"How about catching ten people from Vietnam and Southeast Asia? The distance is so close. [No pop-up novel website]" Old
"The cost is not calculated." Wang Luobin disagreed. "Unless there is a ready supplier for the slave trade, the cost of capturing and transporting slaves is too high."
"Let's learn from the slave trade in history. The British shipped slaves to Cuba and Jamaica and exchanged the slaves for sugar. We can also do this and let the British be slave traders. They are very good at this anyway. We can use it. Sugar from Leizhou in exchange for slaves.”
"Should we let the British introduce black uncles?"
I saw that my words were starting to run out of words.
Dude knocked on the table: "Be realistic! It is better to take measures to reduce the mortality rate as much as possible." Dude reminded everyone, "Whether it is laborers or slaves, too high a mortality rate is detrimental to morale. In the end, it will inevitably lead to escapes and riots. To When the time comes, we have to send the army to suppress it, won’t this become a vicious cycle?”
"Step up the recruitment of people," Wen Desi said to Dude. "Is it difficult to double the number of immigrants?"
"Yes, food." Nade hadn't spoken yet. Wu Nanhai jumped in without hesitation, "The grain we collected and seized from Lingao is about to bottom out. Now we rely on Vietnamese rice shipped from the trade between Leizhou and Vietnam."
“There is no hybrid rice”
"Do you think hybrid rice is a magic wand?" Wu Nanhai has long been angry about agricultural issues. "I only have tons of rice? What about farmland water conservancy? Where about water pumps? Where about fertilizers? I can mention these things at the meeting. I’ve passed it countless times!”
Probably because of his easy-going personality and unwillingness to compete with others, Wu Nanhai's Agricultural Committee has always lagged behind in fighting for resources. Although the executive committee still understands the concept of being agricultural-oriented, it does not pay much attention to agricultural investment, especially farm infrastructure. It's the first one. But the principle that a crying baby gets milk also applies here. Since the Agricultural Committee's investment is always very huge, the Executive Committee intentionally or unintentionally gives a 20% discount on the Agricultural Committee's projects.
Opening up independent fields will inevitably lead to a population explosion. To expand the population, investment in agriculture must be increased so that enough food can be stored in October.
"Right now, I haven't harvested all my rice and crops, and there are too few high-yielding fields." Wu Nanhai complained. At present, the total number of high-yielding fields that have completed soil and water conservancy improvement reaches 200 standard acres. Wu Nanhai replaced the local mu system with various designs and colors with the modern standard mu, that is, the square meter mu system.
"Rice seeds have a shelf life," Wu Nanhai reminded them, "and its characteristics cannot be inherited. If not all are sown this year, they will be useless except for making rice next year."
So the Executive Committee decided to increase material input in two directions: agriculture and shipbuilding. The former prepares for immigration and the latter is for large-scale transportation.
Wu Nanhai returned to the farm and quickly summoned everyone from the Ministry of Agriculture. Discuss plans on how to carry out the Great Leap Forward in agriculture.
"A large amount of grain is needed?" Fashilu was surprised. "This is not a game. How to prepare enough grain reserves to prepare for feeding more non-agricultural people? Second, increase protein supply."
"The second point is a continuation of the first point. Without food, how can we get protein?" Fashilu was a little dissatisfied. "If we want to use food, we have to expand the planting area. Has the executive committee agreed to add more people to us?"
There are only fifty agricultural workers on staff in the model farm. They are all experts in farming and breeding selected by Wu Nanhai from immigrants and captives. According to his experience, without the help of any mechanization, a strong labor force with one cow or one horse can cultivate more than fifty acres of land. The rice cultivation area in the south is intensive farming, so less planting is required, but there is no big problem if you plant twenty acres of paddy field.
It’s a time to build water conservancy projects, rush to plant and harvest, and reclaim wasteland. The farm mainly relies on dispatched labor from the Bairen Commune and "labor service" from the army. This dispatched labor is equivalent to short-term labor during busy farming periods, and work points are calculated based on the daily assigned work. The poor level of the breeding pool has little to do with it, it mainly depends on the effort.
The farm occupies a lot of wasteland along the river that is suitable for farming, but it is not easy to open up wasteland in Lingao. There are two dry and rainy seasons in a year. The land needs irrigation in the dry season and drainage in the rainy season, which requires high water conservancy. According to the research of the Committee of Agriculture, extensive land reclamation has little effect, and it is necessary to develop a high-yielding farmland model of intensive farming and build water conservancy projects. "Soil improvement" requires all farmland infrastructure to be in place to achieve high yields. Such a development model requires the investment of a large amount of labor.
"Give it. I'm going to expand the high-yield field to a thousand acres."
"A thousand acres?!" Fashilu asked suspiciously, "Can Dude agree to provide so many acres?"
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Wu Nanhai nodded: "This is the decision of the executive committee, and he will definitely give priority to the equipment. In addition, Committee Member Ma also promised to transfer some construction machinery to
"This is great!" Fa Shilu said. With machinery, the workload of land reclamation and water conservancy construction will be much less.
