, which also made Lin Fu salivate.

Even if it is used as traditional lamp oil, as long as the price is low enough, the potential annual demand for the 50 million people in Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and Hubei is millions of barrels, and it can even be mined to other places in Haidong and Southeast Asia.

Regional dumping.

Another one is Borneo ash, which is actually volcanic ash deposited by an eruption in an unknown year. In Borneo, locals use this volcanic ash to fertilize their fields and plaster their houses.

The ash from Mount Borneo was transported to Jianghuai by merchant ships. It has been trialed on a small scale in the past two or three years. It has been used to improve the sandy texture along the coast with excellent results. It can make the cotton grain output of the sandy fields catch up with the upper-mature fields in the south of the Yangtze River.

The ash is mixed into the slurry and its adhesion is comparable to Sanhe slurry.

Borneo ash is actually a kind of natural mineral fertilizer and natural concrete. Although its value is not as good as Borneo oil, it is still a profitable cargo shipped to Jianghuai.

Frequent volcanoes in Borneo make its land extremely fertile, and it is also the first choice for the development of various plantations.

Therefore, Lin Fu needs a stronger military presence near Borneo. If possible and necessary, he will not hesitate to annex Borneo militarily when he has spare strength. Due to the memory of later generations, Lin Fu has no intention of Indonesia.

What a good feeling.

"There is a peninsula named Putan in the southeast of Johor, which is connected to Johor. There is water when the tide rises, and there is siltation when the tide falls." Sun Shangwang pointed to the Nanyang chart and told Lin Fu that it was suitable to build a land between Borneo and Johor.

The location of the military garrison, "so although it is connected to the land, there is no channel to connect it. It is regarded as an abandoned land by the Johor State. Only three to five thousand Ban tribes make a living by fishing. In the early years, Nanyang merchant ships often exchanged fresh water with the Ban tribes."

, food, and then bought a village and built a small castle..."

In fact, before today, Nanyang merchant ships followed the Haidong model in their foreign trade penetration, and built several supply stations along the route.

From the end of the previous dynasty to the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, a large number of survivors fled to the sea and settled in Nanyang. Before the rise of the East China Sea pirates, many bankrupt and landless farmers from Zhejiang, Fujian and other places went to Nanyang to seek livelihood, which made Nanyang countries such as Luzon and Sulu,

There are many coastal or island areas in Borneo, Johor, Annan and other countries, and there are a large number of sea people who migrated south from the Central Plains to beg for a living, and their status is extremely low.

This was the basis for the large-scale expansion of the Nanyang Commercial Line in just five or six years.

"Johor is further away from the mainland, and the previous dynasty's penetration into Borneo and Johor was limited and its influence was not deep, so a stronger military presence is needed," Lin Fu said to Gao Zongting and others, "You guys can discuss and see if there are suitable candidates.

Approximately how many water infantry troops should be sent there. Occupy Putan, don't think about saving money. Spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to buy it. If the people of Johor want to take it back in the future, they can also publicly say: This land is our money.
Chapter completed!