Sir Grusen looked at his old friend, Crown Prince Frederick, with bright eyes, and asked, "Fritz, do you really want to hear?"

The crown prince also looked at his old friend with bright eyes and said, "I am from the Hohenzollern family, everything exists for Germany. This is my motto."

"Okay, Fritz, I want to say three points, one, the earth; two, man; three, the city." Sir Gruson stretched out three fingers.

"First, land! I am talking about land not only in a specific sense, but land and the agriculture, industry and trade derived from it." Sir Gruson gave his own explanation of the first word.

"Since I talk about the land first, Fritz, I will give you a set of agricultural data on the current land of Germany. Take Saxony, a major agricultural province in Prussia, as an example. On the existing land, about 370,000 hectares of rye, 120,000 hectares of barley, 230,000 hectares of oats, 110,000 hectares of wheat, and a total of 840,000 hectares of land to plant these four grains."

"The total of root crops and livestock breeding industries is less than 10,000 hectares. When it comes to filling the stomach, root crops are far more effective than cereals, and animal husbandry, which provides meat and transportation tools, is also much more economically beneficial than pure grains."

"What does this data mean? It means that Junckers occupy the most and best lands but produce the cheapest crops. This is not just in Saxony, but in the agricultural regions of Bavaria, Hannover, Brandenburg, Thuringia, Bomenia and Posen, the proportion of root crops to livestock feeding is even lower."

"From 75 years later, Germany has become a pure importer from an agricultural exporter. I learned from the Prime Minister's Office, Director Delbrück, that the amount of wheat grain imported from the United States last year was about 290,000 tons, and 1.28 million tons of grain was imported from Russia, and Germany produced only 410,000 tons last year."

"That is to say, half of the wheat bread on the German table was provided by Russians and Americans. Or to be precise, since 1975, the Junckers have been unable to support all the German people." Sir Grusen gave the current situation of German food.

"Uncle Hermann, the Russians exported 1.28 million tons of grain to Germany in a year? Don't Russians eat grain?" Joey exclaimed to Sir Grusen. Because Joey knew very well that in the master's degree in economic psychology in his previous life, he had compared the grain output of European countries in the 21st century. As a grain importer in the 21st century, Russia's grain output has always hovered at less than 10,000 tons per year.

Although Russia in his previous life lost Ukraine and part of Poland's granaries compared with the current Russian Empire, with the improvement of modern agriculture and Siberia, the former has actually better grain production capacity than the latter.

"Every golden ruble of industrialization of the Russians comes from the food trade. They force their farmers to sell food at the lowest price. In order to quickly obtain the start-up capital of industrialization, Russia does not care about the life and death of these serfs. So why are the Ukrainians and Poles always rebelling? Because they are starved to death when the land is harvested. Russia has abolished the serfdom, haha, that's just a different name. Sometimes I think that the honesty in this regard is much better than the Romanov family." Sir Grusen told Joey the bloody inside story behind Russia's industrialization.

"The Russians often say that the way they sell their food is called hunger output. Little Joy, don't be shocked. If it weren't for your Emperor Grandpa, your father, Prince Bismarck, Earl of Moltke, Earl of Ron, and the Blood Prince, who defeated the French and obtained 500 million francs of startup capital, the industrialization process in Prussia might be more difficult than that of the Russians." Sir Gruson shook his head and smiled.

"Joey, please listen carefully to your Uncle Herman's speech. It would be impolite to interrupt casually." The crown prince looked at his son seriously. Joey stuck out his tongue and quickly poured two glasses of mineral water for Uncle Herman and his father, and sat quietly next to him and listened carefully.

"No matter how you expand the area of ​​land cultivation, our land cannot compare to the United States and Russia. Our agricultural policy is neither supported by the American homestead law nor as many serfs in Russia can squeeze. Speaking of population, I have another data on population. Last year, the population of Germany was 4.6oo million. Population experts expect that the population of Germany will reach 6oo million by the end of this century, and the grain output of this land is completely insufficient to support the growth of this population."

