The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 818

The situation in Shanxi is good, and more than half of the city is controlled by the "Red Banner Army" headed by Hanzi and Yang Danian.

There has been no military disaster for more than a year, and the common people can finally give birth with peace of mind.

Last spring, three to four million farmers and villagers in Shanxi planted not only wheat, but also new crops mainly potatoes and maize. On average, each household secured 400 mu of land, and a total of 3000 million mu of land got a good harvest. .

At least 50 stones of wheat can be squeezed out for emergency relief while ensuring that the local villagers have enough to eat.

If the whole potato powder, vermicelli, and vermicelli are converted into refined grains, they can reach 50 shi wheat.

The households belonging to the "Red Banner Army" in Gyeonggi also had a surplus of food. That was because of the extensive potato planting, and there were already tens of thousands of shi of potato powder that could be stored for a long time.

After years of development, the Liaoxi Corridor has no idle fields, and the food produced can also support the mainland, and it has also reserved 10,000+ stone potato flour.

The "Red Banner Army" system faces the sea and requires protein to be effective. Fishing boats have been multiplying in recent years, and the military has given a minimum price for a large number of marine fish products. If the fisherman's output cannot be eaten in the market, the military will use protection The price is open for acquisition.

With the reassurance given by the "Red Banner Army", the fishermen's enthusiasm for production can be imagined.

Because the fishing industry, which relies entirely on manpower and wind power, has extremely limited damage to the ecology, there was no overfishing in the Middle Ages, so fishery resources are abundant.

Seeing that many fishermen borrowed money from the "Sifang Bank" to buy fishing boats to make a fortune, one boat developed into several, and more fishermen participated in the process. The food obtained from the sea every year is no less than 200 million shi.

Canned sea fish with a shelf life of one year has been exported to Shanxi Province. Due to the limited quantity of long-distance trafficking, the supply is in short supply, and the merchants have made huge profits.

This is not surprising. In Shanshan, Henan, and Zhongdu, where wars and natural disasters continued, the grain once reached one or two taels of silver per bucket of rice, and as long as it was food, it could be sold at a good price.

The aquaculture industry in the Liaoxi Corridor and Gyeonggi is in the ascendant. There have been a large number of professional households who raise pigs, chickens, ducks and geese. A large number of poultry eat insects in the fields and forests, which has better curbed the large-scale outbreak of insect disasters.

Only when there is food can there be confidence. Huang Han spared no effort to do additions, which made the last Ming Dynasty produce more than 2000 million shi of grain, and nearly 1000 million more Han people survived.

In response to the imminent famine in Sichuan and the three to four million hungry people in Sichuan, the "Red Banner Army" will definitely do its best to ensure the basic ration supply of these people.

Why is it said that there is a famine in Sichuan soon rather than already?That's because Gu Zhun used the grain reserves of the "Red Banner Army", and asked Qin Liangyu to use the army grain, and requisitioned all the autumn harvest grain from Qin's and Ma's manors.

Qin Liangyu was not at all ambiguous in saving the people from the fire and water. She saw that Gu Zhun disregarded the grain brought by the "Red Banner Army" to give out porridge, and even used the grain sent by the King of Shu to help the hungry people. It disappears into the invisible.

When looking at a person, don't look at what he said, but what he did. Gu Zhun was so busy that he didn't touch the ground, he was really trying to prevent a hungry person from starving to death.

Qin Liangyu, who understands righteousness, can say anything else. Of course, she will call on the white soldiers to do their best to wipe out the bandits and seize more food to alleviate the food shortage.

The reason why Gu Zhun dared to use up all the food in order to complete the order of the general who conquered the captives not to starve to death was because he received an urgent document from Liubaili.

Knowing that the grain ship of Sun Moon Shipping has sailed on the big river, at least 200 million shi of grain will be transported into Sichuan and delivered to the vicinity of Chengdu.

With the intervention of the army, the food stored in the city of Chengdu, including the surrounding cities that had not been breached by the bandits, was used intensively.

Not all of these grains were stored in military rations and official warehouses, but most were borrowed from landlords and bureaucrats. Gu Zhun did not fight local tyrants and divide the land in Sichuan, because the premature intensification of conflicts at this time outweighed the benefits.

The "Red Banner Army" issued a receipt to prove the amount of grain borrowed, and the next autumn harvest will pay off the principal and interest. If the merchant is willing to sell, the "Red Banner Army" will settle the settlement with the highest bid of two silver dollars and one stone of polished rice.

If there are landlords, veterans, and profiteers who want to hoard money to make money for the country, the "Red Banner Army" town governor and propagandists will blatantly inform these people that they will no longer be protected by the "Red Banner Army" and white pole soldiers.

This is actually a blatant threat. If the bureaucratic landlords who own the grain do not borrow and sell the grain, what awaits them is tens of thousands of refugees who will rob them.

If it really develops like that, not only food will be lost, but people will be killed, their belongings will be looted, and houses will be burned to the ground.

Under the power, there are no people who don't know how to praise, and these people have no losses, but they just don't get huge profits. The "Red Banner Army" collected hundreds of thousands of shi of life-saving food in just a dozen days.

Maintaining stability is the main priority, and solving the food problem for millions of people is the top priority. The army forcibly seizes the food stored by bureaucrats and merchants for rations and supplies.

The Chengdu Plain is densely populated, and the land resources can no longer keep up with the needs of population development. It is planned to take advantage of this opportunity to immigrate about 20 households and 100 million people to the "Hanjiang Province" when thousands of households have been harmed by bandits.

Qin Liangyu participated in the suppression of bandits and helped the hungry people for more than a month, and deeply understood the importance of maintaining Sichuan.

Gu Zhun proposed to ensure that the remaining Sichuan residents have acres of land to cultivate, and to ensure that farming can yield a harvest.

If they are ravaged by bandits again next year, even the "Red Banner Army" system will be helpless. Millions of people can barely survive a year of deficit. How can they have this ability after years of deficit?
Qin Liangyu had already lost a lot of enthusiasm for killing the enemy, and now his temper was much less tempered. Seeing that the people in Sichuan would not be displaced, and seeing that the momentum of banditry was contained, of course, he affirmed the achievements of the "Red Banner Army".

After saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year in Chengdu, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, a soldier of the "Red Banner Army" of Qianzong, a guard of Qianzong, and [-] Xiangyong pushed [-] wheelbarrows loaded with [-] shi of rice to Baoning Prefecture.

The white pole soldiers dispatched 7000 people, including Qin Gongming's new battalion, and Qin Liangyu personally led the troops.

Hou Liangzhu of the Sichuan Army sent [-] troops, led by the guerrilla general Hou Cai, the adopted son of Hou Liangzhu who had been demoted to a general.

At the same time, Ma Xianglin, Zhang Fengyi, and Qin Yiming also marched separately to northern Sichuan to defend Qipanguan, Yangpingguan, Lishukou, Jianzhou and other important gateways in northern Sichuan.

General Zhengxi’s Xingyuan will be located in Langzhou City, where the government of Baoning Prefecture is located, where the garrison can be deployed in the center. At this time, the main forces of the rogue bandits are far away in Xi’an and Xianyang. I believe that Qin Liangyu and Gu Zhun can complete the deployment before the spring plowing.

(End of this chapter)