In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the busy autumn harvest has arrived.&1t;/p>

People from all over the world are busy carrying out autumn harvests, and harvesting machines are quite popular. In recent years, in addition to producing hand-cranked wheat harvesters, machinery manufacturing plants have also produced soybean harvesters and corn harvesters, as well as cotton gins that improve cotton processing efficiency.&1t;/p>

These agricultural machinery are in good sales. Agricultural companies under the state-owned capital consortium, as well as military production corps, etc. are the first to purchase them. In order to reduce labor costs, agricultural companies established by private capital also use these agricultural machinery in large quantities.&1t;/p>

With the gradual popularization of these agricultural machinery, the agricultural production efficiency in the new policy areas has been greatly improved. At the same time, these agricultural machinery is also sold well in various provinces across the country, and many landlords and merchants are still quite concerned about improving productivity.&1t;/p>

In addition, there are also various technologies such as hydraulic grain processing plants that have become popular. Machinery manufacturing plants have made great progress in mechanical research over the years. Hydraulic machinery is getting bigger and bigger, and its internal structure is gradually becoming more complex.&1t;/p>

These hydraulic machinery actually brought a good foundation for the subsequent industrial revolution. Once the high-temperature and high-pressure steam engines appeared, it would be enough to change the power of these hydraulic machinery from hydraulic power to steam engines.&1t;/p>

The autumn harvest in the seventh year of Tianqi was less affected by the disaster, and various places were happy to get a bumper harvest.&1t;/p>

In the Northeast region, the first large-scale harvest of soybeans was harvested, with an area of ​​more than 60 million mu, of which half of the soybeans sown by the production corps accounted for.&1t;/p>

The cultivation of the Great Northern Wilderness has begun to show results.&1t;/p>

A large amount of soybeans were harvested, and the hydraulic oil presses in the Northeast immediately started to work hard to squeeze more soybean oil before the temperature dropped. After winter, these water conservancy equipment could not operate and they would have to wait until the spring next year to continue production.&1t;/p>

This is the troublesome thing about hydraulic equipment. Due to the constraints of seasonal water changes, it is impossible to produce fully all year round.&1t;/p>

The advantage is that there is no need for fuel.&1t;/p>

The soybean-producing areas in the Northeast region achieved a bumper harvest, which means that a new commodity appeared in the Ming Dynasty. That is soybean oil.&1t;/p>

Soybean oil is a technology that China has mastered very early, while Westerners master it relatively late. They even know that soybeans can squeeze oil.&1t;/p>

After soybean oil is pressed, soybean meal can also be sold to breeding farms as feed. These soybean meal are rich in protein and are definitely concentrated feed. Especially now that the number of horses in the Ming Dynasty has increased significantly, horses must eat some concentrated feed.&1t;/p>

After soybean oil became a commodity, it changed the edible oil market in the past. In the past, there were a lot of vegetable oils in the Ming Dynasty, including rapeseed oil, peanut oil, and sunflower oil. There were some other vegetable oils in the local area, and cottonseed oil was also very popular, but eating cottonseed oil will cause men to sterilize, and it is generally used to light the lamp.&1t;/p>

Although there are many varieties of vegetable oil, the production is very scattered and there is no large-scale commercial production area. With the output of Northeast soybean oil, the Guannei area can free up more land to produce other crops.&1t;/p>

The regional division of labor on crops will also become more and more clear.&1t;/p>

In addition to harvesting large quantities of soybeans and wheat, corn also achieved a bumper harvest. Corn was introduced to China during the Jiajing period and is now planted all over the country. The corn planting area in the Northeast is also very large.&1t;/p>

During the autumn harvest, the wheat harvest area in the Northeast region reached nearly 130 million mu, and during the summer harvest, it was harvested more than 60 million mu.&1t;/p>

The annual wheat planting area in the entire Northeast reaches nearly 200 million mu, while the corn planting area reaches more than 80 million mu.&1t;/p>

A large amount of wheat and corn was harvested, and there were only more than 10 million people in the Northeast, which could not consume so much food.&1t;/p>

Some of these grains will be transported to the provinces in the northern pass, and some will be transported to the southern provinces. Wheat, soybeans and corn from the northeast region will be supplied to the north and south, and there will also be fishery products transported from Zhendong Province, which will also be supplied to the whole country.&1t;/p>

Most of the grain is still supplied to the new policy areas in the north. Nowadays, a large number of people in the new policy areas are engaged in industrial and construction activities. There are relatively large populations that have left the land. At the same time, a large number of cash crops have begun to be planted in agriculture, and grain output has begun to decline. Grain must be supplied from commercial grain production bases such as the Northeast.&1t;/p>

