my days with tyrants

Chapter 79

"Big plows, new planters, new cultivators, harvesters.

This is especially important.

And this is simplistic.

We were actually all combine harvesters back then.

Harvesting and threshing can be done at one time, but it is very difficult for craftsmen at this time to make it, and even if it is made, it is not practical. After all, it takes dozens of cows to pull it, but a thresher can be made, even a rice thresher.Therefore, everything from land reclamation to sowing to harvesting is machinery, but it is temporarily impossible to manufacture real power machinery, even steam tractors, which can only be pulled by cattle.

But also enough.

However, this kind of agriculture has higher requirements on the crops to be planted.

For the time being, it is wheat, soybeans and the like.

So my plan is to use machinery to grow soybeans on a large scale in Huining. "

Yang Feng put the blueprints in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Not high tech.

After all, apart from harvesters and threshers, there are others at this time, or they all have primary versions, including cultivators. At most, his ones are bigger...

But there are also many cattle.

So it's not that people in this era don't know how to enlarge a couch, but that in a family unit, the ones that can be pulled are small ones. Yang Feng can only use larger ones if he has enough cattle and low enough feeding costs.This kind of large-scale has also brought about a significant increase in efficiency, but it also lacks the yield of intensive cultivation. It is only suitable for the Songnen Plain where there is extensive planting and low harvest, and there is endless wasteland that can be reclaimed.

But Zhu Yuanzhang needs it, because his guard in the north can be promoted.

It's not just the Songnen Plains that have endless wastelands.

The same goes for the North China Plain!

Up to now, the entire Beiping Province has a combined population of less than 200 million, so how much wasteland is waiting to be reclaimed, and Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi all have a basis for promotion. In fact, it is very good to encourage Zhu Yuanzhang to start the state-owned farm of the guard.

Anyway, the land of the guard is not privately owned by military households.

"You grow soybeans, I'm afraid it's not easy to sell. The staple food of the people is millet. Even flour is not as good as two things. Beans are nothing but tofu. Soybean oil is not eaten much. The people mainly use rapeseed oil, and the army only uses it for food. Ma, I’m afraid even your own hired workers won’t eat them. All your employees in Taicang and Zhenjiang will eat rice as their staple food.

They don't eat soy.

At most, it can be eaten as tofu. "

Zhang Xianzong reminded him.

"It's not meant to be eaten."

Yang Feng then took out a piece of paper and pushed it in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

"This thing is mainly made of bean cakes and bird droppings, mixed with fermented manure. It has a miraculous effect when used in rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River. It was originally only available in later generations. It is called Dung Dan. I think it should be given a better name, so it is called Jin. Kela.

Therefore, I grow soybeans as fertilizer for the rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River.

Soybeans are pressed for oil, and bean cakes are used as fertilizers.

It doesn't matter if you don't eat much soybean oil, it can be used to process soybean products. "

He said.

Jinkela is good!
The guano can be dug in the East China Sea, and the bean cakes will be provided by him, and then Jinkela compound fertilizer will be made, which will be used in the rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River to increase production.

"Bean cakes are really good as fertilizer, and rich people also use them, but they are more expensive.

The poor can't afford it.

If you can ship a large amount of bean cakes from Liaodong, it will increase the rice fields in the south of the Yangtze River a lot.

In fact, as long as you produce food, I will always solve other problems for you. Even if you can’t transport it to the south of the Yangtze River, you can feed horses to the army in Liaodong. What’s more, there are Beiping, Daning, and Kaiping, which also need beans to feed horses. As long as you can produce grain, no matter what, even Sorghum Zhen will sell it for you.Huining is Yue Wumu's Huanglong Mansion, which is the Huanglong mansion of Huanglong. It is a great achievement to be able to turn the five kingdoms city where the Jin people imprisoned the two emperors of Huiqin into the land of my Ming Dynasty, and let my Han people farm and gain a foothold there.

As long as you can let the Han people take root there, I will buy the grain you produce at ten times the price. "

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Have courage!"

Yang Feng quickly gave a thumbs up.

Of course, the main reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang is not afraid of spending money.

Those who print their own money are certainly not comparable to those of his descendants.

atmosphere!

Therefore, the loss of currency dominance is equivalent to the loss of state control.

"However, there is still transportation, and sea transportation has to be resolved."

He continued.

