From Propulsion City To Multiverse

After more than three months of development, the Human Revolutionary Federation has finally taken the first difficult step in Huduzhou and Zhoushan Islands.

Autumn is refreshing.

Hu Douzhou, Xitian Town.

Liu Laogen's family is harvesting rice, and the golden rice makes the family happy.

The five members of their family were allotted a total of 50 mu of land (1 mu in the Sui Dynasty was equivalent to 0.77 mu in modern times). Although it was much less than the 80 mu per Ding of the imperial court, the problem was that there were a lot of taxes in the Sui Dynasty.

The Sui Dynasty enforced a bed tax of three stones. The so-called one bed was for the husband and wife. In addition, there was a fixed amount of tax in kind for linen and raw silk, as well as corvee and free taxes.

This is still the tax stipulated by the Sui Dynasty. When it comes to localities, officials will not be so observant, such as big and small fights, folding colors, and forced apportionment.

Coupled with the annexation of land by powerful landlords and aristocratic families, in the event of natural disasters, they had to borrow usury or sell the land.

The aristocratic families, powerful landlords, and nobles did not pay taxes. Like many feudal dynasties, it was difficult for the Sui Dynasty to collect taxes from these big landlords, and they could only continue to squeeze the common people. .

Farmers have dozens of acres of land in name, but they have difficulty getting enough food and clothing throughout the year.

Hu You, who was appointed as the head of the agricultural station of Xitian Town, brought more than 20 soldiers from the agricultural station to the farm to help.

They brought eight foot-threshing machines.

"Comrade Hu, this threshing machine is really easy to use." Liu Laogen finished threshing a handful of rice, and picked up a bottle of cold water to open.

Hu You, who was stepping on the pedal, also stopped to take a breath: "The supply and marketing cooperative can order one, and one set only costs 1,500 crystal coins. You can buy one set together with several households."

"1500 crystal coins?" Liu Laogen snapped his fingers, thinking about this year's harvest.

This year, the weather in Huduzhou is good, and the rice yield per mu is about 100 kilograms. Liu Laogen's family has planted 45 mu of rice and can harvest 4,500 kilograms of dry rice.

The purchase price of dry rice from the purchasing and storage company is 20 crystal coins per kilogram.

Liu Laogen calculated that his family of five would eat 1,200 kilograms a year, reserve 2,000 kilograms, and extrude 1,300 kilograms of dry rice, worth about 26,000 crystal coins.

As for the currency of crystal coins,

In fact, it is a glass coin made by Longsha in Zhoushan.

Zheng Sen has no plans to use copper to cast copper coins. The copper coins in the control area can only be used according to the price of copper wares, not currency.

The proposal of using glass coins is actually the result of careful consideration by Zheng Sen and others.

Because there is no possibility of glass coins being counterfeited in a short period of time, although during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Central Plains already had glass manufacturing technology.

However, the local glass manufacturing technology is based on lead-based glass, and the glass produced is all colorful stained glass.

The glass made by Lonsha is sodium-based glass, which is transparent and colorless, and then uses the hot pressing method to produce transparent crystal coins on a large scale.

Although the glass is easy to break, ICBC supports the replacement of broken coins. As long as the integrity of the broken pieces exceeds 80%, new coins can be exchanged unconditionally.

Money is not something that can be used directly, but a conventional equivalent.

Zheng Sen used crystal coins to directly anchor industrial products such as salt, ironware, and glass products, avoiding currency credit problems.

At the same time, it can also avoid some troubles in the future.

Once the People's Revolutionary League sets foot inland, it is difficult to 100% prohibit the communication between the controlled area and the enemy-occupied area.

If copper coins are used as currency, the consequences will be very serious, because the prices in the Sui Dynasty have gone crazy.

Some time ago, the price of rice in the south of the Yangtze River was soaring. In some areas, there was even a terrifying price of 3400 ren for a bucket of rice.

