In mid-August of Great Mandate Year One, as summer gave way to autumn, good news came from every corner of the Han Tribe. First, the train-loading docks at Weishan, Dongxin, Tohai, and the Tang Tribe—all four locations previously ordered—had been completed. This meant that all four ports now had the ability to load and unload trains.
Once they had dedicated ships in the future, the Han Tribe would even be able to load and unload entire train cars directly. By then, they might even be able to build a small container ship.
Next, grain reserves in the Community Granaries throughout the various regions had surged once again. This was mainly thanks to the bumper harvest of the second crop, especially in the southern commanderies and counties, where grain yields had risen significantly.
The first reason was the increase in yields brought about by the six commanderies on Qiongzhou Island officially switching to large-scale rice cultivation. The second was that after the Tang Tribe came under comprehensive Sinicization and administration, the common people had all been given land of their own, and no one was forcing them to plant sorghum anymore. They could plant staple crops according to the requirements. If they still wanted to grow sorghum, each household's twenty mu of Auxiliary Fields could produce quite a lot as well.
The Tang Tribe's situation was somewhat more complicated, however. For one thing, they had not yet joined the five-year grain-accumulation plan codenamed "Great Mandate," and their warehouse systems were still incomplete. Before the Han Tribe took over, they barely had any grain reserves at all. Otherwise, the people of Jinpu Commandery in the Tang Tribe would not have gone hungry and been forced to purchase grain from other commanderies and counties.
The next matter was preparations for the Shence Guard's