Two weeks after Zhao Xin and others returned, all 500 new soldiers were recruited. At this time, the number of reserve armed personnel in Beihai Town had reached 2,000. The sailors also recruited 50 more people, in addition to the 50 people recruited previously.
A security policeman.
Chen Qingsong complained endlessly about this. The current total population of Beihai Town is not even 15,000, and Zhao Xin's army expansion plan swept away more than 2,000 strong laborers. Now Chen Qingsong leads a group of old, weak and sick people every day
Still working on reclaiming wasteland for infrastructure construction, his originally fat body has become much slimmer.
Currently, except for Zhao Liang, who is busy building workshops on the east coast, the six generals of the Ministry of Security are stationed in the military camp to conduct training. Among them, Liu Sheng and Deng Fei spend half the day in the military camp and half the day training sailors on the ship.
During this period of time, Zhao Xin took the time to travel back and forth between the two time spaces, placing orders for a large number of supplies. Now it is simpler for him, and he does not have to run around. He only needs to go back to another time and space to order through the Internet.
In order to ensure safety, Zhao Xin rented two large warehouses in an industrial park in the northern suburbs of the city where Freezing Port is located. So now he only needs to estimate the time and wait for the goods to arrive at the port to complete the customs procedures and enter.
Once you have your own warehouse, just go there and pick up the goods.
Zhao Xin feels that as long as he declares customs and pays taxes normally, there will be no problem at the port. Of course, in order to speed up customs clearance, some necessary fees must be paid.
At the end of April, three 9620RX tractors finally arrived.
A dozen modern people from Beihai Town and dozens of ancient people headed by Sheng Haizhou and Li Ji gathered around and looked at the big guy brought back by Zhao Xin, and they were all very surprised.
Except for Chen Qingsong and Zhao Xin, no other Hyundai people here had ever seen such a big tractor before. A dozen or so people finished looking outside and then climbed into the cab to take a look.
A group of refugees carrying burdens and driving homemade carriages to transport manure to the fields also stopped and stared blankly at the big thing four meters high and more than eight meters long at the end of the field.
As the saying goes, "Master Zhao, Lord Zhao" would come up with strange things every now and then, and many refugees have become accustomed to it. If we just talk about the terrifying appearance, then the Thor still occupies the top spot. As for excavators, small cranes
Refugees can see these machines and equipment in camps and construction sites every day.
I wonder what kind of treasure Mr. Zhao has brought out today?
With a grass green shell, black triangular tracks, yellow wheels, and a front width of three meters, the body is like a giant mechanical monster, parked quietly on the edge of the wasteland.
Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng worked together to install a large joint soil preparation machine with a width of nearly four meters on the tail of the 9620RX. When the soil preparation machine started working, the operating width could reach 6.3 meters; the number of subsoil preparation teeth was 19, and the rake blades
Quantity: 109 pieces, ground working depth can reach 60 cm.
Through this kind of machinery, the soil can be deeply loosened, broken up, and leveled at one time; and then the no-till seeder can be replaced to complete the entire spring plowing sowing and fertilizing steps in one step.
Sheng Haizhou looked at this combined land preparation machine painted in grass green and was amazed. He couldn't help but asked Zhao Xin: "My lord, how many acres of land can this machine cultivate in a day?"
Zhao Xin looked at Chen Qingsong with joy on his face and said, "Old Chen, can you tell me?"
"The maximum speed of this product is 40 kilometers per hour. Let's calculate it as 10 kilometers; the working area of the land preparation machine is 6.3 meters. How much can you calculate by yourself?"
Hong Tao, Liu Siting and others who grew up in the city exclaimed: "More than 60,000 square meters per hour?!"
"More than ninety acres an hour!" These are Wang Yuanfang and Wu Siyu, both of whom came from the countryside.
