"It's good to have food to eat~"

"To be honest, I'm very worried that everyone won't have food to eat in the future."

"In Tianjin and Beijing, there are too many, too many people who have entered the factory or worked in the workshop, and there are many, many fields in Beizhili that no one has planted."

"It's a pity that no one grows the best fertile land, and I'm worried about whether there will be a food shortage in the winter."

When Moltke heard this, he also said worriedly.

"No one farming?"

"What's going on?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately cheered up and hurriedly asked.

"Your Royal Highness, it's a very simple answer, everyone farms for the landlord, and at the end of the year, you can't even eat enough, if you enter the factory and work in the workshop, you can get three or four taels of silver a month, and many places also include three meals a day."

"It's the same thing, do you think everyone will choose farming? Or do you want to go to the factory to do things? ”

, Moltke replied.

"I don't know about other places, just around the capital and Tianjin, there are large areas of land here that are barren, no one cultivates them, what a good fertile land, they used to be planted in a hurry, but now they are all planted by no one."

"Those landlords and old fortunes are dying, crying and shouting for people to go back to planting their fields, but no one pays attention to them."

"Everyone is not stupid, they can't even eat enough to eat when they farm, who will go to farming."

"No one is farming, what will everyone eat in the future?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter, so he frowned.

"That's why I'm worried that when it's winter, there will be another famine here in Beizhili."

Moltke nodded.

"It's not okay to go on like this, the fields can't be panicked, you have to plant food, otherwise if there is a famine at that time, it will be a big question."

Zhu Houzhao immediately frowned.

No one expected that with the development of capitalism and the large-scale rise of factories and workshops, there would be no one to farm here in Beizhili, and a large amount of fertile land would be barren.

"Your Highness, don't worry, there will be no famine."

Liu Jin smiled and said very confidently.

In fact, all this was expected by Liu Jin, and the development of capitalism would inevitably have a huge impact on agriculture.

There are two main impacts, one is to reduce the number of people engaged in agriculture, and the other is to change the structure of agricultural planting.

Factories, workshops, etc. need a large number of workers, and the cement factories, textile factories, shipyards, coal factories, steel plants, etc. in the Beijing-Tianjin area are very demanding.

There are many factories with hundreds of people and tens of thousands of people, and there are many in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area.

Originally, the population of the capital was only one million, but in just a few years, the population here in the capital has exceeded five million.

The original capital has long been uninhabitable, and there are a large number of new towns around the capital, which have a large population.

Tianjin is also here, the original small Tianjin, in recent years, has developed by leaps and bounds, and the population is even more than that of Beijing.

The scale of Tianjin New City is already very large.

Where did these increased populations come from?

All of them come from Beizhili, Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan, because the income is higher and life is easier in the Beijing-Tianjin area, which will naturally attract more people to come.

Most of these people used to farm, and if they don't farm, those fields will naturally be barren.

"Lao Liu, tell me in detail."

Zhu Hou looked at Liu Jin and asked.

"The reason why these fields will be barren is because everyone knows that farming is not cost-effective, and the tired farming at the end of the year is just cheapening the landlord's old wealth, and his own family can't even eat a few meals."

"But it's different to go to a factory or workshop to work, not only can you eat enough, but you can also earn money, and anyone will make a choice."

Liu Jin thought for a while and said slowly.

"Yes, I used to farm, and it was indeed the same as Liu Gongzi said, like a cow all year round, tired and tired, but I couldn't even eat."

"Half of this kind of grain will be handed over to the landlord, and the remaining half will be handed over to the government, and there will be not enough to eat."

Moltke also said.

"I see~"

Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly.

"It's not terrible to have barren fields, but the most anxious are these landlords, who see their fields barren, and they either lower their tenant rents and attract everyone to farm."

"The other thing is either to find a way to farm the land yourself, or to find a way to grow more fields with less manpower."

Liu Jin continued.

"Farming your own land?"

"Less manpower to grow more fields?"

After Zhu Houzhao heard this, he was immediately puzzled.

"Moltke, what did you rely on in the past?"

Liu Jin smiled and turned to Moltke and said.

"The main thing is to rely on manpower, we are all poor families, it is difficult to have a cow in a village, only the landlord's family has a cow."

Moltke said.

"That's right, this relies on manpower to farm, it is very hard, the key is also very slow, the same turning a piece of land, with cattle and without cattle, the difference is very big."

