According to the economic recovery plan formulated by the imperial court, the period from Haojing 104 to Haojing 134 is the economic recovery period.
Because the Great Relocation involved too many areas and too many people, it was impossible for the imperial court to invest enough funds in all industries and cities to restore economic production.
Limited funds can only be given priority to cities with developed industry and commerce, as well as areas with more arable land and good climates, which can also ensure the production of industrial products and the supply of food.
Investment in agriculture will give priority to the seven major states of Xizhou, France, Texas, Bozhou, Dizhou, Dunzhou and Fuzhou.
Yingzhou, which has less good weather, and Ruizhou, Italy, and Danzhou, which do not have so much land, will be delayed by more than a year in receiving agricultural investment.
The goal of this is to ensure that 100 million tons of grain are harvested every year in the first three years to feed 500 million people, and to ensure that the average per capita is 400 kilograms of grain, so that all people will not starve to death because of the move.
Regions such as Australia, North America, South America, and Southeast Asia, which already have large grain surpluses, can export the surplus to the mainland after distributing it to Xinyimin, and the court will purchase it at market prices.
At the same time, we will also purchase food from France, the Netherlands, the Inca and other countries. As long as there is no large-scale famine in the first three years, life will only get better and better in the future.
Emperor Haojing gave clear instructions: first, to prevent disasters, and second, to severely punish man-made disasters.
For the former, the court must be able to reduce losses as much as possible.
For the latter, we must not condone and condone them, but must serve as a warning to others.
Disasters are floods and droughts. Since earthquakes rarely occur in other places in Europe except the Apennines, earthquake resistance issues do not need to be considered. This will leave a lot of money.
There is actually a general approach to dealing with droughts and floods, which is to build water conservancy projects and build reservoirs. Water can be released to irrigate farmland in the dry season and water can be stored to ensure downstream safety in the flood season. The more important ones are the six major reservoirs.
The Volga Reservoir will be built in the triangular area surrounded by the three cities of Kazan, Ufa and Samara in the Volga River Basin.
The Dnieper Reservoir will be built in the middle and lower reaches of the Dnieper River in Kiev, Cherkasy, Zaporozhye, and Kherson.
The Vistula Reservoir will be built in the middle and lower reaches of the Vistula River in Warsaw, Lublin and Bydgoszcz.
The Elbe Reservoir will be built in Halle, Leipzig and Dresden in the middle and lower reaches of the Elbe River.
The Rhine Reservoir was built on the section from Bonn to Duisburg on the Rhine River.
Construction of two-river reservoirs on the Tagus and Tejo rivers between Madrid and Lisbon.
In addition to these six major reservoirs, the imperial court also ordered the construction of nearly a hundred reservoirs in major grain-producing areas in Europe.
In the dry season, water is not only food, but also life-saving.
It has to be said that the geographical location of mainland France is really good. It is not cold in winter and not too hot in summer.
Although the rivers are not long or large, they are numerous enough to cover most of the cultivated land almost like capillaries.
On average, there is only one year of grain failure every ten years. At other times, farmers can steadily obtain two harvests.
After Ming farmers arrived in France and were allocated land, they couldn't help but sigh that the cultivated land and climate here are really great.
To put it bluntly, this is the Huguang of Europe, and the water problem is not as big as that of the latter, causing caries in five out of ten years.
The land used by the French as gardens was also used by farmers in the Ming Dynasty to grow vegetables. It is definitely not possible to use the flowers as vegetables.
The numerous river fish are a rare delicacy in the eyes of inland farmers. Youdao's catfish stewed with eggplant was enough to satisfy the old man.
The French don't like to eat river crabs. The hairy crabs that were introduced to France have already become a problem.
Well now, the nemesis of the hairy crabs is here, it would be nice if they are not eaten to extinction...
Since Spain often suffered from drought, Emperor Hao Jing had high hopes for France as a land.
It is hoped that it can be developed into the second Dnieper-Don River Plain and become the second largest granary of the Ming Dynasty.
For the French agricultural sowing plan, a scientific and rational farming plan must also be implemented.
According to a report provided by the French Ministry of Agriculture, wheat was still grown on land that was highly productive before the move.
Wheat yields were low before, but where irrigation is required, rice can be grown instead.
In the past, in places where wheat yields were low but water was scarce, potatoes were grown instead.
Places where potatoes were previously grown must not be replanted with other types of crops unless necessary.
In the Xizhou area, wheat is the main food, supplemented by potatoes and corn.
