Greece to roman road

After the cabinet meeting, the Greek government issued a population policy: Greek families with four or more children will receive a monthly child care subsidy of 50 drachmas until these children reach the age of 18.

At the same time, there was also an administrative order to encourage reclamation - the Land Grant Decree. From now on, after Greeks reclaim wasteland, as long as the area does not exceed 2 hectares and they have been cultivated steadily for 5 years, the ownership of these cultivated lands will belong to them. Owned by pioneers.

These lands were not limited to the wastelands within Greece, but also included the newly acquired Macedonian part of Greece, the Epirus region, the wastelands of the Albanian region, and especially the swampy wetlands of the Albanian coast.

With the reform of the government, after the Greek government was given the right to tax the rich, its finances have been greatly guaranteed, and the government has also taken major actions.

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Peloponnese Peninsula, an ordinary olive grove.

"Dad...Dad"

Ancales ran excitedly into the olive grove, waving the government's leaflet in his hand, leaning up and shouting to his father, who was standing on a wooden ladder with his head raised to pick olives: "The government's leaflet."

Moraidinis looked down at his excited son, wiped the sweat from his face, and asked doubtfully: "Ankares, what's the matter?"

"The government's brochure says that retired soldiers are encouraged to go to Albania to reclaim wasteland," Ankares explained while handing the brochure to his father.

"What are you talking about? Albania? You are alone. The mountains are high and the roads are far away. What kind of land can you cultivate in Albania? It's good if you don't starve to death." While speaking, he leaned over and handed the wooden basket in his hand to Ankaras. Go down the A-shaped ladder.

"Do you think it's easy to open up wasteland? When you get to that barren mountain and wild land, with a hoe, how long will it take you to open up a piece of land that can be cultivated?" Molaidinis scolded.

"You, stop thinking about ideas. After I finish picking the fruits in the olive grove in the past two days, we will go to the shipping companies in Piraeus Port with you. In previous years, these companies needed a lot of seamen. Yes, the salary is pretty good, and you can try your luck overseas.”

Ancales, now 19 years old, responded to the government's call and enlisted in the army during the 1896 war.

After the war, because he had no intention of developing in the army, he received an army pension of 500 drachmas and had been demobilized for two months.

"I didn't go alone. Under the management and organization of the army, everyone went to Albania together and worked together to reclaim those wastelands," Ankares explained to his father.

In order to take care of the army, under Constantine's planning, the army's General Staff planned to organize retired soldiers who had no other jobs to open up wasteland in Albania.

Not only can it increase the local Greek population and dilute the number of MSLs, it can also effectively develop Albanian land.

At the same time, the four nobles who were previously enfeoffed by Greece had their noble fiefdoms ranging from one thousand to two thousand acres, and they were all in Albania.

Organizing retired soldiers to open up wasteland together also has another purpose, which is to imitate the advanced experience of Western Europe and organize agricultural cooperatives.

After entering the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution brought advanced agricultural production technology, and traditional agriculture also changed.

Due to insufficient strength of some small and medium-sized farms, in order to cope with foreign competitors, Greek small farms generally need to increase production, improve agricultural production technology, and maintain agricultural product prices.

Due to the imbalance of power, some businessmen always intend to purchase agricultural products at low prices while selling seeds and tools to small farmers at high prices.

Therefore, these small and medium-sized farmers urgently need to unite to strive for common interests.

This time Greece organized soldiers to open up wasteland for the purpose of exploring the experience of modern agricultural cooperatives.

After hearing his son say that it was the military organization that started the land reclamation, Moraidinis' expression softened a bit.

The second son Ancares is already 19 years old. According to tradition, his main property should be handed over to the eldest son to inherit. The younger son Ancares sponsored a sum of money and went out to start the family business.

On December 21, 1897, under the organization of the General Staff, Ancales and other companions took a boat to the port of Vlora.

Under the organization of retired lieutenant Degorios, Ancales disembarked from the ship with 500 companions.

The next morning, everyone lined up, carrying shovels on their shoulders and pulling two draft horses, and walked out of the city of Vlora.

About ten minutes later, the captain who led the way took everyone to a stream and asked everyone to put down their tools.

Ancares looked at the lush woods around him with a confused look on his face, "Captain Degorios, is this our destination?"

"Haha, Ancares, what do you think we are here for? We are here to open up wasteland," Degorios, who had a beard, patted the bewildered Ancares on the shoulder and said.

Ankares was indeed caught off guard. He originally thought that the destination would be a remote village, but he did not expect that it would be in a wilderness.

Seeing everyone helping to arrange things, Ankares curiously walked into the sparse woods and felt his feet go soft. At first, he thought it was a thick layer of fallen leaves on the ground, until his shoes felt wet and when he looked down , only to find that black muddy water was overflowing from the ground under his feet.

"Oh, why is there water underground here?" Ankares asked in surprise.

"This is a coastal swamp in Albania, how can there be no water?" Captain Degris watched Ancares enter the woods, worried that he would fall into the mud, and followed him.

While speaking, he stretched out his hand to pull Angeles back.

"Don't enter the woods casually. If you accidentally fall into the quagmire without assistance, it will be fatal." Angeles, who is in his thirties, had already learned about these situations from the army's notice before setting off.

"Due to the cover of leaves and weeds, it looks like hard ground, but it is actually very dangerous."

"But, Lieutenant, how can such land be used for farming? Are we in the wrong place?" Angeles asked curiously.

Degorios took Angeles to a draft horse, patted the water pump on it, and said: "Why did the military give us these water pumps? It is to drain these swamps so that we can cultivate them." ah"

At this moment, two young men came over holding a wooden box in their hands. Angeles stepped forward to look at it. In the cardboard box were twenty or thirty chicks, and in the wooden box were two piglets.

Degolios said while unloading the water pump from the horse: "We need to speed up the progress. The military department has a policy to support us. A regiment stationed in the city of Vlore will give priority to purchasing food from us in the future."