"How's it going?"

Seeing that Mi Shuo entered the door, Liang Letian asked with a smile with a square face and big ears, leaning against a desk full of documents.

"There are joys and sorrows!" Mi Shuo sat on the chair with a buttock: "The seedling situation is good, but I was caught by Huo Xiong and promised 20,000 mu of feed fields." ”

Liang Letian smiled when he heard this: "Sooner or later, wouldn't it be okay if you promised him earlier?" ”

"The problem is that in this way, the pressure on the 300,000 acres of new land we originally planned will be much greater."

"yes, it's a lot of pressure." Since Liang Lotian became a cabinet minister, there has been a lot less time for Lotte.

He leaned back on the back of the chair, rubbed his eyebrows with his fingers, and his tone was a little helpless: "In the morning meeting, I specifically talked to Zou Guoqing." Now the problem is not only the tractor, the chemical plant had an accident two days ago, and the sulfuric acid production line died 6 in one breath, and the scene is very... It's ugly, and now it's all down for maintenance. ”

"This fucking ......" Mi Shuo, who has always been broad-hearted, couldn't help but scold his mother after hearing the news: "The house leak happened to rain overnight!" ”

Sulfuric acid is the raw material for the production of fast-acting phosphate fertilizers, and struvite needs to react with sulfuric acid to change from slow-release fertilizers to normal phosphate fertilizers that are easily absorbed by plants.

Among the three major fertilizers of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, nitrogen and potassium, which are difficult to collect raw materials, are not to mention, and the process of synthesizing sulfuric acid from sulfur from Taipei volcano + island guano to synthesize phosphate fertilizer was originally the only stable fertilizer supply route in the kiln area - although the poor phosphate fertilizer output is less than 1,000 tons.

Now it's good that the sulfuric acid production line has stopped, and Mishuo reacted as soon as possible, and the phosphate fertilizer will be finished.

After scolding, Mi Shuo asked again: "What's the matter with the tractor?" ”

"It is said that what is the combustion chamber pressure research team that failed...... I don't quite understand either, anyway, the promised 10 tractors will be delayed. ”

...... When Mi Shuo heard this, he was no longer able to complain.

In later generations, a large tractor pulling an 8-meter-long folding plough could plough 180 acres of land in one hour. That's three acres of land per minute. The gas tractor built by the crossing can only plough 50 acres of land per hour, and the efficiency is not even a fraction of that of others.

This kind of tractor ploughing the land was not seen in most parts of the country in later generations. Again, the same sentence: only cattle can be used in the mountains. A small number of large plains like the Northeast have land rights issues involved – no one will buy a tractor to plough the land unless they contract the land of an entire village and then put together small private plots of land into large fields.

The situation facing the traversers now is just the opposite of that of later generations: there is too much land, there are large wastelands, and there are far from enough tractors. As for the private owners, there is simply no ...... Here again, the issue of land policy is involved.

Theoretically speaking, all the cultivated land in the Tainan Plain is now allocated by the government to the National Grain Corporation. Therefore, Mi Shuo, as the legal person of the head office, is nominally the number one big landlord in Tianzi: the total area of Tainan is more than 4,000 square kilometers, which is converted into 6 million mu of cultivated land.

Of course, one day in the future, the grain company will definitely divide the family property...... In the capitalist society, if you don't divide the family property among the people, what will the old man start with?

So even now, the Crossing regime did not refuse private people to buy land: the ultimate goal of the Crossing Masses was to divide the plains into private farms similar to those in North America, so as long as anyone came to buy it, the general landlords welcomed it. Otherwise, the old man will cultivate the millions of acres of land by himself?

Yes, anyone can buy a landlord from a grain company – as long as they can meet the requirements.

What are the requirements? The first, of course, is that there is money.

For selling farms here, 500 acres is the starting price, and the number of warm recommendations of grain companies is 2,000 acres. Therefore, 99.99% of the poor ghost immigrants who come to Dayuan cannot afford to buy a farm.

And a small number of local old wealth and merchants with silver are afraid to buy it.

Unlike the land in the concept of old wealth, the farm is not used for tenants to collect rent. On this side of the land, not to mention that there are no tenants at all, and even if they are hired, after the end of a grain season, the old rich family will have to ask for food.

Yes, the tax rate for private farms in a certain government is based on one farmer + several temporary workers.

In other words, the farmer's family hires tractors to plow the land, buy pesticides and fertilizers, and then use mechanized harvesting...... The harvest of 2,000 acres of land, after all costs and taxes have been paid, is a rich peasant, or a middle-class family.

This situation was very common in the United States in later generations: the rednecks who owned private ranches or farms were millionaires, but their assets were real estate, and liquidity was scarce.

Most farmers owe bank loans, and in the event of a natural or man-made disaster, these wealthy people also lose their ancestral property.

