Golden autumn and a golden patch of fields in the fields.

People are busy harvesting the crops in the fields, but in the plains, instead of harvesting the crops by manpower, combine harvesters are used.

A large number of automobiles have also entered agricultural production, which is no longer the same tractor as it used to be.

Agriculture in the seven provinces of East China has undergone a seismic shift, which has led to a surge in productivity and more people moving from the countryside to the cities.

This year's autumn harvest is coming again, and the largest cash crops in the planting area, sugarcane and cotton, have entered the harvest again, and last year's cotton planting area was 40 million mu, and this year's cotton planting area has increased to 60 million mu.

Cotton production has surged again, from 18 million tonnes last year to 25 million tonnes. The sugarcane planting area has increased to 30 million mu, and the output of cane sugar has reached 40 million tons.

This year, sugarcane yields have declined because sugarcane cultivation has begun to shift to extensive cultivation, and the agricultural reclamation company no longer manages the sugarcane intensively.

After all, the sugarcane planting area was raised to 30 million mu last year, and the East China Autonomous Government expects that this year's sugar output will increase significantly, which will greatly reduce the price of sugar.

If intensive cultivation is still used under such circumstances, neither the agricultural company nor the landlord can support it, and only extensive planting can withstand the collapse in prices.

The collapse in prices is naturally very good for China's agriculture, first of all, after the price is lowered, the sugarcane cultivation in other countries will be affected, then they will inevitably reduce the planting area next year.

As long as China's sugarcane plantation industry maintains a high level of impact on sugar-exporting countries year after year, it will be able to squeeze these countries out of the market.

When China's sugar industry monopolized the international market, profits followed.

The same is true for cotton planting, which has also fallen this year, mainly because of the dramatic changes in the way cotton is grown.

Cotton farmers are basically gone, and cotton cultivation is monopolized by agricultural reclamation companies.

The agricultural reclamation company uses advanced equipment to plant cotton, seeding machines for sowing, airplanes for fertilization, sprinkler irrigation for irrigation, and airplanes for insecticide sowing.

In the planting process, there is basically no need for several labor costs, but at harvest time, you need to hire part-time workers to help harvest cotton.

Not only is the labor cost of planting much lower than that of foreign farmers, but also the yield per mu is much higher than that of other countries.

Whether it is sugar industry or cotton cultivation, it is currently based on the premise of impacting the agriculture of other countries, and intensive cultivation is no longer advisable.

In terms of grain planting, the East China Autonomous Government has adopted two methods: strong impact and moderate impact. The strong shock is external, mainly wheat. The mild shock is mainly paddy and is directed at other provinces in the country.

Mechanized planting is inevitable, and it is inevitable that it will have an impact on other provinces that have not entered the jurisdiction of East China's autonomous political axe.

It's just that the impact strength must be grasped clearly, otherwise there will be chaos.

With regard to other countries, the agricultural strategy of the East China Autonomous Axe is to adopt a mob-style trade attack to suppress the other side's agriculture in order to gain international dominance.

As soon as the autumn harvest arrived, the mob attacks on the agriculture of other countries by the East China Autonomous Axe began again.

Sucrose and cotton are the dominant ones. Raw silk has also joined the scope of impact, and China's raw silk production has increased significantly this year, which has had a huge impact on the raw silk industry.

Sugar prices have indeed fallen this year, and will continue to fall as more cane is pressed into cane sugar.

After last year's plunge, cotton prices have picked up this year.

The price per ton has risen from 100 yuan last year to 130 yuan this year, and the gap is very large. But China's cotton production has increased dramatically.

The main reason for this situation is that last year's cotton was hit by Chinese cotton, and the planting area has been reduced this year after the price plummeted.

Moreover, the reduction in output is more than the increase in cotton production in China this year, coupled with the outbreak of the First World War, the textile industry of various countries has entered a golden age, and the demand for cotton is very strong.

In cotton alone, this year's output value has reached 3.2 billion yuan, most of which is used for export, which can cause a trade balance of at least 2 billion yuan.

But the difference in trade volume is obviously more than these, because most of these cotton can not be exported, the world textile industry is currently in a booming stage, the United Kingdom suddenly withdrew from this market, resulting in the textile industry's profits generally reached more than 50%, these cotton can at least create more than 3 billion trade balance for China, which is still taking into account the situation that competition leads to a decline in profits.

