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Text Chapter 330 Food and foreign invasion

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    Except for Li Xiang who was too worried about the food problem, no one else really worried about it. Even Wang Mingyang, who knew the plan of Taiping Island, didn't care too much.  He is unaware of the soil crisis on Taiping Island and does not list it as one of the fatal problems.  Although he did not agree with Li Xiang's decision not to vigorously develop the grain planting industry, he would not strongly oppose it, because buying alone was enough for the normal operation of the Taiping Kingdom.  "In modern society, everyone is talking about human rights. Even if food can still be used as a strategic weapon, efforts are made on genetic modification, production costs and futures markets, and hunger is rarely used as a separate weapon. The world's food production has increased significantly.  , which has kept hunger away from mainstream society and created a relative surplus of food. The food export market controlled by Europe and the United States will not easily use hunger to plug the huge profit gap of hundreds of millions of tons of food every year. Humanitarian aid has never banned the flow of food.  Any issue involving people's right to survival can easily overturn the control of international public opinion. In a local war, the issue of food embargo does not need to be considered too much. "This is not just Wang Mingyang's thinking, but also the Taiping Kingdom.  Other senior executives think so too.  "If the Japanese cause trouble and block our maritime lifeline, causing problems with our food supply, it will easily lead to unrest. Unless we increase the inventory of grain depots." However, some citizens who do not understand the specific situation are worried about the food crisis. Many of them are worried about the food crisis.  People directly proposed at the Taipingguo Network Council.  During the Taiping Island period, the population was not large, and it was time to make any major decisions.  It is easy to convene a National Assembly to discuss it.  However, with the increase in the population of Taiping Island, it is impossible to gather people together every time a major decision is made. Representative meetings are inevitable. However, in order to safeguard the people's right to participate in political affairs and fulfill the citizens' supervisory duties, online participation is required.  The conference model is gradually gaining popularity.  Every citizen has his or her own sacred vote, allowing the rulers to listen to their voices.  Such a model may not be adaptable to those big countries, but it is very convenient and practical to use in the Taiping Kingdom, a small country with hundreds of thousands of people. Especially since the Taiping Kingdom does not have so many historical factors, and the interest relationships are not complicated.  This greatly improves the efficiency of online political participation.  At least it enables their personally elected representatives to express their wishes accurately and promptly.  ¡°There is food in hand and there is no need to panic.¡± Some Taiping citizens who are enthusiastic about participating in politics still have valuable experience passed down from generation to generation in China flowing in their subconscious.  Their suggestion of attaching importance to the construction of grain depots was quickly put to the National Congress for discussion.  A reply was quickly received, and some information about the five large underground grain depots was gradually made available to the public.  There has never been a shortage of underground caves in the Taiping Kingdom. Even during the construction of Taiping Island, Li Xiang had already planned various uses.  Those five giant underground caves are structurally prepared for grain depots.  Corresponding structural adjustments have been made in terms of insect protection, moisture protection, fire protection and transportation.  No matter how large the project volume is, it is just something Li Xiang does casually.  Even Li Xiang has gradually completed all kinds of equipment by himself, and only needs a little debugging.  It was quickly put into use.  The five grain depots can easily accommodate more than one million tons of various grains, which is larger than some of the world's largest grain depots. They are now being slowly filled.  Li Xiang specially deployed six 50,000-ton and two 100,000-ton grain transport ships to shuttle among the major grain-producing countries in the world.  The people who visited looked at the warehouse full of various kinds of grains, and their hearts fell quickly.  Even if the Taiping Kingdom had a population of more than one million, these filled granaries would be able to feed the entire population for two years.  Except for those special big-bellied people, an ordinary person can eat as much as they want, even if he only eats ordinary grains, he cannot eat a ton of grains in a year.  