During the autumn harvest season, the North China Plain is endless golden again. After Zhu Youxiao's efforts over the years, the people on the North China Plain have relief and tax exemption due to disasters. If you don't have enough food, you can apply for assistance from the Civil Affairs Bureau, and you can also immigrate to the Northeast and other places. There are many construction sites to recruit workers, and the people have a lot of life.&1t;/p>

The most obvious change is in Beizhili. Now Beizhili has basically no wasteland, and farmers can live and work in production in a peaceful and peaceful manner during the busy farming season. Such changes are mainly due to the huge changes in the distribution of agricultural interests and production models of Beizhili. In addition, the water conservancy facilities are complete, and the entire Beizhili collects and collects knots in autumn.&1t;/p>

Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, and Gansu are far behind. However, in recent years, the imperial court has implemented the baojia system in these provinces and restored corvee labor. Through corvee labor and court funding, many water conservancy projects have been repaired. The agricultural situation has improved slightly. Especially in the sixth year of Tianqi, the imperial court began to allocate funds to govern the Yellow River. Although the scale of governance is not very large, it is not small, and it has also made some general improvements to the agriculture of northern provinces.&1t;/p>

At this time, Zhu Youxiao adopted the policy of reforming one or two provinces first, and including the newly opened provinces within the scope of the new policy. After these new policy provinces are displayed, they will use the fiscal revenue of these new policy provinces to subsidize and expand those backward provinces.&1t;/p>

The northern provinces were affected to a certain extent by earthquakes. After this magnitude 7 earthquake that affected the four provinces, the four provinces in North China suffered considerable losses. After the earthquake, with the help of the court, they have begun to recover quickly.&1t;/p>

The beans in the Northeast region matured in the autumn of this year because the land was fertile and the yield per mu was very good. With a large amount of livestock power, it was no problem for a family to operate 300 acres of land to grow beans. After all, beans are just a thing. Just turn the ground and then plant the bean seeds directly, and then you can let them grow later.&1t;/p>

In autumn, you can harvest a dozen beans with a soybean harvester made by a machine manufacturer and you can get a lot of commercial soybeans.&1t;/p>

These soybeans have a wide range of sales in various provinces within the Guanzhong province. In addition to people eating beans, livestock also demands soybeans. Especially after the Ming Dynasty obtained a large number of horses from Mongolia, and even breeding cattle and sheep, they also need to feed some soybeans.&1t;/p>

After drying these soybeans, they will be transported to various places and ports by carriage, and then transported to coastal provinces, Yangtze River Basin provinces, Taiwan and Nanyang.&1t;/p>

This year is the second-yield commercial soybean in the Northeast region, and commercialization brings the advantage of high-efficiency production. Because of the short time of sunshine in Heilongjiang, soybeans can only be planted, which have a faster maturity and have no demand for strong sunshine.&1t;/p>

Soybean output in Northeast China can also allow farmers in the inner region to no longer have to grow soybeans on a small scale. Soybeans can be obtained through exports from other places. Farmers in Heilongjiang can exchange the goods they need by growing soybeans on a large scale.&1t;/p>

Soybeans can also be used to squeeze vegetable oil, which was found in China for a long time. Americans did not learn the technology of soybean squeeze from China until modern times.&1t;/p>

Soybean oil can also be used in military production. Of course, there is no such military project in the Ming Dynasty, and zha medicine currently only has black gunpowder. However, as the first batch of students who graduated from the Royal Academy of Sciences mastered chemical knowledge, these things may not be able to be produced in a long time.&1t;/p>

Cotton has also matured in autumn. The cotton production areas in Henan, Shandong, and northern Jianghuai are stimulating in cotton prices in recent years. The cotton planting area continues to expand.&1t;/p>

Beizhili also increased the cotton planting area in the sixth year of the Tianqi period, because Beizhili can obtain a lot of commercial grain from the outside, and the production of commercial grain in the Northeast region is getting higher and higher. The scale of commercial grain imports in Taiwan, Nanyang and other places will continue to increase, and cotton has become an even scarce resource.&1t;/p>

There are also a lot of cotton produced in Nanyang, which are mainly from Luzon and Jawa Island. Luzon has plantations run by the Spanish. Cotton is one of the main planting projects, and there are tobacco, sugarcane and pepper. Jawa Island also produces a lot of cotton, but it is less than Luzon.&1t;/p>

After the Ming Dynasty established its dominance in Luzon and Java, it first increased the cotton planting area in Luzon.&1t;/p>

Overall, Luzon's cotton planting industry can still make up for the Ming Dynasty's problem of preventing insufficient supply of raw materials. Therefore, the planting scale was expanded according to market demand.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao didn't have so many ideas about the cotton production areas in Xinjiang in the future. After all, transportation is not very convenient. The cost of opening is relatively high at present, at least it is much higher than that in Australia. Australia has a lot of arable land to grow cotton. You can first turn Australia into a supply base for cotton, wool, minerals and other raw materials in the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

