Nowadays, the price of food is increasing year by year. Because of the military disaster, every family basically eats one meal without finishing the food. Every household in a village can have a meal together with the surplus grain of dozens of households in a village.
A hundred kilograms is enough, and the landlord’s family doesn’t have any surplus grain.
In fact, Hancheng has also noticed the problem of grain requisition. The population in the base area is actually not as large as the population in the Kuomintang-controlled areas. This creates a difficulty. Once the farmers start to requisition grain, the burden on the farmers will be higher than that in the Kuomintang-controlled areas.
What to do? The only way is large-scale production, relying on existing industries to help agriculture in production.
Of course, you can't say that you can build a tractor and open up all the land in one day. That won't work. The keyboard warriors will say that you are not following the actual situation. The actual situation is that you have to import it from the Soviet Union, and then the two
Help others fight.
Who doesn’t want a tractor? It costs no water or food, just add gasoline and go. Once the thing is ready, if the armor plate is welded to the outside, it will become an armored vehicle or a tank. But, you have to consider
One thing is whether the current technical level can be achieved.
"What we can do now is better plowshares, but this cannot fundamentally improve efficiency. For our agricultural production, we still need a large number of livestock to assist production."
In fact, there is no way to do this. If there is a way, even if it is to install rows of plowshares behind the car, the production efficiency will be the most terrifying improvement. But the current situation is like this, there are no ambush troops at all.
I thought about leaving the car and then just blowing it up to pieces, or dismantling it in pieces, but that wouldn't work.
"But we don't have that many livestock. If we put together several villages, it would be good to have ten animals."
Han Cheng now wants to drag back the car wreckage left on the previous battlefield and repair it to see if it can be reused. It is a mechanical tool after all, and it is enough that it can pull a plow.
"Oh, I can only say hello to the troops and leave those cars as intact as possible."
Han Cheng could only passively put his thoughts on these Japanese cars. At first Han Cheng also thought about the idea of Japanese sidecar motorcycles, which were harder to come across than Japanese cars. The traitors all rode bicycles, and motorcycles
However, the equipment that can only be equipped by elite divisions is not available to those troops in the county.
Under the leadership of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, this can be regarded as a model. An agricultural country uses its own resources such as food, and with the support of strong foreign aid, ammunition and weapons, to compete with an industrialized country with relatively strong heavy industry and scarce resources. In the end, it still fights for consumption.
Won. But this is to live by borrowing foreign debt. If a more powerful enemy comes next time, will you still borrow foreign debt?
"A car? These things can be blown up directly. Can we still use them to transport food?"
"It's impossible to transport food. We can only cultivate land."
In fact, whether it can be used or not is still a matter of debate. At the very least, the wheels of Japanese cars have to be covered with a layer of tracks or something. Anyway, the tires of Japanese cars have never been well adapted to Chinese soil. They often get stuck in mud puddles.
In the final analysis, things still need to be reformed.
"Now our young and strong labor force is relatively small. If we want to increase food production, we must open more land. The troops have less land to cultivate due to combat and training, so the output is naturally relatively low. If we want to fully meet the needs of the troops
Demand, we don’t need to open hundreds of acres of land, but thousands of acres of land.”
The officers of the army still know very well how much effort is required to be completely self-sufficient. It can only be said that the current region and labor force cannot fully meet the consumption of the army. To meet the needs of more than 10,000 people, at least more than 8,000 must be opened.
For every acre of land, a person must consume at least 200 kilograms of grain per year. At this time, the average person did not have 200 kilograms per year. They ate sparsely in peacetime, dry food in wartime, and even the bark of trees in times of famine.
"What you say is not unreasonable, but the problem now is that we must use part of our troops to meet our own food needs. We cannot just point at the Kuomintang reactionaries to send us food. The money we spend on food every year is enough to arm us."
As a regiment-level unit, if we save this money, we can attack Taiyuan."
The issue of food security is still far away for the base areas. The Kuomintang now provides 600,000 monthly military pay and food supplies. Logically speaking, there should be no worries. However, Chiang Kai-shek has gone back on his word a lot. When will he be given
If you break everything, how can you still live?
"But the problem now is that we don't have the ability to encourage farmers to produce, and our troops don't have the ability to use them all for production. After all, we have to fight!"
Qian Shi of the army felt that the main task of the army was to fight. As for the food gap, it could be borne by the people in the base area. Han Cheng felt that the people in the base area could not afford so much food at all. They could not even reach 200 kilograms of food per capita.
What do you need to bear?
"Just thinking about fighting, don't you have to rely on the people to eat, drink and relieve yourself? If we can't afford so much food, we still force the farmers to bear so much, what's the difference between us and Chiang Kai-shek?"
It is definitely impossible to let farmers fully bear the burden of food production. If nothing else, the number of villagers under the rule may not be as large as that of a division. How much food can be allocated to each person? That is quite large.
With this amount, farmers alone cannot support such a large army.
"But these are special times, and special times naturally have special methods."
Of course, control is needed. What they mean by control is the control of all living materials. In the face of agriculture with insufficient production, this is no longer a matter of control. This is an irreconcilable contradiction.
"Now it is no longer a matter of control or control for us. We have now joined a battle, a battle that we passively join. This battle is a food war. The Japanese want to rely on North China to supply their army.
How can there be such a good thing in the world?"
But I have to say that the Japanese have begun to collect grain. Their troops are relatively small, but they control a large area. The harvested grain can basically meet self-sufficiency. If there is a big war, they will urgently collect food from the county and Japan.
Collect food locally. They have never looked down on the Chinese, even if they have food in their warehouses?
"At least we can't lose this battle. If we lose, we will run away."