I was plagued by trivial matters yesterday, so I stayed up late and wrote this chapter. I couldn't hold on, so I went to bed first, so I didn't post it.

I stayed up late yesterday and had a stomachache again today. The doctor went to the clinic the day before yesterday, but I said that I had appendicitis. I had an injection, a drip, and took medicine for more than 50 yuan, and I had to go to see it for three consecutive days.

I went to another clinic in the morning and the diagnosis was gastroenteritis. The medicine I prescribed was only 5 yuan, and it improved immediately after taking it... I was so fucking depressed.

————————————In mid-April, it is the summer harvest season again.

Zhao Yan was riding on the road, watching the golden wheat on both sides, and the people busy rushing to harvest wheat in the fields.

As the harvest progressed, the singing also floated in the fields.

Yan Yuyao looked at the scene outside, her eyes full of hope for the future, and turned around and said happily to Zhao Yan: "Husband, it seems that the harvest this year is very good. If it were next year, what would it look like?"

"Next year will naturally be better." Zhao Yan smiled, and Yuan'er said suspiciously: "This year's test field really produces more than four stones?"

"It should be!" Zhao Yan nodded.

"Isn't that the wheat yield doubled next year?" Shalena said naively, and Zhao Yan smiled and said, "That's the experimental field, fertility and management are the best, so it will naturally not be that high if promoted."

"Oh!" Salina nodded half-understand or not.

While speaking, Zhao Yan came to the test field under the protection of a group of guards.

Song Yingxing was experimenting with the field and directing personnel to harvest wheat in the field. When Zhao Yan came, everyone stopped their work.

This year, Song Yingxing showed off his skills in research and did not even miss wheat cultivation. When the experimental field results were reported yesterday, Song Yingxing's experimental field actually reached more than four stones. Although it was not much different from the achievements made by other agricultural groups, he took the lead in one fell swoop.

As soon as Zhao Yan arrived, he immediately started visiting the experimental field.

As Zhao Yan saw with his own eyes, the wheat on a mu of land was harvested and weighed, and he actually harvested 400 kilograms, which is more than four stones.

Although there is still a big gap between the wheat yield per mu in later generations, it is gratifying to achieve such fruitful results at this stage.

The agricultural team of the Academy of Sciences is undoubtedly the most cared for, and the funds are also very sufficient, and the results have been fruitful in the past few years.

In addition to Song Yingxing, the highest yield variety, there are also some wheat varieties that have been grown for a shorter time, but they have been harvested.

Not far from the wheat planting, there is a large area of ​​specially transformed paddy fields. Rice has been planted in the fields. Rice is not that it cannot be planted in the north, and wheat is not that it cannot be planted in the south. It is just that the difference between dry land and paddy fields can be planted in Shandong. At the same time, there are also rice that can grow on dry land, but the yield is not as high as waterways.

More than 20 varieties of rice have been planted, with the highest yield per mu last year reaching more than 350 kilograms. This year, a large agricultural cultivation base will be established in Hainan, and the wild rice varieties are still far from the south.

Relatively speaking, wheat was cultivated the earliest, so the results were achieved. The progress of rice was relatively small, but there were also progress.

After several years of investment, the greatest achievements in breeding of livestock were found. Improved varieties of cattle, sheep, horses, chickens, ducks, geese and other livestock have emerged. There are so many new varieties that have been bred through hybridization, but most of them are still under observation.

In addition to hybridizing local varieties with local varieties, new varieties are also introduced from abroad, and this introduction is accompanied by the pace of expansion.

European livestock breeds can be purchased in California colonies, and with the expansion of the Shandong army, some livestock breeds from Mongolia and Siberia were also brought back to Shandong.

Livestock cultivation bases are everywhere, and the data to be recorded is the most extensive, but the progress is the greatest. The economic benefits of various livestock are greatly improved, and the new varieties are just needed to be promoted.

The increase in grain yield made Zhao Yan very happy. He stayed in the experimental field for most of the day before returning to Zhaojiabao.

Zhao Yan has a lot to do in Zhaojiabao, but it seems that he is not at all leisurely. Now his family is big and his business needs to be managed carefully.

Military power must be guaranteed first, so the military academy is a place where Zhao Yan goes every day, and he personally serves as the principal.

Zhao Yan came from later generations and naturally knew the important surname of military power. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty trained the new army, and the army became Yuan Shikai. After Yuan Shikai was ordered by the Qing Dynasty to go home to recuperate, the military power became Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, and then it evolved into a direct warlord and a late warlord. After Yuan Shikai came to power, he trained his own troops and became a lot of dirty things with Duan Qirui, especially in the competition for the Baoding Military Academy. Sun Yat-sen trained troops, but in the end he became Chiang Kai-shek.

