In the autumn harvest season, the North China Plain is endless golden, after Zhu Youxiao's efforts over the years, the people on the North China Plain have disaster relief and tax exemption. If you can't eat, you can apply for assistance at the Civil Affairs Bureau, and you can also immigrate to the Northeast and other places, and there are many construction sites to recruit workers, and the people are living a lot better.

The most obvious change is in Beizhili, which now basically has no wasteland, and farmers can live and work in peace and contentment during the busy farming season. Such a change will occur, mainly because the distribution of agricultural interests and production mode of Beizhili has undergone a huge change, coupled with the complete water conservancy facilities, the entire Beizhili in the autumn harvest is a busy autumn harvest scene.

Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces are much worse, but in recent years, the imperial court has implemented the armor protection system in these provinces, and resumed forced labor. In particular, in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court began to allocate funds to govern the Yellow River, although the scale of governance was not very large, but it was not small, and there were some general improvements to the agriculture of the northern provinces.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao's policy was to reform one or two provinces first, and include the newly developed provinces in the scope of the new policy. After the development of these New Deal provinces, the fiscal revenue of these New Deal provinces will be used to subsidize and develop those backward provinces.

The northern provinces of the autumn harvest were affected by the earthquake to a certain extent, and after the seven-magnitude earthquake that affected the four provinces, the four provinces in northern China suffered a lot of losses, and now they have begun to recover rapidly with the help of the imperial court.

The beans from the Tohoku region ripen in the autumn of this year. Because the land is fertile. The yield per mu is very good. In the case of heavy use of animal power. There is no problem at all with a family operating 300 acres of land to grow beans. After all, the beans are a thing that only needs to turn the ground over and plant the beans directly, and then they can be allowed to grow.

In the fall, a dozen beans are harvested with a soybean harvester made by the machine factory, and a lot of commercial soybeans can be obtained.

These soybeans are widely sold in the Kannai provinces, and in addition to the beans that people need to eat, the demand for soybeans from livestock is also huge. Especially after the Ming Dynasty obtained a large number of horses from Mongolia, there were also cattle and sheep that needed to be fed some soybeans.

After these soybeans are dried, they will be transported to various places and ports by horse-drawn carriages, and then trafficked by sea to coastal provinces, provinces in the Yangtze River basin, as well as Taiwan and Nanyang.

This year was the first time that the Tohoku region produced commercial soybeans, and commercialization brought the advantage of efficient production. Because of the short sunshine hours in Heilongjiang, only soybeans and other leguminous crops that mature relatively quickly and have little demand for strong sunshine can be planted.

The soybean output in Northeast China can also allow farmers in the Guannai area to no longer need small-scale part-time soybean planting, and soybeans can be obtained by exporting soybeans from other places. Farmers in Heilongjiang are growing soybeans on a large scale. You can also exchange it for the goods you need.

Soybeans can also be used to extract vegetable oil, a technology that has been around in China for a long time. It was only in modern times that Americans learned the technology of soybean crushing from China.

Soybean oil. It can also be used in military production. Of course, there is no such military project in Daming now, and ZHA medicine currently only has black powder. But with the first batch of graduates from the Royal College of Science and Technology mastering chemistry, it may not be long before these things are made.

Cotton is also ripe in autumn, and the cotton production areas in the delta area of Henan, Shandong, and northern Jianghuai have been stimulated by cotton prices in recent years, and the cotton planting area has been expanding.

Beizhili also increased the cotton planting area in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, because Beizhili can obtain a lot of commercial grain from the outside, and the output of commercial grain in Northeast China is getting higher and higher, and the scale of commercial grain import from Taiwan, Nanyang and other places will continue to increase, and cotton has become a more scarce resource.

There is also a lot of cotton production in the South Seas, mainly in Luzon and Java, where there are Spanish plantations, cotton is one of the main cultivation projects, and tobacco and sugar cane and pepper. Java also produces a lot of cotton, but less than in Luzon.

After the Ming Dynasty established its dominance over Luzon and Java, it first increased the area under cotton cultivation in Luzon.

Generally speaking, the cotton planting industry in Luzon can still make up for the problem of insufficient supply of raw materials in the Ming Dynasty, so the planting scale has been expanded according to market demand.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao did not have so many ideas about the cotton production areas in Xinjiang in the future, after all, the transportation is not very convenient, and the development cost is relatively high at present, at least much higher than that of Australia. Australia has a lot of arable land to grow cotton, and Australia can first be operated as a supply base for cotton, wool, minerals and other raw materials.

