The bulk of supplies is food. It will take Jeju Island and Kaohsiung 6 months to achieve self-sufficiency in food, and Taiwan's Kaohsiung and Pingtung areas will take at least 4 months. In other words, from the start of the engine plan, 200,000 refugees need to be maintained5
Monthly food needs and ensure the dietary needs of approximately 10,000 naturalized citizens.
Calculated based on the caloric value, each refugee needs 350 grams of brown rice per day. Although this is relatively low, most refugees do not arrange labor and mainly focus on recuperation. This requires 70 tons of brown rice per day, which is 2,100 tons per month.
, 10,500 tons in 5 months. The average daily supply of participants is 750 grams. The monthly food consumption is 225 tons of rice. The demand is 1,200 tons. In addition, the Ministry of Health recommends increasing vegetables and protein by 10% from a nutritional perspective.
To ensure the physical health of the refugees, it is also necessary to provide a certain amount of vegetables and seafood. Most of these supplies can be organized by the refugees to solve them locally - Tiandi will provide technical guidance, seeds and production tools.
These grains do not include the food needs of the indigenous people on Jeju Island. Although there must be some grain reserves on the island, Jeju Island itself is not a grain-producing area. Until the 21st century, the main agricultural product on Jeju Island was citrus. The island's main agricultural product was citrus.
Most of the land is used to raise horses. Obviously, the island's food originally needs to be imported from outside.
"According to the intelligence data we reviewed, the Li Dynasty had a large-scale prison camp on Jeju Island," Thorpe said, "with at least 10,000 official slaves and maidservants. In order to support these official slaves and maidservants, the prison camp must have
One or two months of food reserves. The small number of civilians on the island should have some food, so we don’t need to supply it for the time being. But the later supply must be taken into account.”
Jeju Island is not far from the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Islands, and it is still possible to replenish food on a small scale from these two places. The Japanese had begun to impose restrictions on silver exports at that time, but I have not heard of any restrictions.
Rice is exported.
What is difficult is the transit base in Taiwan. There are no local channels for purchasing food. The agricultural level of Taiwan's indigenous people is very low and they have no spare capacity to supply food. The Dutch are only interested in doing business and have no interest in opening up wasteland for farming. Although the Beigang area has never been
Since the Yan Siqi era, immigrants from Fujian have been opening up wasteland for reclamation, and Zheng Zhilong has continued to send immigrants there. However, Taiwan's food production has never been ideal, and until the Qing Dynasty, it still relied on external supplies. It is extremely possible to obtain food supplies from Zheng Zhilong.
Small. The possibility of buying food from the mainland is also small - Fujian is originally a province short of food.
The bulk of the food supply can only rely on self-transportation. The logistics department needs to prepare a large amount of food. The Planning Institute has made a plan for the food supply - the people rushed from Shandong and Zhejiang must have food to eat and clothing to wear.
It needs to be planned together.
Now the Lingao regime controls more than just Lingao County. After the Summer Awakening Campaign, the entire local political power in Qiongzhou has been completely controlled by the Senate in accordance with Mingpi Aoxin's model. The food supply situation has improved - but
Improvement is limited.
The counties in Qiongnan have very few acres of land and do not contribute much to the expansion of grain reserves - just look at the grain tax figures of the counties in Qiongnan to know the local agricultural productivity; only Yazhou in Qiongnan has a grain tax of three thousand dan, such as Thanksgiving, Huichang
Counties in other prefectures and counties only have a thousand or even a few hundred dan. Relatively speaking, the agricultural conditions in Qiongbei counties are better, especially in Qiongshan County, Wenchang and other places, which are the most developed agriculture and are the main grain-producing areas of Qiongzhou Prefecture. Civil Affairs
Starting from the second half of 1630, the work teams of the People's Committee began to clear the land tax in each county in Qiongbei one by one.
The total amount of land tax consumed in Qiongzhou Prefecture is 85,459 shi. Part of it is grain and some is silver. Since the commodity economy of Qiongzhou Prefecture is very weak and there is very little silver in circulation, most prices are still based on grain.
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About half of this amount is shipped to Jingsi and Lian. In other words, 40,000 to 50,000 shi are transported from Qiongzhou Prefecture every year. About 40,000 shi are left in the prefecture as military pay.
, administrative expenses and food reserves. The remaining part is of course the disposable food of the Planning Institute.
Of course, the actual amount of grain paid by the people is much more than 85,000 dan. Based on the experience of the People's Committee for Civil Affairs and the State Administration of Taxation in "cleaning up land taxes" in Lingao, the actual amount of grain paid by the whole government should be at least 14,000 dan.
Thousands of dollars of extra food was actually pocketed by layers of people.
In other words, the Senate can collect 140,000 shi from Qiongzhou Prefecture on the premise of maintaining the current burden level. The entire Qiongzhou Prefecture can probably donate to the Senate after paying the tax of more than 40,000 shi to the Ming Dynasty.
Brown rice worth hundreds of thousands of kilograms.
