Soul Space, the daily meeting of the Twilight Kingdom.

"Your Majesty, your face is not very good. ”

Todd came back to his senses, touched his face, and said in surprise, "Is there one?"

Emerson nodded, "You look like you've been worrying about something......"

Sighing, Todd looked at the kingdom officials in the hall and said, "Where did you report just now?"

"It's my turn!" Monk Joe raised his hand: "Your Majesty, according to your will, I issued a proposal in the name of the Holy Son a few days ago, hoping that the inhabitants will open up and operate farms outside the city, and seeds, farm tools, and materials will be provided by the kingdom free of charge......"

Todd leaned forward and asked, "What happened?"

The monk shook his head helplessly, "No one wants to go farming, and everyone says that they would rather work as a coolie on the docks than go to the fields." There are many jobs in the city, and the pay is good, so you don't have to work hard. The most important thing is that no one wants to get their palms covered in mud anymore. ”

Hearing this, Todd frowned and said nothing.

At this time, Emerson said: "The wheat and bean grains shipped by the sea trade are of good quality and low price. If the residents grow their own crops, there is really no way to compete with the prices in the south, including the costs of manpower and loss, and it is no wonder that they are unwilling. ”

"When it comes to sea trade, I think of one thing. Emerson touched his mustache: "If I'm not mistaken, Your Majesty's proposal of three years of no taxation will soon expire." It was necessary to start discussing the types and rates of taxes within the kingdom, and the recruitment of the corresponding departments and personnel had to be put on the agenda. ”

Todd suddenly spoke, "About the agricultural ...... of Twilight City"

Emerson was stunned, what he said just now was taxes, why did he go back to agriculture?

"Huggins, you asked the royal clerk to draft a document called the 'Five-Year Plan for Agricultural Development.'" Todd thought as he spoke: "First, notify the North Island Merchant Fleet to gradually reduce the amount of grain imported from the South; second, collect tiered tariffs on imported grain from abroad; third, allow immigrants from outside the city to develop and operate their own farms and pastures after registration, and after producing a certain amount of grain, they will be allowed to become residents; fourth, add a new type of land to the land plan outside the city, basic arable land, which can only be used for agricultural purposes and no other purposes; fifth, An announcement was posted that after the end of the three-year tax holiday, the Kingdom of Twilight would continue to be exempt from agricultural taxes. ”

When Emerson heard this, his eyes widened, and he hurriedly dissuaded the king: "Your Majesty, can you think about the tax exemption of agriculture again? No matter which kingdom, the tax on agriculture is the pillar of national development, and it is too ...... to say that it is exempt."

Todd looked at Emerson's eyes, and there was no hesitation in his eyes: "Just do what I say!" Now it seems that the agricultural tax may be a lot, but once the other industries in the kingdom develop, that money is nothing at all." ”

Watching Huggins repeat what he said one by one, Todd nodded with satisfaction, and then asked Terrence: "In terms of crop cultivation, the Dusk West Kingdom is near the sea, and the surrounding land is seriously salinized, is there any good improvement method on the academy?"

"The common methods are rotation tillage and manure, and I don't know much about that. Terrence replied with some embarrassment.

Todd tapped his finger on the table and said to himself, "The land around Dusk West City is not fertile enough, and most of the raw materials in the city are used to make gunpowder, so we must find a way to synthesize fertilizer." Let me think about it, when it comes to chemical fertilizers, in my previous life, it seemed that I used Haber's high-pressure reactor to chemically synthesize ammonia, and then use free molecules to produce nitrogen fertilizers......"

Terrence was puzzled: "Your Majesty, what exactly is the molecule and nitrogen you are talking about?"

Todd slapped his hand on his forehead and smiled bitterly with a headache.

The nitrogen, phosphate and potassium fertilizers used in modern agriculture first need to be synthesized artificially ammonia, and the manufacture of the latter requires the country's industrial technology and chemical theory to reach a relatively high level before it is feasible.

In the previous chemical industry, the industrial production of ammonia using nitrogen and hydrogen as raw materials was not officially launched until 1918. And the current Twilight Kingdom, not to mention the creation of reaction towers, can't even explain this complex set of chemical reactions.

Is there any way to make fertilizer relatively easily?

