The preliminary inspection in Nanandong lasted for two days. Because Fu Aoya was accompanying him, the inspection team went very smoothly. Fashilu and Cui Yunhong were responsible for agriculture, forestry and minerals respectively, while Mu Min was responsible for the local social conditions.
Conduct an inspection. Nanandong is still very rich in products:
First of all, there are various forest resources. There are large areas of forest land in the mountains. Although the original farming technology of the local people planting mountain fences has destroyed a lot, the reserves are still quite abundant; there are also perennial woody cotton trees that Fashilu has been dreaming about.
Discovery - Apparently the locals use this kind of cotton for spinning and weaving. There are also many wild banana, lychee, longan and jackfruit trees on the mountain, which are a source of food supplement for the locals. There are many betel nut trees, but for travelers,
Said it has no use except for re-export of trade goods.
Secondly, a large number of native rice seeds have been found in the rice fields here, which is a very useful gene bank for breeders - as long as there are enough rice seeds, new improved varieties can be continuously hybridized.
Shi Lu discovered seventeen different rice species in the paddy fields near Nanan Village alone, and obtained five mountain bar upland rice species on the mountain rails on the hillside, including three varieties: indica, japonica and glutinous rice.
Hainan Island itself is the main distribution area of wild rice in China, and the genetic advantages of diversified rice varieties are very obvious. Lingao is the main seed production area of hybrid rice in China in the 21st century - Fa Shilu looked at the various samples collected,
It makes me laugh even in my dreams! Maybe the father of hybrid rice in China is myself...
Sweet potatoes haven't been planted here yet, and the people don't even know about this new crop. But they grow some other yams, most of which are a species of Araceae. These are often used as medicinal materials in other places. Fa Shilu is not a traditional Chinese medicine doctor.
, but he knows that the taro in Aracenia is slightly poisonous - can it be eaten? But judging from the planting area, it is obviously one of the main crops. Another common one is sweet potato, also called hairy potato.
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In terms of miscellaneous grains, he discovered millet. Fa Shilu had never known that millet was grown in Hainan. After the Bairentan War, millet was included in the grains sent by the locals. This made the entire Agricultural Committee puzzled for a while. He asked the local people for advice.
Only then did they realize that this was duck foot millet, a common cereal grain in Hainan, with a short maturity period.
In addition to food, he also found patches of wild ramie. It seems that the Li people don't care much about agriculture. They basically let it flow and do not talk about field management. Fruits, ramie and cotton are all in a wild state. They just
Collection and utilization, without planned cultivation and cultivation.
Pigs, cows, chickens and ducks are all raised freely on the hillside. There are no stalls and no feeding. So they don't look very strong. The number of cattle is unexpectedly large, including buffalo and oxen. But he is not studying animal husbandry.
Yeah, I don’t know much about this species, so I’ll send a professional to take a look later.
"It really feels like a waste," Fa Shilu lamented. "The agricultural conditions here are very good, but the agricultural level is only slightly better than that of primitive society."
"Don't be sad," Wen Desi patted him on the shoulder, "Let's just talk about the paddy fields on both sides of the Wenlan River. How good are they? They are far behind the farmers in our hometown."
Cui Yunhong's harvest here is not so encouraging. With the help of a map from another time and space, he found an important output: lignite, which is buried very shallow and can be mined. There are also some stone resources, such as limestone, perlite and other small stones.
Large-scale reserves. However, the distance is long and the roads are not good, so the value is not great. The rarest thing is that a small-scale tungsten ore vein was discovered, but it has little use value for travelers.
The Li people kept a respectful distance from this group of weird Han people. They watched them holding strange things, climbing trees, going to the fields, standing aside and painting for a long time... But the children were obviously interested in the novelty.
Things have the greatest curiosity. From watching from a distance, to slowly getting closer, and finally starting to play with the travelers’ utensils and items, they gradually started to communicate with each other. Of course, most people cannot communicate with children.
A little rock candy was used to represent friendliness - this was something Wen Desi took care of before setting off. Mu Min had an instinctive affection for her compatriots from another time and space, and she could speak Hainanese. Coupled with the power of sugar, by the time she reached the third
The next day, she had a group of followers around her.
Seeing these children running around naked and looking like mud monkeys, Mu Min suddenly came up with an idea, which eventually became the first school in Li District across the country.
While the working team to Lebanon was carrying out goodwill activities, another team of traversers, led by Wang Luobin, advanced towards the Ma Niao Peninsula, not far from them. The goal was to solve the salt problem once and for all.
