Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1672 Controversy over the colonial plan

"That's not enough."

"Old Si, you see that you really don't know much about the folk customs of Guangdong. Although Cantonese, Chaoshan and Hakka are all Han Chinese in Guangdong, the relationship between them is far from being as simple as 'not dealing with each other'. Fighting each other It is the rhythm of killing the whole family. And this kind of fighting does not change because of the migration. The Qing Dynasty moved some Hakkas from Guangdong to Hainan because of the fighting of the natives. If you put these two groups of people together, and you get the Hokkien people mixed in, it’s because you think they’re not happy to kill them.”

"You mean none of these people can use it?"

"What I mean is: before systematic social transformation has been carried out, the original social structure has been broken, and modern national and civic consciousness has been instilled in them, it is useless to just play tricks of using barbarians to control barbarians and check each other. It will only further intensify Contradictions, and even lure wolves into the house. In the old time and space, did the Chinese in Southeast Asia play the game of "holding barbarians and self-respect", seducing the natives to slaughter their compatriots? You must know that in the old time and space, most of the most ruthless overseas Chinese were Chinese. In the 17th century, this situation will only be more serious .” Ran Yao scolded.

"It's not impossible for Xue Ruowang to build a plantation, but he can't choose Palembang - that is the territory of the Emirate of Aceh. The Dutch have a little influence, but Aceh is not a vegetarian. Let's get involved, and the power investment is less We can’t keep it, and it’s useless if we invest too much. Xiaoxue squats in Batavia and can’t take care of Palembang. We have to send another veteran to watch it...Since we are planning to open a stronghold in Brunei for oil production, the hot plant garden is placed That’s Brunei.” Wood has actually shot down the plan, “As for Xiao Xue, his work in Batavia is still very important, especially to urge the Dutch to plant our rubber well.”

What Wu Nanhai is most concerned about is the thermal plantation. He immediately stated: "I am [-]% in favor of developing tropical plantation. I have no opinion on where to build it. I am afraid that the Dutch are unreliable. No one has established a rubber plantation in this time and space. They also have to figure it out slowly. I think it’s more reliable for us to handle it ourselves. I have a veteran named Xiao Hezhou who has always wanted to engage in rubber plantation, or let him handle the Brunei business.”

"Xiao Hezhou? Have you ever fried chicken chops in the cafeteria—his coconut crispy chicken chops are pretty good, but I heard that he is in finance or something, do you know rubber?"

"He is no longer in the cafeteria. Now he is working as an agricultural technician in our farm's hot work experiment garden, and also as a technician in a food factory: in addition to chicken chops, he can actually make fish floss—not to mention this, but to say I don’t know how to plant rubber, but I have to learn from scratch. I think he is very motivated.”

"As long as he himself is willing to go to Brunei, I don't think it's a problem." Ma Qianju said, "It is the last word to let the veterans go out and take charge of their own affairs. Of course, open recruitment still needs to be done, and if there are more suitable candidates, they can go. "

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Ma Qianju turned the document over and said, "Next, let's talk about agriculture, especially food. There is not enough food and people's hearts are not stable. If we want to conquer the mainland, we need to send a lot of food to buy it." People's hearts protect people's power."

Wu Nanhai cleared his throat; "Let me briefly say that the arable land we directly manage in Hainan, Taiwan and Jeju Island - including state-owned farms and contracted land under the name of Tiandihui - has a total of about 100 million dry land and paddy fields. Mu. Next year, 50 mu of paddy fields will be planted with two seasons of rice and one season of safflower. The average yield per mu of the two seasons can be about 600 catties of rice, and the combined brown rice is about 450 catties. Calculated based on the average grain requirement of 30 catties per person per month, the amount of rice This project can feed 62 people. Considering that this is only our directly managed land, and the harvest of Hainan’s farmers and landlords has not been counted, it is not a problem to feed the people in Hainan, Taiwan and Jeju Island.”

"Is the yield per mu a bit high? I remember that pesticides and fertilizers have never been sufficient. Not all arable land in state-owned farms has been improved." Ma Qianzhu expressed concern.

"Part of the 50 mu has been improved with water and soil, and some are paddy fields with better conditions. Coupled with our advantages in seed and field management, it is completely possible to achieve this average yield per mu. I have done research: Hainan In agricultural counties like Qiongshan and Wenchang, the yield per mu of paddy fields can reach more than 2 shi in a single crop of late rice in normal years.”

Wu Nanhai spoke unequivocally, and everyone nodded frequently.Although they were ordinary people in the past, they have become important government officials in charge of one side in recent years, and they understand the importance of food to the country better than before.

"The remaining 50 mu are mainly dry land and paddy fields with poor conditions. Except for some cash crops, I plan to use all of them to grow potatoes, sweet potatoes and miscellaneous grains. It is still difficult to feed 40 people with this part of the output. owned."

