At this time, the carriage was walking on the street, and the light carriage's millennium wheel hubs and rubber-coated thin steel wheels made a rustling sound. Before the carriage entered the city, the sled was replaced with four wheels. After all, there are no streets in the city.
Snow will be cleared away.
There are street lamps on the streets. These are pillars like asphalt telephone poles, hanging with a lampshade, which contains whale oil for fuel. There are many whales in the sea now. Whaling has become the second largest industry in Vladivostok after the wood industry.
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Whales are full of treasures, their oil can be used as fuel, and their meat can be used to make braised fish cans.
Whale baleen can be made into many items, such as brushes, women's bras, and umbrella ribs. New immigrants have opened several umbrella-making workshops. Brushes are also very important. They are needed for shipbuilding and industry.
There are also a lot of places to paint.
Both bristles and whale baleen are strategic resources and must be controlled, especially during war.
Whale oil can be used industrially in the tanning industry, as well as in tempering baths (for steelmaking) and as lubricants. After hydrogenation, it can be used as food and as a raw material for making soaps, candles, etc. This is required by Yang Fan's system
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Whale blubber is an animal oil rich in fat. It not only contains a large amount of glycerin, which can be used for nitroglycerine in synthetic explosives and cigarette processing, but can also be used to make soap and refine high-grade lubricants.
Yang Fan estimated that the whaling industry and related industrial chains will soon develop greatly. Vladivostok will be able to make money after the wood industry, shipbuilding, and whale industries develop. Instead of being a bottomless pit for investing money like it is now. Until now.
, more than three million taels of silver have been invested.
The carriage turned around several streets and arrived at the official district of the city, stopping at a group of wooden houses built specifically to receive Mr. Yang. There were walls here, and there were four small villas and wooden houses in the courtyard. There were also military camps, stables and other facilities.
Convenient for military garrison.
After Yang Fan settled in, he went to the city hall in front to meet with the personnel stationed here and listened to their reports on their work over the past year.
The talents cultivated by Yang Fan's system are still satisfactory. Now every household in agriculture has reclaimed more than 300 acres of wasteland. Because there is too much land, and the policy is that as long as it is a breather, the land will be divided according to the head, and one person will have one.
One hundred acres of land cannot be cultivated.
These landless peasants watched in disbelief as the village chief rode on horseback to divide the wasteland. Then when the Huke officials handed over the steel-sealed land deeds to them, they all broke down. The whole family held their heads together and cried. They have been ancestral for generations, what?
At that time, the government allocated land, but there was still so much land.
Of course, land may have been divided between the Tang Dynasty and the Hongwu Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty. However, they must have all become tenants now.
It wasn't over yet. Soon the shopkeeper of the bank came with Baojie and his clerks. They were forced to give them loans. This loan was used to purchase agricultural and production tools, pots and pans and other daily necessities. It was enough to sustain the family's food for a year.
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The biggest expense is to build a two-story wooden house. This can be paid in installments. You can also buy it with a loan from Xinghe Bank. Many people choose to buy a wooden house directly because the price is really high and the wood here is not valuable.
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Now it’s not that we can’t find a living and livelihood here, but that all walks of life are short of people, and everyone is trying their best to recruit people. On this land, in addition to farming, there are also people who herd, fish and hunt, and people who enter the land.
People who pick mountain products from the forest can find opportunities to make money almost everywhere.
You can work as a worker even if you can't. Whaling ships recruit sailors all year round, and the whale processing factories on the shore also recruit people. There are always not enough people in the fish and fat workshops.
If there is a shortage of labor, the price of wages will be very good. If there are too many unemployed people, it will put pressure on the employed population and thus accept lower wages. However, Yang Fan was opposed to taking the sweatshop route from the beginning. Because of his needs
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Yang Fan hopes to raise wages so that every family can provide their children with the ability to receive an education. This will lead to quality development, rather than squeezing workers and taking the path of low wages. Only when workers' incomes improve can they buy more goods.
Only they are willing to train their children to study.
Only in this way can we take the path of high-quality development. Sweatshops have no future. They are not good for the country or individuals, and they also affect industrial upgrading and healthy development.
"For a family of five, only 300 acres of 500 acres of land have been developed, which is enough for their family to live," Yang said.
He understood that this achievement was the result of taking out a loan to buy oxen and plow sticks. Otherwise, he didn't know how long it would take to plow the ground by people.
"How is the current crop and breeding industry?" Yang Fan asked. He was still more concerned about agriculture. As long as these new immigrants can grow food, they will settle down here. As long as they continue to cultivate, this land will be considered occupied by the Han people.
Last century, when we were at odds with Maozi, Maozi always encroached on our land. Later, we relied on soldiers from the Construction Corps to farm on the border. There were so many of us, we kept cultivating the land, and we didn’t have even the last inch of land.
Lost, saved everything.
There was no entertainment life in this era, and candles were too expensive. Once dark, the couple only had some entertainment. Therefore, there were so many children. Of course, there were also many deaths from various diseases. Hunger and various accidents also caused the death of children.
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Agricultural society relies entirely on labor force, so farmers are particularly willing to have children. More people means more wealth. The economic calculation of having children is high investment and high output. It is profitable. In modern society, raising children is purely a loss-making business.
Many people do the profitable business, even if it means beheading, but no one does the money-losing business.
Therefore, families in cities now are unwilling to have children.
"Replying to the master, the latitude here is high, and the planting period of the year is less than six months. Therefore, we can only grow the corn provided by the master. In addition, sorghum and soybeans can also be grown here. After the trial planting of potatoes last year, the effect is also good.
Not bad, we can promote it next year.”
"Poultry and livestock can be raised here, especially ducks and geese. There are many lakes and ponds here, which is also very suitable for development. Now, every farmer raises dozens of chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry, and there are
Donkeys, mules, oxen and other livestock.”
Hearing this, Yang Fan felt relieved.
There is grain to eat, sorghum to feed livestock, and poultry eggs. Soybeans can be pressed for oil, so we can be self-sufficient except for clothes.
Originally, Yang Fan planned to rely on soybeans to provide plant protein if he did not have enough meat. Unexpectedly, the situation was much better than he expected. Although it was very difficult in the early days, the situation has now come to an end.
