"The people's strength is enough..." Chen Duzhong said: "More than 10,000 people planted thin fields, with limited harvests and changing people's minds. Fishing land is just not hungry, and they also hope to build industry and commerce, but what can I do? There are some clans over there, but the strength is not strong, because most of the people who live in the East vassal have no clan power, and people who cannot survive in the local area go to the East vassal to survive. Within a hundred years, they have not had a clan, and even if there are no local governments, I have the final say in what matters. Even if I open cotton fields in the name of mobilizing corvee labor, the people can only follow orders. As for the water source, the water volume of several rivers is enough, and it is enough to open some water diversion canals, and the cotton fields do not need much water to irrigate. The light and climate are really suitable..."

Xu Zi suddenly remembered that he was wrong to ask the water source according to the standards of farmland.

The characteristics of cotton crops are drought-resistant and not like stains. They have high requirements for light. This is suitable for Taiwan, but Taiwan is relatively humid and warm, which is not conducive to cotton growth. The cotton fields in Dawei are mainly produced in Jiangnan and Shandong. These two places are only Shandong or cotton-producing areas in later generations. There are very few cotton fields in Jiangnan in later generations, with only a small amount remaining and there is no large area of ​​cotton field base.

Because the northern region is drier, with sufficient light and dry moisture, it is more suitable for cotton growth, so the largest production base in later generations was in Xinjiang, where the geographical conditions are relatively superior. The cotton fields there are large planning, good varieties and high yields.

But this does not mean that cotton cannot be produced in places like Fujian and Dongfan. It is just that when industrialization conditions allow in later generations, group-based and large-scale industrial output can be achieved, which is more cost-effective.

In the world, there were not so many things to pay attention to, and even if there were some losses in production and quality, it was still quite worth doing.

Chen Duzhong felt this way. He thought carefully for a moment, and finally smiled and said, "Mingda is really a talented person. We didn't expect it? From planting cotton in March, then gathering ridges and dividing plants, spitting into flowers in three months, and harvesting cotton in July, one acre of land can harvest 400 kilograms of seed cotton and produce 100 kilograms of lint..."

"Uncle Jiu, I don't think it's appropriate to order the people to plant cotton fields with defense envoys." Xu Zixian interrupted Chen Duzhong's imagination and said, "The people are always afraid of change and are afraid of losing all their money. If they force the bean fields to be changed into cotton fields, or if they force the opening of new fields, the people will have resentment. The defense envoy is not a person in the people's proprietor, and supervise the people's farming, is there any official in the Dongfan?"

"No," Chen Duzhong calmed down and said, "But this matter is indeed not my job. Mingda reminded me that if it arouses civil unrest or causes complaints from the people, I will be in great trouble."

The defensive commander is only a military post and has no responsibility to manage the local area.

Xu Yingbin was the defense envoy of Qizhou at that time. His main responsibility was to command the three villages in Qizhou to defend against the attacks on Qishan thieves and manage local wing troops. This was the responsibility of the defense envoy.

If an imperial guard is ordered to be transferred to a certain place, the imperial guards are mainly commanded by the commander and commander, and the defense commander is not qualified to command the imperial guards.

Only the commander or the temporary commander can be set up to command the imperial guards, but also the commander of the wing army. The defense commander can only cooperate.

As for civil affairs, the defense envoy has never been involved in it. He can only cooperate with the local chief officials, restrain the army, and strictly enforce military discipline. This is considered a cooperation with local government affairs.

The Dongfan side has a vast land and a sparse population, with a population of more than 10,000 people. The Dingkou, which is not as large as the Dingkoukou in King Zhao, and is also alone overseas. If Taizu had not insisted on taking over the Dongfan and Penghu to establish counties, there would have been few people who would have been willing to take over the big island.

This is true. According to the history in Xu Zixian's memory, Penghu established a inspection department during the Zhiyuan period of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty did not establish a county. When the Ming Dynasty destroyed the country, Penghu was the inspection department, but after all, it was a formal land. If the Dutch wanted to take Penghu, the Fujian Navy of the Ming Dynasty fought with him and refused to give up an inch of land.

However, although there were fleets, personnel and fishermen in the East Vanguard, Taiwan, there was no scale and never included in the territory. The main reason was the alpine natives, with few mountains and high lands, dense forests, and not many specialties. After the Ming Dynasty fought with the Dutch, it clearly agreed that the Dutch would set up strongholds in the East Vanguard. This was also the reason why the Dutch began to build the city of Relanzha with the officials after they withdrew from Penghu.

At that time, the Spanish also set up colonies in Keelung, Taipei. Unlike their situation in South America, the Spanish were quite embarrassed in Taipei. They were controlled by the natives and were not a lively trade site. It was not easy to farm. At the beginning, the Spanish actually starved to death. Later, they made friends with local indigenous people, so they barely gained a foothold. However, they built a small earthen fort, and only after many years of operation, hundreds of people stayed in Taipei. When the Dutch drove away the Spanish, the other party did not resist fiercely. It was really useless and tasteless to eat.

The Dutch wanted Taiwan because the trade volume along the coast of Fujian was extremely large, and re-export trade needed a support point. They were more interested in Penghu, but if they could not get it, they could only settle for the second best.

Taiwan is also a strong support point for re-export trade with Japan.