At the same time, rice in Taiwan and Nanyang also achieved a bumper harvest in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and these areas suffered some typhoon disasters every year. However, because the climate is relatively warm, rice can be planted for two or three seasons a year, so the impact is not too great.&1t;/p>

In the seventh year of the Tianqi period, more rice was transported from Taiwan and Nanyang. More than 10 million mu of arable land in Taiwan have been reclaimed. The rice planting area in Luzon, Jawa Island and other places has also increased, and the rice planting area has reached more than 30 million mu.&1t;/p>

The productivity of commercial grain in the Nanyang region is not that high, because more land is used to grow sugarcane, spices, cotton, and some tropical cash crops, such as sisal, rubber, palm, etc. However, the output rate of commercial grain in Taiwan is very high.&1t;/p>

However, the Indochina Peninsula began to export a lot of rice to the Ming Dynasty this year. The three countries, Annan, Khmer and Siam, exported tens of millions of stones of rice to the Ming Dynasty, all of which were exchanged for various commodities by the Ming merchant ships.&1t;/p>

Tens of millions of stones of rice are actually not much for the superior rice production environment and arable land resources in these countries. The main reason is that the arable land resources in these countries are very low, and there was no such trade relationship with the Ming Dynasty in the past.&1t;/p>

Now the Ming Dynasty merchant ships are willing to transport large quantities of commercial grain from the Indochina Peninsula. These countries have begun to encourage reclamation. In addition, the capital of the state-owned capital consortium of the Ming Dynasty has begun to enter the Indochina Peninsula. A large amount of wasteland is opened in these three countries. In the future, the acquisition of commercial grain from the Indochina Peninsula will continue to rise. This will become another large granary of the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

For the Ming Dynasty at this time, these inputs to the Ming Dynasty were like a long drought and rain.&1t;/p>

The current shortage of food in the north of Ming Dynasty is due to natural disasters on the one hand, and the imperial court is building a large number of infrastructure and factories, the start of factories and mining exhibitions, etc., which have caused a large number of people to leave the land.&1t;/p>

The southern provinces are also short of food, mainly because of the capitalist exhibitions, factories and workshops in the southern region. A large amount of land is used to grow cash crops and food shortages.&1t;/p>

In the past, the grain in the south had to be exported by Huguang area, so the grain became very insufficient, and rice prices often grew rapidly.&1t;/p>

It’s different now. With the commercial grain exported from Taiwan, Nanyang, Indochina Peninsula, and the Northeast, coupled with Huguang, a traditional commercial grain production base, commercial grain in the north and south coastal provinces has become sufficient.&1t;/p>

Commercial grains in the Northeast and Nanyang areas will not have any impact on the commercial grain market in the Huguang area. Because grain can be adjusted.&1t;/p>

With sufficient supply of commercial grain, the court can liberate more people from the land in the north, further promote the enclosure movement, and at the same time increase the economic crop planting area in northern provinces. Reduce grain production, thereby giving up the market for commercial grain in Huguang area.&1t;/p>

In addition, grain can also be stored for emergency purposes.&1t;/p>

The seventh year of the Apocalypse was relatively good, so the output of commercial grain was greater than the market demand, so the state-owned capital consortium naturally carried out some regulation.&1t;/p>

How much is the commercial grain in Huguang area? Then use the Yangtze River water transportation to transport this grain, plus the commercial grain from various places, fully guarantee the grain supply in the north and south provinces, and keep the grain price within a stable level.&1t;/p>

The extra products will be stockpiled.&1t;/p>

For state-owned capital consortiums, there is enough funds to hoard these commodity grains.&1t;/p>

Now the state-owned capital consortium has firmly occupied the northern market and has also entered the southern market. Although Zhu Youxiao did not implement reforms to the south for a while, he is also protecting the basic right of survival of the southern people by controlling grain prices.&1t;/p>

As long as there is no famine, there will be no starvation to death.&1t;/p>

As for the problem of unemployment in the industrial competition between the north and the south, there is also a way to solve it. Unemployed people can immigrate or work in various northern provinces.&1t;/p>

Anyway, as long as you are willing to do things, you will never starve to death, and there are ways out everywhere.&1t;/p>

Even if you are about to starve to death, you will go to the local government to register for immigration, and the travel expenses and food along the way will not be able to starve to death. Moreover, the shipping is getting more and more, and there are more and more passenger ships on the sea that communicate between the north and the south. The transportation between the north and the south is much more convenient.&1t;/p>

