Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 126

At the same time, Beihai Town.

Two weeks after Zhao Xin and others returned, all five hundred recruits had been recruited.At this time, the number of reserve armed personnel in Beihai Town had reached 2000, and the sailors had also recruited another 50 people. In addition, there were [-] security policemen recruited before.

Chen Qingsong complained endlessly about this.The current population of the entire Beihai Town does not even have 5000 people. Zhao Xin's army expansion plan will sweep away more than 2000 strong laborers.Now Chen Qingsong brings a group of old, weak, sick and disabled to reclaim wasteland every day for infrastructure construction. His originally obese body has become much slimmer.

The six generals of the Security Department are currently stationed in the barracks for abbot training except for Zhao Liang who is busy building workshops on the east bank.Among them, Liu Sheng and Deng Fei spent half a day in the barracks and half a day training sailors on board.

During this period of time, Zhao Xin went back and forth between two time and space when he found time, and placed orders to purchase a large number of supplies.It's easier for him now, and he doesn't need to run around, he just needs to go back to another time and space to order online.

In order to ensure safety, Zhao Xin rented two large warehouses in an industrial park in the northern suburbs of the city where the Freezing Port is located.So now he only needs to estimate the time, and after the goods arrive at the port and go through the customs formalities and enter his own warehouse, he can go directly to pick up the goods.

Zhao Xin feels that as long as he declares and pays taxes normally, there will be no problem at the port.Of course, in order to speed up customs clearance, some necessary expenses must be paid.

At the end of April, three 9620RX tractors finally arrived.

A dozen modern people in Beihai Town and dozens of ancient people headed by Sheng Haizhou and Li Ji gathered around the big guy brought back by Zhao Xin, and they were all very surprised.

Except for Chen Qingsong and Zhao Xin, the other modern people had never seen such a big tractor before. A dozen or so people finished watching it outside, and then climbed into the cab to look at it strangely.

A group of refugees carrying loads and driving their homemade carriages to transport manure to the fields also stopped, staring blankly at the big four-meter-high and eight-meter-long thing on the ground.

It is said that "Master Zhao, Master Zhao" would come up with strange things every now and then, and many refugees have already seen it.If the appearance is scary alone, Thor still occupies the top spot.As for machinery and equipment such as excavators and small cranes, refugees can see them every day in camps and construction sites.

I don't know what treasure Mr. Zhao brought out today?
The grass-green shell, black triangular tracks, yellow wheels, and a body with a front width of three meters are like a giant mechanical monster, quietly parked on the edge of the wasteland.

Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng worked together to install a large combined land preparation machine with a width of nearly four meters at the rear of the 9620RX.When this land preparation machine is working, the working width can reach 6.3 meters; the number of deep loosening teeth is 19, the number of harrow blades is 109, and the working depth on the ground can reach 60 cm.

With this kind of machine, the subsoiling, crushing and leveling of the soil can be completed at one time; and then the no-tillage seeder can be replaced to complete the whole spring plowing sowing and fertilization steps in one step.

Sheng Haizhou looked at this combined land preparation machine painted grass green in amazement, and he couldn't help asking Zhao Xin: "My lord, how many acres can this machine plow in a day?"

Zhao Xin looked at Chen Qingsong with joy on his face and said, "Old Chen, can you tell me?"

"The maximum speed of this product is 40 kilometers per hour, so let's calculate it as 10 kilometers; the working area of ​​the land preparation machine is 6.3 meters, how much do you calculate?"

Hong Tao, Liu Siting and others who grew up in the city exclaimed, "More than 6 square meters per hour?!"

"More than 90 acres in one hour!" These are Wang Yuanfang and Wu Siyu, both of whom came from the countryside.

Shen Jingdan and Lao Huang, who came to watch the excitement from the Thunder God, were also taken aback by this number.Shen Jingdan hurriedly cupped his hands and asked, "Leader Zhao, how much is this thing worth?"

"Probably..." Zhao Xin went back and forth to calculate for a long time, and finally estimated that the price of 9620Rx would be worth 10 kilograms of gold if calculated according to the price of gold in later generations.But this is not the case.

"It will probably cost 500 or [-] gold. But Boss Shen, even if you sell this machine to you, you won't be able to drive it! Besides, can the emperors and officials of the Qing Dynasty allow this thing to appear in the Qing Dynasty?"

When Shen and Huang heard this, they immediately lost interest.

Zhao Xin calculated the farming efficiency again, and said to Sheng Haizhou: "One hour is about 130 acres." One mu of land in the Edo period was about 991.7 square meters in later generations, half larger than the 666.7 square meters in China.

"More than 100 mu!!" Sheng Haizhou, Liji, Jiuzang and others beside him were all dumbfounded.According to this calculation, this machine can cultivate nearly [-] acres in a day.

You must know that if one strong ox is used to cultivate the land at this time, even if the whole family joins the battle, they can cultivate at most 3 to 4 acres of land a day, and most people have 2 to 3 acres of land.

Zhao Xin has issued a notice two days ago, announcing that all refugee families will be allocated [-] mu of land.This number is the result of careful calculation by him and Chen Qingsong.

The two did not calculate according to the highest yield per mu of wheat in modern agriculture in another time and space, but took an intermediate value - 70 kilograms to calculate, then [-] mu of land can produce [-] kilograms of wheat a year; A [-]% powder extraction rate is calculated to be [-] kilograms.Averaged over a year, the daily ration of each household is nearly [-] catties.This number is enough to feed a family.

If corn is sown, the grain yield will be even higher.

At the same time, the introduction of large-scale agricultural machinery and equipment will enable a large number of agricultural population in Beihai Town to transfer to the industrial field, engaged in cigarette production, mining and metallurgy, and each family can also obtain a lot of extra income.

