Although the weather radar forecast of the Fengcheng ship accurately predicted the landfall time of the typhoon, the arrival of natural disasters was unavoidable.

Typhoon No. 1 in 1631 made landfall in Qiongshan County the next day, and the wind force had already decreased to 10 when the typhoon made landfall, but the accompanying heavy rain caused serious damage to Qiongshan County. Although the Qiongshan County Office issued a warning of the typhoon through the Qiongshan County Ya, the outdated means of communication and the low administrative efficiency of the traditional society made the notice ineffective.

The Nandu River flooded. Floating population. Livestock and fields are numerous. Under the dual effects of typhoons and floods, most of the crops that were originally expected to be harvested in the summer were lost, and for a time there was a lot of sorrow.

"It's time to fight floods and provide disaster relief again," Liu Muzhou, deputy People's Commissar of Civil Affairs, said with annoyance. He felt that the pressure was too great, on the one hand, the executive committee ordered a high amount of food requisition, and on the other hand, there was a sudden natural disaster.

The large increase in the non-agricultural population and the influx of immigrants have caused the population to skyrocket, which has caused the food reserves of the Planning Institute to be in a hurry. In order to ensure food security, the executive committee also demanded that the summer grain collection should be "tapped" as much as possible, after all, importing grain from Vietnam and Siam not only costs money, but also involves increasingly tight transportation capacity.

In contrast, the Hainan Island region, which is already under control, will have to make a greater contribution to the engine operation. At the "1631 Grain Requisition Work Conference," Ma Qianzhu repeatedly stressed the requisition work: "We must overcome all difficulties, especially to obey the warm and affectionate tone of the petty bourgeoisie, abandon all meaningless compassion, and take ensuring grain supply as the number one task."

In the Lingao area, driven by the scientific and technological demonstration and scientific farming of the Qingzhang field and the Tiandihui, the grain output has been greatly improved, especially the farms directly under the jurisdiction of the Committee of Agriculture, due to careful care and a large amount of fertilizer input, the yield is 50%~1 higher than that of the "Tiandihui demonstration households", which is higher than that of ordinary farmers. The amount of food that can be supplied is relatively large. But the situation in other counties is not so good. The four agricultural counties of Hainan Island, Qiongshan, Danzhou, Chengmai, and Wenchang, have basically completed the measurement of acres of land, and they are precisely the areas where the People's Committee of Civil Affairs has made great efforts to extract grain. In particular, Qiongshan County is also the largest grain producing area on Hainan Island, and now that such a typhoon and flood can collect grain, it is probably about the same as relief grain.

Liu Muzhou knew at the grain work conference that the executive committee had great expectations for this "grain outcome", but the problem of natural disasters had to be solved, so he went to see Ma Qianzhuo and proposed that his disaster relief was an important means to win the hearts of the people. After the water recedes, the seeds will be loaned to the victims, and the seeds will be rushed and replanted.

As for Xia Fu, of course, it can only be reduced according to the accommodation situation.

Ma Qianzhu finished reading his report and asked: "Did you participate in the disaster relief work of Lingao the year before last?" ”

"Nope." Liu Muzhou didn't know that he was going to ask this, and thought that he should take out the report at that time and read it before writing the report.

"You'd better take a look first." Ma Qianzhuo said: "There are many useful experiences in it. Sometimes, disadvantages turn into advantages, and losses on one side turn into gains on the other. ”

Liu Muzhou didn't know how to read this dialectic, so he hurriedly quit and went out to read the report of that year. After reading a few pages, he suddenly realized: it turned out that he was going to buy back land!

The so-called land buyback, to put it bluntly, is to take advantage of the fire to rob and take advantage of the desperate state of the disaster victims to buy the peasants' land at a low price with grain. When Lingao was hit by a typhoon, the Committee of Agriculture relied on this method to amass an area equivalent to 98 percent of the county's cultivated land.

Liu Muzhou couldn't help but secretly say in his heart: The Duke is really an iron-blooded industrial party. This clearly shows that in order to catch up with the peasants in the chariot of industrialization and collectivization, there is not even a transitional stage of land reform.

He called Wu Nanhai and Ye Yuming to discuss disaster relief. Because it involves land repurchase, it has a great relationship with the Committee of Agriculture. It is very difficult to cooperate with them.

Ye Yuming's suggestion was not only to provide relief, but also to collect grain as usual.

"This will force more yeoman farmers and landlords to go bankrupt completely." A few months ago, Ye Yuming participated in the work of clearing the acres of land in Qiongshan, Wenchang and other places, and was very dissatisfied with the local agricultural situation, in general, the agricultural production environment and conditions in Qiongshan County were much better than those in Lingao, but the yield per mu was very high. It is far from being as productive as it should be.

