118 Thinking about the autumn harvest

The autumn harvest of 1775, it seems that everything related to the harvest is so touching and full of satisfaction, the original autumn harvest manpower of the farms in Jiazhou is still somewhat insufficient, the second batch of migratory bird fleets returned to China, brought more than 3,000 laborers, the Ministry of Agriculture allocated this batch of manpower to different farms, participated in the autumn harvest, this is the autumn harvest of the production battle to take down. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the farmland that is already the last to be harvested, the farmers are bent down and resting on the rice stalks, Zhao Daling and Bai Nan are walking in the fields, and no one notices the two big figures of the Tang Republic.

Their group of traversers had established this country from a wild land, and it had only taken two years to make a difference. Seeing everything now, everyone involved in this can't help but feel a sense of accomplishment.

"After all, our agricultural machinery is insufficient, if there are hundreds of harvesters, from beginning to end our Jiazhou farm, where to use so many people to harvest in the autumn." President Zhao Daling sighed to Bai Nan.

Bai Nandao: "After all, the time for the founding of the country is short, and the time to start building various agricultural machinery is also short, and it will not take a few years for our agricultural machinery to increase." ”

Zhao Daling sighed: "When there are more machinery, we will definitely have more land." This year, we have already reclaimed 300,000 acres of land, and although we have removed a group of people to join the army, there are also immigrants this year. At the beginning, the Ministry of Agriculture planned to reclaim 600,000 mu of land by next year, and more than 1 million mu the year after. At first, many people thought it was unrealistic, but now it seems that it is not a problem at all!

On the contrary, the concentration of new immigrants on the farms, and the growth of our industrial population is not obvious, which will limit our goal of developing into an industrial power, but with the increase in the number of immigrants. With the increase in the amount of land reclaimed, our average yield per mu is much higher than the average level of this era, and eventually the problem of overproduction of grain will inevitably occur in our country. Although the Ministry of Agriculture has consciously begun to guide farmers to start planting some cash crops, China's agriculture will still be dominated by grain production for a long time. Food prices will plummet as production grows, and in the end, it will hurt the interests of our farmers. ”

Bai Nan nodded and said, "The attraction of land to new immigrants is huge. More attractive than the settling-in fee of thirty silver dollars. For many newcomers, land gives them peace of mind and makes them determined to settle down in the Tang Dynasty rather than return to their place of origin. As for the issue of the ratio of industry and agriculture, I believe that first of all, the fall in grain prices is inevitable, and our peasants are making money by farming now, but it is very likely that the number of acres planted will not reach a certain scale in the future, and they will lose money. This will inevitably lead our peasants to develop large-scale agriculture and intensive agriculture in the Tang Republic. The nature of the vast land and sparsely populated land naturally makes us unable to take the route of small farmers, and a family cultivating 100 acres of land is the situation suitable for us in the future. And for those who are struggling to grow independently, we can consciously guide them into the factory, in fact, many farms are already developing their own subsidiary factories. For example, the innovation farms, they planted flax, so they built flax textile mills, and they were also preparing to build garment factories, these are all factories, and now most of the farmers who are idle go to work, and in the future, the farmers who have problems with farming will be converted into workers into these factories. ”

Zhao Daling also smiled when he heard Bai Nan's words, and he said: "Compared with the countries of the same era, the wealth of Datang is beyond imagination. Now even Britain has an astonishing proportion of poor people, they work more than ten hours a day, do not have enough to eat, contribute their own flesh and blood to the industrialization and expansion of a country, speaking of which, although these European powers have absorbed the nutrition of the colonies and completed the accumulation of primitive capital, but the oppression of their own people is also extremely powerful. There is also a situation like Japan before the Sino-Japanese War, where the Japanese withstood 20 times the taxes of the Chinese and forcibly promoted Japan to a preliminary industrial country, coupled with the success of the national fortune game, which made Japan finally stand out. Look at our current country, everyone can live a well-off life through labor, as long as they work, no one will go hungry, and food, clothing, housing and transportation are basically guaranteed, which is actually what I am most satisfied with. ”

Bai Nandao: "After all, organizational efficiency and production efficiency are different, and we still enjoy the benefits of primitive capital from crossing, as well as the scissors difference of industrial products in trade, in fact, in terms of economic operation and distribution mode, our Datang Republic is now regarded as a standard socialist country with a certain market behavior, the whole people are the working class, the rich group is very few, and it is a huge spindle structure at the waist." ”

