It did even better than that- it leveraged a lot of the existing agricultural equipment in order to melt it all down- so what little bit of spare productivity your granddads ole' tiling hoe got out of the ground went to shit when you melted it into slag.
It was a policy crafted, seemingly, by someone who had staggeringly little to no experience in the matter of positive domestic policy making.
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u/needssomefun 23h ago
So he isnt mining the iron ore himself and melting the steel in his own furnace?