Chapter 164
The Great Landlord
Chapter 164 The Great Landlord
Compared with the arquebus guns he had seen before, Li Nai believed that the Haihan people had the ability to manufacture this kind of red barbarian artillery, because it could well explain why they built so many firearms on the slopes of the port. fort.As far as the scale of the project has been seen so far, although it is still not as good as the fort in Humen, at least such fortifications will never be seen outside ordinary ports.
"I don't know where these Haihan people found the cannon maker." This thought flashed in Li Nai's mind.Most of the cannons used by the Guangzhou garrison were cast in Foshan, and all the local cannon-casters were worshiped as bodhisattvas, and outsiders did not even have the opportunity to come into contact with these mysterious figures.However, with the skills of the artillery builders in Foshan, it is obvious that they cannot manufacture the Hongyi artillery sold by the Haihan people.
When the group returned to the pier, the boy scouts were still waiting under the shade of the trees on the shore. This kind of devotion to duty was naturally praised and encouraged by Tao Donglai.Li Nai and He Qiang were all amazed, those militiamen were nothing more than that, the Haihan people's methods were indeed unique in being able to train these children to be so disciplined.
Under the paddling of the laborers, the boat sailed slowly upstream along the Tiandu River estuary. Tao Donglai was going to take the guests to visit the farm not far away.In the opinion of the executive committee, merely displaying military equipment is far from enough. For a country like Daming, which is still in an agricultural society, food production capacity is also a manifestation of strength.
The farm opened by the Ministry of Agriculture on the east bank of the Tiandu River is not far from the recruit camp at the mouth of the Tiandu River, with only a mountain in the middle.Soon the boat arrived at the pier outside the farm, and Gao Huan, who had been notified, was waiting for their arrival on the trestle.
Gao Huan introduced the current production situation of the farm commune to the guests who came to visit: "We just finished harvesting the last season's rice five days ago, and are currently preparing for the next season's rice planting. Although in the first half of the year we only rushed to plant Two hundred acres of rice, but fortunately, the follow-up care is not bad, all kinds of manure are used enough, and no natural disasters have been encountered. The yield is much better than the expected [-] tons. The final counted yield is a total of eight Over ten tons."
Gao Huan looked at the two merchants from the Ming Dynasty who were bewildered, and explained patiently: "One ton of our Haihan is equivalent to about two thousand catties of Ming Dynasty."
As expected, Li Nai came from a family of merchants, and his mental arithmetic ability is not bad, so he immediately asked in surprise: "One mu of rice harvests more than 400 catties a season?"
"It's a little less. The main reason is that the rush to plant in the first half of the year was too hasty. The yield per mu in the next season should be much higher than this." Gao Huan said a little embarrassedly.
"How little is more than 400 catties per mu?" Li Nai asked very puzzled: "In that two seasons in a year, wouldn't it be possible to grow a thousand catties of rice from one mu of land?"
Gao Huan was taken aback for a moment, and then realized where he was wrong.From the perspective of future generations, it is a bit unreasonable to plant [-] kilograms in two seasons on one mu of land, and the harvest of better hybrid rice varieties in a single season is even more than this.But from the perspective of the early seventeenth century, this output was already against the sky.
Gu Yanwu recorded the yield per mu of rice in the south of the Ming Dynasty in "Rizhilu". Even if it is a ripe field with two seasons a year, the harvest is only four to five hundred catties when it is excellent.In most cases, two to four hundred catties is a relatively normal harvest, and Gao Huan's reported one-season harvest is more than others' one-year harvest, so how could Li Nai not be shocked.If the two parties hadn't been dealing with each other for such a long time, I'm afraid Li Nai would have thought that this group of people would use some kind of magic tricks.
Gao Huan immediately explained: "This is an excellent rice seed we brought from overseas, which is different from the rice seed used in Daming. In addition, we have scientific farming methods, so we can have such a high harvest."
"What kind of theory is this science?" As a scholar, Li Nai immediately became interested.He has already seen that the knowledge of Haihan people is mixed, but he did not expect that they even have knowledge related to farming.
"Science is a way for us to learn knowledge and understand the world, and it is the ideology and spiritual beliefs formed by each of us since childhood." Tao Donglai explained to him.Tao Donglai once used this theory to Luo Shengdong once, which stunned the semi-literate Luo Shengdong.
"Mr. Tao, can you tell me a little bit more?" Li Nai immediately became interested. He really wanted to find out what these Haihan people had in their minds, and they could come up with so many strange things.
"To put it simply, it is to find out the laws of operation of all things, and then understand, summarize and use them." Tao Donglai said while pointing to the bare paddy fields that have been harvested: "Why do rice yields vary? ?”
