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Chapter 751 Farming

The king may not care about the land of the New World, but for the new nobles in the New World, it is the foundation of their lives and cannot be given up.

People's positions are different, and their core interests are fundamentally different.

Just as sometimes people's original intention is to save the country, but the result is that the empire is destroyed in advance.

On the third day after the capture of Acapulco, Zou Yuanbiao put a report on Chen Mu's desk. All the 210 households belonging to Acapulco and the fields reclaimed here have been registered in the yellow register. The job is to inspect Nitian and collect corvees to reclaim wasteland.

Zou Yuanbiao entered the role very quickly, and he didn't have the arrogance of being superior to others. When Chen Mu saw the letter he sent, he thought he would say in the letter: "Students are brutal and don't know etiquette. Self-destruction is over, let's retreat."

Fortunately not, otherwise Chen Mu would throw him into Zheng Tu's department to fend for himself.

Putting down the letter, Chen Mu smiled lightly, and said to the attendants on the left and right: "Pull down the map."

The fog of war shrouded in front of his eyes is gradually dissipating. The thousands of miles of coast from Acapulco to Puerto Vallarta in the north has been mapped out on the way of the fleet going south. The people and soldiers in Hong Kong will also head east to Mexico City. The official road is drawn by the soldiers in an oral way.

As for the various directions in the dense forest, Lin Manjue's guerrilla banner army is now divided into 120 skirmishers, and the banner officers who are proficient in drawing and the local people are divided into different directions to explore in all directions.

Inside and outside the port village, artisans accompanying the army started work everywhere. The brick kilns, wood factories, ordnance bureaus and forest farms were built first. The ship repair yards in the harbor that used to belong to the Spaniards were also used by the Ming army.

In a very short period of time, most of the existing land was taken over by the military government and redistributed to the common people—it was not due to the generosity of Chen Mukang, the common people who stayed here basically had no land.

They are slaves and workers of the plantations. Although they are very close to the new nobles who own the land, it does not mean that they are the new nobles. Less than [-]% of the free people actually own the land. After redistribution, [-]% of the common people have their own land. cultivated land.

"Students read the stories. Usually, the newly acquired land after the war has to be exempted from tax for three years in order to harvest people's hearts. However, the people here were no different from serfs before. They can pay a tax of one for thirty to encourage farming."

Zou Yuanbiao's political ability is not very high, and he is even a novice in official career, but this does not prevent him from easily managing Acapulco in an orderly manner. Army, teach the people how to farm outside the city?"

Before Chen Mu could speak, the bad-tempered Juniper frowned and said, "Do you think we are farmers?"

Du Heizi was born with big shoulders, round waist and dark skin, and looked scary. Zou Yuanbiao ignored Juniper at all, and cupped his neck and said: "Students have calculated that Acapulco is now prosperous in agriculture, with more than [-] mu of land. Chen Shuai said that for corn, sweet potatoes, peppers, etc., the yield per mu is better than that of rice."

"Although there are three or four stones in production, it is not as many times as rice as Chen Shuai said. The students saw the farming methods of the native people. Although I don't know how to farm, they still feel that there are some problems."

Juniper fell silent, and when he heard the conclusion of three or four stones, he kept silent, his eyes fixed on the tip of his nose, and the hand hidden behind kept pinching his knuckles with his thumb to count. Seeing that Chen Mu didn't speak for a long time, he whispered Asked: "Xiucai, you said that there are three stones per mu. Doesn't that mean that more than [-] stones can be produced this year?"

"Not so much. The local people planted less than [-] mu of grain, and more land was taken to grow cotton and sugar cane under the orders of the Westerners, which is similar to that in the south of the Yangtze River."

After finishing speaking, Zou Yuanbiao raised his head and added: "Zou was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Wanli!"

Juniper stared at him, but before he could speak, he was stopped by Chen Mu, who was sitting in the case, and raised his hand to point to the seat next to the gate. Du Heizi went over to sit with folded arms obediently, and Chen Mu glanced at him, and then asked : "How do they farm?"

"There are no farming animals, no pear sticks, and no overturning carts, waterwheels, or water chisels. There are only digging sticks—wooden sticks tied with stones. The fields here can be harvested as they are planted."

Zou Yuanbiao's youthful face showed the pride of a cultured person, and said: "There are lands suitable for reclamation everywhere, with a few fields in this despicable land, from next year, the government tax collection alone can support [-] garrisons within two years! "

"Why next year?"

Facing Chen Mu's question, Zou Yuanbiao said in embarrassment: "Without farm tools and livestock, a household with a cow in Daming can plow [-] mu of land a year, but here a household with stone sticks can plow [-] mu of land. .”

Speaking of which, Zou Yuanbiao said with emotion: "That is to say, Asia has descended from the heavens, and there are things like corn, otherwise they will all starve to death."

Chen Mu shook his head slowly, and said, "So you want the supply ship to transport more livestock when it comes this summer? No need."

"Furthermore, cultivating fifty acres is not something that the people here can consider. They only need to be able to cultivate ten acres of land alone."

Chen Mu watched his subordinates plant the land in the early years, and he was quite comfortable talking about these things, saying: "The people here are generally poor, you farm cattle for them, five people share it, and each cultivates ten mu of land, but it costs more to use cattle Don’t want money?”

"Cows are sick or dead, what about their loss? A person can plow five acres with a hoe instead of a plow. Without cattle, he doesn't have to plant fodder after harvest and want to graze these troubles, freeing up his hands to plant The harvest of beans, wheat, hemp, and vegetables in one year is similar to that of cattle."

"In this way, the Eastern Military Government does not have to bear the loss of a large number of sick and dead cattle in the luggage, and there is more space on the ship for transporting war luggage."

Chen Mudao: "I think the most urgent thing is to let the common people use iron farm tools, and to expand the breeding of the existing six animals in various counties in Asia."

"Your duty is not to farm the land for the common people, or to find ways to make the military government create convenience for your achievements, but to use existing conditions to create more favorable policies for the common people, such as contacting neighboring tribes to set up markets."

"Even if your people can cultivate ten thousand mu of land alone, there is no market, and the food they grow is useless, and they will only plant two mu of land a year, which is enough for the family to eat. No matter how much land you plant What's the use? Is it possible to pay rent?"

"They can't even afford to rent a cow now, not to mention that they haven't learned much Chinese. How can you let them know how important a cow is, and send them back to slaughter for meat."

Commodity grain makes sense.

Zou Yuanbiao has been away for a long time, and Chen Mu is still at his desk sketching a grand blueprint for the future of Asian agriculture. He wants to build a large-scale farm on this land with Ming villages as the mainstay. Agricultural technology, farm animals are also essential.

When Chen Mu put the idea of ​​drawing the horse on the Andalusian horse, he received news from the east and the west almost at the same time—two armies were approaching Acapulco by sea and land respectively.

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