Located in the former Portuguese territory, where there is no shortage of water, rice can be grown instead.
Yingzhou has abundant rainfall, so wheat can be the main crop here, supplemented by rice and potatoes.
The relevant situation in Texas and Pennsylvania is similar to that in the United Kingdom, and the farming standards can also be the same.
Other areas, such as Dizhou, Dunzhou, Fuzhou and Mozhou, which have been developed for many years, still mainly focus on harvest crops.
The harvests in these places are a prerequisite for ensuring that there will be no famine in the new homeland. Anyone, regardless of high or low, who dares to sabotage the reform will be severely punished.
The reason why Zhu Cixi attaches so much importance to agricultural production in Europe is because there are still 200 million people living in the area east of the Ural Mountains.
The local food gap is about 50 million, which means that local farmland can only feed 150 million people.
It’s not that there are no surplus crops, such as potatoes, there is still a surplus, but you can’t eat potatoes, right?
If there is a surplus of food, staple food must be the main food. Potatoes and sweet potatoes can be considered the first and second non-staple food at most.
As long as Europe, especially the four major granaries, harvests normally, there will be no problem feeding more than 500 million people.
Two of the four major granaries can have normal harvests, and there will still be no famine.
It would be embarrassing if only one granary was functioning properly.
The general public can consider living on potatoes...
The good news is that the relocation of the Ming Empire was not completed at one time, but took ten years.
This means that before the move to Min, the granary in the former Tsarist Russia's Southern Russia and Dnieper regions had already begun to operate normally.
After the migration began, the plain areas of Bozhou and Texas were also reclaimed by farmers.
France and the Iberian Peninsula, which were the last to complete the land exchange, had no big problem in delaying development due to the later date.
The risk of famine was minimized and spread over a large area and over a long period of time.
The Dnieper Plain area was developed after the fall of Tsarist Russia until the French mainland was taken over.
It took more than ten years, almost as if the new students in the area grew up locally.
The development speed of rural areas is not as fast as that of cities, but the rate of land benefit is less than the time for urban investment to return.
As long as it is not saline-alkali land and does not suffer from disasters, generally cultivated land obtained without capital can pay back its capital in one year, and it will be a net profit in two years.
The war expenses must not be spread evenly across the cultivated land, because a large number of towns also benefited from victory.
Hence the true story of the farmers who first moved to the North and became rich in three years.
The food after the third year is not only completely uneatable, but also difficult to sell because every family has a bumper harvest.
A large number of immigrants who later went to the North relied on the surplus food saved by their predecessors to survive for a year, and then they were able to survive.
According to the reports from various places east of the Ural Mountains, Emperor Haojing specially sent people to verify the situation and asked the factory guards to report to the local informants.
According to confirmation from several channels, the relevant situation is not much different. This can confirm that no famine or even starvation has occurred in any place due to the migration.
There are certainly places where people are poor enough to eat potatoes, but in very few areas, people in most areas can still rely on wheat as their staple food.
It was nothing more than eating up very little of the stored grain. The gas conditions did not fluctuate significantly that year, resulting in no reduction in the amount of grain harvested.
However, with the increase in migration, a large amount of wasteland was reclaimed, and the northern land east of the Ural Mountains more than doubled, with an increase of 162%.
In later generations, the grain output in this area exceeded 30 million tons, but now it has reached 40 million tons.
As long as there is no surplus grain, one ton of grain can feed four people, and 40 million tons of grain can feed more than 200 million people.
In the cities east of the Ural Mountains, grain rationing was implemented for the first three years. Adults could receive one pound of grain, those under twelve years old could receive half a pound, and those between twelve and fifteen years old could receive seven and a half pounds. The staple foods were wheat and potatoes. Half.
This success was achieved partly because the court paid attention to it, arranged it properly, and managed it properly. On the other hand, farmers have acquired a lot of land, are very motivated to farm, and use a lot of heavy agricultural machinery.
Almost every farmer in Northland owns something like a tractor. Farmers who own hundreds of acres of land but don’t own a tractor are an outlier in the area.
Although the temperature in the Northland is far lower than that in Guannei and even the Northeast, the people in the Northland still survived the most difficult days through the simplest method of planting extensively and harvesting sparingly.
Is it difficult to eat potatoes?
If someone finds it difficult, it means that this person must have never suffered before.
People who have trained in the Ming Dynasty King Master, from Zhang Huangyan to unknown soldiers, will not think that eating potatoes is equivalent to suffering hardship.
