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Chapter 213 Song Ping

As Haimen Town changed hands, the connections from land were opened up, and the various spoils obtained from Annan can be quickly transported back.

The latest news from Canton is still being delivered one after another, mainly about production content. Following Chaoxun, dozens of military farms scattered in the Pearl River Basin have also entered the second season's harvest. Although the estimated harvest is only two-thirds to three-quarters of the same geological capacity in the Jiangnan region, the annual output of various two-season rice to three-season rice will be at least one or two.

The reason why there are still two seasons of rice is that the top dressing in these places cannot keep up with the ground force in these places, and only some beans and vegetables that can cultivate land and restore fertility can be interplanted as a transition to fill the gap;

Nowadays, in addition to the planned collection of folk composting and green manure fermentation in Chaoyun area, as well as the collection of struvites on the island, there are also highly organized collective labor and livestock use, which can meet the needs of high-intensity and intensive labor investment in three-season rice. Other places can only depend on the distance from the river alluvial area, and there are mixed between the two to three seasons.

But despite this, it is still enough to be encouraging; because the arable land occupied by these military farms has already occupied 140,000 hectares and a little more; it accounts for about 30% of the developed fields in the Pearl River Basin, and most of the officials and large households close to the Pearl River Water System occupy the Upper Field.

Therefore, under a relatively unified management strategy and pace, even if the rice in the two seasons can produce about three to four stones of grain per mu, it can be converted into dried and unshelled and roughly milled rice, which is about two and a half pounds; if it is converted into a market kilogram, it is more than three hundred kilograms in later generations. In addition, there are some interplanted and relayed beans and vegetables as supplements, so the proportion of the demand for self-retained rations in the military farm is not that high.

Therefore, according to the distribution rules set in advance, it is basically based on the 532-cent of the fields occupied by the local treasury;

Since all the grain is divided in half first, half is paid to the public and half is left in the military farm for reproduction reserves; one of them becomes collective public emergency expenses; the remaining 40% of the food and seeds still have surplus, but then it is distributed to each specific household as a reward for completing basic production and exceeding the task indicators. Although the number is small, it is a relatively positive encouragement.

The public servants also had 32, and only 30% were directly stored in the warehouse; while the remaining 20% ​​were used as daily support for various yamen established by the rebel army and all levels. Under the names of several envoys such as Yingtian and Duzhi, another account was set up for distribution and management. It was almost the same thing that Zhou Huaian and Lin Yan discussed.

Despite this, this was directly paid to the 30% share under the control of the left-behind department (about nine dou to one stone), and after multiplying the base of about 130,000 hectares of fields, it became quite considerable and huge profits.

In addition, those private fields that are farmed and operated by themselves must also be handed over to the left-behind department according to the estimated output of 40% to 50% of the land capacity, and the grain is handed over to the left-behind department as the basic land title. Although after the efficiency and loss management problems have been transferred, they can only be stored at most 30% of the warehouse, and they must be redistributed between the left-behind department and a few divisional responsibilities; it is also a considerable amount.

These are not counted as outputs of several irregular belt coastal plains; especially the Chaoshan Plain and the Eastern Guangdong Plain, which are the private areas of Zhou Huaian, are significantly higher than the average level and are directly digested internally. There are also seafood fished at fishery production sites in various coastal areas, which can provide at least 200,000 kilograms of dried salted fish and other derivative products per month, such as shrimp paste, crab paste, dried moss, etc.

After all, with the productivity of this era, there is no need for a fishing moratorium. As long as there are enough large ships and mesh equipment, and with experienced personnel, you can always gain a lot.

There are also areas west of Duanzhou that have not been thoroughly cleaned up and have a lot of residual wealthy households and are under heavy burdens. On the basis of generally subjugating and maintaining the status quo, each of them can provide 30,000 to 50,000 stones of variegated food to the rebel army.

This is the result of a little rest after the war, coupled with the smooth roads and bandit bans, which led to a recovery rebound effect that was suppressed to the bottom of the productivity. In addition, after evaluating Jiaozhou, a considerable proportion of rice output can be restored, and the overall situation under the rebel army seems to be developing in a positive direction.

In addition, he has sent people to look for mines near Haimen Town. If nothing unexpected happens, the famous Hongji Coal Mine and the supporting Lianggang will be near a certain coastline; this is a super-large open-pit coal mine with extremely shallow buried and the largest coal mine on the Indochina Peninsula, which is rich in high-quality anthracite suitable for steam power use.

Moreover, the mining cost is extremely low, and there is no technical content or preconditions. As long as there is enough manpower and tools, basic mining operations can be completed by manual labor alone. At this time, the captured officers and soldiers and the men and women who broke the village will come in handy. What needs to be paid is the cost of maintaining the minimum demand for food and tool wear.

Then go north through the canal connected by Haimen Town, or load and transport it along the road to Jiaozhou Dagang (Bijing Port) for shipment and shipping. In the end, it can become an important catalyst for factory workshops in the surrounding areas of Guangzhou and other people's livelihood purposes.

