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Chapter 79

Chapter 79 Jin Kela

"Big plows, new planters, new cultivators, harvesters.

This is especially important.

And this is simplistic.

In fact, we were all combine harvesters at that time.

Harvesting and threshing were completed at once, but it was very difficult for craftsmen at this time to make it, and even if it was made, it was not practical. After all, it would take dozens of cows to pull it. However, a threshing machine could be made, even a rice threshing machine. So.

From reclamation to sowing to harvesting, they are all mechanical. However, it is currently impossible to build a real power machine, not even a steam tractor, and can only be pulled by oxen.

But it's enough.

However, this kind of agriculture has higher requirements on the crops grown.

For the time being, it’s wheat, soybeans, etc.

So my plan is to use machinery to plant soybeans in large-scale land reclamation in Huining.”

Yang Feng placed the drawings in front of Zhu Yuanzhang one by one.

It can't be considered high-tech.

After all, except for harvesters and threshers, there are others at this time, or they all have junior versions, including cultivators, and at most his ones are larger...

But it also uses a lot of cattle.

So it’s not that people in this era don’t know how to enlarge the columbine, but that under the family unit, the only ones that can be pulled are small ones. Yang Feng just can use larger ones if he has enough cattle and low enough feeding costs. This is

Large-scale planting has also brought about a significant increase in efficiency, but it also lacks the yield of intensive farming. It is only suitable for extensive planting and low harvest, and there are endless wastelands that can be reclaimed in the Songnen Plain.

But Zhu Yuanzhang needed it because his military base in the north could be promoted.

It's not just the Sonnen Plain that has endless wasteland.

The same goes for the North China Plain!

Up to now, the total population of the entire Beiping Province is less than two million, so how much wasteland is waiting for reclamation? Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi all have the basis for promotion. In fact, it would be good to encourage Zhu Yuanzhang to turn the health stations into state-owned farms.

Anyway, the land of the guard station is not privately owned by military households.

"You may not be able to sell soybeans if you grow them. The staple food of the people is rice and millet. Even the flour is not as good as the second food. The beans are only used to make tofu, and soybean oil is not eaten much. The people mainly use rapeseed oil, and the military only uses it for feed.

Ma, I'm afraid even your own hired workers won't be able to eat it by then. The ones you hire in Taicang and Zhenjiang all eat rice as their staple food.

They don't eat soy.

At most, it can be made into tofu so that you can eat it."

Zhang Xianzong reminded him.

"This is not meant to be eaten."

Yang Feng then took out a piece of paper and pushed it in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

"This product is mainly made of bean cakes and bird droppings, mixed with fermented manure. It has miraculous effects when used in rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River. Originally it was only available in later generations and was called dung pill. I think it should be given a better name, so I called it Jin

Ke La.

Therefore, I plant soybeans as fertilizer for the rice fields in Jiangnan.

Soybeans are pressed for oil and soybean cakes are used as fertilizer.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t eat much soybean oil, you can use it to process soybean products.”

he said.

Jin Ke La is great!

You can dig guano in the East China Sea, provide bean cakes, and then make golden slag compound fertilizer, which can be used in the rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River to increase production.

“Bean cake is really good as fertilizer, even rich people use it, but it’s a little more expensive.

The poor cannot afford it.

If you can transport a large amount of bean cakes from Liaodong, it will increase the production of rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River a lot.

In fact, as long as you produce grain, I will always help you solve the other problems. Even if it cannot be transported to the south of the Yangtze River, it can be used to feed horses for the army in Liaodong. What's more, there are Peking, Daning, and Pingping, which also require beans to feed horses.

As long as you can produce grain, no matter what, even Gaoliang will help you sell it. Huining is the Huanglong Mansion where Yue Wumu went straight to Huanglong, and he can turn the Five Kingdoms City where the Jin people imprisoned Emperor Huiqin into the Ming Dynasty.

Land, it would be a miracle if we, the Han people, could establish themselves in farming there.

As long as you can let the Han people take root there, I will buy the grain you harvest at ten times the price."

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Have courage!"

Yang Feng quickly gave a thumbs up.

Of course, the main reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang is not afraid of spending money.

People who print their own money are certainly not comparable to his descendants.

atmosphere!

Therefore, losing monetary dominance is equivalent to losing national control.

"But this still requires transportation, and shipping has to be solved."

He said immediately.

"You are allowed to use military ships to transport it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said simply.

Since he knows that the biggest enemies after the Ming Dynasty are those in the Northeast, he can't just clean up, only clean up without filling in, and in the end he can only benefit others. The past dynasties have not failed to attack these chaotic ethnic groups in the north. In the end, they are like weeds, killing one after another.

