Seeing that these landlords and old fortunes were gone, Zhu Hongsan knew that they had gone back to mobilize their respective forces. Zhu Hongsan said to Zhang Jiayu: "Yuanzi, tell me about our situation. ”

"May I ask King Chu, start with that project first?"

Zhu Hongsan groaned: "Agriculture, the people take food as the sky." ”

Zhang Jiayu nodded, picked up a stack of papers from his desk, and said, "Lord Wang, the land under your name has a total of 10.2 million mu, most of which is tidal flats, wasteland, and forest land, and only 200,000 mu has been opened up into grain fields. Last year, the prince ordered all the sweet potatoes and corn to be planted, and this year, in September, the harvest was 1.8 million stones, and the corn also reached 20,000 stones. If, as the prince said, sweet potatoes can be planted for two seasons next year, there will be a harvest of three million stones a year. Together with other food, it will be possible to feed three million to five million people next year. ”

Zhu Hongsan is very happy, only one season of potatoes has been harvested this year, and two seasons should be harvested from next year. He estimated that when the Manchu Qing Dynasty went south in May next year, a large number of displaced people from Nanzhili would have to go south to Guangdong.

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said: "It's still not good, I don't panic when I have food in my hands, this year it's just the land in my hands to plant potatoes." Yuanzi remembered that starting next year, all the prefectures and counties under our jurisdiction will set aside one-third of their land to grow potatoes and corn. ”

Zhang Jiayu asked, "Lord Wang, is this too much?" The yield of sweet potatoes is high, but this thing is not a staple food, and I am afraid that there will be resistance from the people if I plant more. ”

"You're still short-sighted. If the output of potatoes and corn increases, people can't eat them, so they can feed pigs and cows, but meat is much more valuable than grain. ”

Zhang Jiayu suddenly realized that there are only more than 100 catties of millet and rice in one mu of land, and 1,000 catties of sweet potatoes. People don't eat pigs but eat this thing, and pigs grow fast when they are fed food, this method is good. His family is a big landlord in Dongguan, with tens of thousands of acres of grain fields under his name, and it seems that he has planted some.

Zhang Jiayu nodded and wrote it down.

Zhu Hongsan saw Zhang Jiayu recording there, and then said: "Also, potatoes and corn can be used to make wine, you don't need me to tell me how much this thing is." ”

Zhu Hongsan found that the peasants of the Ming Dynasty were very naïve, and people couldn't do anything else if they didn't eat this kind of high-yield thing, so it seemed that he wanted to develop their horizons.

Zhu Hongsan began to sit there and talk about the deep processing of agricultural products, this Zhu Hongsan is in the industry, he used to be from the township, and he has seen a lot of this thing. What potatoes can be processed into starch, vermicelli, wine, sake lees and can also be fed to cattle, etc., Zhang Jiayu was dumbfounded.

Zhang Jiayu knew that Zhu Hongsan was from a humble background, but he basically didn't do farm work when he was a child, how did he know these things?

Zhang Jiayu raised the question in his heart, Zhu Hongsan didn't expect that he was bragging about it, and hurriedly said: "When I was a child, my family was poor, and these were all done by my mother." ”

Zhang Jiayu has never planted land, and he doesn't know that in this era, sweet potatoes and corn were only planted in a small amount in Guangdong, and there was no such thing in Huguang.

Zhang Jiayu hurriedly bowed down and said, "The old princess is really an expert in agriculture. ”

Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to smile and say, "There, there!" ”

Zhang Jiayu continued: "The next prince still wants to hear about the situation of that department?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Industry." ”

Zhang Jiayu looked at the materials in his hand, and then began to introduce the situation of the industry. Because now the raw materials have been solved, so the steelmaking plant began to produce at full capacity, Zhu Hongsan has issued an order, the Chinese New Year workers can only rest for one day, three shifts a day, substitutions do not stop the furnace, full production. Naturally, the salary during the Chinese New Year is also three times that of normal days.

This year is already the end of the year, and next year is the most important year, whether or not the Qing army can be stopped next year, and the question of Zhu Hongsan's small life is related, so Zhu Hongsan is particularly concerned.

Zhu Hongsan had already ordered the full production of ductile iron weapons, which would be shipped to Nanzhili in large quantities at that time. In Zhu Hongsan's plan, he will participate in the resistance movement of Nanzhili next year.

The preliminary work has been prepared, and Qian Lide has already set up an intelligence network in Jiangyin and Jiading. Both of these places are by the river, and the water transportation is convenient, and Zhu Hongsan plans to directly send a new army to the war. Other parts of Nanzhili and Zhejiang Province have distributed a large number of weapons by the secret guard intelligence network, and the Qing army will definitely be disgraced when the time comes.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but be happy, he couldn't wait to see the ugly faces of Duoduo and Dorgon.

