Win the Ding 1617

The layout of Jinan City is roughly the same as that of other inland cities, with the widest street leading to each city gate as the main road of the whole city.Neizhong residential area is commensurate with the square, and the square is called the shop.

The streets and alleys in the city are dense, many streets are not straight, especially the sanitation situation in the city, there are also many problems.The streets in the city are full of dust, garbage and excrement, especially the ditches are seriously congested, and many streets are collapsed and potholed, which is obviously in disrepair.

However, the city is a different scene at this time.

According to the rules when the Southern Guangdong Army managed Jinan City a few years ago, countless people wearing various symbols organized the disaster victims and beggars who flowed into Jinan Prefecture from all over to clean up and clean up the garbage.In fact, these things were originally established by the governments of various places in Ming Dynasty. There are specific regulations on how to repair roads, dredge ditches, and clear garbage, and they are managed by special departments.The famous labor model student Zhu Yuanzhang even stipulated that the shackles should be issued for a month for scatter and litter along the street. During the Wanli period, in the writings of many Western missionaries, the city management of Daming was no less than heaven.

But since the Tianqi years of the Zhongzhengying dynasty, all this has changed with the gradual collapse of the country's finances. The environment has deteriorated day by day. Whenever there is heavy rain, the whole city will be flooded.Difficult to move through the mud.Whenever the weather is sunny and dry, the dust will fly and flies will fly.Refugees and beggars who flowed into Jinan from all parts of Shandong sweated profusely on the streets of the city, clearing out truckloads of rubbish accumulated over the past two or three years.Some discordant voices could not stop coming from the bustling labor scene.

"Throw that horse! When I went north from Jinan to the capital last time, I left the place clean and handed it over to the officer in charge. It's only been a while, and I have become such a virtue again!"

"Forget it. Old Hong, these officials are like this. Everywhere has the same virtue. Isn't it the same in Guangzhou. Before the lord managed it, it was also a mess? Look at it now?!"

"Ha! You two guys also said that you are so old, and now you are still the whistle chief, how dare you scold others?"

"If I, Old Hong, hadn't been able to read so many words because of my poor reading skills, I would have been a battalion officer a long time ago!" In this winter, the fate waiting for them is nothing more than freezing to death or becoming a bandit.Daming once set up various nursing homes, canteens, and porridge factories to distribute money and rice to the hungry.Medical assistance, burying and discarding corpses, etc., but it is obvious that the ability to provide relief is seriously insufficient.Relief is just a drop in the bucket.

"Our ancestors were virtuous, and Uncle happened to be in Jinan at this time."

The victims had already received news that they were either sent to various farms and became tenants of Uncle Ning Yuan.Or they were sent to Dengzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture, where they boarded huge sea ships and sent them to Nanzhong to open up wasteland.After several years of hard work, we can also be landlords with tens of acres of well-watered land.Some people are secretly looking forward to the bright future of going south to reclaim wasteland.

If they knew that if they were sent to Shizhou or the land of the Yin and Shang survivors mentioned by Ruoshuidao Chang, what would a few tens of mu of land be worth?

these days.Almost every few days, a group of refugees are screened and formed into a team.I left Jinan happily and went to Jiaodong and other places.

"Master. These days, we have sent a total of nearly 10 people to Jiaoao and other ports. Most of them are whole families, and a few are widows, women and children."

In the temporary courtyard converted into the De Palace, the guard was leaning on the arhat bed in the flower hall, listening to several subordinates reporting to him the progress of these days.

The purpose of going to Shandong is firstly to wipe out the religious bandits and the fleeing Qing army here, and to block their possible connection with the peasant army, and secondly for the population of Shandong and the cotton produced by various farms.

"In addition to the population, the bulk of the goods transported away is cotton." The leader of the event also happened to mention this seemingly inconspicuous thing, but it can ruin the jobs of many people in Nanzhong.

According to the regulations of the Southern Guangdong Army, every refugee going to Jiaodong must carry at least [-] catties of cotton on his back. Remember, this is the per capita standard, as long as it can eat, it counts as one.

"Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton waiting to be transported in Rizhao, Jining and other farms. There are still a lot of wheat, sorghum, beans, etc. in the farm warehouses in the above-mentioned areas. Please tell me how to deal with these grains? "

"We have gathered more than [-] strong men in these farms and formed forty supplementary battalions. Except for the firearms armor and other things that cannot be prepared in full, the rest of the weapons are complete. From the seventh The officers transferred from the brigade and the fleet are familiarizing themselves with the team. The eldest lady sent an urgent letter from Ningyuan, requesting that the more than [-] people be transferred to the front line of Ningyuan for her command and use."

Leaning on the Arhat bed, the guard heard the urgent military situation in front of him, and couldn't help but miss the days in Nanzhong and Guangzhou. At that time, there were agencies such as the office for daily affairs and government affairs and military affairs. Yes, but now you have to do everything yourself.

