Revisiting Future Path

414 Interest is always coveted

Yang Niansong was angrily: "Is my dad a generation to usurp the throne?"

Wei Dongsheng continued to appease Yang Niansong: "Don't get me wrong, this is just my selfish idea."

After all, she is only an eighteen-year-old girl, and Yang Niansong quickly calmed down her anger: "You must never treat a gentleman like a villain anymore, my dad will be angry."

Wei Dongsheng apologized first, and then asked: "Think about it, I really should learn something about governing the country and the world. However, it is too shallow on paper, and it is easy to learn without thinking. It is better for me to use Batang County as a test site. , Learn and practice?"

Yang Niansong mistakenly thought that Wei Dongsheng had lost his way, and said happily, "Okay."

Wei Dongsheng continued to pit Yang Niansong: "The government is often involved and affects the whole body. Would you like to ask my father for my opinion first?"

Yang Niansong didn't know the pros and cons, and readily agreed.

More than a month later, Yang Nian Song returned disappointed as expected: "My dad didn't agree."

This is the answer in Wei Dong's business data.

If Yang Xinning really has no selfish intentions, why put Wang Xianhai beside Wei Dongsheng, and why order the guards to look only at Yang Nian Song. Wei Dongsheng risked his life before reluctantly moving to Batang County, three to four kilometers away from Xiagang. Yang Xinning guarded Wei Dongsheng to this point. How could Wei Dongsheng be allowed to gather cronies based on Batang County?

The request from Batang County was just to make Yang Niansong aware of the differences in interests between her and Yang Xinning.

The queen is still a stained princess. Wei Dongsheng believes that Yang Niansong will definitely choose the former first. When Yang Nian Song began to realize that Yang Xinning was threatening her interests, the rift between the father and daughter must have grown worse, eventually driving Yang Nian Song to Wei Dongsheng's camp.

Wei Dongsheng did not question Yang Xinning why he was unwilling, nor did he mock Yang Niansong’s wishful thinking towards Yang Xinning, nor did he take the opportunity to criticize Yang Xinning’s domineering authority. Instead, he hypocritically stood on Yang Niansong’s position to excuse Yang Xinning: "Perhaps, my father thinks we are too young. , Can’t take on the big responsibility. In that case, let’s grow sugarcane for a few years in Batang County and exercise."

Yang Nian Song was silent.

After Batang's request was unsuccessful, Yang Niansong's personality became calmer and he stopped talking about Wei Dongsheng's planting sugarcane without image. Although Yang Niansong still despised laborers, she began to consciously help with things, such as some trivial tasks such as financial management.

In order to continue to operate the sugar industry chain, Wei Dongsheng established the Songsheng company in early 1298. Song is Yang Niansong’s Song, Sheng is Wei Dongsheng’s. Wei Dongsheng hopes to tie his interests with Yang Niansong’s interests through the Songsheng firm’s organization, and then use Yang Niansong’s identity to seek opportunities and dismember Yang Xinning’s team.

Similar to the construction of Zhuwei's series of companies in the real world, Wei Dongsheng has no extravagant hope to fully control the cane sugar industry chain from sugar cane planting to cane sugar trade. Therefore, the production of cane sugar does not have to wait until the sugar cane plantations are harvested before starting the construction of cane sugar production. Approaching the sugarcane squeezing season that year, Songsheng Company began to try to move around the Shunta Kingdom, purchase sugarcane from Shunta self-farming farmers and Javanese indigenous people on a small scale, and took the lead in launching cane sugar trial production.

Cane sugar production is slightly more difficult than Wei Dongsheng imagined. Because of the limitations of contemporary cane sugar production technology, cane sugar is similar to a labor-intensive high-tech industry. First, a large amount of labor is required to cut sugar cane and torture cane juice. The labor intensity is extremely high, and not many people are willing. Think of it as a happy life; secondly, from the perspective of Shunta citizens, sugar production is a contemporary high-tech industry, and it requires a lot of effort to hire skilled workers.

Of course, these difficulties could not be difficult for Wei Dongsheng. With the experience of the leaders of the Spring and Autumn Period, Wei Dongsheng quickly pulled the sugar industry chain on track.

But even with an outstanding capitalist like Wei Dongsheng, Song Sheng still cannot offset its shortcomings. Take the sugar production process as an example. In the early days, Wei Dongsheng hired a group of skilled workers with high salaries and low salaries. The quality of the sugar in the first phase of the small-scale experiment was not as good as the native method of Java. It was not until Wei Dongsheng used technical standards to continuously eliminate the overwhelming generation, and slowly gathered multinational technical teams including Mongolian refugees, Indian slaves, and unemployed refugees from Champa. The quality of the cane sugar produced by Songsheng was barely improved to the Mongolian yuan boutique cane sugar. 80% of the standard.

Although the quality of cane sugar is far inferior to the high-quality cane sugar of countries such as Mongolia and Yuan, Songsheng can effectively take advantage of its geographical advantages and barely gain a share in the Southeast Asian ocean trade. You know, sucrose is in short supply at this time. In the distant European continent, the nobles of the nations have just learned what cane sugar is. The price of cane sugar was once more expensive than gold. In the Mongol and Yuan provinces and the Indian subcontinent with a long history of cane sugar, cane sugar is also a light luxury item in an absolute sense. Ordinary people dare not dream of having sugar.

