The bulk of supplies is food. It will take Jeju Island and Kaohsiung 6 months to achieve self-sufficiency in food, and it will take at least 4 months for the Kaohsiung and Pingtung areas of Taiwan. [No pop-up novel website] In other words, from the launch of the engine plan, it is necessary to maintain the food needs of 200,000 refugees for 5 months, and to ensure the dietary needs of approximately 10,000 naturalized citizens.
Calculated based on the caloric value, each refugee needs 350 grams of brown rice per day. Although it is relatively low, most refugees do not arrange labor and mainly focus on recuperation. This requires 70 tons of brown rice every day, 2,100 tons per month, and 10,500 tons in 5 months. The average daily supply for participants is 750 grams. The monthly food consumption is 225 tons of rice. The demand is 1200 tons. In addition, the Ministry of Health recommends increasing vegetables and protein by 10% from a nutritional perspective to ensure the physical health of refugees. Therefore, a certain amount of vegetables and seafood also need to be provided. Most of these materials can be organized to help refugees deal with them locally - Tiandi will provide technical guidance, seeds and production tools.
These foods do not include the food ration needs of the indigenous people on Jeju Island. Although there are certainly some grain reserves on the island, Jeju Island itself is not a grain-producing area. Until the 21st century, the main agricultural product on Jeju Island was citrus. Most of the island's land is used to raise horses. Obviously, the island’s food originally needed to be imported from outside.
"According to the intelligence data we reviewed, the Li Dynasty had a large-scale prison camp on Jeju Island," Thorpe said, "with at least 10,000 official slaves. In order to support these official slaves, the prison camp must have One or two months of food reserves. The small number of civilians on the island should have some food, and we don’t need to supply it for the time being. But the later supply must be taken into account.”
Jeju Island is not far from the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese Islands. It is still possible to replenish food on a small scale from these two places. At that time, there were already restrictions on the export of silver, but I have not heard of any restrictions on the export of rice.
What was difficult was the transit base in Taiwan. There were no local channels for purchasing food. The agricultural level of Taiwan's indigenous people was very low and they had no spare capacity to supply food. The Dutch were only interested in doing business and had no interest in opening up wasteland for farming. Although the Beigang area has been reclaimed by Fujian immigrants since Yan Siqi's time, Zheng Zhilong also continued to send immigrants there. However, Taiwan's food production has always been unsatisfactory, and until the Qing Dynasty, it still relied on external supplies. The possibility of obtaining food supplies from Zheng Zhilong is extremely slim. The possibility of buying food from the mainland is also small - Fujian is originally a province short of food.
Most of the food supply can only rely on self-transportation. The logistics department needs to prepare a large amount of food. The Planning Institute has made plans for food supply - the people rushed from Shandong and Zhejiang must have food to eat and clothing to wear, and these must be planned in a unified manner.
Now the Lingao political power controls more than just one Lingao County. After the Summer Awakening Campaign, the entire local political power in Qiongzhou has been completely controlled by the Senate according to Mingpi Aoxin's model. The food supply situation has improved - but only slightly.
The counties in Qiongnan have very few acres of land and do not contribute much to the expansion of grain reserves - just look at the grain tax figures of the counties in Qiongnan to know the local agricultural productivity; only Yazhou in Qiongnan has a grain tax of 3,000 shi, such as Thanksgiving, Huichang In other prefectures and counties, it only costs thousands of dan, or even hundreds of dan. Relatively speaking, the agricultural conditions in the counties in Qiongbei are relatively good, especially in Qiongshan County, Wenchang and other places, which are the most developed and are the main grain-producing areas of Qiongzhou Prefecture. Starting from the second half of 1630, the work teams of the Civil Affairs People's Committee began to clear land taxes in each county in Qiongbei one by one.
The total land tax of Qiongzhou is 85,459 shi. Some collect grain and some collect money. Since the commodity economy in Qiongzhou Prefecture is very weak and there is very little silver in circulation, most of the prices are still based on grain.
About half of this amount was destined for Beijing, Si, and Lian. In other words, 40,000 to 50,000 stones must be transported from Qiongzhou Prefecture every year. Approximately more than 40,000 stones were left in the mansion for military pay, administrative expenses and food reserves. The remaining part is of course the disposable food of the Planning Institute.
Of course, the actual number of people's grain payments was far more than 85,000 shi. It was calculated based on the experience of the Civil Affairs People's Committee and the State Administration of Taxation in the work of "cleaning up land taxes" in Lingao. The actual amount of food paid by the whole government should be at least 140,000 shi. The extra food was actually filled up by layers of people.
In other words, the Senate can collect 140,000 stones from Qiongzhou Prefecture on the premise of maintaining the current burden level. The entire Qiongzhou Prefecture can probably donate to the Senate after paying the tax of more than 40,000 stones to the Ming Dynasty. A hundred thousand koku of brown rice.