However, as for the distribution of land ownership, after repeated debates, Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong finally adopted Chen Qingsong's opinion, and implemented the "collective farm system" for a period of time.That is to say, the ownership of the land belongs to Beihai Town, and the income on the land belongs to the individual after deducting various equipment expenses.

In addition, Beihai Town holds the unallocated land in its own hands, and produces poultry, livestock, fodder, vegetables, etc. according to the agricultural industrialization method.

At this point, Beihai Town needs to establish its own currency system.

"Old Chen, how's it going? You've driven this place before, why don't you try it?" Zhao Xin said with a smile to Chen Qingsong who was flipping through the operation manual beside him.

"I just saw it when I went abroad to visit exhibitions, and I was accompanied by people from the company when I tried it. Let me look at the manual again."

Liu Sheng and the others came down from the cab, coaxing and saying, "Old Chen, hurry up, let us also see what a 400 million-plus luxury car looks like when it drives."

Liu Siting and Hong Tao said: "Old Chen, don't dawdle. We still have a lot of things to do over there, so I finally took the time to come and see the Hao Tuo you have always been thinking about."

Zhao Xin stepped forward, grabbed the armrest and boarded the cab in two steps. Sitting in the driver's seat, he pressed the start button without saying anything, and the 14.9-liter engine immediately began to roar strongly.

The roar of the machine woke up the white storks and gray storks that were foraging in the grass and mud hundreds of meters away. They fluttered their gray or white wings and flew into the sky.

In the pools of the Sila River and the swamp, dozens of horned grebes (piti) that were preying on fish and shrimp also jumped out of the water one after another, and flew into the distance with their golden chestnut feathers.

"Don't worry, don't worry. You guys... go, get down." Chen Qingsong walked to the front of the car and asked Zhao Xin to get off.

Chen Qingsong slowly drove the tractor to the southeast corner of the wasteland, adjusted the direction; then pressed the button, lowered the rake tines of the land preparation machine, and began to drive forward slowly.

The loud noise of "Caracalla" immediately resounded on both sides of the valley, and the island farmers watching around were dumbfounded.Frightened by the sound of the machine, many people backed away and fell down on the field ridge.

The wide tracked wheels completely ignored the many mires and small swamps on the ground. Where the coulter passed, pieces of black soil began to churn and surface on the ground like gushing waves.

Doctor Hong Taohong bent down and grabbed a handful of black soil, rubbed it in his hands a few times, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Black soil! It's so fat!"

Curiously, Liu Siting tugged at the soil in Hong Tao's hands a few times, then turned her head and asked, "This is black soil? I've always heard from you, what's wrong with this?"

Zhao Xin and the others also grabbed a small handful of soil from the ground, put it in their noses and smelled it.

Wu Siyu from the south said: "I heard people say that the black soil in the Northeast has a saying of 'one liang of soil and two liang of oil'."

Wang Yuanfang said lightly: "It takes 400 years to form a centimeter thick layer. The black soil layer here is at least one meter thick. I have never seen such a thick black soil layer in my hometown."

"What a wonderful land! From here to the north and west, there is still a huge area. If we don't want it, it will be occupied by Tsarist Russia in a few decades." Zhao Xin dusted off the black soil in his hand and looked at the black soil in front of him. self-mumbling.

Liu Sheng scolded: "Why don't you?! Grandma! This is all ours! If you don't plant it, you can't benefit them!"

The dozen or so refugees behind them also put down the burden on their shoulders and came together.They looked at the large piece of reclaimed black land in front of them, their legs uncontrollably knelt down on the ground, stroked the ground under them with their rough and trembling hands, and then picked up a handful of soil.

"This land is really nice!" All the refugees were overjoyed.

Soon, most of the residents of Beihai Town, except those who were working on the distant docks and on the east bank of the Xila River, were attracted by the roar of the 9620RX, and they put down their work and came to the edge of the field.

Gradually, thousands of people gathered on the edge of the field to watch.The roar of giant tractors and land preparation machines caused bursts of exclamation from the crowd.

But seeing Zhao Xin and a dozen other adults in the field, these people gradually felt at ease.The gentlemen are all here, let's just follow along and watch the excitement.

While covering their ears, they looked at the loud green monster that was "speeding" across the wasteland with a huge iron sledge.

They, who were farmers, couldn't understand the scene in front of them at all, and they all opened their mouths and didn't know where they were.However, they were quickly attracted by the speed of reclamation of the "green monster".Watching the ridges and ridges of the land quickly take shape, the wide coulter opened up a gully nearly a foot deep.

"Good guy! This is too fast! We have to do it ourselves, and we can't finish it in ten days and a half months." Several onlookers praised.

"Ten days? Just now I heard Master Liji say that this is called a 'tractor machine'. It can open up thousands of acres of wasteland in one day!"

"What?! Thousands of acres!"

"Just blow it! Don't be afraid to flash your tongue."

"Why am I bragging? Master Liji said it was from the lord himself!"

"That is, you don't even believe the words of the lord. What do you want to do?"

"Don't, don't. How dare I disbelieve my lord, you can see big boats by the sea every day. I, I'm just afraid that he might mishear and talk nonsense."

"There are not thousands of acres. This machine needs to be driven by a human. I asked the Lord, and there must be four or five hundred acres a day!" Behind the few people, a hearty and deep voice sounded.

Several whispering farmers looked back, and it turned out to be Mr. Katayama.So everyone bowed and saluted.

Katayama Kanbei smiled kindly at these people, patted a farmer on the shoulder and said, "Work hard! There is also a piece of your land here!"

"Yes! Our own land!"

A group of refugees thought to themselves, looking up at the scene in the distance with joy on their faces.Before he knew it, his face was full of tears.

(End of this chapter)