Qin Yu, who returned to Taonan, lived a peaceful and quiet life, basically staying in the barracks, the army in his hand was fundamentally still a patrol and defense army, with its own limitations, plus this year's successive recruitment, if you want to maintain absolute control over this army, it is essential to stay in the army for more time and have more contact with the soldiers.

Generally speaking, there was no major event in 1908, if it must be said that there was, that is, Guangxu, the hard-working emperor, and Cixi, a strong woman, both drove to the west successively. With Cixi hanging up, the prestige of the newly appointed regent was not enough, and as soon as he came to power, he had an awkward quarrel with Yuan Shikai, but these things had nothing to do with Qin Yu.

In December, the weather in Taonan was exceptionally cold, and today was a sunny day, Qin Yu lay on a haystack outside the command post early to bask in the sun. Everywhere there are trained soldiers. Different from the low adobe houses in the past, most of the military camps at this time were two- to three-story buildings, spacious and bright buildings, and all glass windows, which was probably still unique in the entire Republic of China.

"My lord, Lord Tian is here." Ding Cheng took Tian Helin all the way. Tian Helin held the account book under his armpit, "From the beginning of the year to the present, the lowly position has been so busy that he doesn't even have time to breathe, but the adults are very fresh." ”

It has been more than two years since he was in contact with Qin Yu, Tian Helin has figured out Qin Yu's temper, as long as he is not confused in major matters and does his job well, it is nothing to joke about small things.

"You are a capable person who works hard." Qin Yu sat up and said with a smile.

"Some of this year's harvest has been counted, do you want to take a look?" Tian Helin took off the wool gloves on his hands and opened the account book.

"It's right here, it's comfortable to bask in the sun, you read it and listen to me, those numbers look like a headache." Qin Yu said with a smile.

"This year, a total of 26,790 acres of newly cultivated land have been reclaimed, including 6,740 acres of rice, 5,470 acres of corn, 3,120 acres of wheat, and the rest are planted with 11,460 acres of soybeans."

"How much grain is produced?" Qin Yu asked.

"The fields in Taonan are fertile, with a yield of about 310 catties per mu of rice, 180 catties of corn, 230 catties of wheat, and about 180 catties of soybeans."

"Calculated that this means that just this grain can feed an additional 13,000 or 4,000 people in Taonan Mansion City a year?" Qin Yu made a rough calculation, Qin Yu is relatively well-off, in fact, people in this era often can't eat enough, and the population that can be fed has to rise a little.

"That's what it looks like, in addition, adults have raised 2,737 sheep in several pastures on the grassland, in addition to military horses, there are 874 horses, and the cattle have been sold to Taonan Mansion in batches, regardless of size." Tian and Lin said.

A load of rice is worth four or five taels of silver, more than 6,000 acres of rice fields, the annual output is less than 30,000 taels, if you have to remove labor, the production cost, not even half, Qin Yu shook his head, it is really slow enough to make money by growing food, but the people take food as the sky, and if they want to run an industry in Taonan, they can't even fill their stomachs at least, and the industry is undoubtedly a joke.

"How much land can be reclaimed next year?" Qin Yu asked.

"It won't be more than 20,000 acres."

"How can it be less than this year?"

"My lord, there are not enough ploughing cattle, and the use of farm tools is also very tight, there are so many ploughing cattle in Taonan, plus they have been reclaimed before, most of them will have to be ploughed again next year, and this number will reach the top next year, Baiyin Da Ran, although Taoke Taohu has been exterminated, but there are still some wandering bandits on the grassland, and ordinary businessmen do not dare to go deep into the grassland, and there are not many cattle from the grassland." Tian Helin explained that although there are many newborn calves in Taonan, these cows generally take about three years to plow the land, and the newborn calves will take two or three years to do so. A lot of cattle have been bought around Taonanfu City, and others also have to plough the land, and now you are paying for it, and others may not be willing to sell it.

"I'll solve the iron farm tools, ploughing cattle, in this way, at the end of the year, I will take people to the Horqin grassland to visit some Mongolian princes, I should be able to get some, you still try to pull more people to Taonan Mansion City." Qin Yu thought about it and said, Qin Yu is not worried about the problem of over-cultivation for the time being, at this time, the entire Northeast is vast and sparsely populated, and if you want to maintain the rule of a place, people are the indispensable foundation.

