Chapter 399: Spring Sowing

The Admiralty was very busy during this time, and the three landing ships and a large number of sailing ships were hardly idle. The company even mobilized two 10,000-ton giant ships to continuously travel back and forth between Vladivostok and Liaodong, transporting a large number of personnel and materials to Lushun and Gaizhou.

At the wharf in Mudanjiang Town, steam river barges dock to load cargo 24 hours a day. A fleet of inland barges full of supplies and personnel transported supplies all the way to Fangzhou along the waterways of the Kuerha River, the Songhua River and the Gray Pai River.

The staff of the Ethnic Affairs Committee who rushed over from Vladivostok began to be nervously busy as soon as they arrived in Shenyang. Only Han Shuanglin was left to preside over the work of Vladivostok, and almost all the other members of the Standing Committee came to Shenyang.

Wang He convened all the members of the Nationalities Committee, presided over a work meeting of the Nationalities Committee, and made arrangements for the next step of the work in Liaodong. The Ethnic Affairs Committee first set up the Liaodong Management Committee in Shenyang, whose main function is to manage all aspects of the work in Liaodong.

The company seized a large amount of materials in Liaodong, and all kinds of materials seized in the cities of Shenyang and Liaoyang alone were piled up, and the Tartars in both cities were quite wealthy, and the Far East seized countless gold, silver and jewelry from their houses.

In addition, the amount of grain seized from various places is also quite large, and the storage center has built several large warehouses in Shenyang, Liaoyang, and other places, and all the grain has been stored and hoarded. It is enough to meet the grain needs of Liaodong before the autumn harvest this year.

@远东还从鞑子那里缴获了大批的优良战马. The Military Council is ready to use these war horses to form several cavalry units. Of course, they are all mounted infantry, after all, the strong firepower of the Far East does not need to rely on cavalry to charge into battle. In addition to excellent war horses, there are also a large number of horses, cattle and other large livestock. Poultry and livestock are even more flocked.

The offensive of the Military Commission was lightning fast, and the Tartars in all parts of Liaodong fled in such a hurry that they did not even have time to take away the daily necessities in their houses, and they all became trophies in the Far East. Many villages and towns still maintain their original appearance, which is just used to settle the Liao people.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry took the lead, using the farmland and houses left behind by the Tartars. A large number of Liao people were concentrated in Shenyang, Liaoyang, Gaizhou, Fushun, Tieling and other places, and the Liao people were concentrated for large-scale spring sowing. Potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes are the main crops, supplemented by non-staple foods such as soybeans, peanuts and vegetables.

After several years of exploration in Vladivostok, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has accumulated a lot of experience and gradually understood the habits of these crops. The seed centre of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has been able to breed some excellent crop seeds on its own.

The basic conditions for large-scale development of agricultural resources in the Northeast Plain have been met, and in the next step, they will plant wheat and rice in a large area in the Northeast, and in the future, the Northeast Plain will become a beautiful and rich North Okura, just like modern society.

The militia of the musket militia company has taken over the management of the Liao people from the hands of the Military Commission. The Liao people took the squadron as a unit, each squadron had 100 people, and four militia members were assigned to manage them, serving as squadron leaders, instructors and two squad leaders, and some good activists were also selected from the Liao people to serve as squad leaders.

The company has just occupied Liaodong, and in order to ensure stability, Liaomin still has to be centrally managed this year. After the autumn harvest, the people of Liao will conduct winter training in a unified manner, and conduct all-round political and ideological education for them.

In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the Liao people. At the beginning of spring next year, the policy of guaranteeing production to households will be implemented. The Far East Company will provide housing, farm tools, seeds and necessary daily necessities to the people of Liaoning in the form of credit. The company will sign a contract with every Liaomin to repay the loan with the harvest of cultivated land in the next few years.

The detachment in charge of Liu Degui. Just near Shenyang, the detachment headquarters is in a town and is responsible for dozens of surrounding villages. Although he has accumulated a lot of grassroots work experience in Vladivostok in the past few years, he still feels deeply pressured to serve as a detachment leader for the first time.

Not only did he serve as the head of the Liaomin detachment, but he was also appointed as the mayor of the town where he lived. Ever since he came here. Every day is a work of getting up early and working late, but I still feel that there is not enough time. The burden is heavier, and so is the responsibility. In the past, when I was the captain, it was like heaven and earth compared to now.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry brought a large number of agricultural machinery from Vladivostok, so the speed of spring ploughing was very fast. Liu Degui now has to go down to various squadrons every day. I'm really worried if I don't go down.

Before they came, this group of Liao people was a bit chaotic, which made the military committee angry, and sent a group of soldiers to pull out all the thorns in the Liao people, and it is said that hundreds of them were killed, and thousands of people were sent to the coolie camp.

What kind of place is a coolie camp in the Far East, there are only two meals a day, and they don't care about being full. But they have to work 12 hours a day, and the working environment is the worst places in coal mines and stone quarries. The same treatment as foreign workers, but foreign workers are full of coarse grain three meals a day, and many Japanese and Luzon laborers can't get rid of it.

