nownovels Chapter 753: Difficulties In The Transformation Of Nomadic People Into Agricultural People [Please S
Chapter 753: Difficulties In The Transformation Of Nomadic People Into Agricultural People [Please S
After talking about raising cattle, Yan Changqing then wrote "Northern Xinjiang Planting Agriculture" under "Cattle and Sheep Animal Husbandry", and then said:
"The cattle and sheep I just mentioned are the main development direction of animal husbandry in northern Xinjiang."
"In addition to developing animal husbandry, northern Xinjiang can also develop planting agriculture."
"You know, if Northern Xinjiang can afford to raise such a large number of cattle and sheep, it means that Northern Xinjiang must have abundant water resources!"
"In northern Xinjiang, the snow and glaciers of the three major mountain ranges have gathered into more than 500 rivers, which are distributed in the basins north and south of the Tianshan Mountains."
"There are countless oases on both sides of many rivers, and these oases are surrounded by agricultural plants."
"Compared with other places, northern Xinjiang has unique natural conditions: alkaline soil, large temperature difference in summer, sufficient sunlight, sufficient photosynthesis, and long growth time."
“These natural climate conditions can be said to be very conducive to agricultural cultivation.
"For example, in terms of food crops, wheat, corn, and rice can be planted as large crops, and sorghum, barley, millet, soybeans, peas, beans, etc. can be planted as small crops."
"For example, in terms of cash crops, you can grow cotton, oilseeds, sugar beets, hemp, tobacco leaves, medicinal materials, silkworm cocoons, etc.'
"Especially for cotton, the cotton grown in the unique natural climate conditions of the northern Xinjiang region has long nap, good quality and high yield. It can be said to be the best cotton growing area!"
"For another example, in terms of fruit and vegetable crops, you can grow grapes, melons (cantaloupe), watermelons, apples, pears, apricots, peaches, pomegranates, cherries, figs, walnuts, almonds, etc."
“Thanks to the large temperature difference between day and night in northern Xinjiang and the extremely long sunshine time that can reach up to nine hours a day, the fruits grown in northern Xinjiang are often sweeter and of higher quality than those grown in other regions. better!"
"It can be said that as long as Northern Xinjiang is developed properly, Northern Xinjiang will be another Central Plains!!!"
"It's just that for thousands of years, the nomadic tribes such as the Xiongnu and Mongolian Yuan who occupied northern Xinjiang either did not understand agricultural planting techniques at all, or they only mastered some superficial agricultural planting methods."
"Compared with the agricultural planting technology of the people in the Central Plains, it can be said that there is a huge difference!"
"If the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang could learn the agricultural cultivation thinking, methods, and means of intensive farming, construction of water conservancy projects, water diversion for irrigation, seed selection and cultivation, fertilization and composting of the people of the Central Plains, there would be no need to go south to plunder the Central Plains."
"Because the various outputs of the northern Xinjiang grasslands alone are enough to meet their daily needs, and even make their lives richer and more comfortable than the people in the Central Plains!"
"At that time, let alone go south to plunder the Central Plains, they may have to be wary of whether the Central Plains dynasty will go north to plunder them!!!"
"Because by that time, maybe in the eyes of everyone, the Central Plains is a barren land, while the grassland is the real rich land!!!"
At the end, Yan Changqing couldn't help but shook his head.
Northern Xinjiang can be said to be an unexplored treasure mountain!
And those nomadic peoples in northern Xinjiang can be said to be guarding the treasure mountain without knowing it!
In the previous life of 2022, the grain planting area in northern Xinjiang was 2,433.90 thousand hectares.
Among them: wheat planting area is 1,153.60 thousand hectares, corn planting area is 1,145.56 thousand hectares, cotton planting area is 2,496.89 thousand hectares, oil planting area is 116.82 thousand hectares, and sugar beet planting area is 53.40 thousand hectares.
Grain production (including potatoes) was 18.135 million tons, of which summer grain production was 6.5517 million tons and autumn grain production was 11.5833 million tons.
Among the cereal output, wheat output was 6.5349 million tons and corn output was 10.8051 million tons.
Cotton output was 5.3906 million tons, oilseed output was 372,300 tons, and sugar beet output was 3.9914 million tons.
