Chapter 41 Salt Field
After more and more maritime merchants took the initiative to pay the "toll", Yu Xiaotian's slightly dry pockets began to become full again.
If he has money in his pocket, he will naturally be more generous. Some of the rewards owed to his subordinates before will also be cashed and distributed to his subordinates.
In the past, the sea wolves stayed on the island, and their life was very monotonous. They had no place to spend their money. When they were free, they could only gather in crowds to gamble for fun.
Now Yu Xiaotian has set up a high reward system, which makes these people have spare money, so the problem comes out. When these people are idle, they are even more powerful at gambling.
In addition, businessmen also found this business opportunity. Some businessmen secretly set up a casino in the business warehouse area of Nanri Island to attract sea wolves to gather people to gamble.
More businessmen opened restaurants in the warehouse area and recruited the sea wolves who had money to have fun. What surprised Yu Xiaotian most was that two more land brothels also came.
The shopkeepers of these two brothels went to Nanri Island to buy a piece of land and built two prostitutes. They got more than a dozen prostitutes from each of them on land and put them in the brothels to attract business.
The shopkeepers of these two brothels have a really good vision. They know that there is such a demand in places where merchants gather. At the same time, the Sea Wolf Department has money and is also a large consumer, which is very profitable.
Yu Xiaotian is willing to see such a situation, because the more so, the more it represents the increase in the commercial development of Nanri Island. At the same time, he is very clear that not to mention their identity as pirates at present, even if they become a regular army, they cannot refuse this kind of thing.
In this era, gambling and buying spring are not something to see, and the secular world is also allowed. Officials and rich people, even those self-respectingly scholars, who don't prostitute? It is impossible for him to ask the moral standards of future generations to demand the subordinates of this era, not to mention that although it is forbidden in later generations, it is actually semi-public underground.
If there is demand, there is a market. Instead of banning, it is better to guide and supervise these industries.
What's more, he is not a moral pioneer. Lust is a man's nature, and he can't be an exception. This is not something that can be controlled. In the past, there were many men and few women in the sea wolves, and they had no way to vent their energy. There were many things to fight when they had nothing to do. Therefore, Yu Xiaotian bought a few when he was on Treasure Island before. A prostitute as a benefit.
But now his plate is getting bigger and bigger, and only a small number of prostitutes can no longer meet the needs of his subordinates and let him kidnap a good woman as *. This kind of thing is against his moral bottom line, so now someone has come to the island to open a brothel, which solves his problem.
He simply handed over this matter to the market to decide. A large group of energetic guys always need a place to vent their energy, and it costs money to go to brothels. If they don't have money, they can only stare. This can also effectively stimulate his men to work hard in exchange for more rewards and rewards, so for him, It's a good thing for someone to open restaurants and brothels.
But this also brings some negative effects. After all, it is outsiders who set up this kind of thing. It is inevitable that some people in the sea wolf department will talk fast. When they drink too much or prostitute, they will say a lot of things that should not be said.
In response, Yu Xiaotian ordered again to strictly order the generals to mention the internal affairs of the sea wolf when consuming in these places. Once it is found that the light people will be banned from leaving the station for half a year to two years, they will be punished according to the theory of betraying the sea wolf.
In addition, he asked Liu Laoliu to find a way to choose a few men with new faces, mixed sand into these restaurants and brothels, hide their identities, and monitor the words and deeds of his men in these places.
At the same time, he implements a licensing system for such an industry. Without his permission, he is not allowed to open such a place on the island. For businessmen secretly opening a casino, he directly vetoed it and did not allow anyone to open a casino on the island, lest some gamblers lose their eyes and do anything. Come out.
If he needs a casino, he is not willing to let others make this kind of money, and it is better to make this kind of money by himself. Therefore, under his secret instigation, the governing hall came forward and opened a special casino on the island for the recreation of the sea wolves.
The casino has rules that no credit or money is allowed. People who enter the casino can only pay in cash and get out of here immediately if they don't have money, so that some people owe huge gambling debts for this, so that they can't pay it off for half their lives.
In short, the second half of the three-year apocalypse is a critical time for Nanri Island to move from a remoteness to prosperity. All kinds of industries that used to be possible only on land began to appear in Nanri Island like bamboo shoots after rain.
It made some of the surrounding colleagues hear the news and can't help but feel lonely. They began to bring ships here to ship when they were free. While shipping, they also had fun on Nanri Island.
Such behavior also brought a lot of profits to Yu Xiaotian. He imposed heavy taxes on these special industries on Nanri Island, and also limited their prices. While ensuring that they can make money, he did not let them swallow these huge wealth.
Although these merchants are very unhappy about Yu Xiaotian's practice of taxing these industries and interfering in their prices, there is nothing they can do. This means that half of their business rights are handed over to Yu Xiaotian, and everything depends on Yu Xiaotian's face.
Even the prostitutes they got have to be checked by Langzhong before they go to the island to pick up guests, and they need to be re-examined regularly every month, and sick prostitutes are not allowed to engage in this industry on the island.