100 million people, which is almost the entire population of the Senate.However, farmers supported themselves and had to pay land taxes to the Senate. The Senate could also import rice from Beiqi and Siam as a supplement.These grains are the capital for their Guangdong-Guangzhou strategy.

"...The main problem in our agriculture is still repeating the same old tune. Modern agriculture has three magic weapons: seeds, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides. We have seeds, but the breeding scale has not kept up. Less than [-]%; there are too few chemical fertilizers, and now we rely on planting green manure and fermentation of feces garbage to replace nitrogen fertilizers, and use struvite and fishmeal instead of phosphate fertilizers, which not only has low fertilizer efficiency, but also consumes a lot of labor; the biggest problem with pesticides: we basically cannot produce chemical fertilizers. Pesticides can only rely on so-called soil pesticides. The main raw materials of soil pesticides are plants. Large-scale production requires large-scale planting, which requires a lot of land and manpower, and has poor efficacy and short storage time. It is very costly in terms of cost. It’s not cost-effective. Modern fine varieties generally don’t consider pests and diseases when optimizing, so the demand for pesticides is particularly large. I hope that the chemical industry can make breakthroughs in organic pesticides as soon as possible.”

Zhan Wuya thought for a while and said: "The chemical industry is indeed our shortcoming. If we want to make a breakthrough, we have to rely on materials. Our processing technology is seriously surplus, and there is a serious shortcoming in materials. Just now we talked about the electric furnace, if It can be done, and the doors of chemical industry and electric power can basically be opened. Now there is manganese in Hainan, and there is a little molybdenum in a small tungsten mine. The plan is to mine in the first year, but we still lack too many things. Mainly chromium , nickel, without which we basically can’t enter the chemical industry, whether it is petrochemical or coal chemical industry, there is no hope for synthetic ammonia and pesticides.”

"Chromium and nickel are very difficult to obtain. It's not that refining is difficult, but that there was no place to mine and refine these two metals in the 17th century: we have to build an industrial chain from beginning to end. The key is that these two kinds of mines in China It's hard to find..."

"Isn't Lando in charge of this in the Philippines?"

"Philippines, just the difficulty of mining mines makes me shudder." Wu De frowned, "It's okay to say that in the tropical virgin jungle, the ore should be at the seaside, but in the inland, it would be a miracle to find the ore veins alive..."

Hainan itself has nickel ore and chrome ore reserves, and the Shilu cobalt-copper mine in Changhua is quite rich in nickel ore reserves.However, there are problems of small reserves and low grade, and the mining cost is not small, which is a typical tasteless resource.

"Nowadays, Southeast Asian companies should not be satisfied with trade. They need more elements of exploration and development." Ma Jia suggested, "We want to promote mixed ownership, which is what Southeast Asian companies are. I think we can go further. , to absorb more private maritime capital and manpower into the company, to grant more independent management rights, we can follow some practices of Europeans, we must support and encourage adventurers to go out, don't think about 'out of control', with our strength, Where can a little colonial power go out of control? Make full use of civil power to find and obtain resources for us, and don’t interfere too much. Now we have to do everything ourselves: some technical issues have to be like this, but things like mining, Can it be completely handed over to private capital to operate? The key is to regulate it legally.”

"You really stay true to your profession." Wu De laughed, "Do you want to make an exploration law or a colonial law? By the way, your law society has been tossing around for so many years, except for the "Public Security Regulations", "Marriage Regulations" and A formal law other than the "General Principles of Civil and Commercial Law" has not been enacted, so when it comes to trial, it will be covered up with "Australian precedents", which is simply free testimony..."

The vest blushed, and argued: "The law is a very serious matter. We must consider all aspects. Besides, our work is not simply copying the law, but also combining the specific conditions of this time and space. We must be cautious. The so-called full investigation On the basis of the research, we collected the strengths of all families..." He was afraid that everyone would follow up and question the work efficiency of the Law Society, so he hurriedly said, "Our Law Society has already drafted the "Marriage Law", "Criminal Code", and "Civil Code" It's about the same. Don't underestimate these laws. The "Marriage Law" contains the basic content of the civil law with the small family as the core, such as the inheritance law, and provides legal protection for us to establish a new social atmosphere. "Criminal Code" And the "Civil Code" has prepared a legal basis for us to suppress and liquidate clan tyrants and all kinds of ghosts and snakes. With these few laws, we basically have the basis for ruling the country according to law."

Xiao Zishan asked: "How is the position of the elder in your law?"

Vest said: "The first paragraph of every law says that the elders are sacred and inviolable. The elders are the pillars of the country. The elders are not subject to the laws of this department. Barabara. common program."

(End of this chapter)