Chapter 69: Agricultural instability
The fast pace of Southeast Mansion is his characteristic. There are hardly any idlers on the streets. The people work in the fields, go to sea to fish, army training, factories start work, and even children are helping out (there was no compulsory education at the time, and no need to go to school) .
There are no idlers, no beggars, as long as one has the ability to work, there must be a job.
As Yan Changwu had envisioned, it became reality. Beigang Shipyard opened, mainly to undertake private ships and small government ships, while Kaohsiung Shipyard expanded its production capacity, and started construction of six cruise ships (class six ships) at the same time. Situation.
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This is a land of fish and rice!
There is no more fertile land than here!
Tainan Plain!
The Tainan Plain, a little more north of Beigang in the north, and Kaohsiung in the south, is shaped like a jujube. It is nearly 200 kilometers long from north to south and 50 kilometers wide from east to west. It has an area of nearly 5,000 square kilometers and an elevation of less than 100 meters. It is the highest in Taiwan. A large plain. The plains are open, densely populated, and criss-crossed with streams and canals. It can be used as an agricultural area with abundant resources. It has a large area of arable land. It was later discovered that it accounted for 40% of the island. Such a large plain is really a treasure amongst the treasures of an island with a lonely sea and mountains.
The Tainan Plain is composed of river deltas such as Dadu River, Zhuoshui River, and Zengwen River. It is a coastal plain that includes Yunlin, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung and other counties and cities. It has a flat terrain, a vast area, a well-developed water system, and criss-crossing rivers and ditches.
has abundant water sources, just for planting!
The coastal areas can be used as salt pans and fish ponds, and then go fishing to develop a variety of economies.
Chen Zhongji, the chief administrative officer of the Southeast Mansion, has a splendid belly and plans a place.
He first used the people to use short streams on the plain to build dams to intercept water, build ponds and irrigate farmland, and then began to build reservoirs to store water for irrigation to form irrigation areas.
The water source of the Tainan Plain has its own characteristics. As far as streams are concerned, from north to south, there are dense streams such as Huwei Stream, Beigang Stream, Puzi Stream, Bashang Stream, Jishui Stream, Jiangjun Stream, Qigu Stream, Zengwen Stream, and Yanyan Stream. many lines. These streams have different hydrological characteristics due to their different geological ages.
Among them, rivers such as Zengwenxi, Beigangxi, Bazhangxi, and Puzixi all originated from the western foot of Alishan and formed before the uplift of the plain. After the uplift of the plain, these streams continued to erode and extend on the plain, and finally poured into the sea. Generally, the water accumulation area is large and the flow path is longer, mostly over 70 kilometers. The Zengwen River is 138 kilometers long, making it the fourth largest river in Taiwan. .
In addition, there are also some small streams on the plain, such as Yanyan River, Qigu River, Jiangjun River and so on. They were formed after the uplift of the coastal plain, and the drainage area was limited to the plain, with short flow, small flow, chaotic mainstream and tributary, and mostly seasonal rivers.
Two different streams have different effects on the economic development of the Tainan Plain. Rivers originating in mountainous areas, during the rainy season, the upstream stream surges, entraining a large amount of sediment, and rushing out of the mountain pass into the plain, causing flooding. If there is another strong typhoon or heavy rain, the damage will be even more serious. However, in the dry season (October to March of the following year), the water level of the river drops greatly during the dry season (October to March of the following year), and the short streams that originated from the plains have already dried up at this time.
It is not difficult to see that in the Tainan Plain, it is necessary not only to drain floods, but also to store water to develop irrigation, which is an indispensable measure for the development of agriculture.
Therefore, Chen Zhongji organized a large number of people to build north-south canals and Wushantou Reservoir.
