Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1918 Return to Japan ([-]) [-] hectares!
Liu Ping is not an idiot, and it is impossible for an idiot to stay in the prison of ceremonies for a long time without being punished to death, so he immediately swore and swore, generally saying, "The old man has orders, and all slaves will obey them."

"Everything will be obeyed" Yunyun, of course, just listen to it. If Gao Wushi asked him to kill the king, this guy would be scared to death on the spot, and he would not be able to do it no matter what he said.

Fortunately, Gao Wushi did not have such crazy ideas. He really pointed out a clear way for Liu Ping: "If there is a gold mountain overseas, and the gold mountain has no owner. Now I want to get the gold, dare I ask it to control the gold mine?" Is the treasure ship important, or is it important to occupy the golden mountain?"

Liu Ping was taken aback for a moment, and asked with envy in surprise: "Ah! Elder Ge found Jinshan overseas?"

Gao Wushi frowned, and thought: It seems that it is more reliable to tell the emperor directly, at least the emperor will not misunderstand what I mean.

When he frowned, Liu Ping immediately realized that he was thinking wrong, and immediately realized that Mr. Gao Ge was just a metaphor, and immediately rescued him: "Ah, this servant is stupid, and I missed it for a while... Well, this servant thinks that both It is very important. If the golden mountain is not in my hands, how can I get the gold? If the treasure ship is not in my hands, how can I transport the gold?”

Only then did Gao Wushi show a smile, nodded and said, "That makes sense. Now comes the problem: there are already enough gold ships on the market, and the people who control them are not only far inferior to me, but also count on When I eat, I will definitely not refuse to help me transport gold.

But if I just ignore these things, I will insist on building a new ship to transport gold.In this way, they originally thought they could help me transport gold and earn some hard-earned money, but now they have no hope at all... Tell me, are these people willing to agree? "

This metaphor is really straightforward, and Liu Ping understood it now, and immediately looked embarrassed: "This is... a way to cut off people's money. The slaves feel that they will not agree."

"That's right." Gao Wushi nodded repeatedly, and said again: "But these people don't know the golden mountain, especially they don't have the strength to dig such a big golden mountain. If I don't dig this golden mountain, they won't be able to get the gold. The reward... Tell me, is there any way to get the best of both worlds here?"

"Oh... this servant understands!" Liu Ping hurriedly said: "This matter is easy to handle! Then you go to dig the gold mountain all the time, and those people help transport the gold. When the time comes, give them a part of the gold in the Jinshan mountain as a reward. Isn't it wonderful that everyone has gold to earn?"

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "Look, is this a fortune?"

"Uh..." Liu Ping hesitated for a moment, then coughed dryly, "For 'you', this is of course wealth, but what does it have to do with slaves?"

"If you are 'my' confidant, this golden mountain is far away overseas, I can't take someone to dig it myself? Isn't this your chance? If such a big business is in your hands, even if you are high-spirited and upright , but the power contained in it... don't I need to explain it?"

Liu Ping suddenly took a deep breath, and suddenly turned around in his heart: Come on, let's go and raise this matter with the emperor. As long as the matter can be discussed, who will the emperor send to take charge?Chen Lingang (Chen Ju) is in the palm of his hand, so it is impossible for him to hold important positions concurrently. Dongchang and Yumajian can no longer take care of other affairs, so who else is more suitable besides our family?
But there is still a question Liu Ping has to ask: "Master Ge is really a bodhisattva, as if he can't see his slaves suffer, and the slaves are really grateful. But Mr. Ge, what is the 'golden mountain' you are talking about..."

"Eighty thousand hectares of fertile land can be cultivated." Gao Yushi said indifferently.

"Eighty thousand hectares!" Liu Ping was so frightened that he almost popped out his eyes, and his voice trembled, "Eight...eight million hectares?"

Gao Wushi gave a soft "hmm" without any disturbance on his face.

Liu Ping took a deep breath, still felt that the number was too mysterious, and couldn't help reminding: "Old Ge, when Wumiao (Zhengde) was in the whole country, there were only [-] hectares of Huangzhuang... and the emperor a few years ago After Beizhili Huangzhuang was transferred to the people, the current Huangzhuang is probably less than half of what it was in Wumiao."

"These figures were known when the Ministry compiled the Great Ming Huidian." Gao Wushi waved his hand slightly: "That's not the case. How can the Ministry compare it with 'Jinshan'?"

"There are so many good fields overseas?" Liu Ping still felt dizzy and asked, "Where is the land?"

