From Chief to Ball

In the future, there is an opportunity to steal some seeds, but now we can only develop low-end tobacco.The habit of smoking has not yet been developed here, and the tens of millions of people behind it will take a long time to produce large-scale smokers. Exporting to Europe is still feasible. Technology can still guarantee small profits but quick turnover.

Tobacco needs a lot of fertilizer, and this newly cultivated land is very fertile. Even so, it can only be planted for four years, and the second and third years are the best growth times.

After four years, the land will run out of fertilizer.

The method used by European colonists in history is to keep moving, just like in the era of slash-and-burn farming, and run away when the fertility is exhausted.

This problem has not come up yet, but Chen Jian made some plans under the pretense of investigating and researching at Holy Friday Port.

"Everyone, now the Great Deserted City is still in the form of a company, and there will be more than two years before the first batch of free Great Deserted City immigrants will appear. The land issue is also an important issue that we must solve."

"This is how I envision it. The land here is our directly governed land, and it is not allocated, but the wasteland."

"The land here depends on the five-year hired labor who come here every year. In the process of labor, you have to learn a lot. Planting, breeding, fighting for your own rights, long-term interests, etc. This will be a school for these new immigrants , not every immigrant will farm the land.”

"As for the freelance workers who are assigned, a sufficient amount of wasteland will be allocated on the basis of 100 households, and they will reclaim it by themselves. The main purpose of establishing a cooperative is to facilitate collective labor and reclaiming. There is no need to consider this. A piece of land, It’s completely different between one person’s cultivation and [-] people’s cultivation.”

"Besides, even if it is planting, some things cannot be handled by one household. For example, when growing cotton, can one person harvest it during the cotton harvest season? We don't have slaves here, labor is in short supply, and we can't hire people at all. .”

"What should we do at this time? Cooperatives can solve this problem. Plan the area of ​​planting, and the people in the cooperative can rush to harvest as the standard. Similarly, the ability of individual farmers to resist risks is too weak, and the ability to resist risks with more people should be stronger."

"Of course, we don't intervene, we just guide. Whether we want it or not, everything is voluntary. However, we can provide support through loans, cattle regulation, and subsidies. The internal managers are also elected by the cooperative, and all prices will be regulated according to the market in the future. , not interfering except in necessary food cultivation."

"What are the benefits of this?"

"Take the planned tobacco growing, each large cooperative divides the land into fifteen lots. One is planted with tobacco for two years, and the next 15 years the tobacco field will be planted with alfalfa or other leguminous forage crops, And thus reincarnate.”

"In this way, the cooperative can raise cattle and horses, grow tobacco, grow cotton and other crops. Compared with a single household without slaves and lack of free hired labor, such income must be higher."

"This is also a trend. The machinery factory in Nan'an is trying new cotton planting machines, wood threshers, horse-drawn ear cutters, etc. These machines cannot be afforded by one household, but the collective capital of the cooperative can afford these things. "

"Now that the land has been reclaimed in the form of employment, new hires and new immigrants come here, and they just have more time to learn more things."

"That is to say, every five years, about [-] immigrants are guaranteed to learn their survival skills in this barren land on this public land."

"It doesn't mean that just anyone thrown into a barren land can survive and grow their family business. Regardless of everything, the death rate will not be lower than 50.00%."

"In a word, everything is voluntary. Those who are willing to go out to cultivate themselves can go out by themselves. Those who are willing to set up cooperatives can set up cooperatives. But we still have to give preference in terms of policies and loans."

"Also, we have to learn how to use policies, loans, etc. to regulate and control. The specific methods will be discussed later."

Chen Jian made some calculations, and calculated according to the 15-year cycle of land fallow and fertilization.If he can hold out until 15 years later when his fleet forms a size and controls the saltpeter mines in Chile and the guano fields on the Pacific islands, agricultural production will increase.

Primitive accumulation of blood is sucked from other people.It's still early, and we can take the road of light industry accumulation and slow development, so there is no need to be so anxious.

The geographical advantage here can give priority to the development of light industry. At the same time, its technological advantages and the advantages of mass talent transfer, some "heavy industries" at this time can also wait until the population is sufficient to develop.

Based on cooperative agriculture to ensure cotton production here, we can start with textiles as the center.

The new carding machine, twisting machine and hydraulic spinning machine, together with the hand loom, the textile factory with these technologies as the core can produce cotton cloth that has advantages over any earthen cloth.

