According to Zhu Lingjing, the Crown Prince also had further plans in this regard. He and his group, who were obsessed with large-scale construction, planned to gradually complete the redemption and distribution of land in various provinces of the Ming Dynasty over a nine-year period, with a three-year cycle.
In the first round, more than 80 acres will be redeemed, in the second round, more than 50 acres will be redeemed, and in the third round, more than 30 acres will be redeemed.
At the same time, landowners were allowed to retain no more than twenty acres of leased land.
In this way, the reform time will be lengthened and the financial pressure will be much less as the reform progresses steadily.
Zhou Changfeng thinks this plan is quite good, but now that the war is imminent, Zhu Lingjing's idea, although more radical, is completely feasible.
In this case, wouldn't it be better to go faster?
In fact, Zhu Lingjing even thinks that treasury bonds can be tied to future wars and distributed money? It is impossible to directly issue war bonds to the landlords who have been forcibly redeemed their land and drag them onto the Ming Dynasty's chariot.
not support? Then the bonds in your hands will become useless paper.
"That's it, go on your own."
"Resign."
Because they found a topic they liked, the conversation between Zhou Changfeng and Zhu Lingjing was far more harmonious, broader and deeper than when they first met.
It can be said that it "enhances mutual understanding" in a literal sense.
There will be nothing more to do with Zhou Changfeng. For a long time to come, his mission will be to brush up his resume and get promoted before the end of next year.
"Brother, which army are you from?"
"Chemical Defense Platoon of the Second Umbrella Regiment, are you from the Marine Corps?"
"Yes, he is from the 1st Marine Regiment. He was transferred to help after going to Yiling Prefecture to suppress the bandits two days ago."
"Okay, let me see where there is still a shortage of people, uh... you go to Xiaoshe Township and Changtang Village."
In order to eliminate snails in the epidemic-affected countryside with higher efficiency, the Second Parachute Regiment and the 17th Infantry Division stationed in Nanchang and Anqing Prefecture were ordered to deploy their respective chemical defense units to help.
So is this the imperial envoy’s power, or is it Zhu Lingjing’s face?
The paratrooper unit is a combat unit under the direct command of the Ming Dynasty Air Force and has a very high level.
In recent years, with the rapid development of aviation technology, countries around the world have conducted more and more in-depth research and exploration. The militaries of some countries have tried to form organic airborne troops.
The year before last, that is, Qiyuan 7934, the German Society organized a semi-public exercise in Hamburg. The German army organized 15 Do-17 bombers and 28 Ju-52 transport aircraft. The former towed gliders and the latter directly airdropped , deploying two battalions of paratroopers at once, surprising European countries.
So Tsarist Russia followed suit and formed its own paratrooper unit last year based on an infantry brigade; it has been continuously expanded and now has one parachute division and two parachute brigades.
Ming Dynasty's reaction was relatively small, and only two paratrooper regiments have been formed to this day to explore and test the use of this new unit.
After walking several miles on the country road, Zhou Changfeng arrived at Changtang Village.
This is a large village with more than 200 households and thousands of people.
The village is built next to the water, and next to it is a stream several meters wide. There are several weeping willows beside the stream, and the green willow branches hang down into the stream.
The houses inside are all made of blue bricks and gray tiles. The horse head walls on the edge of the roof are very high. The overall layout is simple, simple and elegant.
Because it is a large village, not only are there ancestral halls, archways, and piers, but the No. 14 Primary School of Dehua County is also built here. The more solemn and simple style of Gan style architecture is everywhere.
A group of ducks can be seen paddling in the stream. Standing on the ridge of the field, Zhou Changfeng looked around and couldn't help but sigh, "It's really the traffic on the road and the chickens and dogs hearing each other."
If it were not for the epidemic, the actual life here should be peaceful and peaceful. However, due to the recurrence of schistosomiasis, the villagers had to be cautious.
The educational level of Marine Corps officers and soldiers is much higher than that of the Army. Even 60% of the soldiers are middle school graduates, which means that their learning ability and comprehension ability are stronger.
Through the previous briefing, the more than 40 people in the chemical defense platoon had already understood the precautions, and now they began to prepare for the incineration operation.
The chiefs and security guards of Changtang Village have organized the young people in the village to pile the collected snails together. There are six or seven piles in total, about knee-high.
Zhou Changfeng put on rubber gloves, squatted down and picked up a snail, which was about one centimeter long, pointed, pagoda-shaped, and gray. This was the snail, the intermediate host of the schistosomiasis.
"Let's begin." He threw the screw back, then stood up and walked away.
The soldiers also wore rubber gloves and separate chemical protective suits. The soldiers carrying flamethrowers adjusted the gas tank pressure and then tried firing it into the wilderness.
Then, with a "whoosh" sound, the blazing flames poured onto one of the piles of screws, and the billowing heat wave made Zhou Changfeng, who was standing several steps away, unable to help but squint his eyes.
Private methods of burning are limited, and the burning temperature of straw, firewood, and straw is limited. If they are used to incinerate snails, the killing rate is less than 70%.
In contrast, today's flamethrowers can reach thousands of degrees even though they have not yet applied napalm.
In addition to incineration methods, according to the epidemic prevention guidance manual, pesticides should also be put into ponds, streams and other water where snails are present in the epidemic area, so as to eliminate the snails to the maximum extent in a two-pronged approach.
Of course, the inevitable price is that some fish and shrimps in the water will die.
The history of modern chemical pesticides is actually not long. As a late-developing industrial country, Ming Dynasty has not reached the forefront of the field in chemical industry so far, but its large-scale application and contribution to chemical pesticides is second to none.
Agriculture is the foundation of a country. The Chinese people have never diminished their emphasis on agricultural production for thousands of years. As early as the eighth year of Zhichang, the imperial court issued a decree to reward those who contributed to agricultural production.
Without considering mechanized operations, there are only two technologies to improve agricultural production efficiency - chemical fertilizers and pesticides, one to increase production and the other to kill insects.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty had not yet mastered the "cutting-edge" ammonia synthesis process, so chemical fertilizers were not feasible. However, the officials of Gezhiyuan found another way through thousands of experiments-chemical pesticides.
As early as 7925 AD, the famous British physicist Faraday discovered an organic compound called hexachlorocyclohexane, but people did not pay attention to it.
When Ming people were searching for usable pesticides among countless compounds, they happened to find that it had a very good insecticidal effect. Because its chemical formula is CHCl, its structure has six carbon, hydrogen, and chlorine atoms, so it was named 666 .
666 was highly valued by the imperial court, and soon it was put into large-scale mass production after successful specific experiments. Due to its low production cost and simple process, factories were set up in more than 200 prefectures throughout the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty became the first country to mass-produce and apply chemical pesticides on a large scale. After all, it had to feed an increasing population of more than 600 million so far, and agricultural production could not be ignored at all.
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