A Chinese town opposite the town of Pensacola, the name is Ansheng.

And in the north of Ansheng, from where there is also a small town composed of Chinese immigrants called Anping.

The population of this town is not as large as that of Ansheng, not only is there only six Japanese production teams, but there are only about 200 militiamen, and the official residents of the town are just over 1,000 years old.

Since last year's careful cleaning of the local Indian natives, the current Ansheng and Anping areas can no longer see Indian chiefs with bird feathers on their heads and muskets in their hands, and the environment is much more stable. The once active Indian guerrilla forces have also disappeared. These people were outsiders—this generation of Indian tribes began to migrate to the interior of the continent seventy or eighty years ago, and the estuary and coastal areas of the Mississippi River were occupied by the Spaniards, the French, and the British respectively in the following decades, but there was no Indian.

As for where the once-'thriving' Indian forces came from, and how they managed to maintain a 'guerrilla' state for a long time, it really seems obvious.

The Spaniards were backing up the Indians, or even whether the Americans were involved.

It is impossible for any unit to persist in fighting for a long time without effective supplies - this is a matter of common sense. Not even the Indians, who have a lot of experience in the wilderness. Coupled with the fierce conflict that broke out between Chen Han and the Spanish, the Indians were not idiots, they also knew the truth that 'the enemy of the enemy is a friend', and began to take the initiative to contact the Spaniards, and even reported to the British and Americans.

With the Spanish in Florida as the 'backers', these Indian teams will naturally be very active.

This is the same as the relationship between the original space-time IS and the native chicken. It's just that their common enemy is extremely strong, and the Spaniards can't feel the feeling of raising chickens and tigers.

But the Indians are not going to resist a single point.

The Chinese stretch tens of thousands of miles of borders, and there are too many village strongholds in the 'attack range', and they have encountered hard bones, and the Indians also know how to fight and transfer. In particular, the Mississippi River basin has not been invaded by the Chinese.

Many Indians were discouraged after the initial anger. This is manifested in the fact that after a few days of fighting, when the conditions are difficult and the number of casualties is high, or after they have withdrawn to the rear, the team is no longer a team.

When the hearts of the people are scattered, the people run away, and the team cannot be brought up.

With the 'Taiping' of Anping Town, the latter turned into a state of large-scale construction.

The leadership class headed by the mayor of the town, mainly veterans who have been discharged from the army due to injuries and administrative cadets, has supported the government leadership institutions of villages and towns. Every day, I organized everyone to build houses, dig wells, cut down trees, dig ditches, and grow food, and I was very busy. And with everyone's efforts, Anping Town, which was originally a wilderness, has changed greatly after this period of hard work.

Most of the wooden houses had been turned into thick and sturdy brick houses, and the town was completely encased by walls three meters high and two meters thick, and there were brick and stone gun towers on the periphery of the town, and outposts that were erected every two miles, in short, this was already the place where a settlement should be.

The only thing that may be lacking is agriculture, which is still unself-sufficient until last year, when the threat of the Indians was cleared, but the planting has been delayed. The first half of this year is not yet over, and the grain is not yet ripe. Spring wheat will not be harvested until mid-to-late June.

At that time, the entire town of Anping would be under martial law - not to prevent theft, but to prevent fire.

If one of the plagued people puts a fire, the hard work of the people in Anping Town will be over.

The Chinese people value food the most, and almost every person who can immigrate to the 'land of abundance' thousands of miles away is a good farmer. Thousands of people, as long as they are given enough time, then tens of thousands of acres of farmland will be produced in the next year. If there is no interference from external factors, it is impossible to have 100,000 mu of fertile land in Anping Town's current population, but 50,000 or 60,000 mu of fertile land is a certainty.

It was only after the immigrants in Anping Town, a 'remote area in the border area', that every household had a surplus, sold horses, and realized the convenience of combining agriculture and animal husbandry and horse farming, that the Chinese could truly gain a firm foothold in the Americas.

