Chang Ruiqing waved his hand and interrupted Zhang Junmai and said, "Junmai, how much is the total arable land area of ​​our Greater China Federation if not counted in Central Asia, Siberia, the South China Federation and the Japanese mainland?"

Zhang Junmai thought for a while and replied: "It's about 2.5 billion or tens of millions of acres. I can't remember the specific numbers for a while." At this point, his brow suddenly frowned.

In this time, the territory of the Greater China Federation is far larger than that of another time, and has also developed two large granaries that have not been in history, including the Far East and the Foreign Province, which have not been in history, and merged the four Southeast Asian agricultural countries, Siam, Myanmar, French Indochina and Malaya. The area of ​​arable land is naturally much greater than that of the same period in history. In addition, the fertilizer plants and pesticide plants that have started construction in the 1920s have been put into production, so China's current grain output is probably nearly twice as much as the same period in history! Although China has a large number of farmers and a large population, the land contradictions are not prominent now, and the grain supply is also very abundant. Therefore, although the newly obtained arable land above more than 20 million square kilometers is a huge wealth that everyone is jealous of, if it is really necessary to distribute it and reclaim it, the food in the Greater China Federation will definitely be too surplus to eat. When the grain prices plummet, farmers are afraid that they will plant a lot of land.

In fact, the food prices in the Greater China Federation are a bit low now. Most farmers, including rich peasants, earn far less than those of the workers, clerks, or ordinary soldiers in the city. So the matter is obvious. If the rulers really want to make Chinese farmers rich, what they need to do is not to give them more land. Let them grow more grain to suppress grain prices. As for the purchase of protection prices, they can only be based on the basic balance of the supply and demand relationship between food. If there is a serious overcapacity, the federal government will definitely go bankrupt.

Chang Ruiqing smiled and said, "Junmai, our current thinking must be changed. China is no longer a country with a large population and low land and food shortage. Our national conditions are large population and large land and sufficient food... If the 1.5 billion mu of arable land in Central Asia and Siberia are developed and utilized, the total area of ​​arable land in my country will exceed 4 billion mu. If we include the Japanese local area, the Philippines and the East Indies, there will be more than 4.5 billion mu. If we follow our current method of intensive cultivation, the grain planted can be sold? And even if there are 4.5 billion mu of arable land, it will be divided by more than 400 million farmers. The per capita is only 10 mu of arable land, how much grain can be harvested and how much money can it be sold? So what compared to the workers working in the city?"

Zhang Junmai and Wang Jingwei nodded repeatedly. The questions raised by Chang Ruiqing are indeed worth pondering. According to the current grain price, the income of a mu of land is thirty or forty yuan, and this is the best irrigated land, and it also includes the cost of various farming. The net income of each acre of land will not exceed fifteen yuan in Huayuan in any case. Even if a person grows twenty acres of land, it will only be 300 yuan in Huayuan for a whole year, which is at most equivalent to the income of urban workers for four or five months. The hard work of farming twenty acres of land is far more than working in a factory! Moreover, the current grain price is still based on the basis of more than two billion acres of arable land. If the land in Central Asia and Siberia is really cultivated, I am afraid that the grain price will fall unreasonably, and the farmers who farm will not die at that time!

Seeing Zhang Junmai and Wang Jingwei woke up from a dream, Chang Ruiqing smiled and said, "Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty until the establishment of the Federation, the Chinese population has grown increasingly and the territory has not expanded. The 100 million people can only guard a little land and rely on meticulous farming to barely feed. Therefore, the thirst for land and grain is extremely strong. Perhaps no one has ever thought about the problem of too much farmland and too much food?"

"That's the case," Zhang Junmai smiled bitterly, "I didn't expect that more land and more food will become a problem. If this kind of thing was ten years earlier, who would have thought about it?"

"That's right, this is all the contribution of the Prime Minister. It has reached this point in the current state of China, and it is the first person in China in history!" Wang Jingwei's bullshit words came out, but he also told the truth.

Chang Ruiqing smiled proudly and waved his hand and said, "This is all achieved by everyone's efforts. If you say that you have made contributions, it is also our generation of Chinese who have made contributions to their descendants!" He paused and said in a deep tone: "But opening up the territory is not our fundamental purpose. Our fundamental purpose is to achieve common prosperity for more than 600 million people in China. Only when the people are rich can the country be strong, and only when the country is strong can the country be strong. Therefore, our top priority now is to achieve prosperity for the people. The disposal of farmland in Central Asia and Siberia must also be based on this."