In the competition of the textile industry, China and the United States are a big rival, and the company is also a competitor, so in order to suppress the capital, the price of overseas textile products cannot be too high, so 50% of the profit is unlikely. As for the domestic market, there is also a huge growth, but the pattern has been formed, so the profit has not increased.

The competition has not yet occurred, mainly because the blank market is too large, and the textile industry capacity of various countries is not at all for a while, resulting in a shortage of textiles.

Now the comparison is the speed of occupation, when the market is filled, it is a tragic market fight.

To put it in a cliché, this is a war without gunpowder.

The national strength of the victor increases, and the national strength of the loser weakens.

In addition to textiles, the three traditional industries of tea, raw silk and ceramics are also booming.

Tea has been replaced with exquisite packaging, the production model has also changed, the internal market has expanded a lot, the tea drinking habits of this era are much higher than in later generations, and the demand for tea in Westerners is also relatively large, but they have found other origins, such as India.

In order to regain the original monopoly position of tea, it is temporarily impossible to use market means.

In terms of raw silk, it began to slowly move towards a monopoly position.

The investment in improved mulberry trees and silkworms, coupled with the use of advanced equipment in the raw silk factory, has greatly reduced the cost of raw silk manufacturing. The way of raising silkworms has been changed from the previous domestic breeding to free-range, and the labor has been greatly reduced. The raw silk factory is fully mechanized, and the labor is greatly reduced, so that the advantages come up.

In terms of ceramics, Jingdezhen's ceramics have been included in the key development projects of East China's autonomous political axe, and Xia Jun has also invested a lot of points in it, and is also developing in the direction of regaining its monopoly position.

In the nineteenth century, China's GDP still accounted for one-third of the world's GDP, and it was all built on these things, but these things could not be converted into war capabilities.

At present, Xia Jun does not want these things to be converted into war capabilities, but only to let these industries provide jobs, impact the economies of other countries, and create trade balances.

What is really interesting is the high-tech industry, and if you create something that others can't make, others can't buy it. At present, this kind of light industry is very easy to be blocked by other countries using tariff policies, and with the development of the economy, the demographic dividend is getting less and less, and these industries will slowly lose their competitiveness.

According to the general law, this is the case, but Xia Jun can buy more advanced technology and equipment to keep these industries competitive.

What does it mean to be tough? It's called toughness.

Let other countries have no way out! Let them make a living by selling resources!

For this year's cotton output, in fact, last year's agricultural planning was still a mistake, one is the domestic market demand has increased greatly, and the other is that the foreign market is blank, so there is too little planting.

130 yuan per ton is an abnormal price, and it is normal to press to the limit of 100 yuan per ton. Although the price of 130 yuan is still much lower than the previous 150 yuan, this is not enough.

Xia Jun found Yang Mingliu and asked him to carefully investigate the market and do a good job in agricultural regulation and control next year.

Agricultural regulation and control is naturally very important, and only when the regulation and control are done well will crop prices not be on a roller coaster; the prices of agricultural products will rise this year, and the prices will fall again next year.

Of course, increasing the planting area in order to attack other countries' agriculture is a political necessity and also a need for future economic distribution, and China must obtain pricing power over agricultural products.

After Yang Mingliu returned, he immediately submitted the planting area of next year's main crops, and planned to increase the cotton planting area to 100 million mu, an increase of 40 million mu over this year, and the task of 40 million mu will be assigned to those agricultural reclamation companies.

According to Yang Mingliu's estimate, the current industry of the major neutral countries is in a period of vigorous development, and the labor income of workers has increased, even if the price of cotton has risen to 130 yuan this year, the world's cotton planting area will continue to decrease next year, and China's domestic demand will further increase, continue to increase the cotton planting area by 40 million mu, and the price of cotton per ton will not fall below 100 yuan per ton at most.

The area under grain cultivation will continue to expand in order to impact the food production of various countries.

Although grain is a strategic material, if you don't export it, others will grow it. If you export it, other people's can't sell it, and naturally you won't grow so much.

Grain output is constant within a certain range, and this range is generated by the amount of consumption, and when there is too much production, the price of grain falls, and whoever cannot hold on to it will not plant first, and the market will give it up.

