In the seventh year of the apocalypse, the busy autumn came.

In recent years, in addition to the production of hand-cranked wheat harvesters, machinery manufacturing factories have also developed and produced soybean harvesters and corn harvesters, as well as cotton gins to improve cotton processing efficiency.

The sales of these agricultural machinery are good, the agricultural companies under the state-owned capital consortium, as well as the military production corps, etc., are the first to purchase, and the agricultural companies established by private capital are also using a large number of these agricultural machinery in order to reduce labor costs.

With the gradual popularization of these agricultural machinery, the agricultural production efficiency in the New Deal area has been greatly improved. At the same time, these agricultural machinery are also sold well in all provinces of the country, and many landlords and businessmen are still more concerned about improving productivity.

In addition, there are a variety of hydraulic grain processing plants and other technologies popularized, machinery manufacturing plants have made great progress in mechanical research over the years, hydraulic machinery is getting bigger and bigger, and the internal structure is slowly becoming more complex.

These hydraulic machines actually brought a good foundation for the next industrial revolution, as soon as the high-temperature and high-pressure steam engine appeared, it was enough to change the power of these hydraulic machines from hydraulic to steam engine-driven.

The autumn harvest in the seventh year of the Apocalypse was less affected by the disaster, and all parts of the country enjoyed a bumper harvest.

In Northeast China, for the first time, patches of soybeans were harvested on a large scale, covering an area of more than 60 million mu, of which half of the soybeans were sown by the production corps.

The reclamation of the Great Northern Wilderness has achieved initial results.

When a large number of soybeans were harvested, the hydroelectric oil mills in the northeast were suddenly in full swing to fight before the temperature dropped. Squeeze some more soybean oil out. After the onset of winter. These water conservancy equipment will not work. We will have to wait until the beginning of spring next year to resume production.

This is the problem with hydraulic equipment, which is limited by seasonal changes in water volume, and it is not possible to produce at full capacity all year round.

The good thing is that no fuel is required.

The bumper soybean harvest in the northeast region means that a new commodity has emerged in Daming, that is, soybean oil.

Soybean oil extraction is a technology that China has mastered for a long time, and Westerners have mastered it relatively late, and they even know that soybeans can be extracted for oil.

After soybean oil extraction. Soybean meal can also be sold to farms as feed, and these soybean meals are rich in protein and are definitely concentrated. Especially now that the number of horses in Daming has increased significantly, horses must eat some concentrated feed.

When soybean oil became a commodity, it changed the edible oil market in the past. In the past, there were a lot of vegetable oils in Daming, rapeseed oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil, and there were some other vegetable oils in the place, and cottonseed oil was also very popular.

Although there are many varieties of vegetable oil. However, production is very sporadic and scattered, and there is no large-scale commercial production area. With the export of soybean oil from Tohoku, the Kannai region can free up more land to produce other crops.

The regional division of labor in crops will also become more and more clear.

In addition to harvesting a large number of soybeans in the northeast, wheat and corn have also been harvested, corn has been introduced to China in the Jiajing period, and now it is planted all over the country, and the corn planting area in the northeast is also very large.

At the time of the autumn harvest, the wheat harvest area in Northeast China reached nearly 130 million mu, and during the summer harvest, more than 60 million mu was harvested.

The sown area of wheat in the whole of Northeast China has reached nearly 200 million mu, while the sown area of corn has reached more than 80 million mu.

A large amount of wheat and corn was harvested, and there were only more than 10 million people in the northeast, so they could not consume so much grain.

Some of this grain will be shipped to the northern provinces of Kannai, and some will be shipped to the southern provinces, and wheat, soybeans, and corn from the northeast region will be supplied to the north and south, and fishery products from Zhendong Province will also be supplied to the whole country.

Most of the grain is still supplied to the New Deal areas in the north, and now a large number of people in the New Deal areas are engaged in industrial and construction activities, and there are more people who have been separated from the land, and at the same time, a large number of cash crops have begun to be planted in agriculture, and grain production has begun to decline, and grain must be supplied from commercial grain production bases such as Northeast China.