Using copper coins as currency at this time is simply asking for trouble.

Crystal coins are difficult to imitate on a large scale, and they are anchored to industrial products in the control area, Zheng Sen can turn them into hard currency.

Farmers in Xitian Town are cheering for this year's bumper harvest.

As for Dongyan Town, there have also been obvious changes.

The mayor, Sun Ergou, is accompanying Zheng Sen to inspect the factory of Donghai Seafood Co., Ltd., which had only completed preparations a week ago.

Glass jars customized from Zhoushan Glass Factory are sent to the filling area in batches after being sterilized by high-temperature steam.

The engineers in the filling area put the boiled fish meat and some salted fish soup into glass jars, and then stuffed them into a painted cork while it was hot.

When he came to the warehouse management area, Zheng Sen saw cans of canned fish, including special canned hairtail, mackerel, and miscellaneous fish.

Pick up a can of mackerel, which is a standard 1kg pack and has about 0.7kg of fish in it.

There are also large cans of 10 kg.

The ex-factory price of Donghai Seafood Company is 35 crystal coins for 1 kg pack, and 280 crystal coins for 10 kg pack.

Zheng Sen pulled out the cork and took a sip. A strong fishy smell filled his mouth, followed by a salty taste.

He was not surprised by this. After all, this is an era when spices are scarce. Apart from sea salt, a cheap condiment, other things should not be extravagant.

Putting the cork back, he handed the can to his secretary Qin Mo: "This can will be included in my consumption for this month later."

The manager at the side, Wang Xiaochui, hurriedly said: "Governor, it's just a can, just..."

Zheng Sen frowned, serious Pingping said:

"Comrade Wang, this is a matter of principle. The factory has members of all the engineers and soldiers, as well as the shares of the entire alliance. It is not a private workshop of each family. Such things as using power for personal gain must be eliminated. If I can't set an example, how will I manage the entire alliance in the future?"

Wang Xiaochui's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he stammered, "I...I will...be careful in the future."

The secretaries looked at Zheng Sen adoringly, and Tao Shuiqin, who was in charge of recording work, had bright eyes as he took a recently produced pencil and quickly recorded in his notebook.

After seeing the first factory of the seafood company, I came to the second factory next door.

This factory area is for the production of dried salted fish.

Then there are three factories.

When Zheng Sen and others stepped here, the female engineers were dividing a big fish, which was a fin whale.

Whales are full of treasures, and the Human Revolutionary Alliance, which relies on the Zhoushan Fishing Ground, naturally wants to make full use of this ocean granary to strengthen fishing efforts.

Whale meat can be used for canning, and whale fat can be boiled for oil. These oils can be used directly as kerosene for oil lamps, as lubricating oil for mechanical parts, and can be further processed to produce candles, glycerin, soap, etc.

Whale skin can be used for tanning, and whale bone can be ground into powder for soil fertilizer or animal feed. Whale liver can be used to refine cod liver oil, which can be used as a medicine for night blindness.

Whale teeth and whale hair can be used as handicrafts and brushes. There may be longyanxiang in whale excrement, even if there is no longyanxiang, it can also be used as compost.

Other offal are also edible.

And on the west side about 3 kilometers away from Dongyan Town, there is also a composting plant built to produce saltpeter while composting.

Now toilets everywhere need to send daily excrement and biomass waste to composting plants.

Saltpeter is one of the current strategic materials.

Except for the production of saltpeter in the nitrate field of the composting plant, the electric arc method can only be used to produce nitric acid on a large scale before the ammonia production technology is developed.

The arc method is to shock the air to turn nitrogen into nitric oxide, then introduce air to turn nitrogen monoxide into nitrogen dioxide, and then introduce nitrogen dioxide into the aqueous solution to produce light nitric acid.

Hearing about this technology, he is an electric tiger. Now Zheng Sen only has a few hand-cranked generators. If he relies on this electricity to produce nitric acid, he might as well engage in a nitric acid field.

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