Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2096, Harvest troubles
Dafeng Town, Black Earth Province.

With the arrival of autumn, the slightest chill hits, and the whole land is extremely busy.

On the endless flat and open fields, the golden wheat waves are moving along with a trace of cold wind. Harvesters are walking between the wheat waves, quickly harvesting these grains.

Carpenter Li, who is already old, is now gradually leaving production. He sits on the side of the road and looks at everything in front of him, recalling his life in his mind.

Born in the mountains of the Qinling Mountains, he has been a mountain dweller since he was a child. Although he inherited a few acres of Susukida from his ancestors, and despite his hard work and hard work all his life, there is still not enough food to eat.

Especially when his sons were growing up gradually, and half-children were eating their father to death, Carpenter Li's life was extremely difficult.

Until later, my eldest son Li Da immigrated to Heitu Province, and my family slowly lived a good life. His sons immigrated out one by one, and finally Li Carpenter immigrated with him and moved to Heitu Province here.

Here in Heitu Province, Carpenter Li is really living a good life.

The land in the family is vast, and the grain produced every year is huge, and sometimes they cannot be sold, and they can only raise livestock to consume part of the grain.

Here, hunger has long been forgotten by everyone. What everyone pays attention to is to eat well, with a balanced mix of vegetables, fruits, and meat. Obviously, wheat can be eaten for noodles, and many times they often buy rice for rice.

My precious great-grandchildren are very picky eaters. They don’t eat this or that. I want them to be like when I was a child in the mountains. When I didn’t eat anything, it’s up to you to eat or not.

"It's better now!"

Carpenter Li sighed, and slowly got up, wanting to help, but was quickly stopped by Li Da.

"Father, you can just sit by the side. You are already old, and you are not required to do things alone at home."

Li Da helped his father to sit up again, and now Li Carpenter didn't even drive the harvester himself, and left it to his son to do it.

"There's a lot of wheat planted in our town this year, and I don't know if it will be sold well."

Carpenter Li sat down again and looked at the vast fields around him, the endless wheat fields, and the road extending to the end of his vision.

"Don't worry, the price of wheat this year is still very good."

"The provinces in the north of our mainland Daming have suffered severe drought, and almost all of them have lost their harvest."

"In addition, the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Europe have all suffered severe droughts, and their food production has dropped sharply. They all need a lot of food. Now the food in our Black Earth Province is mainly exported to Europe."

"Our family's flour mill has received orders from commercial firms again, so feel free to produce flour and accept as much as you have."

Li said with a big laugh.

At first, he was a young man who didn't know anything in the mountains. Now, Li Da has also learned some cultural knowledge and some characters by himself, and he has slowly developed the habit of reading newspapers.

After many years, Li Da now knows how to keep up with current affairs and politics.

"That's fine, that's fine."

"I never imagined that one day there would be so much food that I couldn't sell it and worry about it."

Carpenter Li nodded happily.

In the concept of these older generations, food is a precious thing, and they have always worried about not having enough food or enough food. They never thought that one day there would be so much food that they would not even be able to sell it.

That is to say, in the past two years, Daming began to export grain to Europe on a large scale. In the past years, almost every year in the Black Earth Province, a large amount of grain could not be sold, and it could only be ground into powder to feed pigs, cattle, sheep, and chickens. Ducks and geese or something.

When he first came here, Carpenter Li felt sorry for it for a while, because it was all high-quality food, which was unattainable when he was in the mountains, but now he uses it directly to feed livestock, what a pity, what a pity. Waste ah.

"In our Black Soil Province, there is still a lot, a lot of land that has not been cultivated. The land that has been reclaimed is less than [-]% of that here, and a large area of ​​land is still an endless grassland."

"It means that the price of grain has been stable in the past two years, and it can be sold. Otherwise, everyone would not be willing to grow grain. It would be better to grow grass and raise cattle and sheep."

Li Da smiled and said.

Only when you leave the mountains can you really understand the prosperity and prosperity outside. If you stay in the mountains, you may still be full of food and worry. How can you be as rich and comfortable as you are now.

Even though immigrants from Black Earth Province are constantly reclaiming land, Black Earth Province is still a vast and sparsely populated province. The vast Black Earth Province stretches from the Black Sea in the south to the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Baltic Sea in the west, and the Ural Mountains and Caucasus Mountains in the east.

Such a vast land, even the local aboriginal Slavs, has a total population of less than [-] million people, which can be said to be very sparsely populated.