Salt is an indispensable necessity for human survival and an important raw material for the modern chemical industry. For the Chu regime, they also urgently need a material that can be circulated and exchanged. In ancient societies with backward commodity economies, nothing is more suitable than table salt. And the salt industry here has been very developed since ancient times. Lingao faces the Qiongzhou Strait, with many branches and a large number of natural beaches. The concentration of sodium chloride in seawater is very high, generally between 1.5 and 2 degrees Baume. Above. During the dry season, the temperature is high, the wind is strong, the sunshine is long, and the rain is low. It is a good place for sea salt production. Salt has been produced since the Tang Dynasty, and the salt boiling method was still used at that time. Because of the superior natural environment, from the Yongle period From the beginning, salt fields in Hainan have successively adopted the sun-dried salt method for large-scale production. The Yantian Village on the bank of Xinying Bay in the south of Hainan Yangpu Economic Development Zone is the earliest existing sun-dried salt production site in my country, and it is still well-preserved today. It is an ancient salt field using the original method of making salt by sun drying. This salt field can still produce normally.
According to the historical information available to the public: The salt field in Lingao during the Ming Dynasty was located on the Mayao Peninsula, 25 kilometers north of the county. It was under the jurisdiction of a salt field ambassador and was subordinate to the Haibei Tiju Division. It could produce "1,417" salt per year.
According to the calculation of 300 kilograms per import, this salt farm produces more than 200 tons of salt every year, which is enough to meet the production and living needs of the people in the early stage.
Such a rich resource, of course, the government must take over quickly. Wang Luobin's task is to observe the salt-drying technology in this time and space on the spot, and consider how to use modern technology to improve and increase production - for modern chemicals, 200 tons of salt is really
Too little.
The equipment of the salt work team is better than that of the Li District work team. Because some salt must be transported back during the task, the entire team is completely mechanized. Five agricultural vehicles were dispatched. The vehicles bounced forward on the dirt road.
After walking for almost two hours, it was rare to see a pedestrian along the road. After entering the Ma Niao Peninsula area, there were no traces of people. Only ruined walls and abandoned fields were seen on the road, as if a war had happened here. There were scattered roads.
A few sprinkles of salt convinced everyone that they were on the right track.
Wang Luobin was confused: According to the operational intelligence he had received: according to historical records, there were more than a thousand salt workers in this salt field, plus their families. The population around the salt field was at least five to six thousand, and there should be many salt villages.
But along the way there were nothing but ruins.
At noon, they found a semi-abandoned stone road. They walked along the stone road and finally found a village with cooking smoke. The houses here were all made of volcanic rocks. The alleys were deep, but many of the houses were
The doors were tightly closed, and there were tall weeds in front of some doors. It looked as if no one had been there for many years. There were also many collapsed houses scattered in the village, with grass growing on them.
There were only a few old, young, women and children in the village who were not fully clothed and looked extremely poor. Seeing these strange people coming without avoiding them, with numb expressions and indifferent expressions on their faces, Xiong Buyou asked around in the village for a long time before he found the village chief's home.
The village chief's surname is Tan, and he is a hereditary salt collector here. He comes from a famous salt-drying family in Hainan. Faced with Xiong Buyou's request to buy salt, he asked people to open the salt warehouse: there were five to six hundred kilograms of salt in it. Such a small amount of salt.
Wang Luobin was surprised, and after asking, he found out: In the 45th year of Wanli's reign, the Lingao earthquake caused many of the salt fields to be washed away, and some places sank into the sea. The production capacity of Ma Niao Salt Field has never been restored to its original state.
level, but the amount of silver required by the government was not low at all, and many salt collectors fled. To make matters worse, pirates often came to the salt field to rob the salt from the end of Wanli. The salt collectors were killed and others escaped.
Now there are only more than 200 salt cubes left in the village. The ancient method of drying salt is completely labor-intensive industry. With less manpower, production will be even more difficult to maintain. The annual payment is always insufficient, and the government is urgent to urge classes.
, the young men in the village usually hide. Fortunately, Ma Niao has plenty of land and is irrigated by the M Niao River. After drying the salt, they can also cultivate fields and grow some food to satisfy their hunger. It is just a matter of fear.
This situation dealt a big blow to Wang Luobin. Obviously, the production situation of this salt field is extremely unsatisfactory. It seems that the original plan of the executive committee to control the salt field and purchase all the production needs to be changed - the time traveler must not only control the salt field, but also organize
Resume production and expand output. For a moment, Wang Luobin felt like the land reform team leader in the movie he watched when he was a child. There was a lot of waste everywhere.
However, it was not easy to organize the resumption of production. Wang Luobin decided to go to the salt field first. After giving the numb village chief Tan a Mexican silver dollar, the numb face of the village chief, who looked like he was not interested in anything, finally