After the last savage tribe on Crab Island is cleared, the entire Crab Island can truly be considered Cao Cao's territory!
So after the war ended, Cao Cao held a grand celebration meeting among the entire army. The entire army was extremely excited because these soldiers could finally cultivate their own fields with peace of mind.
After arriving at Crab Island, Cao Cao was extremely generous. The land on the island was reclaimed by the soldiers at will. As much land as they reclaimed was theirs! Moreover, Cao Cao also helped them provide various farm tools, so now many soldiers are dreaming about reclaiming their own land.
How much land is produced!
Kong Bin smiled at his four subordinates and said: "How about we unite and rent three cows from the lord, enclose a thousand acres of land, and buy a few savages. In less than three years, we can become landlords!"
Cao Yunjin laughed sarcastically: "In such a barbaric land, where are there any landlords? The land can be enclosed as you please, and whoever will be your tenant will be the savages. They don't know how to farm, and they need us to teach them step by step. And if we don't keep an eye on these savages,
Maybe we will have to compensate the lord!"
Cui Wen also followed up and said: "Captain Wu, it seems that you have never cultivated any land. Crab Island is full of wasteland. It takes ten times the effort to cultivate this kind of land. We will not be able to cultivate so much even if we are exhausted."
Land, and even if it is reclaimed, the income from the new land is not very high. If we really want to encircle thousands of acres of land, we will have to pay taxes to death by then!"
Although Cao Cao let his soldiers cultivate the land for free, they still had to pay taxes. The tax set by Cao Cao was 10%, and 100 shi of grain was required for one thousand acres of land! Of course, Cao Cao still gave everyone time. The newly cultivated land,
No taxes will be collected for the first three years.
The way Cao Cao makes money is to rely on the people who still have to do corvee labor. Basically, he cuts down trees in the mountains of Hokkaido and then exports them to the shipyard in Dakan. Basically, each log can be sold for hundreds to thousands of dollars.
No, the export of logs is also the most important source of income for Crab Island. It can even be said that more than 90% of Crab Island's current funds come from these exported logs.
But Kong Bin said with a smile: "Of course I can't take care of it through intensive farming, but we can set fire to burn all the weeds on the land, plant extensively and harvest little. As long as the land is large enough, the income will be very considerable, and after a few years of planting like this, the land will grow
The fertility of Cao City will increase soon. The most important thing for us is to occupy the good land first. Otherwise, if we are too far away from Cao City, we will really go to the wilderness. Although the large savage tribes have been wiped out now, it is not
Without the sporadic savages, it is not safe to leave the main city of Taiyuan!"
When other soldiers heard this, they also thought it made sense, so they joined Kong Bin's plan one after another, planning to build a manor together and recruit some savages to help with farming.
The other soldiers are all people who have known each other for a long time, and they have united together to brave the wild world of Crab Island. Now that the war is over, they have to find a way to build a new home!
Inside the Chinese army’s tent! Cao Cao and his henchmen are also planning the future development of Crab Island!
Xun Yu frowned and said: "After wiping out these barbarians, the population under our control will exceed 400,000, which will consume about 5 million to 6 million shi of grain. The transportation of grain to Daqian is crucial. With our
With the speed of land reclamation, it will take at least five years to reclaim enough land to support 400,000 people, and during this time we all have to look at Da Gan’s face to act!”
Xun Yu felt that Cao Cao was too hasty in doing things. They originally had insufficient food, but now they arrested all the nearly 300,000 savages on Crab Island, more than doubling their food consumption.
But Cao Cao said nonchalantly: "Dagan hasn't cut off our food supply yet. As long as Daqian's food continues to be transported in, we don't have to worry about food problems. Not to mention that these savages are still living on Crab Island if they don't farm. Now We brought steel swords and could starve people to death. Even hunting is enough to feed our population of less than 400,000!"
Guo Jia also smiled and said: "Wen Ruo, you are too careful. From the news I got, Daqian's grain harvest was bumper again this year. Brother Zhicai kept urging us to transport more logs, but he never worried about the food problem. , obviously his Yuyang County alone is enough to feed 400,000 of us! And judging from the current situation, Lei Gong does not restrict Daqian’s food from entering Crab Island. Why don’t you worry about our food shortage? Find a way to cut down more logs. One log is now worth several stones of food, so we don't have to worry about cutting down several mountains of food for a year!"
Then he mocked and said: "Do you think that since we are self-sufficient in food on Crab Island, we don't need to look at Daqian's face? Now let's not talk about the gap between us and Daqian. It is the Japanese Island Protectorate around us. We It all depends on their faces!”
Guo Jia's words made everyone look ugly for a while. The happy atmosphere disappeared for a while, and everyone fell silent. They all remembered that they had become exiles!
Cheng Yu immediately eased the atmosphere and said: "At least we have started over. As long as we learn from Daqian's system, with the speed of Crab Island's development, we may not be able to make a difference!"
Cao Cao's anger was not yet gone, and the civil servants and generals who followed him did not want to retire on Crab Island like this, so Cao Cao was able to spend more than a year exploring the entire island and captured all the savages. Because he knows that if he wants to develop his strength, population is the first priority, and it can even be said to be an urgent matter. After all, they only brought more than 30,000 female dependents at the beginning, and there are nearly 100,000 bachelors on the island. If he doesn't To solve this problem, he may not even be able to hold the position of owner of Crab Island.
And now there are 300,000 savages captured, more than half of whom are female savages, which satisfies the requirements of Cao Cao's soldiers. After all, having female savages is better than not having any women at all!
Xun Yu said: "What we should do now is to reclaim land. Without tens of millions of acres of land, Crab Island cannot be stable. Fortunately, now that we have cleared away the savages, we can directly divide the land on the island to The Chinese people, and then the Chinese people who get the land, each of them will be assigned two savages to teach them how to farm, I think the food problem will be solved soon!"
The system of Crab Island has almost degenerated to the Spring and Autumn Period. Cao Cao was very ambitious, but the wealthy nobles who came with Cao Cao were too ambitious. After they climbed to the island, they took their own people and chose a suitable place to build a dock. They didn't want to do anything like building a fort, reclaiming land, and fighting and killing. They were just like a group of princes in the Spring and Autumn Period, scattered on the fertile land of the island. Cao Cao was only their nominal leader!