With the change of hands in Haimen Town, the connection from the land was also opened, and all kinds of loot from Annam could be quickly shipped back.

The latest news from Guangfu is still being delivered, mainly in terms of production, following the Chaoxun states, dozens of tuntian places scattered in the Pearl River basin have also entered the second season of harvesting; Although the estimated harvest is only two-thirds to three-quarters of the same soil fertility in the Jiangnan region, the annual output of all kinds of two- to three-crop rice combined will be at least doubled by one or two.

The reason why there are still two crops of rice is because the soil fertility in these places cannot keep up with the topdressing needs for the time being, and can only interplant some beans and melons and vegetables that can conserve the land and restore fertility as a transition to fill the gap;

Nowadays, in addition to the planned collection of folk compost and green manure fermentation in the Chaoxun area, as well as the collection of struvite on the island, there is also a highly organized collective labor and livestock use, which can meet the needs of high-intensity and intensive labor input of three-cropping rice. Elsewhere, depending on the distance from the river's alluvial area, it is mixed between two and three seasons.

But nevertheless it is enough to rejoice; Because the area of cultivated land enclosed by these tuntians adds up to 140,000 hectares and a little more; It accounts for about one-third of the developed fields in the Pearl River Basin, and most of the officials and large households close to the Pearl River system occupy Ueda.

Therefore, under the relatively unified management strategy and pace, even if the average of two crops of rice is about three to four stones per mu, it is about two and a half quintals of rice converted into sun-dried, hulled and rough milled rice; Converted into city catties, it is more than 300 catties in later generations. In addition, there are some intercropping relay beans and vegetables as a supplement, so the proportion of the demand for self-retained rations in the tuntian is actually not so high.

Therefore, according to the pre-determined distribution rules, it is basically divided into five, three, and two according to the output of the camp fields in various places;

That is, all the grain is divided in half, half is handed over to the public and half is left in the tuntian, which is used as a reserve for reproduction; One of them becomes the emergency expenses of the collective public use; The remaining forty percent of the surplus after deducting the basic food rations and seed needs was still surplus, but it was later distributed to each of the specific households as a reward for completing the basic production and exceeding the task target, which was a relatively small but relatively positive encouragement.

The public part is also three or two open, only three percent directly into the warehouse reserve; The remaining 20% is used as the daily support of various yamen and subordinates at all levels established by the rebel army, and under the names of several sub-envoys such as Yingtian and Duzhi, another account is set up for distribution and management. It's almost what Zhou Huai'an and Lin Yan discussed.

Despite this, this directly paid to the three-percent proportional share under the control of the left-behind division (about nine buckets to a stone is slightly more), and after multiplying it by the base of about 130,000 hectares of land, it has become quite a huge profit.

In addition, those private fields that are self-cultivated and self-employed outside the tuntian fields must also be handed over to the left-behind division as the basic field assignment according to the estimated output of 40% to half according to the amount of land, although due to efficiency and loss management problems, after circulation, at most 30% can only be put into storage, and it must be redistributed between the left-behind department and several sub-envoys; But it's also a considerable amount.

And these are not counting the output of several irregular bands of coastal plains; In particular, the Chaoshan Plain and the East Guangdong Plain, which were Zhou Huai'an's own reserves, were significantly higher than the average level and directly digested internally. There are also seafood caught in various fishery production points along the coast, which can also provide at least 200,000 catties of salted dried fish and other fish sauce, shrimp paste, crab paste, dried moss and other derivative products every month.

After all, with the productivity of this era, there is no need for a fishing moratorium, as long as there are large enough boats and nets, coupled with experienced manpower, there is always a lot to be gained.

In addition, those areas west of Duanzhou that have not been thoroughly cleaned up, and where there are many remnants of powerful households and heavy burdens, can almost provide the rebels with 30,000 to 50,000 stone of variegated grain on the basis of general surrender and maintaining the status quo.

This is the effect of a restorative rebound from the post-war period of recuperation, unobstructed roads, and the banning of bandits, which have led to a restorative rebound effect on the productivity that has been suppressed to the bottom. Coupled with the fact that a considerable proportion of rice exports could probably be restored after the assessment of Jiaozhou, the overall situation under the rule of the rebel army still seems to be developing in a good way.

In addition, he has already sent personnel to look for ore near Haimen Town, if nothing else, the famous Hongji Coal Mine and the supporting good port will be near a certain section of the coastline; It is a very shallowly buried super-large open-pit coal mine and the largest coal mine in Indochina, rich in high-quality anthracite suitable for steam-powered use.

Moreover, the mining cost is extremely low, and there is no need for any technical content and preconditions, as long as there are enough manpower and tools, the basic mining operations can be completed only by hand; At this time, those captured officers and soldiers and the barbarian men and women after breaking the stockade were able to come in handy. All that is required is the cost of food and wear and tear on the tools to maintain the minimum requirements.

Then the nearby canal connected by Haimen Town goes north, or along the road to Jiaozhou Dagang (Bijing Port) for loading and shipping, and eventually can become an important catalyst for factory production and other livelihood uses in the surrounding areas of Guangzhou.