One pops up. Because it can only attack but cannot fill, it is nothing more than a solution to immigration and settlement. The final elimination of one only provides an opportunity for the other to rise, and then one after another, the tribes further north will move south to occupy the vacated land and rise. Likewise, he is even considered now

Destroying this mess, if it cannot be filled with immigrants, will only give opportunities to the tribes further north, or even allow the Mongols to fill it, and finally create a new enemy for the Ming Dynasty.

The establishment of Huining Dusi was his attempt to fill this area.

But it's hard.

At present, Huiningwei's food depends entirely on transportation.

All the guards under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Capital Division serve this transportation line, and the subsequent sea transportation line from Liaodong to Jiangnan serves the entire system. In the end, the entire country is doing its best to maintain the march of only tens of thousands of people.

The cost is extremely high.

The ministers of the DPRK and China have long been dissatisfied.

I think it is meaningless to waste people and money in this way, and it will harm the world.

This is just a short-term military operation. If they are stationed year-round or even set up more garrison posts in the future, it will really be a waste for the world. But if Yang Feng's experiment can be successful, it can be said that the filling problem has been truly solved. He understands

Farming, knowing the value of bean cake as fertilizer in rice fields. If Yang Feng can really make it in the Northeast, the continuous flow of bean cakes shipped to the south of the Yangtze River will bring about a substantial increase in grain production, and ultimately make the Northeast valuable. In this way, neither the court nor the people will anymore

Objection, what he could do at that time was not Yang Feng. Yang Feng could only build a commercial village and use women to lure them there, but he could force large-scale immigration.

As long as there are hundreds of thousands of Han people and there is stable agriculture and they can thrive, no matter how messed up the place is, they will not be able to turn around.

Yang Feng was helping him get there.

This is not the time to calculate costs at all.

In this way, all problems were solved. As for the machinery, of course Yang Feng would set up a factory, and Zhu Yuanzhang allowed him to select people from the craftsmen's houses affiliated with the Ministry of Industry...

Theoretically, it was still a joint venture between Ming Dynasty and Daxia.

Zhu Yuanzhang liked this model very much. After all, the place was his, the people were his, and the output was also his. At most, Yang Feng could make a fortune, but the fortune was also in the Ming Dynasty, and it was impossible to transport it out, so he should stay in the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, these floating wealth are still treasures. This model can be said to be full of benefits except for the need to endure Yang Feng's arrogance and domineering. As for Yang Feng's arrogance and domineering, this is a good habit, and it becomes natural.

Maybe in the future he won't be so arrogant and domineering, and it will make people uncomfortable!

Well, His Majesty the Emperor has learned to be patient.

after all……

He gave so much!

So far, what Yang Feng has given him has achieved obvious results.

Rapid-fire cannons are generally welcomed by all armies. It can even be said that everyone loves this thing. Especially the camel cannon, which has been promoted at a very fast speed in the north. There is also the reform of Baobao. The new version of Baobao has reduced the dimensionality and destroyed counterfeit banknotes.

So far, I haven’t seen anything that can be counterfeited, especially color-changing ink.

This really cannot be faked!

Therefore, the new version of banknotes has at least eliminated the problem of counterfeit banknotes for now.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew what he was selling.

So in this case, Yang Feng's little temper is not so intolerable.

His Majesty the Emperor then took his grandson down the mountain with satisfaction. It could be seen that he was really cultivating his grandson.

"Look, I can actually help you solve what you want, but you have to follow the path I charted."

Looking at his retreating back, Yang Feng said.

"Your Excellency is very generous and selfless."

Zhang Xianzong said calmly.

"if not?

I can say that I am trapped here with you now. I have a home and a country that I cannot return to. I am a kind person and I have nothing to do, so I will just do something good for you!

Doing good deeds and accumulating virtue!

In fact, I think you should have encouraged your emperor to expand.

This is good for you.

Could it be that the poor are the ones who go out to expand and plunder the wealth of the barbarians?

Give me a break!

At best, they will serve as your thugs.

The ones who really benefit from the development will always be officials like you, the local gentry, and the generals in the army. Those poor people risk their lives to develop for you, and the wealth they gain is yours to enjoy. You still don’t understand, that’s because

You have never done such a thing at all, but as long as you do it, you will find that it is always people like you who make profits by opening up new territories.

Let me tell you about a country in later generations.

This country is a small country in Thailand.

It is probably slightly larger than Fujian, but slightly smaller than Jiangxi. About two hundred years later, this country was formed by a partnership between the monarch, domestic ministers, and local gentry. This firm hired poor people in their country and then took advantage of them.

