From Chief to Ball

"If all goes well, within ten years, at least 40 people in China will be unable to make a living due to the impact of new hydraulic machinery and agricultural machinery. This is our opportunity, and it is what we must strive for. We must prevent domestic conservative To make use of it, and to prevent the radicals from setting off a revolution, bring these people here as much as possible, even if they can come one-tenth, the most difficult beginning of everything will be considered complete.”

Regarding the plan for the next ten years, it seems grand, but everyone thinks it is very maneuverable.

Many places in Mincheng have been infiltrated by organizations, and Chen Jian is one of the best... Once the Standard Oil Workshop starts to sell on a large scale, he will be the biggest capitalist in Mincheng.

In the mining areas and large workshops where the party organization is most active, the grassroots organizational strength can be used there; the steel ingot, glass, and chemical workshops run by Chen Jian are completely capable of large-scale technology transfer.

A large number of students who have signed employment contracts with Lanxiang Technical School will be harvested in one year, and they can be sent here continuously.Mechanics, drilling, mine blasting, construction, etc. are considered to be the first batch of apprentice skilled workers with half-educational background in Mincheng, and they will be sent here in batches whether they want to or not.

Years of silent and seemingly useless preparations are basically a party organization with a program and not poor capital. Once the goal is determined, it will burst out with a powerful force far beyond this era.

After the meeting, Lan Qi asked Chen Jian, "When are you going back to Fujian?"

"It will take some time. Wait for the wind direction and current, and also check the food situation here. At least wait until the first batch of potatoes and sweet potatoes are harvested before going back. This time, we need to prepare a lot of cattle, horses, machinery, and the second batch. Emigration. There are still some things to deal with in the homeland, and a tentative voyage around the world is to be organized. What, you are homesick?"

"That's not true. I have enough food and clothing at home. If I don't do something, I will feel bored. Besides, I have really liked this career. I am not the kind of person you said that I can eat enough because I know exactly what these people want instead of imposing on them what I think they want."

Lan Qi smiled and stroked a growing pumpkin with her hands, and said with a smile: "What career is more magnificent than changing the whole world? People who want to change use different methods, and I also choose my The way I like, I have no regrets. Just like that little beauty in the capital city, she changed in her way, even she didn’t know that she was changing the world, but the world was really changed. And I know I want to I'm really happy to change the world, and at least for now, the vision of our organization is not a fantasy but achievable."

Chen Jian looked at Lan Qi with a smile on his face, and said: "By the way, you should hurry up and learn those languages. When you sail around the world, it's best that you can go together. On the one hand, collect some historical materials over there. , and on the other hand examine the various ways of life and the way the country is constituted there."

Lan Qi nodded and said: "I know, and I also like adventure. You know, I go hunting or hiking every spring or autumn. I am different from you. My family is rich and rich. But I’m a woman, so even if I had the world and adventure in my heart, I could only focus on hunting or horse racing. What else could I do? Well, I’m going to learn those crooked words Bye bye."

When he turned to leave, Chen Jian said a word out of nowhere.

"Hey... don't fall in love, if you are pregnant, you can't take the boat..."

Halfway through the speech, Chen Jian immediately realized that this could be regarded as harassment, and he didn't even know why he said such a sentence.Maybe it's the fear of losing or the mentality of being like a dog protecting food...and using such a ridiculous and seemingly fair reason...

Chen Jian saw Lan Qi froze there suddenly, and her back paused for a moment.

His face turned red, and he felt that this moment was too embarrassing, and he scolded himself countless times in his heart, but he couldn't find a word that could resolve the embarrassment.

For a long time, Lan Qi didn't look back, stopped being in a daze, waved her hand behind Chen Jian's back, and said casually and indifferently, "Don't worry. I know."

But it seemed that he said it casually, but the steps under his feet were chaotic.

After leaving in a hurry, Chen Jian was at a loss, standing there reminiscing about the three words "you rest assured", consciously thinking about it, but in fact, it might just be a reply from the other party who was too embarrassed and his head went blank...

Chapter 8 Continuing South

Two months after that awkward conversation, it was finally time for the first potatoes to be harvested.

On the newly reclaimed and burned land, only potatoes and pumpkins are planted as staple foods, and the rest are planted with a large number of new vegetables here.

As for crops such as wheat, rice, and corn, everyone followed Chen Jian's suggestion and did not plant them.

Just like on the island back then, the first buildings to be built were still schools, courts, council government, and military camps. The strict violence institutions showed that this place was not free from anarchy.

In addition to these buildings, an agricultural research institute was built.

There are only two people in it for the time being, and they are not responsible for tasks such as improving seeds for the time being, but are responsible for recording.

Every day, the temperature changes here are recorded with a thermometer, the wind direction and size are recorded, and the rainfall is measured with a funnel meter.

In addition, around the Agricultural Research Institute, the crops here are also planted.The two are also responsible for documenting how long it takes for the crops to germinate, flower, bear fruit, and whether they are self- or cross-pollinated.

It seems like an easy task, but it is not easy to do it. You have to stare at the thermometer every day, and watch the changes in the clouds every day...

