The Chu Empire's large-scale development plan for the Nanyang Peninsula is a large and complex plan, including a series of subsequent urban areas, transportation facilities, water conservancy facilities, medical facilities and other large-scale infrastructure construction.

At the same time, it is also necessary to prepare in advance the division of administrative regions and arrangements by officials.

These all involve a large amount of human and material resource arrangements.

After all, the Chu Empire's development of the Nanyang Peninsula did not mean that it would be sufficient to maintain colonial rule after directly occupying it.

The Da Chu Empire plans to develop the entire Nanyang Peninsula as its future homeland, in order to make the Nanyang Peninsula an important economic crop for the Chu Empire in the future, such as rubber, various fruits, and the most important, rice.

Origin.

Although the Nanyang Peninsula region has problems of one kind or another, the local climate is actually very good, which is very beneficial to the production of some crops.

Especially rice.

Three crops a year is no joke!

Of course, the water conservancy facilities must be solved in the early stage, otherwise the local area will be flooded when it rains, and there will be no way to grow food on a large scale.

To sum up, the investment is not small, but the future returns will also be very large.

This has been proven by the Chu Empire in Thang Long and Hue provinces in the Annam region. Although the Chu Empire paid a huge price and built a large number of water conservancy projects in order to solve the local floods, especially in the lower reaches of the Red River and the lower reaches of the Mekong River.

Facilities.

However, after the construction of these water conservancy facilities, a large amount of local land was instantly transformed into the best fertile farmland, with very high grain output.

At present, these two new provinces in the south, to be precise, are the plains along the Red River and the plains along the lower Mekong River. They have become the new grain-producing and grain-exporting areas of the Chu Empire in the south.

Under such circumstances, if the subsequent Great Chu Empire can capture Siam and Myanmar, it will also be able to develop the central and northern plains of Siam and the Chao Phraya Plain on a large scale. The natural conditions of these two areas are very good, and they themselves

It is an important grain-producing area in Siam.

If water conservancy facilities are built again, grain output can be doubled several times more, becoming the new southern granary of the empire.

The Yinrawaddy River Delta area in southern Myanmar is also one of the most important grain-producing areas in the Nanyang Peninsula, accounting for more than half of the grain production in the entire Myanmar region.

Before World War II, Myanmar was also the largest rice exporter in the world. The rice exported every year accounted for more than 40% of the total global rice exports, making it a veritable major rice exporter.

The rice exported basically comes from the Yinrawaddy River Delta area in southern Myanmar.

This shows the importance of this place!

Of course, this is talking about development potential. If we only talk about the present, the food output of the above-mentioned Red River Delta, Mekong River Delta, Chao Phraya River Delta, northern Siam, and the Yinrawaddy River Delta in Myanmar is even if they are all added up.

Far inferior to the Great Chu Empire and Liaodong Province!

Even if it is really developed, it is actually not as good as many provinces in the Chu Empire. For example, the Northeast region where the Chu Empire invested heavily in the development of the Northeast. The entire development plan is aimed at producing 50 million tons of grain per year.

…This is an era without chemical fertilizers and hybrid rice!

The annual output of 50 million tons of grain is terrifying!

Based on the standard of 400 kilograms per capita, it is enough to feed a population of 125 million!

Even if the above-mentioned Nanyang Peninsula area is fully developed, in the absence of chemical fertilizers and hybrid rice, the Imperial Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry estimates that the grain output will only be 40 million tons.

Many people have the illusion that the Nanyang region is the country with the largest output... In fact, this is not the case. Although many countries in the Nanyang region are grain exporters, their total output is actually not very good.

In later generations, the grain output in Vietnam, Thailand, and Myanmar was basically around 30 to 40 million tons, while in China in later generations, any province randomly selected would have similar numbers, or even more.

For example, Heilongjiang, the largest granary in China in later generations, produced more than 70 million tons of grain annually. This does not refer to the entire Northeast, but only Heilongjiang Province!

Ranking second is Henan in the Central Plains, with more than 60 million tons!

Many people have the impression that Inner Mongolia is just a prairie and desert. Inner Mongolia, which does not produce food, has an annual output of nearly 40 million tons... ranking sixth in the country!

Jiangsu, the traditional land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, has a low modern grain output. In fact, it is only more than 3,800 tons. Hunan, one of the Hunan provinces, has even less, just about 30 million tons... Of course, this is not because of the poor terrain and climate, but because of the bad terrain and climate.

This is the reason why farmers lack modern large-scale planting technology and switch to various economic crops instead of growing food, or even abandon the crops directly.

This situation actually also existed in the Dachu Empire!

In the current Great Chu Empire, the Pan-Jiangnan region, including Jiangnan Province, is still the most important grain-producing area in the Great Chu Empire.

However, with the development of the industrial and commercial economy, even though the food output in the Pan-Jiangnan region is increasing every year, the increase is not large. Many farmer families are more inclined to plant some economic crops, such as cotton, than growing less profitable food.

, Mulberry etc.

In recent years, some people with lofty ideals have even put forward a very scary slogan, that is, "cotton mulberry cannibalism" has appeared in the Jiangnan region!

This means that instead of growing food, farmers grow cotton and mulberry trees.

At the same time, the population of the Great Chu Empire was growing rapidly, and the population of the Pan-Jiangnan region was also growing very fast, making it the most densely populated area in the Great Chu Empire.

