Chapter 623 The sugar industry will be the economic pillar of future officials!
To be precise, the 50,000 to 60,000 new recruits who emerged are not all from the four prefectures of northern Shaanxi. No matter how exaggerated it is, it is impossible for so many people to join the army. These recruits come from the entire Shaanxi-Gansu region.
Anyway, more than 60% of the army are soldiers from other areas of Shaanxi and Gansu, and more than half of the people who come to the recruitment office to join the army are people who came from other places to join the army.
Traveling long distances to join the army, and on a large scale, this is a phenomenon that is difficult to see in other areas. In other places, soldiers are basically recruited locally or from refugees. Few of them travel all the way like Qin soldiers.
Come and join the army.
The Qin soldiers were so proactive, on the one hand, to eat food, and on the other hand, to advance their careers. They have a tradition of advancing their careers by joining the army. Even when the Ming army was least promising, there were a large number of Qin people who wanted to advance through this channel.
, not to mention that the imperial court now treats its soldiers so well.
Zhu Youjian felt that with this attitude, as long as there was enough time, he could even poach Sun Chuanting! It was fun to think about it. But I don't know if it is feasible in practice?
This year is the tenth year in the Ming Dynasty after time travel. Zhu Youjian really wants to summarize the ten years he has spent. Generally speaking, there have been successes and failures in these ten years. The biggest success lies in the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.
An army with considerable combat power and standardized system was formed, and then an industrial production center was formed mainly in the capital and Beizhili, which changed the situation of no production in the north of the Ming Dynasty. The biggest failure, of course, is that to this day,
The entire country is still torn apart and wars continue. In other aspects, the scene can only be described as lively and lively. As for whether a fundamental turnaround has been achieved, it is difficult to evaluate now. Take the rectification of official affairs as an example.
It has changed the official style and political style, but Zhu Youjian's understanding of the officials' urinary behavior will return to the original state if they are not careful.
Another example is tax reform. The key to this is not the system, but the ability to effectively manage people. Objectively speaking, the original tax system of the Ming Dynasty did not force people to survive, but when it was implemented, it turned into a state.
Poor people are poor! So, some things lie in the system and some key things lie in execution. When the country is improving, execution can be effectively implemented, but when the country is corrupt, pressing the gourd will lift up the ladle, and all kinds of bad things will go together.
The pile is so big that it’s impossible to clean up the mess.
Has time travel really changed the times for the better? Zhu Youjian is not sure yet. For the time being, everything is going well, but from a more macro perspective, that may not be the case!
People with awkward thinking like Zhu Youjian are not sure that the changes they have brought about are enough to change the times. But in the hearts of some people, they seem to be convinced that good times are ushering in.
In Xinmin Village on the outskirts of Taiwan, Wu Siniu squatted at the door with a large bowl of rice and ate deliciously. In his opinion, he had indeed been blessed with the good times.
If I hadn't caught up with a good opportunity and fled from the Central Plains to come here, how would I have been able to eat as much rice as I wanted. It has only been a year since I arrived in Dayuan, but my life has changed drastically.
When we were in the Central Plains, no matter how good the weather was and how hard we worked, there would always be times when we were not full all year round. Now, the second crop of rice that I have grown to my parents is about to be harvested, but there is still a lot of rice grown in the first crop.
Well, after the current crop of grain is harvested, we can still plant another crop of rice. It was just that we came a little late last year, otherwise we would have been able to grow two crops of rice.
Planting two crops of grain doesn't count. If you work harder, you can plant another crop of vegetables. When he first came here, others said that Da Yuan's place was good, so he was a little unsure. Now, he doesn't want to go back to his hometown anymore.
He already has forty acres of paddy fields at home. If he manages them well, he will never be able to eat all the food he grows. When he first harvested the first crop of grain, he was afraid of famine and did not dare to take it out. This time, he still has to sell some of the grain.
That’s it!
How much should I sell? Half? Or 60%? Old man Wu thought about it happily.
"Aunt Wu, are you carrying a bowl to the door to eat again? Are you afraid that others won't know that your family has rice to eat every day?"
"Little Li, who in the family doesn't have white rice to eat? Even you, who doesn't cultivate the land well, eat dry every meal. What do I have to show off?"
"Aren't you showing off? Dad, after harvesting this crop, what are you going to plant?"
"What to plant? The ground must be growing food, so why don't we plant grass? This is a suitable place for growing rice, so of course we have to grow rice."
"Are you being arrogant? There is so much grass in the fields that there is no need to plant it. I mean, are your family planning to plant all the land into rice?"
"I'm still thinking about growing wheat, but I heard from the officials that although wheat can be grown here, the yield cannot increase and the quality is still not as good as it is. In addition to rice, I can just grow some rapeseed and press the oil to eat it.
!We can’t grow rice and other things in our hometown.”
"Why are you so stupid? You only think about growing crops from your hometown. Isn't this a twist? In addition to rice, there are many good things that can be grown here. For example, sugar cane! I was thinking
We need to plant some sugar cane. Dad, why don't you plant some too? Let's get together so we can figure out the things we haven't grown before as soon as possible."
"Growing sugar cane? Is this possible? Although I heard officials and old Hakka people say that planting sugar cane is much better than planting rice, but I don't feel at ease."
"What's wrong with this is that I'm not asking you to plant all the land into sugar cane. Just plant twenty or thirty acres of land on sugar cane, and the rest of the land can be grown into rice! Last year, your family planted more than forty acres of land.
You can grow enough food no matter what you do. How much can you sell for one acre of grain? You can earn at least five or six taels of silver dollars from one acre of sugar cane. Isn’t this an easy calculation?”
It has only been one year since the development of Dagang, and it has already achieved food freedom. The state concluded through statistics that the food produced last year was not only enough for immigrants, garrisons, and officials, but also more than enough to support the new batch of immigration plans, and even
There are a lot of takeaways there. Since there is no shortage of food, the development plan cannot only be satisfied with having enough food to put down roots, but also needs to consider making the immigrants rich.
Therefore, after the beginning of this year, the government intends to guide immigrants to plant sugar cane and other economic products. Specifically, in Taiwan City and immigrant settlement areas, several sugar mills have been attracted investment to build. The sugar industry is a pillar of the Yuan Prefecture government's determination to enrich the people.
Industry. White sugar is a serious high-profit industry. As long as this industry is developed and no other industries are involved, the officials and the people can become rich.
It takes three or four years to build a prosperous state, which has become the goal of the officials. As long as this task is completed, officials of all sizes will ride on the east wind. Now they are full of energy.