Expedition to Europe

Since Lanfang purchased the Australian territory of Papua and the associated Solomon Islands from Australia last winter, Papua has all belonged to Lanfang.

The newly established Lanfang does not actually fully control all the territory. In the vast territory of Lanfang, Lanfang is not yet able to establish grassroots government agencies covering the entire territory. Therefore, except for Java Island where Surabaya is located, and has been renamed Besides the "Golden Island" Sumatra, there are also a large number of indigenous residents living in Lanfang's land, and they are all in a state of anarchy.

Sumatra means "Golden Island" in Sanskrit. Therefore, after the founding of Lanfang, the place name Sumatra was officially obsolete, and "Golden Island" became the official place name.

Although Lanfang has established a country and has begun to implement a series of assimilation policies to assimilate locals, its foundation is not solid.

In order to erase the traces of the previous Dutch colonists and local indigenous people, it was necessary to change the place names.

And it's top priority.

At present, Sumatra Island has been officially renamed "Jinzhou Island", Sulawesi Island has been renamed "Sulu Island", Palawan Island in the Philippines has been renamed "Zhenghe Island", and Kalimantan Island was originally designated It was called "Borneo", but because the name "Borneo" had a strong Indian flavor, it aroused widespread opposition.

Finally, after Qin Zhiyuan's decision, Kalimantan Island was renamed "Wanghaizhou" because it is adjacent to the South China Sea.

This name has a special meaning, which not only shows that the Chinese in Lanfang do not forget their homeland, but also fully expresses Lanfang's enterprising spirit.

As for Java Island, where Surabaya City is located, the new name has basically been decided.

In fact, before the Tang Dynasty, Java Island meant that it did not exist at all. People often used "Java Country" to describe the disappearance of the island, which is very similar to the Peach Blossom Spring described by Tao Yuanming in "Peach Blossom Spring".

As a result, a widely agreed name now is "Peach Blossom Island".

The name is indeed nice, but it is a bit undeserved. There are many coconut trees on Java Island, but there are really no peach blossoms.

But this does not hinder people's love for this name. Although there are no peach trees on Java, there are many in the hometown of the Chinese, so this name contains the Chinese people's longing for their hometown.

So when the time came to April, among the areas under Lanfang's actual control, the only place name that had not been changed to Chinese interpretation was Papua Island.

Papua is also the island with the smallest proportion of Chinese in the entire Lanfang at this time.

In places such as Jinzhou Island, Wanghai Prefecture, and Taohua Island currently under Lanfang's rule, Chinese actually account for an absolute majority. There are 7 million people in Lanfang, and Chinese account for more than 6 million. The rest are from the Dutch colonial period and The local indigenous residents who have good relations with the Chinese have actually kept silent about their origins. They regard themselves as Chinese from the inside out. Sooner or later, they will become real Chinese.

The only exception is Papua.

During the establishment of Lan Fong, local indigenous people who had conflicts with the Chinese fled to British Malaya, Australian Papua, and the American Philippines. The Australian Papua Island had a land border with Papua Island under Lan Fong's rule. , so the most people escaped.

When the Spanish Flu spread last year, Australia sold Papua Island to Lanfang. When the Australians evacuated, they took away almost all the local indigenous people who were not infected with the Spanish Flu. Therefore, on the current Papua Island , the number of indigenous residents is not large, probably only tens of thousands.

Since there are no grassroots government agencies, there is no way to conduct a census, but it is estimated that it will not exceed 100,000 people at most.

When the time entered 1919, the Spanish Flu pandemic subsided again as silently as it had when it broke out.

So Lanfang began to immigrate to Papua.

In fact, the island of Papua has dense vegetation and almost everywhere is virgin forest with few human traces. Although the island is huge, covering an area of ​​about 800,000 square kilometers, the actual arable land has only been developed for about 10% of the total land even in the 21st century. About five percent.

Of course, since this land is now populated by Chinese people, the area of ​​arable land developed in the future will definitely be much higher than 5%. Fifteen percent is a guarantee, and 20% is not impossible, and can even reach thirty……

There is no way, who knows that the Chinese farming skills are already full? Compared with diligence, almost all races in the world will be inferior to the Chinese.

Although there are bright prospects, for the Chinese who have just immigrated to Papua, their lives must have been difficult in the early stages.

There is no way around it. Although Lanfang promotes mechanization, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the industrial base was weak. Although many factories are currently under construction, almost none of them are officially put into production. More land reclamation has to be done with knives. Ax chisel.

The Lanfang government fully considered the difficulties of land reclamation and therefore stipulated that farmers could farm the newly reclaimed land for ten years free of charge.

During these ten years, farmers do not have to pay any taxes on their newly cultivated land. As long as there is a harvest, it is under the control of the farmers themselves, and no one has the right to interfere.