The charm of cane sugar is well known.

In this era when cane sugar is in short supply, as long as the quality is not so bad that it is difficult to swallow, someone will definitely be willing to pay for it.

It is a pity that science and technology are the primary productive forces, and the current crude sugar production process has greatly increased the production cost of sucrose. Whether the cane sugar industry can become Wei Dongsheng's money-making machine, the key is not whether people like cane sugar or not, but whether cane sugar trade can bring considerable profits.

This is difficult.

In 1298, Song Sheng's business was unfortunately not profitable.

In fact, if Wei Dongsheng did not have the discerning eye to eliminate a group of indiscriminate people, and set up a multinational technical team to introduce the cane sugar production process in time, the Songsheng company would have a very high probability of losing everything. Everyone knows that cane sugar makes money. Why are few people willing to set up cane sugar workshops in Java and other places? The current problem that Song Sheng is facing is the core reason why Shunta does not have a sugar industry.

The cost of large-scale cane sugar production is high. Even the king of a country like Wei Dongsheng needs to be cautious. What's more, the poor Mongolian refugees who have fled? Regardless of the technical threshold or the intensive labor required by the sugar industry, most investors can be discouraged. During the loss-making period of Songsheng's business, even Yang Niansong had a retreat: After working hard for a year, instead of making huge profits, he lost a lot of money. What is the meaning of such a business?

Not many people are willing to do business that is losing money.

Wei Dongsheng insisted on the construction of the sugar industry chain.

It is not because Wei Dongsheng is willing to lose money, but the prospect of the sugar industry chain is worth looking forward to.

With the development of the real economy in the 21st century, it is difficult for many industries to make profits when they started operations. For example, the panel manufacturing, memory, and chips of the smart phone industry chain did not have the confidence to operate at a loss for several years. It is better to get out of these industries earlier. Take Zhuwei's series of subsidiaries and joint ventures as an example. It is not uncommon for three or five years of continuous loss-making operations to occur. However, even if these companies continue to lose money, Zhuwei Group needs their existence.

Moreover, for many businesses with attractive prospects, venture capital bets are worth the bet. The future prospects of the sucrose production chain are very good. In Wei Dongsheng's view, it is not acceptable to lose money in 1298 and to lose money for three consecutive years.

Of course, this is the foundation brought by Wei Dongsheng's status as King Shunta.

If Wei Dongsheng’s first-life experience was a poor Mongolian refugee, his first concern would be how to survive, and how would he qualify for operating the sugar industry chain at a loss. What kind of ability to do what kind of things, this is Wei Dongsheng's creed. Since he was fortunate enough to be reborn as King Shunta, Wei Dongsheng must use the idea of ​​King Shunta to build a sugar industry chain and do what the king of a country should do.

The topic returns to the sucrose industry chain.

With the growth of employees' practice and the gradual formation of the trade network, the production cost of cane sugar is getting lower and lower, the quality of cane sugar is getting higher and higher, and the profits of Songsheng Company are getting more and more considerable.

In 1299, the Songsheng firm achieved a balance of payments.

In 1300, Song Sheng not only expanded its sugarcane plantations to 500 acres, but also achieved profitability for the first time ever. Note that the profit here has been deducted from the plantation development expenses. If you consider the income from fixed assets such as sugar cane plantations, the profits of Song Sheng after the loss phase are extremely terrifying.

In just three years, Nanyang Marine's impression of the Shunta Kingdom has become: real estate cane sugar.

However, interests are always coveted.

We will not mention threats such as peer competition for the time being, but only talk about the worries of Yang Xinning, the power minister Wei Dongsheng is most concerned about.

From 1297 to 1300, Wei Dongsheng honestly followed the example of Liu Chan, reluctant to think about Shu, and devoted himself to building a sugar industry chain. In order to prevent Song Sheng from drawing Yang Xinning's taboo, Wei Dongsheng first took the initiative to delegate power to Yang Nian Song and ordered him to manage the financial power, and then "tolerantly" squeezed the eyeliner sent by Yang Xinning and granted them the position of Song Sheng. The specific methods are very complicated, such as provoking discord and intensifying the contradiction of the eyeliner, allowing the eyeliner of lower status in Yang Xinning's influence to hold a higher position, jumping the eyeliner to fight the eyeliner; another example is the corruption of money. When making money, will they still be loyal to Yang Xinning? Etc., etc. These trivial means will not be elaborated.

However, these methods can obviously only delay the contradiction.

When Song Sheng's firm developed to a sugarcane plantation of 500 acres, even though Wei Dongsheng looked like Liu Chan who was reluctant to think about Shu, Yang Xinning was still more and more restless. Don't say that the network of contacts weaving quietly by Song Sheng's firm is that only 500 acres of sugarcane plantations are enough to make Yang Xinning nervous.

Although sugarcane plantations cannot be regarded as the basis of farming wars like rice and wheat, the peasants and laborers tied to them are potential forces that cannot be ignored. You know, the foundation of the Shunta Kingdom lies in maritime trade, including patrols to maintain law and order, with a total of only 250 army troops. If Wei Dongsheng instigated the workers in the sugar cane plantation in an emergency, it might be impossible to capture the thieves first and capture Yang Xinning as a king.

In 1300, when Song Sheng's firm developed best, the contradiction between Wei Dongsheng and Yang Xinning gradually intensified.

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