Winter is coming soon, the new year is coming, a rich country is not hungry, material is not poor, East China autonomous political axe of the three provinces, the people's life is still very poor, the opportunity for change lies in the new year's agriculture.

Because of last year's agricultural development, Fujian has been initially materially rich, especially in northwest Fujian, and after two years of development, the problem of food and clothing has been solved.

The people of Jiangxi and Zhejiang have received relief materials this winter, and the phenomenon of starving to death is gone, and the beggars on the streets are gone, and those beggars in the countryside who make a living by begging have also received relief funds, and most of those beggars are bachelors and are relatively old.

The administrative staff of counties, cities, townships and towns and the autonomous councils were busy preparing for spring sowing at this time, and the spring sowing time in Fujian, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang provinces was not much different, and it was all from early April to mid-April.

Last year's sugarcane harvest, 3.8 million acres of sugarcane extracted 5.7 million tons of sucrose, an average of 1 mu of sugarcane output can squeeze 1.5 tons of sucrose, which is definitely the most perverted sugarcane variety this century, but the demand for fertilizer is also very large.

As far as sugar production is concerned, Guangdong and Guangxi are suitable for planting a large number of sugarcane, and Fujian is also suitable for planting, but there are not so many land varieties.

As far as cane sugar is concerned, Xia Jun's East China political axe does not have much profit, but only charges a little cane seed money, which is at the same level as high-yield rice.

At present, four sugar factories in Fujian have adopted large-scale mechanized production, and these four sugar factories basically monopolize the sugar industry in Fujian, and nearly half of the shares are owned by the East China Group. Among them, the largest belongs to Xia Jun's father-in-law Li Shilin, followed by Huang Tingyuan's sugar factory and Liu Jinshan's sugar factory.

Xia Jun is a shareholder in equipment, and each sugar factory has a 49% stake.

These four sugar factories are still squeezing sugar day and night, and it is clear that these four sugar factories have become one of the most profitable factories this year.

The wholesale price of a ton of finished sugar in the market is generally between 30~40 yuan, and when the sugar factory buys sugarcane from the cane farmers, the price of a ton of sugarcane is only 3 yuan, and the sugarcane of an acre of land is about 30 yuan, and this mu of sugarcane can create at least 45 yuan worth of sucrose.

The cost of producing one ton of cane sugar in a large-scale mechanized sugar factory is only six cents, which is more than ten times the cost of traditional handicraft workshops.

1.5 tons of sugar profit, the factory has a minimum of 14 yuan.

On the sugarcane farmer's side, sugarcane can be sold for 30 yuan per acre of land, and in addition to the cost of about 8 yuan, one mu of land can earn 22 yuan, and the income is basically the same as planting rice.

In terms of rice, the value created by one acre of land is about 14 yuan, and some high-yield fields can reach 18 yuan, and the cost is generally about 3~4 yuan, and generally one acre of land can have an income of about 10~15 yuan in a single season. Rice can be planted twice a year, and sugarcane can only be planted once a year, but before it could be planted soybeans, peanuts and other crops, and the labor intensity of growing sugarcane is not so high, so sugarcane is more profitable than rice.

As far as one acre of land is concerned, such an income is very considerable for the peasants of this era, after all, a family can basically cultivate five or six acres of land, and some can even have more than ten acres.

In terms of five acres of land, a family basically has an income of 70 or 80 yuan in a year, and if there is more labor, if there is more labor and 10 acres of land, there will be an income of nearly 100 yuan.

After the restriction of land rent, the income of tenant farmers was basically not much different from that of yeoman farmers, and the income of peasants was much higher than that of workers.

Because the profits of the sugar factories were too high, the tax department advocated that they should be immediately taxed on windfall profits, and Zhu Chengjia reported to Xia Jun: "Principal, you see, the profits of these four major sugar factories are almost 50%. ”

Xia Jun took the profit statement of the four major sugar factories in Fujian provided by the Ministry of Taxation and read it for a long time, and said: "50% is indeed a windfall profit, let them reduce the profit to 30%!" ”

"Students think 20 percent is enough." Zhu Chengjia said, "As far as the students know, the total investment in the construction of the four major sugar factories is only about 8 million yuan, and this year's sugarcane production in Fujian, coupled with such profits, can make them nearly 50 million yuan in profits." ”

The kid made it clear that he wanted to touch the money from his pocket, Xia Jun touched his forehead, anyway, the money of the political axe was no different from the money of the East China Group, so he said: "Okay! Then twenty percent! ”

"Yes." Zhu Chengjia dared to tax the East China Group so blatantly, in fact, he also regarded the East China Group as a state-owned enterprise in disguise.

From the previous security regiment to the current autonomy of the three provinces, the enterprises of the East China Group are basically transfusing blood to the Ministry of Finance every month, and the more taxes and less taxes have no impact on the East China Group, but can extract more than 10 million yuan of taxes from the private capital of the four major sugar factories.

"Principal, in addition, most of the landlords in Fujian this year are required to operate independently, and we should set the tax as soon as possible, it is conceivable that the profits of those landlords will be very rich, and the profits of those agricultural reclamation companies are absolutely profiteering." Zhu Chengjia said to Xia Jun.

"Well, you go and discuss it with Yang Mingliu first, and then submit the report to me." Xia Jun nodded and said that the agricultural tax must be determined as soon as possible.

It is precisely because peasants' incomes are higher than those of workers that most of those landlords have decided to run their own businesses this year, especially those in Fujian.

