As for the food shortage in the north - why not eat minced meat?
If you don't have enough food, you just eat meat. Where does the meat come from? Raise your own chickens, ducks, and sheep!
Later, Xi Tong checked the production situation in various places of Tongmenghui.
The North American Tongmeng Association is scattered in more than a dozen locations, and each stronghold has opened up as little as 50,000 acres and as many as 100,000 acres of fertile land for growing corn, soybeans, and wheat.
They are planting crop seeds that have been improved by Xi Tong, and their vitality is more tenacious than weeds. If weeds grow next to the crops, they will never get any water and fertilizer. Eventually, they will grow slowly, and then they will be deprived of light, and they will wither and die.
These crops are abnormal in adapting to the environment and have reached the level of species invasion. Coupled with multi-functional agricultural vehicles, the food output has stunned the Indians and dumbfounded the white colonists.
Now, the only limitation on North American Tongmeng exhibitions is time.
The development time is too short, too little fertile land has been cultivated, and not much grain has been sown. In addition, even if multi-functional agricultural vehicles work 24 hours a day, the cultivated area is very limited, and they need more vehicles.
North American Tongmeng will sell all the harvested grain to the system. After exchange for game currency, they can purchase more multi-functional agricultural vehicles and open up more farmland in order to harvest more grain and earn more game currency like a snowball.
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Similar to this is the Nanyang Tongmeng Association.
The rice here is harvested three times or even four times a year, with a yield of nearly 2,000 kilograms per mu. This yield frightened the local Chinese Miao people. You know, in the past, one mu of rice was only 3,000 kilograms to 4,000 kilograms at most. The best
The harvest is definitely no more than 500 kilograms.
After making a comparison, the Nanyang people immediately understood that in terms of farming in the future, they would not be able to compare with the Xian family, and the price of food here would definitely fall to the point where it is as cheap as sand.
What's more, the Xian family has been opening up new farmland, and there are more and more Xian family iron oxen that can farm, and the harvest next season will definitely double.
The Australian Tong Meng Club and the South American Tong Moe Club are also similar.
These two places are rich in minerals, especially coal and iron from Australia and copper mines from Chile. They are both rich open-pit ores. Therefore, peers in these two places will focus on purchasing multi-functional mining vehicles and metal refineries during the exhibition.
But even so, the grain they sold to the system was nearly 100,000 tons.
Looking at the more than 300,000 tons of grain in his inventory, Xi Tong felt that the hoarding grain merchants in the Qing Empire were going to cry.
Xi Tong knows that many famines in history were not caused by natural disasters. Even if there were natural disasters, they were only a very small part, or even insignificant.
As the saying goes, "If the food is cooked in Huguang, the world is sufficient", the food in one area can supply the food of the whole world. With the vast territory of the Qing Empire, if one side is in trouble and supported by all sides, how can it lead to the tragedy of starvation and mourning all over the land.
Man-made disasters are the main reason.
Ninety percent of the disaster relief money and food were gone before they were delivered to the disaster areas, or even not a penny was left.
Even if the money reaches the disaster area, the price of food has soared tenfold or even a hundredfold. In the past, the money that could buy ten kilograms of food could not buy even a piece of steamed bun now.
What's even more ruthless is that grain dealers hoard food and refuse to sell it no matter how much they pay, until they force people into desperation and exchange houses and land for grain, easily plundering other people's houses, land and money that have been accumulated for generations.
Those big business owners such as "Li Bancun" and "Huang Bancheng" most likely accumulated their wealth through this method.
Ordinary people burn incense and worship Buddha at home to pray for good weather and abundant harvests. But those grain merchants are just the opposite. They make no profit in good years, but their profits are in disaster years.
The greater the disaster, the greater their profits, so they do not hesitate to create disasters artificially.
In the year of the great disaster, the peasants revolted, and the refugees attacked large families to rob them of food. There was no need for mercy. Every one of these landlords' families counted, and none of them were truly good. This kind of end was simply playing with fire and self-immolation, and brought the blame upon themselves.
Xi Tong didn't do it right and asked Ye Yiruo to publish an oracle in the name of the Holy See. The content was roughly to advise grain merchants all over the world to sell grain at a fair price in order to accumulate merit and avoid karmic retribution.
Some grain merchants have already believed in the main god of the system, so they obey the Holy See's advice.
After all, the Pope has said that selling food at a fair price is a matter of accumulating merit, and hoarding it will lead to retribution. Although money is important, it is of no use no matter how much money you make if you offend the gods.
But those are just small grain merchants, and more large grain merchants still go their own way, and even send people to secretly buy grain from small grain merchants.
Compassion does not control soldiers, justice does not control wealth, and those who hoard have long ago fed their conscience to dogs.
These big grain merchants even mocked: If the Holy See is not a god, then let them turn it into grain.
At the same time, these big grain merchants have strengthened the guarding of their granaries, arranged for people to patrol day and night, and even asked monks and Taoists to draw ghost-repelling talismans and seals to affix them to the granaries to avoid falling victim to the Five Ghost Transporting Technique.
Xi Tong has been paying attention to the disaster situation in the northern provinces.
The Yellow River Basin has always been severely flooded. The Yellow River overflows from time to time, causing farmers to lose their harvest. This is also an area of focus for grain merchants.
The Yellow River Basin is doing relatively well this year, and God has spared us the trouble. However, this year's food shortage is faster, more severe, and more unprepared than in previous disasters.
At least the farmers still have some harvest, so it won't be a problem until the end of the year. The residents in the towns who buy rice and noodles every day are the first to go without food.
As soon as the grain from outside was shipped in, it was eaten by the big grain merchants. If the big grain merchants could not produce grain, the small grain merchants below would have no goods to sell, and each of them would have to close down.
When grain stores close, the prices of other food items immediately skyrocket.
The men who worked part-time and worked hard all day long were busy, but found that the money they earned could not even buy a handful of vegetables. Looking at the children at home who were waiting to be fed and the mothers who were crying, a heavy haze appeared in the eyes of the men.
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They already had a bad premonition, and the older people immediately remembered the experience of the last disaster.
Caring about grain and vegetables has become a must-do for urban residents every day. The emperor issued an imperial edict prohibiting hoarding, ordering grain dealers to open warehouses to sell grain, and ordering officials from various places to strictly investigate, and those who hoarded grain would be killed without mercy.
However, it was of no use as the big grain merchants ignored the emperor's imperial edict.
The Holy See also issued oracles, three in a month, which were more useful than imperial edicts. At least some grain merchants with good consciences found their way back.
However, it is a drop in the bucket.
The food that flows into the market is like water poured into the desert, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Fortunately for the rich, they have old hens that lay eggs and fat pigs that are kept for the New Year. They can survive after being killed. Those who are impoverished can only eat grass roots and bark, and after eating, they can only eat Guanyin soil.
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This is a dream scenario for big grain merchants.
At this point, death is inevitable, and there will be many, many deaths. Under the threat of death, those who are alive will want to understand whether money, land or food is more important.
However, at this time, the Holy See issued another oracle - the Immortal Family began to sell something called food stamps, which can be purchased in temples and Amway accounts in various places.