Chapter 1343 Exchange
After the teak wood is felled, it has to go through the process of drying in the shade. This process takes several years, or even longer. And the wood that has been dried in the shade also needs to be processed according to the needs of shipbuilding, such as sawing, steaming and shaping.
"This is no problem. I can ask the timber merchants in the middle school to give priority to supplying the teak timber in their reserves to Luzon first, and I can also increase the harvesting volume according to the order."
Qin Lang bowed his head and kissed Fan Lin.
"But I have conditions."
"you say."
"First of all, I hope that the purchase price of teak can be based on the market price, and secondly, I hope that Linyi can give priority to obtaining new ships."
"no problem."
Qin Lang smiled and said, "I can also ask Lin Yi to use teak wood as a deduction for the ship payment."
When it came to business, the queen did not give in. "Our Linyi can sell teak wood to Luzon with all our strength. In addition to changing ships, I think it can also be used to exchange sugar, glass, porcelain, and silk with Luzon."
"Sugar and glass are fine, but the production of porcelain in Luzon is limited now, and silk is mainly produced by the free port of the country of Wa. The production is even lower, so there is no way to guarantee priority."
"Then exchange sugar and glass, don't worry, we will exchange them at market price."
White sugar and glass are now industries in which the Qin family has the exclusive core technology. Even in Datang, they are the only ones, and they are extremely popular goods in both the East and the West. No loss, after all, teak is produced in all countries in Southeast Asia, and even the quality of Pyu is better.
In exchange for sugar and glass, you can turn around and trade to make a fortune.
"If Linyi wants more white sugar, I suggest that you grow some sugar cane and exchange it with us for white sugar with rough sugar. As long as there is rough sugar, you can give priority to the corresponding white sugar, how about it?"
Raw sugar is also called raw sugar, which is the sugar material obtained by pressing sugar cane to extract juice, after simple filtration, clarification, boiling concentration, boiling crystallization and other rough processing, which belongs to raw sugar.
Now the Qin family's sugar processing, in addition to the raw sugar produced by their own sugar cane gardens, mostly buys raw sugar from those sugar cane plantations in Lingnan and Southwest. It is in the hands of the local tyrants, who control the upstream industry of sugar raw materials, and then the Qin family masters the key sugar processing technology, and finally the Qin family distributes the white sugar to many nobles and powerful people for distribution, forming a complete industrial chain.
It is precisely because of this industrial benefit sharing mechanism that the Qin family has been able to keep key technical secrets for decades. After all, this benefit is not exclusive to the Qin family, so everyone can tolerate it in the end.
If you want to expand the production of sugar, the most important thing is the supply of upstream raw materials. You have to expand the planting of sugar cane. In fact, the share of white sugar in the Central Plains has already been divided, and it is not easy to move.
But the increase in sugar production brought about by the newly added raw materials overseas can be redistributed by the Qin family.
The climate in Linyi is very suitable for growing sugar cane. In fact, Sumatra, Java and other places are suitable.
"Do you reap as much as you plant?"
"White sugar has always been a hot-selling product that is in short supply. Whether it is exported or sold domestically, the supply is in short supply. For example, in the Tang Dynasty of the Central Plains, the imperial court has long listed white sugar as a special commodity and set up a sugar tax, but it still cannot stop the huge demand. Well, the imperial court’s transshipment department even set up a white sugar warehouse, and every year they buy a lot of white sugar from Qin Jiabo, and they can make a lot of money by changing hands.”
Whether in the East or the West, white sugar is treated at the same level as spices. It is a rare high-end seasoning. Compared with maltose and honey, which are easier to obtain, white sugar is rarer and better in appearance, even sweetness. etc. are also more popular and easy to store.
Before Zhenguan, Tianzhu frosted sugar was the most important in the world’s sugar market. Every year, countless Tianzhu businessmen or Nanyang merchants came to the Central Plains to sell Tianzhu frosted sugar and made a lot of money.
But with the appearance of the Qin family's astonishing white sugar, Tianzhu Frost Sugar, which was far inferior in appearance and taste, fell into the dust all of a sudden, and eventually became the raw material sugar of the Qin family's white sugar.
After these years, the white sugar of the Qin family in the Tang Dynasty has even surpassed the major spices of Nanyang, such as cloves, cinnamon, pepper, and cardamom.
Until now, the Qin family white sugar has been sold for decades, but it is still a luxury in the East and the West. Although the price has dropped, it is still not affordable for ordinary people, especially in the West. Only the royal family and nobles can enjoy it.
The Qin family even intends to make the sugar industry bigger and stronger. Luxury rock sugar, white sugar, and even brown sugar, brown sugar, and flower sugar that are hyped as supplements, as well as more expensive milk sugar, fructose, etc. Of course, there are also sugar for the middle class Or the products of ordinary people, such as brown sugar and so on.
