Yu Xiaotian made a tour of Tamsui City as a whole, and in addition to industry, he also focused on the development of agriculture, which has developed rapidly since he decided to use collective farms.

Although there is a suspicion of eating a big pot of rice in this way, it has a natural advantage over the small-scale peasant economy in this era, because small-scale farmers and small households do not dare to try to plant new varieties lightly out of self-protection in agricultural planting, and only use the seeds left by themselves, and it is very difficult to promote and spread many good seeds, and the planting structure of small farmers and small households is also very strong, which does not meet Yu Xiaotian's current needs.

The collective farm system can make small pieces of land be used as large pieces of cultivated land, saving animal power and labor, and grain varieties can also be selected according to the needs of the sea wolf, and in addition, the collective concentrated fertilizer accumulation and fertilization is also convenient for field management, from the perspective of these two years, the land cultivated by the collective farms has almost doubled the yield per mu of the land cultivated by small farmers and small households, mainly because the collective farms can obtain more opportunities for fertilizer.

The struvite stones and guano collected by the sea wolves on some islands by ships are rich in various elements and have a relatively high content of nitrogen and phosphorus, and after they are brought back, they must be fertilized close to the land of the collective farm, so the land of the collective farm is much faster than the land cultivated by ordinary peasant households.

Moreover, because of the more fertilization, the land of the collective farms is relatively fertile, and the irrigation system is much more perfect than the scattered land of small households, and the more abundant labor force can be mobilized, the collective farms can carry out the development of a large-scale water conservancy system, which makes the land of the collective farms very convenient for irrigation and drainage, which also makes the grain output of these lands steadily increase year by year.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian attaches great importance to the problem of seed selection, and tries his best to get seeds of various crops, conduct trial planting, and then select improved varieties for multiplication, so that the grain seeds they use are much better than the good seeds kept by ordinary farmers.

And Yu Xiaotian also found some farmers who are better at using their brains, and let them carry out various cross-pollination experiments on some grain crops in several collective farms, trying to breed several high-yield and disease-resistant varieties through guò, but this is a relatively long-term work, so far, there has been no breakthrough, but Yu Xiaotian believes that as long as he persists, sooner or later several high-yield varieties will be selected.

In ancient China, for thousands of years, the yield per mu of grain crops has not changed much, and the most important thing is that China has been in a low-end small-scale peasant economy.

Few people in power deliberately pay attention to this matter, let alone know how to breed and select seeds, and are even more lazy to look for good varieties for promotion.

Therefore, China's grain yield per mu for thousands of years has hardly changed, the yield depends on the fertility of the land, no one seems to realize that seeds are also very important, but how can Yu Xiaotian not know the importance of seeds, chemical fertilizers and pesticides This black technology he has not yet mastered, can only find a way to get more soil fertilizer to take the means of fertilizer to fertilize the field, or use some low-level soil pesticides to prevent pests and diseases, but he can cultivate good seeds.

Even if he is unable to breed good varieties at present, he can first select the best varieties from the existing grain varieties in various places for popularization and planting.

Therefore, the collective farms on the island of Taiwan are currently planting the best grain seeds, so it is normal for the yield to be higher.

As for manpower, when Yu Xiaotian immigrated now, a large part of them were not free, but signed a deed of sale with the sea wolf, these people were nominally considered serfs in Xiaotian, and they had no personal freedom, so they had nothing to say about filling in the farm to work.

But for the workers of these farms, it is still a pleasure to work in the collective farms, although it is tiring to work here, they get up early and stay late, the foreman is very strict in supervising the work, he does not give the opportunity to be lazy, and sometimes there is corporal punishment or other punishment, but after all, there are two meals a day here, and they do not have to worry about it.

Here the farm also carries out collective rationing, and a strict rationing system has been formulated, how much food each person eats every day, is rationed, in addition to food, there is also a ration of fresh vegetables, and there is meat every five days, although the meat vegetables are mostly some military offal into the water or something, sometimes there will be some small trash fish and other fish that are not as good as the level of fish supply, at least everyone can eat almost full.

This is undoubtedly a heavenly life for people who have been in a state of semi-starvation for a long time, and even once hovered on the death line.

Even their clothes are distributed to them every year with a new set, which is even more unimaginable, when they used to rent the land of rich families, after paying the rent all year round, there was basically not much surplus, and there was not enough food to maintain, and they had to find a way to pick wild vegetables to compensate for it.