For example, the open-pit vein mining of Shilu iron ore in Hainan has already had a clue; Now, taking advantage of this opportunity to occupy the port of Jiaozhou, the area where the nearby Hongji Coal Mine, which was famous for its high-quality open-pit coal in later generations, has been completed, and the preconditions for the re-expansion of the Lingnan primary iron industry have been completed.

For example, the four major mining areas in the Lingnan region in later generations, Yunfu, Shilu, Qujiang, and Fanshan, Zhou Huai'an has already privately auctioned and explored; However, with the technical level of this era, the only ones that can really be developed and utilized are some shallow or open-pit veins close to the surface, as long as enough manpower and tools are organized to dig down.

In addition, there are some smaller and limited mines, such as the Si Nong Temple and Lingdong Jiedu Envoy under the name of the imperial court, scattered between Mei, Shao, Chao, Xun, Duan, Guang, Xin, and En, Tongguan Yinchang, Tongkeng Copper Field, Taiping Silver Field, Huaide Tin Field, Huangkeng Silver Field, Dahu Silver Field, Dafu Lead Field, Shikeng Lead Field, Fengji Silver Field, Yang'an Xi Field and other mining and metallurgy, which are specially used to produce some precious metals and special minerals.

At present, there are several large projects that can be collectively carried out in Lingdong, one is the smelting industry in Nanhai County (no longer limited to iron and steel products), the other is the textile printing and dyeing industry in Guizhou (kapok, kudzu, ramie) and Hainan (island cotton), and the other is the large-scale official and private ceramic industry of the Chaoxun generation;

Don't underestimate the significance of the existence of the latter two; This is the main foreign trade fist product that has run through the Maritime Silk Road for more than 2,000 years since ancient times, and has always been prosperous and even become the precursor to the modern Opium War. It is also used to replace a large amount of precious metals and other resources inflow. By the way, there is also tea production that has begun to take shape, and Lingnan is hilly and full of sloping land suitable for growing tea.

Although in the ranking of domestic tea producing areas, it belongs to the little-known bottom state of 10,000 years; In the "Book of Tea" of the tea saint Lu Yu, it is only ranked last after Shannan, Huainan, Zhexi, and Jiannan, and is only called Fuzhou, Jianzhou, Shaozhou, and Xiangzhou; But it can't stand the huge demand for nearby foreign trade exports.

You know, those barbarian ghost animals don't mind the subtle taste differences of tea as much as the Tang people; Whether it was the Tianzhu people, the Great Cannibals, the Persians, or the Tessie and Flynns further afield, they almost regarded them as an important oriental panacea and necessity; And for a long time, the market is not saturated, and there is as much hunger as there is.

In addition, there are incense medicine and jewelry processing industries near Guangzhou, copperware, lacquerware, bamboo and wood products, embroidery and silk weaving, papermaking, and even mining and metallurgy, salt making, shipbuilding and other industries that have long occupied a position in the country.

Therefore, before the arrival of the rebels, there were tens of thousands of craftsmen in various shops, shops, and markets, as well as prisoners, officials, slaves, and maids, official households, and miscellaneous households engaged in related trades. They even invented a special means of taxation for this purpose, the artisans, who levied a certain percentage of the handmade products they produced, or discounted them.

There are also emerging industries created by Zhou Huai'an out of thin air, such as alkali production. Before the industrialization stage in the nineteenth century: first, trona, originated from alkali lake; The second is plant alkali, which is the extract after burning plants (such as seaweed or other salt-tolerant coastal plant sampidhi) into ash, and then soaking, filtering, and concentrating crystallization. This is also the basic precondition for industrial production such as glass, soap, leather, etc.

In addition, at this time, it was only more than ten years since Gao Biao opened up "Tianwei Yao", and most of the craftsmen who participated in cleaning and dredging the river when the canal was mined should still be alive at this time, and if they can be collected into their hands, it is a very valuable potential wealth.

Therefore, with the passage of time, the dividends and potential long-term benefits obtained from this attack on Jiaozhou have also snowballed. After cleaning up the peripheral forces in Jiaozhou, before stepping into the territory of Song Ping, the state city, he also stopped at the mouth of the bifurcated river in the upper reaches of the Zhuluan River, and specially set aside two days to reorganize and sort out the attached armed miscellaneous currents, and even guide the simple formation queue.

Although it is impossible to raise the level of their combat effectiveness overnight, it is also to avoid as much as possible the recurrence of the situation in which they were headless like flies as soon as they were attacked, under the lack of mutual subordination and lack of coordination and coordination. At the very least, it is convenient to stop losses in time when needed, or to carry out suppression and purge.

Therefore, nearly 4,000 Tutuan soldiers composed of more than 20 powerful and large coalition troops attached to the local area; It was divided into Fengzhou, Wu'an, and Changzhou according to the township area, with Qu Chengyu and Zhang Biao, the strongest under them, as the main and deputy leaders; Responsible for leading a small number of capable soldiers, and dividing troops to clean up the remnants of hostile forces and barbarian strongholds in the surrounding area.

Then there were more than 2,000 young and middle-aged people who came to join along the way, and they were divided into ten regiments according to the custom of the Fury Wind Battalion, and they were left behind to guard the grain supply station on the back road and to provide labor services such as camping, building fortifications, raising food, pulling horses, and transporting them.

In this way, the five battalions of the main formation, which are the most combat-effective, will be gradually liberated to more.

(End of chapter)