Daming pirates

Yu Xiaotian inspected Tamsui City as a whole. In addition to industry, he also focused on the development of agriculture. Ever since he decided to use collective farms, agriculture in Tamsui City has developed rapidly.

Although doing so may seem like eating from a big pot, the small-scale farmer economy has a natural advantage compared to this era, because small-scale farmers and households, out of self-protection, do not dare to try out new varieties easily and only use what they have left behind.

Seeds have made it difficult to promote and spread many improved varieties, and the planting structure of small farmers and small households is very haphazard, which does not meet Yu Xiaotian's current needs.

The collective farm system allows small plots of land to be combined into large arable land, saving animal power and labor. Food varieties can also be selected according to the needs of sea wolves. In addition, collective fertilizer accumulation and fertilization also facilitates field management. In the past two years,

You see, the yield per mu of land cultivated by collective farms is almost double that of land cultivated by small farmers and households. This is mainly because collective farms have more opportunities to obtain fertilizers.

Sea Wolf sent ships to collect struvite and guano on some islands, which are rich in various elements and have relatively high nitrogen and phosphorus content. After being transported back, they must be fertilizing the land of the collective farm, so the land of the collective farm

, the rate at which raw land turns into mature land is much faster than the land cultivated by ordinary farmers.

Moreover, due to the large amount of fertilization, the land of collective farms is relatively fertile, and the irrigation system is much better than that of scattered small households. In addition, there is a relatively sufficient labor force available, and collective farms can develop large-scale water conservancy systems.

This makes the land of collective farms very convenient for irrigation and drainage, which also makes the grain output of these lands steadily increase year by year.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian attaches great importance to the issue of seed selection. He tries his best to find seeds of various crops, conduct trial planting, and then selects improved varieties for expansion and promotion, so that the grain seeds they use are better than the improved seeds retained by ordinary farmers.

It's much better. If the output doesn't increase, it'll be damned.

Yu Xiaotian also found some farmers who are good at using their brains and asked them to conduct various cross-pollination experiments on some food crops in several collective farms, trying to cultivate several high-yielding and durable varieties through this method.

Improved varieties for pests and diseases, but this is a relatively long-term task. So far, there has been no breakthrough, but Yu Xiaotian believes that as long as he persists, several high-yielding varieties will be bred sooner or later.

For thousands of years in ancient China, the yield per mu of grain crops has not changed much. The most important thing is that China has always been in a low-end small-scale peasant economy. Farmers work on their own, planting grain and saving seeds for themselves. This has resulted in a large amount of grain.

The female parent has always changed very little, and even degenerated.

Few people in power pay deliberate attention to this matter. They don’t even know how to breed and select seeds, and they are too lazy to look for improved varieties for promotion. Farmers mostly grow food spontaneously and at an extremely slow speed. After seeing the food grown by others,

Seeds are better. Only after you see the benefits will you try planting them.

Therefore, China’s grain output per mu has remained almost unchanged for thousands of years. The level of output depends entirely on the fertility of the land. No one seems to realize that seeds are also very important. But how could Yu Xiaotian not know the importance of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides?

He is currently unable to master this kind of black technology. He can only think of ways to get more soil fertilizer to fertilize the fields, or use some low-level soil pesticides to prevent diseases and insect pests, but he can cultivate improved seeds.

Even if he cannot cultivate improved varieties at present, he can first select the best varieties from the existing food varieties in various places for promotion and planting.

Therefore, the collective farms on the island of Taiwan currently grow the best grain seeds selected, so the yield is higher, which is normal.

As for manpower, when Yu Xiaotian immigrated, a large part of the immigrants were not free persons, but had signed a contract of sale with Hailang. These people were nominally Yu Xiaotian's serfs, but they had no

They were free, so they had nothing to say when they were assigned to work on the farm.

But for the workers in these farms, working in the collective farms is still very happy. Although working here is very tiring, they get up early and work late, the foreman is very strict in supervising the work, and does not give the chance to be lazy, and sometimes there is corporal punishment.

Or some other type of punishment, but after all, there are two meals a day, so they don't have to worry about it.

The farms here also carry out collective rationing and have established a strict rationing system. How much food each person eats every day is rationed. In addition to food, there is also a certain ration of fresh vegetables and meat dishes every five days. Although

Most of the meat dishes are offal, and sometimes there are some small miscellaneous fish and other catches that are not as good as the grade. At least everyone can eat almost full.

For people who have been in a state of semi-starvation for a long time, and have even been on the verge of death, this is undoubtedly a paradise-like life.

Even their clothes are given to them a new set every year. This is even more unimaginable. In the past, when they rented land from wealthy families, after paying the rent throughout the year, they basically didn’t have much.

The surplus is not even enough to sustain food, so we have to find ways to pick wild vegetables to supplement the income.

