"How about catching Malay natives from Vietnam and Southeast Asia? The distance is short."
"The cost is not calculated." Wang Luobin disagreed. "Unless there is a ready supplier for the slave trade, the cost of capturing and transporting slaves is too high."
"Let's learn from the slave trade in history. The British shipped slaves to Cuba and Jamaica and exchanged the slaves for sugar. We can also do this and let the British be slave traders - they are very good at this anyway.
——We exchange sugar from Leizhou for slaves."
"Are we going to let the British introduce Uncle Black——"
Seeing that the words were starting to run out, Wu De knocked on the table: "Be realistic! It is better to take measures to reduce the mortality rate as much as possible." Wu De reminded everyone, "Whether it is laborers or slaves, too high a mortality rate is bad for morale.
.In the end, it will inevitably lead to escapes and riots. At that time, we will have to send troops to suppress it - doesn't this become a vicious cycle?"
"Step up the recruitment of people." Wen Desi said to Wu De, "Is it difficult to increase the immigration rate by one or two times?"
"Yes, grain." Before Wu De could speak, Wu Nanhai intervened without hesitation, "The grain we collected and seized from Lingao is about to bottom out. Now we are relying on the trade between Leizhou and Vietnam.
Vietnamese rice shipped.”
"There is no hybrid rice..."
"Do you think hybrid rice is a magic wand?" Wu Nanhai has long been interested in agricultural issues. "I only have tons of rice? What about farmland water conservancy? What about water pumps? Where about chemical fertilizers? I can discuss these matters in meetings.
I’ve mentioned it countless times!”
Probably because of his easy-going personality and unwillingness to compete with others, Wu Nanhai's Agricultural Committee has been lagging behind in fighting for resources. Although the executive committee is still aware of the concept of agriculture-oriented, its investment in agriculture is not small, especially in agriculture.
It is the infrastructure of the farm, which is considered the first one. But the principle that crying children get milk also applies here. Since the investment of the Agricultural Committee is always very huge, the Executive Committee intentionally or unintentionally wants to be in the Agricultural Committee.
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To develop the land, it is bound to increase the population. To increase the population, it is necessary to increase investment in agriculture so that enough food can be stored in October.
"Not all my rice seeds have been harvested yet, and there are too few high-yield fields." Wu Nanhai complained. At present, the number of high-yield fields that have completed soil and water conservancy improvement only totals 200 standard acres - Wu Nanhai uses modern standard acres,
That is to say, the 667-square-meter mu system has replaced the local mu system with various designs.
"Rice seeds have a shelf life," Wu Nanhai reminded them, "and its characteristics cannot be inherited. If not all are sown this year, they will be useless except for making rice next year."
So the Executive Committee decided to increase material input in two directions: agriculture and shipbuilding. The former was to prepare for the immigration boom, and the latter was for large-scale transportation.
Wu Nanhai returned to the farm and quickly summoned people from the Ministry of Agriculture to discuss how to carry out the Great Leap Forward in agriculture.
"You want to plunder a lot of food?" Fashilu was surprised, "This is not a game, how can you plunder it?"
"That's what it means." Wu Nanhai conveyed the spirit of the meeting. "First, prepare enough grain reserves to prepare for feeding more non-agricultural people; second, increase protein supply."
"The second point is a continuation of the first point. Without food, how can we get protein?" Fa Shilu was a little dissatisfied. "If we want to gain more food, we have to expand the planting area. Has the executive committee agreed to add more people to us?"
There are only fifty agricultural workers on staff in the model farm. They are all experts in farming and breeding selected by Wu Nanhai from immigrants and captives. According to his experience, in the 20th century, without the help of any mechanization, a strong labor force could
One cow or one horse can cultivate more than fifty acres of land. The rice cultivation area in the south is intensive farming, so less planting is required, but there is no big problem if you cultivate twenty acres of paddy field.
During the construction of water conservancy projects, the rush to plant and harvest, and the reclamation of wasteland, the farm mainly relied on dispatched workers from the Bairen Commune and "labor service" from the army. This kind of dispatched workers was equivalent to short-term labor during busy farming periods, and work points were calculated based on daily assigned work. The level of farming was poor.
It doesn't matter much, the main thing is to work hard.
The farm occupies a lot of wasteland along the river that is suitable for farming, but it is not easy to open up wasteland in Lingao. There are two dry and rainy seasons in a year. The land needs irrigation in the dry season and drainage in the rainy season. The requirements for water conservancy are very high. According to the Agriculture Committee
According to the research, extensive land reclamation will not bring much benefit. It is necessary to develop a high-yielding field model of intensive farming, build water conservancy, improve the soil... Only when all farmland infrastructure is in place can we achieve high yields. Such a development model requires the investment of a large amount of labor.
"Give it. I'm going to expand the high-yield field to a thousand acres."
"A thousand acres?!" Fa Shilu asked suspiciously, "Can Wu De agree to provide so many dispatched workers?"
