Dominate the Country

How many people are needed to manage a super-large farm with at least 50,000 acres of land?

Are 1,000 people enough?

50 acres per person, to be honest, 1,000 people are enough.

But a new star farm can have 1,000 people, but other farms may not have 1,000 people. Moreover, a farm has at least 50,000 acres, but no one stipulates that it must be 50,000 acres.

These lands were rented from local tribes by Chen Han after he contacted the local tribal chiefs, using money, guns, munitions, and supplies.

The local natives may not be able to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of three-digit numbers, let alone measurement. These farms are said to be 50,000 acres, but in fact the number is much larger than this number.

So, 1,000 people may not be enough. In order to put the fields into production as soon as possible, Chen Han also recruited some people from the surrounding tribes.

The Tianfang Peninsula is the origin of Tianfang culture, but the natural environment here is so harsh.

It is not to say that a brilliant civilization cannot be born in a place with a bad natural environment. It may be that the Mongols ravaged the Arabian Empire too much. Since the collapse of the Arabian Empire, there are only tribal chiefs and tribal elders along the Red Sea coast, but no dynasty.

In this regard, the Red Sea coast is not as good as the northern part of the peninsula where the climate is even worse. In the later Omani territory, the Yariba Dynasty and the current Said Dynasty were established successively.

But this makes it easier for Chen Han to gain greater benefits in the southeast corner of the peninsula.

Although the chiefs here are much more "civilized" than the African chiefs, they are still just as greedy in essence. As long as they are willing to pay them gold, gems, weapons, etc., they can cede land at will.

Tens of thousands of acres of land seem to be not small, but in fact they are only dozens of square kilometers, and the vast Arabian Peninsula has more than 3 million square kilometers of land, although many places here are covered by endless yellow sand.

The tribes here mainly make a living by raising horses, goats, and camels. The agricultural products are mainly dates, which have been produced in a single way for a long time, and the food cannot be self-sufficient.

After a large number of Chinese people arrived, the local tribes also knew that the Chinese were not easy to provoke. Their nobles and elders had already received their benefits. These people had a completely laissez-faire attitude towards the Chinese who came across the ocean.

Several super-large farms have hired many local natives from the tribes around them. Although these people are not farming, they are enough to do some physical work, such as building houses and diverting water canals in the fields.

When Huang Dingyou and others arrived here, it was already autumn, but the temperature of the peninsula is not divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter, and it is high all year round. The climate in autumn is just better than the scorching sun in summer.

Those Tianfang natives hired from the surrounding tribes like their current life very much. Every morning, they eat multi-grain bread and eat some "Lao Chen" brand rice at noon. If the work is heavy, they will add an extra salted fish or a bowl of meat bone soup. If not, they will eat green vegetables, radish, tofu + pickled vegetables and pickles. In the evening, they eat salty porridge or bread with potato soup. The food conditions are not good, and the work is not easy, but the local natives are very happy to do it.

Huang Dingyou has decided to rush to Egypt as soon as possible, but before that he has to find something to do, just like here, he can't figure out what supports these natives to work here in such a difficult environment? You know, they only have one eagle dollar a month. Such a price would be about the same in China thirty years ago.

A grassroots manager of the farm revealed the answer to Huang Dingyou: First of all, the living standards of these tribal natives in the tribe are not high. Their descendants in one or two hundred years will probably spend money like water-although no one except Chen Ming knows this now, but the current Tianfang Peninsula is a place where no birds lay eggs. Even the Ottomans, who were extremely greedy for land, did not think of completely incorporating the Tianfang Peninsula into their rule when their strength was at its peak. In the 17th century, when their strength had not yet declined significantly, the Ottomans who were driven back to the central and western parts of the peninsula from the eastern part of the peninsula did not continue to move to the eastern end of the peninsula-the Sultan of Istanbul only asked the local tribes to kneel down to him. This is like the Tusi and Jimizhou in China.

It is because the environment here is too bad. It is not easy for the army to march eastward. There are no holy places of Islam in the central and western parts of the peninsula.

The invasion of the Mongols a few hundred years ago really made the essence of the world of Islam disappear. The tribes and the indigenous peoples here have lost most of their knowledge. Now they only have a firm heart for faith and a brain full of ignorance.

The world of Islam is inseparable from the "Allah Sutra". Developed on the basis of the scientific and cultural heritage of ancient Greece, the brilliant achievements of mathematics, astronomy, military force, engineering, etc. in the past have now become nothingness. All they have left is the "Allah Sutra". Therefore, the ignorance here can be imagined.

And in a place shrouded in ignorance, what kind of production and life here will be like can be imagined.

Compared with their original life, the current life of having enough food and getting paid is already good.

And according to the agreement between them, after five years, the natives working on the farm will get five acres of farmland each.

These lands need to be paid, but the tax rate is very low. Compared with their original life, this tax rate is the true mercy of God.

So they are happy to enjoy their current life.