Zhao Daling said: "It's just that how long will this situation last?" Society is always changing, when our country's population is small, it is natural to take care of it, once the population grows wildly, social resources begin to be scarce to a certain extent, and some people become rich through hard work, while some people live a difficult life, so what should we do? ”

Bai Nan replied almost without thinking: "The state has always maintained the relative fairness of distribution, and ensured the smooth flow of circulation channels up and down the society, as you said, there is a set of rule of law system with a human touch, and it encourages innovation, and constantly improves the level of development of productive forces and production efficiency." Of course, I don't think these are enough, so let's add one more, to maintain the external expansion of our country, Jiazhou is not enough, we will go north to Oregon, British Columbia, and if it is not enough, we will go east to seize New Mexico, Louisiana; North America is not enough for us to occupy East Asia, Southeast Asia, as well as Australia, New Zealand, South America, Africa, we can go to many places, as long as we continue to get social wealth and resources, Datang can maintain its vitality and vitality. ”

Zhao Daling shook his head and said, "Bai Nan, you usually seem to be the most gentle, but your ideas are sometimes the most extreme. This kind of expansionism, in fact, is fascism, it is Nazi nationalism, you know, if such a group continues, it may trigger confrontation all over the world. ”

Bai Nandao: "I think that if it really leads to a world-class confrontation, then the Tang must have the ability to confront the whole world, and secondly, the political wisdom of the Chinese is stronger than that of the Germans and the Japanese, and we have enough energy to bring the world into our system, rather than triggering confrontation." ”

Later, Bai Nan added: "Of course, maybe after a certain time, we can obtain more resources and living space simply through the progress of productive forces, but a country can only maintain its vitality and progress if it constantly reforms itself and keeps pace with the times." China's feudal dynasty will perish if it does not change, and from the reality of our time, even the so-called developed pearl countries, if there is no change, they will soon play themselves to death, Europeans have a high welfare debt crisis, Americans have an aggravated ethnic division, political inefficiency and development, and even if China itself does not change, it will cause social unrest. Change may be detrimental, but failure to change will certainly be detrimental. ”

Zhao Daling agreed with Bai Nan's proposal and said: "Seeking innovation and change, this should be the spirit of the country and the nation written into the constitution." ”

When a farmer transporting straw on the side of the road accidentally dropped a bundle of straw out of the truck body, Bai Nan stepped forward to help carry the bundle of straw back onto the truck, and he was also stained with some straw debris. Bai Nan didn't care, and threw himself on his body, and the peasants thanked him.

Bai Nan said: "In fact, thinking too far, how many people worry about the sky, even if they are intelligent and can see a little context of the future, they may not be able to see everything and find some key problems." In fact, those of us who travel through the world, although we understand the future direction and some knowledge of the afterlife, are the most taboo to identify these things, or take them for granted. I think that now we should do what we need to do, and we can take some precautions. Just like the current agricultural production, far from our upper limit, even if the future output is too large, we can also do deep processing, or a large number of exports, such as Mexico, has not had enough food, after our cheap grain enters Mexico, it will soon be able to crush the local grain producers, and then Datang grain will occupy the main market in Mexico, then we can rely on food to form a huge influence on this place, which is also a good thing. ”

Zhao Daling looked at Bai Nan and said, "I have to say, your kid's divergent thinking is really too powerful." A bad thing can make you want to be a good thing. ”

"There is no such thing as an absolute bad thing or a good thing, depending on how you look at it or how you deal with it. By the way, I think that now we should step up the education of new immigrants, ninety percent of the immigrants shipped from the Qing country are illiterate, and those Vietnamese women do not know Chinese, which is equivalent to illiteracy. We need industrialization, we need to build a modern civilized country, we must increase the intensity of literacy, a person who is illiterate and does not know how to do arithmetic, must not even be able to do ordinary workers, and raise them to the level of college students, I think it is unrealistic, basically speaking, our workers have a primary school level of education, they can be competent for most of the factory work, and the cultural education of this era, in fact, education to the high school level, mathematics, physics and chemistry or something is already considered to be the top of this era, very sufficient. Moreover, I think that even if it is high school education, what our country should strengthen now is vocational high school education, which requires the hands-on ability of the educated, and of course, we must also train the top students to become research-oriented talents and learn our high-tech knowledge...... "Bai Nan has no head when he talks about it.

Zhao Daling said with a smile: "You guy, your mind is full of these, I don't think it will take a few years, I won't be the president, you can take over." (To be continued.) )