Seeing that the landlords and old treasures left, Zhu Hongsan knew that they had gone back and mobilized their respective forces. Zhu Hongsan said to Zhang Jiayu: "Yuanzi, tell me about our situation."

"Why would you like to ask the King of Chu, which project you need to start with?"

Zhu Hongsan pondered: "For agriculture, food is the most important thing for people."

Zhang Jiayu nodded, picked up a stack of paper from his desk, and said, "Prince, the land under your name is 10.2 million mu, most of which are tidal flats, wastelands, and forest land. Only 200,000 mu of grain fields have been opened. Last year, the prince ordered all sweet potatoes and corn to plant. This year, the harvest was bumper in September, and the sweet potatoes harvested 1.8 million stones, and the corn reached 20,000 stones. Next year, if you can plant sweet potatoes for two seasons, you can get three million stones a year. In addition to other grains, you can feed three million to five million people next year."

Zhu Hongsan was very happy that he had only collected potatoes for one season this year, and it should be able to collect two seasons from next year. He estimated that the Qing Dynasty will go south in May next year, and a large number of refugees from Nanzhili will go south to Guangdong. By then, it will not be like the small-scale fights of hundreds of thousands of yuan like this now, and there should be millions of refugees in Guangdong.

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "It's still not possible. I don't feel panic when I have the grain in my hand. This year I just plant potatoes on the land in my hand. Yuanzi remembers that starting next year, all prefectures and counties under our jurisdiction will take out one-third of the land to plant potatoes and corn."

Zhang Jiayu asked, "Prince, isn't this too much? The yield of sweet potatoes is high, but this thing is not a staple food. If you grow too many, you will be afraid that the people will resist it."

"You guys are still short-sighted. If you have too much corn production, people can't eat it. You can feed pigs and cows. The meat is much more valuable than food."

Zhang Jiayu suddenly realized that a mu of land produces only more than 100 kilograms of millet and rice, and a thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes. This thing is eaten by people who don’t eat pigs, and they can grow fast with food pigs. This method is good. His family is a big landlord in Dongguan, with tens of thousands of acres of grain fields under his name. It seems that some of them are planted.

Zhang Jiayu nodded and took notes.

Zhu Hongsan saw Zhang Jiayu recording there and continued: "Also, potatoes and corn can be made of wine. You don't need to say how much this thing costs."

Zhu Hongsan discovered that the farmers of the Ming Dynasty were very naive. People who didn’t eat such high-yield things could not do anything else. It seemed that they wanted to develop their horizons.

Zhu Hongsan began to sit there and talk about deep processing of agricultural products. Zhu Hongsan was from his own business. He used to be from the township. He saw a lot of this thing. What potatoes can be processed with starch, vermicelli, brewed wine, lees, and feed cows, etc. Zhang Jiayu was stunned.

Zhang Jiayu knew that Zhu Hongsan was born in a minor way, but he had basically never done farm work when he was a child. How did he know about these things?

Zhang Jiayu raised the questions in his heart. Zhu Hongsan didn't expect that he would brag too much and quickly said, "When he was a child, his family was poor, and all this depends on my mother."

Zhang Jiayu has never grown any land. I don’t know that sweet potatoes and corn are only grown in a small amount in Guangdong in this era, and there is no such thing in Huguang at all.

Zhang Jiayu hurriedly bowed and said, "The old princess is indeed an expert in agriculture."

Zhu Hongsan had no choice but to laugh and said, "There is there!"

Zhang Jiayu continued: "The next prince wants to hear about the situation in that department?"

Zhu Hongsan said: "Industry."

Zhang Jiayu looked at the materials in his hand and then began to introduce the situation of the industry. Because the raw materials have been solved, the steel mill began to produce with all its strength. Zhu Hongsan has issued an order that workers during the New Year can only rest for one day, work three shifts a day, and change people without stopping the furnace, and produce with all their strength. Naturally, the wages during the New Year are three times that of daily life.

This year is the end of the year, and next year is the most important year. Whether the Qing army can be blocked next year is the issue of Zhu Hongsan's life, so Zhu Hongsan is particularly concerned about it.

Zhu Hongsan has ordered the production of ductile iron weapons with full strength and will be transported to Nanzhili in large quantities. Zhu Hongsan plans to participate in the Nanzhili resistance movement next year.

The preliminary work has been prepared, and Qian Lide has arranged an intelligence network in Jiangyin and Jiading. Both places are on the riverside and the water transportation is convenient. Zhu Hongsan plans to directly send new troops to the war. Other places in Nanzhili and Zhejiang will distribute weapons in large quantities by the Secret Guard Intelligence Network, and at that time, it will definitely make the Qing army dirty.

