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Chapter 65 Jiangzhou Conference (1)

Song Yang starts from the tiger problem.

The first problem was exposed.

Not just Jiangzhou Fucheng.

Duchang, Ruichang, De'an, and Yangxin also had incidents of beasts hurting people.

Most of the records of tigers injuring people near Jiangzhou Fucheng were before Song Yang and others took action.

After that, there were occasional incidents of leopards injuring people, but no lives were lost.

This shows that the two tigers that Song Yang and his team hunted should be the culprits of the Jiangzhou tiger-biting incident.

It was different in Yangxin. Before Song Yang left Yangxin, there was also an incident of tigers hurting people.

A doctor who went out to collect herbs was bitten by a tiger. Fortunately, a nearby collection team arrived in time and saved the doctor's life.

"Let He Dayou go to Yangxin and set up a fixed hunting team to deal with these ferocious beasts in troubled times."

The problem was raised and solved very quickly, and Song Yang immediately established a hunting team with He Dayou as the leader.

Everyone agrees with this.

Moreover, Liu Huairen also said that Duchang also has several experienced hunters who can set up a fixed hunting team to be responsible for clearing the beasts in the Hudong area.

Song Yang naturally agreed to this.

After talking about the tiger problem, Song Yang mentioned this year's agricultural output again.

This is a crucial question.

Ensuring and maximizing food production is a key factor related to the rapid recovery of wasteland civilization in the future.

"Everyone, the situation is not optimistic. According to the surrounding route of my trip this time, the estimated yield per mu of Jiangzhou is only about one hundred catties."

"I have also asked you to focus on agricultural production during these days. Please tell us about your own situation."

Song Yang looked at everyone and changed the topic to food.

His trip was originally on a mission to check grain production.

But when he arrived in Ruichang, he was busy destroying the country and resettling the displaced people.

In the later period, the survey of grain production was not the focus.

Song Yang looked around and motioned to Fang Zhe on the right to speak first.

On his left is Tong Qian...

"Your Majesty, we have already figured out the situation in Jiangzhou Fucheng."

It has been more than ten days since Fang Zhe came back. During these days, Fang Zhe has been walking around the fields with experienced farmers.

According to his calculations, the average yield of the fields near Jiangzhou Fucheng can reach about 150 kilograms.

On the one hand, this is because the land near Fucheng is more carefully cultivated.

On the other hand, it is also because Fucheng is close to the Yangtze River, Poyang Lake and Jinghu Lake, and has abundant water resources.

Of course, the sky fires are not particularly dense and the land damaged is relatively small, which is also an important reason.

"Have you calculated the approximate amount of harvestable farmland?" Song Yang looked at Fang Zhe and asked.

In fact, Fang Zhe had already reported to him that there were about 400,000 acres of harvestable land around Jiangzhou Prefecture.

Now Fang Zhe is just saying it publicly in front of everyone.

Four hundred thousand acres of land is quite a lot. If we harvest all of it, we can receive four hundred thousand shi of grain!

Unfortunately, this is only theoretical data.

The output of fields far away from the gathering points of survivors such as Fucheng is destined to be unable to be recovered.

If we calculate the harvest during the autumn harvest based on the current 10,000 people in the city.

Even if the harvest period is one month, only about 300,000 acres of fields can be harvested.

However, if the harvest period is too long, it will affect the drying of autumn grain, storage and production preparation for spring plowing.

Especially in some dry fields, if the autumn grain harvest is not timely, winter wheat will not be planted at all.

"My lords, please tell me about your situation. Let's focus on the issues and discuss them together later."

After Fang Zhe explained the basic situation of the city, Song Yang looked at everyone and said.

The subsequent speeches simply started from Fang Zhe and took turns to the right.

Of course, Yu Ming wants to jump over...

Finally, everyone took turns to make presentations.

Song Yang calculated on paper that the existing cultivated land area in Jiangzhou is about 2.2 million acres.

This figure includes 300,000 acres on the Yangxin side.

"It seems that the damage caused by the sky fire is not as big as previously thought!"

After listening to the report, Song Yang frowned.

The total cultivated land area in Jiangzhou is about four million acres, and Yangxin County has one million acres of cultivated land.

The total cultivated land area controlled by Song Yang reached 5 million acres.

Among them, there are about 1.8 million acres of land within a day's walk around the city, and the remaining 3.2 million acres are in rural areas.

However, only 2.2 million acres of crops have actually been preserved, less than half of the original cultivated land.

There may only be one million acres of harvestable farmland around the city.

In terms of land losses, flooding in Pengze and Duchang caused extensive damage to farmland.

In Yangxin and Ruichang, the sky fires were more intensive, and many farmlands were turned into scorched earth together with their seeds.

As for Duchang, there are probably both. The one near the lake has lost production due to the flooding of the lake.

On the other hand, due to the impact of the sky fire, the output was halved.

Finally, the total autumn grain harvest is calculated based on one month of the autumn harvest period.

The harvestable arable land area is expected to reach about 1.2 million acres.

Just looking at this number, we can optimistically estimate that after the harvest, we can enter a state of no worries about food.

But the current situation is that both the estimated yield per mu and the estimated crop harvest area are inaccurate.

This does not include the various disaster weather that will occur in the next three or four months, or crop diseases and insect pests, or the reduction in production caused by damage to birds, wild boars and other livestock.

"Your Majesty, if we make a conservative estimate, even if we can only harvest one million acres, we can harvest eighty kilograms of grain per acre."

"Then we can harvest 500,000 kilograms of grain this year. If we consume two kilograms of grain per person per day, it will be enough for us to harvest next autumn easily."

This is Chen Fu's view.

His goals are not long-term, he only sees the things in front of him.

Speaking of food consumption, we must mention the total population currently controlled by Song Yang.

Now under Song Yang's rule, the total number of refugees including all refugees is nearly 50,000.

These 50,000 people only include those currently counted, that is, the urban population, and do not include the rural population, which has not yet been fully counted.

The specific population distribution is:

Jiangzhou Fucheng has a population of 18,000, including the original 5,000 and the refugees who came to Fucheng one after another.

Of course, 5,000 people will be allocated to rebuild Pengze later.

After that, there were 12,000 people in Duchang, half of whom were local people in Duchang and half of whom were refugees from various places.

There are 8,000 people in De'an, 5,000 local survivors, and 3,000 refugees from the direction of Jianchang.

Finally, there are Ruichang and Yangxin, each with more than 5,000 people.

Among them, most of them in Yangxin are local survivors, while most of those in Ruichang are refugees from Jianchang who moved there from De'an.

The total number is nearly 48,000, which is the population that Song Yang can fully control at present.

There are at least tens of thousands of people in the countryside, but the survey has not yet been completed.

"Based on the current population situation, this year's autumn grain is completely sufficient."

"But, have you ever thought about the fact that refugees from all over the world are still coming here."

"And the number is getting bigger and bigger, and the direction of the people coming is getting farther and farther."

"If our population reaches 200,000, 500,000 or even more!"

"Then can the food in hand still support it?"

"So, no matter whether the situation occurs or not, we must come up with an effective solution."

"How will we respond if the population surges?"

"Of course, the first thing I want to emphasize is that all plans must be based on the goal of absorbing as many people as possible."

"Okay, let's all share our opinions."


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