Moreover, some industries in the south cannot be replaced by the Northern Industrial Exhibition, such as the raw silk industry. There are also various industries. The South has a relatively advantage in the light industry. However, the textile industry will definitely be severely impacted in the future, because high-pressure steam engines have appeared.&1t;/p>

As for the heavy industry field, it must be left behind by the north.&1t;/p>

Agriculture in the southern region is more promising, because the rapid development of northern industries requires a lot of raw materials for cash crops.&1t;/p>

As long as the unemployed immigrates and cannot starve to death, there are opportunities.&1t;/p>

Just like China in later generations, no matter how bad the economy is, there is a shortage of labor everywhere. As long as you are willing to do things, you are afraid of starving to death? Of course, the basic right to survival of human beings in the 21st century is not just about eating a full stomach, but also about living and working in peace.&1t;/p>

However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the standard of basic survival rights was much lower. In this era of productivity was not very high and natural disasters continued, ensuring that the people's food and clothing was the main standard of basic survival rights.&1t;/p>

Fullness can be guaranteed, and the temperature is gradually increasing.&1t;/p>

As autumn arrives, it is time to shear the wool on the grassland, and the cotton in the Guannei area is also ripe. Commercial cotton in northern Zhili, Henan, and Shandong have achieved a bumper harvest. The Jiangnan area also has a relatively large scale of cotton planting, which is also the reason why the Jiangnan area has changed from a granary to a grain that cannot be self-sufficient in food today.&1t;/p>

Australia also produces some commercial grain and commercial cotton, but it is still mainly commercial grain. Luzon and Java have a lot of commercial cotton, and the plantations here also planted cotton, which is a plantation industry left by the Spanish and the Dutch.&1t;/p>

In addition, there are many furs produced in Northeast China, Mongolia, North Korea and other places, which are also something that can keep warm.&1t;/p>

The output of wool, cotton, fur, and a large number of industrial raw materials has become more and more relaxed in meeting domestic demand in the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

In the seventh year of the Tianqi revelation, Zhu Youxiao's previous expansion layout finally obtained enough resources. After more resources, the regulation became much easier.&1t;/p>

This year's autumn harvest is destined to be a busy season, and the autumn harvest in some places is even too busy.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao looked at the various reports coming up below, but was happy, but he understood that the challenges ahead would be even more severe. The Little Ice Age has just begun.&1t;/p>

Next year is the first year of the Tianqi period in history. Shaanxi will suffer from severe droughts and northern Shaanxi will become a severely affected area.&1t;/p>

However, Zhu Youxiao was ready, and the grain harvest in various places happened to be good this year, so Zhu Youxiao ordered another large amount of grain to be stored for emergency response.&1t;/p>

First, we focused on strengthening the strategic grain reserves in Shaanxi, and at the same time ordered the increase of grain reserves in various towns. Such grain reserves were mainly handed over to the newly established Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Company. [^*]&1t;/p>

Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Group is a newly established state-owned capital group that will be responsible for the overall grain and oil transportation, processing and reserve.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the control of the grain sales market has been relaxed, mainly because several commercial grain production bases have been established. With state-owned capital intervening in the grain market, it is difficult for private grain merchants to cause trouble, but private grain merchants still have a good supplementary effect on the market, so Zhu Youxiao decided to reopen the market for grain purchase, processing, sales, retail and other aspects to private grain in the new policy area.&1t;/p>

However, in those areas where commercial grain output is produced, in addition to Huguang, Northeast, Hetao, Hexi Corridor, Taiwan, Nanyang and Indochina Peninsula, private capital is still under control in grain purchases. The grain prices in these areas are relatively low and can only be sold to Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Group.&1t;/p>

Jimin Grain Bank merged and reorganized with Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Group. At the same time, those state-owned grain processing plants and agricultural companies also reorganized with Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Group. Their business is mainly focused on grain production, acquisition, processing, transportation, reserve, and retail.&1t;/p>

After the reorganization, the Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Company integrated the following state-owned capital agricultural companies and the agricultural output of various production corpses. It has the largest grain and oil production scale in Daming, becoming the largest grain and oil producer.&1t;/p>

It also has many hydraulic grain processing plants, which is also the largest scale and lowest cost in grain processing. There are grain reserve warehouses and sales points in most parts of the country.&1t;/p>

The reorganized Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Group instantly became a giant, and integrated many resources together. The effect is definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two.&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!