While Li Guang was busy with the deployment of the war situation in Ceylon, the economic construction of the Haitang Kingdom on the Madagascar side had already occupied the mainstream. Although Yang Weiwu has not yet been able to clear the remnants of the French army in Madagascar, after cutting off the internal and external ties of the French army, the situation has stabilized, and war is not the mainstream of the government's work.

The population of the small Haitang Kingdom is only five or six hundred thousand, but it has established normal or abnormal diplomatic relations with the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and Uruguay, and has the corresponding manpower to act as diplomats, so Yuan Ye does not have to run around the world as before. Premier Yuan Ye is now finally able to free up his hands to engage in economic construction and begin to develop the economy according to his ideas.

The core of Professor Yuen's economic development is actually very simple. With agriculture as the foundation, the military industry is based on flexible foreign trade.

Among them, the military industry is the most profitable business in Haitang at present, so it is natural to pay close attention to production and try its best to open up the market. In trade, the government provides the escort fleet, and the private sector is the main body. Agriculture, on the other hand, is dominated by the government and is the core of the core of the Haitang Kingdom. Li Guang blushed a little, but all the people who crossed were majestic, and they were all playing with the technology that was ahead of the times, but it was Li Guang's turn, and after a few years, he began to touch the hoe again.

However, after many discussions, the development of agriculture turned out to be an almost unanimous conclusion of the Haitang State and the Maritime Resistance Army. Li Guang didn't dare to act arbitrarily with his own knowledge, who knows if his ideas would be unsuitable in this era. As a result, the Haitang Kingdom has entered the stage of farming that must be passed by those who have traveled, and it is still a real land reclamation.

Premier Yuan's plan is as follows:

The first step is to use the existing funds to purchase food and other daily necessities to support the basic needs of the people and army of the Haitang Kingdom. There is no option to do this, and there is no way forward until Madagascar's output is unable to support food rations.

The core of the second step was done by Hu Bofeng.

Hu Bofeng, a special logistical staff officer, has now been promoted, and he has been promoted to the head of the government's pioneer department with full authority to manage the captives. Responsible for building roads, clearing land and building houses. This minister, in the current Haitang Kingdom, this is an extremely important position, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is high and powerful. You must know that this position is the only role that the military, government and civil affairs grasp together. In the entire Haitang Kingdom, I am afraid that it is just such a position that straddles the military and political worlds.

The reason for this is that you only need to look at the number of prisoners to know the importance of this post. The Navy's captives in Madagascar had already captured more than 80,000 French and black servants, and as the amphibious battalion led by Bai Chongfu cleared the islands of the Indian Ocean of the remnants of France, the number of prisoners was expected to reach a staggering 150,000, or even 250,000, by the end of the year.

Most of these people were young and vigorous blacks, although they were almost uneducated. Extremely ignorant, but still has physical strength. For the Haitang Kingdom, which lacks manpower, these are excellent laborers, and it is a great waste not to use them.

Hu Bofeng has long been dealing with black prisoners, and recently his prisoner management has reached a new level. He found. It was simply too easy to manage black and white prisoners with Japanese prisoners.

Therefore. Hu Bofeng made several requests to Li Guang. It is necessary to catch more Japanese prisoners, as well as lightly wounded Japanese prisoners. Hu Bofeng particularly pointed out that the prisoners of the Japanese Army, in particular, were extremely useful. Not only is he not lazy in his own work, but he can also manage a group of black people to work and dare not be lazy.

Devils are animals that obey the strong. Cruelty to the weak. Being tapped by Hu Bofeng's potential is really useful.

In a sense, Hu Bofeng's "good deed" enabled most of the Japanese prisoners to survive the years in the prisoner of war camp. Many years later, Hu Bofeng went to Japan on business. It is extremely popular and has a lot to do with it.

In the third step of Premier Yuan's economic development, Chinese immigrants vigorously farmed.

From input to output, it takes at least one year. But if you calculate the return on investment, the rate of return is staggering. The Haitang Kingdom only needs to invest food and tools to obtain millions of acres of farmland every year. In just the first year, the output of these millions of acres of farmland was enough to feed a million people and all the troops of the Naval Resistance Army.

And it's a process that doubles exponentially, every year. One year may not be a big deal, but if it really develops like this for five years in a row, a "big country" will quickly take root.

In the agricultural economy, the per capita output value is certainly very low. But it is the foundation for Haitang to really gain a firm foothold in the world. If you want to build a country, population is still the most important factor, and if you don't have enough people, you don't have an economy, you don't have defense, you don't have everything.

