The bulk of the supplies is grain, and it will take six months for Jeju Island and Kaohsiung to become self-sufficient in food, and at least four months for the Pingtung area of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In other words, from the start of the engine, it will be necessary to meet the food needs of 200,000 refugees for five months, and to ensure the food needs of about 10,000 naturalized people.

According to the calorific value, the daily caloric needs of refugees are converted into 350 grams of brown rice - although it is relatively low, most refugees do not arrange to work, and mainly recuperate. This would require 70 tonnes of brown rice per day, 2,100 tonnes per month, and 10,500 tonnes over a five-month period. Participants are supplied an average of 750 grams per day. The monthly consumption of grain is 225 tons of rice. The demand is 1,200 tons. In addition, the Ministry of Health has recommended a 10% increase in vegetables and protein from a nutritional point of view to ensure the health of the refugees. Therefore, it is also necessary to provide a certain amount of vegetables and seafood. Most of this material could be used to organize refugees to settle on the ground – the Heaven and Earth Society would provide jishu guidance, seeds, and production tools.

This does not include the food ration needs of the indigenous people on Jeju Island. Although there are certainly some grain reserves on the island, Jeju itself is not a grain-producing area, and until the 21st century, the main agricultural product on Jeju Island was citrus. Most of the land on the island is used to breed horses. Obviously, the island's food would have had to be imported from outside.

"According to the intelligence we have consulted, the Yi dynasty has a very large prison camp on Jeju Island," Thorpe said, "and there are at least 10,000 officials, slaves, and maids." In order to support this part of the official slaves and maids, the prison camp will inevitably have a food reserve of one or two months. The small number of civilians on the island should have some food, and we don't need to supply it for the time being. But it is necessary to take into account the supply at a later stage. ”

Jeju Island is not far from the Korean Peninsula and the archipelago, and it is still possible to supplement some grain from these two places on a small scale, and at that time there were restrictions on the export of silver, but I did not hear of any restrictions on the export of rice.

What is difficult to do is Taiwan's transit base, there is no local channel for purchasing grain, Taiwan's indigenous people's agricultural level is very low, there is no spare power to supply food, and the Dutch are interested in buying and selling, and have no interest in cultivating wasteland. Although there have been Fujian immigrants in the Beigang area since the time of Yan Siqi, Zheng Zhilong has also continued to send immigrants there. However, Taiwan's grain production has not been ideal, and until the Qing Dynasty, it still relied on imported supplies from the outside world. The possibility of getting food supplies from Zheng Zhilong is extremely small. It is also less likely to buy grain from the mainland -- Fujian was originally a province short of grain.

The bulk of the food supply can only be transported by itself. The logistics department mén needs to prepare a large amount of food. The Planning Institute has made a plan for the supply of grain -- the people rushed from Shandong and Zhejiang must have food to eat, clothing, and clothing, and all these must be planned in a unified manner.

Now the Lingao regime is not just in control of Lingao County, after the summer awakening campaign, the local power of the entire Qiongzhou has been completely controlled by the Senate according to the model of Mingpi Aoxin. The food supply situation has improved - but only to a limited extent.

The counties of Qiongnan have scarce acres of land and have made little contribution to the expansion of grain reserves -- as long as we look at the grain ration figures of the counties in southern Qiongnan, we can know the local agricultural productivity; In Qiongnan, there are only 3,000 stones of grain endowment in Yazhou, such as Thanksgiving, Huichang and other prefectures and counties, but only thousands of stones, or even hundreds of stones. Relatively speaking, the agricultural situation of the counties in northern Qiongbei is relatively good, especially in Qiongshan County, Wenchang and other places where agriculture is the most developed, and it is the main grain producing area of Qiongzhou Prefecture. From the second half of 1630, the work of the People's Commissariat of Civil Affairs began to clear the fields one by one in each county of northern Qiongbei.

The total amount of land in Qiongzhou is 85,459 stones. Some of them received grain, and some of them received silver. Because the commodity economy of Qiongzhou is very weak, and the circulation of silver is very small, most of it is still priced in grain.

More than half of this positive amount will be shipped to Beijing, Si, and Lian. In other words, 40,000 to 50,000 stones are transported from Qiongzhou every year. More than 40,000 stone remained in the province for military pay, administrative expenses, and food reserves. Of course, the part left behind is the disposable food of the Planning Institute.

Of course, in fact, the number of grain paid by the common people is far more than 85,000 stone, which is estimated from the experience of the People's Committee for Civil Affairs and the State Administration of Taxation in the work of "clearing up the fields" in Lingao. The actual amount of grain paid by the whole government should be at least 140,000 stones. The extra grain is actually filled with layers of sī bags.