Therefore, while Zhao Yan served as the principal of the military academy, he continued to go to the army to train with the soldiers, and arrested the officers and soldiers without delay.

As long as you have military power, you don’t have to be afraid of anything.

However, Zhao Yan did not go to the military camp as frequently as before. At this time, the military power was completely concentrated in his hands, and there was no problem in ideological transformation. Just go for a walk from time to time.

In addition to seizing military power, Zhao Yan is also constantly doing economic regulation.

This year, Shandong's industry has developed rapidly, with steam engines everywhere, and various factories are constantly emerging.

In order to facilitate share transfer, Zhao Yan officially established the Zhaojiabao Securities Trading Market in early May after several months of planning.

The securities trading market is a place where equity is transferred and corporate fundraising is facilitated.

However, the securities trading market opened by Zhao Yan is definitely not a place to make money for enterprises. In the future, China's stock market was basically used by enterprises to make money. Very few would pay dividends regularly. Most of them were roosters who were not allowed to invest in a long-term investment. Any long-term investment was simply a cloud. If you buy it home and don't sell it, you will be a pile of waste paper, and you won't be much more than a cent. In contrast, Western stock markets are different. Most companies have dividends every quarter.

A stock market without dividends is naturally a half-dead place because stocks are not very attractive and will only be priced when speculative demand is strong, but the bubble will always burst.

The list of the first batch of listed companies has been confirmed. Once the stock exchange is opened, the stocks of the first batch of sixteen listed companies will be listed for sale directly.

Most of these sixteen listed companies are owned by Zhao Yan. After several months of planning, the companies in Zhao Yan's hands have been reorganized and thirteen companies have been formed.

Denglai Textile, Longkou Ship, Denglai Building Materials, Denglai Steel, Denglai Power... These companies are expected to absorb 10 million yuan of funds, and the shares distributed are about 5% of the total, of which most of the shares of Denglai Glass Manufacturing Company will be sold.

The securities trading market is a very complex thing. Zhao Yan copied some systems from later generations, and the system was relatively complete in the initial stage.

But in terms of management, it still becomes complicated. Although it looks very troublesome, it is very convenient. For example, with the stock exchange, the glass factory on Zhao Yan can be taken off directly. The emergence of the stock exchange has also issued relevant laws and further clarified the company's shareholding regulations.

On the day the stock exchange opened, many people bought stocks and absorbed more than three million yuan in funds that day.

Over the past few months, Shandong's industry has developed rapidly and marine trade has entered a period of frequent use. A large number of products are produced and market demand is needed to digest these commodities.

Japan is one of the main dumping places. Merchants engaged in maritime trade even openly bought people in Japan. A Japanese slave may only cost two to three silver dollars in Japan, but transported back to Shandong to sell to the government for five silver dollars.

Textiles, iron products, and various daily necessities are the main products that dump Japan. Unlike those luxury goods, these products have taken away the income of Japanese farmers.

The loss of income led to peasant riots, which led to suppression. More and more Japanese people were caught in the Ming Dynasty to do hard work. Shandong Zhengfu dumped Japan while arresting Japanese slaves from Japan to build infrastructure.

In addition, with the past few months, Europeans in the Nanyang region were expelled, and merchants engaged in maritime trade could trade at their strongholds throughout East Asia.

Textiles in Shandong can be said to be dumped everywhere and are the most important products.

Textiles are an industry that requires a lot of labor. The profits may not be too high in the Ming Dynasty, but the profits outside the Ming Dynasty are astonishingly high.

Therefore, textiles are the main commodity, while tea and porcelain are also the main commodity.

In general, the goods sold to the outside world are divided into luxury goods and practical goods. Luxury goods are mainly silk, porcelain, etc., while practical goods are daily necessities.

There are also a large number of glass products mixed in. These glass products are all lifelike. The indescribable natives thought they were treasures. A glass ball was replaced with a piece of silver or even a gem of the same weight or even heavier weight.

The Ming maritime merchants can allow trade to range from Alaska in North America to the south to the strongholds opened in southeastern Australia.

The profits of engaging in maritime trade are not as high as before, because of the relevant taxes and the threshold for engaging in maritime trade have become lower, and there are more and more competitors.

