But this is not surprising. The yield of farmland in this era is originally very low. In many places, the yield of rice per mu is only more than 100 to 200 kilograms. Now adding some urea can double the yield. Simply relaxed and freehand.
The huge success of the new farm's harvest instantly stabilized the minds of the newly naturalized residents.
Although when they took over Nanhai Island and converted tens of thousands of local farmers into farm naturalized citizens, they were offered high wages that they had not expected before, but these new naturalized citizens were still uneasy.
The reason is simple. By offering such a high salary, based on their previous estimates of the yield per acre of land, those thieves would have worked almost in vain.
Would such a good thing be possible if it were replaced by those landlords?
Even if Mr. Kun is kind-hearted, can Mr. Kun go bankrupt by doing this?
Mr. Kun Thief is bankrupt. Will the so-called naturalized workers like him have to go back to the previous state of not having enough to eat and not sleeping well?
Until the harvest time, after the yield per mu was estimated, the happiest person was not the veterans who were in charge of the work on each farm, but the new naturalized employees who had worked hard for half a year.
Indeed, after seeing the output per mu doubled, their fears were put to rest.
At least Mr. Kun will not go bankrupt.
In fact, in order to allow Nanhai Island to store more food, a group of time-traveling veterans from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Xinghai State planned many plans.
The new farm scheme was only one part of it, and so was the potato scheme.
The so-called potato plan is to guide potato planting plans in various places in addition to the state-owned land operation model of new farms.
This potato planting plan is mainly targeted at local landowners and farmers.
They were asked to grow potatoes. At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture of Xinghai State came forward to set a unified purchase protection price for harvested potatoes. In addition, a grain processing plant was established.
After all, potatoes are not very shelf-stable, so they need to be processed into starch, vermicelli, potato chips, etc.
In fact, even those Li and Miao people living in the ravines have received support from the Xinghai Kingdom and received potato seedlings and a little fertilizer.
Well, actually, potatoes are a crop better suited to their slash-and-burn model.
You only need to cut down trees in a certain area, plant potato seedlings after burning them, inspect them every once in a while, remove some vigorously growing plants, and wait a few months before harvesting potatoes.
The key is that potatoes have a large yield, far exceeding other crops they have grown before.
Well, after the potato plan was implemented and the harvest came, the resistance from all walks of life on the South China Sea Islands towards the Xinghai Kingdom suddenly decreased.
This is not surprising. For most people on the South China Sea Island, having enough food and clothing is their lifelong pursuit.
Although potatoes are not as fertile as later generations, their output has exceeded the imagination of these people, and Xinghai Kingdom is willing to set a purchase protection price, uniformly purchase all potatoes produced, and after the potatoes are made into starch, vermicelli, etc. Sell it to them cheaper.
that's enough.
It has been said since ancient times that food is the most important thing for people.
As long as you have a full stomach, many things can be easily solved.
Therefore, in this short half year, Nanhai Island has changed a lot.
After hundreds of new farms were established on the island, they absorbed a large number of formerly poor farmers.
Each county has established a series of factories such as vermicelli, starch, potato chip processing factories, agricultural tool factories, soap factories, cement factories, etc., which also attracted many exiled people, indigenous residents, etc.
The workers and peasants are working together, and both are developing well. This has made the social situation of Nanhai Island become much more peaceful, from the previous instability, with frequent security incidents.
At the same time, with the graduation of a new batch of normal school students, the Ministry of Education of Xinghai State established primary schools, vocational training schools, etc. in each county, and even forcibly promoted the compulsory education system in order to improve the educational quality of naturalized citizens.
Of course, because teacher training resources are still relatively scarce, the current compulsory education system only covers grades 1-3 of primary school.
In other words, those students who are forced to enter the school must complete the first to third grades of elementary school. After that, the elite students continue to enter the fourth to fifth grades. The eliminated third-grade elementary school students will be transferred to vocational schools for two years. vocational training.
This is also a helpless thing.
Senator Huang Xiaoli, the Commissioner of Education and Minister of Education, originally planned to promote the five-year compulsory education system. However, due to the serious shortage of teachers and the unanimous adoption of regulations requiring compulsory enrollment of minors under the age of 18 by the Senate, those primary schools were Once established, it has a tendency to become paralyzed.
The requirement for compulsory schooling for minors under the age of 18 means that out of the 300,000 people in Jeonnam Island, almost 50,000 people need to go to school compulsorily.
Although due to the incomplete construction of the administrative system, a large number of minors have not been forced to enroll in school after the announcement, but the number of students who have compulsorily enrolled in the school has exceeded 30,000 in compliance with the announcement.
Eleven primary schools, accommodating 30,000 students, would not be a problem in future generations.
But in Xinghai Kingdom, where the normal training system is not strong enough, the number of students is too large.
There are nearly 3,000 students enrolled in a primary school, and there are only 50 teachers.
The only good thing is that these 3,000 students can only attend the first grade at the beginning. After the first grade is over, their learning progress will be adjusted based on the test results.
Under such circumstances, fifty teachers are barely enough.
The real difficulty now is the remaining 20,000 students who are not enrolled.
To be precise, the majority of non-enrolled students are girls.
This is not surprising. By this time, feudal Neo-Confucianism had begun to gradually penetrate into all social classes, causing many people to agree with the theory that a woman's lack of talent is a virtue.
Let my girl go to school? Go crazy!
For those parents of students, it would be good for girls to stay at home, help with housework, take care of their younger brothers and sisters, and learn about female celebrities.
Going to school?
Isn't that a shameful thing?
If a girl's reputation is ruined, how can she get married in the future?
It can be said that it is this kind of thinking dominated by feudal Neo-Confucianism that restricts the possibility of most girls going to school.
Faced with such problems, veteran Education Committee member Huang Xiaoli also feels a headache.
In fact, in her daily work, she was not very able to feel the influence of this feudal Neo-Confucianism.
After all, the naturalized workers in the Department of Educational Affairs would become well-behaved and honest when they saw her.