The land reclaimed by the immigrants is still very small in the total land area, and there are still a large number of areas that are vast grasslands and swamps, where wild sheep and wild horses gather in groups, and wolves howl.

"Then do we want to grow more land next year?"

Carpenter Li still couldn't figure out why there was so much food that he couldn't sell it.

"I won't grow any more. Our family should raise more cattle, sheep and pigs. This food is almost enough."

"Even if the whole of Europe does not grow grain, our Black Soil Province is enough to feed Europe. This year everyone has grown more, and next year there will definitely be more. Then the grain will not be easy to sell."

Li Da shook his head and said.

This year's grain is definitely not worrying about selling. The Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Europe have greatly reduced grain production due to drought, and need a lot of grain.

But it will be different next year. If the weather is good for everyone next year and you continue to expand the cultivated land, I am afraid that the grain produced will rot in the warehouse.

Li Da was very sure of this.

Now the grains of the Black Earth Province are mainly exported to Europe, and the demand for the grains of the Black Earth Province in the Ming Dynasty is very little, very little, because there are many low-yields in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.

In Hezhong, Liaodong, plus the Yangtze River Basin, Nanyang and other places, there is also a large amount of overflow in the local grain of the Ming Dynasty.

Provinces such as Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, which used to be major grain-growing provinces, basically do not grow much grain now, but instead grow cash crops such as cotton, vegetables, fruits, peanuts, soybeans, and corn.

Because everyone found that growing grain does not make money at all, but growing some economic crops can make money, and naturally no one grows grain.

In addition, the Nanyang region is actually very suitable for growing rice, with three crops a year, and even seven crops in two years, but it is such a good place. Most of the land in the Nanyang region is used to grow sugarcane, because It is more profitable to grow sugar cane, and those planters will not be foolish to grow food.

Growing grain is not profitable.

This is already a consensus among the farmers of Ming Dynasty.

"Oh, I don't understand. I don't understand this era. Food will sometimes be difficult to sell. It's so cheap, what a good food."

Carpenter Li shook his head slightly, he really didn't understand this era.

There is too much grain to sell, and it is all high-quality fine grain, and the price is extremely cheap, so much that it is used for livestock in large quantities.

"Clang~clang~"

"The grain is harvested, the grain is harvested."

"The wheat is harvested directly, the wheat is harvested directly, 2 Wen a catty, 2 Wen a catty."

While Li Da and Carpenter Li were chatting about food, a businessman and his men shouted on the road beating gongs and drums.

"Wheat can be sold for 2 Wen a catty?"

Hearing this voice, Li Da's eyes widened slightly, and he hurried over to have a look.

When Li Da passed by, there were already a lot of people around.

"Is it true? Can this wheat be sold for 2 cents a catty?"

"Of course it's true. You don't need to grind the wheat into powder. The wheat without the shell costs 2 Wen per catty. You can charge as much as you have."

When the man heard this, he also hurriedly said.

"That's fine. My family has more than 100 million catties of wheat. When will you come to collect it?"

Someone got affirmation and said on the spot.

"My family also has 200 million catties of wheat. If you collect it, bring money and a cart."

"My family also has millions of catties of wheat."

Others also spoke one after another.

In the past, the wheat with shell was more than one penny per catty, but this year it has risen to 2 pennies per catty. This is indeed a lot of increase, and it can be roughly seen that the demand for grain abroad is very high now. exuberant.

"OK, OK~"

"Everyone, don't worry. We have enough silver. We are a big business house, a big boss. Everyone has collected their food."

Seeing that everyone had a lot of food in their hands, the businessman burst into laughter from ear to ear.

These businessmen also saw the right time this time, knowing that the grain production in the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, and Europe had greatly decreased, and this grain business would definitely make money.

The nearest grain production area is the Black Soil Province, so many businessmen come to the Black Soil Province to buy grain, and then transport it to the Ottoman Empire and Europe for sale.

It's just that these businessmen don't understand the layout of the top management of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Empire wants to use food to control Europe, and even the whole world, and wants to bring the whole world into the huge capitalist torrent of the Ming Empire.

Let the whole world become the source of raw materials and goods dumped by the Ming Empire. Places like the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Egypt are suitable for growing cotton, so instead of growing grain, all of them should grow cotton. In this way, the textile industry of Ming Dynasty will have raw materials.

It would be better for them to raise more sheep and shear sheep, so that the raw materials would be more abundant, and Daming's factory could run at full capacity, and then deliver a steady stream of cheap and exquisite cloth to them.

Merchants are profit-seeking, and naturally they can play a big role, helping Daming's food to penetrate the world.

(End of this chapter)