"The grain stored in the farm should only be used for refugees and military supplies. If there is the capacity to transport the wheat and sorghum to Jinan, just transport them. Denglai and other places have more than enough, so they will be transferred to Luxi."

Wheat and sorghum are high-quality rations for the people in Shandong.Especially sorghum.It is not only a human ration, but also a good nutrition for mules and horses.

Maybe some people should say why they don't vigorously promote the planting of corn and other high-yielding crops in Shandong. Many great gods do this.but.I have to tell you that the first pig's foot is in urgent need of cash crops such as cotton.The second reason is that it took nearly 100 years for corn to replace sorghum.Can you imagine that it took a few years for the pig's feet to go through this process?

"As for the 1 troops, we will give temporary designations to the supplementary brigades, called the supplementary first brigade, second brigade, and third brigade. The brigade commanders will be selected from among Zhang Xiaohu's subordinates and officers from the fourth town. A brigade for Ningyuan front."

"You write another inscription in Benbo's name, and play it to the emperor and Yousi. Tell them about Benbo's mobilization of more than [-] people into three supplementary brigades. Please put it on record."

Although Shou Han didn't expect the court to give him any food and supplies, he really hoped that the three brigades could be confirmed by the court.

"My lord, when I came from Henan, I met Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing's army. They asked their acquaintances to convey their feelings of guilt to the lord."...

Chen Guoxi, who was in charge of the transaction activities with Li Zicheng's subordinates in Longshengxing, told Er Liu's attitude in Fujian Mandarin in a slow manner.

"Do they still want to ask Lao Tzu for provisions and ordnance payment?"

"No, I definitely don't dare. Their intentions, one, hope to kill the enemy and make meritorious service under the lord's command. Two, they want the lord to sell them some weapons, food, grass and meat. They are willing to use money, materials, and people to pay exchange."

"Send them a military order and tell them. As long as the head of Jiannu is beheaded, I will not spare any rewards! Besides, Daxizi. You have to work hard again, go meet these two Lius, and tell them that you want to be with me. The Nanyue Army can do business. If you promise two things, if you can do it, you can buy and sell anything!"

Chen Guoxi couldn't help but his wide nose twitched, which clearly expanded his business scope!

"Please tell the Lord!"

"One, if you want to do business with us, you have to see if they have the qualifications. You can cut off ten slave heads within ten days after seeing them. Not too many. Ten is enough! Second, Ben Uncle and the Nanyue Army’s industries in Shandong. They had better not make any wrong ideas in Shandong. Otherwise, they will be the ones to lose. Starting in the spring of next year. Don’t disturb the vicinity of Uncle’s farm.”

The people listened, but they didn't say anything. Those who reported the situation to the guard in the room were not like the staff of other departments. have practical work experience.

Although cotton is a crop that can bring huge economic benefits, it also requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

Sowing seeds after the beginning of spring is the beginning of a lot of investment.

First of all, the cotton seeds should be bred in a nutrient pot made of bamboo or straw.In that bowl, bean cakes, fermented manure, bone dregs, etc. were mixed with fine sand to provide sufficient nutrients for the cotton seeds.About one mu of cotton field needs about 2000.After half a month of cultivation, seedlings soon appeared in the pot.

At this time, these nutrient bowls will be transplanted into the field.

Sow the seeds at the beginning of spring and Qingming, move them into the field after ten months, and grow for another month. When the nutrients in the nutrient bowl are almost consumed, topdressing and deworming are carried out.After that, it is necessary to carry out pruning and topping. The so-called pruning means to keep the largest male branch, and cut off all the rest.Then knock off the top buds.After the beginning of autumn, the border core is knocked out, and the basic task of the cotton growth stage is completed.

But don't be too happy too early, more tiring and more labor-intensive work is yet to come.

Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, cotton bolls must be picked. When the autumn rains are coming, all the bolls must be picked within a few days, and then the cotton seeds are removed to turn the raw cotton into lint.

Calculated in this way, the hundreds of thousands of acres of cotton planted in Shandong, if it hadn't been for the Southern Guangdong Army to invest a large amount of food regardless of the cost, and use various materials to purchase corresponding items from nearby areas, I am afraid that it would have been dragged down by the huge investment. .

In this way, if you plan to change the land that was originally planted for grain to plant cotton next year, in addition to a large amount of ration input.It is human input.A rough calculation shows that almost one mu of cotton fields requires at least two or three laborers to look after it.

Thinking of these, Shou Han felt slanderous in his heart.I can't wait to strangle the unscrupulous author to death: Nima's!Why do other traversers casually grow special cotton and supplement it with a Jenny machine or even a mule machine to make a lot of money in combed cotton?Are you making things difficult for me? !

