Chapter 32 Population and Agriculture

In addition, the sea wolf has secretly controlled the sale of private salt. Since Yu Xiaotian was touched, the sea wolf has established private salt drying farms in many places along the coast. In addition, a large number of salt drying farms have been established on Taiwan Island, smuggling a large number of private salt in secret areas.

Private salt has always been sold exclusively by the imperial court, and can even be comparable to silver. As another common currency, sea wolves also operated private salt in the past, but after all, this thing has been investigated by the government. The risk is relatively large and cannot be sold too much.

Now Yu Xiaotian holds a heavy army in Fujian and wants to do the business of private salt. Who dares to investigate the army under Xiaotian? No matter how much private salt they transport, whether they take land or water, as long as they hang the flag of Yu Xiaotian, they dare not say that the immortals have to retreat, at least ordinary officials I don't dare to find any trouble at all.

With this level of identity protection, when the sea wolf does the private salt business, it can be said to be unfavorable. As long as someone wants it, the sea wolf dares to guarantee that the private salt will be sent directly to their designated trading place. There will never be any trouble. In addition, the price is fair. Those little salt tyrants are willing to do business with the sea wolf, although Seawolves require cash payment and not to be in arrears, but trading with sea wolves is much less risky than trading with others, and it is easier to make profits, so salt yoes everywhere are willing to take goods from sea wolves.

The quality of private salt produced by Shanghai wolves is much better than that produced by ordinary salt hawks. If the same price and quality are good, they can sell at a higher price and get more profits. If anyone does not do business with sea wolves, it is really the kind of guy between stupid A and stupid C.

Since Yu Xiaotian was touched, in addition to showing its strength on land in Fujian, the Sea Wolf Group has also made great progress in various undertakings on Taiwan Island.

dan shui City has been built by sea wolves for many years, and has now become a large-scale city. The city alone has a population of nearly 100,000. This is also a considerable city on land. At least the top is the scale of a superior county. Although it is not as many large government cities, it is In just a few years, such a city has been built in a barren land, which is already valuable.

In the past few years, the whole sea wolf has brought 700,000 immigrants to Taiwan Island, with its branches in Tamsui, Keelung, Kaohsiung, Yilan and other places.

In the first year of Xiaotian Chongzhen, from the beginning of Fujian immigration, he officially renamed Dagou Port as Kaohsiung Port, and built a city in Kaohsiung, called Kaohsiung City, with Kaohsiung as the center, radiating around and resettling a large number of immigrants.

At the same time, considering the increase in immigration, Yu Xiaotian's labor force and manpower are much looser than before. In addition, he will take Taiwan as his nest in the future. Although the Yilan Plain is small, the land is fertile and suitable for large-scale cultivation of rice, while southerners mostly eat rice and grow it in Yilan. Rice, harvested twice a year, can supply a large amount of rice to sea wolves.

Therefore, two years after Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian ordered the Sea Wolf Group to start stationing in the Yilan Plain. Still adopting the old method, he first sent a large number of hard labor to burn wasteland and level the land in the Yilan Plain to improve the environment. After the local environment was improved, a large number of immigrants began to farm in the Yilan Plain. .

In the three years, more than 30,000 immigrants have been resettled in the Yilan Plain alone, a large number of paddy fields have been reclaimed, and more than 50 new immigrant villages have been built for resettlement.

The long-term immigration operation has enabled the Seawolf Group to accumulate rich experience in immigration resettlement and the local environmental transformation. Although each large-scale expansion consumes a large number of hard labor, resulting in a large number of hard labor deaths, but the sea wolf never hesitates about these hard labor. After all, Among these people, either black monkeys brought by pirates from the Nanyang, or some criminals, especially these criminals who have committed serious crimes, each of them has a way to die, which can be said to be regrettable.

Although this is cruel, it has greatly reduced the mortality rate of a large number of immigrants and a lot of undue losses. Of course, the incidence of epidemics such as malaria has naturally decreased a lot.

It can't be said that the sea wolf's immigration has always been smooth sailing. In the second year of Chongzhen, two large-scale malaria epidemics broke out in the area of Keelung Fort and Kaohsiung.

But fortunately, Yu Xiaotian prepared in advance and organized many medical officers to carry out experiments on the treatment of malaria with chryspharia.

Over the years, these experiments have also achieved considerable results. The medical officer of the sea wolf has basically found several more effective prescriptions for malaria. Although it is not very effective, it has saved many people infected with malaria.

