Starting from Guiyang County and heading north along Weishui, all the way is the territory of the Xiangjiang Agricultural Reclamation Division.
They use the so-and-so regiment and so-and-so battalion as their designation, which is commonly used internally. To the outside world, it is generally called a so-and-so farm. The farm where the headquarters of the Fourth Regiment of the Xiangjiang Agricultural Reclamation Division where Shu Changyi is located is called Anfu Farm, located between Yongxing and Weiyang.
Between counties, on both sides of Feishui, a tributary of Weishui.
According to Shu Changyi's introduction, they generally carry out land reclamation in two steps. The first is to open up wasteland. In addition to clearing up wasteland, they also have to compete with local mountain people and indigenous people. It is better on the Xiangjiang River side. Most of them compete with mountain people for land and water.
.Often after the fight, the mountain people come down the mountain themselves and become a member of the farm.
The Yuanjiang and Lishui sides are the most intense.
The mountain barbarians there are all in one village, with a large number of people. Many prefectures and counties set up by the former Dazai Zihou Gong (Zhang Dun) have nominally penetrated into Yuanzhou (Zhijiang), Huangzhou (Xinhuang)
), Jingzhou (Jingxian), Tongdao, Baojing (Baojing) and Fuzhou (Longshan), but in fact the immigration power is weak and they are often harassed by the surrounding mountain barbarians.
After the colonization group passed, the more land was cultivated and the products became richer, the more jealous the mountain barbarian leaders became. Greedy, they secretly sent barbarians to burn, kill and loot.
According to Shu Changyi, he has old comrades there, and he said in the letter that they are fighting every day. Even if they go to the fields to farm, they always carry swords, guns, bows and crossbows with them, or put them where they are handy. If the situation goes wrong, pick them up and fight.
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There was an official in the Song Dynasty who was full of military virtue. How could he let these reclamation regiments fight alone? He ordered the Privy Council to draw elite troops from nearby garrisons and soldiers from Lianghu County to fight deeply in the Yuanjiang and Lishui areas.
With these strong professional soldiers participating in the war, the colonization regiment naturally became stronger as the war progressed, and they directly defeated the nearby mountain barbarians. The greedy headman village leader directly killed the mountain barbarians, and the mountain barbarians were directly incorporated into the colonization regiment as mountain people.
Not only that, after several years of mountainous battles, the Song Dynasty trained a mountain infantry regiment that could adapt to mountain and jungle combat. More than half of the Nanning Army's troops were drawn from this basis.
After clearing up wasteland and stabilizing the surrounding environment, the second step is to divide the land. The land will be divided according to the amount of credit during the land reclamation period. For those who are killed in battle or die of illness, the credit will be inherited by the family records.
The Yu Heng Ministry and Hunan County directly issued the land certificate. From now on, the land will belong to their family for generations. Unless they commit the three major crimes of rebellion, treason and treason, they have no right to deprive it of it.
Of course, if you want to sell it yourself, neither the court nor the government can stop it.
Shu Changyi is well-known in the Xiangjiang Farm Reclamation Division. No matter which farm he goes to, almost everyone knows Shu Jiuzhi from Anfu Farm. When they hear that he is his friend, they all politely invite him to stay for dinner and at least have a cup of hot tea.
During the chat over tea and meals, Su Dingbo learned that in addition to cultivating rice fields, the farm would also grow other crops. The three immortal seeds brought back from Yingzhou, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, were the first to be cultivated by the reclamation group.
Large-scale farming.
The Crop Research Institute of the Gewuyuan has a branch in Tanzhou, which has dozens of researchers who specialize in guiding the planting of the reclamation groups.
It seemed that the three immortal seeds were grown very well in the pioneering group. On any farm, there would be dried sweet potatoes, polenta and mashed potatoes to entertain Su Dingbo.
The wine we drink with meals is also "Daqu" brewed from sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn and other grains. Different water quality will produce different tastes of Daqu, with different styles, but they are all produced and drunk by ourselves, and will not be sold.
