The spring sowing of 1916 gradually came with the recovery of Tibetan Province, and all localities have made full preparations for this year's spring sowing, especially the Ministry of Agriculture has reached an extremely mature state after nearly six years of planning experience.

At this time, the area of cultivated land under the rule of East China's political axe had increased to 1 billion mu, and these 1 billion mu of cultivated land were all cultivated land with relatively economic value, and the cultivated land in many mountainous areas had been returned to forest.

There was also some cultivated land that was returned to lakes and grasslands, so at this time, the cultivated land area of the provinces under the rule of the East China United Autonomous Government was only 900 million mu, and this is still including Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands.

In the Northeast region, those agricultural reclamation companies have also developed hundreds of millions of acres of cultivated land, but many of them are indeed not developed, which is in the consideration of protecting the ecological environment.

Together with the cultivated land rented and purchased by the agricultural reclamation company in other provinces, the total planned cultivated land area can reach 1.3 billion mu.

There are about 300 million mu of cultivated land that has not entered the planning area, which adds up to 1.6 billion mu of cultivated land, which means that the pressure on cultivated land in China at this time is to feed one person for every four acres of land.

Compared with the 1.3 billion people who have cultivated land per acre in later generations, this amount of cultivated land is very abundant, and at this time, China's agricultural productivity is even higher than that of later generations, but it has not yet been fully popularized.

In terms of cash crops, the planting area of cash crops planned by the Ministry of Agriculture this year has reached nearly 600 million mu, of which cotton accounts for 200 million mu, soybeans also account for 200 million mu, sugarcane planting area is as high as 50 million mu, and the planting area of other cash crops adds up to 150 million mu.

Another 700 million mu of cultivated land is used to grow grain and fodder crops.

Take grain crops as an example, planting 100 million mu of rice is enough to supply the basic food needs of the whole of China, because now people's staple food has begun to shift to meat, and people do not need to eat so much food after they have enough protein.

The yield per mu in a single season is 650 kg, which is the current live broadcast technology of rice planting, which is used in the earliest days of rice planting, and later the ancient ancestors began to use insertion sowing technology in order to improve the yield, and later generations of the United States in order to adapt to the national conditions, the rice is planted with direct seeding. It was impossible for the Americans to plant rice, which would not be in line with their labor costs, and later China also introduced this technology for a period of time.

At this time, China is also taking the route of individual high output value, so it began to plant rice extensively, and the direct broadcast technology saved the links such as pulling seedlings and transplanting seedlings.

The yield of 650 kilograms of rice, calculated by two-thirds of the weight, is about 432 kilograms of rice after drying and threshing, in the case of sufficient meat, few people can eat a pound of rice, plus the elderly, children, and women will eat less, so 432 kilograms of rice feed two people.

In the double planting season, 100 million mu can meet the demand of 400 million people for rice, but it is not enough to feed the Chinese, and to feed the Chinese, they have to rely on eggs, meat and milk.

This year's grain planting area is 300 million mu, of which 160 million mu is planted with wheat and 100 million mu is planted with rice.

The remaining 500 million mu is cultivated land for animal husbandry, some of which is grown with corn.

Later, the corn planting area in the United States was 600 million mu, while the corn planting area in China was 500 million mu at this time, and the production of eggs, meat and milk grew rapidly after seven years of expansion.

In particular, the number of cattle of all kinds has increased to 15 million heads, some of which are native buffaloes and cattle, and some are cattle purchased from abroad, while the most economically beneficial ones are improved beef cattle and dairy cows, but the number has not increased to the extent of replacing other cattle.

In the breeding of pigs, sheep, rabbits, chickens, ducks, and geese, it has grown rapidly, especially in the breeding of chickens, ducks and geese, Xia Jun has built eight chicken breeding bases alone, which can cultivate 8 billion chickens per year, 20 per capita, which is about 15 kilograms per capita.

However, the main meat components are pork and mutton, which occupy a dominant position, and beef has been restricted due to the speed of reproduction.

Beef is the meat closest to the first muscle in addition to horse meat, but horse meat is not delicious, and horse meat is excluded, which means that beef has higher nutritional value.

However, in terms of nutrition, Xia Jun's view at this time is different from that of Westerners, he added the ingredient of 'qi', as far as Westerners are concerned, like local chickens, chickens, or other livestock, the nutritional value is actually the same, that is, protein and other aspects.

