The Spring Festival of the eleventh year of Chongzhen is coming soon, and the New Year of Shandong this year is particularly lively.

After a year of development, the aquaculture industry has grown very fast.

The number of chickens and ducks in Dongsanfu has reached more than 90 million, with an average of about 10 per person. The pig herd reached 7 million heads, which is about the same average of one per person.

The cattle herd has grown to 1.8 million heads, and the growth rate is very slow, or because of the speed of reproduction, cattle are generally not slaughtered.

Although the Dongsanfu has been developed for many years, the population density of the Dongsanfu is relatively high, with a population of just over 8 million.

Compared with the 1.3 billion people in later generations, the land area and resources for the development of aquaculture are much more abundant.

The situation in the three western provinces is even worse, with only more than 60 million chickens and ducks and more than 4 million pigs. However, the population of the western three provinces is also smaller than that of the eastern three provinces.

In the past, the western three provinces were prosperous, but now the eastern three provinces are even more prosperous. There are only more than 5 million people in the Western Three Provinces, and the reason why this is so is because the remnants of the Western Three Provinces are very powerful.

King Lu, as well as Confucius, are the two largest landlords in the three western provinces, not under the jurisdiction of Zhao Yan, one Confucian mansion occupies more than 6 million mu of land, and King Lu also has nearly 4 million mu of land.

They occupy a lot of resources, and they are not under Zhao Yan's jurisdiction, and the policies are far from being as good as those in the Eastern Three Provinces, so people are naturally reluctant to stay in the Western Three Provinces as tenants.

The tenants of the western three prefectures saw that the policies of the eastern three prefectures were good, and one by one they dragged their families to the eastern three prefectures.

Although the Confucian Mansion and King Lu were not under Zhao Yan's control, the local administrative power was in Zhao Yan's hands.

Outcome...... Nature is tragic.

Now King Lu and Confucius are short of tenants, and while looking for tenants everywhere, Zhao Yan is robbing them for people, and he doesn't want to mention the treatment, so a large area of land grows weeds there.

I don't know who came up with the idea, but the Confucian government directly turned the farmland in the western three provinces into farms, and began to engage in animal husbandry in their fields, solving the problem of lack of tenants in one fell swoop.

King Lu did not do that, but increased the treatment of tenants. After all, the income from planting cotton is relatively large, and it is almost the same as before to improve the treatment, after all, now the cotton processing is simple, and the sales volume is also good.

The plot of land in Xisanfu is used to develop animal husbandry? This is simply a huge waste, after all, the land in the western three provinces is very suitable for growing economic crops.

This is also the reason why Zhao Yan plans to do something to Confucius, King Lu is better, he does not occupy as much land as Confucius, and his management is not so messy.

The main reason for the difference between the western and eastern three provinces is that the crops planted are different, and it is never possible to use the land in the western three provinces to develop the farm model.

Therefore, the issue of land annexation must be resolved, and in a vast and sparsely populated area like Liaodong, it is absolutely normal for individuals to own several thousand acres of land.

But in Xisanfu, 500 acres is Zhao Yan's bottom line.

Too little land will lead to poverty, and too much land will lead to a widening gap between the rich and the poor, which refers to the inequality of agricultural income.

Although the land in the western three provinces is very concentrated, this year's Spring Festival is also so-so, and on the surface it is even more lively than the eastern three provinces.

There are many merchants in the western three provinces, and there are also many squires, in order to celebrate this year's big victory, those merchants have made money this year, and this year is naturally going to be lively.

The New Year in Dongsanfu was not as lively as before, because many soldiers went to the battlefield, and many soldiers could not go home for the New Year.

However, the year that those soldiers spent in Liaodong was obviously not bad.

Although the Spring Festival in Liaodong was not very moist, except for Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day or two of the new year, when we ate a sumptuous meal sent from Longkou, they continued to fight at other times.

This winter offensive swallowed the entire Liaodong in one gulp.

About 11 million taels of goods seized from the Manchus were seized in Tieling, 3 million taels in Shenyang, and about 4 million taels in other areas.

The treasury of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was only about three million taels, and the other assets were the personal property of other Tartars, and every time they plundered, most of the Qing soldiers would hide some property, and every time these princes such as Oak Azig and Dolgon plundered south, they would inevitably swallow a lot of goods.

The seized property was only part of it, some of it was taken away by the fleeing Manchu Tartars, and the other part was used to buy supplies from the Jin merchants.

If it weren't for that, the Manchu treasury would not have been so much money.

In this offensive, 28 cities in Liaodong were recovered, and the entire towns in Liaodong were conquered. 18,000,000 taels of goods were seized.

760,000 Manchu slaves were captured, and more than 1.8 million Han people in Liaodong were rescued, including 100,000 craftsmen.

There were almost 1.5 million Manchu Tartars captured, but they were cut in half, and only these 760,000 had labor.

Except for the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the Liaodong Army, which remained at Xiaolinghe to defend the official army, the other battalions dispersed into small teams and began to sweep the countryside after conquering the towns in the area under their responsibility and the farms where the Han people were concentrated.

