"Your Majesty, can my laboratory also conduct training classes?" Bush has a simple chemistry laboratory here and is also the head of the chemical industry. But because of the lack of oil, he has almost half of his workload, and has little to do except purify whale oil and make pesticides and soaps. So he also wanted to take this opportunity to expand his manpower, and once he had oil, he would have someone to use.

"Yes, but not too much, your training involves too much expertise, and it's better to go to a clergy school and find someone who has read it." Here, the problem of secrecy and the diffusion of technology is negligible, and even if the complete blueprints and chemical recipes are given to each village, it is difficult for the Indians to understand.

"By the way, Joseph, you also have a lot of work on your side, is there anything else you need?" Military and production are very important, and spiritual beliefs should not be taken lightly, and according to the current level of education of the Indians, religion may have to last for a hundred years.

"No, the first class of clergy students from the clergy school have already graduated, and they will soon become missionaries, and two people are in charge of an area near a village. Half a year ago I had sent out the first evangelists along the river all the way west, and the light of God would follow their footsteps everywhere. Joseph replied very simply, although he knew in his heart that this cult was just a set of tricks made up by Hong Tao, but he was still very devoted, and his words and deeds were full of fanaticism.

“…… How are you, your body? In fact, this is what Hong Tao wants to ask the most, and after hesitating for a long time, he still asked.

"Two people are sick, and I have sent them to the heavenly kingdom of the sun god with divine fire. They did not complain, and God told the adults not to worry, and all missionaries had to take a public bath every three days. Joseph was calmer and calmer than Hong Tao imagined, and the calm made people palpitate.

"Actually...... They can be isolated, the disease is not very contagious. Hong Tao was a little unbearable to listen to, there are so many wastelands here, you can live in a place that is not too obstructive, it's a big deal to limit their range of activities, and you don't have to burn them all to death.

"It's their own will, and after living a human life, they don't want to be the same anymore, and serving God should be the best choice." Joseph did not compromise and insisted on his claim.

"Okay, I respect your choice......" Hong Tao didn't want to say more on this issue, on the one hand, it was difficult to convince these people, and on the other hand, he didn't want to scare Luo Youde and them. What exactly leprosy looks like, most people don't know.

The meeting lasted from noon until nightfall, and after understanding the actual situation here, Hong Tao re-fine-tuned the direction of future development and slowed down the original planning speed. Reducing the forces invested in industry and prioritizing agriculture and animal husbandry.

It's not like Jinhewan, there is no grain to buy or exchange, and the nearby villages are not rich, and there is not much surplus to exchange. And this situation will not be greatly improved in the short term, as the territory of the Sun God Kingdom continues to expand and the population grows, eating becomes a big problem. You can't hold muskets and cannons and have to go around grabbing food.

Both the Maya and the Toltecs had a very uneven level of social development. They have their own astronomical calendar, and they have more than one set, two or three sets at the same time. This is very similar to the Chinese lunar and Gregorian calendars, and many old people are still used to using the lunar calendar.

The Mayan calendar was more complicated, and even the solar system broke through. Their Zhuojin calendar is only 260 days a year, and there is not a single planet in the entire Tianyang system that can use this calendar, which means that they did not use the sun as the center of calculation. Even their counting method is different from everyone else in the world, it is twenty-digit, which confuses Hong Tao, a college student in later generations. But the Mayans did not know multiplication and division, and they did not know geometric concepts. How exactly these complex calendars are calculated, and the error is very, very small, is another suspense.

Hong Tao has also seen and heard about the Mayans, their pyramids are all built with huge stone bars, but the Mayans do not use wheels and livestock, and there is no record of large-scale construction of roads, and the pyramids are not built on the side of mountains and rivers, how are these huge stones mined and transported? There are very large squares near each pyramid, and no one knows what this square has to do with the construction of the pyramids.

Then there is the culture of the Maya, who have very fine writing and stone carvings, but only a few people can read them. For example, in the remote Mayan village of Tu, no one can understand what the symbols on those totems are.

In the later generations of southern Mexico, including Belize, Guatemala and other places, there were people who used incense made of herbs to treat diseases, and it was effective, and these medicinal incense was also handed down by the Maya, and the elders of the Tu tribe would make it.