"Because the fields are divided into raw and ripe, the rice seeds are divided into good and bad, and the farmers are divided into lazy and lazy." Li Nai is not the kind of nerd who can only read rote books, and he answers Tao Donglai's questions clearly and logically.
"That's right, what you said is very good, and the purpose of science is to find out the laws of these things, how to turn raw fields into mature fields as soon as possible, how to select and cultivate high-quality rice seeds, and how to make farmers manage farmland more effectively. This is all science." Tao Donglai explained concisely.
Li Nai half understood what he heard, and it was difficult to digest the meaning of these words for a while.But he soon discovered a new point of interest, pointing to the pergola in the paddy field and said: "Why is this pergola built in the middle of the paddy field? Isn't it very inconvenient for farmers to rest?"
Gao Huan said with a smile: "That's not a place for farmers to rest, it's for shade for fish."
"There are fish in this rice field?" Li Nai leaned over and saw that there were quite a few half-foot-long fish scurrying around in the ditches in the field, which was very lively.
"Fish farming in paddy fields can increase the yield of rice, and fish is also a big income." Gao Huan pointed to the fish in the water and explained: "We stocked fish fry in the field more than three months ago, and we will wait until next spring to plant It can be harvested when it is harvested, at least [-] to [-] catties of fish can be harvested in one mu of land, and about [-] catties can be harvested in these two hundred mu of paddy fields."
Li Nai said thoughtfully: "This is one of the sciences of farming!"
Tao Donglai responded with a smile, "Exactly."
Then Gao Huan took them to visit the nearby oil palm, sugar cane, spices and other planting areas, and explained them one by one.Among them, what Li Nai is most interested in is the spice planting area. There are some spices here that he has seen in the goods he sells, and some of which he has never even heard of.But what makes Li Nai a little regretful is that most of these spice plants are seedlings, and it will take at least one or two years before they are produced.
However, Gao Huan announced another message that quickly brought him back to his senses. At present, the executive committee has mobilized mountain people in the inland Lidong Miao Village area, and has reclaimed more than 2000 acres of land to plant various spices. The numbers are still expanding.After these spices mature, the Executive Committee will purchase them in a unified manner and then sell them to other places.
Undoubtedly, the spices from the Haihan people would be much cheaper than the spices transported across the ocean by those Westerners, and Li Nai immediately wanted to start negotiations on exclusive agency rights.But this time Tao Donglai rejected him with a smile, saying only that it will take time for these spices to mature, and there is no need to rush to order.
The Executive Committee did not intend to simply dispose of spices as a money-making weapon. The Ministry of Commerce has already proposed a plan to form a large-scale spice alliance in the Far East in the future, and use the spice production under the control of the Haihan people to influence Asia. Prices of spices in Europe and two continents.This handicap is too big, even a firm of the size of "Fu Ruifeng" is not enough to fill it in. Tao Donglai doesn't want to give "Fu Ruifeng" some promises about spice trading so early-then there will be With a lot of spices in hand, are you afraid that no merchants will come to Victory Port to squeeze their heads?
In addition to the well-organized farmland and the robust crops, the setting of the farm commune also aroused the great interest of the visitors.Li Nai has never seen or heard of any place where the villages used the Haihan people to organize production in such a way. Teams of farmers gathered and went to work in the farmlands. That scene reminded Li Nai. The militia that just visited.
"Mr. Gao, why are these farmers so obedient to your arrangements? Don't they always remember their farmland when they are working?" Li Nai thought that the dark-skinned Gao Huan was a farmer before, but after explaining the road, now I have already put away my contempt and asked him respectfully.
"You can understand them as tenant farmers. They farm land for the executive committee and use their labor in exchange for their rights to food, clothing, housing and transportation here. We will not force them to work, but if they do not obey our arrangement, they must leave this place Find another way out." Gao Huan explained to him: "When these people came here, they had almost nothing but the clothes on their bodies. If they left here, they would immediately return to the state of having nothing."
"So that's the case." Li Nai nodded and continued to ask, "Then do they have a chance to buy land here?"
"I'm afraid it will be difficult." Tao Donglai concluded the conversation: "Under the rule of our executive committee, no one has the right to buy and sell land, and all land is public property. After these farmers have accumulated a certain level of labor, they can Long-term lease of land, but you will not own the ownership of the land. There are only tenant farmers here, and there will be no landlords.”
"But the land here belongs to me, Daming. Doesn't your arrangement violate the law?" Li Nai asked puzzled.
"It's owned by Daming, that's right. We also have a title deed issued by the magistrate of Yazhou, Daming, stating that the reclaimed land is owned by our Haihan people." Tao Donglai said with a smile on his lips, "I want To correct what I just said, it’s not that there are no landlords here, but there is only one landlord, and that is the Haihan Executive Committee.”
