Half a month later, if residents near Surabaya choose to ask for wheat after a day's work, they will receive flour directly.
After two months of hard work, a flour mill was finally completed and put into operation successfully.
What is unexpected is that this was originally a move to benefit the people, but when it came to the residents, it turned into chaos.
For the Chinese living in the north of the Republic of China, wheat was not only flour for human consumption, but also feed for raising poultry and livestock. In times of famine, even the bran and chaff were human food, and there was no such thing as waste.
Uh, this description is inaccurate.
Chinese recipes during the Republic of China were mainly composed of corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other miscellaneous grains. There was not much flour. Even a landlord's family could not eat flour every day. Except for New Year's Day and busy farming periods, most of the meals were based on miscellaneous grains.
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Living in the Republic of China was really unhappy. In addition to natural disasters, there were more. In the land of China, except for those bureaucratic compradors, ordinary people really didn't have a good life.
It really complies with that sentence: the landlord’s family has no surplus food.
The Grand Duchy of Lanfang was the only government in Asia that even provided disaster relief with fine grains, not to mention the Republic of China.
If this news was spread back to the Republic of China, this alone would probably attract more than half of the Chinese from the Republic of China to immigrate to the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, and even those small and medium-sized landowners would sell off their property and move their families.
It would be nonsense to say that the landowners at this time of the Republic of China did not take anything by force, but more landowners relied on hard work and steadfastness to buy their next family property. During the busy farming period, even the landowners had to work in the fields.
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And hard-working and down-to-earth people, even in the Grand Duchy of Lan Fang, will still buy their next family property with their own hands.
Successful people naturally have reasons for success, and they are not necessarily without any redeeming features as depicted in movies and TV shows.
Half a month after the work-for-relief program began, the civil affairs officials responsible for distributing supplies discovered that the nutritional status of the Chinese working people had not improved, and many of them were still weak and weak.
It doesn't make sense
Although these Chinese were generally malnourished when they came to the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, after more than half a month of recuperation, eating well and sleeping soundly every day, even if they won't gain much meat for a while, at least their mental state should be significantly improved, no matter what
It should look like this.
After careful questioning, the civil affairs officials got a dumbfounding answer.
Although these Chinese received enough food, they were reluctant to eat it. Except for women and children who could eat half full, these adults had very low material requirements, as long as they could not starve to death.
How can that be done?
After the problem was reported to the cabinet, the cabinet immediately made a decision to continue to provide grain. If you want wheat, give wheat, if you want rice, give rice, if you want flour, give flour. At the same time, they started cooking on the construction site and ate whatever they wanted every day.
Even if they eat casually, these adults are still reluctant to eat. They would rather take the prepared meals home than eat all the meals themselves.
So the cabinet decided again that meals from the construction site were not allowed to be taken home.
This was so serious that the Chinese people ate desperately, and many even had to be sent to the hospital because they ate too much.
So the cabinet once again issued regulations that meals must be eaten at regular intervals.
At this point, the problem was finally solved.
Does it seem like these new immigrants are unusually cunning?
Actually no, they were just hungry and scared.
Uncertainty about the future, insufficient understanding of oneself, and distrust in social security have caused the Chinese to have a very obvious sense of worry. The saying goes: Born in worry and died in happiness.
This sense of worry has been deeply rooted in my bones, and it is even more obvious in a foreign country.
Statistics show that the Chinese are the most adept at saving in the world.
For Chinese farmers, no matter it is a good year or a disaster year, they always have to store enough food at home for several years to feel a sense of security, otherwise it feels like they are in danger.
The same is true for the Chinese in the Grand Duchy of Lan Fang.
In fact, many people already have a lot of grain stored in their homes. They prefer wheat instead of flour because wheat is easier to store than flour.
Although there was food at home, people still felt that it was far from enough, so the small bags for storing food were replaced by large bags, one bag became two bags, and then three bags and four bags.
The Chinese are like squirrels spending the winter, desperately trying to store more supplies in their caves to cope with the cold winter.
The treatment of these grains is much higher than that of people. They are placed in the best rooms. They cannot touch the ground to prevent moisture and cannot reach the sky to prevent them from getting wet. Even if people sleep in the yard, the food must be kept in perfect condition.
storage.
This is the experience passed down by our ancestors for thousands of years to fight against natural disasters. No one can reverse it. Unless one day, farmers have nowhere to store the food in their homes. The increase in food every year far exceeds the food consumed. Only then can farmers take the initiative to reduce food consumption.
Food storage at home.
While providing work-for-relief, the work of allocating land to new immigrants is also in progress.
Before the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Lan Fong, most of the land in Borneo was in the hands of plantation owners such as Huang Bohan. In order to better control the Borneo economy, the Dutch colonial government mandated the development of plantations and implemented a forced planting system, forcing farmers to use the best
The land was planted with crops designated by the colonial government, mainly coffee, sugar cane, tea, tobacco, pepper, etc., and it was stipulated that the planting area of such crops should account for at least 15% of the total cultivated land area. Of course, the actual proportion was much higher than this.