China's current grain production not only uses high-yielding varieties, but also uses mechanized farming, and the competition is so strong that it is a mess.

In terms of meat production, the aquaculture industry has been booming this year, the cost of breeding has been reduced, and the price of meat has also been greatly reduced.

With the current income of workers and peasants, eating meat is no longer a problem. However, those provinces that have just joined the autonomous government of East China are worse, but with the current industrial development, if you go to work in factories and construction sites, eating meat is not a problem, unless you want to save money.

While the aquaculture industry meets domestic demand, meat is also exported on a large scale, and it is invincible in the international market, constantly creating a trade balance.

The profits of the aquaculture industry are also good, but for the time being, they are not as good as the industry. As far as the internal market is concerned, the profit of the aquaculture industry is generally 15%, but compared with the industry, the profit seems to be worse, but the internal demand is increasing, and the external market, the profit is generally 20%, which is still the profit after deducting the export tax.

In addition, the aquaculture industry does not need too strong technology, and relies entirely on cheap feed and excellent livestock breeds and management methods to win, so the aquaculture industry is still a popular investment area.

Since the occupation of seven provinces by the East China Autonomous Axe and the extension of agriculture to other provinces, the amount of plain arable land available has increased considerably. Corn is all grown extensively with machine farming, and the yield is strong. As a result, the cost of feed is so low that even if you use soil to grow livestock, the profit is still good.

However, most of the funds have been diverted to industrial development, and next year's agricultural and livestock development may face a shortage of funds.

After Xia Jun learned about this situation, he immediately asked Li Shengguo to increase agricultural loans next year.

After several years of development, Huadong Bank has become a monopoly bank in China, followed by a subsidiary bank, China Commercial Bank.

The situation of foreign-funded banks in China is very bad, and very few people in the seven autonomous provinces of East China will deposit their money in those foreign-funded banks, and the distribution of those foreign-funded banks is not perfect, and the services are not so good.

Coupled with the rapid development of industry and agriculture, China has now reversed the outflow of capital in one fell swoop, and the trade balance has begun to appear every year, and wealth is constantly pouring into China.

In this context, the savings capital of the Bank of East China has increased sharply every year, and this year it has grown wildly, and the investment of the Bank of East China has few bad debts, and the capital of the Bank of East China is also growing rapidly.

Li Shengguo can now invest in many places, Xia Jun is a shareholder of equipment, and he is a shareholder of capital, although many entrepreneurs are more willing to take out loans, but there are also some entrepreneurs who are willing to exchange shares for funds.

No matter which side it is, it is all East China Group, which is Xia Jun's sole stock group, which is equivalent to a state-owned enterprise in disguise, and at present, among all private enterprises in the seven provinces of East China, an average of 30% of the shares belong to East China Group.

Investing in the aquaculture industry is naturally a very safe choice, and now Li Shengguo has more money in his hands!

Investing in railways basically does not require the bank to pay money, the bank only needs to be responsible for selling the bonds, and as soon as the bonds come out, they will soon be bought by the people.

In fact, not long ago, he gave his old man a loan to develop the aquaculture industry.

Li Shilin has also recently led Zhongsheng Group to transform, but has not relaxed in agriculture and light industry, but has borrowed a lot from banks.

Li Shilin is the father-in-law of the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Province! The son is in control of the East China Bank again, and the loan is naturally invincible, which is also an inevitable problem, Xia Jun also turns a blind eye to this, anyway, Li Shilin just don't mess around, if it's just a normal loan, Xia Jun can't let the bank lend.

The only thing that can compete with Li Shilin is Liu Jinshan's Huasheng Group, because Zhongsheng Group and Huasheng Group are large groups that are clearly placed at the same level, so many times Li Shengguo naturally can't favor one over the other, and give Huasheng as much money as he wants.

Most of the other companies have to wait for the two groups to complete the budget before they can get the remaining funds in the bank.

Zhongsheng and Huasheng are obviously the two intensive enterprises that Xia Jun is supporting, and the enterprises are still a matter of management methods in the final analysis.

Just as the sum of 100,000 chaotic Somali economies is not the same as the economy of the United States.

The industry is too fragmented, which is sometimes disadvantageous. In the major industrial fields, it is sufficient to support three or four large enterprises, which can form a competition with a good surname, and it is also convenient for the coordination of foreign operations.

(To be continued)