As a landmark of Chang'an City, Daming Palace broke ground, which did have a huge psychological effect on the citizens of the Tang Empire, and the expectation of the Tang Dynasty civilization is self-expressed.

Although the construction of the Daming Palace with modern machinery and equipment is not a trivial task, it still requires at least 20,000 workers of all kinds to participate, which makes the ongoing large-scale construction of the city even more scarce.

In particular, the cities of Jinling and Daxing, which are located on islands with a population of less than 10,000, are far less rapid to build than Yanjing and Chang'an, and require more labor.

In the newly built Capitol, the Senate and House of Representatives passed the Second Population Import Act, which determined that another 500,000 people would be brought in from China in order to meet the current labor shortfall needed for large-scale urban and defense construction in the Tang Empire. However, new requirements were put forward for the quality of the imported population, which needed to meet a certain level of knowledge and physical fitness, because the Tang Empire was about to bid farewell to infrastructure construction and enter the construction period of a fully industrialized country, which required a large number of workers with basic knowledge and acquired training jishu workers and intellectuals.

The congressmen are very generous and bring in half a million people without blinking an eye.

Zhang Meng, who heard the news, was full of helplessness, they didn't know the price of firewood and rice, and it was not a small project to resettle a population of 500,000.

Fortunately, Zhang Meng made a plan when he was planning the city, and the national economic construction and national defense construction of the Tang Empire in the future will require a large number of people, especially if the Pacific War breaks out in the future, the casualties during the war will be supplemented by a large number of people, and no matter how powerful the military liliang is, no one will operate and use it.

Therefore, in the planning of the four cities, Zhang Meng has set aside a large area of land for residential areas, and all the residential areas are built with dense high-rise buildings, and all the planning has been completed, let alone the resettlement of 500,000 people, and there is no problem in relocating 2 million people.

Zhang Meng is not worried about how many people will be brought in, nor will he worry about not having a house for them to live in, let alone no jobs for them, his only concern is how to feed them.

If you don't have a home, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are!

At this moment, Zhang Meng is already feeling a certain amount of pressure for the current consumption of food, drinking water and other livelihood of the more than 600,000 people in the Tang Empire.

On the three islands in the entire territory of the Tang Empire, except for a few volcanic islands at higher altitudes in the Yanjing Islands, there are some streams and underground mountain springs in the forests, and there is not a single river at all.

In the past, Tongans lived entirely on their own rainwater storage, and because the population was only 50,000 or 60,000, the pressure was not very high.

With the establishment of the Tang Empire, the overseas Chinese who moved from the mainland and overseas should now be called the Tang people. The population has exploded to more than 600,000, and the problem of domestic water has long been exposed.

Zhang Meng's approach was to build large reservoirs and water stations in the green belt of each city, which were sufficient due to their tropical location and abundant rainfall.

Thinking that Hong Kong in later generations would rely on a few super reservoirs to feed a population of nearly 8 million, and that the Tang Empire would obviously have to develop like Hong Kong and Singapore in the future because of its lack of land, Zhang Meng had to plan in advance to expand the size of the reservoirs in each city and solve the drinking water problem necessary for the development of the next hundred years once and for all.

The food problem is relatively simple for Zhang Meng.

The Tang Empire did not produce grain, and all the food it needed was imported. In the past, the Tongans lived by eating fruit, but later the British came to give them food, and for the sake of food, they were willing to submit to the British and become a British protectorate.

In the past, the food aid given to Tonga by the British every year could not feed the citizens of the Tang Empire, and the Tang Empire had the money to import from abroad independently.

After the outbreak of the economic crisis, the Tang Empire's grain import bill fell on a large scale, which can be described as a huge savings. But in fact, this money was not saved, and it was still used by Zhang Meng to expand the purchase of food.

That's right!

In addition to taking advantage of the economic crisis to buy industrial raw materials such as steel and cement from the United States at the price of cabbage, Zhang Meng also purchased grain from the United States, South American countries and Australia on a large scale.

Almost everyone on this shijie thinks that Zhang Meng is a fool, because during the economic crisis, the overproduced grain in various countries cannot be sold at all, and no one will be stupid enough to buy food. Some farmers who think they are smart have sealed up their grain, thinking that in a year or two the price of grain will rise, but what awaits them is that the price of grain will continue to fall, and even the price of grain is not enough to transport it to the market for shipping, and many farmers are forced to burn the grain directly as coal or bury it in the ground as fertilizer.

Under normal circumstances, grain can be stored for one year, and dried for two or three years.

Only Zhang Meng knew that war was coming, and when the time came, all countries would be in a hurry, agriculture would be wasted, and food would become scarcer and more expensive. If we don't take the opportunity to hoard cheap food on a large scale, we won't have such a big bargain to pick up when war comes.

As a result, Zhang Meng built a large number of giant granaries near every city in the Tang Empire to store high-quality grain.

In the twenties and thirties, the main food supply countries on Shijie were the United States, South American countries, and Australia. After the economic crisis broke out, the United States first fell in price like an avalanche, followed by South American countries and Australia.

The Americans were more ruthless, and many farmers simply destroyed the surplus grain in order to maintain the price of food, and later they found that it was stupid, because they could not stop the avalanche of food prices, and later they began to sell grain.

Zhang Meng likes to deal with gangs and societies all over the United States, and using them to do things can save money and trouble, and he will not get into trouble for himself.

As small as a screw or as big as a trust enterprise, no matter what Zhang Meng wants to buy or do, these clubs and gangs can always help Zhang Meng do it in the simplest and most effective way to save money, and he is very satisfied.

Grain is also the most important item as the national strategic reserve material of the Tang Empire, almost as important as steel, oil and other strategic reserve materials.

Through various means, Zhang Meng spent $13.5 million to obtain 21.8 million tons of cheap corn, sorghum, rice, soybeans and other major food crops from the United States, of which more than 7 million tons of grain Zhang Meng did not spend a penny to the farmer, only paid a 'tip' to the local gang members, and the farmer beat the gong and drum to welcome Zhang Meng's people to pull away all the grain for free.

Latin America and Australia are Zhang Meng's main grain buyers, and when the Americans destroyed the grain, they were still selling it at a low price, resulting in the Americans being unable to control the price of food and causing the price of food to continue to plummet.

Latin American countries have also speculated on the prosperous market of the United States, and the economic crisis caused by the indiscriminate issuance of national bonds has also spread to their countries. Fortunately, their industry is already weak and the impact is not very large. However, the severe contraction of international trade caused by the economic crisis has made it impossible for Latin American countries to sell food. Agriculture is the backbone of the economy of Latin American countries, and the blow to them is not small, so they can only sell at a loss in exchange for seeds and fertilizers for next year's farming.

Zhang Meng seized the opportunity to buy 20 million tons of grain from several Latin American countries at a low cost, at a total cost of less than $12 million, which is much more cost-effective than buying grain from the Yankees.

When negotiating grain prices with Australian farmers, Zhang Meng not only directly funded the purchase of their farms and pastures, but also jointly expanded grain and animal husbandry production with them.

Since Australia was very close to the Tang Empire, and both sides were members of the British Commonwealth, Zhang Meng's transactions with them were basically smooth. In particular, the expansion of investment is welcomed by Australian farmers.

The reason why Zhang Meng treats Australian farmers like this is mainly because Zhang Meng Jihua regards Australia as the production base of grain, meat and ore of the Tang Empire, and Australia's rich resources will provide unlimited raw materials for the Tang Empire to support the industrial development of the Tang Empire.

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