Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 103 The Sea Is a Field

Jiaozhou is much farther away from Jinling than Mingzhou, but under the transmission of Yichuan at all costs, on the morning of March [-]th, the news that the first batch of grain transportation teams arrived in Shandong was even worse than that of Wenzao who returned from Mingzhou again. Arrive a little earlier.

The ruling and opposition parties were shocked.

People don't know the details, and they always feel that it's just transporting food. Since a certain young man can make it, it might be easier to replace it with someone else.However, if this was the case, Yuan Ting would not have accommodated all the southeast separatist forces for a little food back then.

The result of accommodation is only 10,000+ stone grains per year.

It can be said that the reason why the Yuan court collapsed so quickly has a lot to do with the long-term lack of food in the north in recent decades, neither the ability to support the army nor the inability to care for the people.

Because of Zhu Yuanzhang, history has paid more attention to the peasant uprisings that broke out due to famine in the Jianghuai area during the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, but in fact, at the same time, the famine around Dadu was even worse.

All of this is largely due to the fact that food from the south cannot be transported smoothly to the north.

Therefore, the more well-informed the upper echelons of the court, the more they understand that it is a rare pioneering work for a young man to send 20 shi of grain to Shandong almost from scratch in just over a month. .

If Yuan Ting had such talents, he would never have ended up like this.

Lao Zhu himself is even more gratified, joyful, and excited. He is worthy of being his precious 23rd grandson!Then the first thought was still to quickly bring the person back from Mingzhou.

Lao Zhu has never been a person who will spoil his younger generations, at least he thinks so, whether it is a close nephew or adopted son, or the kings who were entrusted to various places in history, they will use all kinds of arrangements when they need to be used.However, he always felt that Zhu Yuan was different, that child was so weak and so important, if there was any mistake, it would be impossible to make up for it.

At the same time, Lao Zhu also began to deploy troops according to the recent vision.

On the morning when the news arrived in Jinling, an imperial edict was quickly sent to the southern armies, requiring Liao Yongzhong, Hu Tingrui and other ministries to transfer a total of 5 people to the north led by Li Wenzhong and He Wenhui to participate in the Northern Expedition.

Li Wenzhong is Lao Zhu's nephew, and He Wenhui is one of Lao Zhu's many adopted sons. Like Zhu Wenzheng and Li Wenzhong, their names are all given by Lao Zhu. Not only do they have a "wen" in the middle of their names, but they were also given a surname before. Zhu', the old Zhu changed back to his original surname before he ascended the throne last year, which shows his closeness.

The two were originally the emperor's cronies who were in charge of restraining the commander along the way, similar to the army supervisor. With the continuous transfer of the southern armies, Lao Zhu no longer worried about any changes in the generals, so he transferred the two to the north with confidence. .

However, the planned increase of [-] troops is less than half after being transferred from the south.

This made Lao Zhu a little bit difficult.

There are still [-] pro-army guarding Jinling, but although the capital has not been completely determined, Jinling is now considered the actual capital of Ming Dynasty. The [-] guards are already the result of Lao Zhu's continuous compression.

It's not impossible to adjust again.

When it was time to make a big bet, just like when he played against Chen Youliang back then, Lao Zhu would not hesitate, but he had to think carefully.

In any case, it is impossible to transfer all 5 people to the north, so it is still not possible to make up [-].

That's the perimeter.

Lao Zhu first noticed the newly established Naval Commander's Mansion, where there were only eight thousand Tianxingwei elites, a force not to be underestimated.

However, Tianxingwei's responsibility is also great, and it is necessary to ensure that the sea food road is safe, which is the basis for this increase in troops.Once the food and grass cannot be supplied stably, it will be a disaster for the army ahead.

After discussing with the central officials, Lao Zhu also made up his mind.

The key is to take your time.

According to the "Book of Heaven", the Ming army broke through Dadu in August in the second half of the year. Therefore, the navy does not need to go too far in advance. It only needs to rush to the north in June and July to participate in the encirclement of Dadu.

Now that the sea route has been opened, at that time, if the conditions are feasible, it may even be a surprise.

Finally, there are various guards.

It's not a problem to gather the last batch of people.

Lao Zhu also understands that this kind of comprehensive transfer from the center to the local area is actually a bit risky, but as long as the Yuan Shi can be wiped out in one fell swoop, the risk is worth it.

Because of the appearance of a certain boy, Lao Zhu felt that he had too much to do, and he really didn't have decades to entangle with Yuan Ting.

The East Pavilion of the Imperial Palace.

After discussing the plan, he quickly drew up a series of edicts and issued a series of edicts. Lao Zhu finally dismissed all the important officials. He stood in front of the map and thought for a long time, then signaled his courtiers to roll up the map to expose the north wall of the East Pavilion.

There is writing on the wall.

Lao Zhu has always liked to write various words on the wall screens of his daily residence, always alerting himself.

This paragraph is the shortest diary of my baby's 23rd generation grandson.