"The first batch of immigrants from Anping Town are all from Shandong, including 13 families of disabled soldiers, and the town's militia construction is doing well, and it has a certain self-defense ability, and there is also a tendency in this regard. Their agricultural technology is quite good, because the Indians made trouble, so that the progress of agricultural production has been greatly restricted, but after last year's struggle, they expelled the Indians, have half a year of stable time to do work, have reclaimed 15,200 acres of land, and plan to expand the number of acres of land in the town to 30,000 mu in the second half of the year, in order to strive to achieve grain self-sufficiency as soon as possible. "As long as the Indians don't come to make trouble, the grain harvested in a month or two will probably be enough for Anping Town. Although the newly cultivated fields will be somewhat raw, they are still very sure that they will be 15 mu per capita, and they will achieve self-sufficiency in grain.

Zheng Yan, who had just been appointed president of the Dengguo branch of the North American Reclamation Bank, stood on the undulating field and listened to the secretary behind him. He came to inspect that all the loans in the hands of these immigrants had been transferred to the Reclamation Bank, and as a new production child spun off from the mother's body, he couldn't tell how far the Reclamation Bank could develop, and he couldn't say how far the Reclamation Bank would go.

Zheng Yan is thirty-four years old, and he may be in his current position, but he does not completely rely on his father's face, he himself wants to leave his own masterpiece on the blank white paper of the Americas.

Previously, he worked in the trade bank, responsible for the trade credit of a government in Lelang Province, and made a profit of more than 1 million yuan for three consecutive years, which made Zheng Zhilun have a lot of face. This time with the birth of the Reclamation Bank, Zheng Yan relied on his own performance and his father's personal network to take the position of the leader of the Deng Guo Branch.

In Anping Town, among the border villages and towns visited by Zheng Yan, the situation is good. You must know that there are less than 1,100 residents here, and 15,200 acres of land, or 15 acres per capita. This is really a level that many 'border areas' can't reach!

Although the number of acres per capita is still far from that of the immigrants from Tokyo and Hanjin, it is not to say that they are preparing to open up another 15,000 acres of cultivated land in the second half of the year, but only that the current 15,200 acres of land, as long as they are well cared for, by next year, the land will be regenerated, and more than 1,000 people will be able to grow food for a year.

It's just that feeding immigrants is only the most basic goal of all countries, and the long-term goal is to make them rich.

According to the natural conditions and population of the six feudal states of the Americas, there is really no reason why the peasants in this area should not be rich.

Because the land is vast and sparsely populated, because there is more land per capita. In addition to their own land, there is also official land that can be rented for planting, which not only has a long contract period, but also has a large number of acres.

And here in the Americas, the Norfolk rotation system is slowly being promoted, and even the local farms, large and small, as well as the military and civilian joint-stock companies, have begun to operate this system.

Because this method of beating foreigners has indeed played a major role in promoting the development of agriculture.

At the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century, with the increasing trade between Britain and the European continent, crops such as turnips, khubs, clover, cabbage, and cauliflower were introduced from the European continent. Turnips are cultivated crops that facilitate the elimination of weeds, to some extent as a substitute for fallow land, and can also provide important winter fodder for livestock. Clover and other leguminous forage grasses can be used for nitrogen fixation in root nodules and for providing high-quality fodder for livestock. The promotion of these new crops is difficult to grow in open fields under the traditional rotation system in the UK. For example, the tradition of treating the harvested fields as grazing land for the whole village is not conducive to the cultivation of winter pastures. With the beginning of the British enclosure movement, a large area of open land became enclosure, and the area of new crops was planted more and more, thus promoting changes in agricultural systems.

By the beginning of the 18th century, a four-field rotation called the Norfolk crop rotation was rapidly spreading in England, gradually replacing the original three-field or two-field rotation. Under the Norfolk rotation system, wheat is planted in the first year, root crops such as turnips in the second year, barley, oats, etc. in the third year, and clover or other leguminous pastures are planted in the fall after the harvest of barley and other crops so that the soil fertility can be restored before the fifth year is replanted with wheat.

Such a system is of great significance for ensuring the fertility of cultivated land and increasing food production.

Why did the Chen Han cabinet so firmly and decisively implement the Norfolk rotation system? That's because this system has already given the perfect answer in the UK. The spread of crop rotation in Norfolk had a profound impact on British agriculture. First, it has greatly increased UK crop yields. In the case of wheat in England, for example, the yield increased to 20 bushels per acre around 1735.

