It is important to know that as long as the climate is suitable, the land is flat, and the fertilizer is reasonable, the planting of rice will not only not damage the soil fertility, but if the time is long enough, the soil can be gradually transformed into fertile paddy soil, and the rice field as an artificial wetland also has the effect of improving the climate, so as long as the market can digest so much rice. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Rice cultivation is definitely the more the merrier.

In other words, those 400 million acres of land can be planted with rice in the future, and achieve high yields! In addition, in tropical climates, it is possible to grow three crops a year (although the yield of each crop will be lower than that of two crops, but the total yield is still advantageous). Then the yield will be even higher!

Li Hui plans to position Siam as a purely agricultural area to reduce the use of land by municipal and transportation facilities, and to make it mandatory for rice to be the main crop in areas suitable for growing rice (the same is true in China, although those who grow grain can get more land, usually two to three times as much as cash crops). Siam is now not very populous, and even if it does not urbanize, there is no need to worry about the standard of living rising because of the abundance of arable land per capita.

In fact, in order to fully exploit Siam's arable land, China would need to migrate heavily from its own territory. Rice planting is more labor-intensive, three crops a year is more tiring, and the yield cannot be significantly reduced (Li Hui now wants not to make more money, but to let China achieve food self-sufficiency on the food and clothing level, and the yield is more important than labor productivity, not to mention that under the current scientific and technological conditions that are still very backward, it is difficult to intensively plant rice. Even the most capable farmer can plant at most 15 acres per person, and it is easy to get sick from exhaustion, so a household can also get 10 acres (but both the yield and income are much higher than the 30 acres in the north, and not much worse than the fertile black soil areas in the northeast). Only those who plant particularly well can get an extra 5 acres. According to this calculation, Siam needs to have 40 million rural households, which is 200 million people based on 5 people per household, and even in Thailand in the 21st century, there are only 60 or 70 million people......

Considering the yield advantage, Siam's agriculture could even reach one-third of that of China, taking into account the prospect of full exploitation of local arable land. The total grain output can increase so much, but the population that has increased after the annexation of Siam is only 7 million, it is no wonder that Li Hui is trying to find a reason to eat her. The only thing that makes him a little regretful is that the development of tropical forests is not so easy, and even if he is responsible for the early reclamation in a more efficient military way, it is not possible to fully tap the potential in a few years.

Compared with Siam, whether it is the Dutch East Indies, Malaya or Myanmar, whose total land area is not less than that of Siam, there is not so much potential for agriculture, or at least food production, but the degree of development is higher, and the relocation of Javanese and Malays has reduced the burden accordingly, so in the short term, these lands are more helpful for Chinese to solve the problem of eating, and not only a little bigger. In 1896, China's total grain production had increased by more than a third over the previous year, and in addition to the impact of the end of the war and the construction of water conservancy, these commercial grain bases in the South Seas also contributed to this.

What even Li Hui did not expect was that the republic's expansion of territory in Nanyang had actually increased the support of the domestic peasants for the policy of unified purchasing and marketing, because the sharp increase in grain output naturally led to a sharp drop in domestic grain prices.

Li Hui certainly did not do this, and the reason why the Chinese yuan, which could not be exchanged for gold and silver, was widely accepted in the country was due to the adoption of the "necessities of life" system, and grain was the most important of those commodities, which had to be firmly controlled by the government in any case.

As for the government's serious losses as a result, it is simply impossible; under the planned economic system, there is no need to consider prices too much, as long as the market can digest them; and in 1896, when the so-called national grain output soared, the per capita grain output of the Chinese had just exceeded the 500 jin mark, and it was still far from being full.

Even if China achieves a comprehensive food and clothing in the future, the people will put forward requirements for the quality of food, at that time it is necessary to vigorously develop the breeding industry, and the planting of feed grain will inevitably increase substantially, so why worry about the food can not be digested? And, by that time, it's time to expand the area of cash crops, right?

As a matter of fact, the planting area of cash crops in China has begun to expand rapidly, and although it is mandatory to "take grain as the key link" in those main grain-producing areas with superior conditions, with the rapid increase in total grain output and the gradual improvement of domestic transportation capacity, Li Hui has gradually gained sufficient confidence to allow those areas that are not suitable for growing grain crops to turn to planting suitable cash crops, so as to improve land use efficiency and increase peasants' incomes. In addition, some ecologically fragile areas, such as water-scarce areas prone to desertification and the Loess Plateau, which is prone to soil erosion, have gradually begun to return farmland to pasture and forest, which also depends on the confidence brought by the large granary of Nanyang.

The value of Siam is great, but because it is not too difficult to start and digest, Li Hui did not bother too much about it, and the world's number one industrial country on the other side of the ocean is the biggest opponent of China in his mind, and it is also the most valuable prey......

Chen Fang, the former Hawaiian Kingdom concubine who was forced to sell his property back to China five or six years ago, never dreamed that he would have the opportunity to return to that second hometown that is still haunted by his dreams in his lifetime, and that he would return to Hawaii with a powerful fleet as an envoy of the Hawaiian Kingdom to "restore the country". In the words of the officers and men of the Dingyuan, even if the US Navy comes, it will not be their opponent, and with this powerful force as a guarantee, Hawaii's "recovery" is definitely a three-finger pinching snail -- nine out of ten!

Standing on the deck of the Dingyuan and feeling the strong sea breeze blowing in his face, Chen Fang, who was already over seventy years old, only felt unprecedentedly high-spirited, as if he was twenty years younger all of a sudden, thinking of the loss and humiliation suffered by being forced to flee Hawaii back then, Chen Fang gritted his teeth loudly, "White-skinned pigs, I, Chen Afang, are back again!" Those who ate me, used me, and robbed me all vomited out doubly! (To be continued.) )