Wu Nanhai moved his body a little uneasily: "This is not very suitable, right?" Although I am also in favor of land intensification, isn't it a bit like that? Too bad to look good? ”

Ye Yuming said: "Whatever, anyway, Qiongshan is a new release area, so just take this opportunity to clean up the local strata...... "In the long run, we should have the elimination of yeoman farmers as the ultimate goal," he said. ”

"Exterminate the small yeoman farmers?!" Wu Nanhai and the others were a little surprised.

"Yes, the ultimate goal is the complete secondary differentiation of the countryside." Ye Yuming stood up and turned around a few times, "People who have the ability and have jishu will evolve into farmers of intensive farms."

Those who are incapable are completely transformed into the proletariat as workers. ...... industrial workers or agricultural workers"

Homesteaders, including small and medium-sized landowners with little land, were the cornerstone of dynastic stability in the Middle Ages, and they were the main source of state taxes and soldiers. The army of yeoman farmers has always been the most combat-ready in the dynastic army. Whenever there are a large number of yeoman farmers, it is often the period when the dynasty is at its most prosperous.

But the economic site of small homesteaders. Extremely unstable, their bankruptcy accelerated under the double pressure of taxation and military service. Once the dynasty entered a period of stability, the number of small yeoman farmers gradually decreased, and the dynasty entered a period of decline. Until a new upheaval led to the redistribution of land.

The general idea of the Senate's policy towards the countryside was "land centralization", and the future crossing country did not need a large number of yeoman peasants, but there were two major factions in the attitude towards yeoman peasants: the "exterminators" and the "supporters".

Generally speaking, the voices of the supporters were not loud, and the voices of the extermination faction gradually gained the upper hand, because both Wen and Ma had a strong interest in intensive land management and population control. Of course, there are slight differences in the details: Ma Qianzhuo's agricultural ambition is to be completely collective farming, while Wen Desi's rural blueprint is a "standard village" where the land and population are completely fixed.

"Homesteaders are still of great value in newly developed areas and territories." Liu Muzhou coughed and inserted his speech, "Let's talk about this disaster relief itself first, and then we will talk about the future in the future." ”

Wu Nanhai said: "I have a plan......

The streets outside Qiongshan County are already full of flood victims who have fled from Sixiang, and the torrential rains brought by the typhoon have just ended, and the local rainy season has come one after another. Heavy rain has slowed down the flooding of the Nandu River and nearby rivers. Refugees from Sixiang have flocked to the cities and rural areas, and after the disaster, the city is their only hope for survival.

In the past few days, thousands of refugees have poured in from outside Qiongshan County, supporting the old and the young, taking refuge in all places where they can take refuge from the rain: temples, eaves and even under big trees. As long as the terrain is slightly higher, it is crowded with people. Still, many people had to lie down in the mud and let the rain rain.

In order to keep the hungry people from rioting, most of the city gates in Qiongshan County have been closed, leaving only one east gate unclosed. The prefect of Qiongzhou and Qiongshan County in Qiongshan County are at a loss, since the people of He Town have evacuated this place, the local people are in charge of the "director of the county office" sent by the Australians in the city. As for the prefect, county magistrate and other officials in the county, although they are still officials in name, they can't actually do anything, but they are just waiting for some official documents to be done here. But even so, they were satisfied, at least they were not forced to die in the city, and the thieves even continued to pay some living expenses to keep them living in relative dignity. Everyone has the idea that Mrs. Ping Ping will slip away from this term.

Originally, the highest governor of the city, Guangdong Zuo participated in politics and guarded Hainan Province, Zhao Ruyi, since the remnants of the army were defeated and returned to the mainland, he did not dare to leave his post without permission, but he also did not want to deal with the Australians, for fear of tarnishing his official reputation, so he closed the door in the yamen of the branch to guard the road, except for a few gentry, no one zaijian, and lived a life of self-imprisonment.

The director of the Qiongshan County Office stationed in Qiongshan by the Senate is called Liu Xiang, who is not the one who hurdles, this Liu Xiang is a fat man, a programmer, so he has strong logical thinking ability and can speak well. But these "stunts" were of little use in the initial wave of construction. Eager to get ahead, he signed up when the organization department recruited local cadres, and it didn't take long for him to get the title of director of the county office of Qiongshan County.

Being a "county magistrate" in Daming County in the 17th century was not an enviable thing. Compared with Lingao, where living facilities have become large-scale, even Qiongshan County is a dirty and messy place. Although Qiongshan County is the capital county of the prefecture, it has a large population, many officials, and many gentry, and at that time, He Rubin's thousands of remnants of the defeated army were waiting to be repatriated, and more than 1,000 people of Tang Yunwen were stationed in the city of Haikou, which was not far from the county seat. The environment faced by the director of the Qiongshan County Office is the most complex among the counties. Therefore, the team equipped with him is also quite strong, not only with relatively experienced naturalized cadres, but also with a number of veterans to assist him in his work.