Huang Yi didn't know how to farm, but he knew that the conditions for rice cultivation were relatively high, so he had no hope.
When spring comes next year, the base area will be able to plant three acres of corn and seven acres of wheat using the seeds brought from across the country.
It will be developed to several thousand acres in the next year. There is no doubt that improved varieties can increase production.
Guaranteed harvests not only solve people’s food rations.
Another big advantage is that the number of cattle and sheep lost during the winter will be much reduced, or even lost at all.
The reason is simple. The base area is rich in coal resources. Briquette stoves have entered hundreds of households, and people have begun to use coal in large quantities for cooking.
The saved wheat straw and straw can be compacted and trapped with hemp ropes, or chopped into pieces and stored in sacks.
There was definitely no straw baling machine in this era, and that didn't matter. Huang Yi could design an animal-powered baling machine, and even if it wasn't as sophisticated as later generations, it wouldn't be a big deal.
As long as the volume can be compressed for easy storage and stacking, it is enough!
The main reason why cattle and sheep freeze to death during the winter is that they don't have enough food and lose their resistance. With a feed composed of straw and wheat bran, the cattle and sheep that spend the winter won't lose much weight, so they will definitely not freeze to death.
Nomads are more dependent on nature and climate. What they fear most in the Mongolian prairie are white disasters and black disasters.
Because white disasters and black disasters will definitely cause a large number of livestock deaths, and can easily lead to the spread of epidemics.
This will lead to an endless cycle and lead 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.
The base area can store as much hay, wheat straw and straw as possible before winter, as well as wheat bran and chaff.
It can completely ensure that the cattle and sheep of herdsmen in the jurisdiction survive the most difficult winter.
Sheep manure is a first-class natural organic fertilizer.
There are so many sheep on the prairie that policies can be issued for herdsmen in the base areas to encourage herdsmen to collect sheep dung.
The base government purchased the goods at a uniform exchange rate of one pound of wheat for one pound of dried sheep dung eggs.
Sheep manure is a good thing. It can not only be used to fertilize fields and increase yield per mu, but also improve the soil.
In later generations, the price of sheep dung in the Bashang grassland was much higher than that of wheat.
Not only sheep dung, cow dung is also a good thing. It is not only farm manure, but also fuel.
Therefore, the Han people's development of agriculture on the dam can complement the herding Mongolians, and opening up wasteland for 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.
The "prosperity" of Kangqian, which is caused by eating bran and diarrhea, is not the result of sweet potatoes!
People in the base area will not suffer from malnutrition due to long-term eating of sweet potatoes.
Because the staple food here is not only sweet potatoes, but also wheat, millet, highland barley, potatoes, corn, etc. You can also often eat beef and mutton.
The vast majority of officials in the Ming Dynasty focused on uniting the party and opposing dissenters, and on corruption.
Even Chongzhen hanged himself, and the officials still didn't know how to learn from the pain.
The small imperial court of Nanming, which was in turmoil, was still engaged in internal fighting, and it became more and more intense until the game was over. This shows how insensitive the dignitaries in the late Ming Dynasty were.
Xu Guangqi obviously experimented with sweet potatoes, maize, and potatoes in the north, but he did not get support and could not promote them. In the end, he took advantage of the Jiannu who entered the customs and created a "Kangxi-Qianlong prosperous age."
It is said that the reason why high-ranking officials are unwilling to promote high-yielding crops is to better plunder the land of ordinary people.
Because ordinary people who have a stutter will never be able to borrow money from usury, and they will not be able to sell their properties because they need to pay off debts.
Huang Yi did not check whether there was any theoretical basis for this inference. Anyway, the base area was the newly born political power, and it was the territory of Huang Yi.
There will be no incompatible class conflicts here, there will be no land annexation, and usury will always be banned. In the future, banks will be opened by the base area government to operate loans.
Government lending cannot be the kind of vampire that comes out nine times and returns thirteen times.
The base area government must severely crack down on any form of usury.
The people's policy of not holding officials accountable does not apply to loan sharking for huge profits. Once verified, the loan shark will be punished to the point of bankruptcy.
The borrowing interest rate controlled by the government bank shall not be higher than 1% per month, and the annual interest rate shall be at most 12%.
Anyway, Huang Yi is full of confidence. The base area has the basic conditions for the development of agriculture, animal husbandry, and industry, and it is also close to Zhangjiakou, a commercially developed city.
This land and water support a population of 7 to 8 million people without any pressure.
This is not blind confidence. In later generations, the area outside the Great Wall in the Zhangjiakou area, including the area near Zhangjiakou North in Inner Mongolia, had a total population of several million.
Not only are we self-sufficient in food and meat, we are also exporting large amounts of food.
As long as the base area has a population of several hundred thousand, it becomes possible to select and train 20,000 to 30,000 loyal warriors.
Soldiers are not more numerous but better equipped. Soldiers' families work and live in the base area, so of course they can share weal and woe with the base area.
Furthermore, Huang Yi deliberately led the army to implement firearms, and all military logistics support became mules and horses.
Facing the 20,000 to 30,000 people's army in the base area with strong mobility and powerful firepower, no army in the world today can shake it.
When Huang Yi arrived, the smoke had cleared from the Hedanbaatar camp, leaving only a mess.
There were several piles of headless corpses outside the camp, probably numbering in the thousands, and carts full of headless corpses were constantly being pushed out.
That was when Hedanbaat'er knew that Huang Yi could exchange human heads for food and money from the Ming Dynasty, and ordered his men to strip off the clothes and armor of the enemy's corpses, and he also cut off the heads.
Upon learning that Huang Yi had arrived at the camp, Hedanbaatar quickly led all the leaders to greet him.
The busy tribesmen also put down their work and rushed to the camp gate.
Many of them have never met Huang Yi but often hear Huang Yi's legends.
Many girls used to like to hear the legend of Huang Yi, thinking that Huang Yi was brave and brave, and hoped to marry such a person.
Now that the man in the dream appeared, of course they all rushed to watch.
Huang Yi couldn't be arrogant. When he saw a large group of soldiers and many men, women, old and children coming, he immediately dismounted his horse and walked forward quickly with a smile on his face and clasped his fists:
"First Evolution"
"Hedan Battertaji, long time no see, I miss you so much!"
Hedanbaat'er's Chinese was at a loss and he couldn't understand it at all, but when he heard Huang Yi clearly calling him Taiji, he was immediately excited.
He quickly said in blunt Chinese: "Thank you, thank you Huang Yibatulu!"
Promoting Hedanbaat'er to be the Taiji of the Ujimqin tribe is beneficial to the base area.
Whether it can be recognized by Lin Dan Khan is another matter. Governor Xuanda can report it to the court and get canonization from the Ming Emperor.
At a time when tribes in the grasslands were seeking refuge in the slave-building industry, Hedanbaat'er went against the current, and it was estimated that Geng Raqi, who had facilitated this, could still get some credit.
Those who follow me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish.
Huang Yi is destined to cause trouble in the prairie.
Because historical experience tells Huang Yi that the most effective way to curb the establishment of slaves is to break the Manchu-Mongolia alliance.
