The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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Agricultural mechanization in the Republic of China is mainly widespread in the north, while in the south, because there are more hills and mountainous areas, and there are too many landlords, the investment in agricultural reform is relatively large, so it has not been popularized for the time being. Popularize small agricultural machinery such as tractors and threshing machines.

Although mechanized agriculture has not been popularized, the emergence of tractors has greatly improved agricultural productivity in the south.

Coupled with the extensive use of chemical fertilizers, the grain production in southern China has increased significantly, and it is intensive farming, making the grain production in the south higher than that in the north.

However, as the migration unfolds, the agricultural output of each region will increase. [

Vietnam and Siam in the Nanyang area itself are areas with relatively large grain production, and many agricultural populations who have immigrated out will also produce grain.

With the addition of mechanized agriculture in the north and tax adjustments, there is basically no future for growing grain in the south.

Landlords with foresight have already transformed, and many have switched to planting fruit trees.

In remote mountainous areas, when the population migrates out, those landowners are even more depressed. Although the mountainous area is a mountainous area, people have been relocated, and there is no one to farm for them.

One of the landlords, in a fit of anger, took out all the land and took all the money he had to repair two sheep pens, bought a flock of goats, and turned all the fields in the village into pastures for sheep.The landlord later became a big success, and his pockets bulged within a few years.

Although mechanized agriculture cannot be practiced in mountainous areas, goats do not need to consider the terrain when grazing!And such a large ranch is right in front of you.It's not necessarily a bad thing for people to leave.

In the past, the population was dense, and the villages were either crops or fruit trees. How could they dare to herd sheep on a large scale?

At that time sheep.People have to watch it, and when there are too many sheep, they can't see it, and they run around to eat people's crops. Naturally, this kind of stocking mode can't be done.

It's different now, people are gone, fences are set up in the fields and mountains, and the goats are driven out at noon.Wouldn't it be enough to eat grass all afternoon and rush back to the sheepfold in the evening?

Of course, raising sheep requires skill.The most critical issue is the survival rate of lambs.The gaps in the sheepfold for defecation are also easy to pinch the lamb's feet, and it is easy to be trampled to death if it is alone with the big sheep.

Three sheepfolds can be built, and the ewes that have not given birth and the breeding sheep will be closed in one sheepfold.The castrated rams are put in a sheepfold.The calving ewes and lambs are kept in the same sheepfold, and they are set up into small compartments, and soaked soybeans are placed in salt water to strengthen the nutrition of the ewes.

The pasture is fenced up for round herding. When sheep are herding, they are released in three waves.Put them into different pastures respectively.

Then do a good job in epidemic prevention and choose good breeding sheep.That's basically it.If the scale is large, two employees are invited. If there is a division of labor, it is no problem for one person to manage five or six hundred goats.

When the time comes to sell sheep and sheep dung, the personal output value in the mountainous area will go up!Drive the sheep to the mountains to graze, maybe there can be some special breeding of 'herbal sheep'.

Some landlords were inspired by this, they don't raise sheep, they raise cattle.Although the meat quality of southern buffalo is not as good as that of yellow cattle, yellow beef is suitable for stewing in soy sauce, dry food, etc., while buffalo beef is suitable for soup. The health value of beef is higher.

In addition, cowhide and horns are industrial products, and they are also collected by foreign companies. Of course, they are all processed by themselves now. Because there is no business, foreign companies have closed down one after another in various regions of China.There are also beef tendons that are supplements, and these can be sold for money.Moreover, the buffalo eats thickly, and the reeds that are everywhere in the south can be eaten in big mouthfuls.

Some people engage in comprehensive farming, raising sheep, cattle, chickens, and ducks.

However, raising chickens is not an ordinary way, but to engage in "medicinal" diet farming. Chicken farming in rural areas can't compete with chicken farms, but there has been a luxury in all Chinese dynasties-"medicinal" diet.

Feeding herbs to livestock has become something enjoyed by the rich. [

Of course, those lands in the south that can be farmed mechanized can't grow whatever they want, and they have to report to the Ministry of Agriculture for planning.

Jiang Yuanchuan is now the Minister of Agriculture, and is leading a group of technical officials from the Ministry of Agriculture to investigate and plan.

