What Xu Daoyun felt was ethereal is now on the paper of the cabinet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Almost no one in this political group is willing to be the leader of an urban state of only a few hundred thousand people, and they all come from the most populous country in the world and understand more fully what population means to a country. They are surrounded by millions of square kilometers of unowned land, their enemies are fellows who are hundreds of years behind them, as long as their size and population are about the same as those of the European powers, it is enough to support a world hegemon and laugh at the world.

The transportation of migrants from China has always been considered and planned, and one of the most important constraints is not the nearly 10,000-kilometer route, but the food needed by the new immigrants in Los Angeles during the supply of the line and after coming to California.

Of course, the grain on the return trip can be purchased nearby, how can the grain production of the Qing country be somewhat surplus, and Vietnam, Siam and other places are all grain exporters, and even if the cost permits, Datang can import grain from the other side of the ocean to supply local consumption.

The most reliable thing is to take advantage of California's superior agricultural location to produce enough food locally to meet the needs of the people of the Tang Republic.

The most difficult first year was finally over, with a large supply of fishery harvests and hunting harvests. The traversers who had just arrived in Los Angeles actually had a lot of grain seeds in their hands, including improved and high-yield rice and wheat seeds from African countries given by the modern people, corn, rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc., brought by the farmers of the Republic of China, and rice seeds brought by the Ming Dynasty from Southeast Asia.

However, after all, Chinese farmers are not familiar with the Mediterranean climate here on the west coast of North America, where the temperature in winter and spring is relatively high, which is also suitable for the growth of crops, and the precipitation is also extremely abundant at this time, unlike the severe drought in the spring in China, which threatens the growth of crops. And because the hydrothermal conditions are completely different from the East Asian monsoon climate, the farmers have been inheriting thousands of years of time to no avail, so they can only grope to plant.

With an uncertain mentality, the farmers alternately planted a variety of grains in the fields, from wheat and corn to upland rice, for fear that the food would not grow and everyone would not be able to eat anything.

The rainy winter and spring have passed, and since the beginning of the summer, Los Angeles has begun to usher in the rainy season again, but fortunately, after all, there are still people who know the climate knowledge among the crossing people, and the cabinet began to carry out water conservancy near the farmland at the beginning of the crossing, and even after the coal production in the coal field, it also made steam water wells, specifically to lift water from the ground to irrigate a large amount of farmland.

At this time, the advantages of the agricultural area of the Central Valley are revealed, where the river network is vertical and horizontal, and it is relatively easy to divert water for irrigation, so the farms that were established in March and April are much less workload in the summer, and the farm employees dig aqueducts to direct the river water into their farmland.

At this time, the Los Angeles River was still there, and it was not played by the Americans like later generations and turned into a gutter. The precious water source of the Los Angeles River is also the source of survival for the local residents of the city of Los Angeles, and it is the main source of water for irrigating the land. Most of the farms are built on the banks of the river and its tributaries.

Even with the river, it still requires a lot of labor to irrigate several farms around Los Angeles because it requires a lot of labor to irrigate, and because the Los Angeles River is dry in the summer.

In order to ensure that crops are resistant to drought, the Cabinet of Ministers, together with the Department of Agriculture, carried out a special investigation, and finally the Cabinet decided to mobilize other Los Angeles citizens to carry out irrigation with manpower in the form of a production battle, except for the necessary work.

In order to ensure the normal progress of the production battle, the Los Angeles government first set an example by taking civil servants and soldiers of the army as the backbone, and took the lead in entering several farms around Los Angeles.

Bai Nan drove a large truck with buckets of water in its body. The few trucks that were originally treasured by the government have all been used for agricultural irrigation. Bai Nan estimated that when this battle was over, these trucks would have no fuel left, and they would not be able to run with all the mechanized infantry fighting vehicles of the company's army. At most, the navy can still have a little oil left for the White Shark to use, as the minimum force guarantee for Datang's territorial waters.

When the farms around Los Angeles were first built, it didn't take much effort to level the land, which was originally an alluvial plain of rivers, overgrown with wild grass, which was burned and uprooted in one go, and then ploughed the ground and began to cultivate it directly. At that time, of course, the canals were dug, but now it seems that these peasants of the Republic of China are still the same old-fashioned irrigation methods, and the canals are not particularly scientific, and the number of canals is insufficient.

When the summer dry season comes, some farms are even unable to fill the river due to water levels. There are even some ditches that have almost evaporated under the scorching California sun, before a few acres of fields have been irrigated, and the soil itself has penetrated, so the irrigation effect is very bad.

