Compared with the fanfare establishment of Daishan Academy, the establishment of the Military Intelligence Department was quiet. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is a cross-courtyard in the yamen of the Gaoting Town Inspection Division, with three or five rooms, and there is not even a brand, so the Military Intelligence Department was established. There was only one chief, Anthony, plus three or two soldiers.

Ren Siqi gave Anthony a warrant, allowing him to transfer people at will in the entire Daishan Army and set up the Military Intelligence Department as soon as possible. At the present stage, the task of the Military Intelligence Department is to investigate the intelligence of various localities, and at this stage it is mainly based on the movements of the Nanjing Imperial Court, Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Zhoushan.

After taking Ren Siqi's warrant, Anthony went with great ambition. He cherished this opportunity to be on his own and decided to do his best to live up to the expectations of his owner.

Except for a warrant of several thousand start-up funds, Ren Siqi ignored the Military Intelligence Department and let Anthony do it himself. Now there are too many things in Daishan that involve his energy, and it is impossible to do everything himself.

For example, spring rice is ripe and it's time to harvest. This is a big deal for Daishan, and for most of the past six months, Daishan Island has had enough of the lack of food supply.

Thousands of soldiers and civilians on the entire Daishan Island, and tens of thousands of archers on dozens of islands controlled by the surrounding areas, all need food from the Inspection Division. Although it is said that the archers only take care of food and distribute food when they are training, tens of thousands of people are not a small number.

Almost every month, it is necessary to purchase thousands of quintals of grain from the mainland, and according to Liu Defu, a businessman who cooperates with the Inspection Department, the Daishan Army's grain procurement has caused the price of grain to rise in the Ningbo and Hangzhou areas. A load of rice has risen from more than four taels of silver to six taels.

Now that the spring rice is finally ripe, it can greatly alleviate the grain shortage on Daishan Island.

The summer harvest was a major event, and Ren Siqi ordered all the troops to stop training, except for the fish canning workshop, everyone else joined the ranks of grabbing grain.

In the fields, in the rice fields, the water in the paddy fields has long been released, and the ground has dried up and cracked. The heavy ears of grain bent down, and the whole field was golden.

The breeze blows, the rice rolls like yellow waves, and the fragrance of rice flowers comes out of the fields.

Ren Siqi held a sickle in his hand, surrounded by Sha Fu and other inspection officials, he was the supreme leader of the entire Daishan military system, and of course he needed to cut the first sickle.

Ren Siqi grabbed a handful of ears of grain with his left hand, cut off the rice with a sickle with his right hand, and held it high, and there was a sudden jubilation in all directions.

Lao Shafu gave an order, and all the soldiers and civilians rushed into the rice field with sickles in hand.

Scythes flew, and patches of rice fell.

The men in the front are harvesting, while the women and children in the back are tying the cut rice into bundles and carrying it to the fields to be loaded onto carts. Once a cart is filled, it is transported to the threshing floor, where it is threshed and the bacmeles separated. Rice is rice when the grain is hulled, and the straw after threshing is also useful, and too many Shandong immigrants have come to Daishan, and they urgently need to build their own houses and move out of the shacks that are too simple. Straw can be laid on the roof and is an important material for building a house.

Under Shafu's organization, the division of labor and cooperation in the harvesting of rice is well organized, and there is no need for Ren Siqi to worry about it. However, Ren Siqi still took the lead in cutting rice in the field, and other Daishan Army generals Mao 18 Jin Yufei and others also followed behind Ren Siqi and joined the wave of harvesting.

In the rice field, an old farmer from Shandong, holding a heavy ear of grain, tears of excitement, although this batch of rice is not planted by them, and it does not belong to them after harvesting, but seeing the scene of the harvest, he sees the hope for the future. Because Ren Siqi had promised them, the autumn grain was rented by immigrants from Shandong.

After harvesting an acre of rice, the rice is sent to the threshing floor for threshing and then weighed to judge the approximate yield of this year's grain.

"The yield of this mu of rice is two quintals, and after threshing and drying, there should be one and a half stones of rice!" Sha Fu reported to Ren Siqi happily.

One acre and one and a half stones, the entire Daishan Island has grown 18,000 acres of rice, so the total output will not reach nearly 30,000 stones! This is only the output of one season, and after two seasons, the entire Daishan Island can harvest more than 50,000 stones of rice!

Hearing Sha Fu's return, everyone cheered, and a smile appeared on Ren Siqi's face.

With food, no longer dependent on and procurement, the entire Daishan military system can be considered stable.

To be honest, in the past six months or so, the situation of the Daishan Army has only barely been maintained. Although it is said that a large amount of silver was earned through overseas trade, after the Japanese trade last year, the inspection department earned nearly 300,000 taels, but in a battle with the Dutch, recruiting people to buy ships, the silver flowed out in an uproar, and of course the capture of Dutch ships also made a fortune. After returning to Daishan, the balance was about 250,000 taels.

After the Chinese New Year, the bandits seized 780,000 taels of silver from the bandits' nest in Sijiao Mountain, and then the caravan that had returned from Luzon not long ago brought back another 150,000 taels of silver. In this way, the annual income is nearly 500,000 taels.

However, the support of the Daishan army is also great, and now nearly 10,000 soldiers and civilians on the entire Daishan Island are supported by this bit of silver, and they have to buy grain for five or six thousand taels of silver every month. In more than 2,000 troops, each soldier is paid 12,000 taels of silver per month, and there are more officers, and this expenditure is more than 5,000 taels, and others such as the purchase of weapons, the salaries of inspection officers, the production of military uniforms, firewood, rice, oil, salt, and so on, and so on, and there are many kinds of expenditures. Almost every day, people come to Ren Siqi to ask for silver.

There are also the islands controlled by Daishan, and almost all the young fishermen are included in the category of archers. It is necessary to give the archers a sound, although it is half a salary, but tens of thousands of people also get five or six thousand silver a month, and they need to be given a subsidy during training, which is another large expenditure.

In this way, if you don't have 30,000 taels of silver a month, you can't get by at all.

There were other significant expenditures, such as the purchase of warships. Now if Daishan recruits all the archers under his control into the team, he can get 10,000 sailors, but he must have enough warships. At present, the total number of ships in the entire Daishan system is less than 100, which is not enough for the sailors to use.

Ren Siqi has placed a large number of orders to the shipyards along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, ready to purchase 100 large and small fortune ships, the three-masted fortune ship needs 3,000 taels of silver, the two-masted fortune ship also needs 1,000 silver, and the smallest sloop ship may be 200 taels of silver.

In this way, the purchase of warships alone will cost more than 200,000 taels of silver.

It can be said that the economy of Daishan Island is not far from making ends meet.

Therefore, this spring rice is ripe at the right time, and with this batch of grain, at least nearly 10,000 taels of grain are left every month. And he has food in his hands, and he does not panic in his heart. With food, those displaced people from Shandong saw hope and stayed in Daishan with peace of mind. (To be continued.) )