Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 370

"How about capturing Malay natives from Vietnam and Southeast Asia? The distance is short."

"The cost is not calculated." Wang Luobin disagreed, "Unless there are ready-made slave trade suppliers, the cost of capturing and transporting slaves is too high."

"Look at the historical slave trade, where the British shipped slaves to Cuba and Jamaica and traded the slaves for sugar. We could do the same with the British as slave traders - they're pretty good at it anyway ——We exchanged sugar from Leizhou for slaves."

"Do you want the British to introduce Uncle Black—"

Seeing the words began to talk more and more endless.Wu De knocked on the table: "Be realistic! Take measures to reduce the death rate as much as possible." Wu De reminded everyone, "Whether it is a laborer or a slave, the death rate is too high, which is not good for morale. In the end, it will inevitably lead to fleeing and riots. To Sometimes we have to send troops to suppress it—isn’t this a vicious circle?”

"Quickly recruit people." Wen Desi said to Wu De, "Is it difficult to increase the speed of immigration by one or two times?"

"Yes, food." Before Wu De could speak, Wu Nanhai stepped in without hesitation, "The food we collected from Lingao and the food we seized are about to bottom out, and now we are relying on the trade between Leizhou and Vietnam Imported Vietnamese rice."

"There is no hybrid rice..."

"Do you think hybrid rice is a magic wand?" Wu Nanhai has long been angry about agricultural issues, "I have tons of rice at one point? What about farmland water conservancy? What about pumps? What about chemical fertilizers? I can discuss these things at the meeting It's been mentioned countless times!"

Probably because of his easy-going personality and unwillingness to compete with others, Wu Nanhai's Agricultural Committee has been lagging behind in fighting for resources.Although the executive committee still understands the concept of agriculture-oriented, the investment in agriculture is not small, especially the infrastructure of the farm, which is considered the first.But the same principle applies here that crying babies get milk.Since the investment of the Agricultural Committee is always very huge, the Executive Committee intentionally or unintentionally offers a [-]% discount on the projects of the Agricultural Committee.

The development of Tiandu will inevitably increase the population.To increase the population, it is necessary to increase investment in agriculture so that enough food can be stored in October.

"Now my rice seeds have not all gone down, and there are too few high-yield fields." Wu Nanhai complained.At present, only 667 standard mu of high-yielding fields have been completed with soil and water conservancy improvement—Wu Nanhai replaced the local mu system with a variety of varieties with the modern standard mu system, which is [-] square meters.

"Rice seeds have a shelf life," Wu Nanhai reminded them, "and its characteristics cannot be inherited. If you can't sow all of them this year, next year they won't be of any use except for making rice."

So the Executive Committee decided to increase the input of materials in two directions: agriculture and shipbuilding.The former is to prepare for the immigrant population explosion, and the latter is for large-scale transportation.

Wu Nanhai returned to the farm and quickly summoned all the people from the Ministry of Agriculture.Discuss how to carry out agricultural *** programs.

"A lot of food is going to be dumped?" Fa Shilu was taken aback, "This is not a game, how can it be so violent?"

"That's what it means." Wu Nanhai conveyed the spirit of the meeting again, "First, we must prepare enough grain reserves to support more non-agricultural population; second, increase protein supply."

"The second point is the continuation of the first point. If there is no food, how can we get protein?" Fa Shilu was a little dissatisfied, "If we want to increase food, we have to expand the planting area. Has the executive committee agreed to add people to us?"

There are no more than 50 agricultural workers in the demonstration farm.They are all farming and breeding experts selected by Wu Nanhai from immigrants and captives.According to his experience, in the 20th century, without the help of any mechanization, a strong labor force with a cow or a horse can plant more than [-] acres of land.The rice-growing areas in the south belong to intensive farming, and less planting is required, but there is no big problem in planting [-] acres of paddy fields.

When building water conservancy, rushing to plant and harvest, and reclaiming wasteland.The farm mainly relies on dispatched workers from the Bairen Commune and the "labor service" from the army. This kind of dispatched labor is equivalent to short-term labor during the busy farming period, and work points are calculated on a daily basis.It doesn't matter if the level of farming is poor, the main thing is to work hard.

The farm occupies a lot of wasteland along the river that is suitable for farming, but it is not easy to open up wasteland in Lingao. There are two dry and rainy seasons in this place, and the land needs to be irrigated in the dry season and drained in the rainy season. The requirements for water conservancy are very high.According to the research of the Council of Agriculture, the benefits of extensive land reclamation are not great. It is necessary to implement intensive cultivation of high-yield fields, build water conservancy, improve soil...to achieve high yields only when all the basic construction of farmland is in place.Such a development model requires a large amount of labor.

"Yes. I'm going to expand the high-yield field to a thousand acres."

"One thousand acres?!" Fa Shilu asked suspiciously, "Can Wu De promise to provide so many dispatched workers?"

