September of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Daishan Island

It has been more than ten days since he returned to Daishan from Shandong, resettling the people, reorganizing the army, and dealing with the affairs that have accumulated on Daishan Island in the past two months, and Ren Siqi is busy every day. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

During this trip to Shandong, more than 10,000 recruits were recruited, and more than 40,000 family members of the soldiers were recruited.

It is a huge project to resettle so many people and ensure their livelihoods.

Although Daishan has long been prepared and has opened up resettlement points on the islands, there are still many problems encountered in practice, and each of them needs to be dealt with in a timely manner.

The people were placed on the islands under the control of Daishan, such as Jintang Island, Xiushan Island, Changtu Island, Lantau Island, and Zhujiajian Island, among which the largest number of people were resettled on Jintang Island, with more than 10,000 people.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Zhoushan Islands were undeveloped at all, and except for a small amount of land on Zhoushan Island and Jintang Island, the land on the other islands was basically undeveloped. Of course, this is also related to the barren land of the Zhoushan Islands, and one acre of land cannot produce a few grains, so it is better to fish, so the people of the Zhoushan Islands are mostly fishermen.

But now, Daishan has fertilizer for farming, petrified guano, rich in a large amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, after applying guano, the yield per mu has greatly increased. The newly opened fields in Daishan produce nearly two quintals of rice per mu.

Ren Siqi had ordered the Mao 18 fleet, which was destined for the Japanese trade, to collect guano in the men's and women's islands on the return journey for use in cultivating the fields.

However, it was already winter when the fleet returned, and even if the guano was collected, it would not be needed this year.

It's only September, and the autumn rice harvest on Daishan Island has begun, and in a month it will be the time for winter planting, which is the time to plant winter wheat in Shandong. But at the moment, there is no fertilizer, and even if you plant crops, you won't be able to harvest much.

So after discussion, no crops will be planted this year, and from now until winter, these new immigrants will only need to clear the fields and repair the reservoir canals.

This year, we can't grow food, but these people still need to eat, so they can only be fully supported by Daishan. This is more than 40,000 people, which has brought great pressure to Daishan.

Although more than 10,000 acres of cultivated land on Daishan Island have been harvested in the summer, and the autumn harvest will begin again, the more than 10,000 acres of cultivated land on Daishan Island alone cannot feed the huge population today.

Ren Siqi could only send a large number of ships to various parts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to purchase grain. and the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are still in a state of hostility, and Ren Siqi is worried that the gentry will interfere with the purchase of grain.

Fortunately, there is a shortage of food on the island, but there are abundant fish resources, and there is no fear of people starving to death.

On the boat back to Daishan from Shandong, Ren Siqi had already organized the immigrants and appointed officials such as Jiachangli Zhengbaihu, who were all assigned to the islands according to the group, and lived in the simple houses prepared for them in Daishan.

The houses are all made of bamboo, covered with straw, very simple, only sheltered from the wind and rain.

The islands of Zhoushan are located on the sea, the climate is humid, and there is a lot of rain, and when it rains, the dampness in the house makes these Shandong immigrants quite uncomfortable.

There was nothing to do during this time, so many people spontaneously organized themselves to build their own houses.

There were stones at the bottom of the mountain, and there were pines and cypresses on the mountain, so the people gathered stones, cut down trees, and began to build houses. Of course, the construction of the house is not a day's work, but the people now have time, from now until the Chinese New Year, most of them have nothing to do, this time is the time to build a home.

Every once in a while, large ships would come to the islands from Daishan to bring grain and vegetables. This is the ration of the immigrants, of course, the food is not given to them for free, but temporarily lent to them, and every family has a soldier, and this food is deducted from the soldier's salary, and if it is not enough, it is lent to them, and they need to return it later.

The fleet that went to Japan to trade has not returned, and now there are tens of thousands of more people, and Ren Siqi is now under great pressure. Resettlement of immigrants, training of recruits, and procurement of weapons all require a large amount of silver, and the current treasury of the Daishan Army is almost at the bottom.

Fortunately, there is another industry in Daishan now, a canned fish factory.

After a battle with Wang Zhiren more than two months ago, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang no longer dared to interfere with the canning business. Daishan now has full control over the pricing power of canned food, and the ex-factory price of each can has been raised to 35 yuan, and the selling price is between 45 and 50 yuan.

Now Daishan's canned food has been really sold all over Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing, Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, and there are shops selling Daishan canned food everywhere.

The daily sales of canned food reached more than 10,000 pieces, and the daily profit was more than 300 taels of silver. In this way, you can earn as much as 10,000 taels of silver per month!

It's not that no one is eyeing the profits of Daishan canned food, but none of them can do this business. Because they don't have cheap access to fish, and they don't have such huge human resources as Daishan Island. Even if you do it reluctantly, the cost of making it is much higher than that of Daishan canned food, and it is impossible to compete with Daishan at all.

Now that tens of thousands of people have emigrated from Shandong, Chen Zhong already plans to expand the canning factory again, setting up canning factories on Jintang Island and the islands of Lantau Island. People have also been sent to inspect the geography of each island and choose the location of the factory.

Zhang Pujia is very capable, in the two months that Ren Siqi left, she helped deal with a lot of things on the island, and everything was handled in an orderly manner, which made Ren Siqi admire.

So Ren Siqi increased her courage and left all the trivial matters on the island to her, so that she could free up time to think about major matters, such as the training of recruits.

The battle between Jiaozhou and the Manchurian army caused heavy losses to the Daishan army, and only 200 of the 700 veterans who participated in the battle remained. However, 600 of the 1,000 people of the Zhoushan Army were returned, and this gap made Ren Siqi begin to reflect on the problem of military training.

On the return boat, Ren Siqi **** and Huang Fengwu discussed the training of infantry and analyzed the difference between the training of the Daishan Army and the Zhoushan Army.

The Daishan Army paid more attention to the neatness of the battle array, and ignored the individual combat skills of the soldiers. For example, when Jiaozhou City fought against the full cavalry, it suffered a great loss.

While paying attention to the battle formation as a whole, the Zhoushan Army also paid more attention to the training of individual soldiers' combat skills. Therefore, in terms of the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers, the Daishan Army is much different from the Zhoushan Army.

After discussing with Huang Fengwu, Ren Siqi formulated a new soldier training charter for the training of recruits in the Daishan Army.

It's a pity that Huang Fengwu insisted on returning to Zhoushan, and didn't want to stay on Daishan Island at all, otherwise let her be the chief instructor of the new army, how good it would be! Ren Siqi sighed in his heart.

Of course, Ren Siqi also knew the reason why Huang Fengwu was reluctant to come to Daishan, that is, he couldn't face Zhang Pujia who stayed in Daishan. (To be continued.) )