The king can not care about the land of the New World, but for the new nobles of the New World, it is the foundation of their life and cannot be abandoned.

Depending on where people are located, their core interests are fundamentally different.

Just as sometimes people's original intention is to save the country, but the empire is destroyed prematurely.

On the third day of the capture of Acapulco, Zou Yuanbiao put a report on Chen Mu's desk, and the 1,213 households of Acapulco and the fields reclaimed here had all been entered into the yellow register.

Zou Yuanbiao entered the role very quickly, and he didn't have that natural arrogance, when Chen Mu saw the letter he sent, he thought he would say in the letter: "Born fierce and don't know etiquette, they are willing to turn outside, let them fend for themselves, let's withdraw." ”

Fortunately, no, otherwise Chen Mu would have thrown him into Zheng Tu's department to fend for himself.

Putting down the letter, Chen Mu smiled lightly and said to the attendants on the left and right: "Pull the map down." ”

The fog of war was gradually lifting, and the thousands of miles of coast from Acapulco north to Puerto Vallarta had been mapped on the fleet's way south, and the men and men of Hong Kong were to be mapped by oral instructions on the official road eastward to Mexico City.

As for the various directions in the dense forest, the guerrilla flag army of Lin Manjue's department is now divided into one hundred and twenty stragglers, and the flag officers who are proficient in mapping and the local people are divided into different directions to explore in all directions.

Inside and outside the port village, craftsmen and craftsmen began to work in various places, the first to build were brick kilns, carpentry factories, ordnance bureaus and forestry farms, and the shipyards in the harbor that used to belong to the Spaniards were also used by the Ming army.

In a very short period of time, most of the existing land was taken over by the military government and redistributed to the people - not because Chen Mukang was angry, and the people who remained here basically had no land.

They were slaves and laborers on the plantations, and although they were close to the new aristocracy that owned the land, it did not mean that they were the new aristocracy, less than 10 percent of the freedmen actually owned the land, and after the redistribution, 60 percent of the people owned the land that could be cultivated by themselves.

"The students read the story all over the story, and usually after the war, the newly acquired land was tax-exempt for three years in order to harvest people's hearts, but the people here were no different from serfs, and they could pay 30 taxes and 1 to encourage farming."

Zou Yuanbiao's governing ability is not very high, and he is even a novice in his career, but this does not prevent him from easily managing Acapulco in an orderly manner, and he said to Chen Mu: "Can the marshal transfer a general banner pro-army to teach the people to farm outside the city?" ”

Before Chen Mu could speak, the stinky juniper frowned and said, "Are you a farmer?" ”

Du Heizi was born with a big waist and dark skin, looking strange and scary, Zou Yuanbiao didn't pay attention to Juniper at all, and arched his hand with his neck: "The student has calculated, Acapulco now has a prosperous agriculture, with more than 70,000 acres of land, and its cultivation is such as Chen Shuaiyan's corn, sweet potato, pepper and other things, and the yield per mu is better than rice." ”

"Although there are three or four stones, but there are not several times as many times as rice as Chen Shuai said, the students looked at the way the soil people cultivated, although they did not know how to farm, they also felt that there were some problems."

Juniper was silent, and when he heard the conclusion of three or four stones, he kept silent, his eyes were aimed at the tip of his nose, and the hand hidden behind him kept pinching his knuckles with his thumb, and when he saw that Chen Mu didn't speak, he asked in a low voice: "Xiucai, you said one acre and three stones, doesn't that mean that this year can produce more than 200,000 stones?" ”

"Not so much, the local people grow less than 20,000 mu of grain, and more land is used to grow cotton and sugarcane under the orders of the Westerners, similar to Jiangnan."

After that, Zou Yuanbiao raised his head and added: "Zou is a five-year jinshi of Wanli!" ”

Jun Song glared, and before he could speak, he was stopped by Chen Mu, who was sitting behind the desk, raised his hand and pointed to the seat next to the door, Du Heizi honestly went over and sat with his arms crossed, Chen Mu glanced at him, and then asked, "How do they farm?" ”

"There are no ploughing animals, no pear canes, no overturned carts, no water wheels, water chisels and the like, only digging sticks, wooden sticks tied to stones, and the fields here are reaped as they are planted."

Zou Yuanbiao's young face raised the pride of a cultural person, and said: "There is land suitable for reclamation everywhere, and with a few fields on the border, from next year, within two years, the government can support 10,000 garrisons with taxes alone!" ”

"Why next year?"

Faced with Chen Mu's question, Zou Yuanbiao was a little embarrassed and said: "There are no farm tools and no farming animals, in Daming, a family of people can plow 50 acres of land a year with cattle, and a family here can plow 35 acres of land with stone sticks." ”

Saying that, Zou Yuanbiao sighed with emotion: "That is, the precious land that falls from the sky in Asia, there are things like corn, otherwise they will all starve to death." ”

Chen Mu shook his head slowly and said, "So you want the baggage boat to transport more farming animals when it comes this summer?" Don't. ”

"And cultivating fifty acres is not something that the people here can consider, as long as one person can cultivate ten acres of land, it will be good."

Chen Mu watched his subordinates farm the land in his early years, and when he talked about these things, he said: "The people here are generally poor, you plough cattle for them, and five people share them, each cultivating ten acres of land, but do you need to use cattle?" ”

"When the cattle are sick or die, what is the loss to them? A person who uses a hoe instead of a plow to plough can plough five acres, and without cattle, he does not have to plant fodder and want to graze after the harvest, and he has free his hands to grow beans, wheat, hemp, and vegetables, and the harvest is similar to that of cattle in a year. ”

"In this way, the Toyo military government does not have to bear the loss of a large number of sick and dead cattle in the baggage, and there is more space on the ship to transport the war baggage."

Chen Mu said: "I think the top priority is to let the people use iron farming tools universally, and expand the breeding of six existing animals in Asian counties. ”

"Your duty is not to hand in hand to farm land for the people, or to find ways to make it easier for the military government to make your political achievements easier, but to use the existing conditions to create more favorable policies for the people, such as contacting the surrounding tribes to set up markets."

"Even if your people can cultivate 10,000 acres of land alone, and there is no market, the food they grow is useless, and they will only plant two acres of land a year, which is enough for their families to eat, and what is the use of planting more fields? Is it difficult to pay rent? ”

"They can't even afford to rent cattle now, not to mention that they haven't learned much Chinese, so how can you let them know how important cattle are, and send them back to slaughter and eat meat."

Only commercial grains make sense.

Zou Yuanbiao has been gone for a long time, Chen Mu is still sketching a grand blueprint for the future of Asian agriculture, and he wants to build a kind of large-scale farm on this land based on Ming villages, which not only requires the combination of agricultural technology of the Ming Dynasty and Europe, but also the cultivation of livestock.

When Chen Mu hit the Andalusian horse with the idea of pulling the horse, he received news from the east and west almost simultaneously - the two armies were approaching Acapulco by land and sea, respectively.