In order to solve the backward situation of agriculture, China uses the three magic weapons of machinery, fertilizer and water conservancy to promote agricultural transformation with five major policies, and finally achieve grain production beyond that of the United States.

At the beginning of the lanterns, the square is brightly lit, and the quaint street lamps themselves are a kind of scenery. Crowds of people dressed in colorful costumes gathered in the square, or walked, or chatted, or watched the performers organize their own performances, and Roosevelt felt that just looking at the costumes of the crowd was a kind of beautiful enjoyment.

Huaguo itself was the largest market for the textile industry, and after the beginning of industrialization, the traditional small-scale peasant economy was destroyed, and the division of labor became clearer and the income increased rapidly, so that the people had more money in their hands to decorate their appearance. The role of cloth has expanded from cold shelter to decoration, and people pay more attention to the shape, color, etc. of clothing, and many popular elements are reflected through clothing.

As the vanguard of the industrial revolution, the textile industry has created a strong empire on which the sun never sets, and textile enterprises have become the largest number of enterprises in China, absorbing a large number of working people and providing the most job opportunities. According to statistics, Huaguo has more than 100,000 large and small textile enterprises, using cotton and linen, wool, duck down, leather and other raw materials to manufacture countless industrial products. The number of people directly employed in the textile industry reached 5.5 million, and the indirect employment population exceeded 15 million, ranking first among all industries.

However, according to calculations and predictions, after 1910, the internal market of China is about to be saturated, and textile enterprises want to continue to expand production, they have to look for new markets from the outside. In the years when the colonies were controlled by the great powers and the geographical markets were relatively closed, the external markets needed to be obtained through steel and artillery.

In addition to the market, there are raw material sources that restrict the development of Huaguo's textile industry, and Huaguo strives to expand internal raw material channels and expand the scale of production through cotton and linen farms, Xinjiang cotton production bases, northern grassland leather production bases, and artificial leather.

Every year during the cotton harvest season, textile enterprises will send a large number of employees to various cotton and linen purchase points across the country to grab raw materials, which is no less fierce than a war. In order to control this chaotic situation and prevent the cotton and linen market from getting out of control, the Textile Industry Association requires textile enterprises to adopt price means to compete not to exceed the prescribed range.

However, such a means still cannot satisfy the huge appetite of the textile industry, and China imports a large amount of leather from South America every year, and a large amount of cotton and linen from India, Egypt and other places. The industrial raw materials produced by those colonized or in the sphere of influence of the great powers were strictly controlled by the local colonizers, and most of them could only be sold to the merchants of the suzerain.

Taking Indian cotton as an example, every year British merchants collect a huge amount of cotton from India, most of which is digested by the British textile industry, and the rest is coordinated and sold by the British Textile Industry Association, who controls the price of the international cotton market, manipulates price changes, and makes the most profit from it. In order to meet their own needs, Huaguo textile enterprises had to pay a huge price to buy cotton from British merchants.

As with oil, the raw materials were easily cut off by hostile countries, and British merchants were at the same time at the risk of losing the Chinese market when war broke out. India, Africa, Southeast Asia and other places were originally the raw material production areas of the British, and they were the foundation for the empire on which the sun never set to maintain its hegemony, and there was no room for the slightest threat. It is conceivable that once war broke out, China and the Entente would engage in fierce competition in these places to keep the huge war machine running.

The greedy Chinese textile business owners even wrote to Lu Liang, demanding that they seize the raw material producing areas such as India and Southeast Asia as soon as possible, or Central Asia! Judging from the promotion of cotton planting in Xinjiang, the climate here is very suitable for cotton growth, and the Central Asian region with a similar climate should also be suitable, and the Textile Association has sent a delegation to Central Asia to inspect cotton planting, and it has come to the conclusion that China should bring the whole of Central Asia into the scope of control, which is a natural treasure house of cotton production.

A journalist controlled by the Textile Industry Association wrote a feature article on the topic "Why is China so barren?" Iron ore is scarce and low quality, oil is scarce and of low quality, the cultivated land is small, far less than that of India and the United States, and high-yield and high-quality cotton has high requirements for the land climate and other environments, and there are few places suitable for planting on the land. The population is swelling, and the per capita resources are even more pitiful! The shortage of resources is the key factor restricting the rise of China, and today, when the land in the world is occupied by foreign powers, we must use absolute force to seize the land under the sun and fight for the living space of the Chinese nation!