But as a Chinese, it is really possible to appreciate the difference between raising chickens and native chickens, not only in taste, but also in raising chickens without native chickens.

The difference is because of the existence of such a thing as 'qi', while Westerners do not admit the existence of such a thing, and there is no such thing in their scientific system.

As Chinese medicine says to replenish qi, many times Chinese medicine is carried out through delicious medicinal food, but there is a premise that qi replenishment cannot be made when you are sick.

Symptoms such as colds and fevers in Chinese medicine are said to be sick and evil entering the body, as if a thief has entered the house, and replenishing qi is to make the door close tighter, if the thief has already entered the house, isn't it fatal for you to close the door more tightly? At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor didn't get sick and drank deer blood, but he drank it, you must know that deer blood is very replenishing qi.

In terms of meat, at this time, the East China political axe can be fully supplied, and the supply is very sufficient, because the feed output is high, and it is mechanized farming, and advanced technology is also used in breeding, so the price of meat is not high, but the breeding enterprises are still profitable.

In terms of the current population, China's arable land is completely sufficient, but if the population increases in the future, then the arable land will not be enough.

In particular, on the premise of ensuring an adequate supply of meat, the current arable land area will not be enough if the planned population is one billion.

However, Xia Jun can increase crop yields, so even if there is less arable land, it can be afforded. This is also the main reason why Xia Jun dares to call for more births and more fertility.

As far as India is concerned, the cultivated land area will reach 2.2 billion mu, and the total cultivated land area of the Indochina Peninsula, the Nanyang Islands, Australia, and other regions will not be less than 5 billion mu, and India, the Indochina Peninsula, and the Nanyang Islands are located in the tropics, and many crops can grow more than one year.

Because the current world population is not too large, it is still possible for China to grow grain and cook meat for the country at this time, and to monopolize the cultivation of various cash crops, but it will obviously not work in the future.

In terms of fertilizer, nitrogen fertilizer and phosphate fertilizer can basically have raw materials for production in China, but China lacks potash ore, so potash ore is one of the main targets of overseas mining, and a large scale of potash mining has been formed in the past few years, which has been able to fully meet the domestic fertilizer demand.

For the fishmeal needed for aquaculture, several large fishmeal processing plants have been invested in Peru, and they are self-caught, homemade and self-consumed.

There is also a fishmeal industry in China, but the quality of fishmeal in China is not as good as that of Peruvian fishmeal, which is used to make fishmeal from Peruvian fisheries.

The fish caught from China's major fishing grounds is used for eating, and it is very wasteful to use it to make fishmeal, which is made from some fish bones, fins and some miscellaneous fish, so the protein content of fishmeal is not as high as that of Peru.

In fact, Xia Jungang has just come up with nutrition, which has long been applied to the breeding industry, in addition to giving livestock protein, he often adds various trace elements to the feed, which is really embarrassing.

The arrival of spring represents the arrival of hope for the new year.

Because of the huge profits in agriculture, the investment in agriculture is also very large, and the major agricultural reclamation companies are actively carrying out agricultural reform.

In the three provinces of Hunan, Hubei, and Sichuan, this year's agriculture is facing huge opportunities, and these three provinces are not only the most populous provinces but also the largest agricultural provinces.

Yunnan's climate is suitable, but the terrain is not flat enough, and agriculture can also be developed, but it is mainly based on planting cash crops.

This year, the Ministry of Agriculture of East China has once again increased the planting area of cotton and soybeans, and the planting area of sugarcane has also increased, and other cash crops have also been launched.

The intent, of course, is to gradually monopolize the cultivation of cash crops, and to invest not only at home, but also abroad.

The Chinese plantations in Nanyang are all planted with improved cash crops made by Xia Jun, and there are also Chinese investment in agriculture and animal husbandry in Australia.

Technology is naturally to be brought to the extreme, and in the United States, there are also Chinese people who have begun to invest in agriculture.

The U.S. is now building tariff barriers, so this kind of investment can penetrate into the U.S., and one of the advantages of agriculture is that these improved crops have to be cultivated in the breeding base, so the U.S. will not be left with these crops after the withdrawal.

As for the production level, that is, to the extent that it is sufficient to supply the American market, while the international market is handed over to local production, and the production control can be achieved through the supply of seeds.

