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Gently putting down the documents in his hand, Chen Jitong's face couldn't help but show a look of relief. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info pinched the eyebrows that were a little swollen, looked at the various scenes outside the car window that were rapidly receding, and remembered the fruitful results achieved by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Water Resources under his own efforts over the years, Chen Jitong was also a little proud in his heart.

This year is already the fifth year after the Huo Jiajun occupied Nanyang. In the past five years, the population of Huojiajun has grown rapidly, industry and commerce have developed at a rate of nearly doubling every year, and the scale of infrastructure construction has become more and more huge, and remarkable achievements have been made. And these achievements are inseparable from the support of agriculture, which is the foundation of the national economy!

In five years, the agricultural land in the Nanyang region has reached 50 million hectares, and although it has the land cultivated by the indigenous people in the former Dutch East Indies as the basis, the area is less than 20 million! The remaining 20 million hectares of agricultural land are almost all pioneered and developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Water Resources of Huo Jiajun in the past five years. As the minister of these two ministries, Chen Jitong played a very important role in this!

Five years have passed, and Chen Jitong, who was originally good at diplomacy, has become a number of experts in agriculture and water conservancy within the Huo Jiajun through his own efforts and practical experience! In addition, stacked together from the side alone are a number of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign agricultural professional books, such as "Qi Min's Essential Techniques," "Heavenly Creations," and "Fundamentals of Agricultural Chemistry" and "Scientific Letters on Modern Agriculture" by Liebig, the father of German chemistry. And on their fluffy covers, you can also see how diligent the owner was in turning over the books.

However, now Chen Jitong is more concerned about the record in his hand, the statistical table of Huo Jiajun's total agricultural output and agricultural land area this year. By the end of 1884. After using Champong rice as a rice seed and using a large amount of chemical fertilizers, the average yield per mu has reached 450 kilograms! Although there are only 4,250 hectares of land used for grain production in Nanyang, this year's grain output within Huojiajun has reached 86.1 million tons, which is calculated according to the average daily consumption of 1.5 catties of grain per person. Enough to feed more than 100 million people!

However, although there was so much extra grain, Chen Jitong did not have the slightest idea of taking advantage of the current high international grain prices to sell this grain.

Because he knows it very well. With the Huo family army now occupying a large area of land in the Americas, in order to consolidate its rule here, then the next step must be a huge immigration action, and the new immigrants can share a considerable amount of land. But within a year they did need government food to feed them. In addition, the large-scale infrastructure construction and industrial and commercial development of the provinces and cities in the Americas that can already be foreseen also need a large amount of grain! Therefore, although the current Huo Jiajun is still very rich in grain, it is still not too sufficient to look at the entire Huo Jiajun as a whole!

Think of these. Chen Jitong couldn't help but pick up the pen again and seriously put it on his work notes. The Ministry of Agriculture's plan for agricultural development next year and the reclamation of 4 million hectares of new grain land was recorded.

Although this plan seems to be very large, and there seems to be a lot of new grain land, the Ministry of Agriculture has the right to use more than 2 million indigenous slaves, so this plan is not difficult to complete! Moreover, in addition to the land in the Americas, including Taiwan, Hainan, and the Pacific Islands, the scale of land that Huo Jiajun can directly control has exceeded 3 million square kilometers, and the land with agricultural land development value has exceeded 200 million hectares, so the current agricultural development potential in the Nanyang region is still very high!

In addition, the planting area of coffee, cocoa, banana, cassava, cinchona, and other cash crops in the Nanyang region also needs to be further expanded, because these things are now one of the important export products of Nanyang, and almost every year they contribute 50 million silver dollars to the Nanyang treasury in tax revenue! Therefore, the planting area of these cash crops also needs to be further expanded. Immediately, his brows furrowed, and after a moment of hesitation flashed on his face, he wrote down the planting task of 50,000 hectares of rubber forests again!

"Mr. Jingru, the planting area of rubber forests can be expanded a little more!"

Hearing this young and familiar voice, Chen Jitong was startled, quickly raised his head, and immediately stood up when he saw the already extremely familiar figure in front of him.

"Young master, Ji Tong has seen young master!"

"Hehe, you don't have to be polite! Sit down!" Now Huo Shan's wedding date has been set, just on the Lunar New Year, that is, January 1, 1885, there are still two and a half months to go! And in this short period of time, Huo Shan does not plan to stay in Taiwan, he prefers to be able to go to Nanyang and see with his own eyes the country he has defeated!

