Chapter 125: Flores Island
After a few days of repairs, the trading post has been almost built, the trading post is not large, there are only dozens of trading windows, everyone thinks that the population is not large anyway, and it is a waste to build a trading post that is too large, so people put their energy on building their own houses or building warehouses. So within a few days, the trading post was completed.
Nguyen Van Zhao and others sent boats to stay on the banks of the river to prevent sudden changes so that people could escape by boat, and he also left weapons for the island's escorts for self-defense. After spending the Spring Festival in the local area, they went south to the Sita settlement. Nguyen Van still had a lot of fleets to recall, probably because their trip was mainly to transport migrants.
The natives of the island did not have much to attract the Cham people, but they still needed to live here for a long time, and they had to have a good relationship with this group of natives, so the two sides began to trade with grain and spices, and the merchants of the Cham would go to Majapahit or nearby civilized countries to trade after getting the grain, and the food parameters in this world were not high. But in order to survive, people can only cultivate more land, hoping that God will give them a good harvest, and they can also stock up on a little more food.
If the harvest is not good, it is likely to break out into a large-scale famine, and the national treasury may not be able to solve this series of problems by releasing grain for disaster relief. All this is due to low productivity, and now Panduranga University has set up a branch to study agriculture, hoping to be able to study rice with higher yields, so it has also set up biology in various universities, and even personally demonstrated the assembly of a microscope, which was soon popularized in various universities as an instrument for teaching biology.
But in fact, even if the teaching of biology is introduced, it is not very useful, because there is very little information about biology, except for the records of various species, such as the laws of heredity in biology, although some people have discovered the relevant laws, but they have not understood what heredity is, and it is only determined by God.
Therefore, people are very puzzled by the introduction of biology, why do I study biology when I study agricultural production? What is this biology? What is biology? Everyone doesn't understand. As he said, this is a blank field, don't you wonder why green peas can grow yellow peas when they are sown?
Some refuted, others agreed, and some did not express an opinion. The opinion of the opponents is simple, what is the use of this thing researched? Those who agree with it say that we want to make our country a leading position in the world in all aspects, so we must study blank disciplines as soon as possible.
At first, biology was to study the laws of heredity, and the company arranged for people to study peas. Of course, they didn't expect anything to come up with, after all, the laws of heredity were summarized by Mendel in the nineteenth century, and now neither productivity nor other aspects are enough to support the study of biology. What he has to do is to hide people's eyes, and when people conduct research, he will anonymously publish the laws of heredity for them to learn. The laws of heredity should be sufficient as the basis for crop improvement.
Now the people's agricultural colleges are trying to cultivate good varieties, and they have not yet seen the results, but they are still acting, and it is better to sit back and wait. As early as the period when he was in power, he comprehensively promoted fertilizer in Cham, at first it was to comprehensively promote farm fertilizer, and encourage people to use farm fertilizer in an all-round way, and sure enough, people everywhere have responded that the grain output has indeed come up, but the increase is not very large, but the people's opinions are very satisfied, and it is difficult to increase the grain production a little bit.
Later, the production of special fertilizers was sold in various places, which increased the grain production by another degree, and then the production of the food was also allowed to recuperate in the country, and the tax revenue was also reduced to the lowest time in the history of the Cham during this period. At that time, the people believed that the Pengyu was Brahma's eyes, an insight into the suffering of the world, and Brahma could not bear the people to be oppressed, so he would release his doppelganger to let the Pengbao go down to save the people.
Later, this matter became more and more evil, saying that the Pengyu was actually Brahma and so on, and there were all kinds of rumors, but these rumors showed people's awe of the Pengqiao.
The food of Majapahit and the surrounding countries has almost stagnated, although production has now resumed, but as long as there is a great drought and a great famine now, I am afraid that the power of Majapahit and other countries will be collapsed, and the Cham people are also their trusted allies, so they are naturally welcomed to come to trade, and they are even more welcome to see that they are coming to sell grain.
The frequency of the natives coming to trade is not much, they all come to trade once a month, most of them buy condiments, and the rest of the time, the trade window is basically gone, so the merchants who come together are very frustrated, so the merchants opened up trade with the surrounding areas, and the merchants quickly established contact with several surrounding islands, as for letting them go directly to Majapahit, they don't dare, they don't have many ships, so the grain trade is actually in charge of the immigrant fleet.
Nguyen Van Zhao and the others have been gone for about a week, and the remaining half of the navy has transported food back to China, their main purpose is to be responsible for the transportation of immigrants from Oceania, and now that Nguyen Van Zhao has sent immigrants back to China, naturally they can't stay still, and they must put the Natuna-Flores line into operation as soon as possible.
The inhabitants of Flores lived a very boring life, they opened a trading post, and they could not be busy for a few days a year, so they went their own way, most of them farmed in Floris, and the officials of the trading post were also bored, he had no official business to do here, he was really idle, and he now regretted very much why he came overseas, so when would he be able to make a meritorious deed, so he opened a salt boiling factory in Floris, and tried to make the salt self-sufficient and exported.
Flores Island is located in a rainy area, which is very unsuitable for salt production, so most of the concentration of brine is obtained by boiling it directly, and then boiling the brine, in short, there is only one process of chopping wood to cook salt, so the cost of salt production will be much higher than the cost of local salt, but fortunately, it can be produced. Of course, he didn't plan to hang himself on a tree, he took it out to dry when there was sun, and slowly evaporated when there was no sun, and finally he could get a batch of brine.