The intelligence brought by Addison also made Aslan understand that the Maxim Chamber of Commerce is in an embarrassing position in the Ten-Party Alliance. Now it is making every effort to stabilize the status and dominance of the Ten-Party Alliance. If the situation cannot be stabilized, it has been in the Ten-Party Alliance.
The alliance's management situation will completely collapse.
Kira doesn't allow these things, so Kira blocked them here in advance.
It's a pity that people are not as good as God. Kira has just taken action, and the Kingdom of Cleveland has also followed suit. This is the real reason why Kira is so urgent.
Regarding land, Aslan was not anxious at all. What he really urgently needed was population and various raw materials.
The commissioning of the fifty-ton electric furnace brought Melo City's steel production to a new height. However, later on, it was discovered that the iron ore could not meet the steelmaking consumption of the electric furnace.
It is no exaggeration to say that today's Melo City Steel Plant is on vacation for most of the day. This is because of the lack of iron ore. This is also the reason why Aslan is eager to put the magic motor into production.
He must apply the magic motor to the mine, use the magic motor to transport iron ore to the ground, and add some drilling machinery and crushing machinery, etc. Although it seems simple, it can greatly improve the mine.
s efficiency.
So the first thing on the list was iron ore, a million tons of it, which made Kira's mouth open wide.
The second item is flax and cotton, both of which are important raw materials for textile cloth, both of which are millions of tons.
"Sir, you are talking like a lion." Kira put down the list and said directly.
Aslan said with an indifferent look: "You don't have to give it, and then we'll drag it here together, and then we'll see who loses the most."
In the past, Aslan would just buy it, but now Aslan just breaks it off and robs it.
"Very good, I've taken note of this account." Kira picked up the list, took out a pen and started ticking it off.
The quantity of iron ore, linen and cotton was directly cut in half, and other supplies were also more or less reduced. However, in terms of the final population, Kira directly changed the five million people requested by Aslan to ten million.
"This is my bottom line."
Aslan glanced at the list and finally glanced at the population, and couldn't help but smile proudly.
"Okay! Let's draw up a contract!"
In normal times, Kira would not give Aslan even a million people, let alone ten million people.
In addition to the labor force, the population is also a stable source of tax revenue. However, it is different now. Locust plagues and droughts are happening everywhere. Many lands have long been unable to be cultivated, and a large number of people are flocking to major cities.
In order to stabilize these refugees, relief food has to be distributed, but this is not a long-term solution. Sooner or later, it will cause riots. At that time, the Alliance of Ten Parties will have to waste manpower and material resources to suppress it, which will make the gains outweigh the losses.
Nowadays, more than 70% of the relief food distributed to these refugees is provided by the Maxim Chamber of Commerce. Kira can't bear such expenditure. The population of 10 million is actually only one-third of the refugees. This value is still there.
With the number increasing every day, he wanted to use this to stabilize the situation, and at the same time began to spread the news that the province of Merox was willing to accept a large number of refugees.
It is hoped that these refugees can be transferred to the Merlocks Province to distract Aslan's attention. After all, there are so many refugees in the past, and resettling them requires a lot of manpower and material resources, which is enough to divert most of Aslan's attention.
If you have enough power, put some eyeliners in there, maybe you can get unexpected surprises in the future.
Aslan naturally knew what Kira was planning. What Merox Province lacked most now was its population.
Although more than 10 million people have been gathered in the past few years, these people are not enough to fill the entire Changfeng Plain, let alone the Beifeng Prairie that just came.
After the production of chemical fertilizers, the Merlox Province no longer had the tradition of rotational farming. In the past, in order to maintain the fertility of the land, fields were generally planted one year and rested for one year. Some relatively barren land had to be left fallow for two years.
So it seems that farmers are responsible for a lot of land, but the yield has never been able to keep up. Not to mention that a lot of land was abandoned because it was far away from rivers and difficult to irrigate.
But there is no such problem for the province of Merlocks.
Because of maximizing the utilization of field area, many places are still in an undeveloped state today, especially the Changfeng Plain. It is a huge plain with an initial estimate of more than 60 million acres. However, a farm with ten thousand people can actually guarantee the amount of cultivated land.
It's about tens of thousands of acres. It's not that they don't work hard, but the investment in new agricultural technology has made high grain yields more demanding for farmers to pay attention to. Unlike in the past, just planting seeds and occasionally weeding was enough.
Fertilizers and insect pests need to be applied every once in a while, and each farmer inspects the fields he is responsible for every day. If these things are completed in one set, it will be a blessing to be able to work on five acres of land a day, let alone the days of sowing, transplanting, and harvesting.
Harvesting an acre of wheat, plus threshing millet, would take a farmer one day to complete.
With 50,000 acres of farmland, tens of thousands of people on the entire farm would have to work for several days, not to mention drying the millet and so on. Therefore, after such research and development, the amount of farmland that each person on the farm is responsible for is five
acres of land.
Nowadays, there are more than 760 farms in the Mero area of Nuoda, of which 500 are orcs, more than 200 are ordinary people, and dozens of them are owned by aliens from the Changfeng Plain.
The land that can be developed is only 38 million acres, which is less than two-thirds of the arable farmland in the Changfeng Plain, let alone the Mero area and the other three areas. After the reservoir is built and channels are laid in various places,
, the other three regions have also added more than 20 million arable land. Before agricultural machinery is put into production, population is the biggest guarantee for agriculture.
Of course, Kira also knew that Aslan was now vigorously developing agriculture, and the overhaul of canals and rivers gave Kira a great inspiration, allowing him to start building pilot projects in Duke Rumsfeld's Breer Province, but he
Some people wonder where the endless water source in Merlocks Province comes from.
Regarding the grain production capacity, Kira is not worried at all, because the Maxim Empire also has the back garden of the Yadong subcontinent. During the harvest period, the grain it produces is enough to supply one-tenth of the continent's population with a year's rations. If
When he solves Aslan's water source problem and chemical fertilizer technology, I believe Yadong City's food production can triple.
Aslan would not dare to accept any more people. If he knew that Kira would help them advertise for free, he would be extremely grateful.