Chapter 1931： Bingjia for cattle

In general, Hokkaido Island in the future will become a pivotal link of Marin in the Ming Dynasty's interest chain, which is very important. Therefore, Marin intends to control Hokkaido Island in his own hands.

To this end, Malindi and Shuizi explained that in the future, Hokkaido will be managed by his own official instead of Ganfu Shuizi. Gan Fushuizi was very lost, but she couldn't help it. Because she understood that without Marin's support, neither she nor her son could compete with even the smallest daimyo in Japan.

However, Marin said that in the future, Osumu, and even Kyoto, will be handed over to Mizuko to manage civil affairs. And Tamarin, as long as the gold, silver and copper mines, and the jurisdiction of Hokkaido fishing grounds. And this is definitely good news for Gan Fushuizi. Because Gan Fushuizi did not know the horrible reserves of Shijian Yinshan, nor did he understand the importance of the whaling industry after the emergence of whaling guns.

Is not just the liver to pay water, most East Asians of this era, I am afraid that they have focused on cultivated land, ignoring minerals and fisheries. Because, compared with land output, the mining and fishing industries of this era are really too small.

Even, the Japanese name, even the quality of the land seal, uses the stone height (grain output) to quantify the quality of the land seal. It is necessary to point out that a fallacy is that many people rumored that a stone in the Warring States Period was 30 kg or even 20 kg, which was completely nonsense.

Learned from Gan Fushuizi that at present Japan's field acres are not based on acres, but use segments as basic units of cultivated land. A section of land in Japan during the Warring States period was equivalent to 1093.2 square meters, or 1.63 acres. The weight of a stone is about 260 kg, which is 130 kg.

According to the current Japanese saying, Ueda Section 1 = 1.5 stones, Nakata Section 1 = 1.3 stones, Shimoda Section 1 = 1.1 stones. Calculated in this way, Ueda, Japan at this time, produced 1.63.8 mu of 423.8 kg, and the yield per mu was 260 kg. While Nakata is equivalent to 225 kg, Shimoda is almost 190 kg per mu.

Such data is quite reliable. After all, Japan is influenced by the Chinese culture and it also knows how to use manure and also knows how to use cattle for farming.

If you use 30 kilograms to calculate, then the yield per mu in Ueda, Japan is only 60 pounds, Nakata is only 50.75 kilograms, and Shimoda is only 43.7 kilograms ... Such data, how to look at it, is even nonsense, even half of the European mu yield Less than ...

However, rice was planted in ancient Japan, and the yield per mu was higher than wheat. According to the elders of later generations, when no chemical fertilizer was used before, soil fertilizer was used, and the yield per mu of rice was generally more than 300 kg, and the yield per mu of wheat was generally more than 200 kg. If it is a good paddy field, the rice mu production capacity will reach 400-500 kg ...

However, Japan ’s Ishigaki is about rice production, not rice. According to the rice yield rate of 70%, then the rice yield per mu in Ueda, Japan is also 371 kg, 321 kg in Nakata, 271 kg in Shimoda ... This figure, compared with the ancient Chinese yield, seems very reasonable ...

However, Gan Fushuizi also pointed out that this standard is the taxation standard of Japan ’s Daimyo, and it is actually set higher. For example, in the field, many rice yields are not as high as 271 kg, and some mu yields are not even 200 kg. But those Japanese daimyo do n’t care, they just follow this data for food, and if they do n’t give it, they die ...

In the Edo period, the stone height of the generals of the Tokugawa Shogunate was 3.98 million stones, almost 4 million stones. According to the habit of charging half of the grain of the main family, the general shogunate gets 2 million stone, or 520 million pounds of rice, and is still very rich.

However, there is not much food in those places. For example, there are several counties in Osumi, but the height of the stone is only 175,000 stone, which is the total output of 45 million catties. The ones that were taken away by the Daming and the powerful are at least 22.5 million catties.

But Marlin forgot to find out that there is really not much cultivated land in Japan. For example, Osumi National Stone is 175,000 stone high, which is a total output of 45.5 million catties. Even according to the algorithm of 190 pounds in Xiatian, only 239,000 acres of arable land. According to the Ueda algorithm, only 175,000 mu.