In this way, large-scale irrigation by manpower is a necessary measure.

Bai Nan is okay, everyone is more humble, let him be an officer mainly as a driver, and it is the work of the soldier brother to be exposed to the specific work. Bai Nan is quite embarrassed, after all, he is also young and has a lot of strength, and he can't say anything if he doesn't work. But as soon as he ran to the field, he was driven back by the others.

Bai Nan is really not very good at farm work, so he is also disliked by others.

Just when he was feeling a little sorry for himself, Bai Nan saw a small shed not far away, and some tired soldiers were resting there temporarily. Bai Nan wanted to go over to help, but as soon as he walked over, Xu Xin actually stood in the shed and handed out water and watermelons to the resting soldiers.

"Watermelon, where did you get it?" Bai Nanting was surprised.

Xu Xin replied: "This is a person named Ma Le, one of the volunteers, a little brother in Wenzhou, who is full of business experience." The watermelon on the Changmao wheel, everyone spit out the melon seeds after eating the melon. The little brother collected all the melon seeds, and then soaked them to sprout. Ma Le also found a farmer in the Republic of China, and he didn't know what benefits he gave to them, so he asked them to plant seven or eight acres of watermelons for him, and later deceived two Indians to work for him. As long as the land in the colony is declared to the Land Bureau and can be reclaimed immediately, 10 acres of land are free for the first year. It's just that no one has the heart to farm the land by themselves, and after this Ma Leshen took the land, he planted one or two acres of vegetables and planted some watermelons. As for fertilizer or something, he either gave it to him with a quick mouth to go to the central chemical plant, or he took something to change it. Vegetables are a lot of things grown on state farms, and everyone eats in canteens, so they can't sell them for any price, so I heard that he lost money. It's watermelon, this is our only one in Los Angeles, Ma Le got hundreds of melons, took them to the supermarket and sold them, and they actually sold for a dollar a catty. However, this Ma Le is also very good at being a person, and specially pulled dozens of melons to comfort our troops and civil servants. ”

Bai Nan was also a little dumbfounded when he heard it, it seems that there are a lot of people who are active, how can there be thousands of catties of hundreds of melons, and they are sold for a pound and a dollar, that is a few thousand yuan, which is a huge amount of money in Los Angeles, Bai Nan belongs to the high-paid people in Los Angeles, and it took three months to save less than a thousand yuan.

"There are more people who come to work, and others don't send them, but they send them to the troops and organs, and this Ma Le will also drill the camp."

California's summers vary widely, making them ideal for growing temperature-loving crops such as watermelon. Bai Nan tasted a piece of watermelon and thought it was indeed sweet.

Xu Xin said with a smile: "I saw Ma Le in the morning and asked him what he wanted to do after making so much money, and this kid said that he would apply for dozens of acres of land and continue to grow watermelons." However, he said that by the time of next year, watermelons would definitely not be as profitable as they are now, but he fooled farmers to use their quotas to apply for free agricultural land, and then find someone to help him work, and he would produce seeds himself, and he would also take up a few percent of the profits of others. I watched, and this profiteer began to think about other ways to make money. ”

Bai Nan also smiled: "A businessman like him, there is no harm in having more, we have watermelons to eat, and he also makes money, why not do it." ”

Not long after, a carriage came from the farm here, and Bai Nan saw that it was Xue Yue, the Minister of Agriculture, who had come in person. Although this old man failed in the struggle for military power, he was given a minister of agriculture, and Xue Yue was also a real power figure.

"Minister Xue." Bai Nan took the lead in saluting Xue Yue.

"Oh, Counselor General Bai is here too." Xue Yue pretended to be familiar with Bai Nan.

"Minister, are you here to inspect it?"

"yes, let's take a look. Everyone is fighting on the front line of large-scale agricultural production, how can I, the minister, be willing to be behind others and hide in the house to enjoy the cool and relax? At this time, Xue Yue also learned a lot of "black words" that the party would meet, and Xue Yue gradually discovered that this kind of system can often exert great strength on many issues, and Xue Yue is also slowly learning and adapting.

After chatting with Bai Nan briefly, Xue Yue took the farm distribution map and commanded the irrigation work, and then he actually showed off his sleeves, carried the shovel himself, and then went to the ground to dig a few shovels of soil, expressing his happiness and hardship with the soldiers.

Many of the soldiers here are soldiers of the former Guofu Army, although they come from Tiannan and Haibei and come from different formations, but they are also a little moved to see the military gods of the Republic of China personally go to the fields to work with them.

Bai Nan squinted his eyes, looking at Xue Yue's actions thoughtfully.