For example, the mining of open-pit veins of Shilu Iron Mine in Hainan has already made up for it; now, taking advantage of this opportunity to occupy Jiaozhou Dagang, the area nearby where the Hongji Coal Mine, which is famous for its high-quality open-pit in the future, has completed the prerequisite for the further expansion of the Lingnan Primary Iron Industry.

For example, the four major mining areas in the Lingnan region in later generations, Yunfu, Shilu, Qujiang, Fanshan, and Zhou Huaian, have been privately photographed and explored; but with the technical level of this era, only some shallow or open-pit mines close to the surface, as long as you organize enough manpower and tools to dig downwards.

In addition, there are some mines with small scale and limited output, such as those affiliated to the imperial court, which are scattered among the states of Mei, Shao, Chao, Xun, Duan, Guang, Xin, En, and Tongguan Silver Field, Tongkeng Copper Field, Taiping Silver Field, Huaide Tin Field, Huangkeng Silver Field, Dahu Silver Field, Dafu Lead Field, Shikeng Lead Field, Fengji Silver Field, Yang Anxi Field and other mining smelting are specially used to produce some precious metals and special minerals.

There are currently a few major projects that can be collectively carried out in Lingdong. One is the smelting industry in Nanhai County (no longer limited to steel products), the other is the textile printing and dyeing industry in Guizhou (Kapok, Kabuki, Ramie) and Hainan (Sea Island Cotton), and the other is the large-scale official and private ceramic industry of Chaoxun Generation;

Never underestimate the existence of the latter two; this is the main foreign trade flagship product that has lasted for more than two thousand years of maritime Silk Road and has always been prosperous and even become the pre-inducing agent of the Opium War in modern times; it is also a gold-absorbing stone used to replace the inflow of large amounts of precious metals and other resources. By the way, there are tea production that has begun to take shape. Lingnan has many hills and hills and slopes suitable for growing tea.

Although it is in the ranking of domestic tea production areas, it is an unknown state of bottom for thousands of years; in the "Tea Classic" by the tea saint Lu Yu, it is only ranked last after Shannan, Huainan, western Zhejiang and Jiannan, and is known as Fuzhou, Jianzhou, Shaozhou and Xiangzhou; but it cannot withstand the huge demand for nearby foreign trade exports.

You should know that those barbarians and ghosts who are outside do not mind the subtle taste differences of tea like the Tang people; whether they are the Indians, the great cannibals, the Persians, or the farther-distance Thais and Flynns, they almost treat things as important oriental elixirs and necessities; and they are in a state of hunger and thirst that is unsaturated in the market for a long time.

In addition, there are also the incense and jewelry processing industries near Guangzhou, bronze ware, lacquerware and bamboo and wood products, embroidery and silk weaving, papermaking, and even mining, salt, shipbuilding and other industries that have long occupied a position in China, which are all potential investment directions.

Therefore, before the arrival of the rebel army, there were tens of thousands of people just registering various shops, businesses, markets, as well as criminals, slaves, official households, miscellaneous households and other names engaged in related industries. For this reason, a taxation method was even invented, which was to collect handmade products they produced at a certain proportion, or to offset them at a discount.

Some of them are emerging industries created out of thin air by Zhou Huaian, such as alkali production. Before the industrialization stage of the 19th century, one was natural alkali, which originated from alkaline lakes; the other was plant alkali, which burned plants (such as seaweed or other salt-resistant coastal plants, sea wool) into ashes, soaked, filtered, and concentrated crystallized extracts. This is also the basic prerequisite for industrial production such as glass, soap, and leather.

In addition, it was only a dozen years since Gao Pian opened up the "Tianweiyao". Most of the craftsmen who participated in the cleaning and unblocking the river when mining the canal should be still alive at this time. If they could collect it in their hands, it would be a valuable potential wealth.

Therefore, as time goes by, the dividends and potential long-term benefits obtained from attacking Jiaozhou this time have accumulated like snowballs. After clearing the peripheral forces of Jiaozhou, before entering the territory of Songping, the fork estuary of the upper reaches of the Zhuluan River was stopped, and two days were spent to reorganize and sort out the armed miscellaneous streams, and even guide the simple formation queue.

Although it is impossible to improve their combat effectiveness overnight, it is also to avoid the situation where the incompatibility and lack of echoing each other, and when coordinated, they will run around like headless flies when attacked. At least it is convenient to stop losses in time when needed, or suppress and clear them.

Therefore, nearly 4,000 Turkish troops formed by more than 20 powerful and wealthy coalition forces, which were submissive to the local area, were divided into three divisions of Fengzhou, Wu'anzhou and Changzhou according to the village area, with Qu Chengyu and Zhang Biao, the strongest subordinates as the chief and deputy chief managers; they were responsible for leading a small number of capable combat soldiers and divided their troops to clear away the remaining hostile forces and the strongholds of Turkish barbarians.

Then there were more than 2,000 young and middle-aged people who came to join the route one after another. They were divided into ten regiments according to the habits of the Nufeng Camp, and they were left behind in the rear road and provided labor services such as building, building, raising grain, picking up horses, and transporting.

In this way, the fifth battalion, which is the most combative, will be gradually liberated more.
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