Shu captive Qi clapped his hands and said, "Brother, what we want is not land, but gold, silver and copper mines." Here's the trouble. If Kyushu doesn't have an extra inch of land, it will be simple, and there will be 100 acres of land to immigrate there, and everything is easy to say. The problem is that Kyushu still has land, but what is lacking is population, and it is the population of mining. ”

"A miner has to have three or four cultivators, and this has to be the case of the popularization of iron cattle farming. Now they are still using stones, and they can't dig without eating or drinking. ”

"It's easy to occupy, you're right, three hundred, taking advantage of the conflict between the tribes, it's enough to gain a foothold. When I was in Takayanagi, I didn't see anything like this. ”

"But the problem is how to take all these villages and communities, which are still using stone utensils and public land, to the public, so that they can grow food, dig ore, smelt ore, collect large wood, and build boats......"

Saying this, Shu Guitian felt that what he had just thought was too simple.

He was very envious of the story of the 800 people who broke Panyu, and felt that if it was a settlement that could not be done by slashing and burning with stones, he was afraid that 300 people would be enough to recreate a South China Sea.

But when I heard my brother say this, I realized that what I thought was simple, and it was not the same situation at all.

In Panyu, the Mo family was really invincible: hundreds of people broke through the city, shot the nobles, destroyed the writing, threw the sacrificial class into the sugarcane fields to cut sugarcane on the charge of harming the people and not eating their own strength, liberated the slaves, redivided the land, and banned the feudal obligations of the nobles to seal the fields, and gained a firm foothold there almost instantly by means of class struggle.

But if it is really as my brother said, there is no concept of a state there, or it is like the primitive democratic deliberative system in ancient times, even if you learn a little bit of slash-and-burn farming technology, the land is still publicly owned, and the invincible class struggle in the South China Sea is not used there at all.

Mining must have food, and the most basic rule must be achieved - even if it is to learn from the time when Sishang was created, how many people from each village community must take turns to mine, then the locals must know what the regime means, otherwise even if they can't fight, will it be difficult to run? Anyway, it was originally a life of Ru Mao drinking blood, running to the mountains to hide, how can I bear it?

The immigrants of Zhuxia? Then don't think about it, there is a lot of land in Zhuxia, and there are places that have not been reclaimed, and there is a shortage of people everywhere in Sishang, but if you don't get to the point where you die, who can take the initiative to run there?

Shu Guitian frowned and said, "So, it doesn't matter there?" ”

Shu Prisoner shook his head and said, "Manage, you must take care of it." Before...... Oh, by the way, you were still at sea. There have been a couple of brainstorming sessions before that about it. ”

"If you want to plan for the long term, for the land you need to survive when the population increases in the future, it's simple. Slowly, there is no writing there, and even copper is not used, and it is unknown whether it will be one of the Zhuxia Kyushu in the future. ”

"But isn't it time to find a solution in the short term? Gold, silver, and sulfur are okay, but copper is really lacking in Sishang now. Now the copper of Tongling naturally belongs to us, and the copper of Daye Mountain belongs to the Chu people......"

"Don't you know, the best cannons are copper, artillerymen don't like iron cannons, copper cannons hit far and accurately, and it's not easy to blow up. Now the army is being trained again, and within a few years it is necessary to achieve three small cannons for each infantry brigade, and the number of artillery will also increase. ”

"There is a lot of copper and sulfur on that island, if it can really be solved, not to mention the gold and silver, even those copper will be enough to be called the world's greatest achievement."

Shu Prisoner then smiled bitterly: "So the problem is here." ”

"Merchants seek profits, Sishang Heavy Industry, and the profits of merchants come from transshipment of goods. However, now that the Xuanlin Iron Ware from Sishang is transported there, what can it be exchanged for? Maybe you can get some furs back, because the people there don't have any money in their hands, even if they learn to plant, the price of grain has been so low in recent years that the South China Sea trade has to 'a ship must carry a certain stone of grain or a multiple', and run there to transfer grain, then I am afraid that there must be a gold mine at home? ”

"Mining to make money, gold and silver will definitely not be allowed to be mined privately. If the merchants wanted to dig it, it would be too expensive, and they would have to support the locals to teach them how to grow food, and they would have to invest years to let the locals know about obedience and trade...... If you transport people from Sishang Nanhai and other places, not to mention that the cost merchants can't afford it, it is that Sishang is now short of people everywhere, where can those businessmen take the turn to grab people? Can they rob our Mo family? ”

"Businessmen can't count on it, so they have to rely on the organization. But what the organization lacks now is copper, not a lack of land, and it is not that Sishang has a large population and has no land to cultivate, so it has to go overseas. If you can't get copper in a few years, then you can slowly plan it for hundreds of years, and you don't need to waste energy and talent there. ”

"So it's still being discussed above, and it's hard to decide."