The output of special forest fruits was 18.156 million tons, including: garden fruit output 12.1264 million tons, nut output 1.4299 million tons, and fruit melon output 4.5997 million tons.
The output of pork, beef, mutton and poultry was 1.9094 million tons, including 570,100 tons of pork, 493,700 tons of beef, 607,200 tons of mutton, 238,300 tons of poultry, 382,200 tons of eggs, and 2,225,800 tons of milk.
At the end of the year, there were 59.8565 million pigs, cattle and sheep on hand, including: 4.6953 million pigs, 6.9091 million cattle, 48.2521 million sheep, and 44.3139 million pigs, cattle and sheep. Among them: 7.3474 million pigs, 2.9264 million cattle and sheep. The slaughter area was 34.0402 million.
Of course, Northern Xinjiang can achieve such results because the country in the previous life spent fifty or sixty years, or even seventy or eighty years of continuous investment and development.
However, if the nomads in the past in northern Xinjiang could carry out agricultural planting and development like the people of the Central Plains, instead of just developing animal husbandry and living in pursuit of water and grass, then over thousands of years, not to mention reaching the level of development that had been developed for decades in previous lives, degree.
Even if it can only reach one ten thousandth of the level of development in the previous life, it will be enough to support the combined population of millions of nomadic peoples in northern Xinjiang.
Let alone millions of people, in the previous life, one ten thousandth of the output of Northern Xinjiang could support tens of millions of people, and that would not be a problem at all.
In the Central Plains before the Ming Dynasty, even the Song Dynasty, which had the largest population, had a population of just over 100 million.
Most of the time, the population of the Central Plains Dynasty was only tens of millions.
In addition, the distance between Northern Xinjiang and the hinterland of the Central Plains is relatively long, so it is not easily affected by wars in the Central Plains.
It can be said that as long as the nomadic people in Northern Xinjiang develop the grasslands of Northern Xinjiang with peace of mind, work hard to develop various agricultural and animal husbandry industries, and do not want to mess up and get involved in the war in the Central Plains, then Northern Xinjiang can definitely live better than the Central Plains. Moisturize!
However, in this way, the people in northern Xinjiang are no longer nomadic people, but farming people like the Central Plains.
Moreover, it does not mean that nomadic people can become a farming people if they want to become a farming people.
The first thing to make clear is that northern Xinjiang does have water, resources and can be cultivated.
But this kind of farming takes time to realize!
It is estimated that it will take three or two years to develop and cultivate in the short term, and it will take five or ten years in the long term before we can initially see the harvest brought by farming.
Before this, the nomadic people who were in the process of transforming into a farming nation needed assistance from external resources.
Just like the initial development of Northern Xinjiang in Yan Changqing's previous life [the people of Northern Xinjiang all needed Zhongkang to transport Mugao grain to Northern Xinjiang.
After the development of Northern Xinjiang achieved initial results, the people in Northern Xinjiang had just ended the history of eating imported grains and shifted to the stage of self-sufficiency.
After that, Northern Xinjiang was further developed, and then Northern Xinjiang began to feed back a large amount of various grains, cotton, fruits and vegetables, etc. to the Central Plains.
In other words, if the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang want to transform into a farming people, then they must have outside support to help them and provide them with the food, clothing, housing, transportation and other materials they need to survive the initial development stage.
Otherwise, the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang may not have to wait for the harvest from farming, but they will have to starve to death because they gave up nomadic herding and turned to farming.
Because the nomadic and hunting lifestyle does not provide much food resources, and farming is a lifestyle that requires a large amount of labor for a long time.
Under such circumstances, if half, or one-third, of the nomadic people are allowed to farm, and the remaining half, or two-thirds, of the nomadic people are allowed to hunt, there will be no way to support all the nomads. National people.
Secondly, the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang who have been accustomed to nomadic harvesting for thousands of years want to turn them into agricultural people.
Then you must be powerful enough to suppress them and make them bow their heads, so that they will be willing to obey and accept their own changes.
If there is no such strength, why do you say that the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang must develop in the direction of agricultural people?
Does Grand Dao make sense?!!
If the Grand Principle was useful, no matter it was Yan Changqing's previous life or the current Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu period, the world would have been a harmonious society.
