Chapter 506： 506: Agricultural Technology

Aslan took out a list, this was his real purpose.

The intelligence brought by Addison also made Aslan understand that the Maxim Chamber of Commerce in the awkward position of the Shifang Alliance is now working hard to stabilize the position and rule of the Shifang Alliance. If the situation cannot be stabilized, it has always been in the Shifang The situation of alliance operations will completely collapse.

These Kira are not allowed, so Kira will block here in advance.

It's a pity that people are not as good as the sky. Kira has just taken action here, and the Kingdom of Cleveland has also beaten the dog. This is the real reason why Kira is so urgent.

Regarding the land, Aslan is anxious at all. What he really urgently needs is population and various raw materials.

The 50-ton electric furnace was put into production, bringing the steel output of Merlot to a new level, but afterwards, it was discovered that the iron ore could not meet the steelmaking consumption of the electric furnace.

It is no exaggeration to say that most of the current Melo City Steel Plant is on holiday, because of the lack of iron ore, which is why Aslan is eager to put the magic motor into production.

He must apply the magic motor to the mine, use the magic motor to transport iron ore to the ground, and add some sinking machinery and crushing machinery, etc., although it seems simple, it can greatly improve the mine. s efficiency.

So the first thing on the list was iron ore, which came up to 1 million tons, which made Kira's mouth open.

The second item is flax and cotton, both of which are important raw materials for textiles, and are also one million tons.

"Your Excellency, you are the lion's big mouth." Kira put down the list and said directly.

Aslan said with an indifferent appearance: "You don't have to give it, and then we will drag it here together to see who loses the most."

In the past, Aslan still used to buy, but now Aslan directly tore his face and grabbed it.

"Very well, I'll write down this account." Kira picked up the list, took out a pen and started to tick it.

The quantity of iron ore and flax cotton was cut in half, and other materials were more or less reduced, but in the final population, Kira directly changed the 5 million people required by Aslan to 10 million.

"This is my bottom line."

Aslan glanced at the list, finally glanced at the population, and couldn't help but smile triumphantly.

"Okay! Then draw up a contract!"

On weekdays, let alone a population of 10 million, even with a population of 1 million, Kira would not give Aslan.

In addition to labor, the population is a stable source of taxation, but now it is different. There are locust plagues and droughts everywhere, many land has long been uncultivated, and a large number of people flock to major cities.

In order to stabilize these refugees, they have to distribute relief food, but this is not a long-term solution. Sooner or later, it will cause riots. When the time comes, the Ten-Party Alliance will consume manpower and material resources to suppress it.

Nowadays, more than 70% of the relief food distributed to these refugees is from the Maxim Chamber of Commerce. Kira is also somewhat unable to bear such expenditures. The 10 million population is actually only one-third of the refugees, and this value is still there. In the daily increase, he wanted to stabilize the situation, and at the same time began to promote the news that Mellock Province was willing to accept a large number of refugees.

It is hoped that these refugees can be transferred to the past of Mellocks province to hold Aslan’s attention. After all, with so many refugees in the past, it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to arrange them, which is enough to divert most of Aslan’s attention. Li, put some eyeliner in by the way, maybe you can get unexpected joy in the future.

Aslan naturally knew what Kira was thinking about. The most lacking thing in Mellocks now is population.

Although more than 10 million people have been gathered back and forth in the past few years, these people are not enough to fill the entire Changfeng Plain, let alone the northern wind prairie that came just now.

In the production of chemical fertilizers, there is no longer a tradition of rotation in Melox Province. In the past, in order to maintain the fertility of the land, the fields were usually planted for one year and rested for one year, and some relatively barren land was left fallow for two years.

So it seems that the farmers are responsible for a lot of land, but the output has been unable to keep up, let alone a lot of land because it is far away from the river and the irrigation is too difficult, and it is directly abandoned.

But there is no such problem for Melox.

Because of the maximum utilization of the field area, many places are still in an undeveloped state, especially the Changfeng Plain, which is a huge plain, which is initially estimated to be more than 60 million mu, but there are ten thousand farms, which can actually guarantee the number of cultivated fields. It's about tens of thousands of mu. It's not because they don't work hard, but because of the investment in new agricultural technology. While making the grain high yield, farmers need to worry about it. Unlike the past, the seeds are planted and occasionally weeding is enough.

Fertilization and deworming are needed every once in a while. Every farmer inspects the fields he is responsible for every day, and completes these things in one set. Thank God for being able to work on five acres of land a day, let alone just planting and planting seedlings and harvesting.

Reaping one mu of wheat, plus threshing, a farm name takes a day to complete.

With 50,000 mu of farmland, the entire farm’s tens of thousands of people will have to be busy for several days, not to mention sun-dried grains, etc., so after such a research and development, each farm’s population is responsible for five farmland. Acres of land.

Nowadays, there are more than 760 farms in the Merlot area of ​​Connaught University, of which 500 are half-orcs, more than 200 are ordinary people, and dozens of them are owned by foreign races on the Changfeng Plain.

The land that can be developed is only 38 million mu, which is only less than two-thirds of the arable farmland in the Changfeng Plain, let alone the Meruo area and the other three areas. After the reservoir is built, the channels in various places are laid. In the other three regions, more than 20 million arable land has been added. Before agricultural machinery is put into production, population is the greatest guarantee for agriculture.

Of course, Kira knew that Aslan is now vigorously developing agriculture. The overhaul of channels and rivers gave Kira a lot of inspiration, and he also began to build a pilot project in the Blair province of the Duke of Rumsfeld, but he Some wonder where the constant water source in Mellocks province comes from.

Regarding food production capacity, Kira is not worried at all, because the Maxim Empire also has the backyard of the Asian East Subcontinent. During the harvest period, the food produced by it is enough to supply one-tenth of the mainland’s population for a year. If When he solves the problem of Aslan's water source and fertilizer technology, he believes that Yadongcheng's food production can be doubled.

As for the population, Aslan dared to accept it no matter what, if he knew that Kira had helped them advertise for free, I would be very grateful.