Through the Indian campaign, Far Eastern Group has completely solved the food problem that has plagued the company, so that Far East has finally survived the biggest crisis since the company was founded.

The company has relieved its worries, and suddenly glows with amazing enthusiasm for work, and the progress of various works has been significantly accelerated. Every day, there are countless ships, full of displaced people from the north of the Ming Dynasty, or grain, cloth and other materials, going back and forth between Liaodong and India, and the ports along the coast of India and Liaodong are full of sails every day.

With the large quantities of grain, cotton, cloth, and other materials transported from the Indian war zone, the conditions of the displaced people accepted by the Far Eastern Company this year have naturally improved a lot. And the Daming refugees who came to India, because all kinds of materials here are extremely rich, so compared with the Liaodong refugees, the conditions are much better. At least the climate here is pleasant, and there is no need to think about wintering.

This autumn, the Far East is a busy scene.

At this time, just after the autumn harvest in the Hetao area, the average yield per mu of corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes replanted this year was not ideal because of the missed spring sowing season, coupled with the special weather influence of the Xiaoice River period, and the newly cultivated land. Of course, this was also expected before the base area.

The newly reclaimed cultivated land in the Hetao area is on both sides of the Yellow River in the Hetao Plain and the Tumochuan Plain, and tens of thousands of displaced people have been organized in the base areas, and a total of nearly 200,000 mu of wasteland has been reclaimed on both sides of the Yellow River.

The northbound group army swept through the Mongol tribes in the Monan steppe, captured a large number of cattle, and sent most of them to the Liaodong region, all of which were born in the Hetao area to be used as cattle for the displaced people to open up the wasteland.

This frightened the Daming people in the Hetao area, they had never seen so many cows when they were so big. Fortunately, the cattle of the Far Eastern Company are simply everywhere. All the cattle herds are also specially taken care of by Mongolian grassroots herdsmen, so that the Hetao base area is very fast to open up land.

The Hetao base area is also equipped with hundreds of steam turbine-powered pumps along the Yellow River. The newly cultivated land along the coast was irrigated day and night, so the cultivated land in the base area was basically not affected by the severe drought in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, the crop seeds are all excellent varieties of the seed cultivation center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the company, and there are a group of technicians sent by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry such as Zhou Lin to the front line and are busy in the field every day, so that the autumn harvest yield of the base area this year is still good. It basically met the previous expectations.

Of course, the land in the Hetao area cannot be compared with the black soil belt in eastern Liaoning and the outer northeast, and the accumulation of humus and organic matter is not high, especially the newly cultivated land, if there is not enough fertilizer, it will cause further yield reduction.

To this end, the company mobilized a large number of grassroots herdsmen on the grassland, collected all kinds of cattle, sheep and horse manure, and transported it to the Hetao area in groups, and the grassland belonged to the most of this thing, and in a short period of time, a large number of cattle and sheep manure were piled up on both sides of the Yellow River.

Zhou Lin and the technicians of the company's agriculture and forestry department. Organize displaced people to make soil organic compost in the base area. Through the continuous efforts of tens of thousands of displaced people, nearly 200,000 mu of newly cultivated land in the base area has enough fertilizer.

Composting is an ancient technique that requires no precise calculations and no advanced skills, and is very simple to make. The technicians of Zhou Lin and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry adopted the production method of compost organic fertilizer in modern society, adding a lot of chemical raw materials, which not only accelerated the fermentation time of compost. It also greatly improves the fertility of compost organic fertilizer.

The organic compost produced by the raw soil method is made of cow and sheep manure, which is rich in organic matter and various nutrients. The nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium content of sheep manure is the highest, mixed with straw, weeds, fallen leaves, peat and dry soil and other materials, and then an appropriate amount of calcium cyanamide and other chemical raw materials are added to promote its fermentation, and then covered with broken mats to avoid the loss of fertilizer.

Soil-based composting can not only provide plant nutrients. Improve the availability of soil nutrients, and can make the soil calcium, magnesium, iron, aluminum and other stable complexes, reduce the fixation of phosphorus, increase the content of available phosphorus, and improve the soil structure. Humus colloids promote the formation of soil aggregate structure. Reduce bulk density, improve soil permeability, coordinate the contradiction between water and air, and improve soil fertilizer and water retention.

Despite the impact of various unfavorable factors, the output of various crops of nearly 200,000 mu of newly reclaimed cultivated land in Hetao this year has basically met the previous expectations. Among them, the average yield per mu of corn is nearly 300 catties, the average yield of potatoes per mu is more than 500 catties, and the yield of sweet potatoes per mu has reached more than 600 catties.

Such a yield per mu should be considered relatively low in the eyes of the people in the base area, but the vast number of displaced people who participated in the autumn harvest were overjoyed. They have planted the land for a lifetime, even if the wind and rain are smooth, the yield per mu is already very awesome.

After the end of the autumn harvest in the Hetao base area, a detailed count was made, and the total amount of autumn grain in storage reached more than 30,000 tons. Under such unfavorable conditions, the newly reclaimed land in the Hetao can actually have such a yield, which makes the Hetao base area very excited.

This has also given everyone great confidence and proved that it is still possible to build the Hetao base area into a northwestern Saiwai Jiangnan in the Hetao area on a large scale.

After the autumn harvest was over, the Hetao base area began to prepare for the upcoming Ningxia campaign. According to the information sent back by the Ministry of Intelligence, this year's autumn grain harvest in the Hetao base area is quite good. The Ningxia Plain is also part of the Hetao region, which is commonly known as the "Western Loop" in history.

The Ningxia Plain is flat and the soil is fertile, since the Qin and Han dynasties, the residents have dug ditches here, diverted the water of the Yellow River for irrigation, and the agriculture is very developed, known as "the south of the Yangtze River" and "the granary of the plugg". Even though during the great drought in Chongzhen, none of the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty were spared, but the Ningxia Plain was not affected at all because of the perfect irrigation system.

In the past few months, the Hetao base area has also been actively preparing for the Ningxia campaign. To this end, the company also gathered more than 100 trucks of all kinds, organized several large-scale support operations, and hung a carriage behind each car, all of which were fully loaded, and drove all the way from the Keshiketeng Department in Liaodong to the Naturalization City.

A large number of materials were transported to the Hetao base area, including modular standard components of various steam units, modular standard components of inland steam deck barges, weapons and ammunition, and various production tools.

In addition to a large number of various materials, the company also transported a part of the grain, as well as a large number of cotton and cloth, and various departments also sent a group of migrant employees in different positions to give strong support to the Hetao base area. (To be continued.) )