Speaking of merchants, Shu Prisoner couldn't help muttering: "Merchants are the most unreliable." Look at it, wait for the people there to farm and mine, and the merchants will definitely find a way to run away, and they will definitely smuggle away from the customs duties of the shipping trade. But we have to count on them to develop it and take the most difficult first step from scratch...... Hmph, with that money, why don't they invest it now in a place where it is faster and safer to make money. ”

He has a lot of opinions about businessmen, and he is also quite dissatisfied with some of the above policies, and he can't help but complain about the wine.

Shu Guitian didn't care about the nature of the merchant, and understood that what his brother said was right, like the place where he sailed before, the merchant would definitely run there without fear of losing his life, because there was already a civilization there, and he could trade for gold and silver wealth. But as for the island that was still slash-and-burn at this time, it was impossible for merchants to go, it was really unprofitable, and they could only rely on the organization of the Mo family to do this.

But for what he wanted to know, he had already understood, frowned and thought for a moment, and suddenly knocked on the table with chopsticks and said, "Brother, what about the copper problem now...... It's a question of whether it's a matter of whether it's a profit or not, right? ”

Shu Prisoner nodded and said, "That's right." Let's put it this way, now there is money, people, grain, all kinds of handicraft goods, there are cloth, but ...... Lack of copper, lack of sulfur, because the army is expanding. How to turn money into copper, this is a big problem. Because paper money is now used in Sishang, money cannot be directly turned into copper, and the copper used to cast cannons is different from money copper. ”

"Copper is not copper money now, but copper for casting cannons, these two are not the same."

Shu Guitian's heart was pounding, because he suddenly thought of a possibility, so he asked: "So since there is no shortage of money, there are still a lot of 'long-term workers' in the south of the South China Sea, and there are also a lot of miners in Tongling and other places. ”

Shu Prisoner Mi smiled bitterly: "Brother, you are on the boat and don't know about the march on the road. To go there now, you have to cross from the South China Sea, to Sishang, to Qi, to Raidi, to the south of the kingdom of Minzi, to the southeast along the coast, to Juli, and then to the south......"

"Don't say tens of thousands of miles, but thousands of miles away is not a lie. How much does it cost? How much time does it take? ”

Shu Guitian smiled: "Brother, what you know on land is what you know on land, but you don't know about things on the sea." Every April, the South China Sea will blow the wind to the northeast. Then why did you have to cross the sea along the coast to Komali via the Mingo Joseon Kingdom? What if there was a shipping route, which could go straight from the land of Wuyue in the South China Sea? ”

"It's not impossible to transport people there, mine copper ore, and return after Qi."

He turned to the gentleman and asked, "Sister, you surveyed and mapped Yu's Kyushu, presumably the last time you sailed to that island, your classmates must have also measured the longitude and latitude there, right?" ”

The gentleman who participated in the collation and drawing of the geographical map of mountains and rivers naturally knew and said, "Yes." Wait, I'll see what I've written. ”

She hurried back to her room, pulled out a notebook, and said, "If you measure ...... southernmost point."

After reading a latitude and longitude that she and Shu Guitian could immediately understand, but the rest of the people at the table didn't understand too well, Shu Guitian rubbed his head, shook his head as if he wanted to shake out all the wine he had drunk before, dipped a little wine with his chopsticks, and muttered, "Let me calculate...... Let me do the math......"

The gentleman stretched out his chopsticks, opened the chopsticks that his younger brother was counting there, and said with a smile: "Zhang Fan sails the changes in the wind and clouds, I am not as good as you; When it comes to nine-digit geometry, you're not as good as me. ”

"If we count it from the southernmost point, the latitude is similar to that of Huiji City; If you count it in terms of things and things, the nearest place is only Shangqiu to Nanzheng. ”

She did not say the distance of the numbers, but gave an intuitive distance between the cities.

Shu Guitian believed that his sister would not be wrong, and said overjoyed: "Looking at it this way, it is not far away." If there is a shipping route, it is not difficult to transport long-term laborers with a ten-year period from the north of Panyu, or to transport miners from Tongling from Huiji. ”

"In the northeast of Panyu, there is a big island, if you can go up to the northeast along the island, this road may not be impassable."

He was a man who had played his life in the further south of the South China Sea, and sailed all the way along the coastline to find the legendary rich man in the Central Plains, and for several years, he didn't care about this kind of thing, but the distance from Shangqiu to Nanzheng.

If there is any support from above...... There are many natural risks, such as strong winds, shipwreck, and death...... But once you find this route, your exploits will definitely be recorded by future generations, so that your life is worthwhile.

He calculated that in three years, enough people from the north could sail past to find copper, gold, silver, and sulfur, and enough for the villages there to learn to grow and trade grain. As long as they could find a closer route, and could transport people over to solve the much-needed copper mines and gold and silver to make a fortune, they would be willing to pay the price of one or two hundred men, as well as the money and manpower needed to support the voyage.

The more I thought about it, the more excited I became, so I said, "Sister, you can get me a map you drew in a few days." If printing and drawing are troublesome, money is not a problem, I can find someone to draw it specifically, no need for printing. ”