"At present, the central government is carrying out large-scale immigration and agricultural resource development, so that the number of grain production areas will increase. However, if the commodity grain bases in the traditional administrative areas, coupled with the grain output of the newly added New Deal areas, are not adjusted in time, there will be no In a few years, the food produced by the whole country will greatly exceed the food needs of our country's [-] million people. In addition, there are too many vassal states and food exports. At that time, food prices will plummet. Loss." Jiang Yuanchuan told the Ministry of Agriculture officials at the meeting.

Jiang Yuanchuan, who had just finished his son's wedding, soon devoted himself to agricultural planning.

"It is precisely because of the rapid spread of advanced agricultural technology that the growth rate of grain production is beyond imagination. The problem of food and clothing in our country has been solved, and it is developing towards excess grain production capacity. Therefore, my country's agriculture urgently needs to be transformed. In terms of cotton planting, we A large-scale cotton industry is about to be formed, but it cannot be expanded without restraint. Therefore, we need to achieve comprehensive agricultural self-sufficiency, and at the same time, we must transform agriculture from mainly producing food to producing meat, so that the common people Mainly eating grains has changed to only eating meat..." After Jiang Yuanchuan described the main adjustment direction, he continued:

"First of all, change the latitude 30~40 area to mainly produce soybeans and corn. At the same time, large areas of rapeseed and sunflower are planted in the south and north. Edible oil production base, and establish a sufficiently large feed production base and meat production base. Meat will also be transformed from the main pig industry to the cattle industry..."

Having more agricultural resources is not a bad thing.It is a bad thing to use it all to produce food.

When there are enough agricultural resources, the confidence of the Republic of China will be enough, the first is commercial edible oil.At this time, Westerners did not grow soybeans at all, and the oil industry was not too developed.

During the First World War, due to the European oil industry turned to the production of military products.Coupled with the reduction in cottonseed oil production in the United States, they all come to China to buy soybean oil and rapeseed oil.

Jiangyu arranged for the oil industry before the outbreak of the war, but the supply was still in short supply in the early stage of the First World War, and the oil mills were overloaded.

At this time, Chinese people generally still eat lard.

At the same time, those who sell oil are sold in large barrels, and those who buy oil are also bought in the same way.

The commercialization of lard is relatively cumbersome, and the scale of pig farming will shrink.The supply of meat will change from pork to beef, and the farming industry will increase the size of the cattle industry and reduce the size of the pig industry.So the supply of lard will be reduced.

And it is not so popular for farmers to raise pigs by themselves, because the mode of agricultural production has changed, and it is no longer the traditional period when there are more people and less land, and more pigs can be counted as one.

Therefore, the demand for commercial edible oil in the market will inevitably increase.At the same time, exporting grain also has a market limit.To export all kinds of agricultural products together, it is very necessary to convert grain production capacity into edible oil production capacity.

Shandong produces peanut oil, Sichuan, Northeast China, Henan, Hebei, and northern Jiangsu can grow soybeans on a large scale, and Central Asia can also grow soybeans.

In some areas in the south and north, rapeseed production bases of different scales have been established, which can not only produce rapeseed, but also develop beekeeping.Also produce vegetables.

Beekeeping can also be mechanized. For example, beekeeping in the United States has developed many mechanized tools.One person can manage a thousand colonies of bees.

The sales of commercial edible oil can learn from the foreign capital of later generations and engage in small barrels of edible oil.

Then monopolize the supply of commercial edible oil in all the affiliated countries of China, and also monopolize the commercial edible oil market in India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and some countries in Europe and South America, making China the world's largest exporter of commercial edible oil .

In addition to the four main oils, soybean oil, peanut oil, rapeseed oil, and sunflower oil, there is another one that is palm oil.

Palm oil is a tropical vegetable oil. Palm trees produce a lot of oil, so palm oil is very cheap, and it is mainly used as oil for frying food. [

Palm oil is a tropical oil, so it will be grown on a large scale in the tropics.

The plan proposed by Jiang Yuanchuan is to increase the planting of oil crops and feed crops, and the area of ​​wheat planting can be reduced.

Nowadays, there are indeed many grain production bases in China, especially in the Nanyang region. Due to the intervention of Chinese national capital, the agricultural resources of Vietnam and Siam have begun to use more advanced agricultural technology, and grain production will be greatly increased.Central South Province will also become a large-scale rice production base.

In addition to the new fields that have been reclaimed, the Indochina Peninsula is already a super-large granary. There is no problem in planting three crops of rice a year, but many crops are planted in two crops.