At the same time, Taiwan and the Nanyang region also had a bumper harvest in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and it is certain that these areas suffer some typhoon disasters every year, but because the climate is relatively warm, two or three crops of rice can be planted a year, so the impact is not too great.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, more rice was brought back from Taiwan and the South Seas, and more than 10 million mu of cultivated land in Taiwan has now been reclaimed, and the rice planting area in Luzon and Jawa Island has also increased, reaching more than 30 million mu of rice cultivation area.

The productivity of commercial grains in the South Seas is not so high, because more land is used to grow sugar cane, spices, cotton, and some tropical cash crops such as sisal, rubber, palm, etc. On the contrary, Taiwan's commodity grain export rate is very high.

However, the Indochina Peninsula began to export a lot of rice to the Ming Dynasty this year, and the three countries of Annam, Khmer and Siam exported tens of millions of stone rice to the Ming Dynasty, all of which were exchanged for various commodities by the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty.

Tens of millions of stone rice is actually not much for the superior rice production environment and arable land resources of these countries. The main reason is that the cultivated land resources of these countries are very low, and they have not formed such a trade relationship with the Ming Dynasty in the past.

Now the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty are willing to transport a large number of commodity grains from the Indochina Peninsula, these countries began to encourage reclamation, and the capital of the Ming state-owned capital consortium began to enter the Indochina Peninsula, and a large number of wasteland was opened up in these three countries.

These inputs to the Ming Dynasty, for the Ming at this time, are simply like a long drought and a rainstorm.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of food in the north of the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, it is due to natural disasters, on the other hand, the imperial court is building a large number of infrastructure and factories, the start of factories and the development of mining, etc., which have caused a large number of people to leave the land.

The southern provinces are also short of food, mainly due to the development of capitalism in the southern regions, and there are many factories and workshops. Food shortages caused by large amounts of land being used to grow cash crops.

In the past, grain in the south still had to be exported from the Huguang region. Food is scarce. There are often cases where the price of rice has skyrocketed.

Nowadays, however, it is different, with the commercial grain exported from Taiwan, the Nanyang and Indochina Peninsulas, and the northeast region, coupled with the traditional commercial grain production base of Huguang, the commercial grain of the northern and southern coastal provinces has become sufficient.

The commercial grain in the Northeast and the South China will not have any impact on the commercial grain market in the Huguang region, because grain can be adjusted.

With an adequate supply of commercial grain, the imperial court could liberate more people from the land in the north and further promote the enclosure movement. At the same time, it can also increase the planting area of cash crops in the northern provinces and reduce grain production, so as to make way for the market for commercial grain in the Huguang area.

In addition, food can also be stored for emergencies.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the wind and rain were relatively smooth, so the output of commercial grain was greater than the market demand, and the state-owned capital consortium naturally carried out some regulation and control.

The Huguang region will collect as much commercial grain as it wants, and then use the Yangtze River water transport to transport this grain out, plus the commercial grain from various localities, so as to fully guarantee the grain supply in the northern and southern provinces and keep grain prices within a stable level.

Extra goods. then hoarded it.

For the state-owned capital consortium, there is enough money to hoard these commodity grains.

Today, the state-owned capital consortium has firmly entrenched itself in the northern market. It also entered the southern market. Although Zhu Youxiao did not carry out the reform to the south for a while, he also protected the basic right to subsistence of the people in the south by controlling grain prices.

As long as there is no famine, there will be no starvation.

As for the problem of the people in the south losing their jobs in the industrial competition between the north and the south, there are also ways to solve it. Unemployed people can emigrate or work in the northern provinces.

Anyway, as long as you are willing to do things, it is impossible to starve people to death, and there are ways out everywhere.

Even if they are about to starve to death, they will not starve to death if they go to the local government to sign up for immigration, and the travel expenses and food along the way will be covered by the court. Moreover, shipping is becoming more and more developed, and the number of sea passenger ships connecting the north and the south has gradually increased, and the north-south transportation is much more convenient.

