Chapter 41 Summer Received
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Xia Jun arrived in Jian'an County and didn't leave, killing the son of the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang would naturally lead to war. Originally, they had left the county town untouched, not wanting to make things bigger and disrupt the course of history. However, at this time, the Qing army would certainly come looking for trouble, so they might as well occupy the county town.
Xixiang is indeed not very suitable as a central area for development, Jian'an County is more suitable at present, but Jian'an County is also not suitable as a central area for long-term development. In the future, it will be necessary to move the administrative center northward, which is most suitable in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
Jian'an County currently has no officials, the prefect and county magistrate have all bought fat vacancies and run away, leaving only some small officials from Jianning Prefecture and the county lieutenant of Jian'an County.
Xia Jun locked down Jian'an County that day, capturing all the Qing troops. It's not like they could just run away for nothing! However, there were only over 600 Qing troops left in Jian'an County this time, and those who escaped last time couldn't escape this time. There was also an income of 1.2 million points.
At the same time, a bunch of small officials were also captured. Xia Jun didn't do anything to them, but only asked them to investigate their income situation.
The next day, Xia Jun posted a notice to pacify the people and also brought in administrative personnel from Xixiang. Jian'an County declared autonomy, but used the telegraph to announce nationwide - Jianning Prefecture autonomous.
Xia Jun immediately returned to Xixiang and ordered the second-line troops of Jianning Prefecture and Shaowu Prefecture to gather and attack the county seat.
Xia Jun Gang returned to Xi Xiang, and Wang Guan Jia also followed him to Xi Xiang, bringing Li Shi Lin's intention, and compromised with Xia Jun. The Li family was willing to marry Li Shi Jing to Xia Jun, and the specific wedding date would be decided by Xia Jun.
Li Shilin has been forced into a dead end by Xia Jun and can only thoroughly surrender to him.
Xia Jun temporarily didn't have time to deal with the wedding, recently Xia Shou was back and they were going to fight in the county town, so naturally there was no time. However, he demanded that Li Shi Lin release the person, keeping them locked up at home all day, what kind of thing is this!
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Jianning Prefecture and Shaowu Prefecture suddenly changed, and the second-line troops of the Jianzhou Security Team in various towns and townships successively occupied the county seats, almost without any effort.
Although lacking in siege equipment, the security regiment had been active in Jianning Prefecture and Shaowu Prefecture for so long that there were military intelligence personnel waiting to receive them in each county town.
As soon as the city was attacked, the insiders and outsiders cooperated to open the gate, and the security team soldiers rushed into the city. What happened next is easy to imagine. With the Qing army's combat power, as soon as the security team entered the city, they immediately scattered like birds and beasts.
Jianning Prefecture and Shaowu Prefecture were separated by only three days, but soon sent telegrams nationwide, declaring autonomy for both prefectures.
The whole Qing court was shocked, and immediately questioned the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Songshou. Songshou received a telegram in Fuzhou, but did not know that his son had already been shot by Xia Jun.
However, three days later, the servant who followed Aketon to Jian'an escaped back to Fuzhou. Songshou learned that his son had been shot and was furious on the spot.
Immediately mobilize the troops to conquer Jianzhou and ensure the safety of Baoshan, after nearly a week of troop deployments, Songshou assembled 30,000 Qing soldiers, gathered in Fuzhou and then killed towards Jian'an.
This group of Qing troops had just left Fuzhou when the Military Intelligence Bureau reported it to Xia Jun.
At this time, the northwest of Fujian was busy with summer harvesting. Due to Xia Jun's sudden attack on the county seat, the entire northwest of Fujian was exempt from taxation. The agricultural tax was originally supposed to be collected, but there wasn't much arable land in Fujian to begin with, so it wasn't worth collecting. Therefore, all townships in the autonomous region were uniformly exempt from taxation.
Only those who planted high-yielding rice had to hand over 100 kilograms, and nearly 100,000 mu of paddy fields in the summer harvest were planted with high-yielding rice, which achieved a bumper harvest.
The yield of these rice varieties is generally around 700 kg, with the lowest exceeding 600 kg and the highest reaching over 800 kg. Fujian has more medium-yielding fields and fewer high-yielding fields, with very few high-yielding fields that can reach 800 kg.
The common people harvested the rice, everyone was extremely happy, regardless of whether they had high-yielding rice or not, they were all very happy, just with different degrees of happiness. Those who didn't have high-yielding rice hurried to plow the land, and the second crop of rice has already been planted, it's already grown to five or six centimeters tall, and soon it will be transplanted into the fields.
Taking advantage of the summer harvest season, Xia Jun exchanged many agricultural tools with each township and village, such as threshing machines, grain separators, and tractors were also indispensable.
Apart from the electric threshing machine, the rice huller is foot-operated. However, compared to pounding paddy with water to remove the husks, it saves a lot of labor and greatly reduces the intensity of physical work.
Unexpectedly, the people's satisfaction index of Xixiang and other towns that first planted high-yielding rice rose from 5 points to 6 points. It seems that solving the problem of food and clothing is one of the triggers for the rise in people's satisfaction.
Various forms of buying people's hearts, as long as they don't involve the fundamental issues, at most only 5 points, if they can fundamentally solve the livelihood problems, then it will also rise.
Xia Jun suddenly enlightened! Solving people's livelihood problems is the king's way.
One hundred thousand mu of high-yielding rice planting area also allowed Xia Jun to harvest over 10 million jin of rice, which can be converted into about 7 million jin of rice. Selling it out would only yield 200,000 taels of silver.
However, the planting area of the second season has expanded to 2 million mu, and most towns in Jianning Prefecture and Shaowu Prefecture have sown rice for the second season.
The income at harvest time is considerable, and Xia Jun can collect 40 million silver coins. However, the paddy fields in western Fujian are limited, and there aren't many more. Fujian has the smallest per capita arable land area in the country, and most of its arable land is concentrated in the coastal plain.
Xia Jun only then discovered that agriculture was actually the most cost-effective exchange category, as long as he gave Xia Jun two provinces, he could surpass the agricultural output value of the little demon.
In this era, the agricultural output value of Japan was higher than its industrial output value. It wasn't until after World War I that Japan's industrial output value surpassed its agricultural output value.
Agriculture must be taken seriously. Xia Jun previously did not pay much attention to agriculture, thinking that having a high-yielding rice variety was enough, but in reality it is far from sufficient.
Rice is plentiful but worthless!
Moreover, not all places can grow rice, and there are also wheat, soybeans, corn, economic crops such as rubber, cotton, sugarcane, tobacco, fruits, flowers and so on.
Agriculture also includes animal husbandry, forestry and animal husbandry.
In agriculture column, these things can be exchanged for.
For example, using corn as feed, the yield per mu can reach 8,000 kilograms at level 4. This yield is calculated based on the entire plant, not just the corn kernels. With this kind of feed corn, many beef cattle can be raised.
Beef cattle also have high-quality breeds, some grow fast, some have good meat quality, some have high slaughter rate and lean meat rate, and some have high hide quality.
As long as there is a breeding base, everyone eating meat for every meal is not a dream.
At that time, there will be no difference in diet between the rich and the poor. If wealthy people want to show off their wealth through food, apart from eating some rare things, the quality is not much different from what ordinary people eat. Unless they add some policy restrictions on luxury goods, unless they can eat ten kilograms of meat in one meal, this may be able to show that their living standards are higher than others.
Food is a very critical link in people's livelihoods, and warmth and fullness are the most pressing problems that need to be solved by the Chinese people at present.
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