Expedition to Europe

From Qin Zhiyuan's perspective, Qin Zhiyuan had enough reasons to refuse the Persians from re-entering the Mesopotamian Basin.

Although this was once their home.

As Qin Zhiyuan's family, Julie and Misha still had a lot of weight in Qin Zhiyuan's heart. Only when Julie and Misha came together could they change Qin Zhiyuan's mind. No one else could do that.

After getting Qin Zhiyuan's promise, Julie was so happy that she cried. She jumped into Qin Zhiyuan's arms and kissed him hard on the face: "Dear, I love you——"

Well, if this sentence was said in the bedroom, maybe there would be a lot of thunder and fire, and Lan Fang might have an extra heir. It was a bit inappropriate in the living room, and it was because of those Persians who had abandoned Lafang, which made Qin Zhiyuan feel a little uncomfortable.

"I love you too, dear. Don't be too happy too soon. It was easy for them to leave at the beginning, but it's not so easy to come back now. You know, the land has been distributed in the Western Province, so they can't get back their previous land. This must be determined first." Qin Zhiyuan must put the ugliness first, otherwise it may cause serious social problems.

The contradiction between foreign population and local population is an issue that must be taken seriously at all times.

For the Western Province, in fact, all Lan Fang people are foreign populations, and those Persians who escaped are locals. But fate always likes to play tricks on people. For the current Western Province, Lan Fang people are the owners of this land, and those Persians who escaped are foreign populations.

This may achieve some kind of balance.

"Of course, since they gave up their property at the beginning, don't think about taking it back now, but dear, you will definitely not watch those people starve to death, right? If they become Lan Fang citizens again, the Western Province should also allocate land to them-" Julie hugged Qin Zhiyuan's neck a little coquettishly, and her body twisted left and right a little.

Alas, Julie was sitting on Qin Zhiyuan's thigh, which was a bit irritating.

Qin Zhiyuan didn't have any other thoughts. Qin Zhiyuan's mind was on the refugees. It was easy to reintegrate the refugees into the Western Province, but it would take more effort to give them a stable life. This was not just a promise. Qin Zhiyuan was not a simple and crude British or French colonizer. If the refugees didn't want to return to the Western Province, Qin Zhiyuan didn't care about their life or death, but as long as the refugees became Lan Fang citizens, Qin Zhiyuan would be responsible for them.

"It will definitely be distributed, but don't think about the fertile land. Those lands have owners, or national farms are about to be established, and there is no spare land for them." Qin Zhiyuan didn't want the refugees to get Lan Fang's welfare easily. Qin Zhiyuan wanted to let the refugees know that Lan Fang's welfare was not so cheap.

National farms are an important part of the Lan Fang government. Lan Fang does not levy agricultural taxes, but the Lan Fang government still has civil servants and military members to support. The food these people need is the output of national farms. The national farms in Lan Fang can be regarded as "long-standing", just like the national history of Lan Fang. When Lan Fang was first established, Huang Bohan, Guo Shenglong and other local tycoons donated all their plantations to the Lan Fang government in order to support the construction of Lan Fang. These were the first batch of national farms of the Lan Fang government.

After Lan Fang conquered the Northern Frontier, the national farms were finally developed. Although there are nearly 10 million immigrants in the entire Northern Frontier, there are still many national farms, occupying nearly half of the arable land in the Northern Frontier.

There must be national farms in the western provinces. In Qin Zhiyuan's plan, all parts of Lan Fang must be self-sufficient in agricultural products. Although the two river basins are located in the desert, there is still a lot of arable land. Nearly half of these lands are now planned as national farms.

"My dear, you can't be so cruel, right? If you give those desert areas to those refugees, what's the difference between giving them no land at all——" Julie immediately started to pester him. Julie is the queen of Lan Fang, and she also has the responsibility to take care of the people of Lan Fang.

Although the Western Province occupies the two river basins, there are still large areas of desert in the territory. Since Qin Zhiyuan is not going to distribute arable land to those refugees who will join Lan Fang nationality in the future, he can only distribute their severely desertified land, or directly desert and Gobi.

In the general impression of people in this era, deserts and Gobi will not produce any output, so Julie believes that allocating land in deserts and Gobi to refugees is equivalent to sentencing those refugees to death.