Very few farmers can buy a new set of clothes a year, the adult's clothes are worn out and then worn, there are children who use the adult's torn clothes to change, the big children wear small clothes, for the small children to continue to wear, all of them are quail clothes and knots, can cover the flesh and skin, even if it is good, where dare to think about it, buy a new clothes a year to wear!

Therefore, although the collective farm was well managed, the work was tiring, and there was almost no time to rest, but here they could have enough to eat, put on new clothes, and even children had books to read, which was unimaginable for them before.

To be honest, Yu Xiaotian is not a great good person, he is also trying his best to squeeze all the surplus energy of labor and squeeze more surplus value from these people.

But in this dark age, he was able to feed these people, put on clothes, live in a shelter from the wind and rain, and treat them when they were sick, which was already the greatest mercy, and this kind of life, the vast majority of Chinese peasants, could not have imagined.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian also personally participated in the setting of various systems of the farm, and set up a strict reward and punishment system, among which the most used is naturally hungry rice, hungry rice is a very effective means of control in this era, if it is found that someone is lazy and slippery without a reason, unwilling to work hard, and cannot complete the quota task, then it will be punished with hungry food.

When they are hungry, these people naturally know that it is uncomfortable to not work well, and of course there are some more severe punishments, such as deliberately destroying tools and not following the strict sanitation system, which will be starved at the same time.

For some dishonest people, who stir up trouble and make trouble among the migrant workers, they can even be sent to the Seawolf Bureau, and the maximum punishment can be death, that is, hanging or beheading, and many such people are also sent to labor camps for labor reeducation, which is sad, labor camps are places without any human rights, and they have to work to death, and they are squeezed out of all labor, and it is common to be beaten.

Therefore, under the strict system and without considering the issue of human rights, the collective farms did not appear to be the kind of situation in which they ate in a big pot of rice, and everyone did not work hard, leading to a strict waste of labor, but on the contrary, the efficiency of the use of labor was greatly improved, so that the collective farms have developed rapidly on the island of Taiwan in recent years, and now the grain harvested by the collective farms alone is basically enough for the immigrants on the island to eat.

In addition, the grain produced on Taiwan Island can also be supplied to the army in small quantities, but fortunately, the government now has to bear part of the salary and food supply of the army of the sea wolf, and this demand is not too great, so now the grain produced on Yu Xiaotian's own territory is basically enough, and there is even a surplus.

But Yu Xiaotian is still not satisfied, and will take out a lot of funds every year, through various channels, and reserve a large amount of food, because he knows better than anyone that in the next few years, the Ming Dynasty will be completely chaotic, and whoever has food in his hands can recruit a large number of people to serve it.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian not only has to buy a large amount of grain from Guangdong every year, but also opens up the channels for grain trading in the Li Dynasty of Vietnam in recent years, and also buys a large number of grain crops from Vietnam every year, and even Luzon, which is controlled by the Spaniards, now supplies a lot of rice to the sea wolves every year.

Yu Xiaotian still feels insufficient about this, like a greedy miser, still trying to get grain everywhere, in Tamsui, Kaohsiung and even Haitan Island and Weitou Bay, a large number of grain depots have been built, constantly hoarding grain, new grain into the warehouse every year, and moving old grain out of the grain depot for use, so as to ensure that the grain depot is constantly renewed, so as to avoid a large amount of grain mildew aging.

Now Yu Xiaotian has even sent a ship to Siam, which is Thailand in the future, to seek a way to import grain, Siam has always been a place where rice is produced, and a lot of brown rice will be exported every year.

Therefore, in this Shandong operation, the sea wolf was able to take out a large amount of food, on the one hand, for the army, and on the other hand, for the advance station over there to collect immigrants, otherwise Yu Xiaotian would not be able to take out so much food to toss even if he gave birth to three heads and six arms.

Therefore, some people are now secretly telling Yu Xiaotian's jokes, saying that when he sees food now, his eyes are full of thieves, for fear that the food will not be enough to eat, and he wants to sleep with the food in his arms every day, but how can they know that Yu Xiaotian has done everything to have food on hand in the future, just to make a splash in the future and take this big tomorrow into his hands.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian went to Tamsui this time, and there was another important thing to meet, that is, Sun Yuanhua, who he sent someone to kidnap back from Shandong.

(Today's special thanks to HMH630715 and the Eagle Warriors for their tips!) ）