Since Lan Fang bought the Australian territory of Papua Island and the attached Solomon Islands from Australia last winter, Papua Island has belonged to Lan Fang in its entirety. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Lan Fang, who has just established the country, does not completely control all the territory, in the vast territory of Lan Fang, Lan Fang has not yet been able to establish a grassroots government agency covering the entire territory, so in addition to Java Island, where Surabaya is located, and Sumatra, which has been renamed "Golden State Island", there are still a large number of indigenous people living in Lan Fang's land, and they are all in a state of anarchy.

The Sanskrit meaning of Sumatra is "Golden Island", so after the establishment of Lanfang, the place name of Sumatra was officially made ancient, and "Golden State Island" became the official place name of where.

Although Lanfang has established a state and has begun to implement a series of assimilation policies to assimilate the locals, its foundation is not solid.

In order to erase the traces of the former Dutch colonizers and the local natives, a change of place name was a must.

And it's a top priority.

At present, Sumatra Island has been officially renamed "Golden State Island", Sulawesi Island has been renamed "Sulu Island", Palawan Island in the Philippines has been renamed "Zheng He Island", and Kalimantan Island was originally designated as "Borneo", but because the name "Borneo" has a strong Indian color, it has aroused widespread opposition.

Finally, after Qin Zhiyuan's decision, Kalimantan Island was renamed "Wanghaizhou" because of its proximity to the South China Sea.

This name has a special meaning, which shows that the Chinese of Lanfang do not forget their homeland, and fully expresses Lanfang's enterprising spirit.

As for the island of Java, where the city of Surabaya is located, the new name has basically been decided.

In fact, before the Tang Dynasty, Java Island means that it does not exist at all, and people often use "Java Country" to describe things that have no shadow, which is very similar to the Peach Blossom Spring described by Tao Yuanming in "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring".

As a result, a name that has now been widely agreed upon is "Peach Blossom Island".

It's a nice name, but it's a bit of a misnomer, there are a lot of coconut trees on the island of Java, and there are really no peach blossoms.

But this does not prevent people from loving this name, although there are no peach trees on the island of Java, there are many in the hometown of the Chinese, so this name contains the Chinese people's nostalgia for their hometown.

So when the time came to April, in the area actually controlled by Lan Fang, the only place name that had not been changed to the Chinese interpretation was Papua Island.

And Papua Island is also the island with the smallest proportion of Chinese in the whole Lanfang at this time.

In Jinzhou Island, Wanghaizhou, and Taohua Island under the current rule of Lanfang, the Chinese have actually accounted for the absolute majority, Lanfang has a population of 7 million, and the Chinese occupy more than 6 million, and the rest are the local indigenous people who have a good relationship with the Chinese during the Dutch colonial period.

The only exception is the island of Papua.

In the process of the establishment of Lanfang, the local aborigines who had a gap with the Chinese fled to British Malaya, Australian Papua, and the American Philippines.

When the Spanish flu epidemic last year, Australia sold the island of Papua to Lanfang, and then the Australians took almost all the local aborigines who were not infected with the Spanish flu when they withdrew, so the number of indigenous people on the current Papua island is not large, probably only tens of thousands.

Because there is no grassroots government agency, there is naturally no way to conduct a census, but it is estimated that it will not exceed 100,000 people at most.

In 1919, the Spanish flu was as silent as it had been when it broke out.

So Lan Fang began to emigrate to the island of Papua.

In fact, Papua Island is densely vegetated and almost everywhere is covered with untouched primeval forests, and although the island is huge, about 800,000 square kilometers, the actual arable land has only been developed about 5% of the total land even in the 21st century.

Of course, since this land is now inhabited by Chinese, the area of arable land that will be developed in the future will definitely be much higher than 5 percent, 15 percent is guaranteed, and 20 is not impossible, and it can even reach 30 ......

There's no way, who makes the Chinese farming skills already full, faster than diligence, almost all races in the world have to bow down in front of the Chinese.

Although there are bright prospects, for the Chinese who have just immigrated to the island of Papua, in the early stage, their life must be difficult.

This is also no way, although Lanfang implemented mechanization, but at the beginning of the founding of the country, the weak industrial base is about not, although there are many factories under construction, but almost none of them are officially put into production, and more wasteland is reliant on knives and axes.

The Lanfang government fully considered the difficulties of land reclamation, so it stipulated that farmers could cultivate the newly cultivated land for 10 years without compensation.