The ships went out to plunder. They robbed everything they could, including land, treasures, and even slaves. They burned, killed, looted, and looted the capitals of other countries, forcing them to pay and then forced them to withdraw. They robbed the production areas of spices, and occupied the throats of the sea.

, in short, we robbed everything of value. In the end, it became the most powerful country in the world at that time. In the next two hundred years, it was almost the overlord of the sea. Even though we had been in decline for a hundred years by that time, we could still rely on the wealth accumulated by our ancestors.

Wealth makes a powerful nation.

And those officials and gentry who originally formed a partnership with the monarch controlled all aspects of the country in the process. They formed a council to decide all affairs of the country for the monarch. The monarch was reduced to a decoration and how much money he took from the council every year.

Keep your mouth shut about national affairs.

Just like a vase.

In fact, those countries in later generations that expanded like crazy were all driven by gentry officials.

Those poor people are just working for them.

Overseas trade was developed in Fujian during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, but who was involved in overseas trade? Not the local aristocratic families? But where did the aristocratic families conduct overseas trade? Isn’t it in their own gardens?

Who is going to sea?

Aren't they the poor people in the clan?

What they exchanged for their lives when they went to sea was nothing more than to support their families, and 90% of the benefits they exchanged fell into the hands of those gentry who did not need to go to sea at all. This is the real foreign development. The poor go to work for their bones in exchange for bones. You officials and gentry

Drinking tea and watching the dancers dance, you can wait to share those real fats.

Those poor people who stay at home may rebel because of their poverty, so allowing them to open up also eliminates this danger.

Then why do you object?

Shouldn’t we fully support and even encourage the emperor to expand overseas?”

Yang Feng said.

"Zhang is no garden dancer!"

Zhang Xianzong said.

"Then you should promote expansion. Only expansion can help you own the Garden Dancer as soon as possible.

Look at me here. I just went out to rob for more than half a year. Now I have thousands of righteous daughters. There will soon be millions of acres of fertile land in Liaodong. As for gold, silver and jewelry, I also have some gold, silver and jewelry. Zhang Fu and Zhuang De who are with me,

People like Yang Wen have gained a lot no matter who they are.

In order for Yang Wen to hold me and those Wu Diha away from continuing south, Li Chenggui specially selected five beauties and sent them to him.

As for Zhang Fu in Xiguan City, he has already controlled the trade between the Huli Gai, Udiha, Xilawu and other tribes and the outside world. These tribes exchanged a large amount of furs, horses, nuts, etc. for Ming Dynasty cloth, iron pots, etc. in Xiguan City.

Salt, sugar, etc. Of course he had to find a way to get these. A pound of sugar can be exchanged for a horse from Xilawu, and an iron pot can be exchanged for a bundle of mink skins from Wudiha. Then do you think Zhang Funeng

How much money can be made from this trade?”

Yang Feng said with a smile.

This is inevitable.

After all, Zhang Fu now belongs to a lonely place, absolutely as high as the sky and far away from the emperor.

It's not even far away.

At this time, it is estimated that their contact with the outside world has been severed.

Zhu Di's army only went to Huli Gaijiang, but the post roads between Huili and Kaiyuan had not yet been built. Although there were messengers available, it would take nearly a month to send a message from the Huli Gaijiang mouth to Kaiyuan, and from Huli to Kaiyuan.

It would take another half a month to transfer the message from Jiangkou to Xiguancheng, and the message would take three months to go back and forth.

There is a post road only to Liaohaiwei.

But it took more than half a month to send a letter from Liaohaiwei to the capital.

At this time, winter has already entered in the Northeast.

The mountain is completely closed due to heavy snowfall.

Isolated from the world for half a year.

In this environment, Zhang Fu and his more than a thousand Ming troops could really do whatever they wanted.

Zhang Xianzong smiled slightly.

Of course, he could not fully represent the interests of the civil servant group to which he belonged, especially the emerging Confucian scholar group. He was relatively able to accept Yang Feng's theory because he belonged to the Fujian gentry group, and this group happened to be the most enthusiastic among the Ming gentry.

It is for external development. However, it is hard to say that the gentry in Nanzhi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other provinces, who are the main contributors of money and food, will spend money to develop external development, and they will have to spend huge sums of money. So the bulk of this money will definitely fall on the three provinces.

What's more, what will happen to Zhu Yuanzhang by then is still unknown.

One word from him when the time comes...

I want them all!

Isn't that gentleman's support in vain?

It's better to be on the safe side, and it's pretty good for everyone to be content with it like this.

(End of chapter)


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