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"Young master, how much more suitable do you think this rubber forest can be expanded?" After Huo Shan's assurance, although Chen Jitong was not very optimistic about the prospect of planting rubber, he was not as opposed as before. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"In the next five years, the scale of rubber cultivation in the Nanyang region will reach 2.5 million hectares, and the annual output of natural rubber will be more than 2 million tons!" Huo Shan said affirmatively and forcefully.

With the rise of the automobile industry, and the use of rubber has become more and more extensive, the world market in the next 50 years, the rubber industry has always belonged to the seller's market, even if the petrochemical industry is developing rapidly, after the popularity of synthetic rubber, natural rubber still occupies a dominant position in applicability, so Huoshan is not worried about the future of more than two million tons of rubber sales.

"Young Master, will it be too much?" Chen Jitong looked at the arrogant Young Master Huo with some stunnedness, and couldn't help but ask. Originally, he thought that Huo Shan was only one or twenty hectares in a variety of varieties, but he didn't expect that one or twenty hectares was only a fraction of the rubber planting area in Huo Shan's heart.

"Not much, not much!" Huo Shan said with a wave of his hand. If it weren't for rubber planting, it would be difficult to see results in seven or eight years, and rubber trees have more demand for water resources, and the growing environment is also more demanding, and Huo Jiajun's next development of the Americas needs a lot of food, Huoshan will definitely be able to double the current planting scale!

Although I don't know why the young master has such a soft spot for this kind of rubber tree, which is called the 'tearful tree' by the locals in Brazil, Chen Jitong opened his mouth. I still swallowed all the words I persuaded him. Because, although the scale of rubber tree planting has suddenly increased several times, the Huo Family Military Administration Yuan does not need to spend anything on finance. Because whether it is the purchase of land, seeds, or the recruitment of workers, everything belongs to the Huo family independently. As the ruler of the Huo family, Huo Shan's decision is naturally the decision of the Huo family.

After watching Chen Jitong write down his request, Huo Shan asked again: "Mr. Jingru, have you seen all the things I asked the Security Bureau to hand over to you?"

"I've seen it. The information is very detailed! And according to the young master's request, we have also sorted out these materials!" After a pause, Chen Jitong immediately took out a stack of documents from his briefcase. After handing it to Huo Shan, he said: "Until 1882, before the start of our war with the Americans, the total area of agricultural land in the United States, including arable land, pasture, and forage land, was hectares. More than seventy percent of them are east of the Mississippi River. That's 37.76 million hectares!"

Although the agricultural land in the United States in later generations was close to 500 million hectares, it was still in the eighties of the nineteenth century, and it was only 20 years since Lincoln promulgated the "Homestead Law" and promoted large-scale development west of the Mississippi River in the United States, and the fertile Great Plains on the west bank of the Mississippi River had basically just just escaped from the wilderness! However, the agricultural land west of the Mississippi River had reached 37.76 million hectares, which surprised him a little! Because in his impression, the western United States before the twentieth century was basically a typical example of thousands of miles of uninhabited people, except for the railroad lines!

"And in the 5,000 hectares of agricultural land that we control. More than 82 percent is located on the banks of Texas, Oklahoma, and other continents, while only 10 percent of the agricultural land in the United States that the British acquiesced in that we were able to occupy. That is, 3.776 million hectares, and 68% of the nearly 4 million hectares of agricultural land is arable land, that is, 2.58 million hectares, and if you want to use all these 2.58 million hectares, you need at least 3 million households, about 15 million people. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Jitong's words paused, and after looking at Huo Shan, who was looking through the information in his hand, he continued: "If we can defeat the Americans and obtain all the land west of the entire Mississippi River, there are nearly 30 million hectares of agricultural land of 37.76 million yuan, which means that at least 30 million households and 150 million people will be needed to keep these lands from being wasted!"

After listening to his words, Huo Shan couldn't help but frown deeply, 150 million people, according to the current average of 300,000 immigrants per month, even if you count the new population after immigrants in the Americas, it will take at least thirty years to complete this number! Even if there is enough immigrant population within the Qing Dynasty, it is impossible for Huo Jiajun to move so many people to the Americas, and the tradition of Chinese people relocating to the land makes it almost impossible for such large-scale immigrants to appear in China! Moreover, Huoshan did not allow the land that the army had exchanged for blood and sacrifice to be wasted.

"I remember that the population of the Americans in the western part of the Mississippi River was less than five million, and there were a large number of workers, soldiers, fishermen, and other occupations, so why could they use such a small population to cultivate so much land, while we need 150 million people?"

