Huangxian has now become a very prosperous place, full of people from Tunkeng, these people are not only recruited from Shandong, but also from the Jingshi area, some from the south, and more than 100,000 people from Shaanxi, Henan, and Anhui who were captured by Fengyang in the First World War.

Most of these people planted winter wheat and sweet potatoes, and some people came late and could only grow spring wheat and sweet potatoes, and more than 3 million acres of land were planted with grain.

Water wheels or irrigation canals have been erected near the river, and irrigation wells have been drilled in nearby land where there is no water source.

Most of the people's families have adopted many chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, and sheep cubs. It is conceivable that there will be a bumper harvest in the coming year.

Production was already very depressed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there was a shortage of grain everywhere, even in the south, where grain production had begun to shrink.

It is not that there is a shortage of cultivated land, there is no shortage of cultivated land in Daming, what is really lacking is a good production environment.

For example, in the southeast, the most important thing is water conservancy, if there is no water conservancy, it will not be able to irrigate, and at worst, it will be flooded.

The imperial court not only paid taxes, but also evaded taxes, embezzled many [***], and had many privileged classes, and the finances were already very poor, so naturally there was no money to repair water conservancy.

An official proposed to Zhu Youzhen to control the water conservancy in the southeast and explained the benefits, but Zhu Youzhen really couldn't come up with any money, so he just asked: Can repairing water conservancy disturb the people?

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In the end, this proposal had to be abandoned, and the southeast water conservancy could not be repaired. Every year, there are major floods and droughts in the south, and in the absence of water conservancy, the ability to resist disasters is very fragile.

Not only the southeast water conservancy, but also the water conservancy everywhere has fallen into disrepair.

For example, before Wanli, the Yellow River needed to be picked up every year and every three years to clean up the silt in the river, but now no one is doing this.

The Yellow River often bursts, and it is destined that the Yellow River will be diverted to Shandong later.

The situation in the north is many times more serious than in the south, Zhao Yan went to Anhui and Henan this time, and most of the places he passed were barren, and the land was idle and uncultivated.

Since Wanli to eight years, natural disasters and military rebellions have often occurred in Shandong, and now the population of Shandong has not survived to five. Beizhili was originally rich, but because of natural disasters and Manchu plunder, it was even worse than Shandong.

Needless to say, Henan naturally has a continuous locust plague, from Wanli to Chongzhen, most of them are once every three or five years, and less are troubled every year, and there are two years of locust plagues in two and three years, and once again in five years, and locust plagues in seven years.

The locust plague in the Yellow River area has a long history, and it was not completely eliminated until after the liberation, but although the locust plague of the Yellow River was controlled in later generations, a 'Asian car locust' jumped out of the grassland.

There was a locust plague in Henan, and it was invaded twice by thieves, which made production a mess.

Even worse than Henan is Shaanxi, which is the main battlefield of thieves and official soldiers, and is the most severely affected area, and the ecological environment is very fragile, and a large number of people can no longer survive.

Although other provinces are not as miserable as these places, the water conservancy is in disrepair, and the ability to resist disasters is extremely fragile, and the wardens are constantly corrupt, and many poor people are also unable to eat.

This, coupled with the fact that the food produced is not effectively regulated, has led to many people struggling with hunger and a lack of food everywhere.

Grain production to solve the problem of food and clothing is undoubtedly the most urgent problem, if the Huangxian area can produce a large amount of grain, more people can live.

Zhao Yan is not a person who intends to rebel, everything he does is trying to preserve the vitality of the nation, and he is actively preparing for war, preparing to face the Manchu invasion.

The Manchus were the first enemy he had to face, and he did not defeat the Manchus, and everything was not mentioned.

A stable Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly very beneficial to Zhao Yan, if it can be stabilized, he can carry out more commercial operations, and he will have more money, food and war potential to confront the Manchus.

Some people also have horses in their homes, and these horses have endurance horses that they raise for transportation and farming, and there are also military horses and foals adopted from horse farms.

Tang Zhengze also built more than a dozen large pig farms, as well as five horse farms.

There is no shortage of places to raise horses, Shandong is full of wasteland, and in spring and summer, there will be fertile aquatic grasses, which are most suitable for grazing horses.

Every day, horses from other places came to Shandong, some of them were merchants who came to change the mirrors, and some of them were bought by the trading houses from the horse-producing areas.

Raising horses is undoubtedly the most money-burning place, but Zhao Yan burns silver, so far the horse farm has raised more than 10,000 horses, most of these horses are qualified mares, and then accompanied by the majestic breeds found everywhere, horses, and the cubs born are all qualified war horses.

"Strive to breed 100,000 war horses within five years, no matter how much silver." This was Zhao Yan's order to Tang Zhengze, and raising horses burned Zhao Yan at least six or seven hundred thousand taels of silver.

The silver was smashed, and the horse markets in various places were stimulated to become very prosperous, and the herdsmen and ethnic minorities in the horse-producing areas tasted the sweetness and began to expand the scale of breeding.

The cost of raising and purchasing 100,000 majestic war horses within five years will be further expanded.

In addition to growing grain on the land in Huang County, there are also more merchants in Huang County.

Most of the destinations of those merchants are Zhaojiabao, Anminbao, and Pingkoubao, and most of them go to Zhaojiabao, and the purpose of these merchants is different.

Some of them brought the resources needed by Zhao Yan in exchange for glass mirrors, some of them transported nitrate to exchange for glass mirrors, and those small merchants and vendors came to sell daily necessities.

Because Zhao Yan used silver to open the way many times, the people under his rule had silver in their pockets, and after a year of hard work, everyone had spare money, the standard of living naturally improved, and the demand for goods also increased.

However, the business bank is also doing the business of the people under its rule, and this is the fundamental place where the business bank is based, so how can it not do business here.

In addition to trafficking in various daily necessities, the cotton cloth of the Jemin Commercial Bank was first sold here.

As soon as the cotton cloth was listed, it immediately caused a sensation in Zhaojiabao, because the cotton cloth only sold for one penny of silver per catty, and it was also a good cotton cloth.

The people rushed into the shops in the fort and poured out their money to buy the newly marketed cotton cloth.

Several businessmen saw this lively scene and also crowded to watch. I saw one of the merchants touch the cotton cloth and muttered: "This kind of good cotton cloth is rarely produced in the north, and most of it is sold in the south, and the price of a pound is no less than two yuan." ”

"Yes! A load of cotton in the south costs four or five taels of silver, and it is really strange that they don't make money without money if they don't sell it for two dollars. Another merchant said strangely.

"What's so strange, our general is the most sympathetic to the people, and it must be the general's money." An old man replied.

"Oops! This is the cotton cloth that the general bought for us with money, folks, the general gave us the fields, did not charge a penny for us to heal the sick, and also fed everyone. We can't let the generals break the bank. Suddenly, a citizen shouted.

This shout suddenly stopped all the people, and the phenomenon of panic buying came to an abrupt end.

"Yes! The general is as kind to us as a mountain, and now that everyone has silver in their pockets, how can we let the general break the money for us? A man took out the silver and said, "We don't buy one penny, but we buy two." ”

"Yes, yes, we'll buy two pieces of silver." The people in the cloth shop instantly reached a consensus and asked the shopkeeper to increase the price of cotton cloth......

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The second shift is late...... I'm sorry......

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