Just when the Military Commission was actively preparing for the Indochina Campaign, the Far Eastern Company ushered in the autumn harvest of 1640. This year, parts of eastern Liaoning, northeast China, and parts of the outer northeast have suffered another drought, but fortunately, the damage this time is much smaller than last year.

In addition, last year, the company increased investment and organized farmers from all over the country to carry out a vigorous transformation of water conservancy facilities in eastern Liaoning and other parts of Northeast China. A large number of canals were excavated and a large number of steam-powered pumping units were configured.

Moreover, the cultivated land in eastern Liaoning is basically concentrated in the coastal areas of major rivers, and the company has installed a large number of steam-powered water pump units in various places to pump water for irrigation in the severely affected areas day and night.

Therefore, although the cultivated land in eastern Liaoning and the outer northeast region has once again suffered from drought this year, the overall situation is good, and the average yield per mu in various places has not dropped much. In addition, parts of the Outer Northeast have also experienced bumper harvests.

The situation in other areas of the company is much better, the newly cultivated land along the banks of the Yellow River in the Hetao area has achieved a good harvest, although the average yield per mu is still temporarily not up to the average level of Liaodong and Outer Northeast, but considering that the Hetao area does not have the black soil layer of Northeast and Outer Northeast, and it is all newly reclaimed cultivated land, chemical fertilizer is basically not supplied, and only compost made by soil method can be used, so the yield of the first year in the Hetao area is already good.

Although the base areas are located in mountainous areas, they have also made considerable gains with the excellent seeds of drought-resistant corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes of the Far Eastern Company. Although it cannot be compared with other parts of the company, considering that each base is in a mountainous area and the conditions are relatively difficult, at least in this era of the Ming Dynasty. The yield per mu is already against the sky.

The situation in Japan and North Korea is also good, and most of the people in these two areas contract their arable land to the locals for cultivation, charge 60 percent of the land rent, and have to repay loans for seeds, fertilizers, and farm tools every year, although the arable land in these two areas is lower than before. However, the yield per mu has increased a lot compared with the past. Moreover, with such a high land rent, the grain tax collected should not be underestimated.

Luzon, Taiwan, Ceylon, Jeju and the Nanyang Islands have all achieved bumper harvests this year, and the average yield per mu has approached the average yield per mu in Liaodong and Outer Northeast China. Originally, there were not many displaced people resettled in these areas, and there was very little arable land to be cultivated. But with the advent of the Chongzhen drought, the total number of displaced people in these areas has exceeded one million.

The Indian region, where the company has high hopes this year, once again brought a surprise to the company, and the grain tax collected from various federations alone is an astronomical amount. In addition, the company controls the Indus River Basin, the Ganges River Basin, and the Bengal region, all of which have the most dense arable land.

After the end of the Indian campaign. The working group of the Ethnic Affairs Committee of the Far Eastern Company, led by Guo Song, quickly established a strict and perfect grassroots organizational structure in various occupied areas of India, with grassroots cadres as the core and supplemented by Japanese armed police forces.

Most of the land is contracted to local indigenous Indians, who collect 70% of the land rent, and part of the land is used to settle displaced people. At present, the arable land in India is cultivated twice a year. In the future, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will gradually implement the plan of three harvests per year. India's winter harvest last year, followed by this year's spring and autumn harvests. and the grain taxes of the federal autonomous territories, which together collected more than 2 million tons of grain.

The company harvests more grain in India than the rest of the company combined. The whole company was shocked, and they were glad that the company launched the Indian campaign, if there was no food in India, the company would probably have to live a hard life for two years.

This year. The company's infrastructure construction department has established a large number of strategic grain depots in various control areas in the Far East, especially in Liaodong and Outer Northeast China, and a large number of sailboats from India come to the coast of Liaodong every day, filling the company's strategic warehouses around the country.

This food crisis has been experienced. The company will invest a lot of resources to establish a sound strategic grain reserve plan. Striving to bring the company's war-ready grain reserves to the red line of 150 days according to the standard of 10 million people will definitely not be used lightly unless it is absolutely necessary. In addition, the company's military committee has also established a sound logistics strategic reserve plan, in which the strategic grain reserve reaches the annual reserve according to the standard of one million people.

This is only a grain reserve, and does not include all kinds of canned food, fried noodles, dried meat and fish, vegetable oil, compressed biscuits, oil, dried milk, dry grinding fungus, dried vegetables and pickles, and other non-staple food reserves.

The varieties of grain in strategic reserve include rice, wheat, corn, and potato flour, which are stored in modern grain reserve warehouses in various parts of the Far East. Then, in a planned way, we will replace the old grain with new grain year by year, so as to form a perfect grain reserve plan for war readiness.

The Far Eastern Company has made such great efforts to gradually build up a war-ready grain reserve system, and it is really frightened by this grain shortage. There is food in your hand, and you don't panic in your heart, people take food as the sky, and they can't lack food if they lack anything.

Of course, as the population of the Far Eastern Company gradually increases, this war-ready grain reserve program will also expand. Anyway, we must stubbornly guard the red line of the 150-day reserve, and no one is allowed to easily embezzle it.

Once this war-ready grain reserve plan is truly established, the Far Eastern Group will completely bid farewell to the threat of food shortage, and even if it experiences a major natural disaster, the Far East will have sufficient time to coordinate.

The company also hoarded a large amount of grain at various reception points for displaced people in Daming, mainly in small packages of fried noodles. This alone consumes a large amount of food and other materials every year, but it does stabilize the situation at the reception points and increase the efficiency of the reception.

Starting next year, the company will increase the number of immigrants to India, Nanyang and Luzon, and more than one million northern Ming displaced people will be resettled in these areas. With the annual increase of the company's cultivated land area in the tropical region and the gradual implementation of the annual three-harvest plan by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the company's annual grain output will reach a new level.

At the end of this year, the Central Military Commission will launch the Indochina Peninsula. Complete control of the entire Indochina Peninsula, at which point the Far Eastern Company will once again add a major grain-producing area. The Indochina Peninsula, which has a tropical climate, can also harvest grain three times a year. Several deltas have a large amount of arable land, and if the agricultural resources there are fully exploited, very good results will be achieved. (To be continued.) )