"Ask a few agricultural experts to see if this situation is true. If it is true, check how many similar seedlings are densely populated in various places. When this time is right, move them out. At that time, try to use all the abandoned open spaces." Meng Xiang ordered the follower of the Rat.

This type of dense seedlings may not necessarily be common, especially for individual planting. However, one-third of the eight million mu of land had accumulated in the hands of the Pioneer Army, sweet potatoes were planted, and the density standards of the planting were almost the same. If this situation is true, many seedlings could be divided into one go.

Meng Xiang actually didn't want to use the hillside too much. Later generations promoted the return of farmland to forests, and it was also introduced in multiple forums. Hillside land should be a kingdom of natural vegetation. It is precisely because foreign economy and food crops, which are drought-resistant, barren-resistant, high-yield, and high-efficiency, have occupied the land on the hillside, which led to the destruction of the local vegetation system, and some vegetation even became extinct. The chain-like influences birds and beasts, and thus affects the entire biosphere.

But at this time, all this is ignored. Those who have not experienced famine personally cannot imagine how great the threat of hunger is to people.

Meng Xiang's desk piled up on his desk about famine, which always gave him a sense of crisis. In addition, the grain transported from Jiaodong can support the base until June and July. However, if there is an accident in summer grain, there will be no place to find a grain gap in the second half of the year, and the Japanese army will inevitably be more strict with the vanguard army.

"Who is that person?" Zhang Changgong waited until Meng Xiang and others left before he asked Li Fugen, a manager of the farm.

Li Fugen, who was injured and demobilized, smiled enviously and said, "This is Marshal Meng of our vanguard army. You are lucky. With your suggestion, Marshal Meng will reward you with a thousand large copper circles." Meng Xiang told people to wait for a while to reward Zhang Changgong, which is also a way to buy bones. Anyway, the cost of giving copper circles is very low.

"What? Is this Marshal Meng?" Zhang Changgong didn't care about the 1,000-large copper circle. He just reached out and touched the cigarette in his pocket, muttering in his mouth, "He is Marshal Meng!"

"Zhang Changgong!" Meng Xiang was also muttering his name in the car.

"Mr. Chen, in Shandong, is the division of rural farmers divided by landlords, rich peasants, middle peasants and poor peasants?" Meng Xiang asked Chen Hansheng tentatively, sitting beside him. Meng Xiang was very alert to his identity.

"We generally divide farmers into tenant farmers, rented farmers, stewards farmers, self-cultivated farmers and landlords." Chen Hansheng did not pay attention to the Zen strategy in Meng Xiang's words, but saw Meng Xiang listening in a slanted ear and continued to explain,

"The so-called tenant farmers are farmers who do not have land to cultivate other people's fields and allocate them to the landlords according to the harvest. The tenant farmers have a small amount of about ten acres and more than forty acres. When distributing the harvest, the landlords will receive 70% of the landlords and the tenant farmers will share 30%. There are also half-allocated, called large farming. At that time, the landlords will be responsible for the other donations such as livestock, seeds, and fertilizers.

Renting farmers means that they directly agree on the rent in advance based on how much money per mu. At that time, the quality of the harvest has nothing to do with the landlord. The rent of ordinary land in the first two years ranges from one yuan to two yuan per mu, and is paid in two quarters a year. If it is short, it will be exempted. The period is generally three years. The maturity is renewed according to the market conditions.

Most of the servants are poor farmers who are employed by others and work for them. There are two types of long-term workers. Long-term workers are usually calculated annually. After busy years, all the food and drinks are taken from the landlords, but in addition to farming, they also have to chop wood and feed livestock, which is more tiring than tenant farmers. Zhang Changgong is like this. It is not easy to survive for more than 40 years.

Short-term workers are counted in daily or monthly. Every time during the busy farming season, there are many temporary workers in cities and villages. The commissions are agreed upon by the main commission and are generally paid on a daily basis.

There are also self-cultivating farmers, that is, farmers who farm on their own and their own fields.

There is another type called semi-self-cultivating farmers. One is that they plant a part of their own fields, rent or hire workers to plant another part; the other is that they lack land and rent other fields. Similar to these semi-cultivating farmers, they generally account for the largest number.

Of course, there are also divisions similar to what you said, including the divisions of large farmers, middle farmers, small farmers, and tenant farmers.

This big farmer with more than 500 acres of land is the landlords of other categories."

"Where are there many landlords?" Meng Xiang continued to ask.

"As far as Shandong is concerned, there are not many landlords. A survey conducted in 1934 AD showed that only 1.6% of households with land accounted for more than 100 mu. But at the same time, 39.3% of households with land accounted for less than 10 mu. But this is just a matter of one's own opinion. The survey was not very wide." Chen Hansheng said directly without hesitation. The first thing to do is to be serious in learning is to be serious.

"How many self-cultivated farmers are there?" Meng Xiang has been analyzing this issue, which is some of his measures that involve the future.

