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February 28, 1647, in the hills of Huxi.

Since last year's careful clean-up of the local Guaraní natives, the area around New Königsberg and Estuary has become much more stable, and the Guarani guerrillas, once commonplace, are now gone. These people are already outsiders, and now they naturally can't hold out here for a long time without effective supplies. Coupled with the fierce war between the East Bank and Spain, many Guarani people were transferred to the Paraná Valley to resist the offensive of the East Bank army, which made the security problem that had plagued New Königsberg for a long time almost overnight.

With the arrival of 500 Ming Beizhili peasants, the population of New Königsberg has exceeded 1,500, of which more than 1,000 are strong men. Three veterans who were discharged from the army due to injuries and seven or eight graduates majoring in administration at the Corps Fort supported the local government agencies, organizing people to build houses, dig wells, cut down trees, dig ditches, and grow food every day. Thanks to everyone's efforts, the original barren New Königsberg has changed greatly after a year of hard work.

Neat houses made of red brick, walls up to three meters thick, artificial reservoirs (converted from small pools), turrets every few hundred meters outside the city, lumberyards on the edge of the forest, and a freight station at the end of Highway 2 give this place what a settlement should be.

The only thing that may be lacking is agriculture, which is still not self-sufficient in food and needs to be transported from Hekou Township along Highway 2 by heavy freight wagons. The local inhabitants have only hastily cultivated some vegetable and bean fields along the outer edge of the city walls, and the harvest is extremely limited. After the security situation here improves, the next step is to expand and open up arable land. The texture of the soil here is not bad, whether it is wheat or alfalfa, the harvest will not be bad, it is a pity not to develop it well.

In this era, especially in the new 6 areas that lack modern fertilizers, pesticides, breeding technology and systematic agricultural knowledge, the level of grain harvest is really completely dependent on whether God gives face. Of course, the people of the East Coast are not the kind of old 6 farmers who are content with the status quo, and the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China has been making great efforts to summarize and summarize agricultural knowledge for more than ten years. Improving agricultural technology. They even borrowed weather numbers from the Navy over the past decade or so on the East Coast (mainly temperature, sunshine and rainfall, humidity measured by feeling) so that the experts from the Ministry of Agriculture could more accurately summarize some of the techniques and experiences.

For example, they concluded that it is best to have a higher humidity than normal before the autumn sowing of wheat in May. In autumn and winter (June-August), it is best not to have too high temperature (but 1oC), humidity to keep dry, preferably some light snow, and no strong winds; 9. After the wheat begins to grow in September, there should be no frost, sufficient sunshine and appropriate amount of rain; In November and December, the rain is moderate and warm, but the temperature should not be too high; There was no precipitation after flowering in January of the following year; February's ripening period was sunny, dry and warm. A deviation in any of these factors will cause a certain decline in wheat yield in that year. They also made a table of correlation coefficients between various weather factors and wheat yields through a large number of figures, so as to extrapolate the grain output of the current year, so as to formulate various policy measures in advance to maintain the stability of the grain market.

This is true for wheat, and the viticulture in Zhenhai County is no exception. Temperatures and precipitation in summer and autumn, and frost in winter and spring. The length of the light has a significant impact on the yield and quality of the grapes. The weather during the winemaking season has a very important influence on the taste of the wine, and the French people who emigrated from Provence and Languedoc have long understood this, and the Ministry of Agriculture has recorded their experience in a book and confirmed this through a large number of practices, and then began to promote it throughout the country.

"The first peasants in New Königsberg were all Latvians from the grain-rich principality of Prussia, and their agricultural skills were already quite good. Add to this the small number of farmers from England, the most technologically advanced agricultural technology in Europe, and after a year's preparations, it is no wonder that this year the township government is determined to reclaim 40,000 acres of wasteland outside the city in an effort to achieve self-sufficiency in food – although the possibility is as small as hitting a rabbit with a flint 100 metres away. Wang Youcai, who had just been transferred to the South Yazihu branch of the Northwest Reclamation Bank, stood in the undulating fields and joked to the young people who were busy working in the fields.

Wang Youcai was originally the supervisor of the Northwest Reclamation Bank's Dongfang County Zhenyuan Township Branch, and last year because of his outstanding performance (the annual profit of the branch office was 557 yuan and 485 sheep, a total equivalent of about 2ooo yuan), he was promoted to the position of president of the South Yazihu District Branch this year. And Anderson, the son of his deceased comrade-in-arms who had been following him, also shared some credit. He was promoted to the position of Superintendent of the newly established New Cornish Township Branch.

Anderson, who had just gotten married a few months ago, moved his family here. His wife is the daughter of a farmer from Luanzhou, Daming, and she is just 17 years old this year. At the beginning, he was snatched away by Mo Dashuai with his family, and was sent to the East Coast after several turnovers.