We don't even have to eat potatoes. We dig wild vegetables, chew tree bark, and drink a lot of cold water. That's what we call suffering!
Everyone has potatoes to eat and is still full, which means that life is completely guaranteed.
What's more, according to the rationing system, three meals a day are divided. As long as you are not a regular, you will only eat a potato meal.
When cooked with other dishes, potatoes can be turned into potato chunks, potato slices, and potato shreds.
Many southerners have never seen frozen tofu before, but now they can!
At the morning market in the Northeast winter, no one dared to fight in the morning market, because all the fruits and vegetables in the morning market would become weapons!
Still do not know?
Guess why hairtail is also called saury in Northeast China?
Here in the Northeast, fish can be stuck in the snow and stood up for sale!
When you get to the Northland, you inherit the customs and habits of the Northeast.
As long as agricultural products are not subject to quotas, they are sold starting at one pound, and you can’t buy less if you want, because the vendors are simply too lazy to sell.
It’s not enough to freeze your hands after half a tossing. Just buy it wherever you like!
The most popular hot pot in winter is sauerkraut and mutton, plus butchered vegetables and sauerkraut and mutton.
The latter two are not hot pot in the standard sense, but are part of the stew ingredients.
Hot pot needs to be served and then cooked, the cycle starts over and over again.
The stew is cooked all at once, so diners can enjoy it.
Another advantage is that you can drink all the soup, so the whole dish is not wasted at all, and it can also warm you up.
Southerners who have not lived in the North will not understand the greatest benefits of stews and hot pots. They must think that stir-fried vegetables are delicious.
After experiencing the temperature of minus 30 degrees, it suddenly dawned on me.
Stir-fried ingredients are indeed more delicious than stews, but the problem is that they are not suitable for the climate in the North.
In subarctic climates, stews are the undisputed king of dishes.
Hot pot is equivalent to a high-end version of stew, which is more expensive, and the latter is more suitable for the general public.
Even if retired southern veterans move their homes to Poland, stew will definitely be the main dish at home after winter.
With Fazhou as the dividing line, the west of Fazhou, including Fazhou and Italy, mainly cooks.
To the east of France, including England, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg, people mainly eat stew in winter.
Temperature determines the way of eating. For example, in hot South America, it must be one or three barbecue meals...
Due to the first three years of the great relocation, the new homeland of Ming Dynasty was in a state of food shortage.
The brewing industry was basically paralyzed because the imperial court did not allow the use of grain to make brewing.
However, there are still various types of alcohol for sale in the market, all of which are imported.
Sake from Japan, wine from France, rum from Mexico, liquor from Siam...
That's right!
Siam has begun exporting liquor to the Ming Empire!
In order to prevent large-scale deterioration of surplus grain and devaluation, Siam began to use surplus grain to make wine.
The liquor market in the Ming Empire was very enviable, and Siamese manufacturers saw the opportunity right.
Emperor Haojing would naturally not refuse the import of liquor from Siam. He could not allow the surplus between Ming Dynasty and Siam to be too large, which would make the wine look unsightly on the other side's face.
The grain, liquor, fruits, and seafood produced in Siam can all be imported in large quantities to balance the increasingly obvious trade surplus.
There are also alternatives to alcohol on the market, namely coffee and cocoa.
The southern part of the Ming Dynasty produced tea, which is now owned by the Netherlands, Prussia, Württemberg and other countries.
Tea can also be imported as usual, but tea cannot provide the calories needed to fight the drought.
The reason why Northeastern people eat so hard is to resist the cold, and the same goes for drinking.
South America is the main producing area of coffee and cocoa, and it is an area directly under the imperial court, so the total cost can be minimized.
Northland has become the largest sales market for these two crops, and South American growers almost have no worries about sales.
Louis XIV had already done this in West Africa. All local land that was not suitable for growing wheat, corn, and potatoes was replanted with profitable crops such as coffee, cocoa, and sugar cane.
Of course, other types can also be used, but you have to see if there is an overseas market where you can sell it smoothly.
These things grown in West Africa are exported to the Ming Empire, and they are completely planted with the next family in mind!
In this regard, Zhu Cixiang must have accepted everyone who came and ate everything he ordered. Now he no longer cares about picking and choosing.
Ordinary people can live a good life if they can eat steamed buns, potatoes, pickled fish and drink a bottle of imported wine during holidays.