"As for Shandong, it has been steadily improving in recent years. When I studied it in 33 years, it accounted for 70%, and in 36 years it reached 75%. This is also related to the vigorous development of industry and commerce. Overall, there are fewer and fewer landlords occupying a large area of ​​land than in the late Qing Dynasty. In the past century, the war and property have been distributed many times, which has dispersed a lot of landlords in the early Qing Dynasty. The rise of industry and commerce in the late Qing Dynasty allowed them to invest their funds in more profitable industry and commerce. Another thing is what I mentioned. I have seen an American report that the arbitrary nature of American crops to wastelands and wastelands allowed farmers to leave

The landlords were opened and the harvest on a small amount of land could support the family. The prosperous era of the Qing Dynasty was the time for the promotion of American crops. This was also a reason why landlords occupied a large area of ​​land since the late Qing Dynasty. This also seems to make some sense, but I still do not fully agree with his point of view." Chen Hansheng changed the topic, "Because what I am talking about is the situation in Shandong. As far as the country is concerned, the gap between the rich and the poor, and the situation where a few people occupy a large amount of land has not improved, but has worsened. Moreover, the exploitation faced by farmers is not only from landlords, but also from commercial capital and usury capital."

Meng Xiang frowned slightly. He was not very interested in this. He told him that he only believed in his own judgment in various things in later generations. He also had a general understanding of the information Chen Hansheng mentioned before. This time, he only understood more about it, and even tried Chen Hansheng.

The situation in Shandong is quite special. There are not many large landlords, but the contradiction of large populations and small land cannot be effectively resolved. Simple equal land division is not an effective way to solve it.

The car stopped slowly.

"General, we are here!" Mao Shiba, who was driving, reminded that it is not suitable to call him commander in front of people, so Meng Xiang is called him general, which feels more majestic than the commander.

"Let's go and see the tractor we assembled ourselves!" Meng Xiang interrupted Chen Hansheng with a smile and invited him to visit the first tractor together.

Some time ago, during the busy farming period, Meng Xiang saw the crowds of people busy plowing the land due to insufficient oxen, and he couldn't help but think of the tractors in later generations.

Tractors grew stronger with the tank industry. After a little training, tractors can become tankers urgently needed by the army, and when a tractor factory changes its weapons, they will be tanks.

With the support of the base, Meng Xiang did not need to build a tractor factory by himself, so there was a large number of tanks supplied. However, the base was not produced. Meng Xiang thought of modifying it.

Speaking of modification, Meng Xiang had already made such a plan. After experimenting nearly a hundred times, he finally figured out a little bit of the rules not long ago.

After each weapon is damaged, it can be repaired through a repair shop. Of course, this requires a maintenance fee. According to the difficulty, it is only one tenth to one percent of the cost of the weapon. This does not include the cost of the part. If a part is disassembled and the other parts are intact, it is also necessary to charge the base discount price and one percent maintenance fee of the part. In this way, after repairing the weapon, there will be a complete component. Of course, all the weapons can be disassembled and used.

At first glance, I seemed to have more ways to make money, but with Meng Xiang's in-depth research, I finally found that the base always has a way to make up for loopholes. The discount for replacing parts for each weapon is from the number of times. Every time I change it, the repair fee will increase a little, more than one tenth, and it will suddenly increase to a repair fee of ten points each time, which will continue to rise until the actual cost price of parts in reality.

If the cost price is in reality, it is sometimes better to use the preferential price of the base to produce complete sets of weapons. But after all, there is a way to modify, especially the particularly low discounts in the first ten times, which is still very cost-effective.

Of course, Meng Xiang didn't know that this was the future base for the safety and performance of weapons. If a weapon is repaired many times, its performance and safety will inevitably be greatly reduced. You must replace it with a new weapon or more advanced weapon to speed up the frequency of equipment elimination.

The tractor is the first test piece that Meng Xiang has figured out this rule.

For prototypes, Meng Xiang did not use advanced tanks, but used the Renault ft-17 tanks from World War I, not for anything else, just for the sake of cheapness and speed bonus during production.

Tractors do not require speed, weapons, and long-distance running and good off-road performance. The Renault ft-17 tank should be said to have good balance among all kinds of tanks during World War I, and the flexibility was the best at that time. Meng Xiang did not know about this, nor did he know that the Renault ft-17 tank started in 2017 and served until 44 years. He just chose this more suitable model in a comparative test.

Although the custom-built crew of the Renault ft-17 tank is 2 people, it can drive alone, which is very suitable for the tractor operator's maximum speed. The speed of 10 kilometers per hour and the maximum trip of 39 kilometers have been removed. After dismantling most of the armor and weapons with a thickness of 6 to 22 mm, the tractor does not need this. Instead, it has a ability to pass a vertical wall of 0.61 meters and a trench of 1.98 meters, which is suitable for wild lands, and it is easy to deal with those wastelands.

The weapons that were removed were sold directly, and the thin-skinned armor became good steel for making ordinary agricultural tools, while the thick armor was treated separately and used as good plates in other places.

"You can try it here!" Zhi Bingyuan said as he pointed to the interface. Wu Xianggan, who was squatting beside him, was adjusting with his instructions. Sure enough, the porch that could not fall just now was successfully put down. These porchs were made of thick armor.