His father-in-law was a small landlord with dozens of acres of land in the Ming Dynasty, but he said that he was a landlord, but in fact, his life was quite poor. Let's not talk about the chaotic world and heavy taxes, just saying that the seventy or eighty acres of land are too busy for their family to do, and they can't even find anyone to rent it to others. In the end, the family of four had no choice but to abandon a large area of wasteland, and the whole family of four picked half of the fatter land and planted wheat. In this way, when the harvest comes, the yield per mu is often only forty or fifty catties, and the seeds are still not deducted. It's frustrating to the extreme.

This kind of grain production is really only enough for the whole family after removing seeds and paying taxes. Well, you may have to eat some wild vegetables mixed with bran or something, otherwise it may not be enough. After arriving on the East Coast, the family of four has been working in the Rocha leather goods factory in the south, and at the beginning of this year, New Königsberg recruited some old nationals to farm the land, and the family signed up for it in a ruthless way. It doesn't matter what barbarians attack him, as long as he gives me the land, I don't care!

This year, the new Königsberg Township Government plans to reclaim 40,000 acres of farmland, but there are only more than 1,500 people in the local area, and after removing some personnel and their families from various departments of government, commerce, and the military, each pioneer farmer will be allocated an average of 3o acres of wasteland, which has already touched the upper limit set by the government on the cultivation of cultivated land by individuals (forest land and sloping land are not counted).

It is naturally impossible for an adult to cultivate thirty acres of land. However, considering that the east coast now has a large number of animal-powered agricultural machinery, and the harvest is dozens of times that of the past, then this qiē seems to have a glimmer of possibility. However, in this way, intensive cultivation is naturally impossible, and the care of farmland on weekdays is naturally not as meticulous as in Daming's hometown.

Hearing Wang Youcai say this, Anderson, who was bundling alfalfa in the field, smiled, and then said: "Reclamation of 40,000 acres of wasteland is a difficult project, but the subsequent farming activities are even more difficult than the reclamation itself. However, it is consoling to note that, despite the fact that the cultivated area has not become too large this year, because a new farming system has been introduced, the three-crop rotation system. In other words, we only need to cultivate twenty acres of land each year, and the other ten acres are fallow, which is still a very heavy physical labor. ”

The so-called three-crop rotation system refers to the system of dividing the cultivated land into three parts and leaving each crop fallow for one year within three years, so as to preserve the fertility of the cultivated land so that it is not too overdrawn. Grains (usually wheat) are grown on normally cultivated land (two parts), and there are no rules on what is planted on fallow land (one portion), and the villagers are free to choose. However, in order to facilitate mechanized and unified harvesting, generally the fallow land of a village should be planted with the same crop as much as possible. The Ministry of Agriculture has advised everyone to grow alfalfa or leguminous crops, as these two crops can increase the nitrogen content in the soil to quickly replenish the nutrients lost in the previous year, and also provide a large amount of fodder for livestock.

This farming system was later known as the "Norfolk Crop Rotation System". Such a system is of great significance for ensuring the fertility of cultivated land and increasing food production. The general process is as follows: winter wheat is planted on normally cultivated land, and short-term crops such as potatoes or sweet potatoes are planted immediately after harvest; At this time, alfalfa is planted uniformly on the fallow land, and the fallow land of a village can generally be planned in the same place, at this time, a pen can be set up around the fallow field, and the fallow land can be used as a pasture to support livestock (usually vegetable cattle or dairy cows), and the pasture can last until the end of May or early June of the following year, which lasts for nine to ten months. If the weather is beautiful, the sunshine temperature and precipitation are suitable during this period, the starch content in the pasture should be very high, which is also of great significance for promoting livestock fat.

"By the time autumn sowing begins, 2o acres of these 3o acres will be planted with wheat, and the other 10 acres will continue to be planted with alfalfa. A while ago I bought six vegetable cows and two cows, well, cheap cows from La Plata. The yield of these ten acres of alfalfa in the first year will definitely not be too high, but it is almost enough to feed with those potatoes and sweet potatoes. Anderson expertly tied the hay bundles like a babbling farmer.

In fact, he is the supervisor of the branch office of a local bank, and he has a non-agricultural account, so he is not qualified to divide the land. The thirty acres of land he is currently busy with are actually his wife's, that is, the Ming girl from Luanzhou. It's just that New Königsberg has only been built for a year, so where is there so much loan business to do? Therefore, he often helps in the fields of the house, and his wife feeds the livestock at home, which is easier after all. Anyway, if someone wants to take out a loan, they basically know where to find him, and they basically can't make a mistake.

After tying up the last bunch of grass, Anderson, with the help of Wang Youcai, drove a flatbed carriage to his home at the head of the village.