Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 7
When Huang Laifu returned to Wuzhai Fort with Jiang Dazhong and Yang Xiaolu, it was already dark, and his family was waiting for Huang Laifu to eat.

At this time, Huang Laifu was still full of excitement, he greeted Huang Sihao and Yang Shi, and then went back to his room, his coat was loose and his computer bag was wrapped around his waist, no one could tell.After entering his room, he put the computer bag in the wooden box beside the Kang, calmed down his excitement, and then went to the lobby to eat.

After eating some hastily, Huang Laifu went back to his room, and Mrs. Yang said from behind: "This child, why doesn't he have an appetite tonight?"

Huang Laifu closed the door, lit the oil lamp, leaned on the kang and flipped through the computer.Although he has memories of Huang Laifu's past, he still doesn't know the specific location of Wuzhai Fort in later generations.

At this time, he opened the satellite map data of the whole country, and the historical data map of Wuzhai Fort in the Ming Dynasty.Only then did I discover that Wuzhai Fort is the later Wuzhai County of Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, with an area of ​​about 300 square kilometers.

In later generations, Wuzhai County had a population of about 10. At this time, Wuzhai Fort had only a few thousand people including the families of military households.This is my own development base, a small county with an area of ​​just over 1 square kilometers and a population of less than [-].What should I do?

Huang Laifu checked the materials of Wuzhai County in later generations, trying to find some inspiration for his own development.

According to data, Wuzhai County in later generations has a cultivated land area of ​​about 60 mu. Among them, in the central area, there is a "D" character Pingchuan from south to north, with an area of ​​more than 20 mu. There are also many rivers in the county.

Wuzhai County in later generations was still a large farming county. The main food crops were potatoes, naked oats, corn, millet, beans and other small miscellaneous grains.Seeing the potatoes, Huang Laifu shook his head regretfully.

As far as he knows, potato, the nickname is potato.Sweet potato, nicknamed sweet potato, was introduced from Luzon to Guangdong and Fujian about 22 years after Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty. It was not until after the death of the Ming Dynasty that it was introduced to Shanxi and widely promoted.

If high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes had been introduced and promoted in Shanxi and Shaanxi a few decades earlier, the local people would have had food to eat, and perhaps there would have been no mobs like Li Zicheng, the burglar, to cause chaos.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes may not look like much, but they are good things.In the Ming Dynasty, especially in the north, even if the weather was good at that time, the yield of crops per acre was only one stone, and in times of disaster, there would be no crops at every turn.

The harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes is calculated by the ton, and the yield is several thousand catties per mu. Even if the yields of the two are not as high as the improved varieties of later generations, compared with wheat, they are considered to be rich in yield.In particular, the two do not occupy fertile land, and can be cultivated in mountainous dry land where rice and wheat cannot be grown.It can even improve the soil of the land, turning the original large tracts of uncultivable land into arable land for wheat and rice.

Although the taste of these miscellaneous grains is not good, but when people are about to starve to death during a catastrophe, who cares whether the taste of the food is good or bad?Moreover, in terms of nutrition, both potatoes and sweet potatoes contain a lot of starch and multivitamins, which are no worse than cereals and wheat.

Regrets are regrets, sighs are sighs, high-yield crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn will not fall from the sky. Even if you go to Guangdong, Fujian and other places to look for these crops, who knows where they are?
The sea of ​​people is vast and the territory is vast. Finding some crops is like looking for a needle in a haystack.I don’t know when I found it. These days, I walked from Shanxi to Guangdong, and then walked back, and then looked for some crops that are not common to local people like looking for a needle in a haystack. How many years would it take? Two years, three years, or five years?

But no matter what, Huang Laifu decided to send his capable men as soon as possible to search for these high-yield crops in Guangdong, Fujian and other places. If they can't find them in Guangdong and Fujian, they will go to Luzon and other places to look for them as far as possible.To find it one day earlier is my blessing, and it is also a blessing for the people of Ming Dynasty.

The prospect is beautiful and bright, but the long-distance water cannot quench the near-thirst. The most important thing right now is to solve the problem of food for the military households in Wuzhaibao.

For the common people in the north and the soldiers in the important towns of the Nine Borders, the weather these years has been a bit strange, either severe cold or severe drought, it seems that God never stops.During these years, the fields in the north have not been harvested every year, and in many seasons there are often no crops.

The soldiers and civilians in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty didn't understand what was going on, but Huang Laifu knew that such miserable days would last for decades in the future, and it would get worse as it went on. This was the famous Little Ice Age in history.

Similarly, Wuzhai Fort is located in the northwest of Shanxi, so naturally it cannot escape this bad form.

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"...Golden autumn in October, the fruit is fragrant. The reporter learned from the relevant departments of Wuzhai County that the autumn harvest work in Wuzhai County is about to succeed, and the grain production has achieved a bumper harvest for four consecutive years. The annual increase of grain is 4 million catties, the highest level in history..."

Huang Laifu's eyes stopped on a report in Wuzhai County in later generations. Slowly, he made a decision to give priority to the development of agriculture in Wuzhaibao. Anyway, Wuzhai County in later generations is also a large agricultural county.

Although Huang Laifu has a lot of industrial and technological materials in his computer, considering his current strength, conditions and environment, after careful consideration, Huang Laifu decided to develop agriculture first.

In the next few decades, the Ming Dynasty will be trapped in the Little Ice Age, with frequent disasters and serious shortage of food production. It can be said that the future of agriculture will be very bright in the next few decades, and there is no need to worry about no market.If I can solve the food problem of the military households in Wuzhaibao by then, and then use some points to bring noodles to solve or alleviate the problem of food shortage in the Ming Dynasty, it will be the result of both fame and fortune.

Moreover, Huang Laifu believes that vigorously developing commerce will not bring any good results when agriculture is unstable. In this regard, the Ming Dynasty has already learned a profound lesson.No matter how prosperous the commerce was in the late Ming Dynasty, it could not save the social collapse caused by the collapse of agriculture.

Conversely, if agriculture develops and there are raw materials and markets, industry and commerce will naturally develop.At this time, the combination of the two will better promote the development of society, which is typical of the United Kingdom at that time.

That night, Huang Laifu kept checking the relevant information until the computer ran out of power, and then reluctantly went to sleep.And that night, he also made plans for his future development.

(End of this chapter)