In addition to this part of the land tax, the Planning Institute plans to purchase another 10,000 to 20,000 shi of grain from farmers and landowners. However, in order to complete the acquisition mission, their need to obtain currency must be stimulated. At present, when the Senate enterprises still lack enough industrial products to sell to the countryside, they can only achieve their goals through tax collection. This requires the cooperation of tax system reform. Wudaokou people believe that in the long run, monetized tax collection is the general direction.
Of course, collection, processing, and warehousing are long-term tasks that don't just happen. Fortunately, collecting and transporting refugees is also a long-term process. The population does not increase by 200,000 all at once. The Planning Institute still has sufficient time to collect and prepare food.
In addition to the Senate's own food reserves, the Summer Awakening Campaign also brought additional reserves to the Planning Academy. Those are the five large official warehouses on Hainan Island: Guangfeng warehouse in Qiongshan, which stores 16,000 shi of rice every year; Dafeng warehouse in Danzhou, 3,000 shi; Guangcun warehouse in Changhua, 5,600 shi; The accumulated warehouse is four thousand dan; the two warehouses, Junchu and Qinglan, store 13,000 dan of rice every year.
Tens of thousands of stones of grain are stored in these official warehouses every year, and their main purpose is to "prepare Li". Once a large-scale "Li rebellion" occurs, the army can cross the sea to attack and obtain food locally.
However, just like all systems in this world, sometimes a good system may not be maintained well. If we follow the official documents, the amount of grain stored in these main official warehouses should be hundreds of thousands of stones. But the deficit is actually very serious. The special search team of the Planning Institute accompanied the army and work teams to go deep into warehouses in every state and county, and they were completely accustomed to the phenomenon of embezzlement. However, the huge deficit of these five warehouses still made the veteran who led the team dumbfounded.
The actual inventory of the five warehouses shows that excluding the aged grains that are purely filling up and can be used as feed at most, the remaining grains that can be used are less than one-tenth of the book inventory.
The special search team subsequently conducted intensive torture and torture on the clerks, managers, and drill workers of each warehouse to recover the stolen goods, and seized a large amount of property and food, and also confiscated a large amount of land. It was a slight gain.
"In the previous stage, we received 100,000 stones of brown rice and miscellaneous grains from various local government warehouses, totaling about 9,000 tons. This part of the grain is enough as starting food." Wu De said, "Currently our relief rations are provided by us. We have our own dried potato reserves. We still have a lot of dried potato reserves. This can roughly support the consumption of refugees."
"We're a little nervous. It's like taking away all the resources. We originally thought the food reserves were a little looser." He Ming was a little worried - food is the lifeblood of the army. The thought of transporting so much food , he felt very uneasy.
Zhan Wuya also felt doubtful: "Except for the army, we still have a large number of unemployed people in Lingao, including administrators, students, and workers. The food supply for these people must not go wrong, otherwise the country's foundation will be easily shaken."
Wu De has already made calculations on this issue: "Food security is guaranteed. First of all, this batch of grain used for the engine plan is additionally obtained by us. We obtained this batch of grain without increasing the number of people to support. Use The refugees will not reduce our original reserves, nor will they increase our original planned food expenditures. Secondly, after obtaining the island-wide political power, it is equivalent to gaining the island-wide grain tax collection power in 1631. This increase in revenue It’s very significant. And it’s a stable increase in income. It’s not like a one-time seizure.”
In addition, the Planning Institute is also preparing to expand food imports as an important measure to ensure food security. The focus is on imported Siamese rice. As the war between North and South Korea intensified, the supply of rice in Vietnam began to decrease and the price increased. Siamese rice, which is cheap and abundant, has become the next target for the Planning Institute to increase its food reserves. It just takes up freight tonnage. But overall, food pressure is not as great as everyone thinks.
Wu De explained: Migration is a long-term plan. From the time the first batch is shipped to the end, it can take at least four or five months or more than one or two years. As long as the first batch of refugees are organized in time to plant early-maturing crops in the transit camps, they can actually harvest them in three or four months. Harvested food replaces part of the supply on site. Therefore, there is no need to include the rations for all immigrants.
The early-maturing sweet potato varieties owned by the Council of Agriculture can be harvested in about 80 to 90 days, and there are also suitable varieties of potatoes and buckwheat. The average annual temperature in Kaohsiung and Pingtung is as high as 25°C and there is sufficient rainfall, so planting can be done all year round. Adopt rolling planting ladder harvesting. When the large-scale immigration from Zhejiang ends, even if Kaohsiung's agriculture can no longer provide food for Jeju Island, it will still be able to achieve a considerable amount of self-sufficiency.
"...If there is a real supply shortage problem, we can also use Hong Kong as a base. We can directly purchase grain in Guangdong and ship it to Kaohsiung. The distance between the two places is only 350 nautical miles. It can be returned in a week." He finally said. ! .