Seeing that the king was deep in thought again, a table of officials of all sizes remained silent very tacitly.

Emerson exchanged images and sounds from his memories with Terrence through the computer screen, and Mary was intently sipping her coffee while flipping through the famous paintings on the computer.

And Cumberland, the highest military commander of this kingdom, because of this morning's regular meeting, he didn't have anything to do, so he simply picked up the mouse in front of him and looked at the computer.

The computer data and stored information in the soul space are all converted from the memories in Todd's brain.

Because these people who enter the soul space are all people that Todd trusts. So, except for some particularly secret information, a considerable part of the data is actually in an open state.

Cumberland used the mouse, stiffly clicked back and forth, and inadvertently entered a file interface, the folder icon on the left reads "American Drama-Spartacus", and on the right it reads "Hand Rocker Driver".

"Hmm, what are these two?" Cumberland curiously used his mouse to swing between the two folders for a while, and finally opened the folder named "Spartacus". Next, he found a bunch of video icons, so he picked the first file and double-clicked it to start playing.

On the computer screen, an epic battle unfolded before the eyes of the old knight, the impassioned background music sounded, and the two armies fought together in the heavy rain, blood, steel and slaughter, making Cumberland tremble with excitement.

On the other side, the meeting continues.

"There it is!" Todd slammed the table, startling everyone.

After flipping through his memory for a while, Todd shared a teaching video of "Microbial Synthesis of Nitrogen Fertilizer" with the host of everyone present.

The video is 30 minutes long, simple and easy to understand, basically there are no special terms, there are fewer theoretical parts, and there are more operation introductions. It mainly describes a topic of extracurricular teaching for college students - how to use bacteria to synthesize nitrogen fertilizers needed for crops:

In the microbiology community, there is a bacterium called Rhizobiaceae, which was discovered in 1884 and only came to attention in 1975. Rhizobia can live in symbiosis with leguminous plants, form nodules, and fix inorganic nitrogen in air and water into organic nitrogen fertilizer, which in turn provides nutrients to plants.

In terms of agricultural application, the amount of nitrogen fixation per square meter of peanuts inoculated by artificial nodules is 7.2-12.4g per year, that is, the equivalent of 10-17 kg of urea can be obtained from nitrogen fixation per mu of peanuts. Especially in poor soils, 94% of the nitrogen fixed by the nodules is supplied to the plants every day, and only 6% remains in the nodules, which can increase the original yield by about 70%.

The most important thing is that the artificial cultivation of rhizobia is not complicated, and the inoculation process is relatively simple, which is simply the most suitable technology for the agricultural development of the Twilight Kingdom.

While playing the video, Todd explained to everyone: "Regarding the research and development of microbial fertilizers, the Twilight Academy and the Seminary have worked together to first conduct a trial vaccination in a small area to find the best inoculation plan, and then fully promote it." ”

After talking about the development of agriculture, Todd exchanged some kingdom affairs with the officials, and then quietly found the old craftsman Aiden and demonstrated the 3D modeling of the musket in his memory to the other party.

"How? With the current level of industry in the kingdom, can you make this gun?"

The king's expectant eyes made the pressure on the old craftsman's shoulders as heavy as a mountain.

"Your Majesty, this barrel requires drill and coil technology, this powder magazine needs metal-controlled xenomorphs to match, and this trigger requires special springs and firing devices...... In addition, there are many things that I will not be able to see for a while, and I need to study them in detail. ”

Todd nodded: "Before the meeting is over, I will ask Mary to write down this model and some pictures of other muskets, and then let her draw them in reality and give them to you." Old Aiden, gather your best craftsmen and do your best to make this weapon a replica!"

After explaining these things, Todd said goodbye to the officials one by one, intending to close the soul space.

When it was Cumberland's turn, the other party's eyes were almost on the screen, and the whole person was completely immersed in the plot of the TV series, and he didn't even hear the sound of others saying hello.

Terrence leaned over curiously, looked at it a few times and never looked away, and said as he looked, "It's amazing! I can actually go back to the fate of a historical hero through this crystal box!"

Seeing that there were more and more people gathered in front of the computer screen, Todd shouted dryly: "The daily meeting is over, let's go back quickly if we have nothing to do, there are still a lot of things in the kingdom!"

Of course, no one paid attention to him.