The reason why the Han and Tang Dynasties were strong was that they destroyed the Xiongnu and expelled the Turks, so that China had no patients in the north for hundreds of years. There are only three words, called "Liangjiazi"; The Mongols are only three words, and they say 'thieves with the army'.

Speaking of this transfer of troops, if it is only a strong man, Lao Zhu will issue an edict to gather millions in a short period of time, it will not be a big problem.

However, it was this passage that made Lao Zhu realize that he must not do this out of impatience.

After all, there is a difference between a strong man and a soldier.

Lao Zhu doesn't want a million-level local chicken and dog who will disperse as soon as he hits it.

Not only that, after thinking about this passage repeatedly recently, Lao Zhu also thought of more by analogy. Although most of the measures still need to be worked out in the future, it is best to let the child give advice first, but he also has some ideas about what to do in the future. A gradually clear idea.

Just thinking about it, the courtier came to report and asked to see him after hearing about it.

Didn't you ask to pick up someone? Why did you come back so soon?

Confused, Lao Zhu asked someone to bring Wen Zao here, and when he heard that his baby's 23rd grandson was unwilling to return to Jinling, he was immediately angry, not of course with the child, but with Hua Gao.

He is young, don't you know how to persuade him? !

Ok.

It's that biased.

After receiving the only manuscript brought by Wen Zao this time, Lao Zhu was still thinking that he would write a letter himself later, and then send a competent person to follow him, and he must bring the child back.

After opening the manuscript, Lao Zhu glanced at the title, with a strange expression flashing across his face.

The sea is a field.

He started to read with great interest, and as he read, Lao Zhu's expression gradually restrained, and finally turned solemn.

This text is divided into five parts.

In the first part, the subtitle is 'Marine Ecology'.

It is basically a popularization of science, which also introduces some brand new units of measurement.

The article stated that the earth's surface covers an area of ​​about 5 million square kilometers, of which 1.5 million are land and 3.5 million are oceans.It only accounts for [-]% of the land, and due to the changing environment, the area suitable for farming is less than [-]%. However, the sea is different.

The ocean, which occupies [-]% of the earth's surface, is several feet shallow and three thousand feet deep, and forms a super vast three-dimensional field.

At the same time, Zhu Yuan introduced the concept of biological chain in very simple words, introducing the way of survival of various creatures in this super three-dimensional field.

The final conclusion is that, not to mention the productivity of human beings in the current agricultural era, even in the early industrial era, within a hundred years, the resources available for human use in the ocean can be said to be inexhaustible.

Here Zhu Yuan also gave a brand new weight unit, ton.

He also hinted at a point of knowledge that only Lao Zhu can understand, not to mention other things, but the annual catch limit of all kinds of seafood is more than 1 million tons, which is roughly equivalent to 2000 billion catties when converted into two units of the current catty.

If a fertile farmland yields 300 catties per mu, 6.6 million mu is needed to produce the same amount of grain.At the moment, the entire Central Plains region, including the area controlled by the Yuan court in the north, has a total area of ​​cultivated land of only about 4 million mu, and after the north-south average, the grain yield per mu is far less than 300 catties.

Therefore, we can see the richness of the sea.

This is followed by a second section, subtitled 'Historical Trends'.

Zhu Yuan gave a conclusion very straightforwardly.

In a hundred years, no matter how perfect Lao Zhu perfected the two major systems of production and distribution in Ming Dynasty according to the "science of economics", certain historical trends are inevitable.

The first is the natural increase in population.

With the re-stabilization of the world, the rate of population growth will continue to accelerate. In less than a hundred years, the population of Ming Dynasty will be doubled. After two or three hundred years, the population will be at least four or five times that of the present.If Daming can successfully enter the industrial age, the population growth will only be faster. If there are no restrictions, it is not impossible to reach one billion in the future.

Here is another point that Lao Zhu can understand.

Of course, Lao Zhu knew that in a few hundred years, the population of this country could expand to 14 billion.

It is conceivable how huge resources are needed to fill the stomach of such a huge population.

This also involves the second inevitable historical trend, certain social trends that cannot be reversed by the way of distribution.

Therefore, we can only focus on production.

So came the third title, called 'quantitative change qualitative change'.

This section is explained around two graphs.

The agricultural age has developed to the stage where ironware is widely used. In the short term, agricultural production can only be improved through clumsy measures such as continuous reclamation, continuous construction of water conservancy, and continuous screening and promotion of improved varieties. Therefore, food production can only be maintained at one level. Slow variable level growth.

As in the text, it corresponds to a growth curve with a gentle and gradual upward angle.

In comparison, in the same agricultural era, the fishery production that humans obtained from the sea was still in a primitive state almost similar to "slash-and-burn farming". This can be seen from the fact that the most fertile fishing ground in Zhoushan on the southeast coast only catches 1500 tons of fish every year. .

Not to mention the global 1 million tons, even around Daming, there is at least 1000 million tons of fishing potential per year, 1000 million tons versus 1500 tons, the latter is almost equal to nothing.