However, the efficiency of sea trade has improved. If you buy a fly-scissor boat at a shipyard, you can reach California in more than a month and reach southeastern Australia in less than a month. If you head against the wind, it will double the time, but it is still faster.

After arriving, you can basically load and unload the goods quickly and then return immediately. If the monsoon is wrong, just adjust the trade location and you can go to the southeast, west and north.

There are also many goods that can be trafficked. It is inevitable to make money by transporting cotton, tea, silk and various daily necessities to California, but of course, all you earn is freight.

The entire maritime trade system has gradually changed toward the direction of ship owners' independent operations, that is, ship owners are not responsible for the purchase and sale of goods, but are only responsible for the cargo transportation.

The biggest employer is Shandong Zhengfu, which specifies how much money you will give to transport this ship of goods to a certain place.

It is not only the goods that are transported, but also the transporter.

Shandong Zhengfu is immigrating a large number of overseas immigrants. Immigration requires ships to transport people to the immigration place, which requires merchant ships to participate.

However, for some ship owners, the sea trade at this time is more profitable than before, and it is compared to business and navigation experience. If you have business and mind, it is very simple to make money.

In terms of trade with Westerners, in addition to trade with Europeans in the Americas, the strongholds in southern Sri Lanka became the area where the Ministry of Commerce and the Spanish traded.

The Ming Dynasty merchant ships first accepted official employment and transported the goods to Sri Lanka, and then the official sold the goods to the Portuguese.

After the Portuguese were seized by the Strait of Malacca, they were very afraid of the giant Ming Dynasty and could not have the idea of ​​confrontation.

After the First Fleet solved the Europeans in East Asia, it began to expand westward.

The main force of the First Fleet entered the Indian Ocean and occupied a trade stronghold at the mouth of the Ganges River in India in April, and began to build a bastion in the local area.

The Ministry of Commerce set up a shopping mall at the mouth of the Ganges River and began to contact Indian merchants. Trade began to develop, but the trade volume was not large at the beginning.

Spices from the South Asian subcontinent and Indochina Peninsula have become one of the local commodities.

The Arabs were once an important part of spice transportation, but the Arabs' maritime trading system had long been destroyed by the Europeans, and their status in spice transportation was also excluded by the Portuguese.

For the Ming Dynasty, everything takes time, and it also takes a long time to operate the huge market in India. Unfamiliarity with India is one of the main constraints. Both parties are not familiar with it and it takes a certain amount of time to contact it.

But the trade volume is increasing. The mall has established trade relations with some Indian merchants, and the mall is asking local governments to provide more goods.

The Ming Dynasty's commodities have huge market competitive advantages in India. India has a large population and is a huge market.

In contrast, trade on the Indochina Peninsula was progressing very smoothly, and the Ming merchants themselves had activities in this area.

However, many strongholds on the Indochina Peninsula have not established a complete trading system, and are still in the traditional maritime trade model. It is not like the Japanese Nagasaki and the California colonies, which can provide continuous supply of goods.

As the trade unfolded, Shandong Zhengxun seemed like a powerful gold-absorbing tool, and a large number of precious metals and rare treasures were transported back to the Ming Dynasty through trade.

The trade deficit is very huge. When the Ming Dynasty's goods were fully dominant, neither India nor Europe could have the same competitiveness to fight against the Ming Dynasty, and it was just entering and not leaving.

In May, the Governor of Luzon had already taken office. Su Buheng took out his hand from Luzon and led ten warships, twenty frigates, three thousand marines, and one thousand golden troops to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

The Dutch established strongholds in the Cape of Good Hope, thinking that they provided supplies to their passing merchant ships, and Su Buheng's goal was to capture South Africa.

According to the plan, a stronghold was established after the capture of South Africa. However, the gold troops conducted large-scale exploration of South Africa until gold was discovered.

...In America, war broke out in February.

The California colony had 40,000 troops, and the strength of the American fleet was greatly increased. Although the number of warships decreased from 31 to twenty-five, the number of frigates increased from ten to thirty.

The war between the California colonies and the Spanish colonists was very sudden, and the conflict between the two sides in Chile became increasingly intensified. In January, a small-scale firefight occurred between the two sides, causing three Marine soldiers to be injured.

It is precisely because of this conflict that the subsequent chain reaction was caused.

The Spanish could no longer tolerate the California colonies' continued involvement in their colonies, and the California colonies could not tolerate the Isthmus of Panama in the hands of the Spanish, and they could not help but be jealous of the gold and silver mines occupied by the Spanish.

On the tenth day of February, the California colonies declared war on Spain...

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!