"If there is a cow, one person, one cow, can be turned over in no time."

"If it is human, even a few people will not be able to be cattle."

Liu Jin nodded and said.

"Yes, yes, cattle are much more powerful and expensive than people, but cattle are too expensive, and we used to be poor and couldn't afford them."

Hearing Liu Jin talk about the key point, Mao Qi hurriedly nodded and said with deep understanding.

"Your Highness, if there are fewer people in this kind of field, then these landlords will use more cattle and horses to farm, and with less manpower, they can cultivate more fields."

"And we don't farm anymore, we can also move people from other places."

"For example, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, these places."

"In the loess slopes of Shaanxi and Shanxi, where fields are scarce and more importantly, precipitation is scarce, the imperial court can completely move people from these places to Beizhili and let them come to farm."

"There are few people here in Henan, every time there is a disaster, Henan is prone to problems, and the people here are relocated on a large scale and let them come to Beizhili to farm, which can greatly alleviate the problem of people and land in Beizhili."

"When the time comes, coupled with the promotion of the use of cattle and horses for farming, the fertile land in these places in Beizhili will definitely not be barren."

Liu Jin smiled and continued.

The ecology of Shaanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan is very fragile, because these places have a long history, too many people, and the contradiction between man and land is very acute.

It's good to say that the year is good, but if there is a little thing, it will inevitably be in flames.

The peasant uprisings at the end of the Ming Dynasty basically started from these places, and they were wave after wave, and they never meant to be quelled.

In the final analysis, the contradictions between people and land in these places are too acute.

Now it happens that there is no one in the fields on the side of Beizhili, and the population of these places has been relocated.

And in the future, with the colonial expansion, the Ming side can also move more people to the world outside the Ming Dynasty to alleviate the contradiction between man and land.

"That's a solution~"

Zhu Houzhao also nodded slightly after listening.

Last time he and Liu Jin went to reward the three armies, he had been to Shanxi and Shaanxi, and he had seen poverty in these places.

The land here is very arid, and the land is very scarce.

But in such a place, the population is very dense, and everyone is vying to grow the land.

At that time, Liu Jin told Zhu Houzhao that if it was possible in the future, he would move people out here, but the environment here was too bad.

"In addition, we can mobilize food from other places."

"This year, our Daming wind and rain are smooth, and the grain in Daming can be harvested abundantly, and there is no worry about no food at all."

"What's more, now that our Daming sea trade is so developed, we can also buy grain from places like Korea, Wa Kingdom, and Nanyang."

"Especially here in Nanyang, the climate in Nanyang is very suitable for rice planting, the yield is very high, how many crops a year, in the future, we can immigrate to the Nanyang area on a large scale, and the grain grown casually cannot be eaten."

"There is also Ryukyu Island, this year, with Ryukyu Castle as the center, several new cities have been built on Ryukyu Island, a large amount of land has been reclaimed, and the yield of rice grown here is also very high, which is enough to easily meet the demand for food in the Beijing and Tianjin areas."

"In addition, the high-yield sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes we brought back from the Golden Continent have also been planted, and after large-scale promotion in the future, there is no need to worry about food problems."

Liu Jin is very confident in this.

If there is still a famine, then there is really nothing to say.

There is absolutely no need to worry about high-yield crops, the increasingly developed marine transportation and trade, and the development of the Ryukyu Island and the South Seas region.

"I'm relieved to see these fertile fields barren, and I always feel bad."

After listening to Liu Jin's analysis, Zhu Houzhao was relieved.

"Don't worry, soon, these fields will be planted with crops, and now that the price of cotton has risen sharply, isn't it a good time for them to plant cotton?"

Liu Jin said with a smile.

How can a field be barren?

It may be possible elsewhere, but it is absolutely impossible in Daming.

It is impossible to watch these fertile fields become barren with the talent of farming that is deeply ingrained in the bones and souls.

There are always more ways than difficulties, and these anxious landlords and old fortunes will always find a way to solve this problem.

"Moltke, some of the crops brought back by these Golden Continents are already ripe, how are you going to sell them here?"

Soon Liu Jin returned his gaze to the pepper field and corn field in front of him, thought about it and asked.

This is very important, the crops brought back by these Golden Continents are eventually promoted on a large scale, so this first batch is still very important, and we must find a way to make everyone like these Golden Continent crops.