On the afternoon of February 19, the 4th year of the new calendar, on the bank of the artificial river near the Aili Industrial Zone, the spring was cold. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Dressed in thick tweed robes, Moen sat on a large rock in the middle of the riverside wilderness, staring blankly at the tractor clearing the wilderness in the distance.

Grass, rocks, and thorns were bulldozed everywhere the huge dozer blade in front of the magic tractor went, and the wide plowpan dragged behind it turned over the hard dirt, revealing the black soil beneath.

The tractor went straight south from the riverbank, went deeper into the wasteland for more than 700 meters, turned back, and stopped beside the dirt road by the river. The two workers worked together to drag a bulging cloth bag onto the tractor, and after a while, they jumped down with the empty bag. The worker driving the tractor chatted with them for a few moments, and then steered the behemoth to turn around and drive deeper into the wasteland.

Since the entire Misty Chemical Engineering Institute was relocated to the vicinity of Avery Industrial Park a few months ago, Moen would let Luna hold him to see the wasteland whenever he was free, and he was still happy to see it.

"You say, is it really good to spill the contents of those bags in the mud like that?" Luna stood behind Moen, a hint of curiosity in her tone.

"I don't know......" Moen shook his head slightly. He had always had a deep admiration for his teacher, and this worship became even more complete after seeing the impressive efficiency of the Magic Tractor.

Even so, he couldn't answer Luna's question. Can the small particles that come out of the air, from the ore, really make the wheat grow taller and produce more fruit? Moen really didn't know, or rather, he had a hard time believing.

Nitrogen and hydrogen are catalyzed by magnetite powder under high temperature and high pressure, and the pungent liquid produced by ammonia is ammonia, which reacts with carbon dioxide to form urea (the teacher said that this is the simplest organic matter);

The blue iron ore associated with Avery iron ore is crushed and decomposed with light hydrochloric acid to synthesize superphosphate;

Potassium-containing salts are dissolved in hot water, and potassium chloride crystals are precipitated after cooling......

Moen knew all of these processes, including chemical reactions, but he just couldn't understand why three simple elements, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, could increase crop yields.

Just as he was thinking this, the laughter of two children suddenly sounded on the riverside.

Moen turned his head to look that way, his eyes full of tenderness.

It was his and Luna's children, son Joey was nine years old, and daughter Irina was six years old, and they were running along the riverbank, each dragging a handful of wildflowers that bloomed in early spring.

Moen looked at the sunny smiles on the children's faces, and couldn't help but think of his own childhood, of his sister who died of hunger, and of the tears in his eyes when his parents sent him to a nursery.

"I wonder if the war has affected the Principality of Ukulele......" Moen said softly.

"yes...... Luna echoed in a low voice, "I don't know if Persson and Ness are not at peace." ”

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On March 2, 4th year of the new calendar, the first passenger and cargo merchant ship "Hope" produced by Avery Shipyard in more than two years was launched.

The 1,400-ton iron ship, loaded with twenty chain tractors from the Avery Machinery Factory, set off in a farewell procession of thousands of people and sailed from the Avery Reservoir along the Isa River to the Boer River to the south of the empire.

The stern cabins of the Hope are divided into three levels, with twenty cabins in economy class below deck, business class and first class on two decks, twelve cabins in business class, and one suite in first class.

The maiden voyage of the magic-powered merchant ship was highly symbolic, and Donner naturally occupied the first class cabin, which had three suites.

He was accompanied by more than sixty magical welders who traveled from the industrial area of Avery to the Borg Bicycle Factory (under Wesley's name), as well as the president of the Northern Bank, who often traveled between Avery and Coenas, and the former director of the Fog City, Grande.

I have to say that the reason why Donner recruited Grande as the president of the Northern Bank was not only because he had taken a fancy to the fact that he had managed the fog city in an orderly manner, but more importantly, because of his name with the meaning of "miser".

And Grande's performance after taking office did not disappoint Donner. Compared with Donner himself, this guy who pays attention to the rules in everything obviously has the characteristics of a banker. It's just that he doesn't know anything about the operation of modern commercial banks.

Well, Donner himself doesn't know how to run a bank. He can only establish the entire banking system bit by bit through some basic common sense about the operation of the bank, coupled with the assistance of the brain.

In the early morning of March 6, the Hope sailed into Coennas, attracting onlookers from the residents of the coast. Never before had a boat sailed up the Boer River without a sail or a slender man. What's more, the Hope is an iron ship, which can be seen clearly even if you stand on the banks of the Boer River.

As for the tractor on board, the well-informed residents of the imperial capital had already seen it in the "Coennas Observer", and knew that such a tractor was sold for more than 3,000 yuan (the unified currency issued by the Northern Bank and the Royal Bank). The same amount of money is enough to buy a mansion in the imperial capital.

After some excitement, Donner landed at the Royal Pier and headed straight for the Exotic Pavilion. He was joined by Grandet and dozens of magical welders. Grandet takes a horse-drawn carriage to the headquarters of the Bank of the North in the upper town of Coennas, while the magic welders are picked up by the steward of the bicycle factory that Wesley has arranged at the docks.

