I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 216

Huang Yi doesn't know how to farm, but he knew that the conditions for growing rice are relatively high, so he had no hope in the first place.

In the spring of next year, the base area will be able to plant three acres of corn and seven acres of wheat with the seeds from the crossing.

It will be able to grow to several thousand mu in the next year, and there is no doubt that improved varieties can increase production.

A guaranteed harvest is not just a solution to human rations.

Another big advantage is that the loss of cattle and sheep over the winter will be much reduced, or even not lost.

The reason is simple. The base area is rich in coal resources, honeycomb coal stoves have entered hundreds of households, and the people have begun to use coal for cooking in large quantities.

The saved wheat straw and stalks can be tightly packed with hemp rope, or chopped and stored in sacks.

There is definitely no straw baler in this era. It doesn't matter. Huang Yi can design an animal-powered baler, even if it is not as compact as later generations, it is no big deal.

As long as the volume can be compressed, it is enough for convenient storage and stacking!

Cattle and sheep are frozen to death during the winter. The biggest reason is that they are not full enough to eat and lose their resistance. With the combination of straw and wheat bran, the cattle and sheep will not lose fat during the winter, so they will definitely not freeze to death.

Nomads are more dependent on nature and climate, and the Mongolian prairie is most afraid of white disasters and black disasters.

Because white disasters and black disasters will definitely cause a large number of livestock deaths, and they will easily lead to epidemics.

This will lead to an endless loop, leading to a sharp decline in population.

The root cause of these disasters is that a large number of cattle and sheep froze to death and starved to death, unable to survive the winter safely.

Base areas can store as much hay, wheat straw and straw as possible before winter, as well as wheat bran and chaff.

It can fully guarantee the cattle and sheep of herdsmen in the jurisdiction to survive the most difficult winter.

Sheep manure is a first-class natural organic fertilizer.

There are so many sheep on the prairie, policies can be issued to the herdsmen in the base area to encourage the herdsmen to collect sheep dung.

The local governments of the bases exchanged one catty of wheat for one catty of dried sheep dung and eggs to purchase them uniformly.

Sheep manure is a good thing. It can not only be used to fertilize the fields, increase the yield per mu, but also improve the soil.

In later generations, sheep manure from the Bashang Grassland was sold online by the pound, which was much more expensive than wheat.

Not only sheep dung, cow dung is also a good thing, not only farm manure, but also fuel.

Therefore, the development of agriculture by the Han people on the dam can complement the grazing Mongolians, and opening up wasteland and farming outside the Great Wall will definitely alleviate the food crisis.

Moreover, Huang Yi will also increase the planting area of ​​sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn on a large scale.

Isn't the "prosperous age" of Kanggan who eats bran and loose stools made of sweet potatoes!
The people in the base area will not suffer from malnutrition due to eating sweet potatoes for a long time.

Because the staple food here is not only sweet potatoes, but also wheat, millet, highland barley, potatoes, corn, etc., and you can often eat beef and mutton.

The vast majority of officials in the Ming Dynasty spent their minds on party unity and fighting dissidents, and on corruption.

Chongzhen hanged himself, and the officials still don't know how to learn from it.

The precarious small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was still playing internal fighting, and it intensified until the end of the game, which shows how insensitive the dignitaries in the late Ming Dynasty were.

Xu Guangqi obviously tried to grow sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes in the north, but he couldn't get support and couldn't promote them. In the end, Jiannu who entered the customs cheaply created a "prosperous Kangxi and Qianlong era".

It is said that dignitaries are unwilling to promote high-yielding crops in order to be able to better plunder the land of ordinary people.

Because ordinary people who have a stutter, it is absolutely impossible to borrow usury, and it is impossible to sell their land because of the need to repay the debt.

Whether there is a theoretical basis for this inference, Huang Yi does not go to research, anyway, the base is a newly born regime, and it is the territory of Huang Yi's promise.

Here, we will forever put an end to usury, and in the future, the base government will open a bank to operate the loan.

Government lending cannot be the kind of vampire-like out of nine out of thirteen.

The base government must crack down on any form of usury.

People don't raise officials and don't investigate. It doesn't apply to lending usury to make huge profits.

The government's bank controls the monthly interest rate of the loan not higher than 12.00%, and the annual interest rate is at most [-]%.

Anyway, Huang Yi is full of confidence. The base area has the basic conditions for developing agriculture, animal husbandry, and industry, and it is also close to Zhangjiakou, which has developed commerce.

There is no pressure to support 80 million people with water and soil.

This is not blind self-confidence. The Zhangjiakou area outside the Great Wall in later generations, including the area north of Zhangjiakou in Inner Mongolia, has a total population of several million.

Not only has it achieved self-sufficiency in grain and meat, but it has also been exported in large quantities.

As long as the base area has a population of several 10, it is possible to select and train [-] to [-] loyal fighters.

Soldiers are not many but fine, and the families of soldiers work and live in the base areas, and of course they can share weal and woe with the base areas.

In addition, Huang Yi deliberately led the army to realize the weaponization, and all the logistics support of the army was turned into mules and horses.

Facing the [-] to [-] base area people's army with strong mobility and powerful firepower, no army in the world today can shake it.

When Huang Yi arrived, the smoke in Hedan Bateer's camp had cleared away, leaving only a mess.

There were several large piles of naked and headless corpses outside the camp, probably thousands in number, and carts full of headless corpses were constantly being pushed out.

That was when Hedan Battelle knew that Huang Yi could exchange his head for Daming's grain and money, and ordered his subordinates to strip off the armor of the enemy's corpse, and he cut off his head along the way.

Knowing that Huang Yi had come to the camp, Hedan Bateer hurriedly led all the leaders out to meet him.

The busy clansmen also put down their work and rushed towards the gate of the camp.

Many of them have never seen Huang Yi, but they often hear the legend of Huang Yi.

Many young girls liked to listen to the legend of Huang Yi before, and thought that Huang Yi was heroic and brave, and hoped to marry such a person.

Now that the man in the dream appeared, of course they all rushed to watch.

It was impossible for Huang Yi to be arrogant. When he saw a large group of soldiers and many men, women and children coming, he dismounted immediately, with a smile on his face, he stepped forward and clasped his fists and said:

"Hedan Bateertaiji, long time no see, miss me!"

Hedanbaatar's Chinese was so messed up that he couldn't understand it at all, but when he heard clearly that Huang Yi called him Taiji, he was immediately overwhelmed with excitement.

He hurriedly said in blunt Chinese: "Thank you, thank you Huang Yi Batulu!"

Taiji, who promoted Hedanbaatar as the Ujimqin tribe, is beneficial to the base area.

Whether it can get Lin Danhan's approval is another matter. Governor Xuanda can play to the court and be canonized by Emperor Ming.

When all the tribes in the grassland turned to build slaves one after another, Hedanbaatar moved against the current, reckoning that Geng Ruqi, who made this happen, could get some credit.

Those who obey me prosper, those who oppose me perish.

Huang Yi is destined to make wind and rain in the prairie.

Because historical experience tells Huang Yi that the most effective way to curb slavery is to break the Manchu-Mongolian alliance.

(End of this chapter)