At this time, Sun Yuexun handed Chang Ruiqing a cup of freshly brewed tea. After taking it, Chang Ruiqing took it and took a sip. He sorted out his ideas. Then he slowly said: "The current path that our country's agriculture is actually still a small farmer route that focuses on the intensive farming. To put it bluntly, it is to use intensive farming to increase yields, use limited arable land to feed as many people as possible, and what he pays is the labor of farmers. Therefore, our country's agricultural population has always been a large number, and it must account for the total population.

There is about 80% of the population. This situation does not exist in European and American countries. Even the Soviet Union's agricultural population only accounts for 20 to 30% of the total population. Now, our land area is larger and there are more arable land, so the method of farming should be changed. We can no longer engage in small farmers' intensive farming, but should develop large and medium-sized farms and pastures. Just like in the United States, like in Europe, a farmer planted hundreds of acres or even thousands of acres of land. We are not afraid of lower yields per mu. Anyway, there is enough land..."

"But how do you plant so many lands?" Sun Yuexun exclaimed when she heard this. Of course, she had never planted land, but in her constituency, the Far East and Republic of China, the farmers there were her supporters, so she still knew a little about farming.

Zhang Junmai and Wang Jingwei also looked at Chang Ruiqing with confusion, as if waiting for the answer. Chang Ruiqing shrugged and spread his hands with a smile and said, "Of course, just plant it casually! Otherwise, how could they grow so many lands?"

After hearing this answer, the three listeners were stunned and stunned. However, Chang Ruiqing knew that his words seemed incredible, but in fact they were the truth. Farming mainly relies on the heaven and earth, and of course they also rely on technological progress. There are thousands of farmers in the United States, and there are more arable land than hundreds of millions of farmers in China. If they serve several acres of land like Chinese farmers, how can those American farmers be busy? Unless they are all superhuman.

"Prime Minister, do you mean to use the arable land in Central Asia and Siberia to build large farms?" Zhang Junmai asked tentatively.

Chang Ruiqing nodded, shook his head again, frowned and said, "The farm is going to be done, but it takes more effort to do it... After all, the land in Central Asia and Siberia is fought back by the whole people's blood and sweat. It would be unfair if a few people were allowed to build large farms, not to mention that in the future, the cheap food produced by these large farms will be used to impact the mainland market and cause a large amount of bankruptcy for farmers... So my idea is to share the arable land in Central Asia and Siberia with part of the ranch and the pastures to all citizens, and the other part will be allocated to the meritorious soldiers."

"This..." Zhang Junmai was confused. What is the difference between this distribution method and the Ministry of Agriculture's method? Well, no, it is different! Premier Chang said that he would share it equally among all citizens and those who have been meritorious... What does this mean? Let all citizens go to Central Asia and Siberia to farm? Is this impossible?

"Mr. I mean... I want the people and soldiers who have been assigned to the land to sell the land?" Sun Yuexun understood Chang Ruiqing's thoughts, and he guessed it as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Xiaomei is more than half right," Chang Ruiqing nodded and said, "We cannot directly allocate land to the people, but issue land exchange vouchers that can be circulated. No matter who it is, as long as you hold the land purchase voucher, you can exchange it to the federal government's 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 major metropolitan areas - but if you want to exchange for residential land, a land exchange voucher can be exchanged for only a few square meters, and a per capita exchange limit must be set."

Zhang Junmai now fully understands that Chang Ruiqing has made up his mind to promote China's agricultural land concentration management and urbanization after the war! The so-called land exchange vouchers are actually to use the land in Siberia and Central Asia, as well as the land of the eight metropolises to stir up the rural land market in China, which is like a stagnant pool. Since the land exchange vouchers envisioned by Chang Ruiqing are huge and everyone has a very scattered share, the price in the market will definitely be extremely low. If the farmers in the mainland sell their small piece of land, they will sell them.

If the land money is used to purchase land exchange vouchers, it will probably become a large farmer in Central Asia and Siberia! Of course, farmers with investment vision will also use the land exchange vouchers they have obtained to exchange for land in the eight metropolitan areas. In a few years, the land storage will become a valuable inch of land. Also, a large amount of land exchange vouchers will be put into the market, which will inevitably suppress the land prices in the mainland. At that time, those farmers who are unwilling to leave their hometowns will also have the opportunity to buy land at a low price, thus becoming a large farmer... (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!