After nearly half a month of sweeping, most of the Manchurian Tartars in the entire Liaodong were cleared, and only a small part was left to hide.

After all, Liaodong is so big, if you want to hide, there are many places, except for the Liaodong Plain, which is not easy to hide, the densely forested area is very easy to hide.

As for how to deal with those Manchu slaves, Zhao Yan instructed Mao Yuanyi: "These 760,000 Manchu slaves, all of them will be transported back to Shandong for me, and these Manchu slaves will be easily run away by them if they are left in Liaodong, and after they are transported back, they will all be punished." ”

"The lord's concern is good, but where should the punishment be?" Mao Yuanyi asked.

"The face, it must be conspicuous. Those who are full of memorization are the hands. Zhao Yan said without thinking about it, the so-called punishment is to tattoo words on the prisoner's body, leaving a permanent mark.

The Song Dynasty was very popular, and Lin Chong in the Water Margin was punished.

The reason why the punishment was to be used was naturally because he was afraid that these Manchu slaves would run away, so he naturally had to make some conspicuous marks so that he could be caught.

The Manchu Tartars caught, the old and the young were all buried, and after these Manchu slaves died of exhaustion, the Manchus were basically exterminated.

Fighting with the Manchus was the most disgusting, because there was no way to recover the cost at all.

How many Han people were killed, how many Han people were enslaved, and how many Han wealth were robbed by the Manchus, even if the war recovered nearly 20 million taels of wealth, it was not enough to make up for the huge losses.

If you can kill it once and then drag it back to kill it again, that's not enough.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to develop to this point because they were parasitic on the Han people, and they themselves did not have anything of value for them to pay, and they could not come up with anything equivalent to make up for the losses of the Ming Dynasty.

If you don't abuse these disgusting savages to death, how can you calm the disgusting feeling.

Punishment is only the first step! Slowly torture later.

After Mao Yuanyi left, Zhang Buyun came to Zhao Yan for the New Year.

"My lord, yesterday's thirty merchant ships in the California colonies have successfully returned home, plus the 18 million taels of goods seized in Liaodong this time, our financial budget can be doubled this year, is it possible to make another budget after a while?" Zhang Buyun ran over and asked.

Thirty large merchant ships that set sail from California yesterday have already returned to Shandong, with 500,000 taels of gold and 30,000 taels of silver, as well as 30,000 cargoes and 30,000 mink skins.

The value of the cargo of the thirty merchant ships plus the mink skins was at least thirteen million taels.

Taken together, the profits handed over by California have reached 48 million taels, and together with the 18 million taels in Liaodong, the total is 66 million taels.

The previous budget was overdrawn by more than 5 million taels, and there were still 61 million taels to be budgeted.

"After the Spring Festival, the budget will be re-launched, and you will first let the departments see what projects have been added." Zhao Yan nodded in agreement.

The 60 million taels of silver naturally can't be put in the warehouse to play, but it is necessary to reserve a little.

Zhao Jiabao was busy with the Spring Festival, as well as preparing for Zhao Yan's wedding, Zhao Yan took a group of high-level executives to the cemetery to pay respects to the martyrs' monument during the Spring Festival, and stayed in the Science and Technology Institute for the rest of the time.

Productivity needs to be improved!

So the steam engine had to be made sooner.

The research of the new steam engine was led by Shi Ke, whose uncle was a mechanical repairman who had studied machinery since he was a child.

After coming to the Academy of Science and Technology, he showed a superb talent for machinery, and the group he led was originally the fastest in the research of new steam engines.

At present, the condenser and gear linkage device have been made, and after the barrel boring machine has been built, the cylinder with sufficient precision has also been polished.

During the Spring Festival, the steam engine research team did not go home, and was very excited to assemble this new steam engine in the Academy of Science and Technology.

The original research of the steam engine has begun to pump water in the mine cave in Handan, and the pumping effect is very good, and the research of the gear linkage device has also been applied to the old steam engine.

The application was so successful that a spinning mill powered by a steam engine was already in operation, but the power of the old steam engine was nowhere near enough to pull a train.

It will take some time to study the train, but the railway will have to be laid first.

The new steam engine was finally assembled on the eighth day of the first month of the eleventh year, and under the attention of tens of thousands of people, this steam engine was very successful.

At that moment, Zhao Yan was very excited.

The steam engine finally succeeded!

After testing, this form of steam engine reached 1600 horsepower, can rotate 80 times per minute, is already a relatively mature steam engine.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the drawings given directly by Zhao Yan.

It directly omitted many research and development steps, and directly made a steam engine with 1,600 horsepower and 80 revolutions per minute.

But there is still a big gap between this and the steam engine of later generations, and the potential of the steam engine is far from inferior, and tens of thousands of horsepower can be reached.

On the issue of safety, this new steam engine has added a safety gate valve, which greatly improves the safety surname, but it still needs to work manufacturing and maintenance, otherwise there will still be major accidents.

(To be continued)