Valley Emperor

Vol 2 Chapter 1754: Nanyang Grain Region

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In the autumn of the 36th year of Xuanping, the high-level officials of the Tang Empire blew a storm of Chen Lifu.

The political turmoil and impact brought about by Chen Lifu's entry into the imperial study are far greater than any previous minister's entry into the imperial study.

Over the years, the Datang Empire will have new ministers entering the imperial study every once in a while, and the newly-appointed ministers will always play tricks such as the three fires of the new official's appointment. Leave your own traces and make achievements.

But there is no one like Chen Lifu, who has promoted a number of policies in just half a month after taking office.

The three most controversial reforms are only on the surface, but in fact Chen Lifu has done far more than that.

Some of the reforms that are more restrained still need to be discussed at the on-duty meeting, but some small and medium-sized policies, especially economic development, have less impact on affairs. This is the essential work of Chen Lifu, and Chen Lifu does not need to consider other duties at all. According to the opinions of the ministers, as long as the relevant plan is approved by the Son of Heaven, it can be directly implemented.

In mid-August, when the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, the fertilizer support plan submitted by Chen Lifu was approved. The plan will be exempted from import tariffs on fertilizers such as bird droppings imported from mainland China, and tax incentives will be given to companies that deal in bird droppings. Policies to reduce the cost of bird droppings and expand the scope of use.

The industrial and commercial tax of the empire has always been low, so after the promulgation of this policy, it directly means that the cost of guano fertilizer imported from the Pacific Ocean and South America has been reduced by at least 30%.

The reduction in costs directly stimulated companies to start large-scale mining and transportation of bird droppings from other Pacific islands or South America and other regions, thereby expanding the scope of use.

In order to obtain more sources of guano to increase food production in the local area and solve the problem of food and clothing for the people, Chen Lifu also negotiated with the army and navy to support the military's limited expansion of some guano production areas in South America.

The military is naturally very welcome to this kind of thing. Since it is support, it will definitely cost the military.

As long as there is military spending, as long as it is expansion, the military welcomes it.

This policy seems to be inconspicuous, and it did not even cause much reaction, but the effect is remarkable. Chen Lifu's report to Li Xuan shows that in the next three years, the amount of bird droppings imported from overseas regions will be reduced. The rapid expansion of more than ten times reflects the grain output. Chen Lifu is optimistic that in some areas where bird dung fertilizer is applied on a large scale, such as several major grain-producing areas in coastal areas and the Huguang area, the per mu of grain yields It can be increased by about 5% after three years.

Don't look at the increase of only five percentage points, but this is magnified to the entire coastal and central major grain-producing areas, and the total amount of grain added is very huge.

With such an increase in grain production, the government pays only part of the tax, and this part of the tax can still be replenished through other links. For example, the increase in grain production can naturally increase the tax contributed by agriculture. .

After careful calculation, the government's fiscal revenue is not only not a loss, but also a small profit.

Fertilizer support programs are just one of them.

Seeing that Chen Lifu was working on this fertilizer, Li Xuan also reminded Chen Lifu that the Royal Institute of Technology had synthesized several kinds of fertilizers and was currently looking for a solution for mass production.

When Chen Lifu heard it, he directly found the Royal Institute of Technology, and then waved his hand, and directly threw out hundreds of thousands of scientific research support funds to help several chemical fertilizer research groups continue their research and find a large-scale mass production of various fertilizers. Industrial Solutions.

At the same time, Chen Lifu also encourages grain planting in the local area, encourages the cultivation of cash crops in overseas local areas and overseas territories, and balances the production of crops by means of local production of grain and overseas import of cash crops, and gives priority to ensuring the local food supply.

After all, the current grain price is still relatively low, and the cost of transoceanic transportation is relatively high. If only large-scale food is grown in the Americas and other regions and then shipped back to the mainland, even if it is duty-free, the freight is still too expensive.

However, if it is replaced with an economic crop with a relatively low yield per mu and a relatively high unit value, the transportation volume will be much smaller, so the freight will be acceptable.

Then he suggested to the Son of Heaven to start a new round of large-scale water conservancy facilities!

It has been almost twenty years since the construction of large-scale water conservancy facilities after the end of the Unification War. Although the current water conservancy facilities are countless times stronger than those in the Ming Dynasty, they are still insufficient.

There are still many areas affected by floods or droughts every year.

The same lot of land is also unexploitable due to lack of water, or limited production.

Chen Lifu suggested a new round of large-scale water conservancy facilities construction, but the cost of this proposal is too huge~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and the issue of funding is troublesome, so Li Xuan did not directly approve it , but leave it to the imperial study for discussion.

Although the other ministers on duty opposed Chen Lifu's many propositions, they still supported the expansion of food supply and infrastructure construction. As for the issue of funding, crowded here, moved there, and the Gyeonggi side and the local government shared the share It's almost there.

Finally, after discussion, a new round of water conservancy facilities construction plan was finalized. It is estimated that Gyeonggi will directly invest a total of 80 million yuan in five years to support the construction of water conservancy facilities in various places.

The 80 million is only contributed by Gyeonggi. As for the contribution of each place, it depends on the economic level of each place and how much the scale of construction is different.

However, it is generally shared together, so in the end, the total investment in infrastructure over five years may exceed 150 million.

This is a huge number!

To scrape together this sum of money, many programs and institutions will have to save money over the next five years.

But I didn't expect that Chen Lifu was not finished yet. The water conservancy facility construction plan was just passed, and the so-called Nanyang settlement plan was created. At least 10 million people from all over the country were prepared to immigrate to the Nanyang region, especially those in Siam and Annan. Grain production areas settled down, and then carried out large-scale reclamation, striving to build the Nanyang Peninsula area into a new granary for the empire within five years.

Build five major grain producing areas in Jiangnan, Huguang, Central Plains, Liaohe and Nanyang!

And such a large-scale official-led resettlement, the cost is naturally a huge sum.

The many policies Chen Lifu has come up with have only one purpose, that is, to ensure the food supply in mainland China and solve the problem of food for more than 200 million people.

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