In addition, there is still one year before the completion of Huo Jiajun's first five-year plan, and many of the planned projects have been completed ahead of schedule, and it is time to plan for the next five-year plan!

As for the Sino-US war that is now on the line, Huo Shan believes that the military system he has cultivated, and the advanced strategy and tactics of the Huo Jiajun itself, as well as the good equipment advantages and soldier quality, even if the Americans can take advantage of the opportunity of winter and river freezing to gain local advantages in the early stage of the war, it is also difficult to defeat the million-strong army carefully prepared by the Huo Jiajun and regain all the land they lost on the west bank of the Mississippi River!

Therefore, after putting aside everything and winning his mother's consent, Huo Shan took Chen Jitong, who had come to Taipei to report to him, to take the round-the-island railway to the south! First to the Longxue base, and then through Kaohsiung Port, he took a naval destroyer to inspect the entire Nanyang region!

"Young master, in the past five years, we have planted more than 700,000 hectares of rubber forests in various provinces and cities in Nanyang, and after three years, these rubber forests have matured, and we can harvest about 570,000 tons of rubber every year! And this figure has far exceeded three times the total world rubber production last year, and there is really no need for us to continue to expand the planting area of rubber forests!" As soon as he sat down, Chen Jitong said a little impatiently.

In his view, at a time when the world's demand for rubber is only 180,000 tons, planting a large number of rubber forests is simply a waste of land, and if 700,000 hectares are converted to growing grain, then it will be enough to feed nearly 2 million people! Even if it is changed to planting rubber, pineapples, and other cash crops, it can also contribute 5 million yuan a year to Huo Jiajun's finances!

Moreover, the growth cycle of rubber forests is generally 6~8 years, which means that the 700,000 hectares of land will only have input within six to eight years, and there will be no output, and the transaction price of liquid rubber is only 1,000 US dollars a ton.

After listening to Chen Jitong's words, Huo Shan nodded, there was no angry expression on his face, and he also knew that the current way of using rubber is too narrow, in addition to some civilian rubber supplies such as insulating materials for wires and adhesive tape, rubber shoes, watering, etc., bicycle tire processing is the industry with the largest demand for rubber! Therefore, he also understands Chen Jitong's worries now, after all, Huo Jiajun's demand for food is not low at all!

"Mr. Jingru, rest assured! There are still two to three years before the rubber trees grow, and in two to three years, I guarantee that the international demand for rubber will exceed one million tons, and the price per ton of rubber will increase fivefold compared to now!" Huo Shan said confidently, from later generations he knew very well that before the invention of synthetic rubber, natural rubber was the most important strategic resource, and since the first pneumatic car tire came out in 1895, the development of the rubber industry has been accompanied by the emergence and promotion of automobiles all the way up, and before World War I, the world's demand for rubber has long exceeded two million tons, so now a few rubber trees, then in the future will harvest unimaginable sky-high wealth.

And because of his appearance and help, Huojia Military Academy of Sciences has already completed the invention and production of rubber pneumatic tires, if it were not for the miniaturization of gasoline engines has not been solved, I am afraid that the first car would have appeared a long time ago, but according to Xu Jianyin's report, in another year or two, the problems encountered in automobile production can be effectively solved, so Huoshan also needs to be arranged in advance to improve the scale of rubber planting in Nanyang, you must know that this thing is not like rice three crops a year, six to eight years, can completely let Huoshan live a monopoly addictionRuthlessly squeezing the flesh and blood of Britain, France, and Germany, these small European powers, to develop themselves.

After listening to his words, a glimmer of light flashed in Chen Jitong's eyes, and his face showed a look of curiosity that could not be concealed. If the sentence just now was changed to someone else, then Chen Jitong would definitely not believe it, but if it was changed to Huo Shan, it would be different, in the past five years, all the magic on Young Master Huo has made the trust in him within the Huo family army increase unabated!

"Okay, let's not talk about it now, you'll understand when the time comes!" Huo Shan shook his hand, he couldn't help Chen Jitong's curiosity, after all, before the car came out, it was just an imagination, and it couldn't make people understand what it was, so Huo Shan didn't bother to waste his tongue to explain. (To be continued.) )