In fact, those people can't be blamed for this kind of thing, at least their level is about the same as a certain real person who claims to find him for food.It is obvious that they don’t know that planting cotton requires a lot of labor and food. Don’t forget that the British promoted cotton planting in India and imported a large amount of machine-woven fabrics, which made the Ganges plain such a famine. Where you can't starve to death, you can get a lot of bones!

This stupid real person actually thinks he is extremely smart, and regards cotton planting as something that can be done at any time. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the chairman has built farmland and water conservancy projects throughout the country.He criticized measures such as increasing grain production, just like Mr. Wang, he believed that there is no grain, and we can buy tens of millions of tons from him all over the world.

In addition to food, more is labor.

On the one hand, Shou Han wants to bring the labor force from Shandong to Nanzhong, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions to change the ethnic composition there.On the one hand, it is necessary to vigorously promote cotton planting in Shandong. This cotton is the most labor-intensive crop.

Don’t you see, in the many literary and artistic works of American emperors, it is in the plantations of southern slave owners.They all raise thousands of black slaves to do this extremely physical work.Even after Lincoln freed the slaves, the blacks still worked on the plantations.Because growing cotton is too much labor

After the outbreak of World War II, the Yankees also took many Hans prisoners of war to grow cotton, liberated many blacks, and let these blacks engage in low-end industrial production or go to the front line to fight.

As a result, the farms in Shandong have fallen into an extremely weak stage.

Therefore, Shou Han has to deal with these inland military town leaders against his will.

There is enough fodder for the looms to dismount the horses.In addition to provoking wars between various lords and sultans in India, Shou Han also needed to find another source of raw materials.And Shandong is the most suitable one.

If it weren't for the unstable situation in Shandong, Shouhan even planned to choose a suitable area to build a textile factory here.Combining from the origin of raw materials to the origin of products, the transportation cost of the intermediate link is minimized.

But looking at it now, the conditions for this idea are extremely inadequate.

However, this matter is immature, but there is another matter that others come to the door.

A young man with a white face and no green coat or cap stood outside the door with his waist slightly bowed, asking the guard for instructions with a somewhat peculiar voice.

"My lord, Miss Huang and Mrs. Qimuge from the back house sent me here. I would like to ask my lord, do the gentlemen have their lunch here, or go to the flower hall?"

Hearing the very familiar voice, Chen Guoxi couldn't help frowning slightly. Is this a eunuch? !

Yes, Wang An who came to report the letter and Wang Xi who stood outside the door were both eunuchs rewarded by Chongzhen to Uncle Ning Yuan.One of the twenty eunuchs carefully selected by Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua from tens of thousands of eunuchs in the palace.

Originally, they each had a first and last name, but Shou Han changed their surnames to Wang in order to temporarily prevent them from contacting the outside world, and at the same time renamed them according to the auspicious words such as Ping An Xi Le.In this way, even if someone came to look for them, they would not be able to match their original names with the current eunuch Wang.

In addition to this simple method, several intelligence and internal security agencies of the Southern Guangdong Army quietly placed eyeliner around the twenty eunuchs.God knows what mission they have?

Hearing this sentence, Shou Han paused slightly, his face was slightly cinnabar.

The Miss Huang and Mrs. Qimuge mentioned by Wang An are the beauties presented by Huang Yunfa a few days ago.

It would be a bit too thin to offer only a few labor supplies, mules, horses, pigs and sheep, and it is not worthy of the title and official position of the Shou Han.In addition to the above-mentioned materials, Huang Yunfa even offered his so-called niece from the clan to provide the Lord's daily food and daily service.

However, when night fell, when two small sedan chairs carried the woman into Prince De's mansion, the head of the guard who was in charge of the reception was a little dazed. The two women seemed to be a pair of sisters, and they didn't know which one to keep?Think about the two Siamese ladies in Nanzhong Palace, aren't they also a pair of sisters?Ever since, the soldiers waved their hands and signaled the bearers to carry the two sedan chairs into the guard's residence.Then he sent the escorting Huangfu family members to get the reward and leave.When the headed family members showed distress, the leader of the soldiers, Ah Xia, an upright and loyal man from the Tong family, drew out his waist knife and threatened, "What do you want?"

When Shou Han put on a lingerie dress and looked at the red sun outside the window with satisfaction, he realized that he had sung a mandarin duck song with some mistakes and mistakes.

Those are not sisters, they are the daughters of Huang Yunfa's foreign house and the foreign house.

Originally, it was the mother, Qimuge, who was a little worried. Although it is common for women to be sent and robbed among the Mongolian tribes, after all, she has lived in the Central Plains for a long time, and her daughter was sent to the plain. Uncle, who has a bad reputation, warms the bed, and he is a little scared.So the mother escorted him to Xingyuan.

Unexpectedly, this trip will be like a sheep entering the tiger's mouth.

ps: Chinese New Year is also tiring.This chapter was barely scraped together in a few days.It may be a bit scattered, but it is a transition for the development of future chapters, so please read it first.