The opening of the Northeast region is in full swing. The opening of Taiwan has entered the highest stage. In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the navy has fully entered the coastal areas of Taiwan.&1t;/p>

The coastal plains of the northern, western, southern and eastern Taiwan are full of immigration sites established by the navy, and the Royal Agricultural Company encloses a large number of land on the island.&1t;/p>

A large number of workers and immigrant families recruited from the Jiangnan area and Fujian area are building royal farms under the organization of Royal Agricultural Company.&1t;/p>

Just now spring, rice seedlings have been planted in those already built farms. At the same time, the sugarcane has also grown tender seedlings. After harvesting last year, the roots of these sugarcane are still buried in the soil, and there is no need to change the seeds. This year, it can grow vigorously.&1t;/p>

During the process of reclaiming Taiwan, Royal Capital recruited a lot of workers. Especially since the winter of the third year of the Apocalypse, a large number of workers were recruited from coastal provinces to Taiwan to open up land.&1t;/p>

Most of these workers are not immigrants, but are just recruiting workers to work. The monthly salary is 4 yuan, including shipping fees, and food and accommodation, which attracts a large number of workers.&1t;/p>

By the beginning of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, there were more than 50,000 workers who specialized in land reclamation on Taiwan Island, all of which were young and strong laborers.&1t;/p>

These workers are distributed in various coastal plains in Taiwan, and a large amount of land has been reclaimed.&1t;/p>

Basically by the end of the year, Royal Agriculture Company will be able to reclaim about 8 million mu of high-quality arable land in Taiwan, and they can all be connected into one farm.&1t;/p>

At the same time, in the coastal areas, nearly two million mu of arable land resources have not been opened. It is an ecological protection area designated by Zhu Youjiao, and hunting of wild animals inside is prohibited.&1t;/p>

After eight million mu of arable land is bloomed, a large amount of sucrose and rice can be produced every year. Taiwan’s land latitude is south. Rice can be planted for three seasons a year.&1t;/p>

Moreover, these lands have just been reclaimed. They are extremely fertile. The land does not become barren like many local lands, and the yield of third-season rice is relatively high.&1t;/p>

In addition, Royal Agriculture has the most mature fertilization measures at present. If different farmers operate it, it may not be able to achieve generally better fertilization. However, Royal Agriculture can do that human and animal manure will be collected for fermentation and sterilization, and then used in fertilizer fields.&1t;/p>

At the same time, animal bones and fish bones will be collected and ground into powder and used as phosphorus fertilizer.&1t;/p>

Although these fertilization methods are not so popular in the Ming Dynasty, they are not so rare, and many people are using them. However, the Royal Agricultural Company is the most systematic, and the whaling fleet has ships that specialize in processing and transporting fish bones. Although using ships for fish bone processing is currently underused, it cannot maximize profits. However, when calculating the cost and labor costs, although there is no huge profit, it also makes profits. This can maximize the use of resources, and for the Ming Dynasty, obtaining more ordinary resources is the most inclusive.&1t;/p>

For example, although transporting spices from Nanyang can make a lot of profits, it cannot change the problem of insufficient food. The official naturally welcomes merchants to transport more grain from Nanyang.&1t;/p>

Moreover, using ships in this way means that the demand for ships will be greater. It is beneficial to the shipbuilding industry and increasing employment. As long as there is a market, you don’t have to worry about insufficient ships. When the production capacity accumulates to a certain level, the demand for ships will naturally be solved.&1t;/p>

In addition to fish bone meal, fishery companies will also produce fish meal. These fish meals are made of whole heads of mixed fish, that is, those small fish or valuable fish species. These fish meals will be used to develop the aquaculture industry and are good concentrate feed.&1t;/p>

The infrastructure on Taiwan’s island is also under construction, and the roads are underway with the pace of land reclamation, so that agricultural products can be transported to seaside ports.&1t;/p>

The roads on Taiwan Island are easy to build, after all, the coastal plains do not require any mountain digging, and they are very close to the seaside, so transportation is very convenient.&1t;/p>

