Chang Ruiqing waved his hand and interrupted Zhang Junmai and said, "Junmao, not counting Central Asia, Siberia, the Nanyang Federation and the rì homeland, what is the total area of cultivated land in our Greater China Federation?" ”

Zhang Junmai thought for a moment and replied: "There are about 2.5 billion tens of millions of mu, and I can't remember the specific number for a while. At this, his brow suddenly furrowed.

The territorial area of the Great China Federation in this time and space is far larger than that of another time and space, and it has developed the Far Eastern Republic and the Outer Frontier Province, two large granaries that have not been in history, and merged Siam, Burma, French Indochina and Malaya, the four major agricultural countries in Southeast Asia, and the cultivated land area is naturally much more than the same period in history, plus the fertilizer plants and pesticide factories that began to start construction in the 20s have been put into operation, so China's current grain output is probably nearly double that of the same period in history! Although China has a large number of peasants and a large population, the contradiction between land and land is not prominent, and the grain supply is very abundant. Therefore, although the newly acquired 20 million square kilometers of cultivated land is a huge wealth that everyone looks up to, if it really has to be distributed and reclaimed again, the grain of the Great China Federation will certainly be too surplus to be eaten, and when the grain prices plummet, the peasants are afraid that they will have to grow their fields at a loss.

As a matter of fact, the price of grain in the Great China Federation is now a bit low, and the income of the vast majority of peasants, including rich peasants, is far less than that of the workers and shop assistants in the cities, nor as good as the ordinary soldiers of the Wehrmacht. So it's already clear that if the rulers really want to make the Chinese peasants rich, what they need to do is certainly not to give them more land. Let them grow more grain to suppress food prices - as for the purchase at protective prices, it can only be based on the basic balance between food supply and demand, if there is a strict surplus of production capacity. The federal zhèngfǔ is definitely going bankrupt.

Chang Ruiqing smiled and said: "Junmao, our thinking must change now, the current China is no longer a country with many people and little food shortage, our national situation is that there are many people and a large land, and there is enough food...... If the 1.5 billion mu of cultivated land in Central Asia and Siberia are exploited and utilized, the total area of cultivated land in China will exceed 4 billion mu, and if we include the cultivated land in the mainland, the Philippines and the East Indies. I'm afraid it's more than 4.5 billion mu. If we follow our current method of farming, can the grain grown be sold? Moreover, even if there are 4.5 billion mu of cultivated land, more than 400 million peasants will share it. Per capita is 10 acres of arable land, how much grain can be harvested, and how much can it be sold? How about the workers who work in the city? ”

Zhang Junmai and Wang Jīng Wei nodded again and again, and the question raised by Chang Ruiqing was indeed worth pondering. At the current price of food. The income of one acre of land is thirty or forty Chinese dollars at most, and this is still the best watered land, and it also includes the cost of all kinds of land, and the net income of each acre of land will not exceed fifteen yuan in any case, even if a person cultivates twenty acres of land, it is only an income of three hundred Chinese dollars for a whole year, which is equivalent to the income of urban workers for four or five months. And the toil required to cultivate twenty acres of land by one person is far greater than that of a job in a factory! Moreover, the current grain price is still based on more than 2 billion mu of arable land, and if all the land in Central Asia and Siberia is really reclaimed. I'm afraid that the price of grain will fall unspeakably, and the farmers who farm the land will not die at a loss!

I saw Zhang Junmai and Wang Jīngwei waking up from a dream. Chang Ruiqing smiled and said: "Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty until the establishment of the Federation, my Chinese population has gradually prospered and the territory has never been expanded, and the people of Yizhao can only guard a little bit of land and rely on jīng cultivation to barely make ends meet, so the thirst for land and food is extremely strong, probably no one has ever thought about the problem of too much farmland and too much food?" ”

"That's the case," Zhang Junmai said with a wry smile: "I didn't expect that more land and more food would have become a problem, who would have dared to think of this kind of thing if it was ten years earlier?" ”

"That's it, it's all the credit of the prime minister, who has opened up the territory to the point where it is now, and it can be called the first person in the history of China!" Wang Jīngwei's sycophants came as soon as he opened his mouth, but he also told the truth.