In addition to this part of the land tax, the Planning Institute plans to purchase another 10,000 to 20,000 shi of grain from farmers and landlords through acquisitions. However, to complete the acquisition task, they must stimulate their demand for currency. At present, the Senate Enterprises still have
When there is not enough industrial products to sell to rural areas, the only way to achieve the goal is through tax collection. This requires the cooperation of tax system reform. Wudaokou people believe that in the long run, monetized tax collection is the general direction.
Of course, collection, processing, and warehousing are long-term tasks, and they do not just happen. Fortunately, collecting and transporting refugees is also a long-term process. It does not mean that an additional 200,000 people will be born at once. The Planning Institute still has sufficient resources.
Time to gather and prepare food.
In addition to the Senate's own food reserves, the Summer Awakening Campaign also brought additional reserves to the Planning Academy. These are the five large official warehouses on Hainan Island: Guangfengcang in Qiongshan, which stores 16,000 rice per year.
3,000 shi in Danzhou Dafeng warehouse, 5,600 shi in Changhua Guangchun, 4,000 shi in Wanzhou Guangji warehouse, and 13,000 shi in military storage and Qinglan warehouses each year.
Tens of thousands of kilograms of grain are stored in these official warehouses every year, and their main purpose is to "prepare Li". Once a large-scale "Li rebellion" occurs, the army can cross the sea to attack and obtain grain on the spot.
However, just like all systems in this world, sometimes a good system may not be maintained very well. If we follow the official documents, the amount of food stored in these major official warehouses should be hundreds of thousands of stones.
But in fact, the deficit is very serious. The special search team of the Planning Institute accompanied the army and work teams to go deep into the warehouses in every state and county, and they are completely accustomed to the phenomenon of embezzlement. However, the huge deficit of these five warehouses still makes people feel uncomfortable.
The veteran who led the team was stunned.
The actual inventory of the five warehouses shows that excluding the aged grains that are purely filling up and can be used as feed at most, the remaining grains that can be used are less than one-tenth of the book inventory.
The special search team subsequently conducted intensive torture and torture on the clerks, dealers, and hammermen of each warehouse to recover the stolen goods, and recovered a large amount of property and grain, and also confiscated a large amount of land. It was considered a slight gain.
"In the previous stage, we received 100,000 shi of brown rice and miscellaneous grains from various local government warehouses, totaling about 9,000 tons. This part of the grain is enough as starting food." Wu De said, "Currently we use our relief rations. We have our own dried potato reserves. We still have a lot of dried potato reserves. This can roughly support the consumption of refugees."
"We're a little nervous. It's like taking away all the resources. We originally thought the food reserves were a little looser." He Ming was a little worried - food is the lifeblood of the army. The thought of transporting so much food , he felt very uneasy.
Zhan Wuya also felt doubtful: "Except for the army, we still have a large number of unemployed people, administrative staff, students, and workers in Lingao. The food supply for these people must not go wrong, otherwise the country's foundation will be easily shaken."
Wu De has already made calculations on this issue: "Food security is guaranteed. First of all, this batch of grain for the engine plan is additionally obtained by us. We obtained this batch of grain without increasing the number of people to support. With The refugees will not reduce our original reserves, nor will they increase our original planned food expenditures. Secondly, after obtaining the island-wide political power, we have obtained the island-wide grain tax collection power in 1631. This increase in revenue It is very significant. And it is a stable increase in income. It is not like a one-time seizure."
In addition, the Planning Institute is also preparing to expand grain imports as an important measure to ensure food security. The focus is on importing Siamese rice. With the intensification of the war between the North and the South, the supply of rice in Vietnam has begun to decrease, and the price has risen. Siamese rice is cheap and abundant. Luo Mi became the next target of the Planning Institute to increase grain reserves. However, this will occupy freight tonnage. But overall, the food pressure is not as great as everyone thinks.
Wu De explained: Resettlement and transportation is a long-term plan. From the beginning of the first batch of transportation to the final completion, it can take at least four to five months or more than one or two years. As long as the first batch of refugees are organized in time to open up wasteland and plant early-maturing crops in the transit camp, , it will actually be harvested in three or four months. The harvested food will replace part of the supply on the spot. Therefore, there is no need to calculate the rations for all immigrants.
The early-maturing sweet potato varieties owned by the Council of Agriculture can be harvested in about 80 to 90 days, and there are also suitable varieties of potatoes and buckwheat. The annual average temperature in Kaohsiung and Pingtung is as high as 25 degrees Celsius, and there is sufficient rainfall, so planting can be done all year round. Rolling planting is adopted Gradual harvest. When the large-scale immigration from Zhejiang ends, even if Kaohsiung’s agriculture can no longer provide food for Jeju Island, it will still be able to achieve a considerable amount of self-sufficiency.
"...If there is a real supply shortage problem, we can also use Hong Kong as a base to directly purchase grain in Guangdong and ship it to Kaohsiung. The distance between the two places is only 350 nautical miles. It can be returned in a week." He finally said.