Of the eight million mu of arable land, four million mu are used to grow rice, most of which are distributed in the central and northern parts. There are still four million mu to grow sugarcane, most of which are located in the central and southern parts.&1t;/p>

It is estimated that 150,000 shi of commercial grain and 120,000 shi of sugar cane can be produced every year.&1t;/p>

Although the yield per mu of sugarcane is relatively low this year, only about 2 tons per mu, and the sugar yield rate is only about 13% to 15%, even so the output is quite considerable. 26o kilograms of sugar can be produced per mu.&1t;/p>

You should know that Royal Agriculture Company adopts a relatively extensive planting model in sugarcane planting, and does not require too much labor. The most labor investment is the harvesting and sugar-graining process. Usually, loosen the soil and remove weeding, and apply some fertilizer. The sugarcane festival can be buried in the ground for three years.&1t;/p>

The benefits of sugarcane cultivation are obviously much greater than that of rice cultivation. No wonder Guangdong and Guangxi are short of food, and a large amount of land is actually used to grow cash crops. After all, the output value of these cash crops is indeed a fraction higher than that of rice.&1t;/p>

For the stability of Taiwan, indigenous people are basically included in the official management.&1t;/p>

Compared with the indigenous people in the Northeast region, the indigenous people in Taiwan are much luckier. The indigenous people in Northeast Asia adopt the ruling method of slave society. Taiwan uses the ruling method of feudal society.&1t;/p>

Of course, there are some indigenous people in the mountains who are not subject to discipline and are more fierce in nature. However, the official has no intention of going deep into the mountains. The mountainous areas that run across Taiwan have become protected areas. The wood and prey in the protected areas are prohibited and there is no conflict with the indigenous people in the mountains. Of course, these indigenous people can hunt wild animals because they rely on this.&1t;/p>

These indigenous people can usually go out to trade, but they cannot cause trouble. The government provides discounts on the prices of salt, cloth and iron tools, but aggressive iron tools are prohibited from being sold to these indigenous people.&1t;/p>

The Royal Consortium's grain processing plants and sugar-pressing mills have also begun to be built in large quantities in Taiwan. The industrial chain of commercial grain and commercial sugar has been improved very quickly. It can achieve certain profits in four years of the revelation, and at the same time drive a large number of employment.&1t;/p>

More and more Han people immigrated to Taiwan. After a large number of workers came to Taiwan to work, they decided to stay in Taiwan for a long time.&1t;/p>

The formal work treatment of Royal Agriculture Company is very good. Although the wages are not very high, the welfare protection is very good. Every employee can be assigned to a house. He is a one-stop job, old age, sickness and death. As long as you are willing to do things with peace of mind, you can live a carefree life.&1t;/p>

This is a very good choice for those who just want to live a mediocre life.&1t;/p>

The main purpose of Royal Agricultural Company is not to maximize its interests. It is more important to focus on how many commercial agricultural products it can produce and how much employment and commodity market it can drive.&1t;/p>

With a large amount of profit, workers' treatment must be improved, so that workers can have money to consume.&1t;/p>

After workers' money is consumed, most of the money will flow into the hands of the consortium through various links, but in this process it can drive a large amount of commodity consumption. Expand the scale of the commodity market and thus drive a large amount of employment.&1t;/p>

Royal Agriculture's reclamation activities in Taiwan will obviously generate huge profits, and the agricultural environment here is really unique.&1t;/p>

Basically, ordinary workers in the Royal Consortium have better benefits than ordinary workers in other enterprises, and their management is relatively strict.&1t;/p>

In addition to the employment of the Royal Consortium, there are many other industries that have also attracted many immigrants.&1t;/p>

Among them, Fujian is the main force of immigration, Fujian has relatively few arable land and a large population. Therefore, it is very common to eat from the sea, and it also has the strongest immigration tradition in China.&1t;/p>

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the navy naturally did not stay idle. After the navy had a large number of gunboats, it increased its strength. It immediately began patrolling the South China Sea.&1t;/p>

When you encounter a merchant ship between the Dutch and the Spanish, you will directly intercept it.&1t;/p>

