Chapter 703
My Empire Chapter 703
2020-11-03
Chapter 703 704 Migration is difficultWhile Burrison is facing a difficult problem, others are also depressed. In life, unsatisfactory seems to be the main theme, and those satisfying things rarely happen in fact.
A peasant in the Arrant region of the Alanhill Empire shakes his head at an administrative officer who comes to talk to him, giving a non-negotiable answer: "It's impossible!"
Yes, it's impossible. Although Alanhill hopes that many problems can be solved through land replacement, including the gap between the rich and the poor, including the increasingly serious problem of land mergers, etc., there are actually very few people who are willing to follow the arrangement.
Alanhill's territory expanded countless times, but its population was also countless times larger. The war left many lands vacant, but Alanhill's series of policies to benefit the people quickly distributed these idle lands to farmers in the country.
In order to maintain high war welfare benefits, Alanhill's economy was highly dependent on foreign wars. The people did not have a large-scale boycott because of the years of war, the main reason is that everyone benefited from the war.
Soldiers who joined the army were rewarded with land after their victory. These land subsidies were given to the families of the soldiers who worked at home, allowing these families to live a prosperous life.
At the same time, the war gave birth to a large number of industrial manufacturing plants, which provided sufficient weapons and ammunition for the national war machine. And these factories also provided a large number of jobs internally, which also placed a large number of employed people.
With the support of the wartime economic system, Alanhill hardly has any excess production - the excess production of weapons and ammunition will also be immediately consumed, and the profit generated in return will indirectly increase. quality of life of workers.
However, as the war continued to expand, the benefits of the war also continued to increase. The land subsidized for participating army soldiers is starting to be insufficient.
Although farmers who hold a lot of land will not starve to death because of such trivial matters, their enthusiasm for supporting the war will plummet.
At the same time, there is no way to allocate the land of soldiers who actively joined the army or made contributions to the front line according to the old law, which will also make the empire's finances passive.
Because farmers in many core areas can't get adjacent land, they can only rely on the imperial government to use gold coins for subsidies. The land in these places is getting more and more expensive, and the subsidies are getting more and more expensive. Farmers who have watched land prices rise are also increasingly reluctant to ask for subsidized gold coins.
According to the simple idea of farmers, the value of land is constantly increasing, but gold coin obviously cannot appreciate, so gold coin is not cost-effective.
And taking out more and more gold coins to compensate farmers has also put a heavy economic burden on Alanhill's government.
What Chris and Dez and the others are pursuing is to replace farmers' land in core areas with more land in outlying areas.
By the way, let these farmers migrate to more remote places to support the economic development of those backward areas.
But this kind of thing that drives people from their homes is obviously not very popular with people. There are very few people who migrate voluntarily. Most of them are hard to leave their homeland, and they are not willing to ask for more land that is multiplied.
"You only have 20 acres of land here, sir... If you are willing to move to the lower reaches of the Rudono River, the government will compensate you for 110 acres. Sir, more than five times the area, and relocation compensation The money is quite a lot..." The official earned and well-meant advised, and offered not bad terms.
"Forget it, I'm getting old and I don't want to move my place that far. You can ask old Peter next door what he might be willing to go to on the Ludo River. Go downstream." The old man obviously didn't appreciate it, and pointed to the neighbor's house in the distance and refused.
"You can think about it again. There is also construction there. The price of land will rise soon. The 110 mu of land subsidized for you is all fertile and fertile land." The official who came to persuade also said: I don't want to give up, after all, he hasn't persuaded anyone to leave in the past two days.
"I'm not short of money, child. Did you see this medal? This is a military exploit made by my son. According to the law, the empire still owes me 5 acres of fertile land!" The old man sneered, Pointing to the bronze eagle badge hanging on his chest, he said proudly.
"Damn, why don't the farmers from Dothan move out first? Let them go to Ludo, and give up Dothan's land, maybe someone else is willing to go." The official also knew that he They failed again. Those Old Guys who were in the army at home and none of them could afford to offend. They could only kick the ridge under their feet and lead their assistants to the road beside the fields.
"Sooner or later, these idiots who don't understand anything will drag down the empire because of their selfishness!" The official stepped onto the roadbed and looked at the muddy leather shoes under his feet. Can't help but curse cursed.
On the main road, a Mansger People's car whistled past, the older models have a nostalgic vicissitudes.
There are still a lot of classic cars with this waterdrop streamlined shape, but most of the cars have a more modern appearance.
Nowadays in the Arrant region, the shadow of war has long been invisible. People here have lived happily ever after for more than four years, and their days have never been more prosperous.
Just look at the ever-changing Alanticus, less than a hundred kilometers away, and the skyscrapers rising from the ground to know how powerful the Alanhill Empire is.
But no one knows how long this kind of gunfire will last, and no one knows when this sweet dream will wake up.
So everyone is worried about moving away from their hometowns. They worry that places that seem safe now may become the front lines of war in the future.
This kind of large-scale migration is not an easy task, and what he encountered here is only a small microcosm of the huge migration plan of the entire empire.
People in many areas are being ordered to move to other areas, and no one knows how many are laughing and how many are crying along the way.
Much of Alanhill has had a bumper harvest this year thanks to Elf Race. Most areas are self-sufficient except for some deserted areas in the south where no one is sown.
How to comment on the merits and demerits of this last kind of thing, there is no answer. It's just that everyone is now dissatisfied. After all, many interest groups have not received decent benefits for a long time.
Regrettably, fighting for the benefit of the group you represent is something everyone is willing to do.
(end of this chapter)