When a new day comes, the admitted candidates come to the place where they took the previous examination with their examination cards, and the officials tell the candidates about the places and positions they are going to one by one, and finally ask the candidates whether they are going to take office, and they will be given a certain settling-in allowance when they take office, and if they do not take office, they will be crossed off from the list, and they will not be hired again in the future, and the People's Army does not need officials who do not obey the arrangement.

Regarding the matter of the imperial examination, Fang Nan only paid a brief attention, and Fang Nan paid more attention to the peace between the People's Army and the Ming Court and the development of the People's Army.

The peace talks between the People's Army and the Ming court continued, and the progress was relatively slow, mainly because the capital was too far away from Jiangxi, and the emperor did not grant Song Yingchang full power, and Song Yingchang could only be sent to the capital by 800 li on important matters, and the Ming court made a decision to expedite it to Jiangxi for another 800 li, and more than ten years passed back and forth.

Now the Ming court is desperate to negotiate peace, after all, there are still tens of thousands of Ming troops besieged by the People's Army, and no one knows whether these tens of thousands of Ming troops can hold on.

The People's Army besieged but did not attack, but only shelled the city from time to time to see when the Ming Army could not hold on, and then the People's Army would launch a strong attack.

Development under the rule of the People's Army is now nothing more than agriculture, commerce, industry, and military.

Agriculture is the most important point, only with agricultural production can there be food, people can have enough to eat, and only then can they do other things.

There is not much land in Guangdong, and at the time of Zhang Juzheng, there were 33 million mu of farmland in Guangdong, and the average population under the rule of the People's Army was less than four mu of farmland per person.

This average amount of farmland allows the people under the rule of the People's Army to have enough to eat, but it is also necessary to consider the problem of natural disasters, once encountering natural disasters, farmland failures, and tens of thousands of people starve to death are rare.

How to ensure that the common people under its rule can always have enough to eat is an issue that the People's Military Government needs to consider, and for this reason the People's Military Government has launched several plans.

The first plan was to build a large number of water conservancy facilities, so that the reservoirs could store large amounts of water when it rained, the reservoirs could be used to irrigate the fields during the drought, and the canals could be drained during the rains to prevent crops from drowning.

When the local people saw that the People's Army was going to build water conservancy facilities and knew that it would be beneficial to their own families, they joined in one after another to speed up the construction of water conservancy facilities.

Now that the KPA is about to set up cement factories in various places, with cement to join, the construction of hydro facilities will be faster.

The second plan is to encourage the common people to open up wasteland, although Guangdong is mountainous and forested, there is still land that can be reclaimed into farmland.

In the past, the common people did not open up the wasteland, mainly because they were busy from morning to night every day but they could not even eat enough, and they had no time to open up the wasteland, but now the people have their own fields, and it is not a problem to eat enough, and they also have time to open up the wasteland.

Not only can it be reclaimed as farmland, but fruit trees can also be planted on sloping land, which is also a way to increase the income of the common people, and the people's military government will give tax exemption for three years to newly cultivated land.

Before the autumn harvest this year, there were very few ordinary people under the rule of the People's Army, but after the autumn harvest, many ordinary people took action, although the grain produced in the farmland in their hands was enough to eat, but who did not want to get more food, which means an increase in income.

The KPA's third plan looks simpler, but it is more cumbersome to implement: improving crops.

To improve crops, farmers almost all know that they can select the full grains of grain for next year's seeds, but in fact, the yield per mu of various crops at the beginning was very low, and it was under the selection of farmers from generation to generation that the yield per mu of these crops gradually increased.

It can be said that the same crop and the same land may only feed 1,000 people a thousand years ago, but 2,000 or more people a thousand years later, and there is a deep connection between population growth and crop yield.

Improving crops involves biological knowledge, and many graduates of three-year education are very interested in biological knowledge, reading the book "Elementary Biology" for self-study, among them, some people attach more importance to improving crops, thinking about improving crops, so that they can have higher yields.

In the mountains, the KPA could not experiment, but now that the KPA has such a large territory, it is not a problem to take out some land for experiments to improve crops.

Improving crops can not only increase yields, but also resist lodging, waterlogging and other cultivation directions, and the People's Army can now carry out simple cultivation and improvement of crops.

The People's Army Government does not have a Ministry of Agriculture, but it has an Agriculture Department that is responsible for agriculture.

After the farmland began to be planted this year, officials of the Department of Agriculture often walked in the fields to observe the common people planting and observing the growth of crops.

The officials of the Department of Agriculture pay the most attention to the farmland where the crops are growing well, and see whether the crops are growing well because of the farmland, seeds, or people.

Nowadays, the staff of the Department of Agriculture has increased a lot, and the Department of Agriculture has invited many experienced farmers to join the Department of Agriculture to cultivate crops together.

However, in this era, improving crops is a relatively long-lasting thing, and it may take several years to achieve a result, and researchers need to endure loneliness.

As for expanding the planting of other high-yield crops, the People's Military Government has no such plan, and the three high-yield crops of corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes can all be found in Guangdong, and the planting area is not small.

But for the common people, these three crops are coarse grains, if you can choose, everyone is more willing to plant fine grains, high value, people also like to eat, coarse grains are low, if not for satiety, no one wants to eat, it is more suitable to feed livestock.

The population of the Ming Dynasty was more than 100 million, to the Qing Dynasty, the population doubled, the increase in cultivated land area is a reason, and more importantly, the planting area of corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes has increased greatly, the common people originally did not like to eat these three kinds of food, but in order to survive in order to fill their stomachs, the people had to choose these three kinds of food that is not delicious but has a large yield.

Slowly, the common people became accustomed to these three kinds of food, and their tastes changed.

Now the common people under the rule of the People's Army do not like to eat coarse grains, and the People's Army Government cannot force them, and now the farmland in the hands of the common people is planted with fine grains, so that everyone under the rule of the People's Army can have enough to eat.

However, the more food, the better, the construction of hydraulic facilities to a certain degree of resistance to natural disasters, but natural disasters still have an impact on crop yields, once the natural disasters are serious, crop yields are seriously reduced, if there is not enough reserve food, there will still be starvation to death.

That is why the People's Army Government has drawn up several plans for agricultural development, hoping that grain production will continue to increase under the rule of the People's Army, and at least no one will starve to death under the rule of the People's Army.

If there is more food, the population will also increase, and compared to the earth, the population in the land of China is still too small.