"It's in the Xuanwei Department of the Old Port." Gao Wushi smiled and said, "But you have to listen to what you're obedient to. What the cabinet is talking about is 'recultivable fertile land', not the cultivated fields that have already been cultivated."

"Oh, that's it..." If it's not a ripe field, it will be more troublesome, but Liu Ping is not discouraged, "can be cultivated" can be cultivated, it's nothing special, as long as it is sure that it can be cultivated into good land, there is such a good land Am I afraid that no one will be able to breed?

What's more, the Xuanwei Division of the Old Port doesn't seem to be very remote, and it should be on the edge of the waterway in the impression, so even if you want to send people there, it shouldn't be too difficult.From this point of view, this matter has a lot to do.

Liu Ping is also a guy who does what he says, and immediately said: "Mr. Ge, as long as the number you always said is correct, and most of them are indeed fertile land, then even if the servants gave up more than a hundred catties for this matter, they will definitely go Explain it to the emperor!"

"Eighty thousand hectares, my cabinet department dares to guarantee that there will be no less than one mu. As for whether it is good land, this cabinet department also dares to issue a military order to the emperor. You can ask the emperor to send someone to investigate. At least [-]% of them are top-notch. Medium, with little to no field."

Liu Ping patted his thigh: "Okay, since the old man said so, why would the slave dare not? Just leave this matter to the slave, and the slave will return to Beijing. Please wait for the good news!"

"It's a deal." Gao Wushi nodded with a smile.

Liu Ping said loudly: "It's a deal!"

After discussing this matter, Liu Ping really left immediately, only had time to have a meal in Jinhai, and did not spend the night.After he left, the three secretaries of Gao's uncle and nephew came to look for Gao Wushi.

Gao Wuzheng looked very anxious, and said: "Brother, what's the reason? Eighty thousand hectares of land, don't tell me the Gao family wants these good fields?"

"Is [-] hectares a lot?" Gao Wushi glanced at him, pointed to the map of southern Xinjiang, and said, "It's just the reclaimable part of the land in the southern part of Sumatra Island."

"But that's still [-] hectares! Didn't Liu Ping say that Huangzhuang never reached half of this number at its peak!" Gao Wuzheng still seemed very reluctant.

In fact, although the figure of [-] hectares is astonishing, it has already been "closed and said" for high pragmatism.The so-called "southern Sumatra corner" in his plan just now is probably two provinces in the later Indonesian administrative planning: South Sumatra Province and Lampung Province.

Here is a brief introduction to Indonesian agriculture in later generations—especially the situation in rice-producing areas.

In later generations, the world’s rice production is ranked by country. No. 1 is naturally China, with an output of about 2 million tons per year; No. 2 is India, with an output of about 1.5 million tons; the third is Indonesia, with an output of about 6500 million tons (Note : In recent years, for some reason, it has dropped to about 5500 million tons, but it should not be considered normal).

前十名里面再往后排，大致就是孟加拉国4800万吨、越南3900万吨、缅甸3300万吨、泰国3100万吨、菲律宾1600万吨、巴西1300万吨和日本850万吨。[注：这里要注意现代泰国的面积小于本书中的暹罗。]
Such a comparison shows that Indonesia's rice production is not a joke. It is actually higher than that of the famous rice exporting countries Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia.

Of course, Indonesia has a large population of 2.66 million people in later generations, but that is something for another time. Anyway, in the current survey of southern Xinjiang, the "Nanyang Islands" are obviously in a state of vast land and sparse population, and their production capacity is extremely low. , is in urgent need of development.

So what is the situation of these two provinces in the "southern corner of Sumatra" that are highly pragmatic?

In fact, the area with the best and most arable land in Indonesia in later generations is Java Island, which is the island where its capital Jakarta is located. The area is not large, but it is the best land in Indonesia. It is densely populated and has a lot of arable land. The rice production accounts for more than 60% of the country. .

Outside of Java, the No.1 province with the largest grain output is South Sulawesi, and No.2 and No.3 are South Sumatra and Lampung respectively.

South Sumatra Province is the second largest rice-producing province in the outer islands. For example, in 2020, this South Sumatra Province produced 274 million tons of rice.At the same time, in terms of rice harvested area, South Sumatra province is actually declining almost year by year. It had 2018 hectares in 58, then decreased to 2019 hectares in 54, and recovered a bit in 2020, back to 55 hectares.

There is an unusual situation here that should be noted, that is, the area of ​​a hectare is actually much smaller than a "ha".The weight and measure of hectare is an imported product, and "qing" is the unit of large area in China since ancient times.Specifically, one hectare is equal to 15 mu, but 100 mu is 1 hectare, so 1 hectare is only equivalent to 0.15 hectare.

