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Chapter 1100, Another good harvest year

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    In the golden autumn season, the entire Ming Dynasty has also entered the busy autumn harvest season.

    Liaodong is now the most important production area in the Ming Dynasty. The entire Liaodong area is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is extremely fertile. It is also a great plain area, which is very suitable for the development of agriculture.

    With the large number of immigrants migrating to Liaodong, agriculture in Liaodong has developed rapidly.

    By the 14th year of Hongzhi, the grain produced in Liaodong region could be exported on a large scale. By the 15th year of Hongzhi period, the grain produced in Liaodong region alone was enough to feed the entire Ming Dynasty.

    This year, the 16th year of Hongzhi, Liaodong region once again ushered in a bumper harvest.

    In Tieling Nanshan Village, on an endless wilderness, Li Damao drove his own steam harvester to harvest wheat. Accompanied by bursts of whistles and billowing black salt, golden wheat fields were harvested wherever the steam harvester passed.  , leaving behind bags and bags of wheat.

    "Woooo~"

    Not far away, several identical steam harvesters sounded their whistles, as if they were greeting Li Damao.

    Li Damao looked at it, smiled immediately, and then controlled the steam harvester to make blasts of whistles.

    Because of its unique environment, the Liaodong region has fertile land and plains everywhere. At the same time, it is vast and sparsely populated. Every household has hundreds of acres of land, and some like Li Damao have now cultivated thousands of acres of land.

    With such a large amount of land, it would be difficult to cultivate it solely by manpower. Therefore, farmers in Liaodong area like to use machinery for cultivation.

    Steam cultivators and steam harvesters, these two agricultural machinery that rely on steam to provide power, are the most popular in Liaodong.

    Because Li Damao¡¯s latest use of steam harvesters and steam cultivators in Nanshan Village, everyone has seen the benefits and benefits of these steam harvesters and steam cultivators.

    Therefore, in the 16th year of Hongzhi in the entire Nanshan Village, the villagers bought more than a dozen steam harvesters and steam cultivators. At this time, when the autumn harvest came, the whistles of the steam harvesters disappeared in the fields around Nanshan Village.  Stopped.

    Steam harvesters are not cheap. One machine costs more than one hundred taels of silver. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for ordinary people to afford it.

    Even the farmers in the Liaodong region are considered wealthy.

    Thanks to the immigration policy, farmers in Liaodong have not had to pay grain taxes until now. They are still within the tax holiday, and every household has grown a lot of grain.

    Last year alone, the Nanshan villages that had a bumper harvest sold grain for dozens of taels, but grain was also the bulk of their income, and apart from various expenses, there was not much left over.

    I want to buy a steam harvester for more than one hundred taels of silver, which obviously takes a few years.

    ??The reason why everyone can afford it is mainly due to the preferential loans provided by Daming First Bank to support agricultural development.

    The interest rate on loans for purchasing machinery is very low, and you can also pay in installments. Under these preferential policies, the villagers in Nanshan Village also bought steam cultivators and steam harvesters one after another.

    With the help of these two machines, the villagers of Nanshan Village reclaimed all the fields around Nanshan Village and planted food in just one year. Every household has thousands of acres of land.

    "I'm afraid this year's food prices will be even lower than last year!"

    A bumper harvest should have been a happy day, but Li Damao couldn't be happy.

    On the one hand, there are more steam machines in Liaodong, which makes his business even more difficult.

    Last year, because he was the first to buy a steam harvester, he made a lot of money by harvesting wheat for others. He earned back the money to buy the machine in just two months.

    But this year is different. With more steam harvesters, he can get fewer jobs, and the prices are also lower, because if you don't do it, someone will always come back to do it.

    Another aspect is the issue of food prices.

    This year, Liaodong region has another bumper harvest.

    This is an extremely fertile black land with abundant rainfall, heavy snowfall in winter, and few pests and diseases, which results in high wheat yield and good quality in Liaodong.

    The promotion of agricultural machinery has also allowed the fields cultivated in Liaodong this year to far exceed the previous total. It is said that the northernmost areas have been cultivated to the edge of Heilongjiang.

    Originally, most immigrants from the Liaodong region gathered on both sides of the Liaohe River (later Liaoning Province). However, with the continuous migration to the Liaodong region in the past two years, immigrants also continued to migrate north.

    And then gradually??With the large-scale migration of the population, the population in Henan is getting smaller and smaller. In the past, the land owned by the landlords and rich people was cultivated by everyone, but now the landowners and rich people beg everyone to farm it, but no one will farm it for them.

    Because everyone is now focused on going abroad, whether it is to work in the Beijing-Tianjin area or to immigrate overseas, anywhere is better than staying here in Henan and farming for the landlords.

    Led by fellow countrymen, fellow villagers, relatives and friends, a large number of people spontaneously migrated to Liaodong, Western Regions, Hexi, Nanyang and other places. This also led to a two-year decline in grain production in Henan Province, a former major grain-producing province.  .

    As for Beizhili, the impact of immigration is very small. Beizhili has been deeply affected by capitalism and colonialism. A large number of people entered factories and went overseas.

    This has also led to a sharp drop in grain production in Beizhili, requiring a large amount of imported grain.

    This is the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. The newly acquired territories are basically full of grain harvests. However, due to the large outflow of people in the traditional two capitals and thirteen provinces, a large amount of land is uncultivated, and grain production has plummeted.  Condition.

    But this did not affect the food security of the Ming Dynasty, because the grain production of the two capitals and thirteen provinces has decreased, but the population has decreased even more, and the demand for food is smaller. Even if the grain production plummets, the food in these areas is still  Due to the surplus, coupled with the promotion of sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes, the Ming Dynasty had no worries about food.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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