Although Li Guang did not attach much importance to agriculture, the quality of the Chinese who were able to immigrate to Madagascar in this era, and vigorously developing agriculture was the only way to choose. Peasants who can't read a few big characters, have no industrial knowledge, and people who don't know what electricity is, so it is really unrealistic to vigorously develop industry.

More importantly, land, and only land, can attract a large number of Chinese people to leave their homes and go thousands of miles to put down roots in Madagascar. Chinese love home, and very few people will leave their homeland unless they have to, and land is the most important reason for them to leave their homeland.

After determining the idea of economic construction based on agriculture, Premier Yuan's purchase had a huge impact on the history of World War II. But in '42, and even until the end of World War II, not many people really realized the implications.

The Americans have restricted the direction of the use of funds in the Haitang Kingdom, many scarce military supplies cannot be procured, and even basic steel has been restricted from exporting.

But there is one thing that is not restricted from export, and that is food. The United States, which had just turned into a wartime economy in '42, had insufficient production of weapons and ammunition, but its grain reserves were quite sufficient.

It just so happened that in the first year of the development of the agricultural economy, Haitang also needed to buy a large amount of grain. You must know that there are now about five or six hundred thousand immigrants and troops in the Haitang Kingdom, plus prisoners, and the amount of food needed is huge, but Madagascar itself cannot meet the needs. With development in mind, the volume of government procurement is slightly larger. Therefore, Haitang bought 200,000 tons of wheat from the United States and Canada at one time.

In fact, this amount is only the annual ration of one million people, and in fact, the purchase of this amount of food is indeed considered according to the needs of one million people for a year. In Li Guang's opinion, there are some excessive reserves, but this figure has the full support of the army and the government, as well as the people. There was no food shortage. Li Guang couldn't understand the feelings of the Chinese people in this era about food. The importance of food is not only for the poor, but also for the rich.

Premier Yuan persuaded Li Guang with a sentence and agreed to the plan of purchasing a large amount of grain: only with grain in hand, even if there is no military salary, the Naval Resistance Army will not collapse. This sentence is indeed very accurate to illustrate the psychology of the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army, especially in the army, a considerable proportion of soldiers join the army just to have a full meal.

And this amount is exactly the standard of the food that the allies provide to the USSR every year. In forty-two years, these grains. Canada alone can easily take it out, not to mention that Haitang Kingdom was purchased from the United States and Canada at the same time, which did not cause much impact.

However, the merchants of the Haitang Kingdom saw a business opportunity in the grain trade. They found that the wheat was simply processed into bread or compressed biscuits. It is easy to earn double or even more profits. As for the users, everywhere:

The first big user was the USSR. In forty-two years because of the war. The USSR lost forty percent of its grain production. Although in August of '42, due to the huge stocks in the Soviet Union, there was no serious food shortage for the time being, but there were already signs of it.

Another big user is the Bengal region of India, where the thirst for food is almost insatiable due to a drought not seen in decades. And now. The only one who can play the role of a grain merchant in the Indian Ocean is the fleet of the Haitang Kingdom. Monopoly plus shortage, business is too easy to do.

In addition, Africa is now a colony of Europe, but in fact it is in a state of defenselessness. Small boats can dock at will, and there is no fear of being inspected by the weak colonial authorities, but in fact, they are found to be inspected, and the current forces of the Israeli Naval Resistance Army in this area are not afraid of their troubles. In these extremely backward primitive areas, other commodities are not easy to sell, but grain can be easily sold in large quantities. And in exchange for gold, gemstones, diamonds and other super hard currency.

Therefore, Premier Yuan once again increased the amount of grain purchased, and with the rapid increase in the number of immigrants, the amount of grain procurement was increased again and again. Food procurement targets include North and South America, with Canada, Uruguay and Argentina dominating.

In this way, before the end of 42 years, Haitang purchased as much as 450,000 tons of grain. It took up more than 10 million US dollars, and also occupied almost all the transportation capacity of the Haitang Kingdom and the Guano Commercial Group, and at the same time occupied a considerable proportion of the escort fleet of the Maritime Resistance Army, and even the seaplane carrier PJP also joined the escort fleet.

In terms of industry, in addition to the original military industry. In August of the 42nd year, Haitang State had the prototype of two pillar industries, which played a vital role in the development of Haitang Kingdom in the following decades and laid the foundation for Haitang Kingdom's industrial system.

