Fang De smiled awkwardly and said, "How is it possible? There are not so many tropical fruits in the Han Dynasty. Don't worry, I won't rob the business. You just grow sugarcane here. The industry is not balanced. If something happens to sugarcane, the finances of Ryukyu will go bankrupt. There is a canned industry that can make your industry more balanced. Moreover, the Maritime Silk Road is now open. The supply of silk and cotton cloth in the Han Dynasty is in short supply. You cannot produce cotton cloth here, but you can produce silk all year round. You can produce it all year round. If you plant mulberry trees, raise silk, reel, textile silk, and then transport it overseas by sea boats, it will be a huge profit. You must know that the silk of our Han Dynasty can be exchanged for equal heavy gold overseas! And now it is the industrial era. Developing industry is the only way out for this era. Fellow Daoist Zhang Jiao, don't lag behind this era!"

Fang De was very sincere in his friend Zhang Jiao, and directly pointed out the direction of his future development.

"Industrial era? Are you steam engines?" Zhang Jiao knew that Fang De was vigorously popularizing steam engines in the Han Dynasty, and Zhang Jiao had also purchased some. Of course, he had a Taoist legion in his hand, which could easily copy Fang De's steam engines. Although there were not many steam engines in Ryukyu, he built a railway, and all the steam trains ran on it, so Zhang Jiao still had some knowledge of steam engines. Of course, he, a native native, could not see the powerful potential of steam engines, but he only made some when he saw that the steam train was suitable for Ryukyu.

Fang De nodded and said, "In the next few decades, it can be called the steam era. Steam engines can represent national strength. The more steam engines, the stronger the country will be. A country without steam engines can only become a weak country and suffer the blow from a strong country."

Zhang Jiao would not doubt Fang De's words. His complaint this time was not really blamed Fang De. Ryukyu Island was unique. Zhang Jiao farmed here for decades. Although he did not have Fang De's cheats, after decades of development, the prosperity of Ryukyu is no longer inferior to the Central Plains, which is a little worse than that of Fang De's base.

Zhang Jiao just wanted to see his old friends. After leaving the Han Dynasty from Zhang Jiao, he and Fang De had not met for more than ten years. They usually rely on magic to contact each other. After Fang De was injured, the contact became even less.

Zhang Jiao said curiously: "In the past two years, you have been very big. Even I heard it in Ryukyu. Everyone said that you are unwilling to step down from the position of prime minister like this, and want to wait until Lu Zhi abdicates and take up the throne again!"

Fang De said curiously: "How come everyone has such an idea!"

Fang De has spent all his energy on copying and promoting the market in his hands over the years. This is the first time he has heard of this news!

Zhang Jiao said: "Lu Zhi is nearly 70 years old, and it is possible that he will die of illness now. Fang De, although you are over 100 years old, you look only twenty years old. Everyone was a young man back then. How could you believe that you just give up your rights easily?

But you have been doing so much in recent years. To be honest, even I feel it is exaggerated. The income of the imperial court has been increased by more than ten times. Everyone thought this was the limit, but they did not expect that it would double again after being destroyed in the past two years.

Now the Han Dynasty has hundreds of billions of taxes a year, and this number is simply unbelievable. When I left the Han Dynasty, the court had only earned 2-3 billion yuan a year, and it was not enough to make ends meet every year. Even His Majesty had to find a way to make money, and even came up with endless means of buying and selling officials. Just using all the means, the court did not increase much income.

But making money seems to be very easy in your hands. When you become the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, the court has never lacked money and food again. In the past two years, a factory has been established, and each factory can make hundreds of millions of dollars. I really don’t know where your limit is!"

The little underworld said: "Just kidding, what's wrong with Fang De becoming the prime minister again? It's all right to become the emperor with Fang De's contribution to the Han Dynasty! If Fang De hadn't wanted to make the world turbulent and uneasy, we would have snatched the Liu family world. This world is not a virtuous person. Is there anyone with more virtuous man nowadays who are more virtuous than Fang De?"

Zhang Jiao smiled and said, "A truly virtuous person will not look at the position of the emperor. You see, fellow Taoist Fang De did not make the world turbulent for his own selfish desires!"

Fang Dedao: "The emperor is just a position, but everyone regards this position as a sacred person. I only see the emperor's power, but I can't see the flaws of the position of the emperor. Emperors of all generations have been alone, and people from all over the world have joined forces to deceive him alone. What's the point of such a position? I can't change the Han Dynasty with my own ideas now, why do I have to become the emperor?"

Zhang Jiao said: "Fellow Daoist Fang De is indeed at a high level! It's so lucky for a great man to have you!"

That's right, even if you have this friend Fang De, it would be a lucky thing, otherwise you would have died long ago! Little darkness said in the darkness.

Then Zhang Jiao took Fang De to wander around the Ryukyu, and Zhang Jiao also excitedly showed Fang De the Ryukyu he built.

The current population of Ryukyu Island is 5 million, and it can be regarded as a small state in the Han Dynasty. The populations of places such as Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Jiaozhou are not as large as those of Ryukyu.

Just as Fang De said, Ryukyu has a mild climate and is naturally suitable for farming, especially for cash crops such as Zhangjiao and sugarcane. Sugarcane is planted in half of Ryukyu's land. After squeezing sugar, you can earn thousands of dollars per mu. These fields alone can help Zhangjiao bring billions of income.

Therefore, farming can really make money. Everyone thinks that farmers are poor because their labor results are occupied by officials and tyrants. After thousands of years, everyone thinks that farming is not profitable. Farmers are all poor. But as long as Zhangjiao farms for decades, they will build the primitive Ryukyu into a wealthy country, even surpassing the Central Plains that have been developed for thousands of years. From this, we can know that the distribution of labor results is the most critical factor.

In addition to the sugar industry, Zhangjiao also has the shipyard industry, plus fleet supplies and other income. It can be said that the small Ryukyu's annual income is as high as 10 billion yuan, and he spent all this money on Ryukyu. The construction costs of several billion yuan each year make Ryukyu a new country of Tianfu, quickly catching up with the Central Plains, and only the Sili and other places that Fang De has worked hard to manage.

As Fang De looked along the way, the entire Ryukyu field was vast and flat, the city was very lively, the people were rich and strong, and children were innocent and lively. Zhang Jiao even spent a lot of effort to build an island-round railway to connect the entire Ryukyu. It can be said that Ryukyu was really built by Zhang Jiao into a Taiping Kingdom of Heaven.
Chapter completed!