Chapter 954: Chen Ming is not Lei Feng
How many people do you need to take care of a super-large farm with at least 50,000 acres of land?
Is 1,000 people enough?
Fifty acres per capita, to be honest, 1,000 people can. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
But a Nova farm can have a thousand people, and other farms may not have a thousand people. And a farm has at least 50,000 acres, but no one stipulates that it must be 50,000 acres.
After Chen Han came into contact with the local tribal chiefs, he rented them from the local tribes with money, guns, arms, and supplies.
The local indigenous three-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication and division may not be done well, let alone playing measurement. These farms are said to be 50,000 acres, but in fact the number is far larger than that.
So, a thousand people may not be enough. In order to put the fields into production as soon as possible, Chen Han also recruited some people from the surrounding tribes.
The Tianfang Peninsula is the birthplace of Tianfang culture, but the natural environment here is so harsh.
It is not that it is impossible to give birth to a brilliant civilization in a place with a harsh natural environment, it may be that the Mongols have ravaged the heavens too much, since the collapse of the Celestial Empire, there are only tribal chiefs and tribal elders on the Red Sea coast, and there is no dynasty.
This is not as good as the northern part of the peninsula, where the climate is even harsher. In later Oman, the Yariba Dynasty and the current Sayyid Dynasty were established successively.
It's just that this will also make it more convenient for Chen Han to obtain greater benefits in the southeastern corner of the peninsula.
Although the chieftains here are much more 'civilized' than the African chieftains, they are still the same greedy in nature, as long as they are willing to pay them gold, precious stones, weapons, etc., they can cede land at will.
Tens of thousands of acres of land seem not small, but in fact they are only a few tens of square kilometers, while the vast Tianfang Peninsula has more than 3 million square kilometers of land, although many places here are covered by long yellow sand.
The tribes here mainly live by herding horses, goats and camels. The agricultural products are mainly dates, which are produced in a single way for a long time, and the grain cannot be self-sufficient.
After the arrival of a large number of Chinese, the local tribes also knew that the Chinese were not easy to provoke, and their nobles and elders had already obtained their own benefits, and these people had a completely laissez-faire attitude towards the Chinese who came across the sea.
Several of the mega farms have hired a number of local natives from their own surrounding tribes. Although these people do not cultivate the land, they do enough manual work, such as the construction of houses and the size of the aqueducts in the fields.
When Huang Dingyou and others arrived here, it was already autumn, but the temperature on the peninsula was not divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter, and it was high temperature all year round. The weather in autumn is just a little better than the scorching sun of summer.
Those Tianfang natives hired from the surrounding tribes like the current life very much, nibbling on multigrain bread every morning, eating some 'Lao Chen' brand rice at noon - if it is heavy, it will add an extra salted fish or a bowl of meat and bone broth, if not, it is green cabbage, radish tofu + pickled vegetables, pickles, and eat salty porridge or bread and potato soup at night. The food conditions are not good, and the work is not easy, but the local natives are happy to do it.
Huang Dingyou was determined to rush to Egypt as soon as possible, but before that, he had to find something to do, like here, he couldn't figure out what supported these natives to work here in such a difficult environment. You know, they only have one piece of Eagle Ocean every month. Thirty years ago, this price was about the same in China.
One of the farm's grassroots managers revealed the answer to Huang Dingyou's question: First, the standard of living of these indigenous people among the tribe is not high. Their descendants in one or two hundred years will probably spend money like water--although no one except Chen Ming knows this now, but now the Tianfang Peninsula is a place where birds don't lay eggs. Even the land-hungry Ottomans did not think of bringing the Celestial Peninsula under their rule at the height of their power, and in the 17th century, when their power had not yet declined significantly, the Ottomans, who had been driven back to the central and western parts of the peninsula from the eastern part of the peninsula, did not continue their march to the eastern end of the peninsula - the sultan of Istanbul only demanded that the local tribes sacrifice their knees to him. It's like China's Tusi and Guanzhou.
It was really because the environment here was too harsh, and it was not easy for the army to march eastward, and there were no Heavenly Sect holy places in the central and western parts of the peninsula.
The invasion of the Mongols hundreds of years ago really wiped out the essence of the heavenly world, the tribes here, the natives here, the intellectual wealth has been lost, and now they only have a firm heart for their beliefs, and a brain full of ignorance.
The heavenly world and the Book of Allah are no longer inseparable. The glorious achievements of mathematics, astronomy, military force, engineering, etc., which were developed on the basis of the scientific and cultural heritage of ancient Greece, are now reduced to nothingness, and all they have left is a copy of the Book of Ara. Therefore, the ignorance here can be imagined.
And a place shrouded in ignorance, what kind of production and life here will be, you can imagine.
Compared with their original life, the current days of being well fed and getting paid are already good.
And according to the agreement between them, after five years, the natives who worked on the farm would also receive five acres of arable land each.
There is a fee for these lands, but the tax rate is very low. Compared to their original lives, this tax rate is the mercy of the true God.
That's why they're happy to enjoy life now.