This is not a land of spontaneous immigration, but a land of purposeful and planned development.

After obtaining data such as annual rainfall and accumulated temperature, those food crops with a long growth period will be planted on a large scale.

Under Chen Jian's guidance, the cultivation of potatoes and pumpkins yielded a bumper harvest. Although the reclaimed land was not too much, the harvested potatoes and pumpkins were enough to support two to three times the population if they were properly preserved.

Different from the planting methods of the people here, Chen Jian did not go astray, nor did he follow the path of small farmers, but followed a planting method that is most suitable for large farms.

The women cut the potatoes into pieces according to the sprouts, and the horse-drawn wooden cart passed through the furrow, and three women sat behind the wooden cart.

It's like an assembly line operation, sitting on it and throwing the potato slices down at a fixed distance, and the carriage behind pulls the shallow plowshare to cover the soil thickly.

The same is true when harvesting, instead of relying on people to dig, but ignoring about one-tenth of the loss, the plowshares are pulled out directly by oxen and horses.Women just need to squat behind and fill their pockets, and then men will fight those pockets away.

This is not a production method suitable for small farmers, because after the plowshare passes, many potatoes are cut by the plowshare, or because there is no deep plowing, a large number of potatoes are still in the ground.

But in the face of so much land, the production method of intensive farming is not suitable.

Even if there is waste, the yield of three thousand catties per mu of land is amazing enough.The land here is fertile and newly cultivated. Fertility is not a problem. The only thing that restricts potato production is the seeds.

The rations for more than 1000 people, based on two catties of potatoes per day, would require one mu of land per day. More than 1000 mu of land is easy to cultivate with this rough farming method.

If potatoes are not counted as the staple food, life here can be regarded as half a year's food for melons and vegetables.After the harvest, the food in the canteen every day has also changed to boiled potatoes, potato cubes, potato chips, potato shreds, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, fried potatoes... The side dishes are pumpkin soup or fish soup.

On the second day after the harvest, the aborigines belonging to the villages on this land got a message that they could pick up potatoes on the harvested land at will within three days.

This is the first official communication between the immigrants and the village community on this land. It is still early before the time for paying tribute, and we have not had much contact with them in accordance with the resolutions made by everyone.

People in the village community thought it was a kind of corvee, and the village elders arranged for some disobedient people to go there.

However, when these people came back that night, they surprised everyone in the village.These people told the people in the village community that there were a lot of potatoes in those people's fields, which were buried very deep, but they could be easily dug out if they took pigs, but those people were too lazy to dig.

They described the scene they saw. Potatoes were piled up like a mountain, and those outsiders were digging pits for storage...

Those who were thought to be corvee workers in these village communities received more than 100 catties of potatoes.Only then did the people in the village understand that this was not going to do corvée, but really picking potatoes.

The next day, all the people in the five surrounding villages, men, women and children, went out together and started digging potatoes on the harvested land.

Because they didn't have plowshares or iron tools, the soil was too hard, and the potatoes they planted didn't grow very big, and they were always prone to green skin.But these people's potatoes not only do not have green skins, but are also very large.

The people in these villages were completely confused. Not only did the people in the city not need them to serve corvee, but they also didn't seem to care about the harvest that should be paid every year. Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to pick these potatoes freely.

Two days later, the date for allowing free turning of potatoes expired, and the plowed land was also riddled with holes and soft by these people.

The immigrants in the Great Wilderness City prepared a "sumptuous" dinner for the residents of these villages, a large amount of cooked meat such as fish, crocodiles, and wild boars; large barrels of spirits carried on board...

These are delicacies for the people in the village.

Since there was such a banquet, it was obvious that the people of Great Deserted City were not prepared to treat these people as slaves.

The National People's Congress, the highest authority in the Great Wilderness City, has long since unified its opinion: Inner-Party ideologies such as human freedom do not allow slaves.

This is not a tropical plantation, not a cochineal cactus farm.The capital holders here are not those spontaneous profit-seeking capitals, but a government with violent institutions, a government that does not intend to build this place into a separate plantation and agricultural product production area; but dumps it on Europe and southern tropical colonial areas A mixed industrial and agricultural settlement for textiles, glass, steel, tools, guns and agricultural and pastoral products.

What is needed are family farms, hired workshops, large mines and large hydraulic factories, and a large number of free populations, not short-term profiteering raw material production areas.

Many people are not against slaves, they just object that they are not slave owners, but the reality is always sad, after all, the number of people who become slave owners is a minority.When the profit is sufficient, the same skin color can become a slave, the same language, the same race, and even the same country can become slaves: even if it is a nice-sounding indentured slave of the same race, the child born during the contract is still a slave, and the woman has to pay for pregnancy. Working to extend the time of being a contract slave... Don't believe in the kindness of capital. Chen Jian understands that once this opening is opened, if real Chinese from the other side of the world come to this land in the future, they will also suffer inhuman treatment.

Going the right way from the very beginning can prevent many problems.What's more, people always need a little bottom line. If they want to make money, Chen Jian doesn't have to come here.