At a time when the sale and purchase of cultivated land was in full swing across the country, Lopnov came to the Great Zhou again with the agreement signed by Alexander II, and after the agreement was officially submitted, the agreement was officially put into effect. Δ ́ ̧ ̧ ̧ ̧ ww w. .co

Zhang Lingyang did not make any small moves behind his back, and on the day he received the agreement, he sent a decree to Warat Khan, ordering him to stop harassing the Rus' state.

At the same time, several small armies were ordered to set out and camp on the already surveyed border with the Rus' state, and at the same time to 'help' the Rus' people to move into the Rus' territory.

Western Siberia is bitterly cold all year round, and there are not many crops that can be planted, and Zhang Lingyang himself actually does not know what crops should be planted in the severe cold areas.

He went to the Royal Academy in the western suburbs and inquired with European scholars there, only to learn that in a cold region like Western Siberia, only a few hardy crops such as wheat and potatoes could be grown, and the yield of crops there was not high compared to the warm and humid areas.

However, there is also a clear advantage of Western Siberia, which is that there is enough vegetation to develop large-scale farming.

After some suggestions from several experts and scholars, Zhang Lingyang finally decided to develop small-scale agriculture and animal husbandry in West Siberia.

Because of the harsh climate, even after some development, the population of Western Siberia is still not too large, and the food produced there cannot support too many people, so Zhang Lingyang did not issue an order to let the first batch of soldiers stationed in Western Siberia plant crops on a large scale.

As long as they have enough for their own use and are slightly rich.

In the future, when the Great Zhou Dynasty set up villages and towns there, there will naturally be people engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry there.

After solving the matter in Western Siberia, Zhang Lingyang set his sights on the eastern Liaodong region.

After the autumn of this year, the Liaodong side sent a note, saying that a total of more than 100 hectares of fields have been developed in Liaodong this year. Although the grain production is still not considerable, it has been able to solve the local food and clothing problem.

After receiving this report, Zhang Lingyang issued an order to the three provinces of southern Henan, Zhili, and Shandong, and ordered the three provinces to relocate 10,000 households to Liaodong.

Of course, since it is a forced relocation, there are naturally enough preferential policies.

Not only did the health centers along the way provide food, clothing, shelter and transportation to these migrating people, Zhang Lingyang also issued an order to exempt these people from taxes for three years, and ordered the local health centers in Liaodong to build houses and other necessary facilities for these people.

In the Great Zhou, the densely populated provinces are not only the three northern provinces, but also the Jiangnan and Huguang provinces are also very densely populated.

However, considering the long distance and the fact that the southerners were intolerant of the bitter cold in the north, Zhang Lingyang did not order the southern provinces to migrate the population to Liaodong.

Leaving their hometown is something that many people are unwilling to do, but fortunately, the work of the chief and village chief below is doing a good job, coupled with the temptation of land, there are still many people who are willing to go to Liaodong to seek a living.

Although land was now bought and sold throughout the country, the common people were able to buy the land of the gentry by taking out loans from banks.

But southern Henan, Shandong, and Zhili are all provinces with large populations, and the gentry here are relatively much more conservative than in the south, so even if the people buy it, those gentry are not willing to sell all their land.

Continuing to be tenants for these gentry, or going to distant Liaodong to fight, has become a headache for these landless people.

In fact, there are many people who are willing to go to Liaodong, after all, it is all ownerless land, and it is allocated to them by the government, and there is no need to pay money.

But the problem now is that Liaodong has just developed even a few acres of land, which is simply not enough for so many people to cultivate.

Zhang Lingyang also wanted to move hundreds of thousands or even millions of people to Liaodong at once.

But this is clearly not in line with the actual situation.

Not to mention that so many people went to Liaodong and couldn't get land, just talking about food, Liaodong alone could not feed millions of people.

Just because you can't do it today doesn't mean you won't work next year.

With these tens of thousands of households moving to Liaodong this year, by next autumn, Liaodong's output will definitely be able to feed hundreds of thousands of people.

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang once again issued an order to Liaodong, ordering the local health center to continue to open up the wasteland after the spring next year, and it is a large-scale reclamation.

By this time next year, Zhang Lingyang will be able to move hundreds of thousands of people to Liaodong.

This can not only effectively use the barren land in eastern Liaodong, but also solve the problem of insufficient land in the interior.

Although the era of industrialization has come, industrial fertilizers and pesticides have not yet been born, that is, the agricultural output of this era is actually very low, even less than one-third of that of later generations.

Although the cultivated land area of the northern provinces far exceeds that of the southern provinces, the land of the Central Plains has long been barren after thousands of years of cultivation.

In terms of the fertility of the land, it is far less than the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, not to mention the black soil in eastern Liaodong.

Just like Kaifeng Mansion, the capital of southern Henan, for thousands of years, after countless wars and floods, at least one-fifth of the land there has become saline-alkali land.

Even if the land could grow crops, the yield was pitiful.

A situation like Kaifeng is actually very common in the northern provinces, but the problems in other provincial capitals are not as serious as Kaifeng Fu.

Without the support of modern technology, trying to improve the land there is tantamount to a dream. Even Zhang Lingyang, who came from later generations, had only heard of several stupid ways to improve saline-alkali land, but whether it was suitable or not, Zhang Lingyang himself did not know.

However, Zhang Lingyang has already issued an order to the Agricultural College of the Royal Academy, so that the experts and scholars there can study ways to improve the saline-alkali land.

But it's going to be a long-term job. In later generations, it took many years to control saline-alkali land.

In this era, it is impossible to improve the soil quality all at once.

However, Zhang Lingyang is not very urgent about these, first, because scientific research cannot be solved by shouting a few slogans, and scientific research itself requires a lot of research and experiments to draw the most effective conclusions.

Second, because the population of the Great Zhou is not as large as that of later generations, and after the migration of population to Liaodong, the population and land pressure of the Central Plains provinces can be alleviated to a certain extent in the next few years.

Zhang Lingyang believes that in the next few years, the College of Agriculture of the Royal Academy will definitely be able to give a reasonable solution, so relatively speaking, Zhang Lingyang is not very anxious.

Now Zhang Lingyang is anxious about how to promote science and technology in China.

The Great Zhou has a population of hundreds of millions, but with the talents cultivated by a royal academy, it is far from being able to solve the disadvantages faced by the Great Zhou in industrial development, and whether it is in the court or in the locality, most of the people who master the writing reject Western science and technology, and rely on themselves alone......

(Education 123 Literature Network)