Two months after that awkward conversation, it was finally time to harvest the first potatoes. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the newly cultivated land, only potatoes and pumpkins were grown as staple foods, and the rest was planted with a large number of new vegetables.

As for crops such as wheat, rice, and corn, everyone followed Chen Jian's advice and did not plant them.

As on the island, the first buildings were still schools, courts, council governments, and barracks, and the tight-knit apparatus of violence showed that it was not anarchic freedom.

In addition to these buildings, an agricultural research institute was also built.

There are only two people in it for the time being, and they are not responsible for tasks such as improving seeds for the time being, but are responsible for recording.

Every day, the temperature changes here are recorded with a thermometer, the direction and size of the wind are recorded, and the rainfall is measured with a funnel meter.

In addition, in the vicinity of the Agricultural Research Institute, crops are cultivated here. The two men are also responsible for keeping track of how long it takes for the crops to germinate, flower, bear fruit, and whether they are self-pollinated or cross-pollinated.

It may seem like a light task, but it is not easy to do, you have to keep an eye on the thermometer every day, and you have to watch the changes in the clouds every day......

This is not a land of spontaneous migration, but a land of purposeful and planned development.

After obtaining data such as annual rainfall and accumulated temperature, food crops with longer growing periods will be planted on a large scale.

Under the guidance of Chen Jian, the cultivation of potatoes and pumpkins yielded a bumper harvest, and although the land cultivated is not too large, the harvested potatoes and pumpkins are enough to support two to three times the population if they are properly preserved.

Unlike the planting methods of the people here, Chen Jian did not take the wrong path or the path of smallholder farming, but took a planting method that is most suitable for large farms.

The woman cuts the potatoes into pieces according to the sprouts, and the horse-drawn wooden cart passes through the ditch, and three women sit behind the wooden cart.

As if it were an assembly line, the potato cuts were thrown down at a fixed distance, and the wagon behind them pulled a shallow ploughshare to cover the soil thickly.

It's the same at harvest time, not by people digging up, but by pulling the ploughshare directly with oxen pulling the ploughshare, regardless of about one-tenth of the loss. The woman only needs to squat down in the back and fill it with her pockets, and then the man will resist these pockets.

This is not a suitable production method for smallholder farmers, because many of the potatoes are cut by the ploughshare after the ploughshare, or because they are not turned deeply, a large number of potatoes remain in the ground.

But with so much land, intensive cultivation is not suitable.

Even if there is waste, the yield of 3,000 catties per acre of land is enough to be amazing. The land here is fertile and newly cultivated, fertility is not a problem, and only seeds are the only constraints on potato production.

The rations of more than 1,000 people, based on two catties of potatoes per day, will require one acre of land a day. More than 1,000 acres of land are easily cultivated in this rough way.

If potatoes are not considered a staple food, life here can be regarded as half a year's food for melons and vegetables. From the harvest, the daily food in the canteen also changed to boiled potatoes, potato wedges, potato chips, shredded potatoes, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, fried potatoes...... The side dish is pumpkin soup or fish soup.

The day after the harvest, the indigenous people of the villages attached to the land were given the news that they could pick up potatoes on the harvested land for three days.

This was the first official exchange between the immigrants and the village community in this land, and it was still early before the time to pay the tribute, and they did not have much contact with them in accordance with the decisions they made.

The people of the village community thought that this was a kind of conscription, and the village elders arranged for some people who were not obedient on weekdays to go.

However, when these men returned that night, they surprised everyone in the village. These people told the people in the village community that they had a lot of potatoes in their fields, and they were buried very deep, but if they took the pigs, they could easily dig them up, but they were too lazy to dig them.

They described what they saw, full of potatoes piled up, and outsiders digging pits for storage......

And the people in these villages who thought they were serving as conscripts were each given more than 100 catties of potatoes. Only then did the people of the village community understand that this was not to serve as a servant, but to really pick up potatoes.

The next day, all the men and women of the five surrounding villages, men and women, set out together and began digging potatoes in the harvested fields.

Because they had no ploughshares and no iron tools, the soil was too hard, and the potatoes they planted did not grow much, and they were always prone to green skin. But these people's potatoes are not only not green, but also very large.

The people of the village were completely confused, and the townsman not only did not have to do their labor, but also did not seem to care about the annual harvest, otherwise it would not have been possible for them to pick up the potatoes freely.

Two days later, the date for the free turning of the potatoes ended, and the ploughed land was also dug up by these people.

The immigrants in the Great Wilderness City prepared a "sumptical" dinner for the residents of these villages, with a large amount of cooked meat such as fish, crocodiles, and wild boars; Large vasks of spirits carried on board......

These are all delicacies for the people of the village community.

Since there was such a banquet, it was obvious that the people of the Great Wilderness City were not prepared to treat these people as slaves.

The National People's Congress, the highest authority in the Great Wilderness City, had long since agreed that slaves were not allowed in party ideologies such as human freedom.

It's not a tropical plantation, it's not a cactus cochineal farm. The holders of capital here are not spontaneous profit-seeking capital, but a government with violent institutions, a government that is not prepared to make it a separate plantation and a production area for agricultural products; Rather, it was a mixed industrial and agricultural settlement area that dumped textiles, glass, steel, tools, muskets, and agricultural and pastoral products on the European and southern tropical colonies.

What is needed are family farms, hired workshops, large mines and large hydroelectric factories, and large free populations, not short-term profiteering raw material sources.