What's more, in a modern society where meat, eggs, milk and other materials are abundant, people's demand for ordinary food is shrinking.  The supply capacity of this grain reserve will be stronger, even if the number of citizens is larger, we will not be afraid.  Wang Mingyang felt more confident. Only 5 grain depots were shown to the people, while Li Xiang showed 9 to him.  Except for one that is vaguely speculated to be a military grain depot, the other three are huge places that far exceed the exposed grain depots.  "It can at least guarantee 10 million people's food for a year." This was Li Xiang's original idea before ensuring food self-sufficiency.  In order to prevent accidents and enemy destruction, and for the sake of national strategic security, the relevant information is one of the Taiping State's national secrets. The increasingly abundant grain depot inventory is enough for Wang Mingyang not to worry about food.  "The demand for meat, eggs, milk, fruits and vegetables has increased significantly, and it has become a very important aspect of the national happiness index. It is not enough for us to just reserve food." Once the food problem is suppressed, other food problems will follow.  was raised again.  ¡°Underground cold storage for meat storage is under construction.?.  "This is what the official explained to the public. In fact, large underground cold storages have already been built. There are 4 cold storages for storing ordinary meat only, and this does not include refrigerated seafood. It's just that Li Xiang moved too fast, and some  Shocked by the world, I chose to keep a low profile. Taiping Island is already covered with vegetation and grassland. However, for the same reason, animal husbandry will not be developed and all beef and mutton from the Western world will be imported.  Conveniently, the pork that Chinese people like to eat can also be imported directly from the mainland. As long as Li Xiang pays, these can be easily solved. These are enough to cope with unexpected blockades, and the large amount of imported canned food makes up for the shelf life.  The final problem is that only fruits, vegetables and eggs and milk with a short shelf life cannot protect against accidents. In addition to using canned food to make up for this regret, Li Xiang also included many new plantings in the super city plan.  The tree species were changed to fruit trees and some cash crop species, vowing to build the future super city into a paradise where fruits are fragrant. Under Li Xiang¡¯s continuous transformation, the mountain topography of Taiping Island¡¯s mountains and some special valleys have been transformed.  The varieties of fruit trees that can be planted have exceeded the latitude where they are located, from apples in the north to bananas in the south, and they all have a good living environment under the care of imported soil.  Priority was given to planting vegetables for daily consumption. With the efforts during this period, it can already supply the daily expenses of 150,000 people without any pollution. With the expansion of cultivated land, the demand for food has increased.  Soon, the supply of ordinary vegetables will no longer be a problem even with the population boom. What is no longer a problem is that the only seafood that Taiping does not need to be imported in large quantities is the mountains and the sea.  Although fishing of seafood along the coast of Taiping Island was prohibited due to Li Xiang's food safety concerns, Taiping's marine fishing industry developed extremely rapidly, and the tax revenue it provided once accounted for a quarter of Taiping's regular fiscal revenue.  During this period of time, Li Xiang successively expanded the sea area with eight small islands of various sizes around Taiping Island, which provided Taiping with a vast area of ??fishing resources, and Li Xiang continued to bring out ocean-going ships and equipment.  It has also greatly promoted the development of Taiping's offshore fishing industry. Without the need to consider exports, Taiping's seafood is extremely affordable, and local people who come to Taiping to visit relatives are particularly impressed by it.  Cheap seafood dinner has become one of the main slogans of some tour groups that have opened travel routes to Taiping Kingdom. In addition to the cheap seafood enjoyed by the people, a large amount of seafood has also directly entered the 8 markets that Li Xiang had planned for a long time.  A giant underground cold storage has become part of Taiping's strategic food reserve to deal with the crisis. Li Xiang has been planning for a long time to extend hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters underground.  Caves crowd Taiping Island's underground space and only a small part of it needs to be carved out.  It is enough to complete Taiping's strategic food reserves.  Even the salt produced by the two newly opened salt farms in Taiping can be stored in a separate underground cave warehouse.  Each giant cave is divided and connected by underground passages and the small caves are more suitable for subdivision and convenient management, such as sugar, coffee, tea, alcohol and other supplies.  