Borneo has therefore become a base for providing tropical cash crop products to European countries.
After 1870, the Dutch colonial authorities began to implement the plantation policy. At this time, the crops planted had changed into sugar cane, palm trees, rubber trees, etc., and the export products also changed into cane sugar, palm oil, palm kernel, natural rubber, etc.
It cannot be said that planting cash crops is a wrong approach, but for a country, relying entirely on imported food is not a long-term solution. Therefore, after the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, under the instruction of Qin Zhiyuan, the cabinet made strategic adjustments to the planting structure.
The local climate in Borneo is hot and not suitable for growing wheat, but it is very suitable for growing rice, especially Java Island, where there are dense water networks and flat terrain, which is most suitable for growing rice.
Therefore, all residents of Java Island are based on household units, and each household can obtain one hundred acres of land for farming. All of these lands will be planted with rice, striving to achieve food self-sufficiency within two years.
The two-year time limit is actually a bit low. In Borneo, it is possible to grow rice three times a year. Under normal circumstances, one should be able to be self-sufficient in food in one year.
The land here is so fertile that if you plant the rice seedlings, you don't have to do anything. You can harvest the rice in a few months. The yield is much higher than the barren land in China that has been cultivated for thousands of years.
The Institute of Biology in Corsica is studying hybrid rice, which is not expected to produce results within a year or two. However, once results are produced, the rice on the island of Java alone will be able to feed hundreds of millions of people.
Since these new immigrants did not have means of production, a national agricultural mutual aid cooperative was established as quickly as possible. Farmers could borrow money from the cooperative at very low interest rates and then purchase means of production for agricultural production.
This agricultural mutual aid cooperative is actually a basic bank, and Huang Bohan's previous industry had a bank, so he is very familiar with this business.
Huang Bohan is still very self-aware. He provided a team of people for the agricultural mutual aid cooperative, designed the charter, and then handed over the management of the agricultural mutual aid cooperative to the cabinet, while he did nothing and became the boss.
At the level of Huang Bohan, he is already one of the richest people in the world. Money no longer means much to him. He even took the lead in donating all his plantations to the Grand Duchy of Lanfang to cooperate with the state-owned land of the Grand Duchy of Lanfang.
policy.
Yes, the land is state-owned
The Grand Duchy of Lan Fang recognized the sanctity of private property, but not land.
In the Grand Duchy of Lan Fang, all land belongs to the state. People only have the right to use the land and do not own it. Therefore, the land cannot be transferred. If you want to plant it, you can plant it. If you don’t want to plant it, you can hand it over to the state. Land buying and selling is absolutely prohibited.
Corresponding to rice cultivation are state-owned farms.
State-owned farms are mainly those plantations that have begun to produce output. Except for Java Island, including Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Papua, all plantations are promoted to plant rubber trees, palm trees, sugar cane, coffee, cocoa and other cash crops.
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For a period of time, the main industry of the Grand Duchy of Lanfang will still be agriculture. If the industry wants to bear fruit, I am afraid it will take a while.
Compared with agriculture, the construction cycle of industry is longer. Even for a medium-sized steel plant, the construction cycle is measured in years. Before the Grand Duchy of Lan Fang, apart from the preliminary exploration of oil, there were no other heavy industries.
To develop industry, steel and oil are indispensable. If steel is the skeleton, then oil is the blood.
There is no shortage of oil in the Grand Duchy of Lanfang. The oil fields in Balikpapan have been initially developed. In addition to being sold to Europe, the produced oil is also exported to Japan and other places in Asia. However, due to the lack of refining equipment, crude oil is generally exported directly.
Currently, a large-scale oil refinery is under construction in Balikpapan. Once the construction is completed, refined oil products can be exported directly to earn more profits.
The iron ore in the Grand Duchy of Lanfang is mainly concentrated in the Badong area. The iron ore reserves here are about 280 million tons. They are low-titanium magnetite and the ore grade is 67. However, Qin Zhiyuan does not want to touch this mine because it is located in
Across the sea, Australia has the richest mineral reserves in the world. If you want to do it once and for all, you still have to find a way to get hold of Australia's iron ore.
Australia is still a British territory. Although it already has considerable autonomy, its internal and external affairs are still controlled by the British. At the same time, the nominal leader of Australia is still the governor sent by the British. Because of Australia's performance in the world war, the British have no regard for Australia.
Still very important.
So how to successfully obtain Australian iron ore has become a very serious problem. Britain does not treat Qin Zhiyuan like France. If it is not handled well, it will be a wedding dress for the British if it is not handled properly.
Hmm, this is indeed a big problem. To be continued.
