develop Yizhou Island, I can promise that you will get as much land as you reclaim, and the court will not collect taxes for three years."
Without waiting for everyone to speak, Zhang Qingfeng continued: "Let me do the math for everyone. If you hire a thousand tenant farmers to reclaim wasteland on Yizhou Island, at least [-] mu of fertile land can be reclaimed a year."
"If this [-] mu of land can be planted with grain, etc., excluding the cost, it can earn at least [-] to [-] yuan a year." Zhang Qingfeng said to the crowd.
For 30 guan, Zhang Qingfeng was talking about the price of copper coins. If it was exchanged for the price of banknotes like Huizi, [-] guan would not be much.
Hearing Zhang Qingfeng's words, the businessman's heart was moved immediately.
"Master Yang, can you tell us about the current situation in Yizhou Island?"
A businessman asked Zhang Qingfeng: "If I hire a thousand people to go to Yizhou Island, how many of them can come back alive?"
Hearing this, Zhang Qingfeng promised: "Don't worry, everyone. The imperial court has more than 1 people on the island. For more than a year, apart from the dozen or so people who died fighting with the aborigines, there are still more people who died due to other reasons." Less than thirty."
"If you hire 1000 people to go to Yizhou Island, if more than five people die within a year, I can be a county magistrate." Zhang Qingfeng assured everyone.
Farming is not a high-risk occupation. If it is unprepared, Zhang Qingfeng can say that half of the 1000 people in the past can survive.
Without preparation, the main thing that kills is disease.
However, with strict epidemic prevention measures implemented on Yizhou Island and sufficient medical staff and medicinal materials reserves, it is unreasonable for so many people to die.
(End of this chapter)