Chang Ruiqing smiled proudly and waved his hand: "This is all achieved by everyone's joint efforts, if there is merit, it is also the merit of our generation of Chinese to future generations!" He paused and said in a deep tone: "However, it is not our fundamental goal to open up territory, our fundamental goal is to achieve the common prosperity of more than 600 million people in China, and only when the people are rich can the country be strong, and only when the country is strong can we keep the foundation of more than 30 million square kilometers for future generations." Therefore, our top priority now is to achieve prosperity for the people, and the disposal of arable land and pastures in Central Asia and Siberia should also be based on this. ”

Sun Yuexun handed Chang Ruiqing a cup of tea at this time, Chang Ruiqing took it and took a sip, sorted out his thoughts by the way, and then slowly said: "At present, the path taken by China's agriculture is actually a small farmer route that pays attention to jīng farming, to put it bluntly, it is to use jīng ploughing to increase yield, use limited arable land to feed as many people as possible, and pay for the labor of farmers, so our country's agricultural population has always been very large, accounting for about eighty percent of the total population. Such a situation does not exist in Europe and the United States, even the agricultural population of the Soviet Union accounts for only two or three percent of the total population. And now, our land area is larger, and there is more arable land, so the method of farming should also be changed, and we can no longer engage in small farmer farming, but should develop large and medium-sized farms and pastures, just like the United States and Europe, a farmer grows hundreds or even thousands of acres of land, not afraid of a lower yield per mu, anyway, there is enough land......"

"But how do you plant so much land!?" Sun Yuexun exclaimed when she heard this, of course she herself had never farmed, but in her constituency, the Far Eastern Republic of China, the Japanese farmers there were all her supporters, so she still knew a thing or two about farming.

Zhang Junmai and Wang Jīngwei also looked at Chang Ruiqing with puzzled faces, as if waiting for an answer. Chang Ruiqing shrugged, spread his hands with a smile and said, "Of course, so-so, just plant it!" Otherwise, how could they cultivate so much land with a few foreign devils? ”

Hearing this answer, the three audience members were stunned and stunned. However, Chang Ruiqing knew that his words sounded incredible, but in fact, they were also true. In the United States, there are thousands of peasants in the sky, and there are more arable land than hundreds of millions of peasants in China. Unless they're all superhuman.

"Prime Minister, do you mean to use the arable land of Central Asia and Siberia for big farms?" Zhang Junmai asked tentatively.

Chang Ruiqing nodded, shook his head again, and frowned: "The big farm is willing to be built, but how to do it still needs a little more thought...... After all, the land in Central Asia and Siberia was bought back by the blood and sweat of the whole people, and it would be unfair for a small number of people to use it to build large farms, not to mention that in the future, they will use the cheap grain produced by these large farms to hit the inland market, causing a large number of peasant households to go bankrupt...... So my idea was to divide a part of the arable land and pastures of Central Asia and Siberia equally among the whole people, and the other part to the meritorious soldiers. ”

"This ......" Zhang Junmai was confused, what is the difference between this distribution method and the method of the Ministry of Agriculture? Uh, no, it's different! Prime Minister Chang said that it should be divided equally among all the people, and it should also be distributed to meritorious soldiers...... What does this mean? Let the whole people go to Central Asia and Siberia to farm? That's impossible?

"What do you mean...... Do you want the people and soldiers who have been allocated the land to sell the land? Sun Yuexun understood Chang Ruiqing's thoughts, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she guessed that she would not leave ten.

"Xiaomei is right," Chang Ruiqing nodded and said, "We can't directly distribute land to the common people, but issue negotiable land exchange coupons, no matter who holds the land purchase coupons, they can exchange huàn to the federal agricultural department to the corresponding amount of land located in Siberia and Central Asia." In addition, it can also be exchanged for residential or commercial land in the suburbs of the eight metropolises - but if you want to exchange for residential land, a land exchange for huàn coupons can not be exchanged for a few square meters, and there is also a capitarate limit for huàn. ”

Zhang Junmai has now fully understood that Chang Ruiqing has made up his mind to promote the centralized management and urbanization of agricultural land in China after the war! The so-called land exchange for huàn coupons is actually to use the land of Siberia and Central Asia, as well as the land of the eight major metropolises, to stir up the Chinese rural land market like a pool of stagnant water. Since Chang Ruiqing's vision of the huge issuance of land exchange coupons, and the fact that everyone has a share and is extremely dispersed, the price in the market must be extremely low, if the peasants in the interior sell their small pieces of land and use the money from the land sale to buy land to exchange huàn coupons, most of them can become big farmers in Central Asia and Siberia! Of course, there are farmers with investment vision who will exchange the land they have obtained into huàn coupons to exchange for land in the eight metropolitan areas, or in a few years, the land will become valuable. In addition, the large amount of land put into the market in exchange for huàn coupons will inevitably suppress the price of land in the mainland, and those farmers who are unwilling to leave their hometowns will also have the opportunity to buy land at a low price and become large farmers...... (To be continued......)