Even if it is calculated according to 239,000 mu of land, it is only 159 square kilometers of cultivated land. However, the area of ​​Osumi is almost 4,500 square kilometers. Even if it is calculated based on the highest cultivated land of 239,000 mu, the proportion of cultivated land is only 1/28, which is 3.53%.

But this is also impossible, because most of Japan is mainly mountainous. Rice fields and the like can only be opened in mountain valleys and narrow plains along the coast.

However, the Ishikari Plain of Hokkaido, which Marin is about to send troops to, is a 4,000 square kilometer great plain, which is very suitable for farming. And 4000 square kilometers, that is equivalent to 6 million mu, 25 times the area of ​​cultivated land in Osumi! Even if only one-sixth of the cultivated land comes out, there are 1 million mu, which is 4.1 times the total cultivated land of Osumi!

The only problem is that 1 million mu of cultivated land requires at least 10,000 farmers to cultivate ...

Of course, this may be a problem in North America. But in Japan, the most important thing is people!

But Gan Fushuizi said-Japanese farmers are too short and thin, although they can endure hardships, but their family of five can't cultivate 100 mu, and 50 mu can make them tired enough to choke ...

Marlin thinks about it too. The small men with an average height of more than one meter four meters and one meter five meters look almost as tall as elementary school students. Letting their family cultivate 100 acres of land is almost fatal. Even the ideal of the Chinese farmers is nothing more than "a cow on 30 acres of land, his wife and children on the hot head." It can be seen from this that 30 acres of land should be of a scale that one family can handle. And 50 acres of land is more difficult.

In addition, Gan Fushuizi also raised one of the biggest problems-the cattle problem!

In Japan in this era, population was not a problem, but cattle, like the Ming Dynasty, were a big problem! If the family is within ten acres of land, even if there is no cattle, the male laborers in the family can work as cattle and plows, and they can barely cope with the past.

However, if the cultivated area is too large, more than 20 acres of land, it is unrealistic to pull the plow manually. Because human strength and endurance are not as strong as Niu. Even if it is 20 acres of land, relying on manpower to pull the plow can still make people tired.

Fortunately, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or Japan, the population is large, and each family's field is generally ten acres, or even only a few acres. Therefore, the lack of cattle is not a big problem.

But if Marin wants to cultivate 500,000 acres with 10,000 households, he must use cattle to pull cattle. In fact, due to the lack of cattle, if Malin is ruthless, he can buy 10,000 cattle from Eastern Europe and ship them to Hokkaido, Japan.

However, Japan mainly cultivates paddy fields. In paddy fields, ordinary cattle are difficult to adapt to the long-term soaked environment in paddy fields, and they are prone to rotten hoofs. Ma farming paddy fields is also not good. According to Marin, Hu Jin's Jinyi River Horse and a few southern horse breeds can adapt to paddy fields. Moreover, for the cultivation of paddy fields, no horseshoes are nailed. Because the horseshoe was nailed and soaked in the paddy field.

~ Www.novelhall.com ~ Marin is helpless. If it is dry land, there are many ways. Not only can you use cattle from Eastern Europe, but you can also import Mongolian horses from Mongolia to engage in horse farming. But the paddy field ...

Marin said that he could only use Japanese goods as much as possible to exchange cattle with them ...

Paddy farming cattle is a precious resource, whether it is in Daming or in Japan, it is an urgently lacking strategic material. However, in this era, Marin also had the opportunity to get some Japanese cattle.

Because, now is the village chief in the Warring States period. Those big names may value weapons and armor more than cattle. Because, with excellent weapons and armor, they can go to neighboring countries to grab others' cattle ...

Therefore, as long as Marin is willing to sell excellent sword armor, he does not worry about those belligerent Japanese famous names who refuse to sell cattle ...

"Well, that's it. I will let the military industry department create a group of elementary school students ... oh no, it's a good armor for the short Japanese warrior. Take it for a paddy field with a Japanese daimyo! I ’m afraid they wo n’t be able to move after wearing it. So, use sharkskin to make some small armor, and use copper nails to nail some iron pieces to the key parts ... "Marin said to the liver Fushuizi ...