Chapter 745: Food (I)

Several members of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Luliangshan Base Area Management Committee held a three-day meeting to determine the direction of the next step in the work of the base area. First of all, it is necessary to get a good grasp of completing the infrastructure construction work in the base areas.

The current state of preparations in the base areas, including the storage of grain and other materials, and the preparations for other work in the base areas, is expected to be able to collect more than 50,000 displaced people in the Luliangshan base area this year. With the continuous improvement of various infrastructure projects in the base areas, we will strive to bring in 300,000 displaced people in the future Luliangshan Base Area within three years.

The guerrilla detachments in Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan, Nanzhili, Hebei, and other places in the Far East have also recently launched offensives, plundering some county towns and rural earthen forts in various localities, collecting grain and other materials, and gathering displaced people in various localities to create base areas.

However, they do not have time to build a base this year, and it is expected that the number of displaced people will not be too large. Base areas in various localities will be built next year, and then the number of displaced people will be increased.

Because of the huge number of displaced people in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, the displaced people collected by each detachment also have corresponding standards, and the displaced people collected will be mainly young and strong, women and children, and for the old and weak displaced people, the various guerrilla detachments will be powerless, and it is estimated that they may not survive this winter.

Now Far Eastern Group has done its best, the company has almost stopped all work, invested a lot of manpower, spent a lot of resources, and desperately collected the displaced people from Daming. It is expected that the number of displaced people will reach an unprecedented 2 million by the onset of winter.

These displaced people will be resettled in Liaodong, Jeju Island, Outer Northeast, Taiwan, Luzon, Korea, Nanyang, and Ceylon. The management of more than 2 million displaced people is not a big problem for the company, after all, the company has trained a large number of grassroots management cadres in recent years, and they all have rich grassroots work experience. After several years of operation, the various departments of the Nationalities Affairs Committee have been in operation for the reception of immigrants. It's even more handy.

The biggest problem now is how to ensure the food and clothing of the more than 2 million displaced people. This will require hundreds of thousands of tons of grain to survive until next year's autumn harvest. In this era, the level of agricultural production is very low, and areas with a yield of one or two hundred catties per mu abound.

Although the Far Eastern Company in order to cope with the tide of displaced people in Chongzhen, the use of various ways. A large amount of grain and other materials have been purchased, a large number of storage areas have been built in various places, and a perfect war-ready grain reserve mechanism has been established, but in the face of the surging Daming victims, the strategic reserves of the Far Eastern Company can barely meet the food needs of so many victims for nearly a year.

Far Eastern Corporation has made full preparations in modern society, and the seeds of various crops brought to this era are all excellent varieties of mature and high-quality and cold-resistant. After several years of popularization and planting in Liaodong and Vladivostok areas, the effect is really good. Although it cannot be compared with modern society, compared with the yield per mu of this era, it has increased several times or more, which gives the Far East the confidence to collect a large number of displaced people.

However, this period is the famous "Xiaoice River Period" in history, not to mention the low temperature, as well as various natural disasters, which will have a significant impact on agricultural production. No one can guarantee it. Next year, Liaodong will be as smooth as ever, in case Liaodong also suffers a natural disaster. Far Eastern companies will find themselves in an extremely dangerous situation.

For this reason, the Far East also mobilized, mobilized all forces to buy grain from various countries and regions, and did not hesitate to start wars, trying to plunder the resources of other countries and nations through war, and save the displaced people in various parts of the northern Ming Dynasty.

This year, the Central Military Commission launched the Korean Campaign, and North Korea alone transported back more than 200,000 tons of grain to Liaodong. And from next year. The DPRK will become another granary of the Far East Company, which has implemented the practice of guaranteeing production to households in the DPRK, and 60 percent of the annual grain harvest of each peasant household will be handed over to the Far East.

This winter, the Military Council will continue to launch the Japanese campaign. Compared with North Korea, the Military Commission is expected to plunder far more grain and other materials in Japan than North Korea. At that time, the common people of Japan will also end up as miners, coolies, and serfs in the Far East.

Next year, the Military Commission will also go on an expedition to India to swallow the South Asian subcontinent in one gulp.

India is blessed with abundant land resources. India has the largest amount of arable land in Asia, with 143 million hectares, and its per capita arable land is 0.16 hectares, which is about twice that of China. It is a tropical monsoon climate, which is divided into four seasons throughout the year, with the cool season from January to February, the summer season from March to May, the southwest monsoon rainy season from June to September, and the northeast monsoon season from October to December. The lowest temperature in the north is 15 °C, and the temperature in the south is as high as 27 °C, and it is a frost-free period almost all year round, and crops can be grown all year round, and heat resources are quite abundant.

In the future, the company will immigrate to India in large numbers, relying on India's unique natural conditions to fully develop India's agricultural resources. At that time, India will become the largest breadbasket of the Far East company.

In the near future, the South Seas, Indochina Peninsula, and Australia will also be conquered by the Far East, and companies will also migrate to these areas, which will also become farms and pastures in the Far East. This will completely reverse the dynasties of the Central Plains, because the population explosion caused the tragedy of thousands of miles of starvation and change of children.

But this is a long and difficult task, and the Far East must now solve the huge food gap of these two years. In recent years, the company has gradually increased its grain imports from the Ottoman Empire, and the trade with the Ottoman Empire has changed from the original settlement method of combining gold, silver and grain to the mode of grain settlement.

The company also exerted pressure on the local kings in the South Seas, demanding that their respective sultans sell large quantities of grain to the Far East, and if the Far East does not meet the specified transaction amount, the Far East will not rule out the use of force to carry out armed grain requisition. The Sultanates of the South Seas knew that the Far East did what it said, and that these infidels were too cruel to destroy their country if they could not complete the required amount of trade in the Far East.

Therefore, the countries of Nanyang suddenly jumped in a hurry, and the local kings sent troops to various places to levy grain in a large number of armed forces. The common people in all parts of the South Seas also suffered, many people's homes were robbed of grain, and the various tribes were also ordered by the Sultan to sell grain to the Far East, and if they could not complete the deal, they would be punished by extermination. Anyway, if you can't fulfill the demands of the Far East, everyone will die together.

This also caused a certain famine in the Nanyang countries, and a large number of Nanyang natives were starved to death. But the local kings and sultans were relieved to see the ships full of grain sailing to Manila one after another. As for the natives who starved to death, it was about them. (To be continued......)