"You are allowed to use military ships to transport!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said very simply.

Since he knows that the biggest enemy after Ming Dynasty is the Northeast, he can't just clean it up, just clean it up and not fill it up. In the end, he can only benefit others. The past dynasties have not failed to attack these messy ethnic groups in the north. In the end, they are like weeds, destroying one after another. One pops up.It is because it can only be attacked but not filled. It is nothing more than a solution to immigration and settlement. In the end, destroying one is just to provide the other with a chance to rise, and then one after another, the tribes from the north will go south to occupy the vacated land and rise.Similarly, even if he eliminated these messes now, if he could not immigrate to fill them up, he would just give the tribes further north a chance, even let the Mongols fill them up, and finally create a new enemy for Ming.

The establishment of Huining Dusi was his attempt to fill this area.

But it's hard.

At present, Huiningwei's grain depends entirely on transportation.

All the guards under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Capital Division are serving this transportation line, and the subsequent shipping line from Liaodong to Jiangnan is serving the entire system. In the end, the entire country is doing its best to maintain the march of only tens of thousands of people.

The cost is extremely high.

The ministers of the DPRK and China have long been dissatisfied.

I think it is meaningless to waste people and money like this, and it is detrimental to the world.

This is only a short-term military operation. In the future, if they are stationed all year round, or even set up more garrison guards, it will really be detrimental to the world. But if Yang Feng's experiment can be successful, it can be said that the filling problem has really been solved.He knows how to farm and knows the value of bean cakes as a fertilizer for rice fields. If Yang Feng can really make it in the Northeast, the bean cakes that are continuously transported to the south of the Yangtze River will bring a substantial increase in grain production, and finally make the Northeast valuable.In this way, neither the court nor the people would object any more. At that time, what he could do was not Yang Feng. migrant.

As long as there are hundreds of thousands of Han people, and there is a stable agriculture, they can multiply and thrive, and any mess there will not be overturned.

Yang Feng is walking for him.

This is not the time to count costs at all.

In this way, all problems will be solved. As for those machines, of course Yang Feng set up a factory, and Zhu Yuanzhang allowed him to pick people from craftsmen under the Ministry of Industry...

In theory, it is still a joint venture between Daming and Daxia.

Zhu Yuanzhang likes this model very much. After all, the place belongs to him, the people belong to him, and the output also belongs to him. Yang Feng can make a lot of money at most, but the money is also in Daming, and it is impossible to ship it out, so he should stay in Daming What's more, these floating wealth are still precious banknotes.It can be said that this mode is really good except for the need to endure Yang Feng's arrogance. As for Yang Feng's arrogance, this is a good habit. People are not used to it!
Well, His Majesty the Emperor has learned to be patient.

after all……

He gave so much!

So far, what Yang Feng gave him has had obvious results.

The rapid-fire cannon is generally welcomed by all armies, and it can even be said that everyone loves this thing, especially the camel cannon, which has been promoted at a very fast speed in the north, and the reform of the treasure banknote.

So far, I haven't seen anything that can be forged, especially the color-changing ink.

This really cannot be faked!
Therefore, the new version of treasure banknotes has cleared the problem of counterfeit banknotes at least for now.

Zhu Yuanzhang knows the goods.

So in this case, Yang Feng's petty temper is not so intolerable.

His Majesty the Emperor immediately took his grandson down the mountain with satisfaction, and it was obvious that he was really cultivating his grandson.

"Look, what you want, I can actually help you solve it, but you have to follow my path."

Looking at his retreating back, Yang Feng said.

"Your Excellency is generous and selfless."

Zhang Xianzong said calmly.

"if not?

I can say that I am trapped here with you now, unable to return to my home or country, I am a kind person, and I have nothing to do left and right, so let me do something good for you!
Do good deeds!
In fact, I think you should encourage your emperor to expand.

It's good for you.

Would it be the poor who went out to expand and plunder the wealth of those barbarians?
Give me a break!

At most, they will serve as your thugs.

Those who really benefit from pioneering will always be officials like you, local gentry, generals in the army, and those poor people risking their lives to develop for you, and you will enjoy the wealth you get.You still don’t understand it now, that’s because you have never done this kind of thing, but as long as you do it, you will find that it will always be people like you who open up territories and gain profits.

Tell you about the country of the afterlife.