However, the Mayans, who had high attainments in astronomical calendar, mathematics, architecture, medicine, and art, were still cultivating slash-and-burn farming, and the use of land was very inefficient, so the grain production was definitely not high. Add to that the fact that they don't use livestock and don't have advanced farming tools, so it's even more efficient. However, the Mayans attached great importance to the irrigation system, and there was a complete set of irrigation, drainage, and water storage facilities in the village of Tu, which was no worse than that made by Hongtao, but there were no water wheels and manpower was required.

They also grow very few crops, the first major agricultural product is corn, the second major category is beans, and then with tomatoes, cocoa, cotton, plus a tobacco, and that's basically it. If you want to eat meat, you have to go hunting, and the Mayans and most Indians do not raise livestock, cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks and geese, and their resistance to nature is very weak. Once we catch up with this year's drought, we can only eat grass and gnaw wild vegetables.

Hong Tao has not yet had the time to figure out what kind of strange people the Maya are, and he has no time to explore their mysteries, the most important thing at the moment is to improve the productivity here, and when he is really idle, he will take a large army to the Yucatan Peninsula to go around. If the Mayans really have a relationship with aliens, Hong Tao thinks that it is not bad to marry a Mayan wife and give birth to a few children with alien blood for himself, maybe he can go to the aliens next time.

With the flood came not only advanced agricultural tools, iron tools, irrigation equipment, but also many seeds and livestock. After five or six years of training, the cows have begun to lay the second batch of calves, and a small number of ploughing cattle can be seen pulling the plough in the fields. Pigs and sheep develop faster, but people here prefer to raise pigs and sheep together, not only shepherdess, but also pig herders, which is also a spectacle.

Rice, which is well suited to growing in the tropics, has irrigation and drainage systems that allow it to be harvested three times a year, along with maize and other crops, and is currently enough for thousands of people. Wheat is not as good as rice, so it can only be planted for one season at the end of the rainy season, and then harvested in the dry season. Legumes are also very useful, and the Han people can make many kinds of food from beans, such as tofu and soy milk, which is easier with a water-powered mill. In areas where meat and dairy products are scarce, soy products are the best source of protein. So in addition to rice and corn, the number of beans planted is not small.

In the new plan, Hong Tao has doubled the acreage of these three crops. And there was a part of the land left, and the rest was cut down and burned. I can't feed my stomach, and I'm not brain-dead to engage in Nima environmental protection.

Cattle breeding in livestock should be vigorously developed, and sheep and pigs should not be played with, and left to each family to raise and play by themselves. With the whaling industry, there is no shortage of meat, not only will there be no shortage, but sooner or later they will get tired of it.

The most important thing is to raise horses! Horses can not only pull carts and transport, but also serve as war horses. In this tropical jungle area, although the cavalry is not as brave as in the Great Plains, it is not to be underestimated. With horses, the speed and distance of the march will be greatly increased, which in itself is combat effectiveness.

The Arabian horses brought by Hong Tao the first two times have been bred here for six years, and the third generation has come out, but the number is not too much, after all, the foundation is too weak. However, three years ago, the professional horse breeding technicians brought by Hong Tao had begun to semi-manually intervene in the mating of these horses, and the breeding ability was greatly improved. In another two or three years, Swan's army will be able to supply a large number of qualified war horses.

There is also a very important issue, which is the road. Originally, there were no roads here, and at most there was a jungle path between each tribal village. That thing can't be counted as a road, it can only be said that it was stepped on by animals, and people can make do with it. According to the original way of life of the Indians, it doesn't really matter whether there are roads or not, these tribes and villages are self-sufficient, except for a few that are relatively close, and most of them are old and dead.

But now it is different, Hong Tao needs to expand, without roads, he cannot effectively rule the surrounding areas, and he cannot turn the products of the Sun God Kingdom into wealth and influence. If you want to get rich, build roads first, this sentence is just right for the current state of the Sun God Kingdom.

Originally, Hong Tao also wanted to delay the time of large-scale construction, and don't put the treasure capital in one place. Because so far no important raw material has been found here, and that is oil. This kind of energy, which will be called the blood of the earth and the black gold in later generations, is also what Hong Tao needs now. Without oil, cannon casting and steelmaking can be carried out in the same way, but the speed is slower, but the petrochemical industry cannot continue.

(To be continued.) )