"Ask a few more agricultural experts to see if this is true. If it is true, check how many similar seedlings are densely populated in various places. Take advantage of this time to move out when it is timely. When the time comes, we will strive to make use of all the abandoned vacant land. Meng Xiang instructed the rats who followed.

It also does not seem to be common for such seedlings to be dense, especially if they are grown by individuals. But the vanguard army has accumulated 8 million acres of land, one-third of which is planted with sweet potatoes, and the planting density standard is about the same. If this is true, many seedlings can be separated at once.

In fact, Meng Xiang didn't want to make too much use of the hillside land, and there was a lot of publicity about returning farmland to forests in later generations, which was also introduced on many forums. The hillside land is supposed to be the kingdom of natural vegetation, and it is precisely because of the drought-tolerant, barren-tolerant, high-yielding, and high-efficiency foreign economic and food crops such as the American crops that encroach on the land on the hillsides, which leads to the destruction of the native vegetation system, and some vegetation even extinction. The chain affects birds and animals, etc., and then affects the entire biosphere.

But at this time, all this is not taken into account, and those who have not experienced famine firsthand cannot imagine how much of a threat hunger poses to people.

Meng Xiang's desk was piled up with reports of famine from all over the world, which gave him a sense of crisis from time to time. Coupled with the grain transported from Jiaodong, the base area can support until June and July. However, if there is an accident with the summer grain, there will be nowhere to find the food shortage in the second half of the year, and the army will inevitably blockade the vanguard army more strictly.

"Who's that guy?" Zhang Changgong waited until Meng Xiang and the others left, and then he asked Li Fugen, one of the caretakers of the farm.

Missing an arm, Li Fugen, who was injured and demobilized, smiled with envy: "This is Meng Dashuai of our vanguard army." You're lucky, for your suggestion, Meng Dashuai will reward you with a thousand copper yuan. Meng Xiang instructed someone to wait for a while to reward Zhang Changgong on the spot, which can be regarded as a move to buy bones. Anyway, to give copper round, the cost is very low.

"What? This is Meng Dashuai? Zhang Changgong didn't care about the 1,000 copper yuan, he just reached out and touched the cigarette in his pocket, and kept muttering in his mouth, "He is Meng Dashuai!" ”

"Zhang Changgong!" In the car, Meng Xiang was also chanting his name.

"Mr. Chen, in Shandong, is the division of peasants in the countryside according to landlords, rich peasants, middle peasants, and poor peasants?" Meng Xiang tentatively asked Chen Hansheng, who was sitting next to him, and Meng Xiang was very vigilant about his identity.

"At present, we are generally divided into tenant farmers, tenant farmers, domestic farmers, yeoman farmers, and landlords." Chen Hansheng didn't pay attention to the Zen machine in Meng Xiang's words, but saw Meng Xiang listening attentively, and continued to explain, "The so-called tenant farmers are farmers who have no land to cultivate other people's fields and distribute them to the landlord according to the harvest. The number of tenant farmers is less than 10 acres, and the number of acres is more than 40 acres. When the harvest is distributed, the landlord gets seventy percent, and the tenant gets thirty percent. There are also half distributions, called large farming, when the time comes, Ding Cao's donations are served by the landlord, and other such as livestock, seeds, and fertilizer needs are borne by the tenants.

Renting farmers is to directly agree on the rent in advance according to the amount of money per mu, and the quality of the harvest has nothing to do with the landlord. The rent of ordinary land in the first two years ranged from one yuan to two yuan per mu, and it was paid in two quarters every year, and it was exempted from payment if it was wasted, and the term of office was generally three years. Renewal upon expiration is based on market conditions.

Most of the domestic peasants are poor peasants who are hired by others to work, and there are two types of long-term and short-term work. Long-term work is generally calculated on an annual basis. After a busy year, all the food and drink were taken from the landlord, but in addition to farming, he also had to cut wood to feed the livestock, which was more tiring than the tenant farmer. That Zhang Changgong is like this, it's not easy to survive for more than 40 years.