"Mr. Zhi, how are you doing?" Meng Xiang smiled and greeted.

Zhi Bingyuan, who later became Ford in China, was still known as the manager, director and chief engineer of Shanghai Xinzhong Engineering Co., Ltd., and was a well-known person in society at this time, so it was difficult for him to invite him. But when Zhao Shuxing, who was invited, proposed to develop the first tractor, he did not expect that he agreed happily.

After several battles by the Pioneer Army, the Pioneer Army was no longer unknown, and there were endless people coming to join us every day. The slogan of striving to fight on the front line of the War of Resistance against Japan was very attractive.

The first agricultural machinery factory of the Pioneer Army was divided into front and rear factories. The rear factory was the redesigned repair workshop of the base repair factory. There, using various tools from the repair factory, the Renault ft-17 tank was dismantled and removed unnecessary parts, and then the useful objects and frames were left, and they were transported directly to the front factory not far away, where Zhi Bingyuan and others began to install various auxiliary equipment and re-modulate.

So far, only three have been produced experimentally.

"It's time to start." Zhi Bingyuan said excitedly. After all, this is the first tractor assembled by Huaxia itself.

With a flag waving and amid the roar of the three engines, the three tractors began their debut together on three reserved wastelands.

"So fast!" Wu Xianggan, who was holding a watch next to him, couldn't help but sigh that he had just graduated from Jinling University last year. After staying at school and transferred to the brigade, he heard the news about the Pioneer Army and came to join the army. For the sake of protecting these talents, although they were also absorbed and joined the Pioneer Army, they were in a separate queue. Now with the establishment of the First Agricultural Machinery Factory, he, who was studying agricultural machinery major, has been transferred here.

"One acre of land only takes 20 minutes." Wu Xianggan shouted loudly. Although the tractor is still continuing to cultivate the land, the cultivation time for the one acre of land has come out.

"One is more than 20 points, one is more than 21 points, and one is more than 22 points, an average of about 21 minutes." Zhi Bingyuan nodded excitedly. What does this mean? A ox is so tired that it will be too tired to plow two acres of land a day and loses weight. Now this iron ox can cultivate about 70 acres of land all day. Of course, the machinery cannot plow 24 hours a day, but this efficiency is still thirty times that of oxen.

"Continue the test, continue for 6 hours of test!" Zhi Bingyuan shouted loudly.

After shouting, he said to the assistant next to him: "Let's go and see how the effect of this rotary tillage is?"

After measurement, he nodded with satisfaction and shouted: "The farming effect also meets the requirements!"

The people next to them began to cheer loudly, and the firecrackers that had been prepared long ago began to set off.

"That's great, it's great." Zhi Bingyuan looked excitedly at the tractor running on the field, his eyes a little wet, but he still felt a little regretful in his heart. This tractor was only assembled and produced by the Chinese, not all of which were produced by their own products, just like the engine of this tractor, which is French.

"We need to have our own engine!" The more we come into contact with machinery, the more we feel the importance of the core engine, and we can't help but make up our minds to complete his diesel engine.

"Not bad!" Meng Xiang looked at Chen Hansheng, who had already run into the field to check the farming effect, and smiled.

With the tractor, farming efficiency has been accelerated and manpower and animal power has been saved a lot. More people can be drawn to join the army, and the food and feed consumption of plowing oxen can be reduced, and the development of pigs, sheep or carnivorous cattle can be transformed.

"Other agricultural machinery is also needed, such as a combine harvester!" Meng Xiang pinched his chin and said.

Combined harvesters were used in large quantities in the 1920s, but they were still legendary in China. With ready-made references and base power support, they did not develop very slowly, but they were much more complicated than tractors.

"When harvesting, you must be prepared for rain and Japanese. The harvesting must be accelerated. It is good to try two vehicles." Meng Xiang thought, but the side effects behind mechanization are also great, and a large amount of surplus labor will inevitably be generated in rural areas.

"Now, it's not enough to consume by fighting. It seems that we have to find another way." Meng Xiang was also having a headache. Many things were linked one by one. Thinking of the freedom of many officials in later generations, do they usually not consider these things?

"If you want high agricultural output, fertilizers are indispensable, and seeds must be selected earlier." Meng Xiang's ears came from some quick-paced voices from the propaganda team students. These student troops, which also exist within the Pioneer Army's army, have some emotions about going to propaganda everywhere instead of going to the front line, their enthusiasm for changing the backward appearance of China still makes them think of ways to do it better.

Infected by their youthful and lively life, Meng Xiang couldn't help but move his hands and feet, but in his mind, he thought of the still calm front line of Xuzhou.

The Central Army is still continually mobilizing troops, and the *** people are also continually mobilizing troops. There are only small teams of people on both sides to confront each other, but the calmer it is, it contains a more destructive explosion. The real war seems to be coming soon.

"Will history develop in the original direction? Old Jiang and Old Li want to have another perfect retreat?" Meng Xiang kept guessing the future trend, but secretly made up his mind, "No matter what, I will fight!"
Chapter completed!