The Luzon Islands in the South Seas are now an idyllic scene.

As an important grain producing area in Hongmen, the high-yield rice developed and improved by Cheng Changyu and others of the Hongmen Academy of Agricultural Sciences has long been widely spread in the land within the jurisdiction of Hongmen.

Even in later generations with highly developed science and technology, scientists have not been able to stabilize the yield of hybrid rice at a high level, of course, this is likely to be deliberate.

In Hongmen, where agricultural science is just beginning, the research members of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, guided by Li Tianyang's shallow knowledge, continue to improve the "Zhancheng Rice" series of rice varieties, but they still can't make the genetic effects of hybrid rice last too long.

After the inheritance of several seasons and more than ten seasons of rice varieties, the yield of hybrid rice will have a significant downward trend, although the yield is still better than that of ordinary rice, but it cannot exceed the high yield period of three stones per mu.

This characteristic made the Hongmen Academy of Agricultural Sciences gradually become rich, because the improvement and cultivation of rice seeds has always been a highly confidential matter, even if outsiders get new rice seeds, but cannot obtain rice seed cultivation technology, after all, they can only harvest several years of high yield.

However, by cultivating new rice varieties and selling them to customers in need, the Academy of Agricultural Sciences has accumulated a lot of money, which is a lot of money.

The effect of high yield is obvious, a family of three used to need to plant at least 10 acres of fertile land, in the absence of major disasters, it is possible to meet sufficient food needs; Now, only six acres of land need to be planted, which is enough to meet the food needs of the family.

More fields were freed up, and more food was planted to improve the lives of the people themselves, providing Hongmen with a huge and continuous supply of food to feed the Hongtang army and other extremely large team consumption.

The more output, the more profit can be earned by one acre of land, and compared with cash crops, the original disadvantage has been narrowed, which is enough to impress many people and invest more land to grow food.

The vast reclaimed land is full of green and thriving crops, bringing boundless hope to the farmers who are working hard in the fields.

In later generations, Li Tianyang once heard that most of the Asians in the Nanyang area were lazy and lazy, and they hated the rich, but when the land was in his hands, he didn't find that these Asian aborigines had such a situation.

The Kingdom of Medan in Sulu is now not so much the only ruling body in the Luzon Islands other than the Hongmen, but rather a branch of the Hongmen.

As the main location of gold deposits in the archipelago, the dominance of the Kingdom of Sulu has become shaky since the members of the Hongmen and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce extended their tentacles to the Medan Islands step by step.

After more than ten years of steady layout, most of the official institutions on the main island of Medan have been controlled by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and although the Sulu royal family is unwilling to lose power, but in the face of the Hongtang fleet on the main island of Luzon, as well as the piles of gold interests and shipping interests on the island of Medan, in the end, they are both reluctant and unwilling to hand over the power in their hands and become the largest landlord on Medan.

Learning the cultural knowledge spread from the West, Li Tianyang deliberately used the Sulu Kingdom as a test field, and slowly promoted and improved the management system of the Westerners in the Sulu Kingdom.

Many of the policies and regulations implemented on Hongmen Dayuan Island were actually the first to be verified and improved in the Sulu Kingdom before they were implemented.

"Situation! Situation! Situation! ”

In the Medan Gold Mine, a stable and huge wealth production site of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce in Hongmenhe, the sound of steel reverberates over the vast mine.

The dense workers in the mine, busy and skillful, carry piles of newly mined ore onto mine carts, and then push it along the double track straight to the ore smelt.

With the help of the help of the huge sound, the seepage water and heavy ore poured into the mine where the miners are located can quickly be pulled out of the mine, making the efficiency of the miners several times higher.

Improving efficiency naturally brings about an increase in gold production, and now the gold mines in the entire Medan Islands produce 1 million taels of gold a year, which is converted into 10 million taels of silver.

It seems that the gold production is not very large, but you must know that the gold content of this gold mine is not high, and two or three thousand catties of ore may not be able to melt one or two gold.

Moreover, the output of this million taels of gold, excluding the cost and expenses, actually made a net profit of 800,000 taels, as long as the gold in the Medan mine is not mined, it will provide a steady stream of wealth for the Hongmen and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce and the Medan royal family rain or shine, but there is no risk at all, where can I find such a deal!

"Director, director, there has been another landslide, and more than forty black slaves are trapped in the mine!"

The sound of the machine still couldn't stop the anxious cry of a young man who was in a hurry.

"What?? It's a collapse again!! ”

A man with bronzed skin and stubble on his face looked back, his face full of anger and helplessness.

"Why don't you quickly organize people to rescue, which mine is it?"

"Cave 133!"

"This is unlucky, when something is wrong, just in time for the lady to come to visit, isn't this a life?"

The middle-aged supervisor had nowhere to vent his anger, so he could only vent his mouth, and at the same time quickly organized people to rescue the mine, and at the same time did not forget to ask a few important questions.

"There's no one of us trapped in there, right?"

"There are no black slaves who go down today, and there are no technicians from us."

The young man who came back to report replied with a series of joy.

The workers employed in the mines, with the development of these years, have their own rules, the first class is the Han people from Dayuan Island and the Ming Dynasty, most of them are in charge of the technical level of various positions, or safer logistics posts.

The second group is the local people of Medan, most of whom work on the ground or in less dangerous positions.

The third class are African black slaves from Africa who were sold to Luzon by Westerners and Southerners, as well as slaves from many northern conquering tribes on the Indian Peninsula.

(End of chapter)