"Yes, it's the desert. Don't worry, the desert can also support people--" Qin Zhiyuan blocked Julie's mouth before she could speak. Qin Zhiyuan certainly had his own decision. This was also the only condition for Qin Zhiyuan to accept those refugees again: "The Western Province is now promoting afforestation. The task of ordinary people is to plant ten trees per person per year. For these refugees, they have no land and no jobs. Planting trees is their only job. Each of them has to plant one hundred trees per year. The government provides saplings and gives them basic living security. All they have to do is to ensure that these saplings can survive."

Lanfang Imperial University and related biological research institutes have begun research on cultivating date palm seedlings. Geological experts from the Imperial University have also arrived in Djibouti by plane, preparing to find a location to dig a well in Djibouti. The drilling team went to Djibouti by boat because they had to carry equipment, and they should have arrived now.

The afforestation work in the Western Province is progressing in an orderly manner. Because Qin Zhiyuan directly determined the appropriate tree species, it saved the researchers a lot of trouble. It only takes three months at most for the first batch of date palm seedlings to be cultivated, and then the afforestation work can be fully launched.

"So what happens after planting these 100 trees?" Julie knew that Qin Zhiyuan must have something else to say.

"Keep planting. Half of these trees belong to them. Their future source of livelihood is these date palm trees. As for what kind of life they can live, it depends on how many they can plant." Qin Zhiyuan's calculations are good.

Date palm trees are economic tree species. They can not only provide fruits for humans, but also have high economic value. If you own a date palm forest, your living standard will not be rich, but you will still have no problem with food and clothing.

In fact, once tree planting is promoted on a large scale, it is not difficult to own a forest. There is an idiom in Chinese called "three trees make a forest". Although this is a bit exaggerated, it can also reflect the importance of scale.

The welfare that Qin Zhiyuan mentioned is not only for these refugees. In Qin Zhiyuan's plan, the Lan Fang government will provide ten saplings for free to everyone in the Western Province. These must be cultivated and survived. If they do not survive, they must continue to purchase saplings at their own expense until ten saplings survive.

Of course, if anyone wants to plant more, the Lan Fang government will not refuse. The government will provide saplings to all people in the Western Province at a low price. As long as they survive, whoever plants them will own them.

This policy has been announced. Some people in the Western Province are ready to make a living as a profession. They will be the first batch of practitioners of "desertification transformation" in this era.

"So will half of the trees they plant always belong to the government?" Julie is still a little worried. If that is the case, it is equivalent to artificially dividing them into different levels, which is not in line with Lan Fang's basic policy.

"Of course not, only the first batch. When all the first batch of saplings survive, they can truly obtain Lan Fang nationality. At that time, they will automatically have national treatment, and the trees they planted with their own hands will be their private property." Qin Zhiyuan is quite kind. Once those refugees obtain Lan Fang nationality, Qin Zhiyuan is not prepared to treat them differently.

"Dear, you are so kind." Julie smiled and gave him another kiss.

The original text is available at Liu # 9 @Shu/Bar!

"It seems that you two are usually very idle. You are actually in the mood to pay attention to these things." Qin Zhiyuan remembered to pay attention to this issue.

In fact, Julie and Misha both have jobs. Julie is a member of the Lan Fang Women's Federation. Misha is still Qin Zhiyuan's personal secretary. Of course, Misha's most important task now is to take care of the children.

"It's a rare trip to the Western Province, so we have to go around everywhere - Mrs. Lindsay invited us to Aleppo, so we saw the refugees on the border." Julie is not worried that Qin Zhiyuan will find work for them. At most, she can take up another position, and she doesn't have to punch in at work anyway.

Lindsay is the wife of Auguste Swinburne, the French governor in Syria. France needs to make peace with Lan Fang, and Julie and Misha both have French backgrounds, so for the French, they will not miss any opportunity to deepen their friendship with Julie and Misha.

"Aleppo - the French are really stubborn." Qin Zhiyuan still sighed a little when he thought of Aleppo in the 21st century.

After the establishment of the Western Province, Lan Fang completely sinicized the Western Province, including the place names, erasing any traces of the original land.

Perhaps in the short term, this will cause inconvenience to the locals, but in the long run, it is very necessary to do so.

The Persian nation also has a long history. For such a nation, the centripetal force of its inherent culture cannot be ignored. If Lan Fang wants to ensure long-term stability in the Western Province, it must establish the dominant position of Chinese culture.

While Lan Fang was sinicizing the Western Province, the French did nothing. Aleppo is still Aleppo, and the people there still speak Persian. For that land, the French are still outsiders, and they will be driven away sooner or later.

For the Western Province, the Lan Fang people are now the masters.