Daming 1805

Chapter 312 The Plan for Transforming Farmers to Workers and the Plan for Mahu Connecting to the Sea
Zhu Jingyuan left two tractors, two trailers, and a complete set of supporting farm tools at the [-] Farm.

Let the director of the farm be responsible for management and allocation, and at the same time, it is used to verify the actual increase in production efficiency.

In the process of cultivating winter wheat this time, it was confirmed whether all the work could be done by five families.

If it can be done, after the winter plowing is over, let them choose five families to go to the city and work as workers in the tractor factory.

In the next few days, the management of Huangzhuang, which manages the outer city area, took action.

Pull out the tractors and agricultural tools trial-produced by the agricultural machinery factory and send them to other farms in the outer city for the same verification.

These farms were chosen closer to the edge.

For the farms near the edge of the inner city, the plan prepared by Huangzhuang is to directly transform them into factories.

Use their land to build factories and unify residential areas, and farmers on local farms directly become corresponding factory workers.

Whether this process can be smooth and what kind of problems will arise, it will take time to verify.

This morning, Zhu Jingyuan stayed in Ciqing Palace, looking at a huge detailed map of the surrounding area of ​​Xintianfu.

The map is full of squares.

The administrative division of Xintianfu is very square.

The core area of ​​Xintianfu is the Great Plains, and it is the land developed by immigrants.

No pre-existing district boundaries can be inherited.

For the convenience of management, most of the middle and low-level administrative districts are divided into squares.

The first-level administrative region of Xintianfu is "Huangzhuang", which corresponds to the local chief envoy or vassal state.

There is a second-level Huangzhuang under Huangzhuang, which corresponds to the local government.

The third-level Huangzhuang corresponds to the county, and the outer city area of ​​Xintianfu is a third-level Huangzhuang.

The four-level Huangzhuang corresponds to the townships. In addition to the squares occupied by the inner city, there are eight townships in the outer city area of ​​Xintianfu.

Below the fourth-level Huangzhuang is the "village", and below the village is the farm.

Farms are not all farmed, but also engaged in animal husbandry, orchards and logging, aquatic fishing and breeding, and so on.

Farming and fishing farms are smaller, while animal husbandry and forestry are larger.

The farmsteads near the early development areas were smaller, and those near the border and undeveloped areas were larger.

The closer to the core area, the less wasteland, and the closer to the edge area, the more wasteland.

The third-level Huangzhuang in the outer city of Xintianfu is the smallest, and it is also a Huangzhuang without any wasteland at all.

In those areas newly taken over after the war, especially the undeveloped areas on the rainforest and plateau, a third-level Huangzhuang may be larger than a first-level Huangzhuang here.

Zhu Jingyuan was the person in charge of Fuguo County in Xintianfu, and actually directly managed the inner and outer city areas.

At the same time, the farms in charge of the Ming people, mixed-race people, and Yin people are also different, and the division is very simple and rough.

Daming people are ten families in a farm, responsible for farming one square kilometer of land, which is [-] mu.

The mixed-race people are 750 families in two farms, responsible for farming the same land, each farm is [-] mu.

The people of Yin had forty households in four farms, responsible for cultivating so much land, each farm was 370 mu.

The farms of the Ming people are usually closer to the core area of ​​Xintianfu, and the surroundings of Xintianfu City are all farms of the Ming people.

The mixed-race farms are relatively outside, while the Yin people's farms are mostly in the fringe areas.

This was a natural arrangement in the past, and the status quo is bound to change.

In the process of industrialization, these mixed-race people and Yin people must be integrated, otherwise there will be problems after industrialization.

Zhu Jingyuan's natural choice was to refer to the general education examination plan implemented by Meng County.

At the same time, based on the experience accumulated so far, further repairs have been made to this plan.

Avoid the certificate itself becoming a "legacy evidence" of "naturalization", and avoid the association of the certificate with "originally being a foreigner".

Let pure Daming people also take the same exam, and accept the inspection uniformly when they are adults.

However, the exam process for Daming people can be simpler, just let the person in charge of issuing the certificate chat a few words on the spot.

Regardless of whether they are pure Ming people or naturalized people, they must collectively swear allegiance to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty when receiving the certificate.

At the same time, the use of general education certificates will be expanded and used as de facto ID cards.

In the future, any public affairs handled by Huangzhuang, the imperial court, and the vassal state will be subject to the certificate.

Ethnicity is not displayed on the qualification certificate, and everyone with the qualification certificate enjoys citizenship treatment.

However, this idea cannot be completed overnight, and it may take a generation to complete.

So Zhu Jingyuan wrote down his ideas and gave them to Lin Zexu who had already done it once.

Let Lin Zexu coordinate with the treasurers of the various Huangzhuang in Xintianfu to consider how to gradually promote the implementation.

After Zhu Jingyuan finished writing his thoughts, he was going to ask An Xiaona to call Lin Zexu and Niu Jian for a meeting.

As a result, Lin Zexu happened to come by himself, holding a telegram from Zheng Fuguang.

Lin Zexu handed the telegram to Zhu Jingyuan, and at the same time explained what he had learned:

"Zheng Gong said that the oil in Mazhen (Maracaibo) has begun to be able to continue to produce.

"However, the local terrain and environment are quite special, and how to transport the oil out is not a big or small problem.

"Zheng Gong went to the local garrison and asked the locals about the details of the lake.