Roosevelt had also read the article, and he only agreed with some of the views, that China is a vast country, and although it lacks some resources, it is still rich in resources. The same is true for the United States, which is rich in resources and can produce most of the resources needed for industrial production, but still needs to import some from overseas. Therefore, when he was president, he put forward the viewpoint of "Monroe Doctrine" and "Americans' own decisions in the affairs of the Americas"; compared with the tragic external environment of China, the United States is faced with a unique international environment, and no country can compete with the United States for the Americas, and such a big cake is enjoyed exclusively by Americans!

China does have a large population, more than any other country, resulting in very small per capita resources. It is not yet 8 o'clock in the evening, and the crowd in the square is at least 10,000 people, which is rare even in New York.

But a large population is also one of the indicators of a country's strength, and it also means a larger market, more soldiers, and more labor. This is something that other countries cannot envy, such as those so-called "European powers", Germany, France, and other countries with populations of about tens of millions, and the number of troops that can be mobilized cannot exceed 3 million, otherwise domestic production will be greatly affected. As for China, even if 10 million troops are mobilized, it will not have much impact on the national economy, which is the gap in national strength brought about by population.

In 1900, China had a population of about 400 to 300 million, and during the Qianlong period, high-yield crops in the Americas were popularized and cultivated on a large scale, which led to the rapid growth of China's population. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period and the later Twist Army Rebellion, the Northwest ****** Disaster caused a large number of deaths in the whole country, and the wars and famines continued during the later period of the Beiyang rule, even so, the population reached more than 400 million, which shows that the strong fertility of the Chinese people, or under the influence of agricultural civilization and traditional culture, people believe that the more labor force represents a richer life, so they desperately have children.

By the first national census in 1905, the population of China had reached 4, 900 million, and in 1909, by the time of the third national census, the population had reached 5, 100 million, not including the local indigenous population of the Philippines. The rapid maturity and spread of medical conditions, food and clothing solutions, and a peaceful and stable living environment in the countryside have made China's population grow explosively again.

Among them, 59 percent of the population in South China, 27 percent in North China, 8 percent in Northeast China, and the remaining 6 percent are distributed in Xinjiang, Tibet, the Philippines, Taiwan, and other land and sea regions. Provinces with populations of more than 30 million include Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong, while Hebei, Fujian, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Northeast China have less than 30 million, and Yunnan, Guizhou, Taiwan, and the Philippines have less than 20 million. The most densely populated areas are the Taihu Lake Plain, the Yangtze River Basin, the Grand Canal, and the Pearl River Delta.

Of course, Lu Liang will take into account the problem of the carrying capacity of the population on the land, and under the existing production conditions, it is already quite easy to carry these 500 million people, but when the population growth exceeds the speed of economic development, the contradiction between population and land will become prominent. This is not alarmism, China's current economic model is based on resource consumption and plunder, and there are already signs of insufficient resources.

However, Lu Liang will not limit the growth of the population, he longs for the whole world to be occupied by the Chinese people, and the world of a single race is more conducive to the development of the earth. This extreme idea may not be realized, but the direction of progress is the same, and China's solution to the population problem is to share the pressure of China's land by plundering land in other regions, such as resource-rich Southeast Asia, such as Siberia and Central Asia, which have a harsh climate but vast land, such as Australia, which has more favorable conditions and is sparsely populated.

In fact, the migration of people has already begun for some time, from the densely populated South China to North China, from the hinterland of China to Mongolia, Northeast China, Xinjiang and other regions, and from the hinterland of China to the Philippines, Ryukyu, Taiwan, Jeju Island and other regions. Although inconspicuous but slow, the project has been carried out for decades, costly but remarkable, and has successfully reduced the conflict between people and land in the hinterland of China.

Compared with Germany, which has to be careful about everything, Huaguo's hole cards are undoubtedly much richer. From 1905 to the end of 1910, more than four million working men, women and men, arrived in Germany, retaining their Chinese nationality and entering all areas of German production, including one million in industry, two million in agriculture, and one million in service. When they first arrived in Germany, they were thought to be competing for German jobs, but it wasn't long before the Chinese workers changed the German mindset with their own efforts. (To be continued.) )