Next, Zhang Jiayu reported on the business situation, and now the business network is spread across the country. However, there is still a gap in the north and Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the northern provinces are not good, so the outlets are only laid out in a few major cities, and other county towns and towns are not rolled out. However, all provinces and counties in the south have outlets, and all kinds of industrial products can directly enter the rural areas.

Zhang Jiayu said: "King Chu, the most popular now is iron farming tools and knives, and the feedback information says that our products are very sharp and lightweight, and the most important thing is that they are more than one percent cheaper than local iron tools." At present, most of the government-run iron works in Nanzhili and Huguang, Jiangxi Province, have ceased production, and only a few small private workshops are still maintaining production. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Continue to dump and bring down the local small workshops." There is also salt, sugar, no silver, no problem, exchange with raw materials. ”

Zhang Jiayu asked: "Lord Wang, a large amount of iron products flowed into the Manchu-controlled areas, what if they collected knives and farm tools to make weapons?" ”

"Don't worry, our recipe is very unique, this kind of pig iron will be very brittle after melting, and it can be broken with stones. As for real steel, my artillery factories are not enough, and they are still sold? ”

Now Zhu Hongsan is engaged in the navy, this is the big user of steel, every 800-ton sea ship has 50 guns, 20 guns of 2,000 catties, 30 guns of 1,000 catties, this is 35 tons, there are other weapons production, and there is also production capacity for export.

Zhang Jiayu heard Zhu Hongsan say this, and put his heart at ease. He continued: "The problem in the industry now is that too much charcoal is used, and the output of coal still cannot rise. ”

As soon as Zhu Hongsan was mentioned in this situation, Fu Wenlong and Ma Shaoguang went to Sizhou for almost three months. Half a month ago, the first ship of coal was shipped back, and the quality was very good. However, the volume is too small, only 200 tons can be transported every half a month, which is simply not enough to stuff the teeth, so now the steel mill mainly uses charcoal and local lignite production in Guangdong.

Of course, the calorific value of charcoal and lignite cannot be compared with good anthracite, so now coal has become a bottleneck in industrial development.

Zhu Hongsan asked: "Fu Wenlong, they didn't write from them, saying that they didn't say anything?" ”

"Here, half a month ago, the prefect Fu wrote a letter saying that there are really no miners in the local area, and all this coal is collected from the local landlords."

Hearing Zhang Jiayu say this, Zhu Hongsan said angrily: "Waste, it's all waste." Who told them to buy, to rob! There were no miners to catch local Vietnamese to dig, and there were not enough manpower to destroy a few villages. Yuanzi, you write a letter, give it to Fu Wenlong, and ask him to do this. ”

Zhang Jiayu broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this, and said in his heart that this King of Chu was really ruthless. Although the scholars did not treat the Vietnamese as human beings, they could not do it for the sake of mining, which was to destroy the village.

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he thought about it, took out a pen and paper and wrote a letter, handed it to Zhang Jiayu and said, "Then this letter will also be handed over to Wang Jinbao." ”

Zhang Jiayu didn't dare to read the content of the letter, and hurriedly bowed his head and agreed.

Zhu Hongsan asked: "Yuanzi, what else is the situation, let's talk about it together." ”

The Zhang family looked at the information in his hand and said, "Everything else is good news." Guangzhou Prefecture Feng Governor said that he has selected the address and is ready to build the Guangzhou Development Zone outside the east gate in accordance with the model of the Dongguan Development Zone, and at the same time, the transformation of Guangzhou has also begun, and it is expected that Guangzhou will be able to change greatly in May next year. ”

"There is also Zhaoqing Mansion, Xu Zhifu is also going well, 500,000 acres of wasteland has been developed in the early stage, and now 200,000 displaced people have been allocated land. Each household was given 20 acres of land, and it was stipulated that 70 percent of the land rent should be paid in the first three years, 30 percent in the next seven years, and the land would be owned by the displaced people after 10 years. ”

Finally heard some good news, Zhu Hongsan said: "Write a letter to Xu Dali and ask him not to plant all potatoes and corn, this thing is enough to be grown in other prefectures and counties." He mainly engaged in mulberry fish ponds, after all, raw silk is worth more than potatoes. There was also Feng Ziyong who told him not to copy Dongguan's model, and asked him to investigate what Guangzhou is suitable for development. ”

Zhang Jiayu nodded again and again and wrote down everything Zhu Hongsan said.