69novels Chapter 478
Chapter 478
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: 0.032s Scan: 0.024sAfter seeing the iron-fisted methods of the German army, Attlee did not dare to have any other thoughts and planned to spend the rest of his life on the farm.
However, after all, he was a cabinet minister of the British government, and his own talents, knowledge and abilities were much better than ordinary people.
Therefore, before he knew it, his talent was highlighted.
“Our group was allocated 350 mu of arable land this year, an average of 7 mu per person, but we have no machinery, only a skinny old cow and some backward farm tools. It is very difficult to complete the cultivation of such a large area!”
Because the British mainland suffered great damage in the war, the post-war recovery and reconstruction work has been slow.
The German army burned almost all the farms in the British mainland during the attack, causing the grain output of the British mainland to drop sharply this year. Although the population of the British mainland has now dropped to 12 million, a decrease of more than 60%, it still takes a lot of food to feed these 12 million people.
At present, almost all of this food is transported from Europe, relying on Hans’ financial subsidies.
However, such days will definitely not last too long. Hans will not continue to subsidize the British mainland. If that happens, they will not only have no benefit from conquering the British mainland, but will also make this place a huge burden for themselves.
Therefore, as early as after the German army captured Scotland, the German army began to regulate the territory of Scotland. Plan and build farms, reclaim wasteland, and grow food.
In order to solve this year’s food problem, they chose to rush to plant corn and soybeans for a quarter.
The maturity period of these two crops is relatively short. Corn has a relatively high yield and can be used to ensure the safety of staple food. Soybeans are economic crops and can be used to feed Hans and exchange soybeans for Hans’ rice and flour.
In addition, some farms also planted sweet potatoes and potatoes in mountainous areas and some uneven mountain land. These two crops have higher yields and can be used as staple food. Although the taste is not very good and eating too much can easily cause bloating, at this time, you can’t care so much. It’s good enough to have a full stomach and survive this winter. You are not qualified to be picky!
It is precisely because of such huge food pressure that the tasks of farms everywhere in the British Empire are very heavy. They are almost Almost everyone has to take on the responsibility of 50 acres of arable land, and a team of seven has 35 acres.
If these seven people are all young and middle-aged laborers, then it would be easier to say. Although the task of 50 acres is heavy, they should still be able to complete it.
But the problem is that 7 million young and middle-aged men of the British Empire were sent away during the economic crisis, and another 5 million were conscripted during the war. These 12 million young and middle-aged men account for more than 30% of the population of 40 million!
Players who have played Hearts of Iron know that even in Hearts of Iron, the most insane conscription mode is only 25%!
And 25% is already the extent of squeezing them, and 30% almost completely empties the young and middle-aged population in society!
Therefore, in the post-war British Empire, it is difficult to find young and middle-aged men aged 18-40. Even Yes, most of them were captured British soldiers. There were not many soldiers, only about 200,000. Most of them were sent to mines in various places to work as coolies. Only a few with poor physical fitness or those who were injured on the battlefield were sent to farms.
Hans paid a great price to attack the British Empire, and after the war, the British Empire became a ruin. Hans did not make much profit, so naturally he needed to let these British Empire people slowly repay the debt of the war through labor!
Considering the location of the British Empire and their previous mentality of a great power, Mainz listened to Ribbentrop’s advice and planned to deindustrialize the British Empire, dismantle most of their factories and machinery, and slowly turn it into an agricultural country dominated by agriculture, animal husbandry, and tourism industries.
If industrialization cannot be carried out, the population carrying capacity of the British Empire will drop significantly. The land that could originally bear 80 million people can only bear 20 million people after deindustrialization. If the population is larger, they will lose their means of livelihood because they cannot find jobs, and the huge pressure of life will force them to reduce births to achieve population balance.
This policy is very cruel to the British Empire, but it is the price they pay for their original mistakes. If they are as sensible as the Gauls, they will not end up like this!
Attlee did not know Hans’s treatment and arrangement of his motherland at this time. He was more concerned about how to complete the task assigned by the farm within a month!
If they cannot complete this task, then their own food rations this year will be affected. The farm has made it clear that 80% of the food income from the land they cultivated this year will be handed over to the state, 10% will be handed over to the farm, and the remaining 10% will be their own food rations. If there is extra food, they can sell it to the farm at the market price if they can’t finish it themselves.
At this time, the grain yield per mu of the British Empire is about 150-250 kilograms.
Without the large-scale use of chemical fertilizers, 500 is almost the limit and it is impossible to increase it further.
However, the land of the British Empire is very fertile black soil, and it has not been cultivated much before, so the fertility of the land is very good.
At least in the first few years of cultivation, the yield here will not be less than 300 kilograms per mu.
At the same time, the Eagle Sauce in North America has the most arable land in the world.
They currently have a total of more than 2 billion mu of arable land, less than 10% of the agricultural population, and an average land area of more than 200 mu.
Such a large area has led to their very developed mechanized operations, but because of limited manpower and management, the grain yield per mu of the Eagle Sauce is generally lower than that of European countries.
This disadvantage is very obvious in the staple food wheat in Europe. At this time, the yield per mu of European wheat can reach about 200-300 kilograms under the use of a large amount of chemical fertilizers, while how much is the wheat yield per mu of the Eagle Sauce?
81 kilograms!
This number is shockingly low!
However, if you learn about the Eagle Sauce in 2015, 90 years later, you won’t be so surprised.
After all, the Eagle Sauce’s yield per mu 90 years later is only about 180 kilograms, which still does not reach the average level in Europe at that time.
The main reason is that the Eagle Sauce people mainly grow corn and soybeans.
They grow these two crops on 0% of their land.
These two crops have higher yields, greater profits, and are easier to manage.
Therefore, in the case of insufficient human resources, the Eagle Sauce naturally likes to cultivate these two crops and doesn’t like to cultivate wheat!