Qin Lang only wants to occupy one or two key links in the sugar industry, but he is willing to hand over the raw material supply and distribution links to others.
With the current output, it is still far from enough for the market.
This is a promising market. After all, the consumption of white sugar far exceeds that of cloves, pepper and other spices, so there is no need to worry about the market being saturated too quickly.
Qin Lang does not intend to waste the scarce population and labor in Luzon on planting sugar cane and rough processing sugar. The future he plans for Luzon is to master high-tech and high value-added industries, such as shipbuilding, silk, Porcelain, smelting, glass industries.
Agricultural grain, sugar cane, mulberry, tea, etc., just keep a general scale.
It is of course the best to let allies such as Linyi expand the sugar cane gardens and provide raw sugar for the sugar factories in Luzon.
"I can let Luzon invest in Linyi, establish a sugar mill as a sole proprietorship or a joint venture with Linyi to ensure the timely harvest and processing of sugar cane, and even sign a purchase agreement with Linyi's sugarcane garden to guarantee their How about the income?"
The queen felt that Qin Lang was really a considerate person, so she kissed him very happily.
Qin Lang laughed.
Investing in the establishment of sugar mills in sugar cane planting areas such as Linyi is actually beneficial to Luzon. It can not only ensure the timely processing and refining of these sugar canes, but also maintain the quality, and it can also ensure the right to speak in the upstream industry. Suppliers get stuck.
Compared to the large amount of land and labor required to grow sugar cane, the sugar mill is relatively easy.
For Linyi, this is of course a good thing. Planting sugar cane can bring more income to the people, and building a sugar factory also guarantees the benefits of sugar cane planting.
Even the Linyi court can increase taxes in these links, which is indeed a win-win situation.
"Actually, you can still grow cotton. The demand for cotton is getting bigger and bigger. As for silk, Luzon is unable to supply you now, but cotton cloth is fine. As long as you can grow cotton, you can use cotton at that time." In exchange for a share of cotton cloth."
Cotton cloth is becoming a new kind of textile. It is becoming more and more popular in the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains. It has become the third largest textile after silk and hemp. Especially for the current Tang Dynasty, it conquered Liaodong and North Korea and conquered Xi After Qie, Monan and other places, the winter is cold, and more cotton-padded jackets and shoes are needed, not only for the garrisoned frontier troops, but also for the relocated border residents.
The market prospect is broad and the demand is extremely high.
And even for the South, cotton is a good textile.
After the Qin family solved some problems in cotton seed removal and weaving, the income of cotton spinning increased greatly, and the Qin family became a big winner in promoting cotton planting and weaving.
In terms of silk, the Qin family can't compete with the imperial court, nor can it compete with some old aristocratic families, not to mention the huge industrial scale that has been formed in places such as Suhang Lake, so the Qin family is mainly engaged in the cotton industry in Luzon, changing the track, Lead the way.
"no problem."
Linyi's reforms in recent years have also been very successful. After the queen returned to the country, she followed the Tang Dynasty in an all-round way and deepened reforms. Now she is known as a small China, with a prosperous business and a developed economy. It can be called a hegemony in Nanyang. , Now I dare not touch Lin Yi easily.
Linyi is backed by the Central Plains, and its national power is growing day by day. The Queen's prestige is naturally very strong, and the queen has been in power for a long time. Linyi's internal stability is strong in all aspects.
It has developed maritime trade through the Maritime Silk Road. Over the years, it has even attracted many aristocratic and powerful maritime merchants from the Tang Dynasty to invest in the past. It has become a tax haven for many Tang merchants, especially some restricted industries in the Central Plains. Linyi engages in, for example, mining, copper processing and so on.
However, although Linyi has the advantage of being close to the water, it also has some inherent shortcomings. For example, they actually lack some excellent technologies. Wait, basically buy buy buy.
What makes them stronger than the Wa country is that they not only have good resources to sell, such as spices, wood, and minerals, but also guard the important trade routes going south from the Datang Sea, and do transit trade, etc., which are also stable income.
This aspect is actually the result of Datang’s intentional restrictions. For example, shipbuilding, iron smelting, textiles and other industries, the imperial court has strict restrictions on their technology. Even porcelain and pottery industries have always been restricted, and the purpose is very simple. Neighboring countries like Linyi have always been younger brothers, and even become suppliers of raw materials and minerals for Datang, and at the same time become a sales area for Datang's handmade products.
Qin Lang also has no intention of changing this. The sugarcane, cotton planting and rough processing he is talking about with Lin Yi are all within this framework, and he has no intention of putting the core technology in Lin Yi.
After rough processing of sugarcane, raw sugar is transported back to Luzon for finishing, while cotton planting is at most spun into cotton yarn and then transported back to Luzon to be spun into cotton cloth.
Even wood, the most important finishing step will not be placed in Linyi.
(end of this chapter)