Half a month later, if a resident near Surabaya chooses wheat after a day's work, he or she will receive flour directly.

After two months of hard work, a flour mill was finally completed and successfully put into production.

What people didn't expect was that this was originally a move to benefit the people, but when it came to the residents, it became a "chaotic government".

For the Chinese living in the northern part of the Republic of China, wheat is not only a flour for human consumption, but also a feed for poultry and livestock. If it is a time of famine, even the bran and chaff are human food, and there is no such thing as waste.

Belch...... This description is inaccurate.

During the Republic of China, the Chinese recipes were mainly composed of corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other miscellaneous grains, and there was really not much flour, even if it was the landlord's family, it was impossible to eat flour every day.

Living in the Republic of China is really unhappy, in addition to natural disasters, there are more man-made disasters, in the land of China, except for those bureaucratic compradors, ordinary people really have no good life.

really responded to that sentence: the landlord's family has no surplus grain!

Xiang Lanfang is a government like the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, where even the "disaster relief grain" is a fine grain, not to mention in the Republic of China, it is unique in the whole of Asia.

If this news is transmitted back to the Republic of China, I am afraid that this alone will attract most of the Chinese immigrants in the Republic of China to the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, and even those small and medium-sized landlords will sell their property and move their families.

The landlords of the Republic of China at this time, to say that there was no forcible seizure, it must be nonsense, but more landlords rely on hard work and steadfastness in order to buy the next family business, and in the busy agricultural period, even the landlords have to work in the field.

And hard-working and down-to-earth people, even if they arrive in the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, will also buy the next family business with their hands.

Successful people naturally have the truth to success, and they are not necessarily as depicted in film and television works without the slightest merit.

Half a month after the cash-for-work program began, the civil affairs officials in charge of distributing the supplies found that the nutritional status of the Chinese working had not improved, and many of them still looked weak and weak.

Doesn't make sense?

Although these Chinese were generally malnourished when they came to the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, after more than half a month of recuperation, they ate and slept well every day, even if they couldn't grow much meat for a while and a half, at least their mental state should be significantly improved, and it shouldn't be like this.

After careful questioning, the civil affairs officer received a laughable answer.

Although these Chinese received enough food, they were reluctant to eat it, except for women and children, who could eat half full, these adults had very low material requirements, as long as they did not starve to death.

How's that going to work?

After the problem was fed back to the Cabinet, the Cabinet immediately made a decision to continue to give grain, and if it wanted wheat for wheat, if it wanted rice for rice, and if it wanted flour for flour. At the same time, he started cooking on the construction site and ate as much as he could.

Even if they eat casually, these adults are still reluctant to eat, and they would rather take the prepared meal home than make a round belly by themselves.

So the cabinet decided again that the food on the construction site was not allowed to be taken home.

This is terrible, the Chinese people eat desperately, and many people even have to be sent to the hospital because they eat too much.

So the cabinet once again issued a rule that meals must be eaten regularly and quantitatively.

At this point, the problem has finally been solved.

Does it seem like these newcomers are unusually tricky?

Actually, no, they were just hungry and scared.

The uncertainty of the future, the lack of understanding of oneself, and the distrust of social security have caused the Chinese to have a very obvious sense of distress.

This sense of distress has been deeply rooted in the bones, and it is even more obvious when you are in a foreign country.

Statistics show that the Chinese are the best at saving in the world.

For Chinese farmers, whether it is a good year or a disaster year, it is always necessary to store enough food at home for several years to feel safe, otherwise it will feel precarious.

The same is true for the Chinese in the Grand Duchy of Lanfang.

In fact, many people already have a lot of grain in their homes, and they want wheat instead of flour, because wheat is easier to store than flour.

Although there is food at home, people still feel that it is far from enough, so the small pockets of grain are replaced by large pockets, one pocket becomes two pockets, and then three pockets, four pockets......

The Chinese are like squirrels for the winter, desperately trying to store more supplies in their burrows to cope with the cold winter.

These grains are treated much higher than those of people, they are placed in the best rooms, they do not touch the ground to prevent moisture, they do not go up to the sky to prevent rain, and even if people sleep in the yard, they have to ensure that the grain is perfectly stored.

This is the experience of fighting natural and man-made disasters handed down by our ancestors for thousands of years, and no one can reverse it, unless one day, the grain in the farmers' homes has nowhere to store, and the annual increase in grain far exceeds the consumption of grain, so that the farmers can take the initiative to reduce the grain stocks at home.

In parallel with cash-for-work, work is underway to allocate land for new immigrants.

