Both brothers worked with the clan leader and old shopkeeper of the family. They were no longer familiar with the grain business in the Qing Dynasty.

After thousands of years of agricultural development, the land potential in the Central Plains has long been exhausted. The desertification of the Guanzhong Plain has become increasingly serious, and the drought trend in Shanxi has become increasingly serious. The population of Zhili has grown and farmland output is no longer enough for locals to eat. The situation in Henan and Shandong is not optimistic.

The country of Sichuan Tianfu is blessed by the ancestors' water conservancy system, and people's lives are quite acceptable. However, due to the difficulties of Shu Road, it is difficult for the Sichuan plain to integrate into the Central Plains grain trading system and can only be digested locally.

Now the lifeline of the Qing Dynasty is in the Two Lakes and Jiangnan region, and only these two areas can have some surplus of grain production.

However, these excess grains are extremely precious, and the Manchus will not give food to the Han people. Through the canal system, a large amount of grain is transported to the Gyeonggi area. The huge bannermen group relies on these grains and local taxes to survive like parasites.

The two major grain trusts, Sihai Business and Mijia Grain Store, have long followed Xiao Letian's orders and conducted a survey on the grain industry in the Qing Dynasty, and the results were shocking.

Once natural disasters or wars occur in China, it will inevitably cause very serious famine, and it will sweep the whole country as soon as it occurs.

In front of the ***, the Sichuan Tianfu Congress quickly closed the Shu Road and locked the grain in the basin. In fact, it didn't matter if it was not locked. With the transportation system of the Qing Dynasty at that time, the grain could not be transported even if it wanted to be transported.

Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places are relatively safe areas in the famine. The vastness and sparse population outside the pass are still in the undeveloped stage, so there is no need to consider it for the time being. What remains are some narrow areas that can be covered by sea transportation and river transportation, and some high-priced grain can be eaten by imports.

The Mandaqing area is just a little safe place. All the provinces and regions will experience super famine. People who starve to death will definitely be calculated in billions.

The results of the investigation frightened everyone. After Xiao Letian closed the document, he even walked to these researchers and bowed deeply to these humble businessmen.

"Thank you for your hard work, thank you for revealing the cruel truth... Now the food problem of Chinese people is no longer solved by the Qing Dynasty, nor is it that the corrupt colluders of officials and businessmen in the Qing Dynasty can save their lives!"

"Apart from you, hundreds of millions of Chinese people will have no hope! Only you, only you, the emerging Confucian businessmen of the Chinese race, and only you who have justice and morality in your heart can save them..."

"I will replace hundreds of millions of people. Please give you all your strength and develop Nanyang to seize every time to accumulate life-saving rations. If that day really comes... I just want not to have a tragedy of Yizi eating! Even if you have accumulated virtue for your children and grandchildren, please work hard!"

Confucian businessmen, Chinese businessmen? These two names are heavy, and all the executives present at the two grain trade trusts have kneeled down. They were originally working hard to develop the Nanyang market, but now there is a prime minister's advice, how dare they not work hard?

Recalling the situation at that time, Tian Lin and Niu Jincai's eyes became rosy. After taking out a handkerchief to wipe their tears, their eyes returned to the ten thousand acres of farmland in front of them.

On the horizon, black smoke was rolling up. The pioneering pioneer team was burning the wasteland. The Chinese had an unusual love for transforming the land. They collected a lot of turbulent oil from Brunei, which is the oil familiar to the West, and made it into various combustion-aided tools.

In the primitive rainforest, these fierce tinctures that cannot be extinguished by heavy rain have become powerful tools for exploring human territory.

The monkeys in South Asia will never understand why these Chinese are so diligent. They only sleep for three and a half hours a day, and the rest of their time is all about work. The rice yield in the farmland has been enough for them to eat for a hundred years, but they are still cultivating new land.

The flames burned out the land, and then these Chinese workers immediately further built ditches, leveled the land and built villages with strong defense. Often, they could create hundreds of hectares of rice fields out of thin air in a few months.

In Nanyang, rice is not cooked hard at all. People are too lazy to remove weeds after planting rice, because the yield is so high that it is so high that it is so high that it is so high that it is planted three seasons a year.

Whenever the harvest season is the Sihai Business and Mijia Grain Store will be fully dispatched, rolls of Ryukyu banknotes exchange trucks of rice, and then gather in the sea to travel to the distant north.

At first, Tian Lin, Niu Jincai and others were very suspicious. They didn't know whether the land in Nanyang could support the entire Qing people, but when they saw the harvest with their own eyes, everyone felt relieved.

The accumulation of tropical rainforests for tens of millions of years has filled the soil with humus fertility. Moreover, the common volcanic eruptions in the South China Sea provide fertile volcanic ash to the soil. The rice planted here is as long as it is crazy.

More importantly, there will be no drought here, and there are rivers and streams everywhere. What we are worried about is not enough water, but too much water.

The scene that happened in Borneo is just a microcosm of many Chinese reclamation areas in South Asia. Under the escort of Xiao Letian, the tropical rainforests in the South Ocean are shrinking at a speed far beyond the real history.

Maybe some people in later generations would call Xiao Letian an ecological destroyer, but now he can't care about so many. As long as he can support hundreds of millions of mouths in China, he will do whatever he wants to burn all the forests in Nanyang.

Another benefit of the settlement plan is the increase in the number of immigrants. Due to enough food, many extremely poor refugees in China are guided here. Through the centralized resettlement of the company, many large Chinese towns with a population of over 10,000 have appeared in Nanyang.

Moreover, the Chinese self-armed forces have gradually taken shape. For example, the more than 50 burly men around Tian Lin and Niu Jincai are the armed forces formed by the Chinese themselves.

The latest Mauser rifle, an Arab war horse that you have never seen in Nanyang, and there are several melon grenades imported from Ryukyu on your waist. These Chinese guards armed to the teeth have shattered the harassment of the indigenous monkeys more than once, and stole a lot of their land.

Niu Jincai looked at this rich land and said with great emotion in his heart, "This is really a fat treasure land. From now on, this will be the territory of our Chinese people. Whoever dares to rob will die with him!"

Tian Lin also gritted her teeth and said, "Yes, I will talk to the village chiefs of each village tomorrow. In the future, the self-defense tax will increase by 30% and our guards will have to expand their troops! They will not object. As long as they agree to increase by 30% of the senior year, our company will consider increasing by 30% of the senior year!"

"I heard that Tanggu will soon be able to produce small warships of five or six hundred tons. Then we will buy a few more... We can't beat foreign devils, can we still beat those native monkeys? Is this Borneo a Chinese? "

"Yes, yes... increase taxes! Everyone has money in their hands now and will not complain!"
Chapter completed!