Short-term workers are counted in days or months, and during the busy agricultural season, there are many temporary workers in towns and villages, and the amount of commissions is determined by the two parties of the main and domestic helpers, and they are generally paid according to the day.

Then there are yeoman farmers, that is, farmers who cultivate their own fields.

Among them, there is also a type of semi-yeoman farmer, one is to cultivate a part of the field by himself, and rent or hire workers to plant the other part; The other is that the land is not enough for self-sufficiency, and rents other people's fields. Semi-subsistence farmers like this generally account for the largest number of them.

Of course, there are divisions similar to the one you mentioned, as well as the divisions of large peasants, middle peasants, small peasants, and tenant farmers.

This big peasant with more than 500 acres of land is the landlord of other categories. ”

"Are there many landlords?" Meng Xiang continued to ask.

"As far as Shandong is concerned, there are not many landlords. According to a survey conducted in 1934, only 1.6% of households with more than 100 acres of land accounted for the land. But at the same time, 39.3% of the cases were less than 10 acres. But that's just one thing. The scope of the survey is also not very extensive. Chen Hansheng said directly without hesitation, the first thing to do is to be serious.

"And how many yeoman farmers are there?" Meng Xiang has been analyzing this problem, and this is something that involves some of his actions in the future.

"As far as Shandong is concerned, it has been steadily improving in recent years, and when I studied it in 33 years, it accounted for 70%, and in 36 years it reached 75%. This is also related to the vigorous development of industry and commerce. On the whole, the number of landlords occupying large areas of land is becoming less and less than at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In the past hundred years of war, property has been distributed many times, and the big landlords in the former Qing Dynasty have been scattered a lot. The rise of industry and commerce at the end of the Qing Dynasty allowed them to invest their funds in more profitable industry and commerce. And then there's the American crop I'm talking about. I have seen an American report that the indiscriminate use of wasteland by American crops has allowed farmers to leave their landlords and use the small amount of land harvested to feed their families. The prosperity of the former Qing Dynasty was the time when crops were promoted in the Americas. This is also one of the reasons for the shrinkage of landlords' occupation of large areas of land since the end of the Qing Dynasty. This seems to make some sense, but I still don't fully agree with him. Chen Hansheng changed his words and said, "Because what I am talking about is only the situation in Shandong, as far as the whole country is concerned, the gap between the rich and the poor, and the situation of a small number of people occupying a large amount of land has not improved, but has worsened." Moreover, the exploitation faced by the peasants came not only from the landlords, but also from the exploitation of commercial capital and usury capital. ”

Meng Xiang frowned slightly, he was not very interested in this, all kinds of things in the future told him that he only trusted his own judgment. Including the information Chen Hansheng said before, he also has a general understanding, and this time he just has a little more understanding, and even tests this Chen Hansheng.

Shandong's situation is rather special, the number of big landlords is not large, but the contradiction between a large number of people and a small amount of land cannot be effectively resolved. The simple average division of the land is not an effective solution, and the car slowly stopped.

"General, it's here!" Mao Eighteen, who was driving, reminded. It is not suitable to be called a commander in front of people, so Meng Xiang will always be called a general, which feels more majestic than a commander.

"Let's go and see the tractor we assembled ourselves!" Meng Xiang interrupted Chen Hansheng's words with a smile and invited him to visit this first tractor together.

Some time ago, when the farm was busy, Meng Xiang saw the crowd of people busy plowing the land because of the shortage of ploughing cattle, and he couldn't help but think of the tractors of later generations.

Tractors have grown along with the tank industry. With a little training, a tractor driver can become a tanker that the army desperately needs, and a tractor factory is a tank when it is equipped with weapons at a slight change.

With the support of the base, Meng Xiang does not need to build his own tractor factory, and there is a large supply of tanks. But tractors, the base is not produced. Meng Xiang thought of modification.

Speaking of modifications, Meng Xiang has long planned to do so. After nearly 100 experiments, I finally figured out a little rule not long ago.