In addition, under the teachings of Xiaotian, the medical officers of the sea wolf have a clearer understanding of the infectivity of malaria and have also taken more powerful measures to control the epidemic. Although some malaria patients often appear in immigrant villages, there have never been a large-scale malaria outbreak. It has almost always been within a controllable and acceptable range.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian ordered local administrative officials in Taiwan to focus on persuading farmers everywhere and introduce various policies to support agricultural development. Gradually, it has formed that the Yilan Plain mainly cultivates rice, Keelung Fort mainly engages in fisheries, and the area of Tamsui City is mainly dryland crops, plus a small amount of sugar cane cultivation, Kaohsiung In addition to rice, a large number of sugar cane have been planted in the area, and several large sugar houses have been opened.

All over the sea have vigorously developed the fishery industry to provide a relatively sufficient supply of protein for the members of sea wolves, including those rice fields, which also measure freshwater fish, ducks, etc. In addition to enriching the fields, they can also eat a lot of harmful insects.

In addition, the sea wolf has always attached great importance to the problem of fertilizer accumulation and breeding, focusing on promoting high-yielding food crop varieties, and attaching the construction of water conservancy. In this way, the sea wolf's farmland output in various settlements on Taiwan Island will be more mature, and the crop yield will exceed that of land. There is a lot of farmland.

Although it is far from reaching the grain output of later farmland, the output of one mu of rice fields has basically reached the output of seven or eight stones in two seasons a year. In addition, the fish can be harvested twice a year in the paddy field, which makes the income level of farmers far exceed that of the land.

Although the sea wolf group does not collect light taxes on land, sea wolves do not have messy additions, and there are no messy taxes such as tip kicking and fire consumption. Although farmers have to pay a lot of food every year, they can still have A lot of surplus.

In this way, after the initial period of discomfort and panic, the immigrants saw that the days here were getting better day by day, so they naturally felt at ease. When the people were relieved, naturally there were fewer people looking for trouble, and the folk customs were naturally much simpler, and the society was relatively It is also much more stable than on land.

In addition, the Sea Wolf Group has always implemented a high-pressure policy for all kinds of criminals within its jurisdiction, gradually removing some of the restless immigrants and sending them to the hard labor camps for so-called labor reform. As a result, it is difficult for Sea Wolf to be unstable in various jurisdictions of Taiwan Island.

By the fourth year of Chongzhen, the sea wolf basically achieved a benign food supply in several large immigration areas on Taiwan Island. The self-produced food could almost meet the needs of immigrants on the whole Taiwan Island. Some things such as sucrose and catch began to be exported in large quantities, exchanging a lot for the sea wolf. The silver.

So in just a few years, Taiwan Island has been basically firmly controlled by sea wolves. Although the local indigenous people do not welcome their so-called invaders, they are already helpless. The sea wolf group has also adopted a soft hand, hard carrots and sticks for these indigenous tribes. Law, on the one hand, let them know that sea wolves can't be provoked, and on the other hand, it also makes them feel that their life is better with these outsiders, and at least they can exchange their prey for a lot of useful things from these migration points.

Yu Xiaotian also specially instructed them to export more basic daily necessities such as cloth, ironware, porcelain, tea salt, etc., so that they can experience the benefits of these things and will not be separated from these things in the future.

and teach some indigenous tribes that maintain good relations with sea wolves, teach them the technology of land reclamation, and gradually integrate them into the social system established by sea wolves in the future, which will play a very good role in the long-term stability of sea wolves in Taiwan in the future.

Although sea wolves must extract a lot of benefits from the indigenous people when trading with the indigenous people, but on the whole, this kind of oppression is not harsh. While making profits, the sea wolves also pay attention to fair trade, which makes these indigenous people feel that they are not at a loss. Gradually, some indigenous tribes find that as long as they do not go to the Lord Attacking immigrants, these outsiders were not very unreasonable. Gradually, more and more indigenous people gradually eliminated their strong hostility to sea wolves and began to tentatively walk out of the mountains and forests to get along with these immigrants.

Of course, for some fierce and unreasonable headhunting tribes, the sea wolves will never be soft. They have sent a large number of troops to carry out bloody blows on these tribes that seriously threaten the safety of immigrants, one by one, but in general, they are also striving to survive. Live, the captured indigenous women and children are placed in various immigrant villages for supervision, and gradually integrate them into the social system of sea wolves.

After the young men were captured, they were sent to some labor camps for transformation. The indigenous people who adapted to it were gradually absorbed into the army and used as auxiliary soldiers or formal soldiers.