"In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the grain expropriated from the land of Dayuan Island reached 156,793 stones, while the grain output of my own land reached 1,075,388 stones, an overall increase of 11 percent over the previous year."

"The Luzon Islands collected 78,732 stone of grain, and the Ministry of Agriculture of our Qixintang produced 334,759 stone of grain, an increase of 23 percent over the previous year."

"Wu Daofu of the three islands of Iriomote sent 80,000 stone of grain, which was the same as the previous year."

"In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the overall grain consumption of my Hongmen was 1,438,457 stones, 989,727 stones of grain were sold, and 1,196,311 stones of private grain were purchased."

"Coupled with the surplus grain of 950,000 and 372 stones from the previous year, the total amount of grain left in our Hongmen is now 1,443,871 stones, which are hoarded in Bengang, Da'an Town, and Keelung Town."

"In addition, around 19 county towns such as Shengze in Suzhou, Wenzhou in Zhejiang, and Jing County in Anhui, I have built a 30,000-stone granary in Qixintang, and hoarded a full warehouse of grain, which is enough to supply 50,000 troops for March."

In a stack of detailed reports, Li Tianyang has an unobstructed view of Hongmen's information on grain output over the years, and the so-called soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, and now Li Tianyang is planning a great cause, and other things may not need his concern, but as the cornerstone of the grain and grass, Li Tianyang can not help but pay attention to it.

The output of grain crops in ancient times is not compared with that of later generations, an acre of cooked land is under the care of skilled farmers, even if the climate is suitable, the output per mu basically does not exceed more than three stones, Dayuan Island, where Hongmen is located, can rely on rich manure as land regulation, plus the climate is suitable, it can achieve two seasons a year and other outputs, and even Luzon is in a tropical climate and can have three seasons a year, but the grain balance of Hongmen is only one million stones a year.

Of course, this is also related to the low tax policy of Hongmen itself, the policy of fifteen taxes and one is a common practice in the Ming Dynasty, but in addition to this, the Ming Dynasty also has additional levies and other means to collect Chinese grain from the people, and the people on this side of Hongmen as long as they do not do business, basically there is no other additional levy.

"Say hello to Qixintang, from now on, our grain harvesting efforts need to be intensified, and we must ensure that we have at least two million stone or more high-grade grain in our hands!"

"Yes!"

"Every quarter, 30,000 stone of grain will be transported to Dongjiang Town, and there must be no mistake!"

"Yes!"

"The progress of the granaries in various places must be accelerated, and within five years, we must let the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River spread all over our granaries!"

"Yes!"

“……”

After April this year, Li Tianyang is already a middle-aged man who is not confused, and no one can shake the ambition in his heart.

For this reason, Li Tianyang has begun to take active action and plan to lay it out, it does not have the wisdom of being wise and close to the demon, nor does it have the martial arts and courage of being a man and a man, and it does not have the spirit of a tyrant such as the king described in it, what it has is the patience that has been precipitated over the years and a solid foundation that has come out step by step.

Today's Hongmen is no longer the two hundred teenagers who set foot on Dayuan Island at the age of fifteen, and now the people owned by Li Tianyang have exceeded the base of two million in the last year, and the more the population base, the faster the Hongmen's heritage and growth rate, which also gave Li Tianyang greater courage and confidence to embark on that road of no return.

And after several years, the first railway across Bengang and Keelung Town finally completed all its preparations in April of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, around Li Tianyang's 40th birthday, and was officially opened!

This is a cross-era product, for this steam train, Li Tianyang and Hongmen invested no less than one million taels of silver in it, and now the steam engine as the main force is already the seventh generation product of Bengang R&D Institute.

Previously, although Bengang and Da'an Town opened a round-trip railway route, it was just a spiritual means used by Li Tianyang to reunite the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, the children of the Bengang Alliance, and deter the surrounding teams and foreigners, and the number of times he actually used this railway was only a handful.

The reason is very simple, of course, the railway load steam train and other technologies have not yet reached the use of formal commercial operation, and with the continuous research and improvement of the R&D Institute, the practical application of this railway has finally achieved breakthrough progress.

Although the steam train, which can reach more than 50 miles per hour and carry more than 10,000 stones, is not as sensational as it was when it first came out, it is still a magical thing for ordinary people who have lived in Keelung Town for a long time and have never set foot in other places.

The opening of this railway, for Hongmen itself, is also of great significance, once the fastest to take more than three days of round-trip, now after the opening of the railway, the travel time between Bengang and Keelung has been shortened to only one and a half days, not to mention the capacity of the train, one time can reach tens of thousands of stones, more convenient for the overall layout of Hongmen in the future.

In addition to the convenience of freight, for the people, a train ticket of three taels of silver may be a bit expensive, but compared with the journey that takes at least eight days to travel and at least five days to take by boat, not only is it safer and smoother to go back and forth, but everyone can also enjoy various scenery along the way, this ticket is also worth it.

In addition to this biggest surprise, there was another surprise for Hongmen, that is, the rubber trees they planted were finally able to harvest rubber.

After many times of specialized research and improvement, the technology of harvesting rubber in this era without directly cutting down rubber trees has also been studied by craftsmen such as Hongmen Smart.

This rubber harvesting technique, which is called circumcision by craftsmen, can make a five-year-old rubber tree produce five to six catties of rubber every year, which is for Hongmen, who has thousands of dumping rubber trees in Shizupu and Luzon Islands, and the rubber needed for daily and military industry no longer needs Sun Juyong and them to collect it from the Americas.

In order to prevent these important military materials from being destroyed, Hongmen organized countless actions to clean up the indigenous people, and once hit the center of the mountain range, and countless indigenous tribes were wiped out.

(End of chapter)