bookpower Chapter 541
Chapter 541
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: 0.075s Scan: 0.022sHans has a limited land area, but its own population is too large.
It is not cost-effective to use limited land to develop agriculture, and the economic output is obviously not as high as starting an industry, setting up factories and engaging in industrial production.
Therefore, Mainz only guarantees the planting of staple food, namely wheat, corn and rice, in Hans, and ensures that these grains can guarantee the food needs of everyone in Hans!
The remaining agricultural and sideline products and poultry, eggs and meat products cannot be completely produced by Hans itself, unless Hans occupies the whole of Europe, especially the Great Plains of East Europe in the bear’s territory, otherwise, they will not be able to find so much land to raise cattle and pigs to develop animal husbandry.
Since they can’t do it themselves, they can only divide this part of the task to other countries.
The windmill country has abundant grasslands, so the windmill country can undertake part of the animal husbandry tasks. In later generations, the beef of the windmill country is world-renowned and is a very high-quality beef producer. Mainz naturally did not give up here. He planned to continue to engage in animal husbandry in the windmill country and strive to build a base to provide meat products for himself at Hans’ doorstep.
However, the area of the windmill country is too small. Hans has greatly expanded his sphere of influence through war at this time. Even if the Gauls are not counted, the population they rule is more than 110 million, surpassing the Eagle Sauce and becoming the fourth most populous country in the world at this time, second only to the Celestial Empire, India and the bear.
A small windmill country alone cannot supply the strong demand of so many people, so Mainz has to add more pastures.
Romani, Hungary and even Snowflake are all countries selected by Mainz.
If Hans’s own pasture in East Prussia is counted, the pasture production in these places should be able to meet the needs of Hans’ 100 million people.
In later generations, the situation of the Celestial Empire was very similar to that of Hans today.
The Celestial Empire itself had a population of nearly 1.4 billion, but the domestic arable land area was relatively small. It could only ensure the cultivation of staple food, namely wheat and rice, and could not grow a large amount of soybeans to develop animal husbandry. This forced them to import a large amount of soybeans from the Eagle Sauce and South American countries to maintain domestic animal husbandry and ensure the meat supply of 1.4 billion citizens.
In addition, the Celestial Empire also actively imported meat products from countries around the world, including pork, beef, etc.
Among them, the country that exported the most to the Celestial Empire was the Eagle Sauce.
The Eagle Sauce’s own conditions were really too good. They had vast plains and a lot of land suitable for mechanized farming, and their own population was only 300 million. So much land was more than enough to feed 300 million people.
Therefore, the extra land was used by them to grow food and soybeans for export to the world, and tens of thousands of large and small ranches were built on the vast land, making pork, beef and other meat products very cheap in the Eagle Sauce country, and also exported on a large scale.
In a sense, the Eagle Sauce has become a pig farm. Although they do not directly raise pigs for the Celestial Empire, the soybeans they provide are high-protein feed urgently needed by the Celestial Empire’s pig farming industry. Their beef exports can also meet part of the Celestial Empire’s meat product needs.
Although Mainz, like the Celestial Empire, has turned the world’s largest country into its own pig farm, the Eagle Sauce at this time has not gone industrialized, but is vigorously developing industry, so it is definitely unrealistic to expect them to become Hans’ pig farm obediently.
Therefore, Mainz can only focus on Europe and let several countries unite to replace the role of the Eagle Sauce and raise pigs for Hans.
The benefits of doing so are obvious. After the land of these countries is used for agriculture and animal husbandry, they do not have enough land to develop manufacturing, and they cannot become a powerful industrialized country!
Without a strong industry, their military strength will definitely be very weak, and it will be difficult to threaten Hans, but they will be easily threatened by Hans!
So in order to ensure their own safety, they have to turn to Hans and seek Hans’ protection, so as not to be invaded by Hans.
Of course, doing so is also good for them. They can get the huge domestic demand market of Hans, and they can enjoy the dividends of Hans’ development economically. They don’t need to develop industry at all. They can live a decent life just through agriculture and animal husbandry!
This kind of business is actually not a loss!
They provide Hans with various agricultural products and livestock products, and Hans provides them with various industrial products. Both parties take what they need and have a clear division of labor!
And this division of labor will allow them to be included in Hans’ economic system, and their economic connection with Hans will be closer. In the long run, they will not be able to decouple from Hans at all, and can only continue to be tied to Hans’s chariot, becoming a barrier and buffer zone outside Hans. In addition to taking on the role of Hans’ granary and pasture, they can also play a role in protecting Hans’ core position.
This kind of relationship, to put it simply, is no different from the current bear. The biggest difference is that the status of the bear’s member states is not as high as these countries. Although they cooperate with Hans, they still retain a certain degree of independence, and part of the military, diplomatic and political power is in their own hands! To put it more broadly, this kind of relationship is actually the European Union of later generations!
In the later EU, as the largest manufacturing country in Europe, Hans fully enjoyed the benefits of sucking blood from the whole Europe, especially Eastern Europe!
Although they were defeated countries, they successfully gained the right to speak and dominate within the EU by virtue of their population size and industrial scale, completing the great cause that the mustache and Napoleon could not accomplish in their lifetime-integrating Europe!
Hans in later generations had a very high status in the EU. While absorbing cheap labor and talents in Eastern Europe, they dumped their own goods to Eastern Europe, exchanging expensive products for cheap agricultural products and livestock products from the other side, thus easily achieving the goal of sucking blood from the whole Europe!
Although Hans failed to conquer Europe on the battlefield, they successfully colonized Europe economically, which is another kind of victory!
With the successful template of Hans in later generations in front of them, Mainz certainly knew what he should do!
In addition to the most valuable countries around Hans, which need to be annexed directly, Mainz plans to conquer those countries that are more remote and of limited value and turn them into his protectorate, allowing them to rule and manage themselves. He only needs to control their governments and prevent them from getting out of his control!
In this way, Hans does not have to be responsible for the people of these countries, nor does he have to spend a huge price to build these countries and regions. The cost they pay will be greatly reduced.
And the benefits obtained will increase exponentially!
As long as these countries do not get out of Hans’ control, they will always be the dumping ground for Hans’ products, and the source of Hans’ cheap agricultural products and various resources!