Tamsui City has become the nest of the sea wolf at this time, and has also become the base camp of the sea wolf for a living, and Tamsui City after more than three years of sea wolf up and down the full force of the operation, here has reclaimed a large area of farmland, the local ecological environment has also been a large number of cultivation and land, the landform has undergone great changes, if a few years ago here people, now come here, I am afraid no one believes, this is the former Tamsui River.

Not only is the area of farmland expanding continuously, but the number of people who have migrated to the Tamsui River, with the continuous efforts of the sea wolves in recent years, is also constantly surging, and every year a large number of immigrants will pour into the Tamsui area, which will be settled by the sea wolves in various pre-selected settlements, gradually forming new migrant villages.

Now in the entire Tamsui area, there are more than 100 immigrant villages alone, and according to Yu Xiaotian's requirements, these immigrant villages are all large villages, and the population of each village must exceed 1,000 people, some of which are the earliest immigrant villages, and now some villages have a population of 2,000 people.

In addition to the resettlement villages, Yu Xiaotian also made some adjustments to the resettlement policy at the end of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, changing the previous method of scattering families and households, and began to set up a new type of collective farm, and no longer distributed land pieces by piece to the immigrants for them to cultivate.

Although the decentralized farming of small households is simpler to manage, there is a problem, that is, the large-scale farming that Yu Xiaotian hopes to promote cannot be effectively implemented.

The collective farms can carry out large plots of concentrated crop rotation, and among the new immigrants, it is no longer the usual civilian way, but after they are transported to the Tamsui area, they all sign a deed of sale with the sea wolf, theoretically they are all slaves of Yu Xiaotian, but in fact, these people are professional agricultural workers.

These immigrants were placed in farms, led by special personnel, and cultivated collectively, so that the land could be cultivated into large plots of farmland, which could be cultivated intensively and planted according to standardization, and the fields could be managed using some simple large animal-powered agricultural machinery.

Although there are some drawbacks to doing so, at this stage, the land is actually in the hands of Xiaotian, which is much stronger and easier to manage than cutting it into small pieces and dividing the property rights to each family.

Therefore, at the present stage, the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages, as for whether it will affect the development of the productive forces in the future, that is a matter of the future, at least at the moment, under the strong control of the sea wolf, there will be no major problems, plus Yu Xiaotian and some people in charge of civil affairs, for this kind of collective farm to develop a lot of incentives and punishment measures, to manage the farmers of the farm, can still play a very good role in incentives.

In the past, when the sea wolf wanted to promote some improved crops, it had to do door-to-door work for those farmers, but farmers had a natural sense of vigilance, and they did not dare to try to plant unfamiliar crops, so it was very difficult to promote some selected crops.

This also affects the development of the seawolf's agriculture in freshwater, after all, most of the fields in this area are newly cultivated raw land, and to mature the land, it is necessary to adopt some effective methods to improve the soil by rotating various crops.

Although no one knew what nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium were at this time, some experienced farmers still knew that planting legumes in the land would improve the soil.

However, many ordinary farmers do not understand, so they do not know about using beans to rotate crops and improve soil fertility, and are unwilling to plant the land according to the arrangement of the sea wolf, so that some land is still not ripe after two years, and the crop yield is very low.

The adoption of the collective farm system will solve the problem very well, and the peasants of the farms will plant according to the instructions of the above, and whether it is good or not will be their business anyway, but in this way, the improvement of the soil can be accelerated.

There is also an advantage, that is, Yu Xiaotian has always asked to find a way to accumulate fertilizer, in the absence of modern fertilizer, fertilizer has a great impact on the yield of farmland, and most farmers, before did not pay much attention to the problem of fertilizer, at most is to carry a basket to pick up some cow dung, even if it is a good agricultural fertilizer.

But in fact, there are many ways to accumulate fertilizer, Yu Xiaotian has always been concerned about the health problem, strict requirements for all villages to build public toilets, and has long begun to promote biogas digesters, although the utilization rate of biogas is not very high, but you can get a very good rotten fertilizer.

In addition, in addition to collecting human feces and urine, the biogas digester can also put some rotten vegetable leaves, weeds, leaves and other organic matter produced in life or agricultural production into the biogas digester, which can be turned into a good organic fertilizer after rotting, and sprinkled in the ground, which is a good agricultural fertilizer.

In this way, the rural environment is greatly improved, the threat of epidemic outbreaks is reduced, and a large amount of agricultural fertilizer can be obtained.

