Chapter 709: The Great Drought in Chongzhen (10)
In the early morning, Ren Chaoxin took an inland steam-deck barge and came to Yingkou Port along the Liao River. He was joined by nearly 100 engineers and technicians from the Infrastructure Construction Department of the Construction Committee.
He is also a member of the board of directors, and as soon as the meeting ended, he did not attend the meeting of the Construction Committee, but directly led the leading cadres of various departments of the Construction Committee Infrastructure Construction Department to sail directly along the Liao River to Yingkou by boat.
Ren Chaoxin convened the heads of various departments in the infrastructure department and held an emergency meeting on a steam-deck barge to discuss the next steps. At present, the infrastructure construction department of the Construction Committee has stopped almost all infrastructure projects, and is preparing to build a large number of homeless camps along both banks of the Liaohe River at the mouth of the Liaohe River in Yingkou Port to resettle displaced people from all over Daming.
Because of the special situation this year, the number of Daming displaced people who need to be resettled in the camp is too large, and most of the people will spend the whole winter in the camp camp. Therefore, most of the homeless people have to live in the woodcarved flute for wintering.
The company expects that the number of displaced people in Liaodong will reach an unprecedented number of more than 1 million. This is only Liaodong, and other regions in the Far East have also made preparations to receive displaced people, including 30,000 in Taiwan, 50,000 on Jeju Island, 100,000 in Luzon, 300,000 on the islands of the South Seas, and 30,000 in the Ryukyus. The total number of displaced people in the Far East is expected to reach 2 million this year.
The task of the Infrastructure Construction Department of the Construction Committee is to build a large number of displaced camps in the above-mentioned areas in the shortest possible time. Of course, the standard of the homeless camps in the special period is also simple, even if the Far East is a local tyrant, it can't stand the toss.
The camp of the homeless people in the eastern part of Liaodong adopts a unified woodcut flute, each house adopts the ground kang, digs a hole in the root of the house when paving, and digs a fire tunnel and a smoke hole in the ground indoors, so that it colludes all over the place and goes outdoors. The yellow plate and the kiln moraine are laid on the ground, and the fireworks are all over the kang hole after the fire is lit, and the ground heating is soaring, and the indoor heating is even, and there is no smoke or choking.
In each of the Far Eastern standard woodcut cortes, the middle hall was reduced by nearly two-thirds. The ondol stove has been moved to the outside, and the left and right rooms are arranged with three layers of bunks in each room, which can accommodate a total of 60 people. Compared with the original standard woodcarving, there are 40 more people, anyway, it can be saved, and it is guaranteed that the displaced people can survive the cold winter, which not only greatly reduces the cost, but also shortens the construction period a lot.
Although the conditions are heaven and earth compared to before, it is all at this time. Who cares about that, it's nice to have a place to stay for the winter. In addition to the woodcarved flutes that need to be wintered in Liaodong, Jeju, Taiwan, Luzon and the islands of the South Seas are much simpler, as long as you build a shed to shelter from the wind and rain, or that principle, you can live.
Ren Chaoxin took the backbone of the infrastructure construction department to Yingkou Port in advance, just to survey the terrain on both sides of the Liao River. Make preparations before the construction of the camp and complete the work in Liaodong. He also had to take people on airships to Jeju and Taiwan, where the infrastructure was relatively weak and needed support from the Liaodong Infrastructure Construction Department.
Fortunately, the Manila Real Estate Development Company, after several years of blowout development, has cultivated a considerable number of experienced infrastructure construction teams, so the construction of migrant camps in Luzon and the South Sea islands. All are under the responsibility of the Luzon Real Estate Development Corporation. Even so, he had to be busy until the winter came.
This year, the company underestimated the sudden blowout of the displaced people in Daming this year, and the company's standards for accepting displaced people in Liaodong, including the camping land and food materials, were prepared according to 500,000 people.
Of course. The company's previous standard for accepting displaced people was very high, and all the displaced people were given three full meals, and the clothing and bedding were also very complete. But in this year's grim situation, in order to save more displaced people, we must not adopt the same standards as before.
This year's standard is initially set at two meals a day, each with a bowl of thick gruel and a cornmeal tortilla. In this way, the grain originally prepared for 500,000 displaced people will be implemented according to this year's standards, and the annual needs of more than 1 million displaced people will be guaranteed.
Even so, the Far Eastern Company still has to prepare hundreds of thousands of tons of grain to ensure the food rations of the two million displaced people before next autumn's harvest. At the level of agricultural production in this era, hundreds of thousands of tons of grain are definitely astronomical.
This is only the displaced people received by the Far East, and there are countless disaster victims in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, hovering on the verge of life and death. Although this year, the Far East will take the Shanxi guerrilla detachment as the backbone, set up a number of tributary militias in the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and rely on plundering the grain of the landlords, wealthy households, gentry and bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty to feed the displaced people scattered throughout the Ming Dynasty, it still needs the company's support of a large amount of grain in order to save more victims.
And in the next few years, the north and south of the Ming Dynasty will suffer from drought and floods, and the number of displaced people will only increase.
As long as the displaced people in Liaodong this year survive this winter, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the company will organize the displaced people to open up the wasteland on a large scale and carry out agricultural production in the spring of next year. The displaced people received by Jeju, Taiwan, Luzon and the islands of the South Seas will soon be able to engage in agricultural production and harvest a crop of grain at the end of the year.
After several years of development, the Agriculture and Forestry Department of the Far Eastern Company has been able to train a large number of agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry technicians in Vladivostok Agricultural and Forestry Technical School every year. In addition, excellent seed cultivation centers have been established in all parts of the Far East controlled areas, and many excellent seeds of modern society have been popularized and popularized in various regions of the Far East, so that the level of agricultural yield per mu in the Far East is much higher than that of modern society, although it is not comparable to that of modern society.
At present, the chemical department of the company has established a large number of soil and fertilizer workshops in the Far East, producing self-made soil ammonia, soil ammonium sulfate, soil compound fertilizer, soil monohydrogen potassium phosphate, soil nitrogen ammonia phosphorus compound fertilizer and other soil fertilizers.
Soil fertilizer raw materials are extensive, the method is simple, economical and practical, and its fertilizer efficiency is no less than that of chemical fertilizer. Although the cost is very low, the production method is extremely primitive, the output has not been guaranteed, and in the face of the continuous increase of cultivated land in Liaodong, the supply of soil and fertilizer in various regions is very tight.
With the expansion of the second phase of the fertilizer plant in Vladivostok by the company's chemical department, the annual production of nitrogen fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer, potassium fertilizer, micro fertilizer and compound fertilizer will increase year by year.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has also dispatched a large number of experts and technicians to plan cultivated land in various parts of eastern Liaoning in preparation for large-scale agricultural production next spring. All kinds of production tools, seeds, fertilizers, ploughing cattle and other materials are also in full swing to be prepared, and we will strive to complete all preparations by next spring. (To be continued......)
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