At the same time, Beihai Town.
Two weeks after Zhao Xin and others returned, all 500 new soldiers were recruited. At this time, the number of reserve armed personnel in Beihai Town has reached 2,000, and the sailors have also recruited 50 additional people, in addition to the 50 security police previously recruited.
Chen Qingsong complained endlessly about this. The current total population of Beihai Town is not even 15,000 people. Zhao Xin's army expansion plan swept away more than 2,000 strong laborers in one go. Now Chen Qingsong leads a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people to reclaim wasteland and build infrastructure every day. His originally fat body has become much slimmer.
Except for Zhao Liang, all the six generals of the Ministry of Security have begun training to be the abbot of the military camp. Liu Sheng and Deng Fei spent half the day in the military camp and half the day on the ship training sailors.
During this period, Zhao Xin took the time to travel back and forth between time and space, placing orders for a large amount of supplies. It's easier for him now, he doesn't have to run around, he just needs to go back to another time and place to order online.
In order to ensure safety, Zhao Xin rented two large warehouses in an industrial park in the northern suburbs of the city where Freezing Port is located. So now he only needs to estimate the time, wait for the goods to arrive at the port, complete customs procedures and enter his warehouse, and then go directly to pick up the goods.
Zhao Xin feels that as long as he declares customs and pays taxes normally, there will be no problems at the port. Of course, in order to speed up customs clearance, some necessary fees must be paid.
At the end of April, three 9620RX tractors finally arrived.
A dozen modern people in Beihai Town and dozens of ancient people headed by Sheng Haizhou and Li Ji gathered around and looked at the big guy brought back by Zhao Xin, and they were all very surprised.
Except for Chen Qingsong and Zhao Xin, the rest of the modern public here had never seen such a large tractor before. A dozen people looked at it outside and then climbed into the cab to look at it in amazement.
A group of refugees carrying burdens and driving homemade carriages to transport manure to the fields also stopped and stared blankly at the big thing four meters high and more than eight meters long at the end of the field.
It is said that "Master Zhao and Lord Zhao" would come up with strange things every now and then, and many refugees were already used to it. If we look at the terrifying appearance alone, the Thor still occupies the top spot. As for excavators, small cranes and other refugees, they can be seen in camps and construction sites every day.
I wonder what treasure Mr. Zhao has brought out today?
With a grass-green shell, black triangular tracks, yellow wheels, and a front width of three meters, the body is like a giant mechanical monster, parked quietly on the edge of the wasteland.
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng worked together to install a large joint land preparation machine with a width of nearly four meters on the tail of the 9620RX. When this soil preparation machine is working, the working width can reach 6.3 meters; the number of subsoil teeth is 19, the number of rake blades is 109, and the working depth on the ground can reach 60 centimeters.
With this kind of machinery, the soil can be deeply loosened, broken up, and leveled at one time; and then the no-till seeder can be replaced to complete the entire spring plowing sowing and fertilizing steps in one step.
Sheng Haizhou looked at this combined land preparation machine painted in grass green and was amazed. He couldn't help but asked Zhao Xin: "My lord, how many acres of land can this machine cultivate in a day?"
Zhao Xin looked at Chen Qingsong with joy and said, "Old Chen, can you tell me?"
"The maximum speed of this product is 40 kilometers per hour. Let's calculate it as 10 kilometers; the working area of the land preparation machine is 6.3 meters. How much do you think it is?"
Hong Tao, Liu Siting and others who grew up in the city exclaimed: "More than 60,000 square meters?!"
"More than six hundred acres!" These are Wang Yuanfang and Wu Siyu, both of whom came from the countryside.
Shen Jingdan and Lao Huang, who came from the Thor to watch the excitement, were also shocked by this number. Shen Jingdan quickly raised his hand and asked, "Leader Zhao, how much is this thing worth?"
"Probably..." Zhao Xin mentally calculated back and forth for a long time, and finally estimated that if calculated based on the gold price in later generations, the price of 9620Rx would be worth about 10 kilograms of gold. But this cannot be calculated like this.
"It costs about five hundred and two thousand pure gold. But Boss Shen, even if I sell this machine to you, you won't be able to drive it! Besides, can the emperor and officials of the Qing Dynasty allow this thing to appear in the Qing Dynasty?"
When Shen and Huang heard this, they immediately lost interest.
Zhao Xin calculated the farming efficiency again and said to Sheng Haizhou: "One hour is about 64 acres."
In the Edo period, one acre of land was equivalent to about 991.7 square meters in later generations, which was nearly one-third larger than the 666.7 square meters per acre in China.
"More than sixty acres!!" Sheng Haizhou and Liji, Jiuzang and others on the side were all dumbfounded. Based on this calculation, this machine can cultivate nearly 800 acres a day.
You must know that if you use a strong cattle to cultivate the land at this time, even if the whole family works together, you can only cultivate 3 to 4 acres of land in a day. Most people only have 2 to 3 acres of land.
Zhao Xin had issued a notice two days ago, announcing that all refugee families would be allocated thirty acres of land each. This number is the result of careful calculation by him and Chen Qingsong.
The two did not calculate based on the highest yield data per mu of modern agriculture in another time and space, but took an intermediate value of 500 kilograms. Then 30 acres of land can produce 15,000 kilograms of wheat a year; then based on 70% The powder extraction rate is calculated as 10,500 kilograms. Amortized over a year, each household's daily ration would be nearly sixty kilograms. This number is enough to feed a family.
If corn is sown, the grain yield will be even higher.
At the same time, the introduction of large-scale agricultural machinery and equipment will enable a large number of Beihai Town's agricultural population to move into the industrial field and engage in cigarette production, mining, metallurgy, etc., and earn a lot of income.