(End of this chapter)
Compared with the arquebus guns he had seen before, Li Nai believed that the Haihan people had the ability to manufacture this kind of red barbarian artillery, because it could well explain why they built so many firearms on the slopes of the port. fort.As far as the scale of the project has been seen so far, although it is still not as good as the fort in Humen, at least such fortifications will never be seen outside ordinary ports.
"I don't know where these Haihan people found the cannon maker." This thought flashed in Li Nai's mind.Most of the cannons used by the Guangzhou garrison were cast in Foshan, and all the local cannon-casters were worshiped as bodhisattvas, and outsiders did not even have the opportunity to come into contact with these mysterious figures.However, with the skills of the artillery builders in Foshan, it is obvious that they cannot manufacture the Hongyi artillery sold by the Haihan people.
When the group returned to the pier, the boy scouts were still waiting under the shade of the trees on the shore. This kind of devotion to duty was naturally praised and encouraged by Tao Donglai.Li Nai and He Qiang were all amazed, those militiamen were nothing more than that, the Haihan people's methods were indeed unique in being able to train these children to be so disciplined.
Under the paddling of the laborers, the boat sailed slowly upstream along the Tiandu River estuary. Tao Donglai was going to take the guests to visit the farm not far away.In the opinion of the executive committee, merely displaying military equipment is far from enough. For a country like Daming, which is still in an agricultural society, food production capacity is also a manifestation of strength.
The farm opened by the Ministry of Agriculture on the east bank of the Tiandu River is not far from the recruit camp at the mouth of the Tiandu River, with only a mountain in the middle.Soon the boat arrived at the pier outside the farm, and Gao Huan, who had been notified, was waiting for their arrival on the trestle.
Gao Huan introduced the current production situation of the farm commune to the guests who came to visit: "We just finished harvesting the last season's rice five days ago, and are currently preparing for the next season's rice planting. Although in the first half of the year we only rushed to plant Two hundred acres of rice, but fortunately, the follow-up care is not bad, all kinds of manure are used enough, and no natural disasters have been encountered. The yield is much better than the expected [-] tons. The final counted yield is a total of eight Over ten tons."
Gao Huan looked at the two merchants from the Ming Dynasty who were bewildered, and explained patiently: "One ton of our Haihan is equivalent to about two thousand catties of Ming Dynasty."
As expected, Li Nai came from a family of merchants, and his mental arithmetic ability is not bad, so he immediately asked in surprise: "One mu of rice harvests more than 400 catties a season?"
"It's a little less. The main reason is that the rush to plant in the first half of the year was too hasty. The yield per mu in the next season should be much higher than this." Gao Huan said a little embarrassedly.
"How little is more than 400 catties per mu?" Li Nai asked very puzzled: "In that two seasons in a year, wouldn't it be possible to grow a thousand catties of rice from one mu of land?"
Gao Huan was taken aback for a moment, and then realized where he was wrong.From the perspective of future generations, it is a bit unreasonable to plant [-] kilograms in two seasons on one mu of land, and the harvest of better hybrid rice varieties in a single season is even more than this.But from the perspective of the early seventeenth century, this output was already against the sky.
Gu Yanwu recorded the yield per mu of rice in the south of the Ming Dynasty in "Rizhilu". Even if it is a ripe field with two seasons a year, the harvest is only four to five hundred catties when it is excellent.In most cases, two to four hundred catties is a relatively normal harvest, and Gao Huan's reported one-season harvest is more than others' one-year harvest, so how could Li Nai not be shocked.If the two parties hadn't been dealing with each other for such a long time, I'm afraid Li Nai would have thought that this group of people would use some kind of magic tricks.
Gao Huan immediately explained: "This is an excellent rice seed we brought from overseas, which is different from the rice seed used in Daming. In addition, we have scientific farming methods, so we can have such a high harvest."
"What kind of theory is this science?" As a scholar, Li Nai immediately became interested.He has already seen that the knowledge of Haihan people is mixed, but he did not expect that they even have knowledge related to farming.
"Science is a way for us to learn knowledge and understand the world, and it is the ideology and spiritual beliefs formed by each of us since childhood." Tao Donglai explained to him.Tao Donglai once used this theory to Luo Shengdong once, which stunned the semi-literate Luo Shengdong.
"Mr. Tao, can you tell me a little bit more?" Li Nai immediately became interested. He really wanted to find out what these Haihan people had in their minds, and they could come up with so many strange things.
"To put it simply, it is to find out the laws of operation of all things, and then understand, summarize and use them." Tao Donglai said while pointing to the bare paddy fields that have been harvested: "Why do rice yields vary? ?”
