Since Lanfang purchased the Australian Territory of Papua and the affiliated Solomon Islands from Australia last winter, Papua Island has all belonged to Lanfang.
In fact, Lanfang, which has just founded the country, does not fully control all the territory. In the vast territory of Lanfang, Lanfang is not yet able to establish grassroots government agencies covering the entire territory. Therefore, except for Java Island where Surabaya is located, and has been renamed
In addition to Jinzhou Island and Sumatra Island, there are also a large number of indigenous residents living in Lanfang, and they are all in a state of anarchy.
Sumatra means Golden Island in Sanskrit, so after the founding of Lanfang, the place name Sumatra was officially obsolete, and Jinzhou Island became the official place name.
Although Lanfang has established a nation and has begun to implement a series of assimilation policies to assimilate local people, its foundation is not solid.
In order to erase the traces of the previous Dutch colonists and local indigenous people, it was necessary to change the place names.
And it's top priority.
At present, Sumatra Island has been officially renamed Jinzhou Island, Sulawesi Island has been renamed Sulu Island, Palawan Island in the Philippines has been renamed Zhenghe Island, and Kalimantan Island was originally designated as Borneo, but due to
The name Borneo has a strong Indian flavor and has aroused widespread opposition.
Finally, after Qin Zhiyuan's decision, Kalimantan Island was renamed Wanghaizhou because it was adjacent to the South China Sea.
This name has a special meaning, which not only shows that the Chinese in Lanfang do not forget their homeland, but also fully expresses Lanfang's enterprising spirit.
As for Java Island, where Surabaya City is located, the new name has basically been decided.
In fact, before the Tang Dynasty, Java Island meant that it did not exist at all. People often used Java to describe the disappearance of the country, which is very similar to the Peach Blossom Spring described by Tao Yuanming in Peach Blossom Spring.
As a result, a widely agreed name now is Peach Blossom Island.
The name is indeed nice, but it is a bit undeserved. There are many coconut trees on Java Island, but there are really no peach blossoms.
But this does not hinder people's love for this name. Although there are no peach trees on Java, there are many in the hometown of the Chinese, so this name contains the Chinese people's longing for their hometown.
So when the time came to April, among the areas under Lanfang's actual control, the only place name that had not been changed to Chinese interpretation was Papua Island.
Papua was also the island with the smallest proportion of Chinese people in Lanfang at this time.
In places such as Wanghaizhou and Taohua Island on Jinzhou Island currently under the rule of Lanfang, Chinese actually account for an absolute majority. There are 7 million people in Lanfang, and Chinese account for more than 6 million. The rest are related to the Chinese during the Dutch colonial period.
Nice local aborigines, these people have actually kept silent about their origins now. They regard themselves as Chinese from the inside out. Sooner or later, they will become real Chinese.
The only exception is Papua.
During the establishment of Lan Fong, local indigenous people who had conflicts with the Chinese fled to places such as British Malaya, Australian Papua and the American Philippines. Australian Papua Island had a land border with Papua Island under Lan Fong's rule, so
The most people escaped.
When the Spanish Flu spread last year, Australia sold Papua Island to Lanfang. When the Australians evacuated, they took away almost all the local indigenous people who were not infected with the Spanish Flu. Therefore, on the current Papua Island
, the number of indigenous residents is not large, probably only tens of thousands.
Because there are no grassroots government agencies, there is no way to conduct a census, but it is estimated that it will not exceed 100,000 people at most.
When the time entered 1919, the Spanish Flu pandemic subsided again as silently as it had when it broke out.
So Lanfang began to immigrate to Papua.
In fact, the island of Papua has dense vegetation and almost everywhere is virgin forest with few human traces. Although the island is huge, covering an area of about 800,000 square kilometers, the actual arable land has only been developed for about 10% of the total land even in the 21st century.
About five percent.
Of course, since this land is now inhabited by Chinese people, the area of arable land developed in the future will definitely be much higher than 5%. Fifteen percent is a guarantee, and 20% is not impossible, and can even reach
thirty
There is no way, who can make the Chinese have full farming skills? Compared with diligence, almost all races in the world will be defeated by the Chinese.
Although there are bright prospects, for the Chinese who have just immigrated to Papua, their lives must have been difficult in the early stages.
There is no way around it. Although Lanfang promotes mechanization, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the industrial base was weak. Although many factories are currently under construction, almost none of them are officially put into production, and more wasteland needs to be cleared with knives.
Ax chisel.
The Lanfang government fully considered the difficulties of land reclamation and therefore stipulated that farmers could cultivate the newly reclaimed land for ten years free of charge.
During these ten years, farmers do not have to pay any taxes on their newly cultivated land. As long as there is a harvest, it is under the control of the farmers themselves, and no one has the right to interfere.