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Su Dingbo discovered that there is a big advantage in working in a reclamation group or on a farm. You don’t have to pay alcohol tax to make your own wine.
Liquor tax was previously an important property tax in the Song Dynasty. Since the New Deal, dozens of wineries have been established to produce wine on a large scale. Liquor taxes have been collected from people's homes, but the tax has been reduced - but if there are reports, they will still be collected.
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However, local government tax collectors would not dare to collect wine taxes from reclamation groups or farms, even if they were reported.
If the barbarian who mistook you for intrusion is dealt with, to whom can you complain? - It is under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council.
Su Dingfang did not forget his mission and inspected local products.
In Hunan and Jiangxi counties, the most productive people are probably the reclamation groups, now called farms. In addition to growing rice, sweet potatoes and other miscellaneous grains, they also grow mulberry, raise silkworms, grow tea and make porcelain according to local conditions.
Cotton is also grown on a large scale in plain areas.
There are already silk factories, yarn mills and cotton cloth factories in Tanzhou, Dingzhou and Hengzhou. Silk cocoons and cotton from various farms are transported to these places and turned into silk and cotton cloth.
It also produces tea, porcelain, preserved fruits, etc., um, as well as boar bristles and tung oil.
These two things may seem inconspicuous, but they are actually used in many industries. For example, shipbuilding requires a lot of bristle brushes to brush tung oil on ship boards and do the first waterproofing treatment.
With the large-scale application of firearms, the need for bristle brushes is increasing - especially in the navy, which is indispensable for cleaning the barrels of naval guns. Moreover, after the artillery fires several times, the temperature of the barrel is very high, and the brushes are easily damaged.
Yes. Consumables!
In addition to the navy, apart from the ships of the Song Dynasty on the sea, except for fishing boats, which civilian ship does not have a few cannons on it? - There are too many people who care about the wealth on board.
Su Dingbo made another note in his notebook. Guangzhou is already the largest shipbuilding base and shipping center in the South China Sea, and the demand for this kind of material is huge.
Follow the river to Hengyang, Hengzhou, where the Xiangshui River and the Weishui River merge. This is the complete Xiangjiang River.
In fact, the best route from Hunan to Lingnan is the one opened during the Pre-Qin Dynasty - the Xiang River goes south, passes through Yongzhou, passes through the Ling Canal dug during the Pre-Qin Dynasty in Xing'an, connects to the Li River, goes all the way eastward, and joins the Xijiang River in Wuzhou
, went straight to Guangzhou.
It's just that this road is convenient, but it's a little detoured.
No matter what, Hengzhou is now an important town in the south of Hunan County. There are many factories in Hengyang County, most of which rely on the production of raw materials from the farms under the Xiangjiang Agricultural Reclamation Division.
When he arrived in Tanzhou, Su Dingbo took a boat and traveled along Yunze Lake to Dingzhou, Yuezhou and other places. The information in the book was more detailed.
In Hunan County, the products from the farms of the land reclamation division can well meet part of the needs of the maritime merchants in Guangzhou Port.
"Green Gourd Sword Fairy"
——The quality of silk is not bad, but the output is far behind that of Jiangdong and Donghai. It can only be supplemented in terms of type and quantity. There are some cotton cloths in large quantities, but most of them satisfy the needs of Lianghu, Bashu and other places.
Common people use it, but not many can use it for sea trade.
Tea, porcelain, boar bristles and tung oil can become the main products going south.
Su Dingbo calculated item by item and began to draft the draft of the report. Ye Xun needed a detailed business investigation report for him.
Suddenly, someone from the Yuezhou government came in a hurry to find him.
"Are you Su Dingbo, general manager of Jinli Steel Plant?"
"Yes."
"The official family will pass you on!"
Su Dingbo was startled, "Official family? Did he pass it on to me? Why did I go to Kaifeng to go to Kaifeng?"
"How do we know? But the official family is not in Kaifeng, but in Jiangxia. The official family has told you to go to Jiangxia to meet the saint. Hurry, leave as soon as possible."
People from the Yuezhou government urged. This chapter has been completed!