There is a saying: "The weapon of criticism cannot replace the weapon of criticism." This is the truth.
Thirdly, for thousands of years, the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang have also been accustomed to relying on nomadic herding and hunting for a living.
Compared with farming, which requires half a year of hard work, it can even take a year to see the harvest.
If you are nomadic hunting, you can ride a fast horse and go out this morning. If you are lucky, you can come back with a lot of prey in the afternoon.
This harvesting speed is much faster than farming!!!
The nomads in northern Xinjiang who are accustomed to harvesting quickly would find it difficult to get used to the slow harvesting method of farming under normal circumstances.
Of the above three major problems, the second and third are actually relatively easy to solve.
After all, any unified Central Plains dynasty since ancient times has basically had strong strength that can make nomads bow their heads in their heyday.
Except for the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was not a unified dynasty.
And if you can make the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang bow their heads, even if they are not used to relying on farming and planting methods to obtain harvests at first, you can force them to get used to it by force.
After two or three generations, basically the nomadic peoples in northern Xinjiang were gradually transformed into farming peoples.
However, in the early stages of the transition from nomadic people in northern Xinjiang to farming people, a large amount of material support such as food, clothing, housing and transportation was not something that a powerful unified dynasty could support.
Because of the basic necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, the people of the Central Plains themselves are in short supply!
Let’s put it this way, any period in history when ordinary people can barely have enough to eat and clothe themselves with is enough to be called a prosperous age!!!
And how many such prosperous times have there been in history?!!
To say there are only a handful of them is an understatement.
Under such circumstances, if the Central Plains people's basic necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation are still squeezed in large quantities, then I am afraid that before the northern Xinjiang grasslands are developed, the Central Plains people will revolt because they do not have enough to eat and lack of warmth.
In addition, the past Central Plains dynasties did not realize that the grasslands of Northern Xinjiang could also be developed to grow food, so they were even less willing to invest resources in Northern Xinjiang for development support.
Therefore, the ethnic groups that have occupied northern Xinjiang for thousands of years have always been nomadic people who lived in the form of nomadic pastoralism, rather than agricultural people who lived in the form of farming.
But now the Ming Dynasty has the opportunity to transform the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang into a farming people.
The Ming Dynasty has the strength to make the nomads in northern Xinjiang bow their heads!
The Ming Dynasty also had a large amount of basic necessities, food, clothing, housing and transportation that were needed to transform the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang into a farming people!
For example, in terms of food, in a few years, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn from the Central Plains will be widely promoted and planted, and the people in the Central Plains will get tired of eating them, or the potatoes, sweet potatoes, and other food that cannot be eaten can be transferred to northern Xinjiang. As the food needed by the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang in the early days.
Another example is clothes.
In terms of clothing, you can directly (financially) shear the wool of the sheep raised by the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang and further process it into wool thread, sweaters, etc. This can also be used for the first time.
This will further solve your clothing needs.
For example, in terms of housing, there is no need to worry about this. Every nomadic household has a yurt that can be removed and taken away. After the city is built,
It's not a problem to live in a yurt first to deal with it.
In the last aspect, it goes without saying that in terms of horseback riding, the nomads who grew up on horseback are really strong.
Therefore, as long as the Ming Dynasty can actually use its strength to suppress the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang for several generations, force them to live in the way of farming people.
At the same time, we will provide all kinds of food, clothing, housing, transportation and other materials needed by the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang in the early stage of their transformation into agricultural people, and initially develop the northern Xinjiang region.
Then after a few generations, Northern Xinjiang will slowly turn into another Central Plains, and the nomadic people in Northern Xinjiang will slowly turn into another farming nation, or they will be directly cultivated by the Chinese.
The nation was assimilated and became a member of the Chinese farming nation.
After all, even the nomads in northern Xinjiang are not stupid. Compared with nomadism and hunting, which are fast-harvesting, but unstable and risky lifestyles, they are still better after all.
Farming, a lifestyle with lower risks and more stable harvests, is better.
As long as the nomadic people in northern Xinjiang have initially become accustomed to the way of life of the farming people, it will be more difficult for them to return to the way of life of the nomadic people in the past.
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