Zhu Hongsan couldn't help but be happy when he thought of this. He couldn't wait to see the ugly faces of Dodo and Dorgon.

Next, Zhang Jiayu reported on the business situation. Now the commercial network is spread across the country. However, there are still gaps in the north and Sichuan and Shaanxi. Since the northern provinces are not good, the outlets are only placed in a few major cities, while other county and prefectures have not been deployed. However, the southern provinces and counties have outlets, and various industrial products can directly enter the countryside.

Zhang Jiayu said: "King of Chu, the most popular ones are iron farm tools and knives. The information we feedback said that our products are very sharp and light, and the most important ones are more than 10% cheaper than local iron tools. Now most of the local official ironmaking schools in Nanzhili and Huguang, Jiangxi have been discontinued, and only some private small workshops are still maintaining production."

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Continue to dump and defeat the local small workshops. In addition, salt and sugar, no problem without silver, use raw materials to exchange for raw materials."

Zhang Jiayu asked: "Prince, a large number of iron products flowed into the Qing Dynasty's controlled area. What if they collected knives and agricultural tools to make weapons?"

"Don't worry, Yuanzi, our formula is very unique. This pig iron will be very brittle after it melts and can be broken with stones. As for real steel, my artillery factory is not enough, so I will sell it to them?"

Now Zhu Hongsan is engaged in the navy, and this is the big man who uses steel. Each 800-ton sea ship has fifty artillery, twenty cannons, twenty cannons for 2,000 pounds, and thirty cannons for 1,000 pounds, which is thirty-five tons, and there are other weapons production and production capacity exports.

Zhang Jiayu felt relieved when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this. He then said: "The problem with industry now is that too much charcoal is used, and the coal output is still not enough."

When Zhu Hongsan mentioned this, he became angry. Fu Wenlong and Ma Shaoguang went to Sizhou for almost three months. Half a month ago, the first ship of coal was transported back, and the quality was very good. Hongji's anthracite was really not blown. However, the transportation volume was too small, and 200 tons could be transported every half month, which was not enough to be stuck in the gaps. Therefore, steel mills now mainly use charcoal and local lignite in Guangdong.

Of course, the calorific value of charcoal and lignite cannot be compared with the best anthracite, so coal has now become a bottleneck in industrial development.

Zhu Hongsan asked: "Did Fu Wenlong and the others come and say that they didn't say anything?"

"Here, I came. In a letter from the prefect Fu said half a month ago that there were really no miners in the local area, and the coals were collected from the local landlords."

Hearing Zhang Jiayu say this, Zhu Hongsan angrily said: "Waste is all waste. Who asked them to buy it? Go and grab it! Without miners, you will catch the local Vietnamese and dig it. If there is not enough manpower, you can destroy several villages. Yuanzi, you write a letter and give it to Fu Wenlong and let him do this."

Zhang Jiayu was sweating coldly when he heard this, thinking that the King of Chu was really cruel. Although the scholars and officials did not regard Vietnamese as human beings, they could not do this to destroy the village just for mining.

After Zhu Hongsan said that, he thought about it, took out the paper and pen and wrote a letter, and handed it to Zhang Jiayu and said, "Then I will also hand this letter to Wang Jinbao together."

Zhang Jiayu didn't dare to read the contents in the letter, so he quickly lowered his head to agree.

Zhu Hongsan asked, "Yuanzi, what else is there? Let's talk about it together."

Zhang family looked at the information in their hands and said, "The rest are good news. Feng Gongfu of Guangzhou Prefecture said that he had selected an address and planned to build the Guangzhou Development Zone outside the East Gate according to the Dongguan Development Zone model. At the same time, the renovation of Guangzhou city has also begun. It is expected that Guangzhou will change significantly in May next year."

"And with Zhaoqing Prefecture, everything goes well with the prefect Xu. Five hundred thousand acres of wasteland have been developed in advance, and now 200,000 refugees have been allocated to the land. Each household is divided into 20 acres of land, and it is stipulated that 70% of the land rent will be paid in the first three years and 30% of the land in the next seven years. Ten years later, the land will be owned by the refugees, so the enthusiasm of the refugees is very high now."

Finally heard some good news, Zhu Hongsan said: "Write a letter to Xu Dali, telling him not to plant all potatoes and corn. This thing is enough to have other prefectures and counties. He mainly builds mulberry fish ponds. After all, raw silk is much more valuable than potatoes. Feng Ziyong also told him that he must not copy the Dongguan model and let him examine what is suitable for Guangzhou to develop."
Chapter completed!