The agricultural group led by Huang Mingrui has more than 3,000 indigenous farmers. According to incomplete statistics, 110,000 acres of farmland have been developed. According to the scheduled plan, by the end of 1647, the total farmland developed will be It may reach 730,000 acres.
Of course, there is a prerequisite for this. The landlords in Qiongshan County are willing to hand over their land to the dock area.
Otherwise, this amount will be difficult to achieve. After all, all the fields that can be purchased near the dock area have been purchased, and the wasteland that can be developed has already passed the land deeds at the Qiongshan County Yamen. Even if there are any problems later , and there is no need to worry about anyone coming to make trouble.
Well, although there are guns and cannons in the dock area, we are not afraid of trouble caused by landlords who want to take advantage, but if this kind of thing is spoken out, it will really affect the reputation and be detrimental to the recruitment of indigenous people.
At least it won't be good until the troops and horses are strong.
With the shipwrights in place, the shipyards also began to set up shop.
However, Zhang Feifei was a little dissatisfied.
In his opinion, the shipyard should belong to the industrial group, not the military group.
What made him most angry was that the military team did not have the technical level to manage it, so they had the audacity to ask the industrial team to send people to manage it.
He raised this matter at the recent interim management committee meeting.
But Sun Xuebin was very convincing, saying that the most important thing now is the military. If there is no navy, there will be pirates next time, or even the Ming army. What if the Qing army comes over?
Although Sun Xuebin usually had a dark face, he was eloquent during the meeting. His words made the big guys in the management committee nod their heads, but almost made Zhang Feifei angry.
However, what Sun Xuebin said is true, especially this pirate raid, which scared many people who traveled through time.
Not all time travelers will feel excited and enthusiastic when facing unexpected battles.
Moreover, this pirate raid still has a considerable impact on the production and operation of the dock area.
First of all, in order to prevent possible pirate spies from causing damage due to failure, all hired farmers and workers were temporarily banned.
After all, if many machines in the dock area are destroyed, they cannot be rebuilt in a short time.
What's more, in this case, even if there are pirate spies inside, they won't be able to tell Sichuanhui District about the dock area's retaliatory troops for a while.
It was not until Sun Xuebin and Wang Haitao led the fleet to continuously encircle and destroy several pirate lairs and returned victoriously that the production and operation of the dock area returned to normal.
However, just a few days of pause caused a lot of losses to the dock area, and there were also many rumors spread in Qiongshan County, saying that the Kun thieves here were raided by pirates and suffered heavy losses.
As a result, the already honest county magistrate of Qiongshan County seemed to have become a little less honest.
Fortunately, after a few days, when I saw the goods produced in the dock area entering Qiongshan County in a steady stream, those rumors naturally faded away, and even the county magistrate, who seemed a little dishonest, became more honest.
Another week passed in a flash, and it was already approaching the Spring Festival of 1647.
The Spring Festival has been the most important festival since ancient times. It is also a day for family reunion after a busy year.
Since this was the first Spring Festival after time travel, the interim management committee paid great attention to it. Not only did they give the farmers and workers an early vacation in advance, but they also gave an extra month's salary as a year-end bonus.
Good guy, those farmers and workers have never seen such a thing as year-end bonus.
When I was a tenant farmer, every year at the end of the year was called New Year's Eve!
The debts owed in the previous year must be repaid, but ordinary people do not have much money at home. This year is difficult, so it is called the New Year's Eve.
Now those thieves are actually getting an extra month's salary. In their hearts, this is simply a great virtuous person who will bring forth Buddhas from all walks of life.
In addition, whether it is a farm, a salt farm or a factory, some additional New Year goods are distributed according to local conditions.
The New Year's goods distributed by the farm are grains, chickens, ducks, pork, etc., while the salt farm distributes ten kilograms of salt to each family, so they won't have to buy salt for a long time.
The factory is the most wealthy and gives each worker a bicycle!
That’s right, it’s a bicycle!
Speaking of this bicycle, it is a product that some members of the industrial group copied in their free time in order to facilitate their commuting to and from get off work.
It's just that in this era, rubber was just a toy for the people of South America. It was not until 1736 that Europeans noticed that the sap flowing out of the rubber tree became elastic after solidification, and it was 1823 that rubber really entered industrial use!
Before 1876, rubber was considered forbidden by the Portuguese, and no seeds were allowed to leave Brazil!
In other words, at this time, don’t expect there to be rubber trees nearby to cut rubber for you.
At the same time, without rubber, there would be no rubber tires, no rubber seals and a series of products.
You must know that the steam engine originally developed by Fang Xiaoyue did not have a sealing ring at all because there was no rubber. Instead, it used its own powerful manufacturing bonus effect to adopt a mechanical structural sealing method to avoid steam leakage.
But this kind of sealing method can only be achieved by Fang Xiaoyue. Therefore, for a series of steam engines developed later, even though the industrial team thought of many ways, such as using bronze to make seals, etc.
Although these methods are not very good at steam sealing, at least the steam machine can be used.
As for the efficiency being reduced, it doesn't matter.
Of course, there was originally a rubber reserve in the dock area, and there was quite a lot of it. However, considering that the chemical plant will be built in the future, the amount of rubber required will not be small, and the sealing requirements of the chemical plant are definitely higher than those of steam engines.
Under such circumstances, even the industrial group itself was unwilling to use rubber reserves.
After all, when chemical plants are built in the future, without rubber, will they be sealed by hand?
After all, what the current time-travel crowd requires is to have it first and be able to use it. As for the improvement of technology, take your time.
Of course, some people in the industrial group also said that figs, eucommia, and dandelions contain rubber components. They should simply plant them in large areas and extract rubber from them.
But this suggestion was refuted by Zhang Feifei without even Fang Xiaoyue opening her mouth: "There is rubber component in the gum of the fig tree, but the content is very small, and the rubber component of the fig tree gum and the rubber tree are completely different! 502 is glue. , the glue used to stick textbooks is also glue, but can they be used interchangeably?"
Of course, this all happened before.
When making bicycles, the traversers used a kind of cork produced in Nanhai Island to make tires, and wrapped a layer of animal skin on the tires to enhance their cushioning properties.