Therefore, although the current pan-Jiangnan region still produces the most grain, it is actually no longer a grain exporting place, but a grain importing place.

Every year, a large amount of grain is imported from the Huguang area, North China and even the Northeast region.

Today in the Great Chu Empire, the most important grain exporting area is the Huguang region, which includes the two provinces of Chubei, Chunan, and Hantian. The contemporary Huguang region actually has a small population, but its grain output is huge.

The Chu Empire continued to focus on development for 30 years, so that Huguang gained the reputation of being well-known all over the world.

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Next is the Northeastern region, mainly Liaodong and the newly developed Heishui Province. These two places are also sparsely populated and have rich black soil in the Northeast. At the same time, they use large-scale mechanization or horse farming.

, so the per capita grain output is extremely high, and it has become one of the important granaries of the empire.

As for the three provinces of Henan in the Central Plains and Shandong and Hebei in North China, the local grain output is actually quite large. However, the local population is recovering quickly and local consumption is also large. Therefore, although the output is large, the output is relatively small.<

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Whether a place can become a grain exporter and supply other key areas depends not on total output, but per capita output and per capita consumption.

Even if the total output is large, the per capita output is not very good, and the per capita consumption is large. It will happen that you don’t have enough to eat, and there is no extra supply to other places. For example, in later generations of China, the food output is exaggerated, but we also have many people.

So forget about exporting, we still have to import a large amount of food every year.

(In fact, we are still the third largest grain exporter in the world, exporting a lot of grain every year, but at the same time, we are also the largest grain importer in the world, importing about 160 million tons every year, and this import amount far exceeds the export amount)<

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(The reason for this situation is mainly that we import a large amount of staple grains and supplementary grains, and at the same time export certain grain processing products. You can simply understand that most of the imported grains have been digested by us, but there is still a part of the imported grains that are not

It is a pure import, but it belongs to the grain processing trade. The front foot is imported, and the back foot is processed and sold.)

Of course, this is about our special situation. In reality, many countries clearly have low per capita grain production and do not import grain. They still export a lot of grain, such as India!

Their total grain output is much less than that of China, and their population exceeds that of China. Their per capita grain output is only more than 200 kilograms, while the international per capita food security standard is 400 kilograms...

But here’s the point. They are the sixth largest grain exporter in the world, sometimes even ranked fifth in the world. More importantly...you can’t find India among the top ten grain importing countries in the world.

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More than 200 kilograms per capita, and they are exported in large quantities... I am afraid only God knows how the Indians survived!

Let’s not talk about future generations, but let’s talk about the Chu Empire itself. Due to the growth of a large local population, the hybrid rice and chemical fertilizer industries, and even the breakthroughs in pesticides were not big, and the yield per mu was not high.

This has led to the fact that although local grain continues to increase, per capita grain growth is not fast, and per capita grain consumption has been hovering at a level of more than 300 kilograms.

This forced the Chu Empire to increase food development in its local areas, such as the Northeast, Huguang, Central Plains, North China, and even Mongolia.

On the other hand, it is to increase the acquisition of food from overseas regions.

North America is one aspect, while Nanyang is another aspect.

Although the total grain output in the Nanyang region may not be very good now, it is estimated that it will be far less than the Northeast region when it is fully developed in the future. However, those places are all new places. Once done, there will be no problem in feeding tens of millions of people.<

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How to put it, this is equivalent to the world falling again. The annual production of tens of millions of tons of grain can greatly alleviate the food demand in the empire.

This is the background of the large-scale development of the Nanyang Peninsula. It is for no other reason than to feed more people and keep them full.

Against this background, the Chu Empire passed the Nanyang Peninsula development plan and prepared a series of measures.

Before these development measures can be implemented, there is something else that needs to be done first!

That means we have to deal with the local indigenous people first.

Not all places in today's Nanyang region belong to the Chu Empire. Annan, Cambodia, and the Malacca Peninsula are all directly under the Chu Empire and have been established as provinces.

But there is still a Kingdom of Siam and a Kingdom of Burma.

Before embarking on the large-scale development of the Nanyang Peninsula, these two indigenous countries must be wiped out first.

The so-called large-scale development of the Nanyang Peninsula...actually refers to the development of the territories of these two indigenous countries.

If you want to develop it, you must first seize the land!

In November of the thirty-third year of Chengshun, the Chu Empire Army began its early military preparations. The army claimed that it would invest 200,000 troops in this military operation, which would definitely make the cabinet spend 8 million Chu yuan.

Value for money.

As for the navy... Myanmar and Siam have no navies at all. When the time comes, they can just send some offshore and inland gunboats there.

And the Army's so-called 200,000 troops are actually nonsense... These two indigenous countries don't need the Army to use 200,000 troops, and it will only last 40 to 50,000 people.

In this 200,000-strong army, the Army has included all the garrisons in surrounding provinces!

If we really want to use an army of 200,000, these 8 million Chu Yuan are not enough. Not to mention adding a zero at the end, but it must be doubled at least four or five times...

It is obviously impossible for the Army to fight the war at a loss at its own expense. After all, this time the Nanyang Peninsula development plan is a plan that the cabinet has tossed about. The Army actually doesn’t want to fight... After all, the Army really doesn’t want to go to that poor place in the Nanyang Peninsula.
To be continued...