As for the problem of lack of labor, it is actually quite simple, you can get some laborers to go to Australia, for example, North Korea has a lot of labor. Organizing a group of North Korean laborers to work in Australia is obviously a good choice. Those North Korean laborers are still able to do things, and the labor cost is relatively low. Moreover, workers always have to go back when they earn money, and Australian household registration is not open to them. There are also a lot of laborers in small Japan, but Japan is now closed to the rest of the country, so it is not in the scope of consideration.

As for going to Africa to capture black slaves, this is still forgotten, and it will ruin the reputation of the Celestial Empire. After all, China's civilization has always been centered on transcending the law of the jungle, rather than worshipping the law of the jungle like Japan. Nowadays, Zhu You's external expansion promoted by proofreading has somewhat violated the core of such a civilization.

However, Zhu Youxiao did not expand to the outside world and went to the outside world to obtain more resources, and those weak and small nations outside would sooner or later be bullied by European bandit gangs, and resources would also be seized by Europeans. In terms of slavery, the Ming Dynasty did not recognize it. It's just that the indigenous people who are too backward in civilization are turned into 'contract workers', although it is just a different name, but the rights and interests of the contract workers are still protected to a certain extent, and when they integrate into the civilization, they can obtain a higher status.

Of course, because the Nanyang natives gave people a bad sensory impression, Zhu Youxiao came up with the system of three products and nine grades, so as to control the way of marriage and matching, the groups of Nanyang natives with more serious inferior roots will be eliminated, and a group of more industrious and responsible indigenous descendants will be cultivated. In theory, this kind of education for hundreds of years should be effective, but it depends on whether the specific implementation can be sustained.

Even those Nanyang natives gave Zhu Youxiao a very bad impression, Zhu Youxiao did not adopt any slaughter policy against these natives, and the system of three products and nine grades still belongs to the ranks of education, and it also guarantees the basic right of survival of the natives, but deprives some natives of their reproductive rights with serious inferior roots.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, there are only bonded workers and official slaves, and official slaves are actually criminals, but Zhu Youxiao still has to reform the official slave system next, that is, no longer turn the descendants of ordinary criminals into official slaves.

Under such a system, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to take the initiative to go to Africa to capture and sell black slaves, although that kind of business is highly profitable, but it is too evil.

As the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, the reputation must still be maintained.

The autumn harvest is generally good, there are harvest areas, there are disaster areas, grain supply is basically in a relatively sufficient state, cotton output in the case of reducing cotton cloth exports, but also able to meet the internal needs of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to ensure that the people of Daming will not lack cotton cloth, cotton clothes, and quilts, Zhu Youxiao raised the export tariff on textiles again when he received it in the autumn, from the previous 20% to 30%.

Anyway, if the price of textiles cannot be digested internally and the price is reduced, it may affect the income of cotton farmers, and the export tariff can be reduced.

Several state-owned agricultural companies in the Ming Dynasty, as well as joint venture agricultural companies in state-owned consortia, had begun to enter Australia at this time, and began to recruit laborers from North Korea to go to Australia to reclaim land to build a cotton production base in Australia.

Of course, North Korean laborers cannot be used to grow cotton, and many local workers are still recruited. The wages of local workers are much higher than those of North Korean workers. Such workers who go to work overseas are now paid six yuan a month.

Early in the morning, Zhu Youxiao still didn't wake up a little early in the morning, and after the courtiers bowed, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Wang Wei made a report: "Your Majesty, after the telegraph research group set up by the Ministry of Industry, after more than a year of hard work, the telegraph machine has finally been successfully studied. ”

"What?" Zhu Youxiao felt as if he was dreaming, and asked after a pause.

"Your Majesty, through a combination of wire, battery and electromagnetic sensor technology, the first telegraph has been successfully developed." Wang Wei cleared his throat, and then solemnly reported.

"What is a telegram?"

"What is a telegraph?"

"What's up with the Ministry of Works?"

A group of courtiers immediately talked about it, and they didn't know much about these 'high-tech' things. But they knew that the emperor was definitely an expert in it.

I saw that Zhu Youxiao heard Wang Wei's report, and suddenly his eyes lit up and he was completely tired. He asked, "Did the telegraph really succeed?" ”

"How dare a minister deceive the king." Wang Wei replied.

"Take me to see it." Zhu Youxiao suddenly stood up excitedly, a group of courtiers looked at each other, I don't know what the emperor was excited about, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said: "Everyone, Aiqing, go and watch with me!" With the telegram, I can increase the life of the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years. ”

Increase the national honor for more than 100 years?

A group of courtiers suddenly became curious, what the hell is this telegram? Can it have such a powerful effect? Could it be that the artifact is not successful?

The early dynasty couldn't go up, so Zhu Youxiao immediately asked people to put on a fight, and then took the civil and military officials to the experimental base of the Royal Academy of Science and Technology. (To be continued.) )