Since Zhu Shou said he could help take care of it, he could just hand over the people to him.
This is 10,000 acres of land. Even if you grow food, you can earn 20,000 to 30,000 taels of silver every year. You can't give it up casually. And if cash crops are planted, the income will be even higher.
What can be grown in Luzon? Han Du suddenly thought of something.
"What are you growing on Lord Marquis's land?" Han Duruo asked thoughtfully.
Zhu Shou didn't want to hide it from Han Du. The key was that he had nothing to hide. Then he said: "What else can be grown? Just grow food. Don't underestimate growing food. Here you can get three crops a year. Ten thousand acres of land is equivalent to 30,000 acres in the Ming Dynasty. Even if you grow food roughly, there will be no crops every year." The income is less than 50,000 yuan."
Hua Zhong's eyes widened when he heard this. He was very satisfied with the 5,000 acres of land just now, but now Zhu Shou told him that the income from these 5,000 acres of land was at least comparable to the 10,000 acres of fertile land in the Ming Dynasty.
"Growing food?" Han Du laughed and shook his head.
"What? Brother Xian, you think something is wrong?" Seeing Han Du's attitude, Zhu Shou asked curiously.
Han Du said: "It's not that there is anything wrong, but there is too much food, which will definitely cause the price to drop. The price of food in the Ming Dynasty was not high to begin with. The year before last, it was only because of the sudden drought that the price of food rose. Last year Will grain prices return to normal without help? If we continue to grow a large amount of grain and still have three crops a year, then grain prices will continue to fall before long, and there will be no profit."
Han Du curled his lips.
Zhu Shou listened with great interest and agreed with Han Du's reasoning. He knew Han Du's ability to make money. He quickly asked: "If we don't grow food, what should we grow?"
"Plant sugar cane." Han Du said with a smile.
"Sugar cane?" Zhu Shou asked doubtfully, rubbing his chin constantly, and asked: "This place is suitable for growing sugar cane. Sugar cane was short and small in the Ming Dynasty, but it grows tall and big here. Big ones are even There may be people with thick wrists, and they are also very sweet. But after planting sugar cane, do we still have to transport the sugar cane back to Ming Dynasty to sell it?"
The reason why Zhu Shou chose to grow food was because food was very popular in the Ming Dynasty. As long as he can transport the grain to the Ming Dynasty, someone will immediately accept it. There is no possibility that it cannot be sold. At most, it is just a matter of the price.
But if it were to grow sugar cane, Zhu Shou would not be sure that someone would buy the sugar cane when it arrived in Ming Dynasty. If it doesn't sell over time, wouldn't that be a problem?
"There is no need to transport the sugar cane back, that would be too troublesome. We can squeeze the sugar cane into juice and boil it into sugar on the spot, and then transport it back." Han Du said with a smile, "This will not only facilitate transportation, but also sugar can be widely used in Ming Dynasty. The Marquis should know how popular and expensive it is."
After Zhu Shou heard this, he immediately opened his mouth. He has fallen into a misunderstanding of his thinking, thinking that everything will be fine just by growing food. However, with the fertile land here, the yield of sugar cane will inevitably be higher than that of the Ming Dynasty. The same sugar cane can naturally produce more sugar and make more profits.
"Okay, just do as Brother Xian said and plant sugar cane." Zhu Shou was too lazy to think too much. Anyway, he knew that in terms of making money, even ten of him could not compare with Han Du. Since Handu strongly recommends planting sugar cane, then just plant it. Anyway, he got tens of thousands of acres of land for himself on this island, so he just treated it as picked up.
"Although the price of brown sugar is not bad, we can make it into frosted sugar and sell it. You must know that the price of frosted sugar is much higher than that of brown sugar." Han Du continued.
"Frost sugar is expensive, but making frosted sugar is much more troublesome than brown sugar. The key is that it costs too much. I'm afraid it's not worth the gain, right? In our opinion, we might as well just make brown sugar and sell it." Huazhong is more concerned about making money. It just so happened that he also knew the difference between brown sugar and frosting sugar.
Han Du smiled slightly when he heard this and said, "What if we could make frosting sugar simply and easily?"
Zhu Shou's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he quickly asked: "Dear brother, do you have any ideas?"
Han Du nodded slightly and smiled.
Zhu Shou immediately slapped the table and said loudly: "Okay, let's plant sugar cane. Then we will make all the sugar cane and sell it to the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Shou had no doubts anymore and made up his mind.
But after hearing this, Han Du shook his head and said: "Not only the Ming Dynasty, we can sell sugar overseas. You must know that overseas is more short of sugar than the Ming Dynasty, so the price that can be sold will naturally be higher."
Zhu Shou was relieved when he heard that there was greater demand for sugar overseas. The greater the demand, it means that no matter how much sugar cane is planted and how much sugar is produced, there is no need to worry that the price of sugar will become cheaper.
After a moment of pause, Zhu Shou pondered and said to Han Du: "Brother Xian, you are not here specifically to see us this time, right?"
Han Du was stunned when he heard this, then sighed and said with a smile, "Did the Marquis see it?"
Zhu Shou nodded and said, "You look so worried. I haven't seen you smile a few times even at banquets. If we still can't tell, haven't our years of life been in vain?"
"What happened that left you helpless?" Zhu Shou frowned and asked again in a deep voice.
Han Du thought for a while and told Zhu Shou the news that Li Wenzhong had been poisoned.
"What! You said that Li Shuai was harmed?" The teacup in Zhu Shou's hand was immediately thrown to the ground in anger and broke into pieces.
Li Wenzhong had a high prestige in the army, and Zhu Shou had fought under Li Wenzhong and respected Li Wenzhong very much. Suddenly hearing that he had been poisoned, he was naturally filled with indignation.
Han Du quickly stood up, calmed down the angry Zhu Shou, and then slowly told him what happened.
After hearing this, Zhu Shouyu was still angry and asked: "So, these people fled to the sea here?"
Han Du nodded and said: "To be precise, they fled from Yaeshan Island to Java. I chased them in Java and only captured a few dozen people. Most of them fled to a continent."
"These people should be killed. Why didn't you continue to pursue them?" Zhu Shouhu stared at Han Du with dissatisfaction.
Han Du sighed helplessly and explained to Zhu Shou what was going on in Dazhou.
When Zhu Shou heard that this continent was actually larger than the Ming Dynasty, he simply couldn't believe his ears. But seeing Han Du acting like it was the truth, he had no choice but to believe it.
Now Zhu Shou finally understood why Han Du looked worried. Those people who entered the continent were like dragons entering the sea and tigers returning to the mountains and forests. Sooner or later, their wings would be full and they would jump out to stir up trouble.