Of course, this is not much. More coastal maritime merchants who privately communicate with the Dutch and the Spanish, among which the pirate Li Dan is the main force.&1t;/p>

Li Dan was really forced to do so. In just a few months, they lost more than 20 merchant ships, and the losses were extremely heavy.&1t;/p>

Under such circumstances, Li Dan, who defected to the Dutch, attacked several small fishing villages in Hainan in order to retaliate against the government and massacred a group of fishermen in April.&1t;/p>

Liu Xiang, a pirate who defected to the Spanish, led a group of people to attack Anpingburg, Taiwan with the support of the Dutch.&1t;/p>

However, when climbing the city wall with a hook lock, he was found by the defenders. Hundreds of people were beaten to flee in a panic. Then the ship was sunk by the sea defense battalion that rushed to the scene. The pirate Liu Xiang was shot dead by the Ming army.&1t;/p>

These pirates are actually just small minions in front of the official power, and their power is not on the same level at all. Because these pirates cannot call on the resources on the Big 6, it is impossible to display much maritime power. The reason why Zheng Zhilong was able to display it in history was because he accepted the imperial edict from the government and obtained resources from the 6 places.&1t;/p>

Zheng Zhilong was still a little pony at this time and could not have developed as he had in history.&1t;/p>

However, these evil things quickly angered Zhu Youxiao, and immediately ordered the navy to deploy defenses with coastal provinces to establish a fast-responsive coastal defense force.&1t;/p>

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an order to open ports along the coast and reorganize the Maritime Traffic Department. All coastal merchant ships will go to the Maritime Traffic Department to register and register.&1t;/p>

Under the reorganization of the Maritime Warship, the customs anti-smuggling warships have also begun to be formed.&1t;/p>

This is undoubtedly a government order that touches countless maritime merchants' nerves. Soon the tariff standards of the Maritime Commercial Bureau were announced, which immediately caused the sea merchants to cry and howl.&1t;/p>

The import and export tariffs announced by Maritime Corporation are really crazy.&1t;/p>

Import tariffs on overseas spices, rhinoceros horns, gems, etc. are generally heavy tariffs of 50% to 1oo%. On the contrary, the tariffs on imported raw materials such as grain, cotton, ore are very low, among which the import tariffs on grain and cotton are only 3%.&1t;/p>

In terms of exports, the export tariffs for raw silk, sugar and cotton cloth are as high as 30~4o%, which is obviously to curb the export of agricultural products in the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

The Director of the Maritime Bureau is nothing else. It was Zhou Tongcai who was rewarded when he was searching Li Sancai. After entering the Taxation Bureau, Zhou Tongcai was very dedicated. Not only did he show outstanding abilities, but he also reported many internal phenomena in the Taxation Bureau. He was appreciated and promoted by Zhu Youxiao. This time he was transferred to the Maritime Bureau, equivalent to the customs chief of the later generations.&1t;/p>

Customs tariffs will become an important financial support for the Ming Dynasty in the future. Zhu Youxiao bets all the treasures on it. Zhou Tong only realized the importance of tariffs. As soon as he took office, he established the municipal and municipal departments of each province as quickly as possible. The first batch of ports opened were only about two in each province.&1t;/p>

If those maritime merchants want to trade in the ocean, they must register with the Maritime Trade Company if they want to go to the ocean to go to the ocean. They must also have registered a marine trading company and must also pay an access deposit of 10,000 yuan to the Maritime Trade Company.&1t;/p>

The maritime merchants were dissatisfied and started to make trouble. However, the court ignored them at all. Some maritime merchants decided to collude with Japanese pirates to disrupt coastal provinces just like they did when they resisted the maritime ban.&1t;/p>

As a result, they could not recruit Japanese pirates at all.&1t;/p>

The route to Japan was blocked by the navy, and the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan did not allow ronin to go out to sea. Moreover, pirates must have a hiding place. Taiwan has been included in the administrative area of ​​the government and has become a province of the Ming Dynasty. There is also a navy base on the Penghu Islands.&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!