Moreover, some industries in the south cannot be replaced by the industrial development of the north, such as the raw silk industry, as well as various industries, and the south has a relatively strong advantage in the development of light industry. It's just that the textile industry will definitely be hit hard in the future, because the high-pressure steam engine has already appeared.

As for the field of heavy industry, it must be thrown away by the north.

On the contrary, agriculture in the south is more promising, because the rapid development of industry in the north requires a lot of raw materials for cash crops.

As long as the unemployed people emigrate, and no one starves to death, there are opportunities.

It's like China in later generations, no matter how bad the economy is, there is a labor shortage everywhere, as long as you are willing to do things, are you afraid that you will starve to death? Of course, the basic right of human beings in the 21st century is no longer just about having enough to eat, but also about living and working in peace and contentment.

However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the standard of basic right to subsistence was much lower. In such a year when productivity is not very high and natural disasters are continuous, ensuring food and clothing for the people is the main criterion for the basic right to subsistence.

Satiety can be guaranteed, and the temperature is gradually improving.

When autumn arrives, it's time to shear sheep on the grasslands, and the cotton in the Kannai area is ripe. Beizhili, Henan, and Shandong have all obtained bumper harvests of commercial cotton, and the Jiangnan region also has a relatively large cotton planting scale, which is also the reason why the Jiangnan region has changed from the former granary to the current grain self-sufficiency.

Australia also produces some commercial grains and cotton, but it is still dominated by commercial grains. There is a lot of commercial cotton in Luzon and Java, and cotton is also grown on the plantations here, which is the plantation industry left by the Spaniards and the Dutch.

In addition, the Northeast, Mongolia, North Korea and other places have produced a lot of fur, which is also something that can keep out the cold.

Wool, cotton, fur, and a large number of industrial raw materials are being produced more and more, making it much easier for Daming to meet domestic demand.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao's previous expansion layout finally obtained enough resources, and after more resources, it was much easier to regulate.

This year's autumn harvest is destined to be a busy season, and the autumn harvest in some places is not even too busy.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the various reports sent below, and while he was happy, he understood that the next challenges would be more severe, and the Xiaoice River era had just begun.

Next year will be the first year of the apocalypse in history, and there will be a super drought in Shaanxi, and the northern Shaanxi region will become a hard-hit area.

However, Zhu Youxiao was also prepared, and it happened that this year's grain harvest in various places was harvested, so Zhu Youxiao ordered to reserve a large amount of grain for emergency use.

First of all, it focused on strengthening the strategic grain reserves in Shaanxi, and at the same time ordered to increase the grain reserves in various cities and towns, and such grain reserves were mainly handed over to the newly established Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Company.

Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Group is a state-owned capital group that has just been established, which will be responsible for the overall grain and oil transfer, processing and storage.

At the same time, the control over the grain sales market has also been relaxed, mainly because several commercial grain production bases have been established at present, and it is already difficult for private grain merchants to make waves when state-owned capital intervenes in the grain market, but private grain merchants still have a very good complementary role to the market, so Zhu Youxiao decided to reopen the grain purchase, processing, sales, and retail markets to private capital in the New Deal area.

However, in those commercial grain producing areas, in addition to Huguang, Northeast China, Hetao, Hexi Corridor, Taiwan, Nanyang and Indochina Peninsula, private capital is still controlled in grain purchases, and the grain prices in these areas are relatively low, so they can only be sold to the Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Group.

Jimin Grain Bank has merged and reorganized with Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Group, and those state-owned grain processing plants and agricultural companies have also reorganized with Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Group, and their business is mainly focused on grain production, purchase, processing, transportation, storage, and retail.

After the reorganization, the Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Company integrated the following state-owned capital agricultural companies, as well as the agricultural output of various production corps, and had the largest grain and oil production scale in Daming, becoming the largest grain and oil producer.

At the same time, it has many hydroelectric grain processing plants, which are also the largest and lowest cost of grain processing. In most parts of the country there are grain reserve warehouses, as well as points of sale.

The reorganized Daming Grain and Oil Reserve Group instantly became a giant existence, and integrated many resources together, and the effect was definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two. (To be continued.) )