Chapter 167: One of the Artifacts That Affect the Fortunes of the Country!
At this moment, Zhu Zilong held this bag of corn seeds in his hand, and felt that the golden light was countless times more dazzling than the light of gold.
Thinking of the depths, my heart beat faster and faster, and I felt a sense of relief, and suddenly the feeling of success came to my heart.
"My Great Song has been saved, oh no, it's my Han people's world that has been stable since then! Ha, haha! The more Zhu Zilong thought about it, the happier he became, and in the end, he even danced with his hands and feet, without any physique at all.
Zhu Zilong has seen countless historical streams before crossing over, and those protagonists are all open to the "God perspective" without exception and know the direction of history. is even better than the current Zhu Zilong!
But they all ignore the great significance of the early emergence of new food and new technologies for any era!
In the countless books he has read, in the vast majority of historical crossings, the protagonist has schemes, grievances, true love, pathos, miracles, strong armies, beauties, and even plagiarized Tang poems and Song lyrics, the Ming and Qing dynasties have a place!
However, I don't know if the protagonists in those are all born in tall families, or if they think that grassroots farming should not be done by traversers.
As a result, in most cases, there are few inventions of new food and new technologies in this area.
However, Zhu Zilong knows what are the advantages of the traverser?
The Traveler has 2 biggest advantages:
First, the information explosion and test-oriented education of later generations have created information that far surpasses that of the ancients. Therefore, every traveler has a rough idea of the direction of history and understands the development (information) of various technologies. That is, the advantage of achieving half a prophet!
Second, the material achievements of later generations are far richer than those of ancient times, and there are various technological achievements (materials) that far surpass those of ancient times.
However, the universal values of freedom, democracy and equality are not a panacea, and only the material base can determine the superstructure. The social system must adapt to the social productive forces, not let the productive forces adapt to the social system.
In terms of practicality, the value of potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn is far more than hundreds of times that of the vast majority of the so-called YY obscenities of the protagonists.
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In fact, that's the 21st century.
As early as 2010, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization hosted the Second International Conference on Nutrition. According to the data, half of the world's population is undernourished and 800 million people are still hungry.
There are still people on the black side who eat tree bark and soil all day long, and countless people in the Middle East can only eat meat once during the Chinese New Year.
This is still the modern era of the food technology explosion, and as a result, the problem of hunger is still plaguing mankind. It is conceivable how correct the saying that the people regard food as the sky.
On the other hand, in ancient times, why did each dynasty of China's dynasties basically only have two or three hundred years of national fortune? For example, the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty all perished in less than three hundred years!
And then there was a nationwide internal war, and in the end, after countless deaths, the dynasty was replaced?
One of the main reasons for this is that there is not enough food to eat, and there is not enough land!
Ancient China was an agrarian country, and the main body of social production was peasants. The smallholder economy is characterized by two characteristics: fragmented and fragile. The ideal living condition that the common people yearn for is "happy years for life, and fierce years are free from death"!
If you can get by, you can barely survive, but if there are natural and man-made disasters, you can't maintain your life.
Disease, natural disasters, wars, heavy burdens and, most importantly, the inability to keep up with food production can lead to the bankruptcy of farmers. After bankruptcy, the peasants lost their land and were reduced from yeoman farmers to tenant farmers.
The peasants, who had lost their land, could not afford to live, and peasant uprisings would occur when social contradictions intensified. After the impact and baptism of the peasant uprising, well, basically that dynasty is not far from the dog belt!
Every time a yeoman farmer becomes a tenant farmer, it means that the central government's actual control over the local area is reduced by one point.
As the prince of the Song Dynasty, Zhu Zilong was only one of the interest classes. Naturally, this would not have been wanted!
However, diseases, natural disasters, wars, and re-endowments are things that are very difficult for humans to control. Therefore, in the past few months, Zhu Zilong has truly substituted himself into the role of the prince.
I have always hoped that one day I would be able to draw the seeds of one of the three crops, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn in the system lottery.
Now when that wish has really come true, how can he not be excited?
There's this thing, and once it's popularized. If it is planted all over the country in the Great Song Dynasty, then the probability of bankruptcy of the common people will only drop from 50 percent to 1 percent.
This is the difference between heaven and earth!
In other words, as long as the common people do not die themselves, they will not starve to death.
This has been proven many times in history, for example, the Kangqian period was touted as a "prosperous era" in large part because of the rapid increase in population.
The population of the whole country in the Ming Dynasty stabilized at about 60 million, exceeding 100 million in the 61st year of Kangxi (1722) and 300 million in the 55th year of Qianlong (1790).
Some people attribute this to the diligence of the Qing rulers, but Yagen is not. It was because of that period that high-yield food crops such as sweet potatoes and corn were introduced at the end of the Ming Dynasty to be promoted in rural areas across the country, resulting in "population expansion".
No matter how poor the people are, they can't starve to death, and naturally the population is growing upwards every day.
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"I have a population of more than 100 million people in the Song Dynasty, and when corn is promoted nationwide, I am looking forward to seeing it become 300 million, 400 million, or 500 million people. At that time, no matter how much you worship literature and suppress martial arts, there will always be a few more famous generals like Yue Fei and a few more bloody sweaters, right? Zhu Zilong muttered softly to himself.
"Lao Tzu really doesn't believe it, when the time comes, can my Great Song still be destroyed by Kublai Khan? Even 500 million pigs, spit can drown your hundreds of thousands of Mongol troops! Oh yes, there is also the Jin Army, whatever you do about the Jin Army, the Silver Army, all ants bite the elephant to death! ”
Excited to this point, Zhu Zilong waved his little fist, and his face was full of excited expressions.
"Wait, the sea of people is invincible in the world. Ha! After the excitement, Zhu Zilong sat down to take a sip of tea, and began to think about himself from state affairs. Well, as soon as he contributed a cement method, he became a prince.
If you contribute to the big killer of corn, I don't know what kind of reward you will get?
Perhaps, should you keep a low profile first?
After all, cement can be made everywhere. It's easy to get the material! But corn seeds are only this packet, if you contribute now, in case there is a mistake in the middle, there is really no place to cry at that time.
The reward is still a trivial matter, it affects the national fortune and modifies the history, and earning points for the main god system is a big deal!
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