How big is [-] hectares, it is very clear when you look at it like this - the reason why the ancients described the rich and powerful families as "a thousand hectares of good land" is because the "area" is really big, and one thousand hectares is equivalent to [-] mu.

The area of ​​Lampung Province is much smaller than that of South Sumatra Province, but the area of ​​arable land is almost the same. In 2020, it will be about 55 hectares, and the grain output will be 265 million tons, slightly lower than the former.

Here we only talk about the area. The arable land area of ​​the two provinces in later generations is about 110 million hectares, which is about 16.5 hectares.However, due to urbanization, industrialization, etc. in later generations, the area of ​​cultivated land is actually not as large as in the agricultural era.

Even in terms of the 16.5 hectares of arable land, Gao Yushi actually only allocated less than half of the "cultivable good land" to the emperor, and the rest was enough for him to make other arrangements.

Of course, this is not a top priority, because the top priority is actually a lack of people in the final analysis-the local aborigines really look down on farming, they are too lazy, and in the eyes of the most typical farming peoples, they are completely It belongs to the level of wasting land resources.

Therefore, there is a serious shortage of people in the "Nanyang Islands", and it is clear that there is a lack of people-it doesn't matter whether they are Han or some ethnic minorities with a higher degree of Sinicization. Anyway, going to Nanyang to farm is a blow to reduce dimensionality.

The problem is that it is quite difficult for Gao Wushi to "engage people".He can't just pull people onto the boat, he can almost only wait for the victims, or those who the court can't provide relief, and this kind of victims often drag their families, sometimes with seven or eight members, the real labor force can have Two is fine.

Of course, there are benefits of bringing a family and a family, that is, it is easy to take root in southern Xinjiang and Nanyang, and it is not easy to have the trouble of "returning home" and insisting on returning home to buy property.

The disadvantage is that the pressure of reclamation is not relieved fast enough. It takes at least two generations to have the ability to "expand production".

However, the reason why there are so many problems with Gao Yu's practical work is that he is a "subject" and cannot send the emperor's subjects overseas without returning. Ordinary people use it to farm.

The emperor has a lot of military households in his hands, and they are military households whose ancestors have lost their land for an unknown number of generations, almost belonging to the proletarian type.Let this kind of military households go overseas to farm land, even if they are used as ordinary tenants, the emperor will be soft in collecting rent every year.

How many military households did Ming Dynasty have?To be honest, Gao Yushi, the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, is not clear, even the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies are probably not clear.

Why?Because there are almost no statistics in the later period-the statistics are not clear.

Judging from the roster of guards alone, in the early Ming Dynasty, such as the Hongwu Dynasty, there were 325 guards in the country, and the number of military households was about 180 million. According to the fact that each household sends out one soldier, it is basically impossible for each household to have only one person. There are also more than 500 million people in the "Hujia Military Dependents".

What about Wanli Dynasty?There are 493 guards across the country, nearly 500 of them, and there are 276 million military households on the roster, so there are probably 8 to [-] people.

Moreover, there is an obvious difference between the Wanli Dynasty and the Hongwu Dynasty, that is, there are also hermit households among the military households, the serfs who actually became officers, the number of people is not even sure for high pragmatism-in short, this thing can't be done at all I understand, it's a complete muddle.

The only thing that is certain is: there are a lot of them, as long as the emperor can give land, someone will plant it.

800 hectares of land, [-] million mu, let Gao Yushi gather people, and the hole will be filled in the year of the monkey. But if it is the emperor's Huangzhuang, it can also relieve the pressure on the overcrowded and insufficient arable land. Theoretically speaking Should be a win-win idea.

Of course, there may be another game here. For example, most of the officers of the guards in various places will not be willing to give the best labor to the emperor. Those who are willing to give it are either those with average or poor physical fitness, or those who have a bad temper and are disobedient. thorn head.

But...it's none of his business.Anyway, even if they are thorns, they can only be obedient when they arrive in Nanyang, otherwise the Nanyang Fleet and the Garrison will not spoil them.

Oh, by the way, the Jiugang Propaganda Department is now managed by Annan, and the current Deputy Propaganda Envoy of the Jiugang Propaganda Department is Cen Ling who has moved to the old place of the Aceh Kingdom. Cen Yan's methods are not a joke. [Note: The consolation envoy is nominal, and the deputy envoy, Cen Ling, actually presides over the work. ]
Nanyang is in urgent need of development, and Gao Wushi really doesn't care about giving up some land when the land is vast and sparsely populated. As for Gao Wuzheng's mood, he can only enlighten him.
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