And these two pillar industries are the foundation laid by one person - Su Zizi. In less than a year, Su Zizi sold nearly 10,000 tons of gel-packed gasoline. Among them, the part purchased by the Naval Resistance Army is only a small part, and it is all cost price. However, the profits of the plastic gasoline sold to the Germans are really rich and abnormal, and the profits of the independent business are really terrifying, and thousands of tons of plastic gasoline have brought Su Zizi more than 6 million US dollars in profits.

In just over a year of business, Su Zizi's wealth exceeded the wealth earned by his father Su Maode in his life, and it was even worth the total wealth of thousands of merchants from the Haitang Kingdom.

Now that Su Zizi is a veritable richest woman in Haitang Kingdom, Li Guang sometimes has to borrow some money from Su Zizi to save the emergency.

Su Zizi produces gasoline gelling agents in the United States and belongs to the organic chemical industry. As a modern person, Li Guang found that there is a material that rarely appears in life in this era, and that is plastic. It's almost ubiquitous in modern society, but it wasn't seen in World War II. In this regard, Li Guang also mentioned it in the process of chatting with Su Zizi. Terms such as trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, polytetrafluoroethylene and so on were also instilled into Su Zizi.

In this era, plastics were already available in laboratories, and products such as bakelite were already used in industry, but things such as cups and basins that could be used as cups and basins were not yet on the market.

Su Zizi made so much money, and the reason was not gasoline gelatinizer. Therefore, Su Zizi is very interested in plastics, which are also organic chemical products. It just so happened that the United States restricted the procurement of materials from Haitang Kingdom, and Su Zizi was worried that even gasoline gelling agents would be controlled by the United States in the future, so in the past few months, while relocating equipment, with a wave of his hand, he has invested millions of dollars to purchase a complete set of equipment from petroleum minerals to napalm, as well as production processes.

At the same time, a large number of researchers were recruited in the United States and an organic chemical laboratory was established in Madagascar.

Su Zizi is a big deal, and her investment is even big in the United States. You must know that the investment of tens of millions of dollars by an American consortium in an aircraft production line is a top-level investment project in the United States in this era.

Su Zizi smashed millions of dollars and built an oil refinery several times larger than the refinery that her father Su Maode and businessmen partnered with. The degree of technological sophistication cannot be compared, the refinery of Su Maode can only produce ordinary diesel gasoline, while the refinery of Su Zizi can produce high-octane gasoline. The annual output of 50,000 tons of high-octane gasoline is nothing if it is put into future generations. That's probably enough gasoline for a county in China in the 21st century. But in this era, it is a very large-scale oil refining enterprise.

Once this refinery is built, it will make a huge difference. At present, the annual consumption of gasoline by the Navy's aircraft is about 10,000 tons, and before the Air Force is expanded by three or five times, will the Navy's resistance force be short of gasoline? It will no longer be the case now, where training only dares to be recharged with ordinary gasoline, and only high-octane gasoline is used when fighting.

It is also that Su Zizi's investment in this period laid the foundation of organic chemical and petrochemical industry for the entire Haitang country, and in the following years, the national competitiveness of Haitang represented that for a long time, plastic was one of the representative works of the national industry.

Another industry in which Su Zizi invests - the electronics industry. Regarding the technology of the Second World War, Li Guang was most dissatisfied not with machinery or shipbuilding, but with the electronics industry. In this era, electronic tubes were used, and they were huge, and a radio with simple functions was as big as a cabinet.

Li Guang was dissatisfied, and Su Zizi was naturally interested, so she set up a transistor laboratory. In this regard, Li Guang still has a lot of say, you must know that he majored in mechatronics in college, and he still has considerable knowledge of electronics. Therefore, under the guidance of some theoretical knowledge of Li Guang, the research of transistors began to take root in Madagascar.

The plastics industry may not be able to support a country's economy, but the electronics industry can fully become the backbone of a country's economy, which Li Guang, who lives in the electronic age, knows very well. Although it is still in its infancy, as long as it is one step ahead, under the virtuous circle, its future is definitely worth looking forward to.

Su Zizi is expected to return to Madagascar before the end of the year, and by then, Li Guang should get married.

Such a beautiful and gentle, and will make money, even the industry is considered for Li Guang's career, and Li Guang gave birth to a pair of twins, which is simply a perfect wife, for this marriage, Li Guang has no reason to refuse or even delay.

But what about Yuan Ran? Li Guang was entangled. (Readers, slap him a few times, this kid is too pretending to be B.) (To be continued......)