Many people are not against slaves, but only against not being slave owners, but the reality is always sad, and those who become slave owners are in the minority after all. When the profit is sufficient, the same color can become a slave, the same language, the same race, and even the same country: even if it is a nice indentured slave of the same race, the child born during the indenture is also a slave, and the woman has to be indentured servant for an extended period of time because she cannot work during pregnancy...... Don't believe in the kindness of capital, Chen Jian understands that as soon as this opening is opened, if real Chinese on the other side of the world come to this land in the future, they will also suffer inhuman treatment.

Getting the road right from the start can put an end to a lot of problems. Besides, people always need a little bottom, if in order to make money, Chen Jian doesn't have to come here.

So after this banquet, Chen Jian used the stumbling local language to communicate with the people of these villages.

Even if they are not slaves, they still have to bear a lot of obligations, and their lives can only barely be maintained.

They envy the life of immigrants.

Chen Jian expressed his satisfaction that they were able to bear such a heavy obligation and still did not flee on a large scale, and also understood that the escape happened after the innovation of production tools, otherwise the escape would not have survived.

These people would be good laborers.

Tempted by the invitation of immigrants from the Great Wilderness City and the temptation of life, a member of the village accepted Chen Jian's proposal: to move to the Great Wilderness City to live, become the same people as the hired workers here, cultivate the land together, and wait until five years later to get enough land.

For the immigrants of the Great Wilderness City, there is enough land, and there is no competition with them. What is lacking for governments and organizations is a workforce, as well as an opportunity for assimilation and integration, and a female population that can be slightly balanced.

The population of the relocated village was dispersed and distributed to different production groups, and children were forced to attend school for literacy.

These people are just working in a different place, and they don't have much resistance, on the contrary, they are very satisfied with their daily life.

Soon after, the town planning and public livelihood departments launched a New Life movement, which began to promote the prevention of common diseases, health education, and health regulations.

A small workshop for hygiene products was set up, just a small workshop for seven people to work in.

Toothbrushes with bone or wooden handles for the production of wild boar bristles, as well as tooth powder.

Tooth powder based on this era is primitive, and the ingredients are finely sieved limestone powder after grinding, baking soda, soap powder mixed in after grinding, salt, and a small amount of herbal powder.

The taste can be imagined, and you can brush your teeth with a toothbrush when you use it.

The soap, alkali powder and other things carried on the ship are also sufficient, enough to ensure the use of everyone in the Great Wilderness City.

There are various requirements such as washing, bathing, drinking boiled water, and prohibiting open defecation.

This is semi-coercive, even using moral repression, but it is not law: it is not a personal business, diseases are contagious, so the interests of the majority must prevail, and the right to health of the vast majority cannot be compromised because of the freedom of the individual.

It is also a kind of indoctrination that allows people here to accept what is limited freedom and to think about what is in the interests and common interests of the vast majority of people.

While the New Life Movement in the Great Wilderness was underway, a noble priest in the upper Native City fell ill with malaria.

The doctors of the Great Wilderness City seized the opportunity to cure the priest's malaria with the centuries-old Artemisia annua in their homeland, and won the trust of the upper echelons of the city.

The people of the Great Wilderness City are neither prepared to preach nor to cooperate with these high-level leaders.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the people of the Great Wilderness City gained the right to trade and travel freely between the various villages.

But for trade, the people of the Great Wilderness City are not very interested.

Counting the population, drawing local maps, searching for minerals, observing the shape of society, and listening to the complaints of slaves...... That's the main purpose of those people.

The efficient party organization was quickly activated, and every few days a large number of notes, materials, population statistics, land quantity surveys, and so on were put together.

After binding and summarizing, the special personnel came to the conclusion that if the old upper strata of the land were swept away, only about seventy full-time civil servants would be needed to centralize the villages. These civil servants are perfectly sufficient, but about 10,000 to 15,000 immigrants are needed to ensure assimilation.

It's a slow process, and it can't be too intense or underprepared. The decision made after the discussion was to accomplish this goal in four years.

In other words, at least about 3,000 immigrants per year are needed to be adequately prepared. Before that, the people here still have to learn the language here, increase contact with those people, and slowly take root on the grounds of medicine and assistance, or at least not resist.

This task of collecting immigrants can only be pressed on Chen Jian's shoulders, and every voyage today is full of dangers, but it has to be done for the sake of a common goal.

Seeing that winter was coming, the wind direction was beginning to change, and the typhoon-prone period had passed, Chen Jian knew it was time to return.

Left behind a large number of guns and gunpowder, four cannons, loaded with various seeds, tobacco leaves, and a small amount of gold, Chen Jian and the others exchanged treasures in early November, and sailed home.

If you look at private capital, this time it is a big loss...... There's really not much temptation in that bit of gold. As for tobacco, it takes three to five years to develop the habit of smoking, and it can be grown in the native land.

But if you look at the fate of the entire race, this money-losing deal is priceless. Easing the contradictions has reduced the number of deaths in the country by at least a few hundred thousand, prolonging the civil war. The new crop, corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes can allow the farming industry to develop and feed more people.

No capitalist will go to the Great Wilderness City to grow sweet potatoes and buds, unless there is a hole in the brain.

Therefore, Chen Jian can't return directly yet, and has to go south. Whether it is robbery, trading or trading, you can get cane sugar, carmine, rubber, beaver skin, gold and silver coins.

He knew the changed map of the world, and although the appearance of the archipelago and South America had changed, he knew the approximate location. That's the biggest reliance. If you want to gamble, you have to gamble big, time is running out, it's nothing more than death.