Therefore, as long as efforts are made and appropriate measures are taken, unlike agricultural production, which can only follow a trend of quantitative changes, within the next ten years, there will be a qualitative change in Daming's fishery production.

The 10-year target set by Zhu Yuan happened to be the 100 million tons that Xue Shu mentioned before.

This is still only equivalent to one-tenth of the fishing potential of the ocean around Daming.Moreover, this goal is not something that can be achieved casually.

Referring to the standard sea-going ship specifications of the 500 material level in the future, this is a standard Zhu Yuan set for the next sea-shipping and sea-fishing ships.

Still out of comprehensive considerations such as risk and cost.

In the stage of wooden sailboats, 500 material ships are the most convenient to build and easier to maintain. In comparison, no matter how big the ship is, it is more difficult to build and maintain. Once it capsizes, the one-time loss will be greater.

Therefore, there will be no restrictions on private individuals, but on the public level, in addition to naval ships, other shipping and sea fishing should be as close as possible to the cheap and safe 500 materials.

Five hundred sea-going ships will organize sea-fishing in the future. The goal Zhu Yuan hopes to achieve is that the total harvest in the four seasons of the year will also be 500 tons.

This is another new unit introduced by Zhu Yuan in the copywriting.

In terms of fish catch along the coast, the more common one is 'dan'. However, the units in this era are not uniform, there are 120 catties per load, and 90 catties per load. As a supporter of the decimal system, Zhu Yuan hopes to unify it to 100 catties per load .

Each ship catches 500 tons of fish per year, which is 50000 catties. To reach the goal of 10 million tons in 100 years, or 20 billion catties, only 4 standard sea-going ships of 500 raw materials need to be built.

Indeed 'only'.

As we all know, the Chinese have always been the best group of people who are good at bursting production capacity.

It’s just that with the current foundation of the southeast coast of Ming Dynasty, it is not a problem to build thousands of ships of various sizes every year. In the future, it will continue to be promoted in a planned way. As long as the materials are sufficient, it is trivial to build tens of thousands of ships every year.

Therefore, in ten years, it is even a fairly conservative estimate to accumulate 4 standard 500 marine fishing boats.

Ten years, 100 million tons, 2000 million dan, even if the producers consume half of it, and the remaining 1000 million dan, it is a huge resource that cannot be ignored for Daming, which urgently needs resources for various constructions in the early days of the founding of the country.

At the same time, this is also a short-term explosive qualitative change in productivity, and it is the only way for a qualitative change that Daming can find in a short period of time.

After completing this qualitative change and gaining an extra huge amount of resources, Daming can also carry out national construction more abundantly, and can even move towards the industrial age more safely without squeezing the potential of the people.

Zhu Yuan's fourth title is 'Zhoushan Fishing Ground'.

Compared with the third title that focuses on the story, the fourth title mainly introduces what I saw in reality and some related to Zhoushan Fishing Ground in my memory later.

This is the largest natural fishing ground along the coast of China.

Coincidentally, Zhu Yuan is in Mingzhou, close to the water, and this year's large yellow croaker season has arrived. He hopes to use the Zhoushan fishing ground as a "test field" to initially build a large-scale sea fishing framework.

The last heading is 'Concrete Measures'.

Zhu Yuan proposed to establish 'Mingzhou Ocean Development Group', which has jurisdiction over 'Mingzhou Fishery Production Company', 'Mingzhou Shipbuilding Company', 'Mingzhou Marine Fishing Equipment Company', 'Mingzhou Seafood Processing Company', 'Mingzhou State seafood sales company' and a series of subsidiaries.

Just looking at the name, the responsibilities of each subsidiary are clear at a glance.

In the early stage of sea fishing, fish catches are only supplied to the military for the time being, but in the future, as the scale of sea fishing becomes larger and the world turns to peace, more detailed processing and sales will be required to achieve sustainable development within the group.

Through Mingzhou Ocean Development Group, Zhu Yuan hopes to bring coastal fishermen and low-level households who lack land into a series of subsidiaries.

This is also a long-term consideration.

Zhu Yuan introduced a concept of 'employment' here.

As the population grows naturally, land alone will certainly not be able to satisfy all needs, which requires the state to create more jobs.

The fishery industry is definitely a very large potential reservoir to accommodate the employed population. In the future, ocean development will be carried out globally. With this alone, the entire industrial chain can ensure 1000 million job opportunities and feed 5000 million people. It is a breeze.

Just this one industry, even if Daming stops here and stays in the agricultural society for a long time, it is enough to ensure that the people in this country will have enough to support themselves within a hundred years.

The common people have their own food, and the world is naturally peaceful.

Inside the East Pavilion.

Unknowingly, Lao Zhu had read this proposal many times, until he heard an urgent call in his ear, he came back to his senses and stared at it with displeasure, only then did he realize that it was Ma Shi.

It was the end of noon.

Facing his wife's concerned gaze, Lao Zhu stared at her blankly for a moment, and finally murmured, "We... really, God favors us!"

(End of this chapter)