C1812 peeping at the Heavenly Dao (1/2)

Wang Chen unconsciously cast his gaze towards the sea. He knew where the answer was, it was on the golden channel on the sea.

Belait was not a simple big farm, it was actually a part of the Chinese granary. The experts of the Academy of Agriculture had specially designed a special kind of bamboo barn for the Nanyang area. The rice was not directly touching the ground, but was instead being held in the air by a bamboo pole.

The arrangement of the space was reasonable. The flow of air was smooth and the native monkeys could sprout rice in three to four months. In this kind of barn, it could guarantee the stored time for more than half a year.

Don't think that half a year's time is very short. With half a year's time, the Chinese merchant ship trade system would be useful. In the ports of the Belait, there would be merchant ships delivering rice to the Great Qing almost every day in exchange for generous profits.

As for the rice stored in the arid northern part of the world, the time it took to store it wasn't as short as half a year. Even if you hid it for three years and it only tasted a little worse, there would still be no signs of it rotting or sprouting.

”So that's how it is. The key to solving the problem lies not only in farming, but also in having a strong business civilization. That's when a swan can only fly with its two wings flapping at the same time …”

The first aboriginal tribes did not have storage technology, second, they did not have a strong business marketing network, and third, they were lazy. This kind of civilization was basically eliminated.

”Good boy, this group of idiots, what are you trying to steal the farmland for? Even if we get it, can you handle it? Can you digest the excess food produced? Can it be sold? To start a war just for such a small profit? If you do not destroy your country, then who will! ”

Wang Chen's epiphany had basically explained the current image of Nan Yang's economic operation. These kingdoms that were born and raised in the continent, in the eyes of both Europeans and Chinese, were considered to be of a low civilization.

Civilization has its highlands. Civilization that exists in the primitive fishing and hunting state cannot be a match for other advanced civilizations.

In the current Nanyang, Europeans occupy the most profitable industries, such as rubber, spices, gold mining... And port and sea management.

Goods such as rubber, spices, gold, and coffee could be transported directly to Europe by sea for a high profit, and the administration of the seaport could be taxed and provided with military bases, which were the core interests of the Europeans, especially the British.

But Europeans have never been involved in the food industry in the South China Sea, and even the more lucrative sugar, which is too far afield to get involved.

It's easy to imagine that people are all arbitrage, with the same investment, one business margin at 70% and the other at more than double. What do you think people will choose?

In the end, European merchants chose the profit-making profit-making sector, while the low-earning sectors such as grain, sugar, fruits and so on had no energy to control them.

This gave Xiao Letian an opportunity to infiltrate deeper. The Europeans did not want to do the rice business, but the Chinese were willing to do it, the Chinese merchants were willing to endure all the troubles and were also willing to earn a lot of money. In addition, in the rice business, they had to expand their land.

Under Xiao Letian's guidance and policy support, the reclamation area of Nan Yang bloomed everywhere like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. As long as the Europeans didn't occupy any strategic areas, the Chinese would all be involved.