During these ten years, the peasants' newly cultivated land did not have to pay any taxes, and as long as there was a harvest, it was at the disposal of the peasants themselves, and no one had the right to interfere.

Even after 10 years, farmers will only have to pay a small part of the tax, which is about the same as the tax rate on the land that has now been cultivated.

That's right, in Lanfang, even if the land has been cultivated and matured, the annual tax burden ratio is about "30 taxes and 1", that is, if an acre of rice field can harvest 900 kilograms of rice every year, then the farmer only needs to pay about 30 kilograms of rice, even if all the taxes have been completed.

900 kilograms, doesn't that seem like too much?

Not really.

Most of the land under Lan Fang's rule is three crops a year, and some areas can even achieve four crops a year, so that if you calculate it, it is about 300 kilograms per season, which is not difficult at all.

At this time, in the north of the Republic of China, although there were wars and frequent floods, if it was a normal year, the output per mu of land was about 200 kilograms.

The yield of rice is higher than that of wheat, and the land under Lanfang's rule is abundantly rainy, so the yield of 300 kilograms per mu is really not an exaggeration.

Everything about Lanfang has now spread almost all over the Republic of China, and even if the government has issued a ban, there are still many people who would rather take risks and "go to the South Seas" to make a living.

And Lanfang has enough shipping capacity, on the sea of the Republic of China, there are Lanfang's ships waiting to pick up people every day, as long as there is enough boat, it will be sent to Lanfang, no need to report to anyone, and no need to greet any country.

The coastal defense of the Republic of China is indeed the situation of "having a sea but not defense", as far as the few tattered warships of the Republic of China are concerned, to be honest, they are not as good as the hunting submarines used by Lanfang's troops when they were in Europe, so although the Republic of China knows that Lanfang is still immigrating on a large scale, there is no way.

I really can't help it.

People always have to lose something in order to feel the value of that thing.

The relationship between the Republic of China and Lanfang is like this now.

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 was in need, the Foreign Legion under Qin Zhiyuan would always spare no effort to send it to the country, almost without any discount, even if it knew that many of the things sent back were resold privately, the Foreign Legion would also send it correctly.

But when the Foreign Legion was transformed into the Lanfang Army, this kind of good thing was gone forever.

One of the most obvious examples, say penicillin, want? Yes, please take the ocean and buy it.

And the price is not cheap, because the French government has to add a tap.

Only by this time did many people remember the benefits of the Foreign Legion, but it was too late.

The sins of heaven are forgivable, but they are not allowed to live.

The current Lanfang is not much different from other powers for the Republic of China, at most because of the same root and the same species, there is no restriction on the content of the transaction, whether it is the Southern Military Government or the Beiyang Government, they can give whatever they want, but they have to buy it with money.

In fact, Qin Zhiyuan is basically desperate for the Beiyang government and the southern military government by now, look at their procurement list, almost all of them are guns and ammunition, and almost nothing else related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

Qin Zhiyuan once asked Tang Xinzhi to tentatively express that he wanted to help the Beiyang government build a fertilizer factory, but in the end, it turned into a military factory, and in the end it had to be stopped.

As early as ten years ago, with the large-scale production technology of nitrogen fertilizer being overcome, the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other fertilizers needed by agricultural crops have all been possible for large-scale production.

This is definitely a major positive for agriculture, because under the same conditions, the land that uses fertilisers can increase its income by 30 percent.

That's the same amount of land, but the crops grown can feed 30 percent more of the population.

This also objectively contributed to the fact that since the First World War, the world's population has begun to enter a period of rapid growth. No way, before the use of agricultural fertilizers, the previous crops were too small to feed so many people......

At present, let's not talk about the negative effects of land pollution caused by the use of chemical fertilizers, first solve the problem of whether there is any, and then solve the quality problem.

For a populous country like the Republic of China, the crop yield of the land is obviously more important.

But Qin Zhiyuan was helpless that the rulers of the Beiyang government did not think about increasing the income of crops at all, but wanted to get more weapons, arm more troops, and first sweep away the southern military government, and then develop the national economy and people's livelihood.

Sadly, the Southern junta thinks the same way!

It cannot be said that both the Beiyang government and the southern military government launched the war for their own selfishness, 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 under the misfortune, it has now become this situation, which is really sad and lamentable.

I don't know if those who once scolded the Foreign Legion out of Tianjin will regret seeing the Republic of China fall to such a point.

(To be continued.) )