The main line of the north-south trunk canal starts from Yunlin County on the south bank of Zhuoshui River in the north, passes through streams in the south, and reaches between Zengwen River and Yanyan River near Tainan. The north-south is 90 kilometers long, plus branch canals and sub-canals, the total length is more than 1,000 kilometers, spanning Yunlin County, Chiayi County, Tainan County and Tainan City, forming a crisscrossed irrigation network. Once completed, it will become the Southeastern Government. The largest irrigation area escorts agriculture. Another pivotal project is the Wushantou Reservoir in the upper reaches of Zengwen River. This reservoir is formed by blocking the middle valley of Guantian River. Because of the many river forks and the shape of corals, it is also called Coral Lake. With a maximum storage capacity of nearly 200 million cubic meters, it is the main water source for the irrigation area. Once completed, the farmland in Tainan will rely on this reservoir for water supply and irrigation, which will benefit a lot.
Water conservancy was overhauled here, and the well-known three-three system was implemented over there, that is, one-third of the land is planted with rice, one-third of the land is planted with sugar cane, and the last third of the land is planted with miscellaneous grains.
The water requirements and irrigation time of these three crops are different. Rice requires the largest amount of water, which is mainly concentrated in summer; although sugarcane requires water for a long time, it can only be irrigated in the dry season; miscellaneous grains are crops that do not need to be irrigated. These three crops are combined in an irrigation area for rotation planting and irrigation.
In this way, there are not only rice to eat, but also important sugarcane crops to exchange for silver, and miscellaneous grains, such as sweet potatoes, have high yields.
Thanks to the effective planning, everyone worked hard, the crops planted were gratifying, and there was no problem with the bumper harvest.
Just when everyone was working hard, on the eighth day of the third month of the lunar calendar, on a pleasing day, Yan Changwu, who was based in Kaohsiung, received an urgent report and found four red-haired bonanzas on the sea facing Kaohsiung!
Now he has been staying in Kaohsiung to train the warship, so he received the report quickly.
The relay of this news was sent by the patrolling clippers and horses, "The Dutch will come before the autumn harvest?" Everyone is wondering that the red hair fan can't afford it early, so I want to come and eat sugar cane so early. Have they become Thais? (transsexual)
I didn't say anything, hurry up and prepare for battle, the alarm bells ringing in the military port, four battleships hurriedly started.
The officers and sailors rushed to the battle position, because the military law stipulates that the warship is in the port, and the crew is required to be basically complete and maintain combat effectiveness at all times.
was dispatched in an emergency, and the preparations were satisfactory. The soldiers were all in their positions and maintained their vigorous energy.
The four ships moved forward at a slow speed, and soon waited for Yan Changwu and Storm (the other six warships were training in the open sea) who arrived by the clippers. They boarded the Kaohsiung II and immediately rose to represent the admiral here. flag.
Then it greeted the incoming ship at high speed, and saw the incoming ship from a distance, four to four.
seems to be a false alarm. The flags on the other four warships are red cross, white rice and blue background~www.wuxiaspot.com~this is the British!
"What are the British people doing here?" Everyone wondered.
Although they are not Dutch, everyone still dare not neglect their preparations, because the two large ships in the opposing formation give people a great sense of oppression:
Double-layer gun deck, plus a large ship in the front and poop, the exterior is decorated with colorful carvings, everyone counts the shots, one, two, three...
There are 13 blastholes on the gun deck on each side of each floor, plus 9 blastholes on the front tower, **** and weather deck, so the number of guns has reached 26+26+18=70!
Two large ships have 140 guns, plus two other five-tier cruise ships with 44 guns each, making a total of 228 guns.
For comparison, Yan Changwu's fleet has a fifth-tier sailing cruise ship with 44 guns, and the other three are sixth-tier cruise ships with 28 guns. The number of guns is 74, totaling 118, which is better than the British. It's doubled.
The other party is getting closer and closer, looking intently, their muzzle is thicker than ours!
Yan Changwu fleet’s gun deck has a 12-pound caliber, the deck gun is 6-pound, and others should have a 24-pound caliber!
How did such a large fleet get to my small place?
"Damn it!" Yan Changwu felt aggrieved, feeling like the Admiral Guan in Guangzhou against the British warship.
What is a giant cannon? Today he fully felt it!
is bigger than your guy, thicker than your guy, more than your guy!
depressed!
He said to the people: "If you can't beat it, then flee, concentrate your forces and fight again, and inform the shore to prepare for a strong wall and clear the country. As soon as our side starts, we will send an alarm!"
As soon as the voice fell, the British fired a cannon!