Wu Nanhai nodded: "This is the decision of the executive committee. He will definitely give priority to the equipment. In addition, Committee Member Ma also promised to transfer some construction machinery."
"This is great!" Fashilu said. With machinery, the workload of land reclamation and water conservancy construction will be much less.
"If one thousand acres are to be planted with rice, fifty agricultural workers will not be enough." Wan Lihui said. This man was born in a farmer's family and knew how to do farm work. He studied electronics in college, but he did not work in his field after graduation. He lived a good life.
Unsatisfied, he abducted his brother to participate in the operation in anger. However, in the time and space of the Ming Dynasty, the electronics major he learned was of no use - Dr. Zhong said that the great development of the electronics industry has never happened. He worked in the mechanical department.
After a few months, I realized that I still couldn't make a name for myself, so I returned to farming. My specialty was breeding - originally, the most common job for farm children was raising livestock and poultry. Now, in addition to horses and donkeys, the farm has
In addition, all kinds of animals are raised by these two brothers, which is much better than reading books and raising rabbits during Ye Yuming's time.
"We need to recruit another group of agricultural workers." Wu Nanhai said, "In addition to paddy fields, dry fields must also be expanded, especially sweet potato planting, and we strive to expand it to another 100 or 200 acres. Corn and alfalfa planting must also be expanded - to
For more protein, the feed supply for the breeding industry must be increased.”
"To expand the breeding industry, we need to expand the breeding area." Wanli Huihui reported, "And there are not enough manpower."
Poultry and livestock such as pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, which are commonly raised in intensive farming methods in modern time and space, are raised in free-range and low-density farming in Nanhai Farm. The land utilization rate is not high. This is not what Wu Nanhai likes.
, green, native chickens and other gimmicks are purely helpless. Modern breeding industry relies heavily on animal vaccines, antibiotics and disinfectants. The only thing the Wanjia brothers can use is lime. Recently, the pharmaceutical factory has sent some spring thunder.
Trials of amycin and oxytetracycline are far from reaching the level of large-scale use. Intensive breeding methods under such conditions will only cause a large number of livestock and poultry to become sick and die.
Ye Yuming spoke: "I think we can't just focus on planting ourselves. We should make use of the local people's enthusiasm for production."
Wu Nanhai became interested: "Promote planting?"
"Yes," Ye Yuming said, "I have a plan..."
What Ye Yuming proposed was the establishment of the "Tiandihui" - of course, this is the same as the Tiandihui that Chen Jinnan will organize in the future. Its official full name is the Mutual Aid Group of the Agricultural Committee. The reason why it is called Tiandihui is naturally because agriculture relies on heaven and earth.
It’s very vivid to say that you eat from the land.
The basic idea of the Mutual Aid Group of the Council of Agriculture is to carry out crop and poultry promotion and agricultural technology training.
"Currently, farmers are still very indifferent to us. To win their favor, we must suppress bandits and provide high-yielding crops."
Farmers can harvest more crops. In addition to eating them themselves, they can only put them into the market. The one that can purchase agricultural products on a large scale in Lingao is the Chuanchuan Group. In this way, the increase in production will be county-wide, not just within the Agricultural Committee.
On thousands of acres of land.
"I don't agree with this, let alone the issue of the proliferation of improved seeds. Without good care, it will only be a waste of seed resources." Wu Nanhai immediately objected.
"My idea is to promote sweet potatoes. Aren't sweet potatoes poisonous?"
Taking advantage of the poisonous characteristics of sweet potatoes, even if the improved sweet potatoes are dispersed, they will eventually gradually degrade because farmers do not know how to detoxify them. Local farmers keep the seeds themselves, and they will have little value after two or three years. Only those with detoxification technology can
The Agricultural Committee can continue to provide virus-free potato seedlings - which is equivalent to controlling the seeds in disguise.
"That's doable."
"Hybrid rice is also possible. But we only have this batch." Ye Yuming sighed, "If we can achieve hybrid rice breeding, the lifeline of rice cultivation on the mainland will be completely in our hands."
"In fact, it is not impossible. I hope the experiment can be successful in my lifetime." Fa Shilu is very interested in this topic. He himself has been conducting experiments in this area. In modern time and space, Lingao is based on the hybrid rice seed production industry.
Its agriculture is the main pillar industry. And the rich local wild rice seed resources also make Lingao a must-visit place for those who engage in hybrid rice.
Everyone thought the idea of promoting sweet potato cultivation was good, and then Ye Yuming said:
"It's not just about sweet potatoes, there's also the breeding industry. I think chickens and ducks can be raised in farmers' homes. It takes up too much space and manpower to raise them ourselves."
He proposed the "Poultry Promotion Plan". It is actually a factory + farmer poultry breeding model that maximizes the professional hatching technology mastered by the Agriculture Committee.
To put it simply: the Agricultural Committee will hatch the eggs centrally, and the hatched chicks will be raised by the farmers on an accounting basis. When they are mature, the farm will purchase eggs and broilers, and the farm will also provide earthworms.