"The entrance of Mahu Lake is more than ten meters deep, and the internal lake water is basically more than 20 meters.

"However, in the small lagoon sandwiched between Mahu Lake and the bay outside, the channel leading to the sea is only four or five meters deep.

"It is this shallow small lagoon that makes it impossible for sea boats to enter Mahu Lake, and they can only take small flat-bottomed boats.

"After discussing and considering with other craftsmen, Mr. Zheng suggested dredging a channel from Mahu to the sea.

"In this way, Mahu Lake will become a closed bay, and many places around it are suitable for the construction of deep-water ports.

"Then of course the sea-going ship will be able to drive directly into Mahu."

Zhu Jingyuan didn't feel much surprise after reading the telegram.

Dredge the waterway from Lake Maracaibo, turn the lake into a bay, and finally build a harbor in the freshwater lake.

This is what Venezuela has done in history, just to facilitate the export of oil.

But the problems caused by doing so are also obvious.

After dredging the deep-water channel of more than ten meters, the seawater can flow into Lake Maracaibo more smoothly, which will definitely increase the salinity of the lake.

Then it affects the original ecosystem of the lake.

Zhu Jingyuan's awareness of environmental protection is not high, mainly because he doesn't care about emissions or climate warming.

However, there is a natural tendency to want to "possess" various relatively novel natural environments on the earth.

This may be regarded as a special environmental protection psychology, but in fact it may be closer to "collection addiction".

Lake Maracaibo, a large freshwater lake connected to the sea, can already be regarded as the only wonder in the world.

The surrounding environment is also very special, surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing the sea on one side, or a semi-enclosed bay, this area is highly independent.

The water of the lake comes from the rain in the surrounding alpine terrain, and the area where the lake is located actually has little precipitation.

The annual precipitation is only about [-] millimeters, which is the standard for a semi-arid area, and it is sunny most of the time.

Zhu Jingyuan instinctively wanted to keep it as it was and keep it for himself.

Zhu Jingyuan put down the telegram and asked Lin Zexu in a consulting and deliberative tone:

"Mr. Lin, I remember that the area around Mahu Lake is actually relatively dry, and the lake water is actually the source of fresh water for the surrounding area.

"If the waterway is directly dredged, more seawater will pour in, which is likely to destroy these freshwater.

"So is there a way to allow seagoing ships to directly enter this Mahu Lake without affecting the salinity of the lake?"

Lin Zexu did not expect that Zhu Jingyuan's thoughts would go to this place.

However, Lin Zexu was not too surprised. Although there is no modern environmental protection trend in this era, the idea of ​​living in harmony with the environment already exists in the Chinese tradition.

Lin Zexu thought about it for a while:
"Then while dredging the waterway, make the entrance to the lagoon sand bar waterway closed and install a lock to control access.

"It's the easiest way to open the locks only when ships are coming in and out, so that seawater cannot flow into the lake at ordinary times.

"Or while dredging the channel, the suctioned sediment is deposited on both sides of the channel to form two artificial embankments.

"The embankment separates the Mahu sea passage from other areas of the lagoon, forming a normal channel for the lake to go to sea independently.

"Although this channel will be two to three times deeper than the original channel, its width will also be many times smaller than that of the lagoon.

"The overall cross-sectional area of ​​the passage to sea will be several times smaller than before.

"When the flow of lake water to the sea remains unchanged, the speed of the lake's outward flow will increase several times.

"The outward impact of the lake water has been greatly enhanced, and it should be able to naturally avoid the intrusion of seawater, just like normal rivers.

"After a long time of flushing and flowing like this, the salinity of the entire lake may continue to decrease."

Zhu Jingyuan asked thoughtfully after hearing this:
"So, the second option is actually equivalent to filling the lagoon area, leaving only a narrow river channel?

"Don't let the lake water have extensive long-term contact with seawater in the lagoon, but hedge in the narrow channel?
"Turning a lake that was in direct contact with seawater through a lagoon into an inland lake upstream of a river."

Lin Zexu nodded slightly:
"Students are thinking like this, but the lagoon doesn't need to be specially filled.

"The so-called area of ​​the lagoon does not have high precipitation, but the evaporation is very large, and the water in the lagoon is mainly supplemented by seawater and lake water.

"As long as the lake water is separated from the sea water, the lagoon will slowly dry up on its own."

Zhu Jingyuan was stunned:
"Will the overall construction cost of building two sandbar embankments on both sides of the river be much higher than building a ship lock on the sandbar at the same time as the dredging has just arrived?"

Lin Zexu made some calculations in his mind:
"It shouldn't be much higher. According to Zheng Gong, the water in most parts of the lagoon is very shallow, and many places are less than one meter.

"The dredging of the waterway involves sucking and transporting the sediment, and it is enough to pile the sediment aside to form a river embankment.

"It can be piled up in this way first to dredge the river, and then it will be decided whether to strengthen the embankment according to the situation."

Zhu Jingyuan thought about it carefully:
"I think it's okay. The ocean is huge, and the salt water is endless, but freshwater lakes are relatively rare.

"In the environment of Mahu Lake, it is worthwhile to sacrifice a little salt water in the lagoon to ensure a large amount of fresh water in the lake."

Zhu Jingyuan basically decided to choose the second option.

After discussing some details with Lin Zexu, Lin Zexu was asked to respond to Zheng Fuguang and prepare to implement the channel dredging project.

(End of this chapter)