And the few old fortunes who ran to the big ones are now facing this situation: under the land policy designed by the people, the inefficient tenant + hoe model of the old wealth will go bankrupt in the first year after buying the land.

Therefore, after studying the land policy, all the old people who were originally interested in it fell to their knees - they could not understand this strange land policy, and most people thought that it was a trick of the local government to cheat money.

You must know that an efficient farmer family who has an exclusive harvest of 2,000 acres of land is living so tightly, and the old wealth continues to mix with the tenants, it is certain to die.

In fact, in addition to a little silver in his pocket, Lao Cai is here to be an ordinary family with no power and no power - the fame of the Ming Kingdom is not common in the generals, and he is doing evil, and he can't even think about the set of rampant in the township.

So the current situation is twisted.

The grain companies are eager to sell all the fields they open up to private farmers, and they are only responsible for providing technical support. However, except for the poor ghosts, there is no old wealth full of old ideas, and there is no new type of farmer with knowledge, technology, and financial resources expected by the traverser......

So the land has never been able to sell.

That's why Mishuo has a headache: the whole society is too new and too tender, and there is a lack of qualified middle class. In this way, those of them who have the resources in their hands will not be able to concentrate on technological upgrades, and can only bury their heads in cultivating the fields, which is actually a waste of the traversers.

......

After Mi Shuo heard the two bad news, he had a headache and was already thinking about the way back: "Alas, in this case, then we can only compress the number of acres of wasteland." ”

However, Liang Letian sat up from the chair at this time: "No, not only can it not be reduced, but the area of land reclamation must be expanded!" ”

"The loss outside the embankment is replenished by the embankment!" Liang Lotian said this, got up and paced in the house with his hands behind his back: "If the fertilizer can't keep up, the planting area should be expanded." If you do a good job in field management, you will have to say that the yield of those cultivated land in the Ming Kingdom will be higher. ”

Liang Lotian said this, raised his hand and looked at his watch: "It's too late today, I have a lot of things to do here, let's go down tomorrow." ”

Mishuo nodded and went out. And after a short rest, Liang Lotian buried his head in endless cases and meetings.

Originally, according to his temperament, a trip to the fields was the right thing to do. But not anymore: by the end of 1628, the number of permanent residents under the control of the Wanderers had soared to 400,000, and the number of floating people was also more than 50,000.

Even in later generations, 450,000 people was the population of a standard county. In order to manage this population, it is necessary to have a part of the cadres who have been out of work to sit in the office...... For example, the cabinet ministers, such as some supporting clerks.

It's not bureaucracy. When the scale of a force reaches a certain level, there will inevitably be full-time civil officials. Liang Letian can no longer wander in the fields as before, with a few subordinates behind him working on the spot.

Early the next morning, the two set off from the Chihkan District Government, still sitting on an electric tricycle, with the office director.

As you walk east from Chihkan to the east, you will see fields of various plants as the pavement material degrades from asphalt to cinder and gravel.

Since the Tainan Plain was still very primitive at this time, and the coastal land near the strait was all saline land and lagoons, the land that was chosen for reclamation gathered on the plain between the central mountain range and the coast - the land near the mountain range was also unsuitable for agricultural activities due to the rock formations below.

In other words, the Chihkan district and a large number of residential communities built along the Taijiang River today are built on saline land and do not encroach on farmland.

So by the time the crops appeared on the side of the road, the tricycle had actually traveled nearly 10 kilometers east from the sea.

The variety of crops on the roadside is very varied: rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sugar beets, soybeans, sugar cane, sorghum, barley...... And so on and so forth.

In short, the crops from Tiannan and Haibei, whether they are from the Ming Dynasty or the West, whether they are indigenous or imported, there are experimental fields allocated here.

These experimental plots for almost all crops were promoted last year when Liang Letian and Mi Shuo first arrived at the university.

At this time, there is a homework that must be done: there is no record of the climate and soil conditions in Tainan after 1627; Therefore, the traverser must first make a set of experimental fields in order to grasp the detailed agricultural data of the place and make targeted adjustments in crop varieties.

The Dutch, who lived here in the original time and space, recorded some simple weather data in their diaries, but the content of this information was too simple and far from meeting the requirements of Liang Lotian and Mi Shuo, who used to be agricultural technicians.

After more than a year of cultivation and planting, the grain company has mastered detailed data on Tainan's soil, climate, water conservancy and other aspects. It can be said that these data will be the basis for the smooth growth of various field crops in the future.

Looking at the farmland that swept along the way, smelling the smell of fruits emitted by various crops, the two traversers who were sitting on the electric tricycle for a ride were inexplicably in a much better mood at the moment.

After waving his hand to signal the car to stop on the side of the road at will, Liang Letian stood on a soybean field full of vines, stomped a few feet, looked up and said: "I think the old method is still reliable, all new fields are first sown, and the varieties are selected soybeans, and other crops are not considered." ”