As for the lack of labor, it is actually quite simple. You can get some labor to Australia. For example, North Korea has a lot of labor. Organizing a group of North Korean workers to work in Australia is obviously a good choice. Those North Korean workers can still do things and the labor costs are relatively low. Moreover, workers always have to go back after making money, and Australian household registration is not open to them. There are also many laborers in Japan, but Japan is temporarily closed to the country, so it is not within the scope of consideration.&1t;/p>

As for capturing black slaves in Africa, it would be fine, it would ruin the reputation of the Celestial Empire. After all, China's civilization has always been centered on getting rid of the weak, rather than worshiping the weak like Japan. Now, the external expansion driven by Zhu Youchao's proofreading has violated such a core of civilization.&1t;/p>

However, Zhu Youxiao did not expand to the outside world and obtained more resources. Sooner or later, the weak ethnic groups outside would be bullied by European robbers, and their resources would be seized by Europeans. However, the Ming Dynasty did not recognize it in slavery. It only turned the indigenous people who were too backward in civilization into "contract workers". Although it was just a name changed, the rights and interests of contract workers were still protected, and when they integrated into civilization, they could gain a higher status.&1t;/p>

Of course, because the Nanyang natives gave people too bad sensory impression, Zhu Youxiao developed the third-rank and ninth-class system, hoping to eliminate the groups with more serious bad roots in the Nanyang natives through the control of marriage, and cultivate a group of more hardworking and more responsible indigenous descendants. This education for hundreds of years should theoretically be effective, but it depends on whether the specific implementation can be sustained.&1t;/p>

Even those indigenous people in the South China Sea had a very bad impression of Zhu Youjiao, and Zhu Youjiao did not adopt any massacre policy for these indigenous people. The third-rank and ninth-class system is still in the ranks of education, which also guarantees the basic right to survival of the indigenous people, and only deprives some indigenous people with serious bad roots of the reproductive right.&1t;/p>

So in the Ming Dynasty, there were only contract workers and official slaves, and official slaves were actually criminals. However, Zhu Youxiao still had to reform the official slave system, that is, no longer turn ordinary offspring into official slaves.&1t;/p>

Under such a system, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to take the initiative to arrest and sell black slaves in Africa. Although the business is profitable, it is too evil.&1t;/p>

As a country above the Celestial Empire, the reputation must be maintained.&1t;/p>

This autumn harvest is generally good, with bumper harvest areas and disaster-stricken areas. The grain supply is basically in a relatively sufficient state. Cotton production can meet the internal demand of the Ming Dynasty when cotton exports are reduced.&1t;/p>

In order to ensure that the people of Ming Dynasty did not lack cotton cloth, cotton coats and quilts, Zhu Youxiao once again raised the export tariffs for textiles when the autumn reception came, from the previous 2o% to 3o%.&1t;/p>

Anyway, if textiles cannot be digested internally and reduce prices, which may affect cotton farmers' income, export tariffs can be reduced.&1t;/p>

Several state-owned agricultural companies in the Ming Dynasty, as well as joint venture agricultural companies in state-owned consortiums, have already begun to enter Australia and have begun to recruit workers from North Korea to reclaim land in Australia to build a cotton production base in Australia.&1t;/p>

Of course, it is not possible to use all North Korean workers to grow cotton, so local workers still recruit a lot of local workers. The wages of local workers are much higher than those of North Korean workers. These workers who work overseas now have increased their monthly wages to six yuan.&1t;/p>

That morning, Zhu Youxiao was still not awake early in the morning. After the ministers bowed to him, Wang Wei, the Minister of Works, came out to report: "Report to Your Majesty, after more than a year of hard work, the telegraph machine has finally been successfully studied."&1t;/p>

"What?" Zhu Youxiao felt like he was dreaming, so he asked for a moment of stuttering.&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty, through the combination of wires, batteries and electromagnetic inductor technologies, the first telegraph machine has been developed successfully." Wang Wei cleared his throat and then reported solemnly.&1t;/p>

"What is telegram?"&1t;/p>

"What is telegram?"&1t;/p>

"What has the Ministry of Industry created again?"&1t;/p>

A group of ministers immediately talked about it, not very well understood these "high-tech" things. But they knew that the emperor was definitely an expert.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao heard Wang Wei's report and immediately lost his eyes and asked again: "Has the telegram really been successfully tested?"&1t;/p>

"How dare I deceive the king?" Wang Wei replied.&1t;/p>

"Take me to see." Zhu Youxiao stood up excitedly. A group of ministers looked at each other. I wonder what the emperor was so excited. Zhu Youxiao waved: "My dear friends, go watch with me! With the telegram, my Ming Dynasty will last for a hundred years."&1t;/p>

Increase the national fortune of more than a hundred years?&1t;/p>

A group of ministers suddenly became curious. What is this telegram? Can it have such a powerful effect? ​​Could it be a magic weapon?&1t;/p>

The morning court could not go up any longer, so Zhu Youxiao immediately sent someone to put him on the verge of the civil and military officials to the experimental base of the Royal Academy of Sciences. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!