In the past, Xia Jun lowered the tenant rent to the price of cabbage of 10 catties of rice per mu of land, but many Fujian landlords did not stand up against it, mainly because the Fujian landlords had already discovered the profits of their own operations.

It is said that most of the landlords in the mountainous areas are not suitable for machine farming, but the problem is that even if they do not use machine farming, a labor force works for eight hours a day, and it is not a problem to cultivate 5 acres of land, after all, except when the farm is busy, there is not so much labor, and when the farm is busy, you can ask for helpers, or let the workers work overtime.

Therefore, a worker's salary of 2 yuan a month, plus overtime expenses, only needs to spend about 30 yuan a year. If the price of grain is reduced from 2 yuan to 1.5 yuan per quintal (100 kilograms), there is at least 7 quintals of yield per mu of land, and there are generally 8 quintals, deducting 1 quintal required to buy seeds, there will be 8.5 yuan of income per mu of land, and 1 yuan for chemical fertilizer, 7.5 yuan, plus 0.5 yuan on miscellaneous expenses, and 7 yuan, then a labor force can also provide 5 yuan of profit, and the average income per mu is 1 yuan, which has shrunk compared with the previous 50 catties of rice, but what if other crops are planted? For example, sugar cane, tobacco or fruits, if you choose those cash crops, the profit is at least twice as high.

If it is a landlord on the plain, their profit is higher, because the land can be mechanically cultivated, and a laborer can cultivate at least 50 acres or more, and if the political axe can provide them with the most advanced machine-farming equipment (Xia Jun exchanged, they can't produce it themselves), then it is possible for a laborer to be responsible for the production of thousands of acres of land, and the profit of growing grain on the plain is very high.

How profitable it is depends on the level of machinery that Xia Jun provides them, and among the crops currently grown on the plains, that is, rice and corn, and soybeans are also included in this year's agricultural plan.

Yang Mingliu quickly submitted the agricultural plan of the three provinces.

According to Yang Mingliu's survey, the three provinces have 85.68 million mu of cultivated land, of which 51.8 million mu can be used for mechanical farming, 33.88 million mu cannot be used for mechanical farming, and 860,000 mu of land around Poyang Lake and other lakes do not meet ecological requirements, and 860,000 mu need to be returned to farmland.

The land that can be used for mechanical cultivation is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, followed by Zhejiang, and Fujian is the least. Among them, 45.26 million mu are paddy fields, and the remaining 6.54 million mu are dry land.

"Of the 33.88 million mu of cultivated land that cannot be mechanically cultivated, 7 million mu of land is located in remote mountainous areas, and those cash crops are not easy to transport, and these 7 million mu can only be used for planting rice.

"Of the other 26.88 million acres of arable land, nearly 12 million acres are at the latitude where sugarcane can be planted, and these cultivated lands can be used to grow sugarcane, and 12 million acres of sugarcane can greatly meet the domestic market, and a large amount of cane sugar can be exported abroad."

Yang Mingliu reported the data from the survey of the Ministry of Agriculture, and in order to figure out the data, the Ministry of Agriculture did not have a holiday during the Spring Festival, and the surveyors sent batch after batch, and the data was compiled in a bunch of piles.

"The remaining 14.88 million acres of cultivated land, its geographical location is suitable for planting tobacco, vegetables, peanuts, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other crops that cannot be cultivated, these areas can plan to plant 5 million acres of soybeans, if according to the yield of 170 kilograms per mu of high-yield soybeans, we can harvest 850,000 tons of soybeans this year, enough to meet the needs of consumption and breeding in the three provinces."

"What about the arable land?" Xia Jun asked.

"In the organic cultivated area, 6.54 million mu of land is used to plant cotton, according to the yield of more than 350 kilograms of high-yield cotton per mu, we can produce 2.289 million tons of cotton, and 1.5 million mu in Huzhou Prefecture is used to plant mulberry trees to develop the silk industry."

"The remaining 3,672 acres of land, 10 million acres for planting forage corn, 20 million acres for planting rice, plus 7 million acres of rice planting area in mountainous areas, the total area of rice planting will reach 27 million acres, rice production is expected to be 21.6 million tons, a quarter of output is enough for the three provinces to eat for a year, the other 5 million acres are used to plant vegetables, rape and other crops."

"So much food!" Xia Jun looked at this plan and hesitated, the cultivated area for planting rice was indeed too much.

"Chairman, we don't have time to plan carefully, and the area for such grain cultivation has been compressed to the lowest within the deadline." Yang Mingliu explained that their Ministry of Agriculture has indeed tried its best, and it can only plan like this in such a short time, and can only plan roughly in the overall situation.

Yang Mingliu continued: "We can start with one crop of rice, then adjust it according to the market, and if the yield is too high, we can switch to other crops. ”

Xia Jun frowned and said: "This won't work, in case of overcapacity, food prices will definitely plummet." Moreover, if we want to pass on the losses, we can only pass them on to other provinces and those countries that eat rice, and our zero-tariff Yankees do not eat much rice, and we cannot give full play to our zero-tariff advantage. ”

Saying that, Xia Jun picked up a pen and drew on the paper, changing the 25 million mu of rice planting area that can be cultivated by machine to 20 million mu, and then continued: "The 5 million mu will be used to grow soybeans, and we will produce more cornmeal and soybean cake to feed the pigs, and then give the Yankees' breeding industry a big blow." ”

In fact, a variety of corn and soybeans are king, but the current number of beef cattle is not much, chickens and pigs do not eat corn stalks, so planting 10 million acres of corn is enough, but Xia Jun wants to expand the scale of pig farming, soybean area is still not enough.

(To be continued)