Every weapon that is damaged can be repaired through the Repair Shop. Of course, there is a maintenance fee for this, which is only 10 to 1 percent of the cost of the weapon, depending on the degree of difficulty. This does not include the cost of parts. If one part is disassembled and the other parts are intact, the same only needs to charge the base discount cost price and one percent maintenance fee for that part. In this way, after repairing the weapon, there is a complete spare part. Of course, you can also disassemble all the weapons and reuse them.

At first glance, it seemed that there was an extra way to make a fortune, but with Meng Xiang's in-depth research, he finally found that there was always a way to fill the loopholes in the base. The offer for a new part for each weapon is limited by the number of times. Every time it is replaced, the repair cost rises a little, more than one-tenth, and suddenly it rises to ten points each time, until the actual cost price of the part in reality.

If it comes to the cost price in reality, sometimes it is not as cost-effective as using the preferential price of the base to produce a complete set of weapons. But after all, there is a way to modify, especially the first ten times of the particularly low discount, it is still very cost-effective.

Of course, Meng Xiang didn't know that this was a restriction made by the future base for the safety of weapons and surnamed Neng. If a weapon is repaired many times, the ability and safety of the weapon will inevitably be greatly reduced, and it must be replaced with a new weapon or a more advanced weapon, and the frequency of equipment obsolescence and renewal must be accelerated.

The tractor is the first test product that Meng Xiang has explored this law.

The prototype, Meng Xiang did not use advanced tanks, but used the Renault FT-17 tank during World War I, if nothing else, just for cheapness and speed bonus at the time of production.

Tractors don't need speed, they don't need weapons, they don't need long-distance travel and too good off-road surnames, the Renault FT-17 tank should be said to be a good balance among all kinds of tanks during World War I, and the flexible surname was the best at that time. Meng Xiang did not know about this, and he did not know that the Renault FT-17 tank was in service from 17 years and remained in service until 44 years. He just chose this one more suitable in the comparative test.

Although the Renault FT-17 tank has a custom crew of 2 people, it can be driven by one person, which is very suitable for tractor operators. The speed of 10 kilometers per hour and the maximum range of 39 kilometers were greatly improved after disassembling most of the armor and weapons from 6 to 22 mm thick. But the tractor doesn't need this, but its ability to pass over 0.61 meters of vertical walls and 1.98 meters of trenches is suitable for the wilderness, and it is easy to deal with those wastelands.

The dismantled weapons were sold, and the thin-skinned armor became a good steel for ordinary farming tools, while the thick armor was disposed of separately and used elsewhere as good plates.

"You can give it a try!" Zhi Bingyuan pointed to the interface as he spoke. Wu Xianggan, who was squatting next to him and was preparing the plough behind, hurriedly adjusted it according to his instructions. Sure enough, the coulter that had been unable to fall just now was smoothly put down. These coulters were made from those thick armors.

"Mr. Zhi, how are you preparing?" Meng Xiang stepped forward with a smile and said hello.

Zhi Bingyuan, who later became China Ford, was still the manager, director and chief engineer of Shanghai Xinzhong Engineering Co., Ltd. at this time, and he was a well-known person in the society at this time, and it was difficult to invite him. But when Zhao Shuxing, who went to invite, proposed to develop the first tractor, he didn't expect him to readily agree.

After several battles of the vanguard army, the vanguard army is no longer unknown, and there is an endless stream of people who come to defect every day. The slogan put forward by Meng Xiang to fight on the front line of the Anti-Japanese War is very attractive.

The first agricultural machinery factory of the vanguard army is divided into a front factory and a rear factory, and the rear factory is a repair workshop renovated from the base repair plant. There, using the tools of the repair shop, the Renault FT-17 tank was dismantled and removed from unnecessary parts, and then the useful objects and frames were left and transported directly to the former factory, which was not far away, where they began to install various ancillary equipment and reconstruct.

So far, only three have been produced with experimental surnames.