"Also, the tax and production costs of German land are far higher than those of other major food countries such as the United States, Russia, etc. The agricultural crisis in Germany is now almost evolving into a dilemma that puts our agriculture in a dead end in the hands of the Iron Valley Alliance formed by the Prime Minister, the Conservative Party and the Central Party."

"Why is it said to be a dead end? The Prime Minister's Iron Valley Alliance requires raising tariffs on grains? The reason is that foreign grains have impacted the price of grain in Germany. The Junker farmers have been hit by the price, and their interests have been damaged." Sir Grusen looked at the crown prince with sympathy and said, "Including the Hohenzollern family, your family can have 245oo hectares of land, and the Prime Minister's family also has more than 9oo hectares. You two are the main players of the Iron Valley Alliance."

"But can simply increase the tariffs on imports of grains solve the problem? Suppose that for the interests of the Junker farmers, we restrict the import of grains by raising tariffs, then who would think that it would be affected? The residents and workers in cities have to spend more money to invest in food purchases. The annual income of residents and workers in each city is fixed. If they put money into food, they will mean that the purchasing power of other products, especially industrial products, will shrink, which will affect the sales of industrial products and ultimately affect the industry in Germany." Sir Grusen said in a low tone.

"Germany's increase in import tariffs will also lead to other countries raising tariffs as retaliation. The most prominent example is the conflict between us and Russia. The prime minister raised the tariffs on Russian grain last year, and the angry Russians immediately raised the tariffs on German industrial products. The sales of German industrial products are now difficult in Russia, which has led to the bankruptcy of many domestic factories. As a result, German workers and residents cannot eat Russian cheap food, and also have many people unemployed due to Russia's revenge!" Sir Grusen's tone was still heavy.

Joey scratched his head next to him, and then realized that Germany raised its agricultural tax on Russia not only to help Austria, but also to the actual pressure from the country.

"Now the world's major food exporters are India, the United States, Canada, Australia, Russia and Argentina. If we raise tariffs on agriculture on these countries, they will definitely retaliate. By the same raising tariffs on German industrial products, these countries can be the main force in consuming German industrial products. How will Germany's industry develop at that time?"

"You know, our biggest competitor in industrialization is the United Kingdom. They still do not restrict free trade. If German goods and British goods become at the same price level in these countries due to tariff retaliation with these major countries in the world, and our industrial products will even be lost as a label of cheapness, then Germany's industrial dream will be shattered." Sir Grusen depicts the future of the German industrial disaster.

"In 1979, Germany's overall economy is still more than 3/5, and industry accounts for less than 2/5. If we really give up the future of less than 2/5 of German industry in order to protect the more than 3/5 of agriculture, then Germany will never get rid of the title of agricultural country and will always be inferior to others in the world, even worse than Russians!"

Sir Grusen stared at the crown prince Frederick with his bright eyes and asked, "Frederick, are you willing to give up your ideal of industrialization? Go and be a mule and horse that can only cultivate on the Prussian land!"

"No, I will never want to!" Frederick replied firmly.

"I will never!" Joey shook his hand and shouted viciously from the side, "The Russians know that they are trying hard to squeeze their farmers to develop industry, but we give up industrialization for the benefit of a group of farmers standing at the top of the agricultural circle. This is simply unforgivable."

"Okay, Fritz, I believe you, but I want to remind you of the dilemma you are going to face! If you want the workers and residents of the city to eat cheap food, you will face the blockade of the Iron Valley Alliance led by the Prime Minister and the Central Party and the Conservative Party. In addition to this, don't forget that your Hohenzollern family is also the largest Junker in Prussia." Sir Gruson said with a smile.

"Herman, since you asked a question, I believe you will give me your answer." The crown prince replied with a smile after thinking for a while.

At the same time, Joey fell into deep thought, "What will my answer to these questions?"
Chapter completed!