In fact, after the Russo-Japanese War, Japan began to infiltrate the Northeast, after the 918 Incident, directly occupied, Japan immigrated to the Northeast on a large scale, and there was still no way to change the situation that the Northeast was dominated by Han people, and the root of this situation was created by Zhang Zuolin, Zhang Zuolin during the reign of the Northeast, wantonly absorbed immigrants, so that the number of Han people in the Northeast surged, which ensured the status of the Han people in the Northeast.

At this time, the total population of the entire Taonan Province was only more than 50,000 people, and compared with later generations, it was only nine to one-tenth at most, and even if the proportion of cultivated land was higher, it should not exceed one-fifth of that of later generations, and there was still a lot of space for land reclamation.

"Your Excellency, rest assured, as long as Taonan Mansion maintains the current good situation, it is sure that it will bring in enough immigrants." Tian Helin nodded and said, I don't know how many people can't eat enough in this era, as long as Taonan has food and livelihood, Tian Helin can have a way to pull people over.

"How's it going at the factory?" Qin Yu said.

"At present, the situation of the ash factory and the brick factory is the best, the production is fast, it is easy to get started, and there are things like building military camps and yamen, and there are several factories to be built in Taonan Fucheng, and several roads to be repaired, and the ash factory and the brick factory will be able to recover their costs at the end of next year at most. Textile factories, garment factories, and shoe factories are slower, and this year is mainly to train enough technicians and be familiar with the machine, but the quality of several batches of shoes from the factory has been improved. Woolen wool can already be produced in the textile mills, and now small-scale production has begun. ”

"As for the garment factory, there is no woolen wool produced by the textile factory, and the garment factory also lacks enough raw materials, plus the machinery is too late to be transported, and if you want to produce results, you must at least wait until the textile factory makes the goods, but the garment factory, the shoe factory, Yu Wenfu, Chen Yanqing and others will send a certain number of technicians from Benxi next year, and the situation will improve a lot." Since Chen Yanqing, Yu Wenfu and others came to Taonan, Qin Yu gave up a certain amount of shares and gave up several factories to these pure businessmen for management, which can be regarded as being converted from a government office to a commercial office, but this is the earliest few factories in Taonan, Qin Yu will inevitably pay more attention.

"The last is the distillery, mainly producing fragrant liquor, and the distillery has also found a few winemakers from Tsarist Russia, planning to build a branch factory in Harbin to brew the wine that Russians like to drink, this year's output value is 20,000 taels, and it is expected to double next year."

"We have to wait until next year." Liquor is a consumable, but finally a little comfort, this year has been busy for a year, except for farming, the harvest is not big, but in the backward place of Taonan, it is commendable to be able to pull up so many factories in a year, Qin Yu knows that he can't ask for more, compared to last year, Taonan has come to a big change. Of course, this big change is based on huge investments. After a series of measures such as building factories, releasing grain, and cultivating land, the gold and silver snatched from Baiyin Dalai have been used up to less than 60,000 taels. Most of the loans from Lao Maozi were used in the ironworks on the Benxi side, and the rest was used for the expansion of Huaxing Qianzhuang, which has been built in Fengtian, Jilin, Changchun, and even the Tianjin commercial port in Guannai, and the speed of expansion is alarming.

"By the way, I have something to say hello to you, next year I plan to fill up the six battalions in my hand, and I will take people to patrol the grassland in batches, clean those cows, ghosts, snakes and gods again, and create a good business atmosphere for Taonan Mansion. In the name of creating a local security force, you pull up another battalion. Qin Yu said, while building the economy, Qin Yu naturally will not forget to enhance the military strength in his hands.

"Yes, sir." Tian Helin nodded, for Qin Yu's military affairs, Tian Helin basically didn't ask now, fill up the establishment, and set up a battalion of local security teams, although the cost is a lot larger, but there are nearly 60,000 taels of treasury silver in Fucheng, after passing this hurdle next year, by the year after that, several factories have been put into operation one after another, and the fields reclaimed every year have increased one after another, and then there will be more money on hand than now.

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