Shen Jingdan and Lao Huang, who came from the Thor to watch the excitement, were also shocked by this number. Shen Jingdan quickly handed over his hands and asked: "Chief Zhao, how much is this thing worth?"
"Probably..." Zhao Xin mentally calculated back and forth for a long time, and finally estimated that if calculated based on the gold price in later generations, the price of 9620Rx would be worth about 10 kilograms of gold. But this cannot be calculated like this.
"It costs about five hundred and two thousand pure gold. But Boss Shen, even if I sell this machine to you, you won't be able to drive it! Besides, can the emperor and officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty allow this thing to appear in the Qing Dynasty?"
As soon as Shen and Huang heard this, they immediately lost interest.
Zhao Xin calculated the farming efficiency again and said to Sheng Haizhou: "One hour is about 130 acres." In the Edo period, one acre of land was approximately 991.7 square meters in later generations, which was half larger than the 666.7 square meters per acre in China.
"More than a hundred acres!!" Sheng Haizhou and Li Ji, Jiuzang and others were all dumbfounded. Based on this calculation, this machine can cultivate nearly 800 acres in one day.
You must know that if you use a strong cattle to cultivate the land at this time, even if the whole family works together, you can only cultivate 3 to 4 acres of land in a day. Most people only have 2 to 3 acres of land.
Zhao Xin had issued a notice two days ago, announcing that all refugee families would be allocated thirty acres of land. This figure was the result of careful calculation by him and Chen Qingsong.
The two did not calculate based on the highest wheat yield data of modern agriculture in another time and space, but took an intermediate value of 500 kilograms to calculate, then 30 acres of land can produce 15,000 kilograms of wheat a year; and then based on A 70% flour extraction rate is calculated as 10,500 kilograms. If divided into one year, each household will have a daily ration of nearly 60 kilograms. This number is enough to feed a family.
If corn is sown, the grain yield will be even higher.
At the same time, the introduction of large-scale agricultural machinery and equipment will enable a large number of Beihai Town's agricultural population to move into the industrial field, engaging in cigarette production, mining and metallurgy, and each family will also receive a lot of extra income.
However, as for the distribution of land ownership, after repeated arguments, Zhao Xin and Chen Qingsong finally adopted Chen Qingsong's opinion and implemented the "collective farm system" for a period of time. That is, the land ownership belongs to Beihai Town, and the income from the land is in After deducting various equipment expenses, it belongs to the individual.
In addition, Beihai Town takes unallocated land into its own hands and produces poultry, livestock, feed, vegetables, etc. in an agricultural-industrial manner.
At this point, Beihai Town needs to establish its own currency system.
"Old Chen, how are you? You've been the only one who has driven here, try it?" Zhao Xin said with a smile to Chen Qingsong, who was reading the operation manual next to him.
"I just saw it when I visited an exhibition abroad. During the trial opening, someone from the company accompanied me. Let me look at the manual again."
Liu Sheng and others got down from the cab and shouted, "Old Chen, hurry up, let's see what it's like to drag a man worth more than 4 million yuan away."
Liu Siting and Hong Tao said: "Old Chen, stop dawdling. We still have a lot of things waiting for us over there. We finally found time to come over and see the Hao Tuo you have always missed."
Zhao Xin stepped forward, grabbed the handrail and climbed into the cab in two steps. Sitting in the driver's seat, he pressed the start button without saying anything, and the 14.9-liter engine immediately began to roar powerfully.
The roar of the machine woke up the white storks and gray storks that were foraging in the grass and swamps hundreds of meters away. They all flapped their gray or white wings and flew into the sky.
In the Sila River and swampy ponds, dozens of horned grebes (piti) that were hunting fish and shrimps also jumped out of the water and flew into the distance with their golden and maroon feathers.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious. You guys...go, get off." Chen Qingsong said as he walked to the front of the car and asked Zhao Xin to get out.
Chen Qingsong slowly drove the tractor to the southeast corner of the wasteland, adjusted the direction; then pressed the button, lowered the rake teeth of the soil finisher, and began to drive forward slowly.
