Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 252

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Emmayinur’s suggestion was recognized by many nobles.

Seeing that many Greek upstarts agreed to unite to develop agriculture in Macedonia, Constantine naturally breathed a sigh of relief.

“I can tell you in advance that in the next few years, food prices will be at a high level.” In order to increase everyone’s enthusiasm for developing agriculture, Constantine took the initiative to remind everyone.

“Soon the Grain Reserve Bureau under the government department will purchase grain in unlimited quantities and carry out grain storage in advance.”

“So, whether it’s wheat, or rye, or corn, potatoes, beets, etc., or cotton, tobacco, it doesn’t matter what crop you grow on your land, you guys, you can grow it, I promise , these crops will be in demand internationally.”

In fact, Constantine and Venizelos did not reach an agreement on the issue of food reserves in advance.

It’s just that Constantine, considering the possibility of food shortages that Greece may face in the future, insisted strongly. Venizelos reluctantly agreed to Constantine and agreed to the Grain Reserve Bureau to complete this task.

At present, the fiscal deficit of the Greek government remains high. It has just ended a war. The government’s accumulation over the years has been exhausted, and it has issued hundreds of millions of national debts to the three major banks in Greece.

Due to the hostile actions of Bulgaria on the border, despite the end of the war, it is still forced to maintain more than 200,000 troops, and this does not include the more than 100,000 indigenous troops of the Congo who are gathering.

The government’s expenditure on the daily consumption of the army has not been reduced, but has been increasing.

Venizelos believes that it is almost unlikely that Constantine’s so-called Greece will face a crisis of food shortages in the coming world war.

The reason is that even if a war that affects the whole of Europe does break out, Greece can also transport food from the Congo in time by shipping to fill the gap in Greece.

Venizelos believes that it is inappropriate to spend huge sums of money to reserve food when financial revenue is stretched thin.

Nonetheless, Venizelos agreed to Constantine’s insistence on speeding up the government to guide and encourage the people to exploit the agricultural potential of the Macedonian region.

Constantine considered that once the war really came, the Mediterranean region would also be affected, such as the submarines of Germany and Austria-Hungary that could also ravage in the Mediterranean in the original historical time and space.

And Greece’s rapidly growing population.

Therefore, Constantine now unabashedly encourages everyone to develop their own fiefs.

And Emmanuel’s proposal to raise funds to build a fertilizer plant and a seed company also made Constantine very agree.

From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, it was the period of vigorous development of the fertilizer industry, and people have clearly recognized the important role of fertilizers in the growth of crops.

Fertilizers are also an important import commodity for Greece. Before, Greece imported about 8 million drachmas worth of phosphate and potash fertilizers from the UK every year to supply Greece’s domestic agricultural needs.

The high cost of importing chemical fertilizers is also an important reason why Greek farmers are reluctant to grow wheat.

“Speaking of fertilizers, I remembered that I heard that Hubble in Germany invented a method of using air to synthesize ammonia, which can be used to make nitrogen fertilizers,” Constantine said.

If Greece can learn this technology, as long as there is sufficient nitrogen fertilizer, it will not be afraid that Greece’s agriculture cannot develop rapidly, and it will play a positive role in getting rid of the embarrassing state of Greek agriculture.

Even though Constantine didn’t know much about chemistry, he had heard the name of the Hubble air nitrogen fixation method. After all, it was known as “the technology of obtaining food from the air”.

Turning stone into gold is indeed a trick, but it is not impossible for a pie to fall from the sky.

Air-to-ammonia technology, isn’t it a pie in the sky?

In addition to the factors of war, the reason why Constantine was so eager to promote the agricultural development of Macedonia was the concern of the population growth of Greece.

Greece’s population has grown rapidly under the government’s package of policies to encourage fertility.

Especially after this war, it is no surprise that Greece will usher in a baby boom, and those young Greeks who participated in the war will be the main force of this baby boom.

In the past, Greece had a small population, and even if some food was imported from the international market, there was no problem.

Now that the population of Greece is growing rapidly every year, the serious food production problem has to be taken seriously.

According to Constantine’s estimates, the population of Greece would soon exceed 10 million.

As for why people who participated in the war are more willing to have children, well, it is probably because after witnessing the cruelty of the war, people prefer a quiet life and recognize the beauty of life.

As the population increases, the production of food in Greece has become an urgent problem that needs to be solved.

Constantine naturally thought of the incomparably important role of chemical fertilizers in the development of modern agriculture.

The human population growth curve is actually accompanied by the use of chemical fertilizers.

At the beginning of 1900, the total population of the world was about 200 million, and in about a century, this number rapidly ballooned to 700,000,000 or 800 million.

If Greece can quickly produce enough fertilizer, then the agricultural problem will be solved.

But Emanuel shook his head after hearing about it: “This technology, I heard news from the Intelligence Department, seems to be immature, and the product is more expensive.”

“It is said that Haber and BASF (German chemical giant) cooperated to set up a factory in Ludwig for production”

Speaking of this, Emmayinur said helplessly: “According to the information from the Intelligence Department, the Germans value this technology very much, and it is impossible to get it.”

“In addition, this technology is not yet perfect. According to the information obtained by the Intelligence Department, the products produced by this new technology are relatively expensive, and most of them are used as chemical products~www.mtlnovel.com~ Only a tiny fraction of it was used by the Germans as fertilizer.”

This kind of answer naturally made Constantine feel a little lost. For example, the synthetic ammonia technology can be used to produce explosives, suitable for war, and can also produce chemical fertilizers, increase grain production, and dual-use technology. Constantine Ding is naturally salivating.

If it can be successfully introduced, Greece will not have to import a large amount of saltpeter every year as a raw material for ammunition production.

No way, the important raw material for the production of gunpowder, saltpeter, was almost monopolized by the British.

In saltpeter, an important commodity, the British controlled the trade channels.

At this time, almost all saltpeter in the international market was under the control of the British.

Without enough saltpeter imported from England, the army simply could not fight because there was not enough gunpowder.

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