In addition, the implementation of the farm, in addition to the convenience of management, the sea wolf also organized a fleet, specifically to the islands, to find struvite or guano, in this era some islands, is a paradise for seabirds, over the years, accumulated thick guano, these guano and guano stone, rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, is an excellent fertilizer, before there is no modern fertilizer, with this guano to fertilize the field, is the best way.

But even so, the guano and struvite collected are far from enough, so they can only be used in the farmland of the seawolf's own farm, and it is impossible for a family to give such things.

On the whole, with the increasing number of immigrants, the number of immigrants in the entire Tamsui area has reached 1670,000 at the beginning of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, which has almost reached the population of a small county on land, so that the sea wolf can already firmly gain a foothold here.

As for the natives in the original area, as the strength of the sea wolves became stronger and stronger, there was no way to take these outsiders, although some of their tribes also tried to resist, driving these outsiders out of these lands that belonged to them, and resorted to sneak attacks, assassinations, headhunting, etc., in an attempt to deter these outsiders.

However, their actions often immediately provoke the bitter retaliation of the sea wolves, and the infantry of the sea wolves will immediately take the indigenous auxiliaries into the mountains and forests, find the indigenous tribes who have committed crimes, or sweep them away, and those who resist will be killed, and those who surrender will be taken out of the mountains and forests, and thrown into the farms and living labor camps to work, which is called labor reform, and gradually integrate them into the immigrants.

In fact, once the natives got used to the "modern" life of immigrants, they found that this kind of life was actually more comfortable than their survival in the mountains and forests, relying on fishing and hunting.

In this way, under the strong deterrence of the sea wolf, a large number of natives in the surrounding area also knew the power of the sea wolf, and they did not dare to continue to provoke immigrants, and gradually the security situation improved a lot.

And the sea wolf is not blindly using force against the natives, Yu Xiaotian knows that it is impossible to obtain peace by relying on swords and guns alone, and blindly using strength can only buy deeper hatred in the end, so it is necessary to show goodwill, so that they can feel that the sea wolf is here, not only the identity of the intruder, but also the sea wolf can bring them a lot of help.

At least the sea wolf took the initiative to contact these surrounding natives, first gave them some daily necessities with small favors, and then exchanged some hunted skins from them, so that after a long time, the native tribe also found that their lives were gradually inseparable from these outsiders, from the hands of outsiders, they could get a lot of good things that they had never seen before, from small needles and threads, to woodcutters, farm tools, iron pots, kitchen knives, porcelain, cloth and other things, they found that the things brought by these outsiders were very useful, Once they get used to it, they can't stand it if they don't use these things now.

Therefore, the method of soft one hand and hard hand, carrots and sticks, gradually deterred the surrounding indigenous tribes, making the surrounding immigrant villages suffer fewer and fewer indigenous attacks in the past year, which also invisibly reduced the pressure on this side of the defense, making the speed of pioneering faster and faster.

However, now the sea wolf still encounters some problems, after all, the freshwater area is not a plain area, the area of flat arable land is not very large, although most of the hillside land can be pioneered, but it is not conducive to irrigation, especially in paddy fields, can not achieve a large area of rice planting.

However, people in the south are accustomed to eating rice, and if there are too many dry lands, they can only eat other dryland crops, which is not very good for the agricultural structure, especially the sugar industry, which can earn a lot of profits, will be greatly affected.

In this era, sucrose is also the most sought-after trade material, Europeans buy a large amount of sucrose from the Ming Dynasty, and then transfer it to Europe, becoming a very profitable business, and Europeans like to eat sugar, whether it is tea, or just beginning to become popular coffee, they like to put a lot of sugar, so the demand for sucrose is very large.

Such an industry, of course, the sea wolf also wants to do, but the freshwater side, first, the land is not very ideal, the second is the climate is not very ideal, freshwater is located in the northernmost area of Taiwan, in this Xiaoice period winter temperature is still quite cold, the annual accumulated temperature is insufficient, is not very ideal sugarcane planting area.

These factors have limited the reclamation and agricultural development of the sea wolf in this area, so the most ideal place should be in the south or central part of Taiwan, but now Yan Siqi has taken the lead in the Bengang area, and Yu Xiaotian was not confident in the speed of his development before, and did not want to get too close to the Dutch, so he chose the area of the Tamsui River.

But he himself did not expect that his strength would expand so quickly, and now he is no longer afraid of the Dutch, but the good opportunity to occupy the Jianan Plain has been missed.