The huge noise of "Caracara" immediately resounded on both sides of the river valley, and the surrounding island farmers were dumbfounded. Many people were frightened by the sound of the machine and could not help but retreat, and fell down on the field ridge.
The wide crawler wheels ignored the many mire and small swamps on the ground. Wherever the plow passed, pieces of black soil began to churn and emerge on the ground like waves.
Dr. Hong Taohong bent down and grabbed a handful of black soil, rubbed it in his hands a few times, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Black soil! It's so fat and oily!"
Liu Siting curiously pulled the soil in Hong Tao's hand a few times, turned around and asked, "Is this the black soil? I always listen to what you said, how can this be good?"
Zhao Xin and others also grabbed a small handful of soil from the ground and put it to their noses to smell it.
Wu Siyu, who comes from the south, said: "I once heard people say that the black soil in the Northeast has a saying of 'one ounce of soil and two ounces of oil'."
Wang Yuanfang said calmly: "It takes four hundred years to form one centimeter thick. The black soil layer here is at least one meter thick. I have never seen such a thick black soil layer in my hometown."
"What a wonderful land! From here to the north and then to the west, there is a huge area. If we don't want it, we will be occupied by Tsarist Russia in a few decades." Zhao Xin dusted off the black soil in his hands and looked at the black soil in front of him.
self-mumbling.
Liu Sheng scolded: "Why don't you want it?! Grandma! This is all ours! You can't take advantage of them if you don't plant it!"
The dozen or so refugees behind them also put down their burdens and came over. They looked at the large expanse of reclaimed black land in front of them, and knelt down on the ground uncontrollably, stroking it with rough and trembling hands.
He touched the earth beneath him, and then picked up a handful of soil.
"This land is so nice!" The refugees were extremely happy.
Soon, most of the residents of Beihai Town, except those who were working on the docks in the distance and on the east bank of the Xila River, were attracted by the roar of the 9620RX and put down what they were doing and came to the fields.
Gradually, thousands of people gathered on the fields beside the fields to watch. The roar of giant tractors and land preparation machines caused bursts of exclamations from the crowd.
However, these people gradually felt relieved when they saw Zhao Xin and a dozen other adults in the field. The gentlemen are all here, so let's just follow and watch the fun.
They covered their ears while watching the green monster that made a loud noise and was "speeding" on the wasteland with a huge iron sledge.
As farmers, they couldn't understand the scene in front of them. They all had their mouths wide open and didn't know where they were. However, they were quickly attracted by the speed of the "green monster". They watched the ridges of land taking shape quickly.
, the wide plow opened up a ravine nearly a foot deep.
"Good guy! This is too fast! We have to do it ourselves, and we can't finish it in less than ten days and a half." Several onlookers praised in admiration.
"Ten days? I just heard Mr. Liji say, what is this 'tractor'? It can open thousands of acres of wasteland in one day!"
"What?! Thousands of acres!"
"Just blow it! You're not afraid of flashing your tongue."
"Why am I bragging? Master Liji said this was said by the Lord himself!"
"That's right, you don't even believe my lord's words. What do you want to do?"
"Don't, don't. How dare I not believe my lord? You can see big ships on the seaside every day. I, I'm just afraid that he will mishear and say nonsense."
"There are not thousands of acres. This machine needs people to drive it. I have asked the master, and there must be four to five hundred acres a day!" A hearty and rich voice sounded from behind a few people.
A few farmers who were whispering turned around and saw that it was Lord Katayama. So everyone bowed and saluted.
Kanbei Katayama smiled kindly at these people, patted a farmer on the shoulder and said, "Do a good job! There is also a piece of land for you here!"
"Yes! Our own land!"
A group of refugees thought to themselves, looking up at the scene in the distance with joyful faces. Unknowingly, their faces were filled with tears.