Even if it cannot occupy an entire giant underground cave warehouse and is not called a cave, it is still measured in terms of the warehouse.  When Li Xiang's biggest obstacle of not having to worry about large amounts of money for imports was eliminated, the reserves in the 28 giant underground caves that were first used could guarantee that even if the outside world was blocked, the Taiping people would have no worries about food and drink within one or two years.  .  With such confidence, the problem of food will not be a fatal problem in the eyes of all Taiping people.  Wang Mingyang is more worried about the country's security issues from internal and external troubles.  ¡­ ¡°Everyone knows about the problem of foreign aggression. We can now say that we are the enemy of the whole world.¡± Wang Mingyang had already mentioned this issue at the Taiping Giants Meeting.  "However, there are not many direct threats to us. The countries in Oceania closest to us are not of concern. Countries such as Marshall and Kiribati cannot even defeat our distant-water fishing fleet. Even if the Americans want to use them, they can only  Lamenting that they cannot help us, we can at most use their cries to gain some moral advantage. The only direct threat to us in Oceania is Australia. However, they have always only focused on offshore defense. They may have some offensive capabilities in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific.  But for us, it is somewhat beyond our reach. Besides, Australia does not have much conflict of interest with us, and they will not just obey the mercy of the Americans when traveling between Europe and the United States.Our location is too far away from Europe. Europe, which is suppressed by the Americans, is not hostile to us. On the contrary, it will make some small moves behind the scenes, which is more beneficial to us.  Russia is also powerless and cannot interfere too much with us.  Because of the confrontation with the United States, they will be more helpful to us.  Whether it is the younger brothers or enemies of other Americans in Asia and America, they cannot cause much interference to us because of the distance across the ocean.  At present, there are only three countries that cause us the greatest trouble: the United States, Japan, and China.  The Japanese have already wielded three axes. Even if they are gradually released from the reins, they will not be able to threaten us in the short term.  But Japan and the United States are now one.  It is not ruled out that the Americans will increase support or the Japanese will go crazy. At this time, Japan will explode with more than half a century of accumulation after World War II. If it cannot directly confront the nuclear-armed homeland, it will sacrifice us first.  knife.  To deal with Japan, we need to be prepared for long-term operations.  But because of Japan¡¯s inherent shortcomings and its embarrassing international status, they are not the most deadly to us. At most, they will entangle us endlessly.  "After some intentional revelations by Li Xiang, Wang Mingyang also gained the confidence to confront Japan, which has always been short-footed. Even the fatal threat to Japan was excluded. "The real threat to us is the United States.  "Wang Mingyang's face was very solemn when he mentioned the United States, "Don't look at the way the United States usually seems to just shout, but it is for big countries like China and Russia, or small countries that have hard-core support for big countries, and for those who don't.  For a small country with too much support, the Americans are not polite when they take action.  Over the years, Americans have been sharpening their knives on small countries, even Iraq.  The sensitive position of our Taiping country and the huge benefits that Taiping Island can bring are enough to induce the United States to take action directly.  I am just worried that once the Japanese offensive is unfavorable, the Americans will directly take action themselves.  We can stop the Japanese, but it is difficult to stop the Americans.  " Li Xiang, who holds the trump card, is not afraid of Americans, but he is unable to explain to others. He can only remain silent, wording words in his mind, and find a good reason to appease Wang Mingyang. "Don't count on the locals!  "Wang Mingyang took the lead and said, "It is difficult for us to grasp the attitude of the local people.  Especially after we took possession of Taiping Island, the attitude of the mainland towards us became more subtle.  Moreover, after all, the current strength of the mainland cannot directly compete with the United States. It is difficult to expect that they will tear apart us and the United States in the depths of the Pacific.  The most important thing is that they will not only become the best reason for the Americans to attack us, but also detonate another deadly threat within us.  "(To be continued)
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