In the courtyard of the Exotic Pavilion full of oriental charm, not long after Donner sat down, he met Chancellor Merkel, who rushed to hear the news.

From morning to evening, Merkel kept telling Donner about the situation in the empire and asking for his opinion.

The Imperial Ministry of Water Resources tried to promote water conservancy in the south, but was blocked by many fiefdom nobles, who felt that the construction of reservoirs and canals took away their land and benefited downstream.

The results of the first census after the implementation of the new policy have been released, because the people generally believe that this census may be related to the distribution of magic money, and the phenomenon of concealment of the population has been greatly reduced, and the results of the census are surprising. The empire had a population of more than 17 million, more than four-fifths of whom lived in the south, and the province of Tris alone had a population of more than 3 million.

Similar to Donner's expectations, the total population of the three northern provinces had reached 660,000, and with the exception of the 80,000 laborers recruited from the five northern cities many years earlier, the main reason for the population growth was the fertility rate, which was evident from the fact that the three northern provinces had the highest proportion of school-age children in the entire empire.

By the end of the third year of the new calendar, the total grain tax had reached 590,000 tons (the total output of wheat in the empire was more than 5 million tons, and the new policy pursued the eleventh tax in agriculture), and the monetary tax was 110,000 yuan, most of which came from a few newly opened factories.

Donner had promised to provide the Imperial Ministry of Water with 200 tractors for free every year, so his Northern Group and the bank were not taxed - if the 200 Magic Tractors were converted into currency, the figure would be more than 700,000 yuan, far more than the tax he had to pay.

A total of 590,000 tons of grain, in addition to the salaries paid to the administrative and faculty staff, the remaining 270,000 tons were bought by Donner at market prices, and used to trade secret metals and a small amount of magic crystals with the country of the far north.

In turn, Donner used the machinery produced in the Avery Industrial Park to earn back the cost of buying food.

In fact, although grain occupies a very high strategic position, the new mechanical products have a much higher price than grain because of their scarcity.

Before the implementation of the new policy, the price of wheat was about 100 kilograms and nine gold coins, but now, this price has fallen to seven, and at the ratio of one to ten gold coins, a meal of wheat is only 7 yuan, and the price of a tractor is as high as 3,700 yuan.

That is, one tractor is equivalent to the selling price of more than five thousand tons of wheat, which is clearly unreasonable.

And the reason for this unreasonable phenomenon is not the Donner, but because the chain tractor produced by the Fog City factory is transferred by the Medici family, and the price is this number.

Downer adopted the same price in order not to fight a price war with the Fog City factory, however, this forbearance and concession greatly reduced the speed of agricultural production efficiency in the Femon Empire.

The reason is simple, for the vast majority of the nobles of the Femon Empire, the brains are broken and will not consider replacing cheap farmers with these agricultural machines. In fact, the reason why the Medici family was able to export magic energy machinery at such a high price was because these machines were so novel that most of the buyers wanted to try them.

Thinking of this, Donner abruptly interrupted Merkel.

"Mr. Merkel, since the day the new policy was implemented, the empress no longer has the right to control the fiefdom, since those big nobles occupy the land and refuse to engage in water conservancy construction, we will find a way to buy it from them, as for how much it will cost, you can ask the parliamentarians to come forward and talk to them......"

"But where did Congress get so much money?" Merkel frowned.

"The Northern Bloc can provide an interest-free loan to Congress, in the form of a fee, gold coins, or magic crystals. Downer said: "Of course, when this plan is officially launched, Congress may wish to buy the wasteland downstream of the canal first, and when the water conservancy is connected, these wasteland will naturally appreciate in value, and then whether it is sold or nationalized is left to Congress to decide." ”

"That's great," Merkel rubbed her palms excitedly, "Donner, you've really helped me a lot!"

"Also, I have decided to lower the price of the magic energy tractor......" Donner groped his chin and said slowly, "Lower it to one-tenth of the current price, which is 370 yuan per unit." ”

If Merkel was just happy just now, her current mood is inexplicably shocked.

"What you said is true?" Merkel glared, "370 Fei Yuan for a magic tractor?"

"You heard it right," Downer confirmed, "including the Magic Excavator that will be rolling off the assembly line in April, and that's the same price." ”

Speaking of this, Downer suddenly realized that the monetary value of the SAR currency, which was originally set to facilitate large transactions, seemed to be set a little too high.

But when you think about it, when the dollar and the pound first came out, the value of the currency was just as high.

In order to encourage the economic front, Downer will pursue a moderate inflation policy for a long time, which means that as long as the currency is long enough, the problem of excessive currency will always be solved.

With the endorsement of NORINCO and the Feimeng royal family, no currency could affect the status of the Feiyuan on the Huls mainland - in fact, it took the people of Feimeng just over three years to generally accept the Feiyuan banknotes, for the same reason.