"It's time to go." Zhi Bingyuan said excitedly. After all, this is the first tractor assembled by Huaxia itself.

With the wave of a flag and the roar of three engines, the three tractors made their debut together on three reserved wastelands.

"It's so fast!" Wu Xianggan, who was pinching the watch next to him, couldn't help but sigh that he had just graduated from Jinling University last year, and after staying in school and transferring with the brigade, he heard the news of the vanguard army and came to join the army again. In order to protect these talents, although they were also recruited into the Vanguard, they were in separate queues. Now with the establishment of the first agricultural machinery factory, he has been transferred here to study agricultural machinery.

"It only takes 20 minutes to get an acre of land." Wu Xianggan shouted loudly. Although the tractor continued to plough the land, the time for the cultivation of an acre of land came out.

"One is more than 20 points, one is more than 21 points, one is more than 22 points, and the average is about 21 minutes." Zhi Bingyuan also nodded excitedly. What does this mean, a cow is so tired that he ploughs two acres of land a day, and he loses fat. And now this iron ox, which is cultivated all day long, can cultivate about 70 acres of land. Of course, it is impossible for machinery to work 24 hours a day, but this is still 30 times more efficient than ploughing cattle.

"Keep experimenting, continue to experiment for 6 hours!" Zhi Bingyuan shouted loudly.

After shouting, he said to the assistant next to him: "Let's go and see how the effect of this rotary tillage is?" ”

After measuring, he nodded with satisfaction and shouted, "The farming effect also meets the requirements!" ”

The people next to him began to cheer loudly, and the firecrackers that had been prepared for a long time began to crackle.

"Great, great." Zhi Bingyuan looked at the tractor galloping in the field excitedly, his eyes were a little moist, but he still had some regrets in his heart, this tractor was only assembled and produced by the Chinese people, not all of them were produced using their own products, just like the engine of this tractor, which was a French product.

"We're going to have our own engine!" The more he came into contact with machinery, the more he felt the importance of the engine as the core, and he couldn't help but secretly make up his mind to complete his diesel engine.

"Not bad!" Meng Xiang looked at Chen Hansheng, who had already run to the field to check the cultivation effect, and smiled.

With the tractor, the efficiency of farming is accelerated, and a lot of manpower and animal power are saved. More manpower can be transferred to join the army, or the food and feed consumption of ploughing cattle can be reduced, and the development of pigs, sheep or beef cattle can be changed.

"Other farm machinery, such as combines, is also needed!" Meng Xiang pinched his chin and said.

Combine harvesters were already massively used by the Americans in the twenties, but they are still only legends in the country. With the support of ready-made references and base power, the development is not very slow, but it is much more complicated than the tractor.

"When harvesting, we must guard against rain and devils, and this harvest must be accelerated. It's not a bad idea to try two of them. Meng Xiang thought, but the side effects behind mechanization are also very big, and the countryside will inevitably produce a large number of surplus labor.

"Now I can't use so much by fighting wars. Looks like we'll have to find another way. "Meng Xiang also has a headache, many things are linked one by one, thinking of the comfort of many officials in later generations, don't they usually think about these?

"If you want to have a high agricultural yield, fertilizer is indispensable, and seeds must be selected early." Meng Xiang heard the allegro sound of some students of the propaganda team in his ears. Although these student troops, who also existed in the vanguard army, had some emotions about going everywhere to propagate instead of going to the front, their enthusiasm for changing the backward face of China still made them think of ways to accomplish better.

Infected by their youth and liveliness, Meng Xiang couldn't help but move his hands and feet, but his mind thought of the front line in Xuzhou, which was still calm.

The Central Army is still constantly transferring troops, and he himself is also constantly transferring troops. Only the two sides have a small team of men and horses to contact each other, but the calmer the state, the more destructive the outburst. The real big war seems to be imminent.

"Will history still go in the same direction? Lao Jiang and Lao Li want to have another perfect retreat? Meng Xiang kept guessing the future trend, but he secretly made up his mind in his heart, "No matter what, I'm going to fight!" ”