In other words, the Senate can collect 140,000 stone from the Qiongzhou Mansion on the premise of maintaining the current level of burden, and the entire Qiongzhou Mansion will probably be able to donate 100,000 stone of brown rice to the Senate after paying the tax of more than 40,000 stone to the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to this part of the land endowment, the Planning Institute intends to purchase another 120,000 koku of grain from farmers and landlords by means of purchase. However, in order to complete the acquisition task, it is necessary to stab them to have a need for currency. At a time when the Senate enterprises lacked sufficient industrial products to sell to the countryside, the only way to achieve that was to do so was by means of collecting taxes. This requires the cooperation of the reform of the tax system. The people of Wudaokou believe that in the long run, monetization and tax collection are the general direction.

Of course, collection, processing, and warehousing are long-term jobs, not to say that there are any. Fortunately, collecting and transporting displaced people is also a long-term process, and it is not a one-time increase of 200,000 people, and the Planning Institute still has plenty of time to collect and prepare food.

In addition to the Senate's own food reserves, the Summer Awakening campaign also brought additional reserves to the Planning Academy. That is the five large official warehouses on Hainan Island: Guangfeng Cang in Qiongshan, which stores 16,000 stone of rice every year; Danzhou Dafengcang 3,000 stones; Changhua Guang storage warehouse 5,600 stones; Wanzhou Guangjicang 4,000 stones; The two warehouses of the military reserve and Qinglan store 13,000 stones of rice every year.

These official warehouses have to store tens of thousands of stone of grain every year, and their main purpose is to "prepare for Li". In the event of a large-scale "li luàn", the army crossed the sea to crusade and could obtain food on the spot.

However, as with all systems in this shijie, a good system may not always be able to maintain well. According to the official documents, the grain stored in these main official warehouses should be as much as hundreds of thousands of stones. But in reality, the deficit is very serious. The special search team of the Planning Institute, together with the army and the task force, went deep into the warehouses of each state and county, and was completely accustomed to the phenomenon of embezzlement. But the huge deficit of these five warehouses still made the patriarch who led the team dumbfounded.

The actual inventory of the five warehouses shows that the removal of the aged grains that are purely sufficient and can be used as feed at most can be used to save less than one-tenth of the book stock.

Subsequently, the special search team carried out intensive torture and torture of the clerks, brokers, and chiselmen of the warehouses to recover the stolen goods, seized a large amount of property and food, and confiscated a large amount of land. It's a slight gain.

"In the previous stage, we received 100,000 stones of brown rice and miscellaneous grains from various local government warehouses, totaling about 9,000 tons. This part of the grain is enough as a starting food. "At the moment we are using our own reserves of dried potatoes for relief rations. We still have a lot of dried potatoes in reserve. This can roughly support the consumption of refugees. ”

"In this way, we are a little nervous, which is equivalent to taking out all the foundations, and we originally thought that the grain reserves were a little looser." He Ming was a little worried—food was the lifeblood of the army, and he felt uneasy at the thought of transporting so much food.

Zhan Wuya also felt hanging: "In addition to the army, we still have a large number of off-duty population, administrative personnel, students, and workers in Lingao, and the food supply of these people cannot be wrong, otherwise it is easy to shake the national capital." ”

Od has already calculated this problem: "Food security is guaranteed. First of all, this batch of grain for the engine jihua is something we get extra. We received this amount of food without increasing the number of people to be fed. Spending on refugees does not reduce our reserves, nor does it increase our original food expenditure. Secondly, after obtaining the power of the whole island, it was equivalent to obtaining the power to levy grain on the whole island in 1631. The increase in revenue in this area is significant. And it's a steady increase in revenue. No more than a seizure is a xìng. ”

In addition, the Planning Institute is also preparing to expand grain imports as an important measure to ensure food security. The focus is on importing Siamese rice. Vietnam's rice source began to become less available and prices rose as the supply began to decrease with the wars between the North and the South. Siammese rice, which is cheap and abundant, became the next target of the Planning Institute to increase its grain reserves. It's just that this takes up freight tonnage. But overall, the food pressure is not as great as everyone thinks.

Wu De explained: Moving *** to lose is a long-term jihua. From the beginning of the first batch to the end of zuihou, less than four or five months, more than one or two years. As long as the first batch of refugees is organized in time to clear the land in the transit camp and plant early-maturing crops, the harvest will actually be possible after three or four months. Harvested food replaces part of the supply on the spot. So there is no need to include the rations of all immigrants.

The early-maturing sweet potato varieties owned by the Committee of Agriculture can be harvested in about 80~90 days, and there are also suitable varieties for potatoes and buckwheat. The average annual temperature in Kaohsiung and Pingtung is as high as 25°C, and the rain is abundant, so it can be planted all year round. Take rolling planting and harvest in cascades. When the large-scale migration from Zhejiang is over, Kaohsiung's agriculture will still be able to provide food for Jeju Island, and a considerable part of it will still be able to achieve self-sufficiency.

“…… There is a real shortage of supply, and we can also use Hong Kong as a base. Grain was purchased directly in Guangdong and shipped to Kaohsiung. The distance between the two places is only 350 nautical miles. You can go back and forth in a week. He zuihou said...