In order to better control the economy of Borneo, the Dutch colonial government forced the development of plantations and implemented the "forced planting system", forcing farmers to use the best land to grow crops designated by the colonial government, mainly coffee, sugar cane, tea, tobacco, pepper, etc., and stipulated that the planting area of such crops accounted for at least 1/5 of the total cultivated area, of course, the actual proportion was much higher.

As a result, Borneo has become a base for supplying tropical cash crop products to European countries.

After 1870, the Dutch colonial authorities began to implement the "plantation" policy, at this time the planted crops have become sugar cane, palm trees, rubber trees, etc., and the export products have also become cane sugar, palm oil, palm kernels, natural rubber, etc.

It cannot be said that planting cash crops is the wrong approach, but for a country, all the food depends on imports is not a long-term solution after all, so after the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, under the instruction of Qin Zhiyuan, the cabinet made strategic adjustments to the planting structure.

Borneo's hot climate is not suitable for growing wheat, but it is ideal for growing rice, especially on the island of Java, where the water network and flat terrain are the most suitable for growing rice.

As a result, all the inhabitants of Java will be given 100 acres of land for cultivation, and all of this land will be cultivated with rice, aiming to achieve food self-sufficiency within two years.

The two-year time limit is actually a bit low, and in Borneo, it is possible to grow rice three times a year, and under normal circumstances, it should be possible to achieve food self-sufficiency in one year.

The land here is so fertile that you don't have to do anything when you plant the seedlings, and you can harvest the rice in a few months, and the yield is much higher than that of the barren land that has been cultivated for thousands of years in China.

The Institute of Biology in Corsica is working on hybrid rice, which is not expected to yield results in a year or two, but if it does, the rice on the island of Java alone will feed hundreds of millions or hundreds of millions of people.

In view of the fact that these newcomers did not have the means of production, a national agricultural cooperative was established as quickly as possible, from which farmers could borrow money at very low interest and then buy the means of production for agricultural production.

This agricultural mutual cooperative is actually a primary bank, and Huang Bohan had a bank in his previous industry, so he can be regarded as familiar with this.

Huang Bohan is still very self-aware, he provided a set of personnel for the agricultural mutual aid cooperative, designed the charter, and then handed over the management of the agricultural cooperative to the cabinet, and he did not care about anything and became the manager.

At the level of Huang Bohan, he is already a wealthy man in the world, and money no longer means much to him, and he even took the lead in donating all his plantations to the Grand Duchy of Lanfang to cooperate with the land state-owned policy of the Grand Duchy of Lanfang.

That's right, the land is state-owned!

The Grand Duchy of Lanfang recognized the sanctity of private property, but not land.

In the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, all the land belongs to the state, and the people only have the right to use the land, but not the ownership, so the land cannot be transferred, you can plant it if you want to plant, and if you don't plant it, you can give it to the state, and it is absolutely forbidden to buy and sell land.

Corresponding to rice cultivation are state-owned farms.

State-owned farms are mainly those plantations that have begun to produce, except for the island of Java, including Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Papua, all of which are plantations, planting rubber trees, palm trees, sugar cane, coffee, cocoa and other cash crops.

For a period of time, the pillar industry of the Grand Duchy of Lanfang was agriculture, and if the industry wanted to be effective, I am afraid it would have to wait until a period of time.

Compared to agriculture, the construction period of industry is longer, even for a medium-sized steel plant, the construction period is measured in years, and the Grand Duchy of Lanfang had no other heavy industry except for the initial extraction of oil.

Steel and oil are indispensable for the development of industry, and if steel is the skeleton, then oil is the blood.

There is no shortage of oil in the Grand Duchy of Lanfang, and the oil fields in Balikpapan have been initially developed, and the oil produced is not only sold to Europe, but also exported to Japan and other places in Asia, but due to the lack of refining equipment, crude oil is generally exported directly.

Now in Balikpapan, a large oil refinery is under construction, and when the construction is completed, it can directly export refined oil products to extract more profits.

The iron ore in the Grand Duchy of Lanfang is mainly concentrated in the Padang area, where the iron ore reserves are about 280 million tons, which belongs to low titanium magnetite with an ore grade of 67%, but for this mine, Qin Zhiyuan does not want to move, because Australia, which is just across the sea, has the world's richest mineral reserves.

Australia is still a British territory, although it already has considerable autonomy, but the internal and foreign affairs are still controlled by the British, and the nominal leader of Australia is also the governor sent by the British, because of Australia's performance in the world war, the British still value Australia very much.

So how to get the iron ore in Australia smoothly has become a very serious problem, the British treat Qin Zhiyuan is not like France, if it is not handled well, the slightest carelessness is to make wedding clothes for the British.

Mmmm, that's really a big problem. (To be continued.) )