The cost issue is still cheaper than the handicraft weaving at this time after deducting the required worker benefits and provident fund.

Good quality and cheap price.

Even if all kinds of cotton spinning handicraft industries in Europe protect themselves with [-]% tariffs, there is no way, and there is a dead end.

The British bourgeois revolution is still a few days away, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry does not have that much say, and the king is too busy doing business that basically doesn't care about the handicraft industry.

Although the Dutch are a bourgeois revolution in name, the dominant class is the commercial bourgeoisie—what if the Spaniards and the Dutch have no money to fight?Ask Dutch bankers for loans—the Dutch fleet is also a second-hand businessman, and merchants will not care about the domestic handicraft industry that is dying.

Spain is about to carry out a large-scale anti-Semitic and Moorish purification movement, both of which are the main force of the southern handicraft class. Without them, it is certainly much purer, but the last touch of handicraft development may be extinguished by itself.

After this brief period of peace, more than a decade later was a large-scale war.

With more than ten years of accumulation, many things can be accomplished.

Large-scale capital and technology have been transferred from Min County to here, and the simple chemical system can produce explosives.Iron smelters can produce steel ingots and pig iron. As long as the mining problem is solved, half of the ordnance workshops in Min County can also be settled here.

It is wooded, has a hydraulic sawmill, and once the apprentices and shipwrights who have trained in European shipyards return, a shipyard can be built here.

The chaos of war is an opportunity instead.

War requires many things.Cotton cloth, guns, explosives, steel ingots, pig iron, tobacco, spirits, food...

Seizing the opportunity, the Great Wilderness can obtain a golden opportunity for development in the war in the west.

The last item of the meeting was an introduction to the outside world.

Chen Jian used a similar analysis, but in fact it was a historical a priori penetrating conclusion, to tell the inevitability of possible wars in Europe.

And based on this inference, a detailed development plan after the Great Deserted City was formulated.

The vast majority of people present were still ignorant of the outside world. Many things Chen Jian said were ignorant of things like religion, which made Chen Jian's words more convincing.

Some people selected from the party also sailed around the world with Chen Jian to broaden their horizons, and at the same time served as Chen Jian's backing when some special events happened.

For the general events of this circumnavigation, Chen Jian gave a two-year estimate, which may be more, but not less.

Therefore, many arrangements for the Great Deserted City in the past two years must be finalized at this meeting.

Two years later, the first free hired workers appeared.Two years later, it was also the time to destroy the upper class of the nearby aboriginal city as originally planned.

These can be discussed after the people who have seen the world with the ship come back, but preparation in advance is essential.

To this end, the two years need to continue prospecting.

The prospecting team discovered a silver mine upstream, but it was kept secret for the time being and could not be mined until two years later when enough labor was absorbed.

Using this silver mine as a reserve, the Great Deserted City Bank will be established two years later to ensure that future banknotes can be promoted in the region.

At the same time, in the past two years, we need to build a textile factory, rebuild the branch of the simplified workshop, and build a simple shipyard and paper factory.

As well as building sun-dried salt fields by the sea, first ensure that edible salt and chemical salt can be self-sufficient.

The construction of the fortress is still progressing slowly according to the ten-year plan, and all the hired workers with five-year contracts conduct queue drills during the slack season to ensure the safety of the place.

In some nearby depressions, swamps and small lakes, build detachable windmills and use windmills to drain the water inside, that is the best, most fertile and the best land.This is not something that can be done by one person, it must be carried out by specialized personnel in a planned way.

In addition, after Chen Jian started sailing around the world, the Dahuangcheng fleet separated two ships and headed north along the coastline.

Map the coastline, examine the situation to the north, and choose some places where the rest of the city-states exist to establish trading posts.Especially in some important estuary areas, trading posts must be built first, and a rough map must be drawn clearly, and the intricate relationship between city-states and ethnic groups here must also be sorted out.

After the plan was approved, all internal members were notified, and except for some matters that needed to be kept secret, the plan report was drawn up for the rest.

After finishing all this work, there are more than 50 more people in the fleet sailing around the world. This time, we really set sail to the west and never look back.

The Spanish envoy didn't know where Chen Jian was going, so he crossed the fleet and entered a new sea area and asked, "Mr. Governor, where is your fleet going?"