"Mechanization!" Chen Jitong said with a somewhat solemn expression, "American agriculture is different from our family-style centralized labor, they are thousands of hectares of large farm operations, whether it is ploughing, sowing, watering, and harvesting, there are machinery to complete, saving a lot of manpower!" The simplest example, the same acre of land, for our adult strong laborers, to complete the process of ploughing and loosening the soil, it takes at least half a month, and it only takes an hour to replace the machine, in comparison, the efficiency of the machine is more than 100 times that of labor!"

Speaking of this, Huo Shan can also understand what Chen Jitong means!

Thanks to the rapid victory of the Huo family army in the early stage, not only occupied all the American land west of the Mississippi River and the Ohio River, but also the entire west of the Appalachian Mountains was repeatedly plundered by the Huo family army, in addition to a large number of senior talents and machinery and equipment, all kinds of machinery used for agriculture were also looted by the Huo family army, and now in the Mississippi River, there are a large number of agricultural machinery in the control area of the Huo family army.

However, it is a little embarrassing that almost no one from the Huo Jiajun immigrants who migrated to the United States from within the Qing Dynasty can operate these big guys, and almost all of them have been accustomed to planting their own land for generations, and the Chinese peasants who carved hard work and thrift into their bones are not very accustomed to mechanized operation!

Therefore, when the Government Council allocates land to immigrants in the Americas, almost every household is between 15 and 20 acres, not because there is not enough land, but because they are afraid that they will not have enough manpower and the land will be wasted.

Of course, Huo Shan will not allow the land that has been reclaimed in the Americas to be wasted, because the next migration of the Huo Jiajun and the development and construction of the provinces and cities in the Americas will require a large amount of grain, and if it is transported here from the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, then the grain consumed will be more than three times the grain supplied from the Americas, and this price is too great! Especially when the grain production of the Huo Jiajun itself is not particularly high!

"Does the Ministry of Agriculture have any means to solve the problem of insufficient operators of agricultural machinery?" Huo Shan put down the information in his hand and asked.

"Yes!" Chen Jitong said affirmatively.

"Tell me?" Huo Shan asked expectantly.

"Young master, operating these agricultural machinery is actually not too complicated, you only need to know words, have a certain cultural knowledge, and after a period of training, you will be able to do it!

Looking at the look on Chen Jitong's face, Huo Shan thought for a while, then suddenly showed a look of sudden realization, looked at Chen Jitong with a smile on his face, and asked, "Are you also eyeing our veterans?"

The reason why he said this time that it would take 150 million people to support the development of all land in the United States was that he could now win over more veterans, knowing that when the five-year plan was formulated, they were the meal on the plate of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and the Ministry of Police.

"Young master, in the past two years, we have obtained a large number of qualified teachers through the war with the Americans, and the development of industry also has a large number of senior workers, so their needs for these veterans are not as urgent as in previous years, but our Ministry of Agriculture is now very short of manpower capable of operating those agricultural machinery, and I hope that the young master can be fulfilled!"

After listening to his words, Huo Shan nodded clearly, the most important thing for Huo Jiajun now is to move enough population to the land belonging to Huo Jiajun in the Americas, only with enough population support, the land that Huo Jiajun seized from the Americans will be truly consolidated! And the prerequisite for moving enough population is that there must first be enough food!

"How many veterans do you need to be able to guarantee that we get agricultural land from the Americans to resume production?"

"Two hundred thousand!" Hearing Huo Shan's loose mouth, Chen Jitong said a little impatiently.

Hearing this, Huo Shan shook his head, "It's too much, and we don't have so much agricultural machinery industry from the Americans, so I'll only give you 100,000 people at most!" But..."Huo Shan's words paused, and he said again with a dark tone: "Your Ministry of Agriculture must ensure that all agricultural land on the west bank of the Mississippi River will be restored to the level in front of the station in the next two years!"

"Yes, but young master, you must ensure that the current monthly immigration population of 300,000 people will continue for two years!" After bowing his head and thinking for a while, Chen Jitong gritted his teeth and agreed. He knew in his heart that according to the current scale of Huo Jiajun's immigration, plus the population that had already migrated to the Americas and the Chinese there, as long as the current rate of 300,000 people per month could be maintained, the number of Chinese in the Americas would reach 10 million in two years! With the assistance of a large number of agricultural machinery, it would be enough to manage the land left behind by the Americans. (To be continued.) )