The rest of the Liao people have also been purged by the Military Commission, and now they have become unconventional. But Liu Degui is still not at ease, after all, they have no sense of belonging to the Far East Company now, for fear of causing any more trouble.

Now the cadres of the detachment, including him, three deputy detachment commanders, and two deputy political commissars, go down to the squadron almost every day, eat and live with the Liao people every day, and also work and chat with them. Keep abreast of the state of mind of the Liao people.

Liu Degui stood on the head of a cultivated field with a hoe, watching the Liao people in the field working hard. He has been in this squadron for two days, and now the Liao people of each squadron are quite stable, their work is divided into labor, and they must complete the assigned work every day, and if they can't do it, they will be punished.

In order to ensure the stability of Liaodong, the Far East is currently adopting a high-pressure policy towards Liaodong, and each detachment is stationed with a platoon of soldiers from the Military Commission, and as long as any Liao people are found to be disobedient to discipline, they will immediately go to suppress it. At worst, they will be punished internally, and at worst, they will be imprisoned in a coolie camp, and those who are in bad circumstances will even be killed on the spot.

The troops of the Far Eastern Military Commission stationed in various places have been authorized to open fire freely in the event of an emergency. In times of emergency, it is necessary to treat them very exactly, and once a violent terrorist incident occurs, regardless of the circumstances, it should be severe and severe.

However, judging from the current situation, the situation of the Liao people is still relatively stable, at least there is not much resistance to the policy of the Far East. The vast majority of the Liao people will conscientiously complete the tasks assigned to them every day, and only a very small number of Liao people who are cheating and playing tricks will try to continue to mess around, but they will also be choked by the Far East.

Liu Degui picked up the hoe and was about to go down to the field to continue working, when suddenly he saw a few people walking in the distance.

It turned out that these people were several leading cadres of the Nationalities Committee, and the leader was none other than Wang He. When he saw Liu Degui coming over, he laughed and said, "Old Liu, why don't you work in the field." Now that you are the leader of the detachment, you still have to pay more attention to the management of the detachment. ”

Liu Degui said solemnly: "Report to the chief, the work of the detachment has been almost done, and now the political commissar is sitting in the detachment headquarters, and I and other detachments and brigade cadres take turns squatting in each squadron. If I don't come down to take a look, I don't feel at ease, just sitting in the office, I can't understand the actual situation below. Now that the company has just laid down Liaodong, there can be no chaos at all. ”

Wang He smiled and said: "Well, your work attitude is good, and you have a down-to-earth work style." You happen to be here, lead us around. ”

Wang He was accompanied by Wang Zhitong, vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, who briefed Wang He on the progress of spring sowing.

"We used the cultivated land left by the Tartars, selected the cultivated land with better conditions, and concentrated the Liao people for large-scale spring sowing production. It is expected that the cultivated area will reach more than 400,000 acres, because with the support of a large number of agricultural machinery, the spring sowing speed is still very fast, we have prepared a large number of fertilizers, seeds and farm tools before the company attacked Liaodong, and trained a large number of skilled agricultural machinery laborers, in the current situation, after the autumn harvest this year, enough to meet the food supply of Liaodong. ”

Wang He nodded and said, "Your Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry must be mentally prepared, the company is ready to start large-scale immigration." Before the winter of this year, the company expects to immigrate about 80,000 people from Daming, including more than 40,000 immigrants transported from the Yellow River waterway in Tongguò, Henan, more than 10,000 along the coasts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and more than 10,000 along the coasts of Fujian and Guangdong.

Now that the resettlement operation has begun, the fleet of the Admiralty, Song Shiping of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Zheng Zhilong of Fujian, Liu Xiang of Guangdong, and overseas bases such as Luzon will all be put into the resettlement plan one after another. Your Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry must be mentally prepared to deal with the tide of migration that will increase year by year in the future.

After the company occupies Liaodong, it will also organize several large-scale immigration actions every year to meet the manpower gap in Liaodong in the shortest possible time. Liaodong is really too big, such a large piece of good land, with the hundreds of thousands of remaining Liaodong people, can not meet the needs at all.

Although the company will also buy grain in Siam, Southeast Asia and Daming every year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry should also make good plans, make scientific and rational use of land resources in the Northeast Plain, and make the greatest efforts to achieve food self-sufficiency. ”

Wang Zhitong said with a smile: "Our Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has made detailed plans in recent years and formulated a lot of plans. The main purpose is to prepare for the agricultural development after the company occupies Liaodong. For now, the outlook is very positive. Please rest assured that our Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will definitely achieve food self-sufficiency. ”

Wang He nodded with satisfaction, he turned his head again, and said to Liu Degui next to him: "Old Liu, how is the situation of Liaomin now?" ”

Liu Degui said loudly: "I don't know about other detachments, anyway, there is no problem with our detachment." At present, the people of Liao are very stable and have a positive work attitude. In accordance with the instructions of the Ethnic Affairs Committee, we have conveyed next year's policy to the people of Liaoning, and the people of Liaoning are very supportive of the policy of guaranteeing production to households, and everyone is holding back their strength in their hearts. (To be continued......) R1292