Even ten years later, farmers will only need to pay a very small part of the tax, probably "one tax per thirty", which is similar to the tax ratio for land that is now mature for farming.

That's right. In Lan Fang, even for land that has been cultivated, the annual tax burden ratio is about "30% tax", that is, if one mu of rice field can harvest 900 kilograms of rice every year, then the farmer only needs to pay about 30 kilograms of rice, even if all taxes are paid.

900 kilograms, does this yield seem a bit too high?

Actually not.

Most of the land under Lan Fang's rule can be harvested three times a year, and some areas can even achieve four harvests a year. In this way, each season is about 300 kilograms, which is actually not difficult at all.

At this time in the north of the Republic of China, although there were wars and floods from time to time, if it was a normal year, the output per mu of land was about 200 kilograms.

The yield of rice is higher than that of wheat, and the land under Lan Fang's rule has abundant rain, so it is not an exaggeration to say that 300 kilograms per mu is really not an exaggeration.

Everything about Lan Fang has now spread almost all over the Republic of China. Even if the government has issued a ban, many people would rather take risks and "go to Southeast Asia" to make a living.

Lan Fang had sufficient shipping capacity. On the sea of ​​the Republic of China, there were Lan Fang ships waiting to pick up people every day. As long as there was enough ships, they would be sent to Lan Fang. There was no need to report to anyone or say hello to any country.

The coastal defense of the Republic of China was indeed a situation of "having a sea but no defense". To be honest, the few shabby warships of the Republic of China were not as good as the anti-submarine ships used by the Lan Fang troops in Europe. Therefore, although the Republic of China knew that Lan Fang was still migrating on a large scale, it had no way to do anything.

There was really no way.

People always have to lose something to feel the value of that thing.

The original text can be read in Liu # 9 @shu/bar!

This is the current relationship between the Republic of China and Lan Fang.

The former Foreign Legion always responded to the Republic of China's requests. From guns and ammunition to food and medicine, as long as the Republic of China needed it, the Foreign Legion under Qin Zhiyuan would always spare no effort to send it to the country, almost without any discounts, even if they knew that many of the things sent back were resold privately, the Foreign Legion would still send them.

But when the Foreign Legion was transformed into the Lan Fang Army, this good thing was gone forever.

A most obvious example is penicillin. Do you want it? Yes, please buy it with money.

And the price is not cheap, because the French government has to take a cut.

Until this time, many people remembered the benefits of the Foreign Legion, but it was too late.

Misfortunes sent by heaven can be forgiven, but misfortunes brought by oneself cannot be survived.

For the Republic of China, the current Lan Fang is not much different from other powers. At most, because of the same roots and the same race, there are no restrictions on the content of the transaction. Whether it is the Southern Military Government or the Beiyang Government, they will give whatever they want, but they have to pay for it.

In fact, Qin Zhiyuan has basically despaired of the Beiyang Government and the Southern Military Government. Look at their procurement lists. Almost all of them are guns and ammunition. Almost nothing else related to the national economy and people's livelihood is needed.

Qin Zhiyuan once asked Tang Xinzhi to tentatively express his desire to help the Beiyang Government build a fertilizer plant, but in the end, after talking about it, it turned out to be a military factory, and it could only be left unfinished.

As early as ten years ago, with the conquest of large-scale production technology of nitrogen fertilizer, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other fertilizers needed by agricultural crops have all been able to be produced on a large scale.

This is definitely a major benefit for agriculture, because under the same conditions, the land used for fertilizer will increase income by 30%.

This means that the land is still the same, but the crops grown can feed 30% more people.

This objectively caused the world's population to enter a period of rapid growth since the First World War. There is no way. Before the use of agricultural fertilizers, the previous crop yields were too small to feed so many people...

For now, let's not talk about the negative effects of land pollution caused by the use of chemical fertilizers. Let's first solve the problem of whether there are fertilizers, and then solve the quality problem.

For a populous country like the Republic of China, the crop yield of the land is obviously more important.

But what made Qin Zhiyuan helpless was that the rulers of the Beiyang government did not think about increasing crop income at all, but thought about getting more weapons, arming more troops, first sweeping away the southern military government, and then developing the national economy and people's livelihood.

It is sad that the southern military government also thought so!

It cannot be said that the Beiyang government and the Southern Military Government launched the war for their own selfishness, although objectively speaking, this is indeed the case.

In fact, when the Foreign Legion returned to China, the Republic of China could have taken a different path, but due to a series of twists and turns, it has now become this situation, which is really sad and lamentable.

I wonder if those who once scolded the Foreign Legion out of Tianjin will regret seeing the Republic of China fall to this point.