On the premise that they don't have to go hungry, each person can still save 12 yuan of Yingyang every month. According to the ideal calculation, they can save 60 yuan of Yingyang in five years.

Finally, they don't have to worry about being oppressed by the tribes here. For at least the next ten years, they will be farm people, and the tribe's laws and rules cannot control them. Even if they turn to believe in the Sanqing Buddha, the tribe can't do anything about them.

They are like 'slaves' bought into the farm.

"Their current life is not bad, but the taste of the food may not be consistent with their traditions. But Tianfang people can definitely eat the food cooked by the chef." The administrator said, "And I think they are better here. And look forward to it. Each person has five acres of land. When the imperial court first launched its army, the price was just this. The Tianfang natives on the Red Sea did not grow dates every day. They also had five acres of land to survive on. Such good conditions?”

"Let me tell you, our farm, if we wait ten or eight years to see it, it will become a city." Such a piece of land is not big, but it is bigger than Macau. Just using it for weight is a waste.

The Suez Canal can be dug for another hundred or thousand years.

Sooner or later these farms will run out of ‘markets’. Will China still return these territories to the indigenous tribes here? How is that possible?

Perhaps in the next three to five years, there will still be patches of farmland here. But when the Suez Canal is completed, various buildings will spring up here in the shortest possible time. Shipyards, repair yards, warehouses, docks, regular military camps, residential areas and even shops will appear one after another, adding a touch of vitality to this generation's desolate coastline.

In the next few years, China will use more wealth to 'buy' this land. There is no need to worry that the local chiefs will not agree. As long as China secretly supports one or two chief tribes and allows them to fight, which is not uncommon on the Tianfang Peninsula anyway, arms will immediately become ten times more popular.

Although the tribal chiefs here nominally surrender to Istanbul, they are more aware of Istanbul's attitude towards them.

The Great Uprising of Tianfang in history, as well as the 'King of Tianfang' by Hussein ibn Ali of the Hashemite family, and the declaration of independence of the peninsula, directly nailed Istanbul to the pillar of shame of horrific massacres. The speeches all indicate the long-standing conflict between the tribes here and the Ottoman Empire.

Therefore, these farms on the Red Coast are the foundation for the empire to truly gain a foothold in Tianfang World.

"When the infrastructure is completed, we will hire a larger number of local people to help us build reservoirs and dig diversion canals along a nearby river that flows into the sea. In this semi-arid zone with little rainfall, fresh water resources are undoubtedly extremely precious. "We will never allow the precious fresh water to flow into the sea in vain." The administrator said frankly that the final result of this land would be a 'Jinder Nagar' at worst.

The acquired land will never fly away from Chen Han's hands again.

Chen Ming will not aggressively advance to the southwest of the peninsula, which is the most densely populated area of ​​the peninsula. All Chen Ming needed was the southeast corner, which would later become the territory of Yemen. In the next few years, Chen Ming's goal is still in the south.

He also doesn’t know whether the British will continue to be interested in Cape Town after he announced the Suez Canal plan.

If the British are really no longer interested in Cape Town, then God bless them. It's just that the possibility is very small.

Chen Han's 'erosion' of Tianfang's world will be cut through with 'soft means' in the next hundred years. As long as his own interests are not affected, Chen Ming will not take the initiative to fall out with the Ottoman Empire; nor will he take the initiative to show his fist to Tianfang World.

The cities along the Red Sea will gather a lot of Chinese, but their purpose of coming to Tianfang is more to do business, rather than to plunder land like in the Americas.

Chen Han will spread his own culture and civilization bit by bit here and weave his own network of relationships bit by bit.

He can even become the protector of the peninsula tribes. Then I watched the Ottoman Empire decline in repeated games with the Western powers. Watching this powerful empire collapse amid its numerous problems that are difficult to reform.

As long as the Elam family can control Egypt, even if the Suez Canal is filled with Ottoman troops, it cannot escape the palm of Nanjing.

Time has come to the last three or two months of this year.

This term's cabinet will only have its last year next year.

In the next year, the second war between China and Spain will come to an end.

Chen Ming doesn't believe that Spain still dares to stand up, and similarly, China is really full in America. After swallowing the entire Mexico and the entire Central American Isthmus in one gulp, coupled with what the Spaniards were going to spit out at the negotiating table, Chen Han felt a little indigestion.

The bigger the territory, the better.

If a seemingly huge land cannot be controlled well, like the Ottoman Empire on the Tianfang Peninsula, it will simply be a hotbed for local power. Chen Ming would rather eat the Spanish lands in the Americas bit by bit than see the native Americans - mixed-race people and Indians - rise bit by bit.

Politics is a very complicated thing.

Those Indians who pursued "freedom" would be Chen Han's best friends under Spanish rule. But when Spain retreated, they would become the best friends of the Spaniards.

"Freedom" is really the greatest original sin.

China can support them in pursuing "freedom" in the face of the Spaniards; the Spaniards can also support them in seeking "freedom" in the face of China...

But Chen Ming is not Lei Feng! Whether it is for the Indians or for the Tianfang people.