Anything that develops will encounter bottlenecks.
No matter how much wealth the Song Dynasty made and how much tax it collected by transporting goods to Kyushu, the Song Dynasty, which only accounted for one-eighth of Kyushu's territory, could not compare with the prosperous Tang Dynasty financially.
At its peak, the Tang Dynasty's annual fiscal and tax revenue could reach 123 million taels.
"Overseas expansion is too risky. In addition to relying on the sky, we also need to rely on people. We know about the Jiaozhou rebellion. With the style of the Ming Dynasty, do you think there will be no rebellion overseas? The stalls are too big, and any messy situation may happen. !" Xia Dachuan laughed.
The territory of the Wu Dynasty was relatively peaceful, and there were countless troubles. With such a huge land overseas and so many indigenous people, how could things be as dull as the Ming Dynasty appeared to the outside world? I am afraid that only Ming Dynasty himself knew the suffering.
"Yes, no matter how good overseas is, the distance is too far after all. We were too independent before and missed too many opportunities. Now we are determined and others are interested. The needs and demands have just collided. We want development, and they want the market. !”
Nian Run clapped his big hand, and a loud slap resounded throughout the box.
"Attack in the outer suburbs and close in!"
"Nothing less than that!"
Xia Dachuan and Nian Run couldn't help but fall silent when they thought about what they had missed.
Once you know where you made a mistake, you can't make it again in the future.
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"Look, what did I find?"
Xia Heng kicked open a piece of meadow, and scarlet blood rose up directly from the ground. He exclaimed in wonder, "The meadow was so bloody that it made the meadow bleed. How many cattle and sheep had to be slaughtered?"
After three days of traveling, Qinggu Tun was right in front of them. At the last stop to rest, they encountered dozens of carriages along the way. Everyone already knew about the recent developments in Qinggu Tun.
"It's normal. There's a big river nearby, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep can't be slaughtered like this?" Li Yanting was used to it, "This pasture will definitely be more lush in the coming year!"
Every year after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the slaughtering season begins in Northland.
When the lambs are put on the market, ranchers sell the meat for money. On the one hand, the most important thing is the lack of forage. They must be sacrificed in order to survive the winter. Otherwise, the losses caused by the lack of forage will be huge.
"I just don't know who will get the advantage?"
Although no one is grazing near Qinggu Village, there are many owners of the pastures. After this wave of blood, the pastures will grow stronger next year, and the cattle and sheep raised will be stronger.
No one came this year because they were not well prepared. Let’s wait and see next year. The area will definitely be filled with cattle and sheep.
"It doesn't matter who gets the advantage, it's not going to be cheaper for us anyway." Li Yannian shrugged.
"I can't say anything. We can all see it, so how can those ranchers not see it? Next year we will encircle this place and make it a boutique ranch. Do you think anyone will invest in it?" Fang Fang said with a smile.
The grassland in autumn has a different kind of scenery. Under such beautiful scenery, there are a group of guys talking about money standing around, which is really a bit unpleasant.
"Definitely, but the question is, since you know the result, why do you still rent it to us?" Xia Heng asked in confusion.
Land with abundant water and grass must be robbed. No one will let go of a piece of pasture that is bound to yield a big harvest. This playground is also within the territory of the Wu Dynasty. If it were moved outside the border, a fight would be inevitable.
More importantly, around Qinggutun, he only needs to kill a wave of cattle and sheep every year to complete the watering of blood.
The pastures here do not need to be rotated at all, and there is no need to worry about the degradation of the pastures for seven or eight years at a time.
"Because there is no lack of construction, because it is too close to the trade road!" Xiaohu said, "The grass is natural, but the pasture needs planning. Sheep pens, forage fields, and fences all require investment. It is impossible to invest only three or four years. To complete it, whether to spend your own money or our money, this account is not difficult to calculate at the moment!"
Li Yannian added, "Raders are more afraid of cattle and sheep getting sick than not having enough forage. Once the cattle and sheep get sick, all of them will die. If the response is slower, all the cattle and sheep may die. Therefore, large ranches are often far away from towns. Stay away from people, especially in the four or five months of late spring and summer. A knowledgeable rancher will not let people leave the ranch or let outsiders in!"
Millions of dollars in wealth, not counting the hair. This is not just talk.
"What do you mean, this is just a trap?"
Xia Heng blinked. He really didn't expect that there were so many articles in it.
"Don't look at me like that. I didn't expect to trick people. If you raise them less and manage them more carefully, the situations mentioned by Xiaohu and Yannian will not happen. The key is to see whether people are greedy or not!"
The current rented pasture is enough. If we sell a batch of lambs after this winter, there will only be 7 or 8 million sheep in the two million acres of pasture, which is far from the upper limit of the pasture.
The purpose of buying this land was to prepare for a backup pasture in a few years.
"In the final analysis, this year is just a makeshift team. Even if we have a lot of gains, we must know in our hearts that the grass team is just a grass team after all. If we want the futures market to operate in the long term, we still need continuous investment!"
Next, he will be away for a period of time. As his successor, Xia Heng must have a clear mind and not slow down due to market closures and winter in the north.
"How many spare pastures like this do Master Fang think are needed?" Xia Heng asked curiously.
"Downstream of the Qingshui River, we need to collect 300,000 acres first. The roads need to be repaired, what should be raised, what should be expanded, to prepare for a large number of shipments next year. The other is the slaughterhouse, and then we will choose one or two places. We will wait until we get back to discuss the details!"
There is no need for Shang Zhong to report. The caravan leader who has completed the contract payment and left Qinggutun has already told him about the problems that occurred in the market during this period.
Over and over again, four words, insufficient preparation.
It was expected that the Sino-Japanese slaughter of 4,000 animals would not be possible, and the peak period would only be a little over 3,000. In addition, the refrigeration process was not done in time, resulting in a large number of caravans piling up outside Qinggu Tun, which greatly consumed the reserves within the village. The situation did not ease until the Li family provided support.
But it is only an alleviation, not a complete solution. With the current progress, if we want to complete the payment of all contracts, the time will probably be delayed until mid-November, and the lambs have already been driven in from overseas pastures, and they are losing weight every day...
But what is lost is fat, what is lost is money, everyone’s money!
"Do you only need one or two places?" Xia Heng tilted his head, somewhat puzzled.
"enough!"
Fang Fang replied affirmatively, "The problem of slaughtering is not so much due to site restrictions, but rather to unreasonable manpower arrangements, which leads to accumulation of procedures. In terms of manpower and tools, there is no problem in slaughtering four thousand animals a day. After I go back, I The arrangements will be redone, and then you won’t understand!”
When the slaughterhouse was built, the equations had already undergone simple flow processing. Today's slaughtering efficiency exceeds that of the past, but it has not reached the design limit. The problem must be the flow rhythm. Specifically, it is the wrong arrangement of manpower. This is difficult to say. It's difficult, but for equations that you have learned relevant knowledge, you only need to adjust your hands slightly.