On the premise of not going hungry, each person can save 12 pieces of Eagle Ocean every month, and according to the ideal algorithm, they can save 60 pieces of White Flower Eagle Ocean in those five years.
In the end, they don't have to worry about being oppressed by their tribes here. For at least ten years in the future, they will be farm people, and the laws and rules of the tribe will not control them, they will be the Three Qing Buddhas who turn their heads and believe, and the tribe will have nothing to do with them.
They are like 'slaves' who have been bought in by the farm.
"Their lives are not bad now, and maybe the taste of the food will not be in line with their traditions. But the food cooked by the chef is absolutely acceptable to the heavenly people. "And I think they're looking forward to it with us." Five acres of land per person, when the imperial court first raised troops, the price on the team was only this price. The Tianfang natives on the shore of the Red Sea do not grow dates every day, they also grow wheat and corn. Five acres of land is enough for them to survive. In addition to the farm, how can there be such good conditions? ”
"Let me tell you, just our farm, wait ten or eight years to see it, it will be a city." Such a piece of land is not big, but it is bigger than Macau. It's a waste of weight alone.
The Suez Canal can be dug for a hundred or a thousand years.
Sooner or later, there will be no 'market' on these farms. Will China return these territories to the indigenous tribes here? How could it be.
Maybe in the next three to five years, there will be patches of farmland here. But when the Suez Canal is completed, all sorts of buildings will spring up in the shortest possible time. Shipyards, repair yards, warehouses, docks, regular barracks, residential areas and even shops will pop up, adding a touch of life to this generation of desolate coastlines.
In the next few years, China will 'buy' the land with more wealth. There is no need to be afraid that the local chiefs will not agree, as long as China secretly supports one or two chieftain tribes and lets them fight, this is not uncommon on the Tianfang Peninsula anyway, and the arms will immediately become ten times more sought-after.
The tribal chiefs here are nominally subservient to Istanbul, but they are more aware of Istanbul's attitude towards them.
The historical revolt of the Celestial Revolt, as well as the 'King of Heaven' of Hussein ibn Ali of the Hashemite family, and the proclamation when he declared the independence of the peninsula, directly nailed Istanbul to the pillar of shame of the horrific massacre, all show the long-standing contradictions between the tribes and the Ottoman Empire.
Therefore, these farms on the shores of the Red Sea are the foundation of the Empire's true foothold in the Celestial World.
"When the infrastructure is completed, we will hire a larger number of local people to help us build the reservoir. An aqueduct was excavated along a nearby river that flows into the sea. In this semi-arid region with little precipitation, freshwater resources are undoubtedly extremely precious, and those precious freshwater must not be allowed to flow into the sea in vain. "The administrator was very frank about the end result of the land, and that the worst here would be a 'Kindenagar'.
The land in hand will never fly away from Chen Han's hands again.
Chen Ming will not aggressively push into the southwest of the peninsula, which is the most densely populated area of the peninsula. All Chen Ming needed was the southeast corner, which would later be Yemen's territory. In the next few years, Chen Ming's goal was still in the south.
He also did not know whether the British would continue to be interested in Cape Town after the Suez Canal plan was announced.
If the British really aren't interested in Cape Town, it's God forbid. It's just very unlikely.
Chen Han's 'erosion' of the heavenly world will be cut into with 'soft means' in the next hundred years. As long as his own interests are not affected, Chen Ming will not take the initiative to turn against the Ottoman Empire; I won't take the initiative to show my fist to the heavenly world.
The cities on the Red Coast would be populated with Chinese, but they came to Heaven more for business than to plunder land as in the Americas.
Chen Han will spread his own culture and civilization little by little here, and weave his own network little by little.
You can even become a protector of the tribes of the peninsula. Then I watched the Ottoman Empire decay in the game with the Western powers. Watch as this mighty empire collapses in its own myriad of problems that are difficult to innovate.
As long as the Elam family can control Egypt, even if the Suez Canal is full of Ottoman troops, it cannot be separated from the palm of Nanjing.
Time has come to the last three or two months of the year.
This cabinet will only have the last year left for next year.
In the coming year, the second war between China and Spain will come to an end.
Chen Ming didn't believe that Spain still dared to hold on to the shelf, and in the same way, China was really full in the Americas. After swallowing the whole of Mexico, as well as the entire Central American isthmus, plus what the Spaniards were going to spit out at the negotiating table, Chen Han was going to have a little indigestion.
The bigger the place, the better.
If the seemingly huge land is not well controlled, as the Ottoman Empire did in the Tianfang Peninsula, it is simply a breeding ground for local power. Chen Ming would rather eat the land of the Spaniards in the Americas in one bite than see the indigenous people of the Americas, the mestizos and Indians, rise little by little.
Politics is a very complicated matter.
Those Indians who pursued 'freedom' under Spanish rule would be Chen Han's best friends. But when Spain retreats, they will become the Spaniards' best friends.
'Freedom' is really the greatest original sin.
China can support them in their quest for 'freedom' in the face of the Spaniards, and the Spaniards can support them in their quest for 'freedom' in the face of China......
But Chen Ming is not Lei Feng! Both for the Indians and for the Celestials.