The poor-tasting three-season rice is exported to Japan and other countries in the world.The locals eat two-crop rice. The Xiaozhan rice produced by Yuan Shikai during his military training in Xiaozhan, as well as Northeast rice, fragrant rice, and black rice are high-quality rice, which are supplied in large quantities to the local market of the Republic of China.

Others include the Republic of South China, which also produces a lot of rice. As for Luzon Province, the level of agricultural development is relatively high, and the main cash crops there are not much commercial grain.

At the same time, after Mongolia and Central Asia are developed, they can also produce a lot of wheat.

Wheat can also be grown in Mongolia. Once the North-to-South Water Diversion Project is implemented, Mongolia will be next to each other, and agricultural production will be very convenient.

At this time, the world population is only 16 billion, and the competition for food export is very high.However, under mechanized agriculture, the cost of grain is relatively low, so China's grain exports are not afraid of competition.

If it cannot be exported, food aid can be provided to improve the international image.

Everyone is producing food, but in terms of oil production, countries lack scale and industrialization. For example, soybeans, the main edible oil in the future, are now only produced on a large scale in China.

Therefore, Jiang Yu asked his father to work hard on the production of oil crops. At the same time, he can also engage in the production of high-quality agricultural products and specialty food.

High-quality agricultural products are exported, and the price is naturally more expensive. At the same time, they can supply the domestic market and improve the quality of life of ordinary people.

There are too many special foods, such as Jinhua ham, which is absolutely full of French foie gras, and Xuanwei ham, also called cloud leg, which is currently produced by the cannery of the consortium as "cloud leg luncheon meat" , "Cloud Leg Blockbuster", are very popular, sold to the European battlefield during the First World War, welcomed by soldiers of both camps.

On the economic level, the plan proposed by Jiang Yuanchuan is to be self-sufficient and avoid the loss of foreign exchange caused by China's import of too many agricultural products.At the same time, a large amount of foreign exchange is exchanged for the export of sustainable agricultural products. When the foreign exchange is exchanged, it is naturally not depreciated in the hands, but used to purchase raw materials and overseas assets.

Imported agricultural products will definitely be imported, but it is to import high-quality agricultural products that cannot be produced in China, but obviously not many.

China's territory extends from the extreme north to the equator, and even extends to the southern hemisphere. There are very few crops that cannot be produced.

At the same time, because of the small population in this era, countries around the world have no food pressure. Therefore, China can use the developed agricultural resources to develop animal husbandry, and it can also grow a large amount of corn to develop cattle breeding.

This will not reduce the gross personal product, but the land required to produce the same weight of food will be greatly increased, but the food specification level will be increased.

In this way, some land resources are consumed, so that after China develops a large amount of agricultural resources, there will be no overcapacity, and at the same time, the quality of life of the people will be improved, and every agricultural production worker will be able to earn money.

At the same time, because Jiang Yu is willing to spend money on agricultural technology research, and the research direction is very clear, the agricultural production technology of the Republic of China has been continuously improved.

Advanced production tools, coupled with continuously improved varieties, as well as large-scale production and scientific management, have not only developed agricultural productivity, but also applied it to the actual production field.

As long as the agricultural resources in the newly added administrative regions are developed, and the north-to-south water diversion project develops the agricultural and animal husbandry resources in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, and eastern Xinjiang, China will only have a population of about [-] million. , self-sufficiency is very simple.

You must know that China's land area is twice that of the United States. Although there is some moisture in the useful land, it cannot support such a huge land area.

Of course, it will take some time to develop it.

The first is the road traffic problem, which is easy to solve in the Nanyang region. The railway and road can be connected to the port without much repair, and then transported by ocean-going merchant ships.

The Northeast Administrative Region, the Central Asian Administrative Region, and the Beihai Administrative Region are all relatively flat, that is to say, the Beihai Administrative Region has slightly more mountains, but they are only sporadic. Most of the flat areas are colder.

Generally speaking, the railways and roads in these three developed areas are relatively easy to repair. Although these areas are not easy to start in winter, Kazakhstan and the Northeast are at the same latitude, so it is as cold as the Northeast, so winter The road cannot be repaired, and the Beihai area only has half a year to repair the road.

Those who immigrated there had to hide on the kang at home in winter. (To be continued..

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