The winter of 1635 came very early, and the weather was colder than usual. Fortunately, a large number of migrants have been resettled before the arrival of winter. This year, more than 260,000 people from Liaodong immigrated from the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, there were more than 210,000 people from Shanxi and Shanxi, and Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang sent more than 50,000 people from Fujian, Huguang and other places. Fujian has had few people since ancient times, and Zheng Zhilong has brought in some people, which is understandable.

But Huguang is the land of fish and rice, how can the common people leave their hometown lightly. As for how Liu Xiang got it through guò, then the Far East doesn't know, anyway, there is a shortage of people in Liaodong now, and as many as there are.

Next year, the Far Eastern Group will continue to increase the introduction of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, because a large number of inland river engines and sailing ships have been launched, the company will not only increase the number of people sheltered from Shanxi and Shaanxi, but Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang will also help the Far East to vigorously collect immigrants.

Moreover, Cai Huaze of Shandong will also be in Shandong next year to collect immigrants for the Far East. With the strong support of the Far East, he can now be said to be in full swing in the Shandong Wenxiang Sect, and the backbone of the Far East to help him train in recent years is now the backbone of the Wenxiang Sect.

It is expected that the number of immigrants from the Far East from Daming will reach a record of more than 300,000 next year. This is just the beginning, two years later, the number of immigrants from the Far East from the Ming Dynasty will at least double the number of people in Chongzhen.

Lushun Shipyard worked overtime every day to produce river engine sailing ships, and strive to launch hundreds of them before the great drought in Chongzhen. Of course, the current reserves of diesel engines of the Far Eastern Company simply cannot meet the power needs of these river engine sailboats. After all, hundreds of agricultural vehicles in the Far East also need to be stockpiled.

Although the first generation of single-bar diesel engine of the Far East Engine Research Center has been developed, due to some objective reasons, the performance in all aspects is still unstable, which is mainly reflected in the life of the engine and the stability of several key components.

This is also something that cannot be helped, after all, Rome was not built in a day, although the basic industry of the Far East has been successfully laid out. But it will take time to accumulate. Materials and processes are not something that can be achieved overnight with technology alone.

In order not to affect the Far East resettlement plan, the Lushun shipyard also changed its strategy in due course, hundreds of inland river transport ships still had to be launched first, every ten ships were equipped with a diesel engine, and connecting devices were installed at the front and rear of each ship, forming a group of ships to and from the Yellow River migration waterway. Other boats have reserved places for diesel engines. Wait until the production of the company's engines has become large-scale in the future.

At that time, hundreds of inland river transport ships will be active in transporting Shanxi displaced people along the Yellow River waterway, and tens of thousands of Shanxi displaced people will be transported at one time. At that time, it will greatly alleviate the inland river transportation capacity of the Far East in Daming. The efficiency of Far Eastern migration in Daming will also be significantly improved.

In order to alleviate the pressure of more and more immigrants, the Far East has built several new resettlement camps in Yingkou Port and on both sides of the Hunhe River this year, and more than 200,000 new immigrants from the Far East will conduct intensive winter training in these resettlement camps.

The housing in the migrant camp was all made of wood-carved flutes, and there were still 20 people per squad and 100 people per squadron. After several months of winter training, all immigrants will be assessed by the Far Eastern Company, including literacy, basic military subjects, etc.

Immigrants who pass the guò assessment. In the spring of next year, they can also enjoy the Far East's policy of guaranteeing production to households, and they can get a 20-year low-interest loan from the Far East, and get their own land, housing, rations, seeds, production tools, and various daily necessities.

In the two years since the implementation of the Far Eastern Group's policy of providing production to households, it has been warmly supported by the vast number of new immigrants in the Far East. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Far East has trained a large number of technicians to go deep into the fields of eastern Liaoning to help farmers carry out scientific farming, and the effect is very significant.

And immigrants from all over Liaodong. The seeds of their crops come from the Seed Cultivation Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Far East. Carefully cultivated high-yielding breeds. All of them are varieties suitable for the alpine region of Northeast China in modern society and have been practiced for many years.

Among them, the corn, potato and sweet potato, which have the largest planting area in eastern Liaodong, are the average yield per mu of corn is about 800 catties, the average yield of potatoes per mu is about 3,000 catties, and the average yield of sweet potatoes per mu has reached more than 4,000 catties.

In this era, the soil quality of Liaodong was relatively good, and the condition of soil and water conservation was relatively good. The Far Eastern Company organized the peasants of Liaodong during the slack period. A large amount of agricultural infrastructure construction has been carried out.

The Vladivostok fertilizer plant is already able to carry out large-scale fertilizer production using modern equipment. Because the agricultural population and actual use of cultivated land in Liaodong are not much, it can fully meet the fertilizer needs of the entire Liaodong at present.

Moreover, after the peasants in all parts of eastern Liaoning enjoyed the policy of guaranteeing production to households, every household worked intensively on the crops in their fields as if they were waiting for their children. The busyness of getting up early and being greedy at night every day has brought earth-shaking changes to the peasants' enthusiasm for work and sense of responsibility.

Therefore, the autumn harvest in Liaodong has achieved a bumper harvest in the past two years, and every household has a considerable amount of grain stockpile. This is still affected by the Xiaoice period, and if the climate is normal, the yield of various crops will be higher.

Although the Chongzhen drought period in history did not have much impact on the eastern Liaodong region. However, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Far East made active preparations. First of all, it is necessary to organize the masses to vigorously carry out the construction of agricultural infrastructure, and then to take advantage of the small population in Liaodong to resettle the migrants as much as possible in areas rich in water and soil, so as to avoid encountering a year of severe drought and the lack of effective irrigation of cultivated land.

Finally, it's time to do our best to store food supplies. In recent years, the amount of grain imported by the Far East from Southeast Asia, Siam, India and other places has increased year by year, and every year, the company's several giant ships of 10,000 tons have to go to Manila at least twice, and most of the materials brought back are rice and various crops.

Every year, the Far Eastern Company can collect a considerable amount of taxes and loan repayments from peasants in various parts of Liaodong who have contracted production to their households, and they are all purchased at the price of grain. Together, that's a huge number.

There are also the farms of the major companies of the Far Eastern Company in the southern part of Xingkai Lake and the town of Biquge www.biquge.info, because the land there is more fertile, and the semi-mechanized farming method is adopted, and the average yield per mu is at least 30% higher than that in other parts of Liaodong.

Therefore, a large number of modern grain depots established in the Far East in Vladivostok, Liaodong, Luzon, and other places in recent years have been filled with corn, dried sweet potatoes, rice, potato flour, wheat, and other major grain materials. In addition, a large number of dried fruits such as peanuts and soybeans are stored, as well as a large number of textiles such as cotton and linen fabrics.

The grain reserves of the Far East Company are sufficient to ensure the grain needs of the total population of all the regions controlled by the Far East for more than three months. Even so, He Haobo, director of the company's warehousing center, will grab a sum of money from the annual budget of the board committee and continue to build new grain warehouses.

And each time the budget of the warehouse center is voted on by the majority of the board committee. Because everyone still has palpitations when they think of the food shortage back then.

In this era, no matter what time it is, food is the most important strategic material, and if you have food in your hands, you don't panic...... (To be continued......)

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