Later, I found out that Taiwan Island is suitable for growing tea and there were also a large number of deer herds to make profits. The Dutch then managed it carefully on the island. By the time Zheng Chenggong attacked Taiwan, the Dutch's control on the island had reached the scale of immigrating thousands of people. If it was delayed, Taiwan would have it forever.

From this point of view, although Zheng Chenggong was desperate and hit a wall under the Qing Dynasty's ban on sea, he had no choice but to remember Taiwan, which his father had run in his early years. The original intention of the battle to attack Taiwan was only to gain a stable rear. However, after the attack on Taiwan, and after the attack on Taiwan, he moved a large number of Han people to the island, and established a prefecture, was the first step to truly make China have Taiwan, and his title of national hero is well deserved.

At this moment, the strength of the Great Wei Dynasty was weak, and it was also a burden to Taiwan. The navy had shrunk to a difficult situation where Penghu to Fuzhou, Quanzhou and other places could not support it. If it weren't for the establishment of the Dongfan camp for many years, there would have been a court discussion that would have given up.

This is also the origin of the embarrassing reason for Chen Duzhong's office in the Eastern Bible defence. He has neither economy nor manpower, nor commercial trade. He is a pure overseas abandoned child and cannot find any reason to make any progress.

Like Xu Zi can collect donations from the group, who will Chen Duzhong ask for? Xu Zi kills the thieves first, and praises the Fujian Road. The two governments must be rewarded for their merits. Who will kill Chen Duzhong? If he leads troops to the mountains to suppress the barbarians, no matter how many beheads, he will be impeached for being arbitrary border provocation. The more he kills, the more he will be scolded.

There are more than 100,000 people in the mountains that are thousands of miles deep. What should I do if I have nothing to do? These people have their own rules for their actions. Some of them are very rude and will take the initiative to go down the mountain to cut off the heads of Han people as a symbol of the bravery of tribes. After all, this behavior is a minority. There are more than a thousand soldiers in three villages, and how big is it to prevent a few people from cutting their heads? In recent years, there have been few such things. Perhaps Shengfan also knew that Han people were not easy to provoke. If they cut off their heads, they would cut off other tribes. They would no longer provoke Han people. The Han army guarding the Eastern Vanguard would not cause too much trouble to deal with their own tribes.

Even if the Gaoshan barbarian tribes attacked each other, as long as they did not involve immigration to the Great Wei military camp, the court's attitude would be allowed to go.

If it weren't for the Taizu system, and there were more than 10,000 residents on the island, I'm afraid the two prefectures would have considered giving up the Dongfan long ago, but they were just concerned about the people of the world and the emperor was unwilling to bear the charge of abandoning the land, so they kept doing this perfunctory.

"This matter is left to the Changwen Hou Mansion, and our Nan'an Hou Mansion can also join forces." Xu Zixian said: "The two families have collected their capital and purchased a large amount of high-quality agricultural tools, cotton seeds, and the expenses for land reclamation. The people have to work. We pay for burning wasteland and fertilizing soil and opening up new fields. After planning, we must connect them into fields, which is easy to make water conservancy, daily disease prevention, insect removal and other matters."

"You have to hire strong men to grow cotton all the time?" Chen Zhengbin said: "Those who get their wages may not do their best."

"Of course you can't hire it." Xu Zixian knew that it was not feasible to build a large farm in this era. The main reason was that the large farms in later generations actually used not much manpower. The aircraft were draining pesticides and harvesting various equipment. The manpower was relatively limited. A relatively reasonable wage level could be determined based on the price of agricultural products and labor costs. Moreover, through various advanced electronic products, the work results of workers can be effectively supervised. Now if a large farm is built, tens of thousands of workers are employed, and the supervision officials will have to be hundreds or thousands. The cost-effectiveness ratio is too low, and the refined management is not done properly. If you build a large farm, you will definitely have to pay death.

He smiled and said, "Of course, it's divided. One hundred kilograms of cotton is a stake. Four hundred kilograms of cotton is a stake. We collect cotton from the people at the time price. He has a lot of money, selling more, earning more, and we will bear the various expenses for early land reclamation. They owe it first and slowly pay it back with cotton. In the future, pay a portion of the cotton according to the share of the tenant farmers, and we will collect the rest at the time price. Since we have to do it, it's more generous, so that the people of the Dongfan will not be resentful. Even if they think they will mess up, they will take the money while secretly calling us an unjust grandson."

"That's right." Chen Zhengbin is a people-friendly official. He knows the virtues of the people. He does not have any practical benefits. He looks forward and hesitates. Once something goes wrong, he wants to tear the person in charge to pieces. He gives the benefit, but the matter is not done, but he is ridiculed for being a fantasy. If it really happens, he will smash his mouth and follow up quietly.

In the early days of the Dongfan period, the matter of growing cotton fields would definitely not receive real support from the people. You should know that the people were the most conservative and timid. As long as they could survive, they would be a group of sheep and would not dare to make any changes easily.

This is also the norm in agricultural society. People have too little ability to resist risks. Unless there are successful examples in front of you, they will never take risks easily.

Take crops as an example. Corn and sweet potatoes entered China in the late Ming Dynasty and were not planted on a large scale in China until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, which led to a big explosion of population growth, which in turn confirmed the Kangxi period. In fact, in terms of the true living standards, the Kangxi period was far inferior to the Wanli period, and the widespread promotion of new crops was the most important reason.

This promotion has nothing to do with the imperial government. It was only after a hundred years that people planted it one after another and gained a lot of experience, which made foreign crops such as corn widely accepted.
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