Even ten years later, farmers will only need to pay a very small part of the tax, about 1 in 30 taxes, which is similar to the tax rate on land that is now mature for farming.
That's right, in Lanfang, even for land that is now maturely cultivated, the annual tax burden is about 30 to 1 tax. In other words, if one acre of rice field can harvest 900 kilograms of rice every year, then farmers only need to pay about
30 kilograms of rice, even if all taxes have been paid.
900 kilograms, does this output seem a bit too high?
Actually it's not.
Most of the land under Lanfang's rule has three crops a year, and some areas can even achieve four crops a year. Calculated in this way, each season is about 300 kilograms, which is actually not difficult at all.
At this time, in the northern part of the Republic of China, despite the raging wars and frequent floods, in a normal year, the output of each mu of land was about 200 kilograms.
The yield of rice is already higher than that of wheat, and the land under Lanfang's rule has abundant rainfall, so the yield of 300 kilograms per mu is really not an exaggeration.
Everything about Lanfang has now spread almost throughout the Republic of China. Even though the government has issued a ban, there are still many people who would rather take risks and go to Nanyang to make a living.
And Lanfang has sufficient shipping capacity. On the seas of the Republic of China, there are ships from Lanfang waiting to pick up people every day. As long as a ship is collected, it will be sent to Lanfang. There is no need to report to anyone, and there is no need to
Say hello to any country.
The coastal defense of the Republic of China was indeed a situation of having no defense against the sea. As for the few shabby warships of the Republic of China, to be honest, they were not even as good as the submarine hunting submarines used by Lanfang's troops in Europe. Therefore, although the Republic of China knew that Lanfang was still in the country,
Large-scale immigration, but there is no solution.
There's really no way.
People always have to lose something in order to feel the value of that thing.
This is the current relationship between the Republic of China and Lanfang.
In the past, the Foreign Legion responded to the requirements of the Republic of China. From guns and ammunition to food and medicine, as long as the Republic of China needed it, the Foreign Legion under Qin Zhiyuan would always spare no effort to send it to the country without any discount, even if it was tomorrow.
I knew that many of the things sent back were resold privately, and the Foreign Legion also sent them without fail.
But when the Foreign Legion was transformed into the Lan Fang Army, this good thing was gone forever.
The most obvious example is penicillin. If you want it, please buy it from Dayang.
And the price is not cheap, because it requires a tap from the French government.
Until this time, many people did not remember the benefits of the Foreign Legion, but it was too late.
If you do evil by God, you can still forgive it; if you do evil by yourself, you will not live.
Today's Lanfang is not much different from other great powers in the Republic of China. At most, it is because they have the same roots and species, and there are no restrictions on the content of transactions. Whether it is the southern military government or the Beiyang government, they give everything they want, but they both
You have to buy it with money.
In fact, Qin Zhiyuan has basically despaired of the Beiyang government and the southern military government by now. Take a look at their purchase lists. Almost all of them are guns and ammunition, and almost nothing else related to the national economy and people's livelihood is wanted.
Qin Zhiyuan once asked Tang Xinzhi to tentatively express his intention to build a fertilizer factory for the Beiyang government, but in the end, after many discussions, it turned into a military factory, and in the end he had no choice but to leave it alone.
As early as ten years ago, with the large-scale production technology of nitrogen fertilizers being conquered, the possibility of large-scale production of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other fertilizers required by agricultural crops has become available.
This is definitely a major benefit to agriculture, because under the same conditions, the yield of land using fertilizers will increase by 30%.
This means that there is still the same amount of land, but the crops grown can feed 30% more people.
This objectively also caused the world's population to enter a period of rapid growth since World War I. There was no way, before the use of agricultural fertilizers, the previous crop yields were too small and could not feed so many people.
For now, let’s not talk about the negative effects such as land pollution caused by the use of chemical fertilizers. Let’s solve the existing problems first, and then solve the quality problems.
For a populous country like the Republic of China, the crop yield of the land is obviously more important.
But what made Qin Zhiyuan helpless was that the rulers of the Beiyang government did not want to increase crop income at all, but wanted to obtain more weapons and arm more troops to first wipe out the southern military government and then develop the national economy and people's livelihood.
What is sad is that the southern military government also thinks so
It cannot be said that the Beiyang government and the southern military government launched the war for their own selfish reasons, although objectively it seems that this is indeed the case.
In fact, when the Foreign Legion returned to China, it was entirely possible for the Republic of China to embark on another path, but due to a combination of circumstances, it has now become this situation, which is really sad and lamentable.
I wonder if those who once scolded the Foreign Legion out of Tianjin would regret it when the Republic of China fell to this point.