This 1 bushel is about 45 catties [600g], and 1 acre is slightly larger than 6 acres, which means that the agricultural level of the British is 150 catties per acre. It's a bit embarrassing.

However, such a somewhat shabby figure is more than double the yield per unit of wheat under the old manor system of the British. In the 100 years after the 60s of the 17th century, Britain was not only self-sufficient in wheat, but also gradually increased its exports, from about 6,000 tons per year at the beginning of the 18th century to more than 50,000 tons per year for the morale of the Seven Years' War.

Secondly, this rotation model also promotes the organic combination of cropping and animal husbandry. The cultivation of crops such as turnips and clovers has provided livestock with a more reliable source of winter fodder and created favorable conditions for livestock to survive the winter, thus avoiding the previous practice of slaughtering livestock in large quantities in autumn. The organic combination of cropping and animal husbandry, while promoting the development of both, forms "more cattle, more fertilizer; More fertilizer, bigger harvests; Greater Harvest, More Cattle".

The organic combination of cropping and animal husbandry has promoted the change of agricultural structure, that is, from planting to planting. After the first industrial revolution in Britain, the rapid development of industry, the great increase in urban population, and the growing demand for agricultural products further promoted the improvement of agricultural technology.

Naturally, what Chen Ming needs to learn is not the ultra-low yield per mu of the British, he just wants to learn the cultivation method of the British.

Under the relatively crude agricultural production method in Europe, this rotation system can greatly increase its grain production, so there is no reason to change to China's more elaborate agricultural production method, which will not work.

The advantage of this method is that the villagers can raise a large number of livestock while ensuring the grain harvest, so as to obtain as much economic income as possible, after all, cattle and sheep can be sold at a higher price than grain crops such as wheat. When the local government levied agricultural taxes, it was now mainly collected in cash, and basically no longer collected taxes in kind. This is good for farmers.

And, as the British have said, in an age when agricultural fertilizer is largely based on manure, feeding more livestock will also allow them to get more fertilizer, so that the soil will be more fertile when they plant cereals next year. For poorer land, this crop rotation system is more advantageous than fertile land, and the yield of crops will be increased at a higher rate. Moreover, the crop straw and pasture grass harvested on weekdays, such as the above-mentioned turnips, clovers and alfalfa that have been planted in a large area in China, these things can be used as feed for livestock, with silage technology, there will be no shortage of forage in winter, and there will be no precious grain to feed livestock, so as not to lose too much weight in the winter season.

Although the war is about to begin.

Zheng Yan's ears are still very sensitive, not to mention his father Zheng Zhilun. The imperial court was preparing to fight the Spaniards again in the Americas, and this news had long been an open secret at the top of Chen Han.

But he did not see the possibility of a large-scale counteroffensive by the Spaniards, especially Florida, which bordered the state of Deng.

If it were Cai Guo and Xu Guo, it would still be possible to be pushed back by the Spaniards in Mexico, but Deng Guo, the Spanish power here in Florida is too weak and weak.

Seriously, Zheng Yan didn't understand the Spaniard's choice very well.

Is it because you are full of food, so you don't have much desire for North America? What a wonderful place to be, Florida is only flat as far as the eye can see, with a warm climate, fertile soil, and abundant water, and it is completely a natural blessing for the development of agriculture and colonization. But the Spaniards have been in their hands for so many years, and they haven't developed it properly.

Even the French from the Mississippi estuary only arrived at the beginning of this century. It's a terrible thing.

Such a favorable condition, such a good land......

Zheng Yan came out for a walk this time to get an accurate understanding of the 'local' situation in Deng Guo. When the war breaks out, this military material need will inevitably further stimulate the development of agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing, and fruit forests, and whether or not the settlers can get their hands on the exact benefits, at least their debts and loans will be offset.

Zheng Yan was thinking about whether he could make the reclamation bank active and active, and let the people below 'take precautions', so as to win greater benefits in the future war period?

It's just that he still needs to discuss this matter with King Deng, who is also very short of money now.

War is coming. Before the war, Deng Wang also had to say something, but Zheng Yan was here as a reclamation bank, not the parent bank, the Bank of China.