Cash crops that cannot be grown in China are infiltrated into overseas areas that can be grown to maximize the benefits of agriculture.

In the Kokang region of northern Myanmar, the Chinese there have also received agricultural technical support from the East China Political Axe this year.

At this time, more than 200,000 Han people in the Kokang area had already embarked on a militarized route, and the East China Political Axe had already dispatched some administrative personnel in the Kokang area.

Yang Lianxing, the Kokang Tusi, has no opinion on this, because these administrators have not deprived him of his rights and interests, and even if he does, he does not dare to have an opinion, and it is already very good to get so much attention from the political axe, and there will be no one to bully the Han people in the Dakang area.

As for the Tusi system in the Kokang region, the East China political axe does not want to take care of it for the time being, anyway, when those young people in Kokang return to Kokang, they will carry out reforms.

Since the Kokang region received the first batch of firearms last year, several batches of firearms and ammunition have been obtained one after another, all of which have been directly allocated from the East China Military Department.

So much so that every man between the ages of 15 and 40 in the Kokang area now has a gun, and a 'regular army' of 1,000 men has been formed.

Sun Youxiu, the magistrate of Lijiang County, is building a road to the Kokang area, and after the opening of this highway, the traffic between Lijiang and Kokang will be smooth, and there will be no need to use mule and horse teams to transport them.

The spring of Kokang came much earlier, and this spring there was a foreign war in Kokang, where the Kokang Han people had a land dispute with a Burmese Tusi in the south.

According to the old practice, the two toasts mobilized the young and strong, took various weapons, and then engaged in a fight, and the winner was given something that caused controversy.

The Burmese Tusi in the south is extremely powerful, and it is a feud with the Kokang Han people, and the two sides have won and lost in previous conflicts, and they are the number one enemy of the Kokang Han people.

This year's clash was caused by a land dispute, but as soon as the dispute appeared, Yang Lianxing mobilized 3,000 clansmen, brought rifles, submachine guns, and light machine guns, and almost missed the five heavy machine guns used to defend the walled city.

The 3,000 Kokang Han people rushed overnight, and the next morning they came to the Burmese Tusi village in the south, and used a mortar to blow up the Burmese Tusi stockade.

Then Yang Lianxing led the men and horses into the village and launched a one-sided massacre.

These Burmese natives are still in the stage of slash-and-burn farming, and the gunfire in the village stopped in less than half an hour when these Kokang militiamen armed with advanced hot weapons could be stopped.

Yang Lianxing personally cut off the head of the Burmese toast in the village, and then sent it to the surrounding Burmese toast.

The northern part of Myanmar is full of large and small Tusi, and Yang Lianxing exterminated an extremely strong Tusi tribe in the northern region this time, which can give other Tusi tribes a strong deterrent.

When the heads and captives were escorted to the other Tusi tribes, the surrounding Tusi tribes obeyed. After this foreign war, the Kokang Han subjugated six Tusi tribes in one fell swoop.

This foreign war also put the Kokang Han people on a continuous path of expansion.

Because they have found that domination of northern Myanmar is no longer a problem.

Northern Myanmar has already submitted to six Tusi tribes, and as long as those Tusi tribes that have not surrendered are subdued, the entire northern part of Myanmar will be under their control.

As for the British colonizers, their control over northern Burma was extremely low, and even if they were to carry out military operations in northern Burma, they would not exceed 1,000 people at most, because northern Burma was mountainous and inaccessible.

…… After the East China Army recovered Tibetan Province, it was the turn of Outer Mongolia next, and after Zhang Jiyu arrived in Datong, Shanxi, he began preparations for the expedition to Outer Mongolia.

The expedition to Outer Mongolia also does not require much preparation, but in general it is a matter of logistics and supply.

Compared with Tibetan Province, the climate of Outer Mongolia is not so harsh, and the traffic is relatively smooth, after all, it is a grassland area, and the terrain is relatively flat.