"If one thousand acres are planted with rice, fifty agricultural workers will not be enough." Wan Lihui said. This person is from a peasant family. I know how to do farm work. I studied electronics in college, but I didn’t get into the field after graduation. Life was not going as planned. In a rage, he kidnapped his brother and participated in the operation. However, in the time and space of the Ming Dynasty, the electronics major he learned was even more useless. Dr. Zhong's talk about the electronics industry exhibition has never happened. After working in the machinery department for a few months, I felt that I still couldn't make a name for myself if I continued like this, so I returned to agriculture.
His specialty is raising livestock and poultry. Originally, the most common job for farm children was raising livestock and poultry. Now, except for horses and donkeys, all the animals on the farm are raised by the two brothers, which is much better than when Ye Yuming read books and raised rabbits.
"We need to recruit another group of agricultural workers." Wu Nanhai said, "In addition to paddy fields, early fields must also be expanded, especially red planting. We strive to expand it to another 100 or 200 acres. We also need to expand the planting of corn and lotus. To obtain more protein, the feed supply for the breeding industry must be increased.”
"Expanding the breeding industry means expanding the breeding area." Wanli Huihui reported, "And there are not enough manpower."
Poultry and livestock such as pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, which are commonly raised in intensive farming methods in modern time and space, are all raised in free-range and low-density farming in Nanhai Farm. The utilization rate of land is not high. This is not Wu Nanhai's favorite gimmick of pure natural, green, native chickens, etc. It is purely a helpless move. Modern breeding industry relies heavily on animal feed, antibiotics and disinfectants. The only thing the Wan brothers can use is lime. Recently, pharmaceutical manufacturers have sent some kasugamycin and oxytetracycline for trial use, but they are far from being used on a large scale. Intensive breeding methods under such conditions will only cause a large number of livestock and poultry to become sick and die.
Ye Yuming said: "I think we can't just focus on self-cultivation. We should make use of the local people's enthusiasm for production."
Wu Nanhai became interested: "Do you want to promote planting?"
"Yes" Ye Yuming said. "I have Fang He..."
Ye Yuming proposed the establishment of the "Tiandihui". Of course, this is the same as the Tiandihui that Chen Jinnan will organize in the future. Its official full name is the Mutual Aid Group of the Agricultural Committee. The reason why it is called Tiandihui is naturally because agriculture depends on the sky and the land. , it’s very vivid to say it.
The basic idea of the mutual aid group of the Council of Agriculture is to promote crops and poultry and cultivate agricultural technology.
"Farmers are still very indifferent to us now. We want to win their favor by suppressing bandits and providing high-yielding crops."
Farmers can harvest more crops. In addition to eating them themselves, they can only put them into the market. The one who can purchase agricultural products on a large scale in Lingao is the Chuanchuan Group. In this way, the increase in production will be county-wide, not just limited to the thousands of acres of land owned by the Agricultural Committee.
"I don't agree with this. Not to mention the issue of the proliferation of improved seeds. Without good care, it will only be a waste of seed resources." Wu Nanhai immediately objected.
"My idea is to promote red clothes. Wouldn't red clothes be poisonous?"
Taking advantage of the poisoning characteristics of red seeds, even if the improved seeds are spread out, they will gradually degrade because farmers do not know how to detoxify them. Local farmers save their own seeds, but they will have little value after two or three years. Only Hengheng's committee of agriculture with detoxification technology can continue to provide detoxified seedlings, which is equivalent to controlling the seeds in disguise.
"That's a good thing."
"Hybrid rice is also possible. But we only have this batch." Ye Yuming sighed, "If we can achieve hybrid rice breeding, the lifeline of rice cultivation on the continent will be completely in our hands."
"Actually, it's not impossible. I hope the test can be successful in my lifetime." Fa Shilu was very interested in this topic. He himself has actually been conducting experiments in this area. In modern time and space, Lingao uses hybrid rice seed production as its main pillar industry in agriculture. The rich local wild rice seed resources also make Lingao a must-visit place for those who engage in hybrid rice.
Promote sweet potato cultivation this. Everyone thought the idea was good, and then Ye Yuming said:
"It's not just sweet potatoes. There's also the breeding industry. I think raising chickens and ducks can be scattered to farmers' homes to raise them freely. It's too expensive for us to raise them ourselves, and it also takes up manpower."
The "poultry promotion plan" he proposed is actually a poultry raising model for ten farmers in a factory that maximizes the use of professional hatching technology mastered by the Council of Agriculture.
To put it simply: the Agricultural Committee will incubate the eggs centrally, and the hatched chicks will be handed over to farmers for raising on an accounting basis. When the chickens are mature, the farm will purchase eggs and broilers, and the farm will also provide earthworms, maggots and other animal feed as a supplement. , if you want to know what happened, please log in to 6..., there are more chapters, support the author, and support genuine reading! ! ~!
