As the new day comes, the admitted candidates bring their candidate certificates to the place where they took the exam. The officials told the candidates one by one the places and positions they wanted to go to. Finally, they asked whether the candidates were in office. If they took office, they would be given a certain settlement fee. If they did not take office, they would be transferred from the list and would not be hired again in the future. The People's Army does not need officials who did not obey the arrangements.

Fang Nan just paid a brief attention to the imperial examination. Fang Nan paid more attention to the People's Army and the Ming court and the development under the rule of the People's Army.

The discussion between the People's Army and the Ming court continued, and the progress was relatively slow. The main reason was that the capital was too far from Jiangxi and the emperor did not grant Song Yingchang full authority. On important matters, Song Yingchang could only send him to the capital for 800 miles. The Ming court made a decision to send him to Jiangxi again 800 miles. More than one tenth of a day passed.

The Ming court is now eager to negotiate peace. After all, there are still tens of thousands of Ming troops surrounded by the People's Army, and no one knows whether these tens of thousands of Ming troops can persist.

The People's Army surrounded but did not attack, just bombarded the city from time to time to see when the Ming army could not hold on, and then the People's Army would launch a strong attack.

The development under the rule of the People's Army is now nothing more than agriculture, commerce, industry, and military.

Agriculture is the most important point. Only with agricultural production can there be food, people can eat enough, and do other things.

There is not much land in Guangdong. Zhang Juzhengshi Qingzhang, a total of 33 million mu of farmland in Guantian, Guangdong. On average, the population under the People's Army ruled, each person has less than four mu of farmland.

This average number of farmland will make it easy for the people under the People's Army to have enough food, but we must also consider natural disasters. Once natural disasters occur, the farmland will have a poor harvest and starve to death.

How to keep the people under their rule have a full meal? It is an issue that the People's Military Government needs to consider. For this reason, the People's Military Government has carried out several plans.

The first plan is to build a large number of water conservancy facilities. When it rains, the reservoir can store a lot of water. When it is drought, the reservoir water can be used to water the fields. When it rains heavily, the canal can be drained to prevent crops from drowning.

The People's Army had so many coolies in its hands, so they mobilized a large number of coolies to build water conservancy facilities in various places. When the local people saw that the People's Army was going to build water conservancy facilities, they knew it would be beneficial to their own families, so they joined in and accelerated the construction of hydraulic facilities.

Now the People's Army is about to establish cement factories in various places. With cement added, the speed of building hydraulic facilities will be faster.

The second plan is to encourage the people to open up land. Although Guangdong has many mountains and forests, there are still land that can be reclaimed into farmland.

In the past, the people did not open up land, but they were busy from morning to night every day but couldn’t even eat enough to eat, so they didn’t have time to open up land. Now the people already have their own fields, and eating enough is not a problem, and they also have time to open up land.

Not only is it cultivated into farmland, but it can also plant fruit trees on slopes. This is also a way to increase the income of the people. The People's Military Government will grant three-year tax exemption for newly reclaimed land.

Before this autumn harvest, few people were cleared out under the People's Army. However, after the autumn harvest, many people took action. Although the farmland produced enough food in their hands, who did not want to get more food, which means an increase in income.

The People's Army's third plan looks simpler, but it is even more troublesome to implement: improve crops.

For improved crops, farmers almost all know that they can choose full grains from the grain for next year's seeds. In fact, the yield per mu of various crops at the beginning was very low. It was only after farmers screened from generation to generation that the yield per mu of these crops gradually increased.

It can be said that the same crops and the same land may only feed one thousand people a thousand years ago, but in a thousand years it can feed two thousand people or even more. The increase in population is deeply related to crop yields.

Improved crops involve biological knowledge. Many graduates who have been educated for three years are very interested in biological knowledge and read the book "Junior Biology" to study by themselves. Some of them attach more importance to improved crops and think about improving crops to give them higher yields.

The People's Army cannot experiment in the mountains. Now the People's Army has such a large territory, so it is no problem to take out some land for improvement of crops to experiment.

Improved crops can not only increase yield, but also resist lodging and waterlogging, etc. The People's Army can carry out simple cultivation of improved crops now.

There is no Ministry of Agriculture in the People's Military Government, but there is an Agriculture Department that is specifically responsible for agricultural affairs.

After the farmland began to be planted this year, officials of the Agricultural Department often walked in the fields to observe the common people's farming and the growth of crops.

The officials of the Agricultural Department attach the most importance to farmlands with good crops. See if the crops grow well, because of the farmland, seeds, or because of humans.

Nowadays, the Agriculture Department has increased a lot of personnel. The Agriculture Department invites many experienced old farmers to join the Agriculture Department to cultivate crops together.

However, in this era, it is a long-lasting thing, and it may take several years to achieve a result, and researchers need to endure loneliness.

As for expanding the planting of other high-yield crops, the People's Military Government does not have this plan. The three high-yield crops of corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes can be found in Guangdong, and the planting area is not small.

But for ordinary people, these three crops are coarse grains. If you can choose, everyone is more willing to grow fine grains, which are of high value and people like to eat them. Coarse grains are low. If it is not for the sake of filling, no one wants to eat them, so it is more suitable to feed livestock.

The population in the Ming Dynasty was only more than 100 million. By the Qing Dynasty, the population doubled, and the increase in arable land area was one reason. What is more important is that the planting area of ​​three crops, corn, potato and sweet potato, increased greatly. The people originally did not like to eat these three types of grains, but in order to survive and fill their stomachs, the people had to choose these three types of grains that were not delicious but with large yields.

Gradually, the people became accustomed to these three types of food, and their tastes changed.

Now the people under the rule of the People's Army do not like to eat coarse grains, and the People's Military Government cannot force them. Now the farmland in the hands of the people can plant fine grains, which can also make everyone under the rule of the People's Army eat a full meal.

However, the more food the better. The construction of hydraulic facilities has a certain resistance to natural disasters, but natural disasters still have an impact on crop yields. Once the natural disaster is serious, crop yields will be severely reduced. If there is insufficient reserve of grain, people will still starve to death.

Therefore, the People's Military Government has formulated several plans for agricultural development, hoping that the grain output will continue to increase under the People's Army's rule, and at least no one will starve to death under the People's Army's rule.

With more food, the population will also increase. Compared with the earth, the population on China is still too small.
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