However, as for the distribution of land ownership, after repeated arguments, Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong finally adopted Chen Qingsong's opinion and implemented the "collective farm system" for a period of time. That is, the land ownership belongs to Beihai Town, and the income from the land belongs to the individual after deducting various equipment expenses.
In addition, Beihai Town takes unallocated land into its own hands and produces poultry, livestock, feed, vegetables, etc. in an agricultural-industrial manner.
At this point, Beihai Town needs to establish its own currency system.
"Old Chen, how are you? You are the only one who has driven here, try it?" Zhao Xin said with a smile to Chen Qingsong, who was reading the operation manual next to him.
"I just saw it when I visited an exhibition abroad. During the trial opening, people from the company were with me. Let me look at the manual again."
Liu Sheng and others got down from the cab and shouted, "Old Chen, hurry up, let's see what it's like to drag a man worth more than 4 million yuan away."
Liu Siting and Hong Tao said: "Old Chen, stop dawdling. We still have a lot of things waiting for us over there. We finally found time to come over and see the Hao Tuo you have always missed."
Zhao Xin stepped forward, grabbed the handrail and climbed into the cab in two steps. Sitting in the driver's seat, he pressed the start button without saying anything, and the 14.9-liter engine immediately began to roar powerfully.
The roar of the machine woke up the white storks and gray storks that were foraging in the grassy swamps hundreds of meters away. They all flapped their gray or white wings and flew into the sky.
In the Sila River and swamp ponds, dozens of horned grebes (piti) that were hunting fish and shrimps also jumped out of the water and flew into the distance with their golden and maroon feathers.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious. You guys...go, get off." Chen Qingsong said as he walked to the car and asked Zhao Xin to get out.
Chen Qingsong slowly drove the tractor to the southeast corner of the wasteland, adjusted the direction; then pressed the button, lowered the rake teeth of the soil finisher, and began to drive forward slowly.
The huge noise of "Caracalla" immediately resounded on both sides of the river valley, and the surrounding island country farmers were dumbfounded. Many people were so frightened by the sound of the machine that they couldn't help but retreat and fell down on the field ridge.
The wide crawler wheels ignored the many mire and small swamps on the ground. Wherever the plow passed, pieces of black soil began to churn and emerge on the ground like waves.
Doctor Hong Taohong bent down and grabbed a handful of black soil, rubbed it in his hands a few times, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Black soil! It's so fat and oily!"
Liu Siting curiously pulled the soil in Hong Tao's hand a few times, turned around and asked, "Is this black soil? I always heard what you said, how can this be good?"
Zhao Xin and others also grabbed a small handful of soil from the ground and put it to their noses to smell it.
Wu Siyu, who comes from the south, said: "I have heard people say that the black soil in the Northeast has 'one ounce of soil and two ounces of oil'."
Wang Yuanfang said calmly: "It takes four hundred years to form one centimeter thick. The black soil layer here is at least one meter thick. I have never seen such a thick black soil layer in my hometown."
"What a wonderful land! From here to the north and then to the west, there is a huge area. If we don't want it, we will be occupied by Tsarist Russia in a few decades." Zhao Xin dusted off the black soil in his hands and looked at the black soil in front of him. self-mumbling.
Liu Sheng scolded: "Why not?! Grandma! This is all ours! We can't take advantage of them if we don't plant it!"
The dozen or so refugees behind them also put down their burdens and came over. They looked at the large expanse of reclaimed black land in front of them. They knelt down on the ground uncontrollably, stroking the earth beneath them with rough and trembling hands, and then picked up a handful of soil.
"This land is so nice!" The refugees were overjoyed.
Soon, most of the residents of Beihai Town, except those who were working on the distant docks and on the east bank of the Xila River, were attracted by the roar of the 9620RX and put down what they were doing and came to the fields.
Gradually, thousands of people gathered on the fields beside the fields to watch. The roar of giant tractors and land graders caused bursts of exclamations from the crowd.
However, these people gradually felt relieved when they saw Zhao Xin and a dozen other adults in the field. The gentlemen are all here, let’s just follow and watch the excitement.
They covered their ears while watching the green monster that made a loud noise and was "speeding" on the wasteland with a huge iron sledge.
As farmers, they couldn't understand the scene in front of them. They all had their mouths wide open and didn't know where they were. However, they were soon attracted by the speed of the "green monster". Watching the ridges of land forming rapidly, the wide plows carved out ravines nearly a foot deep.
"Good guy! This is too fast! We have to do it ourselves, and we can't finish it in less than ten days and a half." Several farmers who were watching admired.
"Ten days? I just heard Mr. Liji say, what is this 'tractor'? It can open thousands of acres of wasteland in one day!"
"What?! Thousands of acres!"
"Just blow it! You're not afraid of flashing your tongue."
"Why am I bragging? Master Liji said this was said by the Lord himself!"
"That's right, you don't even believe my lord's words. What do you want to do?"
"Don't, don't. How dare I not believe my lord? You can see big ships on the seaside every day. I, I'm just afraid that he will mishear and say nonsense."
"There are no thousands of acres. This machine needs people to drive it. I asked the master, and there must be four to five hundred acres a day!" A hearty and rich voice sounded from behind a few people.
The few farmers who were whispering turned around and saw that it was Lord Katayama. So everyone bowed and saluted.
Kanbei Katayama smiled kindly at these people, patted a farmer on the shoulder and said, "Do a good job! There is also a piece of land for you here!"
"Yes! Our own land!"
A group of refugees thought to themselves, looking up at the scene in the distance with joy. Before I knew it, my face was filled with tears.