However, on the other hand, although Yu Xiaotian interfered with them a lot, he still gave them the opportunity to make money. They also have to admit that the consumption capacity on the island is still not low. While Xiaotian's strong intervention in supervision, they still have considerable profits.
So whether they are happy or not, there is no doubt about making money. No one has a grudge against money. If they want to make money here, they must abide by other people's rules. These merchants can only obey the orders of Xiaotian.
Looking at the prosperous Nanri Island, Yu Xiaotian's mood is getting better and more and more energetic. He is busy all day long, either to check in the commercial warehouse area, or to visit the farmland where the wasteland is reclaimed, and from time to time he will visit the fishing village on the island.
In order to solve the problem of eating salt on the island, it turned out that salt was basically used on Nanri Island to boil seawater in a large pot and evaporate water to obtain sea salt. However, with more and more people on the island, this method of boiling salt is no longer suitable.
In addition to consuming too much labor, the output is also too low. At the same time, it also destroys the limited vegetation on the island and requires a lot of fuel, which is not very economical and produces little benefits.
So Yu Xiaotian found a few people who know how to dry salt, chose a site on the island and opened a salt drying farm. The salt drying farm is actually not complicated. Choosing a suitable place to open a salt field and introduce the seawater at high tide into the salt field with the help of sunlight to make the water evaporate.
When the salt content of seawater reaches a certain level, the high concentration of brine is introduced into the crystallization pool and continues to be exposed to the sun, so that the salt in the seawater can crystallize. After scraping out and drying, coarse salt can be obtained.
Salt is a very important commodity in this era. It is mainly in the hands of the government and the court, and the profits are extremely considerable, which has also spawned salt tycoves who specialize in smuggling salt to risk secretly pouring private salt to obtain huge profits.
Salt hawks generally collude with officials and merchants to convert official salt into private salt through officials who control salt, and then traffic them to remote areas for sale at high prices.
However, Nanri Island is now a foreign land, nominally under the jurisdiction of Xinghua Prefecture. However, in fact, in the past 200 years, the government has not really exercised effective control of this place. Even the control is very short, and most of the time is in a state of foreign land.
Now Nanri Island is under the jurisdiction of the sea wolf of Xiaotian, which is naturally also a foreign land. After the opening of the salt field, the salt production of Nanri Island will soar. As one of the important commodities of this era, salt can also bring an additional income to the sea wolf.
As long as he makes people spread the wind, there will be salt hawks and take risks and come here to buy sea salt. It can be said that as long as there are goods, there is no need to worry about selling them, and there are sea wolves here to buy salt. Seawolves on the waterway can ensure that they will be escorted to the mouth of the Minjiang River, which is safer than on land. Naturally, they will not worry about sales at that time. .
Yu Xiaotian not only asked to dry sea salt, but also made a request to the board of directors. While drying salt, he also had to find someone to convert these coarse salts into some refined salts to increase some costs, but the profit obtained was much higher than selling coarse salt alone.
Even if it is sold in Fujian, the supply of refined salt is still in short supply, and there is no official peeling in the middle, and the price has a great advantage. Therefore, boiling some refined salt can make the sea wolf get greater returns.
Naturally, the matter of Yantian has also won the strong support of Li Gouzi, Zhao Mazi and others. Now they are very impressed by Xiaotian's idea of making money. A South Ri Island can make Yu Xiaotian do so many tricks. It seems that if it goes on like this, Nanri Island is really "moneyless"!
At the end of November, the weather had completely turned cold again, but Nanri Island was more than ten times more lively than half a year ago, especially in the area of the commercial stack area. Although I dare not say that it is already a lot of various businesses, it at least looks like a market town.
A total of 23 merchants have settled in the Nanri Island business stack area. There are more and more ships coming and going on the dock. Some specially come here to sell goods, and some ship goods from here. In short, compared with half a year ago, this place is like a different day, which makes people who have been here before. Looking at such a scene, it feels a little like a dream.
A complete boat house was also completely restored. At this time, more than 100 craftsmen were busy in the boat house, and more than half of them were forcibly kidnapped by Wang Hong from the boat house in Meizhou Bay.
Wang Hong took four boats to raid the boat. This time, they didn't empty it again. No one informed the shopkeeper of the boat. He didn't know that he was about to be destroyed at all.
So when Wang Hong led people to rush into his boat house, the man was still dreaming about his concubine in his arms. Before the man understood, someone chopped him with a knife and sent him back to the west in his sleep. Even his concubine was tied back to Nanri Island. Dozens of craftsmen in the boat house had no time to resist or escape. , which was also caught in one net, and stuffed into the boat and pulled back to Nanri Island.
Wang Hong belongs to the owner of scraping the land. Seeing that things were going well and he didn't disturb him too much, he simply took his men to search again in the boat house before leaving.
Because they knew what Yu Xiaotian wanted, in addition to plundering the wealth of the owner of the ship's house, they didn't even leave a lot of tools in the ship's house and pulled them back to Nanri Island.