"Because the fields are divided into raw and ripe, the rice seeds are divided into good and bad, and the farmers are divided into lazy and lazy." Li Nai is not the kind of nerd who can only read rote books, and he answers Tao Donglai's questions clearly and logically.
"That's right, what you said is very good, and the purpose of science is to find out the laws of these things, how to turn raw fields into mature fields as soon as possible, how to select and cultivate high-quality rice seeds, and how to make farmers manage farmland more effectively. This is all science." Tao Donglai explained concisely.
Li Nai half understood what he heard, and it was difficult to digest the meaning of these words for a while.But he soon discovered a new point of interest, pointing to the pergola in the paddy field and said: "Why is this pergola built in the middle of the paddy field? Isn't it very inconvenient for farmers to rest?"
Gao Huan said with a smile: "That's not a place for farmers to rest, it's for shade for fish."
"There are fish in this rice field?" Li Nai leaned over and saw that there were quite a few half-foot-long fish scurrying around in the ditches in the field, which was very lively.
"Fish farming in paddy fields can increase the yield of rice, and fish is also a big income." Gao Huan pointed to the fish in the water and explained: "We stocked fish fry in the field more than three months ago, and we will wait until next spring to plant It can be harvested when it is harvested, at least [-] to [-] catties of fish can be harvested in one mu of land, and about [-] catties can be harvested in these two hundred mu of paddy fields."
Li Nai said thoughtfully: "This is one of the sciences of farming!"
Tao Donglai responded with a smile, "Exactly."
Then Gao Huan took them to visit the nearby oil palm, sugar cane, spices and other planting areas, and explained them one by one.Among them, what Li Nai is most interested in is the spice planting area. There are some spices here that he has seen in the goods he sells, and some of which he has never even heard of.But what makes Li Nai a little regretful is that most of these spice plants are seedlings, and it will take at least one or two years before they are produced.
However, Gao Huan announced another message that quickly brought him back to his senses. At present, the executive committee has mobilized mountain people in the inland Lidong Miao Village area, and has reclaimed more than 2000 acres of land to plant various spices. The numbers are still expanding.After these spices mature, the Executive Committee will purchase them in a unified manner and then sell them to other places.
Undoubtedly, the spices from the Haihan people would be much cheaper than the spices transported across the ocean by those Westerners, and Li Nai immediately wanted to start negotiations on exclusive agency rights.But this time Tao Donglai rejected him with a smile, saying only that it will take time for these spices to mature, and there is no need to rush to order.
The Executive Committee did not intend to simply dispose of spices as a money-making weapon. The Ministry of Commerce has already proposed a plan to form a large-scale spice alliance in the Far East in the future, and use the spice production under the control of the Haihan people to influence Asia. Prices of spices in Europe and two continents.This handicap is too big, even a firm of the size of "Fu Ruifeng" is not enough to fill it in. Tao Donglai doesn't want to give "Fu Ruifeng" some promises about spice trading so early-then there will be With a lot of spices in hand, are you afraid that no merchants will come to Victory Port to squeeze their heads?
In addition to the well-organized farmland and the robust crops, the setting of the farm commune also aroused the great interest of the visitors.Li Nai has never seen or heard of any place where the villages used the Haihan people to organize production in such a way. Teams of farmers gathered and went to work in the farmlands. That scene reminded Li Nai. The militia that just visited.
"Mr. Gao, why are these farmers so obedient to your arrangements? Don't they always remember their farmland when they are working?" Li Nai thought that the dark-skinned Gao Huan was a farmer before, but after explaining the road, now I have already put away my contempt and asked him respectfully.
"You can understand them as tenant farmers. They farm land for the executive committee and use their labor in exchange for their rights to food, clothing, housing and transportation here. We will not force them to work, but if they do not obey our arrangement, they must leave this place Find another way out." Gao Huan explained to him: "When these people came here, they had almost nothing but the clothes on their bodies. If they left here, they would immediately return to the state of having nothing."
"So that's the case." Li Nai nodded and continued to ask, "Then do they have a chance to buy land here?"
"I'm afraid it will be difficult." Tao Donglai concluded the conversation: "Under the rule of our executive committee, no one has the right to buy and sell land, and all land is public property. After these farmers have accumulated a certain level of labor, they can Long-term lease of land, but you will not own the ownership of the land. There are only tenant farmers here, and there will be no landlords.”
"But the land here belongs to me, Daming. Doesn't your arrangement violate the law?" Li Nai asked puzzled.
"It's owned by Daming, that's right. We also have a title deed issued by the magistrate of Yazhou, Daming, stating that the reclaimed land is owned by our Haihan people." Tao Donglai said with a smile on his lips, "I want To correct what I just said, it’s not that there are no landlords here, but there is only one landlord, and that is the Haihan Executive Committee.”
(End of this chapter)