Very few farmers can buy a new set of clothes a year. When the clothes of the adults are worn out, they are mended and worn again. If there are children, they are remade with the clothes of the adults. When the clothes worn by the older children are too small, they are given to the younger children one by one.

They are all made of quail clothes with hundreds of knots. If they can cover the flesh, they are considered good. How dare you think about buying a new set of clothes every year?

Therefore, although the collective farms are strictly managed and the work is very tiring with almost no time for rest, here they can have a full meal, wear new clothes, and even have books for their children to read. This is still enough for them.

This was something I couldn't even imagine before.

To be honest, Yu Xiaotian is not a good person. He also tries his best to squeeze out all the remaining energy of the labor force and extract more surplus value from these people.

But in this dark age, he can feed these people, put on clothes, live in a sheltered house, and provide treatment when they are sick. This is already the greatest kindness. This kind of life, China

Most farmers no longer dare to even think about it.

Of course, for this reason, Yu Xiaotian also personally participated in the setting up of various systems on the farm, and established a strict reward and punishment system. Among them, the most used one is naturally starvation rice. Starvation rice is a very effective means of control in this era. If it is found

If someone is lazy and slippery without reason, refuses to work hard, and fails to complete the assigned tasks, he or she will be punished by being starved of food.

When they are hungry, these people naturally know that it will be uncomfortable if they do not work hard. Of course, there are some more severe punishments, such as deliberately damaging tools and not complying with strict hygiene rules, they will be starved at the same time.

, and still need to be punished.

For those who are dishonest and stir up trouble among the migrant workers, they can even be sent to the Sea Wolf Bureau, where the maximum punishment can be death, which is hanging or beheading. Many such people are also sent to labor force

It would be tragic to be held in a labor camp. A labor camp is a place without any human rights. You will have to work almost to death, be drained of all your labor power, and being beaten is a common occurrence.

Therefore, under the strict system and without considering human rights issues, the collective farms did not have the imagined situation where everyone was eating from the big pot and everyone did not work hard, resulting in a serious waste of labor force. On the contrary, the labor force was greatly improved.

The efficiency of use has allowed collective farms to develop rapidly on the island of Taiwan in recent years. Nowadays, the food harvested by collective farms alone is basically enough for immigrants on the island.

In addition, Taiwan's self-produced food can be supplied to the army in small quantities. Fortunately, the government now has to bear part of the salary and food supply for the Sea Wolf army. This demand is not too great, so now all the food on Yu Xiaotian's own territory

The grain produced is basically enough, and there is even a surplus.

But Yu Xiaotian is still not satisfied, and spends a lot of money every year to reserve a large amount of food through various channels, because he knows better than anyone else that in the next few years, the Ming Dynasty will be completely in chaos. Who has it?

Food can attract a large number of people to serve it. When the time comes, it will be temporary. No matter how large the Sea Wolf fleet is, I am afraid there will be no place to obtain so much food.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian not only purchases a large amount of grain from Guangdong every year for storage, but in recent years has also opened up grain trading channels in the Le Dynasty of Vietnam. He also purchases a large amount of grain crops from Vietnam every year, and even even

The Spanish-controlled Luzon Island now supplies a lot of rice to Sea Wolves every year.

Yu Xiaotian still felt inadequate about this. Like a greedy miser, he was still trying to find ways to get food everywhere. In Tamsui, Kaohsiung and even Haitan Island and Weitou Bay, he built a large number of grain depots and kept hoarding food.

, new grain is put into the warehouse every year, and old grain is moved out of the grain warehouse for use, so as to ensure that the grain warehouse is constantly updated to avoid a large amount of grain mold and aging.

Now Yu Xiaotian has even sent a ship to the Kingdom of Siam, which will be Thailand in later generations, to seek ways to import food. Siam has always been a rice-producing place, and a lot of brown rice is exported every year, leaving such a good food supply.

Yu Xiaotian will not be willing to do anything until the ground is gone.

Therefore, during this operation in Shandong, Hailang was able to successfully produce a large amount of food, which was used by the army on the one hand, and on the other hand, used by the advance station over there to collect immigrants. Otherwise, even if Yu Xiaotian gave birth to three heads and six arms, he would not be able to do anything.

There is no way to spend so much food on it.

Therefore, some people are secretly telling Yu Xiaotian’s jokes, saying that when he sees the grain, his eyes light up, and he is afraid that the grain will not be enough, so he wants to sleep with the grain in his arms every day. But how can they know that Yu Xiaotian is doing it for the future?

With the food on hand, I have used all possible means, just to make a blockbuster in the future and get this big tomorrow in my hands.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian had another important thing to do when he came to Tamsui this time. He wanted to meet a very important person, and that was Sun Yuanhua, who he had sent people to kidnap back from Shandong.

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