In 1911 (the third year of the Qing Dynasty's Xuantong), after the Xinhai Revolution, with the gradual collapse of the Qing Dynasty's rule, under the instigation of the Tsarist Russian consul in Kulen (now Ulaanbaatar), the living Buddha of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism in Outer Mongolia, Jebtsundan Bahutuktu, sent an envoy to Russia (discussed reading power in March), and then announced reading power in Kulen and established the political axe of "Great Mongolia". On November 30, it was said that the Russian-Mongolian army surrounded the Yamen of the Kulen minister stationed in Kulun, disarmed the Qing army, and escorted the minister Sanduo and his entourage out of the country (Gegen had previously pleaded with Sanduo for a violation of the law but refused to allow it). On December 28, Jebtsundamba ascended the throne in Kulen, proclaimed himself Emperor Yueguang, and wore the year name together. This reading power was not recognized by the Qing Dynasty political axe at that time and the successor Republic of China political axe.

On October 3, 1912, the former Russian minister to China, Kusovetz, signed the "Russian-Kukou Treaty" with the "Jebtsundamba Political Axe" in Kulen. In 1913, the Tsarist authorities forced Yuan Shikai's Beiyang political axe to sign the Sino-Russian Declaration. The statement stipulates: Outer Mongolia recognizes the Beiyang political axe, and the Beiyang political axe also recognizes the foreign [***] standing. Beiyang political axe is not allowed to station officials and troops in Outer Mongolia, and it is not allowed to emigrate. It was also stipulated that the territory of Outer Mongolia was under the jurisdiction of the former Minister of Kulun of the Qing Dynasty, General Uriya Sutai and Counsellor of Khobdo, and in fact the Beiyang Political Axe recognized the occupation of Korbdo and Tangnu Ulianghai by the Outer Mongolian and Russian [***] teams. On June 7, 1915, China, Russia, and Mongolia signed the Kyakhta Agreement in Kyakhta, which concretized this statement. Accordingly, on June 9 of the same year, Outer Mongolia announced the cancellation of the "Great Mongolia of Reading Power and the Common Era Name". Yuan Shikai canonized the 8th Jebtsundamba as "Khutuktu Khan" and pardoned the reading movement. Outer Mongolia practiced reading, but was actually controlled by Tsarist Russia. At this time, the struggle between the monks and lay factions in the upper echelons of Outer Mongolia tended to be white-hot, and the Jebtsundamba Hutuktu faction poisoned the "Minister of Foreign Affairs" Hangda Dorji and the Prince of Saiyin Noyan Namu Nang Sulun, suppressing the power of the secular princes.

After the October Revolution broke out in Russia in 1917, in 1917 and 1919, the political axe issued two declarations on China, announcing the abrogation of the unequal treaties signed between Tsarist Russia and China, but in fact continued to support foreign [***] independence. On July 25, 1919, Soviet Russia issued a declaration on Mongolia, declaring Outer Mongolia a state of reading power and demanding the establishment of diplomatic relations with it.

Whether it is Tsarist Russia or the Soviet Union, all the unequal treaties they claim are just a lie, especially the Soviet Union, they just sell dog meat on the head of a sheep, and secretly carry out various expansionist policies.

The Soviet Union has always been indulging in China's political trend on the issue of Outer Mongolia, and when the Beiyang political axe dared to recover Outer Mongolia and intended to attack the Tangnu Wulianghai, the Soviet Union took 30 million to support the Kuomintang, and the Kuomintang took advantage of the 30 million to successfully go on the Northern Expedition in one fell swoop.

When the Kuomintang did not mention much about recovering Outer Mongolia, the Soviet Union wanted to turn China into [***], and after defeating the Kwantung Army, it handed over all the equipment of the Kwantung Army to a certain party in later generations.

The polar bear's territorial ambitions are strong, and their hearts are sinister, and they must not be underestimated.

At this time, Tsarist Russia was still involved in the First World War, and the February Revolution had not yet broken out at this time, and it was already March and April.

But no matter how many months of revolution it is, sooner or later Russia will have to make a revolution.

Even if it is not revolutionary, Xia Jun is still fighting Outer Mongolia, does Tsarist Russia dare to start a war on two fronts?

If Tsarist Russia dares to fight, Xia Jun is still happy to fight them! Anyway, at this time, it is already spring, the temperature in the north is beginning to warm, and the cold climate does not need to be considered for the time being, Xia Jun is naturally not afraid of Tsarist Russia, and now there are many internal contradictions in Tsarist Russia, and it would be good to be able to support Tsarist Russia and China for three months.

Half a month after Zhang Jiyu arrived at the North China Military Region, he reported to Xia Jun that the North China Military Region was ready to send troops to Outer Mongolia.

(To be continued)