Wu Nanhai nodded: "This is the executive committee's decision, he will definitely give priority to equipment. In addition, Committee Ma also agreed to transfer some construction machinery."

"This is great!" Fa Shilu said.With machinery, the workload of land reclamation and water conservancy construction is much less.

"Fifty agricultural laborers are not enough to plant a thousand acres of rice," Wan Lihui said.This person is from a farming family and knows how to do farm work. He studied electronics in college, but he didn't work in the industry after graduation.Life was unsatisfactory, so he abducted his brother to participate in the operation in a rage.However, in the time and space of Daming, the electronics major he learned is even more useless-the thing that Dr. Zhong said about the great development of the electronics industry has never been seen.After working in the mechanical department for a few months, I found that I still couldn't make a name for myself, so I returned to agriculture.The specialty is raising—originally, the most common job for farm children is raising livestock and poultry.Now, except for horses and donkeys, all the animals in the farm are raised by the two brothers, which is much better than raising rabbits while reading books in Ye Yuming's time.

"Agricultural workers need to recruit another batch." Wu Nanhai said, "In addition to paddy fields, dry fields also need to be expanded, especially sweet potato planting, and strive to expand another one or two hundred mu. Also, corn and alfalfa planting must also be expanded—— More protein needs to increase the feed supply of the farming industry.”

"Expanding the breeding industry requires expanding the breeding area." Wanli Huihui reported, "and there is not enough manpower."

Poultry and livestock, such as pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, which are commonly raised intensively in modern time and space, all adopt low-density free-range breeding in Nanhai Farm.The utilization rate of land is not high.This is not a gimmick that Wu Nanhai likes to do with natural, green, and local chickens. It is purely helpless. The modern farming industry relies heavily on animal vaccines, antibiotics, and disinfectants.The only thing Wanjia brothers can use is lime. Recently, the pharmaceutical factory has sent some kasugamycin and oxytetracycline for trial use, which is far from reaching the level of large-scale application.Adopting the intensive breeding method under this condition will only cause a large number of sickness and death of livestock and poultry.

Ye Yuming said: "I think we can't just think about what we grow, we should take advantage of the local people's enthusiasm for production."

Wu Nanhai became interested: "Do you want to promote planting?"

"Yes," Ye Yuming said, "I have a plan..."

What Ye Yuming proposed was to establish the "Tiandihui"—of course, this is not the same as Chen Jinnan's Tiandihui in the future. Its official full name is the Mutual Aid Group of the Agricultural Committee. It is very vivid to say that the land eats.

The basic idea of ​​the COAG Mutual Aid Group is to carry out crop and poultry extension and agricultural technology training.

"Right now farmers are still very indifferent to us. To gain their favor, we need to suppress bandits and provide high-yield crops."

Farmers can harvest more crops. Apart from eating them themselves, they can only put them into the market. In Lingao, the one that can purchase agricultural products on a large scale is the Crossing Group.In this way, the increase in production is county-wide, not just on the thousands of acres of land owned by the Council of Agriculture.

"I don't agree with this, let alone the issue of the spread of improved seeds. Without good care, it will only waste seed resources." Wu Nanhai immediately objected.

"My idea is to promote sweet potatoes. Aren't sweet potatoes poisonous?"

Taking advantage of the poisoning characteristics of sweet potatoes, even if the good varieties of sweet potatoes spread out, they will eventually degenerate because farmers do not know how to detoxify.Local farmers keep their own seeds, and after two or three years, they will be of little value.Only the Council of Agriculture, which has virus-free technology, can continue to provide virus-free potato seedlings—equal to controlling seeds in disguise.

"It's doable."

"Hybrid rice is also available. But we only have this batch." Ye Yuming sighed, "If we can make hybrid rice breeding, the lifeblood of rice cultivation on the mainland will be completely in our hands."

"Actually, it's not impossible. I hope the experiment will be successful in my lifetime." Fa Shilu is very interested in this topic.He himself has been doing experiments in this area.In modern time and space, Lingao takes hybrid rice seed production as its main agricultural industry.The rich local wild rice resources also make Lingao a must-visit place for those who engage in hybrid rice.

Everyone thought the idea of ​​promoting sweet potato planting was good, and then Ye Yuming said:

"Not only sweet potatoes, but also the farming industry. I think chickens and ducks can be distributed to farmers' homes for free-range farming. It takes too much space and manpower for us to raise them ourselves."

He proposed the "Poultry Promotion Plan".In fact, it is a factory + farmer poultry breeding model that maximizes the professional hatching technology mastered by the Council of Agriculture.

To put it simply: the Council of Agriculture will incubate eggs in a centralized manner, and the hatched chicks will be raised by farmers in the form of accounting.When it reaches maturity, the farm will purchase eggs and broiler chickens in a unified manner, and the farm will also provide animal feed such as earthworms and maggots as supplements.

(End of this chapter)