This country is a country that should have been said to be very small.

It is probably slightly larger than Fujian, but slightly smaller than Jiangxi. About 200 years later in this country, the monarch, domestic ministers, and local gentry formed a firm in partnership. This firm hired poor ghosts in their country, and then took The ship went out to loot.Looting everything that can be robbed, land and treasure, even slave trade, burning, killing, looting and looting the capitals of other countries, forcing the latter to pay for them and then withdrawing them, robbing production areas such as spices, occupying the throat of the sea, in short, wherever there is Anything worth grabbing.In the end, it became the most powerful country in the world at that time. In the next 200 years, it was almost the hegemony of the sea. Even when we had been in decline for a hundred years, we could still rely on the wealth accumulated by our ancestors to become a powerful country.

And those officials and gentry who partnered with the monarch at the beginning controlled all aspects of the country in the process. They formed a council to decide all affairs of the country for the monarch.

State affairs shut up.

Just like a vase.

In fact, those countries that expanded like crazy in later generations were promoted by gentry officials.

Those poor people just work for them.

You Fujian Song Yuan developed overseas trade, who can do overseas trade?Isn't it the aristocratic families in the local area?But where are the aristocratic families doing overseas trade?Isn't it in their own garden?
Who is going to sea?
Isn't it the poor in those clans?

What they exchanged with their lives at sea was nothing more than supporting their families, and [-]% of the benefits they exchanged fell into the hands of those gentry who didn't need to go to sea at all. Drinking tea, watching the dancers dance, you can wait for the real fat.

Those poor people stayed at home, and they might rebel because of poverty, and letting them develop also eliminated this danger.

Then why do you object?

Shouldn't we fully support and even encourage the emperor to open up to the outside world? "

Yang Feng said.

"Zhang doesn't have any garden dancers!"

Zhang Xianzong said.

"Then you should promote expansion even more, only expansion can allow you to have Garden Dancer as soon as possible.

Look at me, I just went out to rob for more than half a year. Now there are thousands of Guangyi women, and there will soon be millions of acres of fertile land in Liaodong. As for gold, silver and jewelry, there are also some. Zhang Fu, Zhuang De, who are with me, People like Yang Wen have gained a lot no matter who they are.

In order for Yang Wen to hold me and those Udihas from going south, Li Chenggui specially selected five beauties and sent them to him.

As for Zhang Fu in Xiguan City, he has already controlled the trade between Huligai, Udiha, Xilawu and other tribes with the outside world. These tribes exchanged a large amount of fur, horses, nuts, etc. Salt, sugar, etc.Of course, he managed to get these things. A catty of sugar can be exchanged for a horse from Xilawu, and an iron pot can be exchanged for a bundle of mink furs from Udiha. Then do you think Zhang Fu can make money from this kind of trade? How many? "

Yang Feng said with a smile.

This is inevitable.

After all, Zhang Fu now belongs to the lonely place, and the sky is absolutely far away from the emperor.

Not even just far away.

At this time, it is estimated that their connection with the outside world has been cut off.

Zhu Di's army only went to Huligaijiang, but there and Huining, Kaiyuan's post road had not yet been built. It takes another half a month to send letters from Jiangkou to Xiguan City, and the news goes back and forth for three months.

There is a post road in Liaohaiwei.

But it took more than half a month to deliver the letter from Liaohaiwei to the capital.

At this time, the Northeast has entered winter.

The mountain is completely closed due to heavy snow.

Half a year in isolation.

In this environment, Zhang Fu and his more than 1000 Ming troops really did whatever they wanted.

Zhang Xianzong smiled slightly.

Of course, he cannot fully represent the interests of the gentry group he belongs to, especially the emerging Confucian group. He is relatively able to accept Yang Feng's theory because he belongs to the group of Fujian gentry, and this group happened to be the most enthusiastic among the gentry of the Ming Dynasty. Developed externally.But the rest of the Nanzhi, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang gentry, who are the main force of money and food, are hard to say. It costs money to expand abroad, and it takes a lot of money. Then the big money will definitely fall on the three provinces, not to mention when the time comes What will happen to Zhu Yuanzhang is still unknown.

He will say a word...

I want it all!
Isn't that gentry's support in vain?

It's better to be on the safe side, it's not bad for everyone to hang on like this.

(End of this chapter)