Chapter 342: Manipulating the price of agricultural products
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But now that the United States has mastered such technology, there is no reason why China should not master it.
China does not have to go as extreme as the United States to directly close Truss's laboratory, which would be too low-level.
It's not that China can't use it, it's just using such technology on a small scale.
Especially militarily.
and some scientific experiments that require a lot of energy, such as wind tunnels, which consume a lot of energy.
At the same time, it can also be used in water electrolysis to produce hydrogen, hydrogen fuel is the fuel required for rockets, but the production cost is relatively high, mainly due to power problems.
There are other particularly energy-intensive military industries that can use this almost free energy.
At this time, China's industrial infrastructure was far from being too developed, the construction of hydropower stations was relatively slow, and most of the electricity was thermal power, which was generated from coal, but also with methane, natural gas, and oil power generation was also very common.
With the development of people's livelihood, the electricity consumption of residents has begun to increase, and the electricity consumption of enterprises is also large.
The military industry is an extremely power-hungry electric tiger, and in order to maintain the operation of the military industry, the Chinese Imperial Government has built many thermal power stations.
Just as the United States blackened the skies of cities during World War I because of the production of munitions, a similar phenomenon has occurred in China.
Some cities with a dense military industry, during the First World War, the sky was also blackened.
After Truss came to China, Xia Jun was not too active in the construction of ordinary power stations, which is a waste of resources!
If you use the Tesla electric circle to generate electricity, then what do you need those ordinary power stations to do?
However, the popularity of Truss seems to have a greater loss to China, because China also has to sell oil!
Let's follow the original history!
At the same time that the Truss electric ring is used on a small scale to solve the problem of electricity consumption in the military industry, the Chinese Empire has already embarked on the West-East Gas Transmission Project.
Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have large quantities of natural gas, and China could build a pipeline to transport natural gas back to the country.
Natural gas power generation is good, has a great competitive advantage, and is less polluting.
At the same time, the oil pipeline of the large oil fields in the Russian Far East is also under construction, and China will be very rich in energy in the future, and there is no need to worry about the problem of fuel shortage.
In terms of energy, since Truss came to China, there have been no problems.
Even if China does not have oil in the Middle East, it will not be pinched by anyone.
Truss and Xia Jun had some discussions on scientific research projects, Truss is a great inventor, such as the electron microscope, wireless telephone, the Internet, television and other inventions were the first to be proposed, and this was only his research before the age of forty.
And his research results after the age of forty have been suppressed.
Truss was already fifty years old at this time, and according to history, he lived to be in his eighties.
Truss is also a scientist with supernatural abilities, and his inventive talents are partly related to these abilities.
Some monks can understand the past, present, and future, as well as wandering to distant extraterrestrial planets after cultivating the Three Enlightenments, and some naturally awakened supernatural abilities can also do the same, but very few of them naturally awaken.
The so-called sages in ancient China were able to spy on heaven and earth.
One life, two fortunes, three feng shui, four accumulation of yin virtue, and five reading. Yin virtue is the knowledge that is cultivated, which is accumulated by returning to the innate nature, and reading is the accumulation of the day after tomorrow.
The earth is not without ancient civilizations, the famous Atlantean civilization is the closest ancient civilization to modern humans.
There are some prophets in the West who can see the past and the future, but they have naturally awakened their abilities, and these prophets also have some descriptions of the Atlantean civilization, among which the Sphinx was built by Atlantis.
The pyramids, which were not actually built by the Egyptians, are also a product of the Atlantean civilization, which is a technology to obtain free energy, and the mathematical model of the Chinese Bagua map is a matrix of 64 pyramids perfectly combined, thus simulating the operation of the universe.
The Atlantis civilization is a very technologically advanced civilization, and China has inherited the bloodline and culture of the ancient civilization, but it may not be Atlantis, but an ancient civilization similar to Atlantis in Southeast Asia, and the result is the same as the Atlantis civilization, the entire island has sunk, and human beings have found a large number of pyramids on the bottom of the sea in Southeast Asia in later generations.
This is the reason why China is so precocious, and the Han people have such a high IQ.
However, the Mayan civilization should inherit the most, they even built pyramids, and there are some remains of pyramids in China, but they have not been found on a large scale, only a few have been found.
The Chinese civilization and the Indian civilization have a great relationship, and the pronunciation of the Indian language is very similar to that of ancient Chinese, and the meaning is also the same. At the same time, there is also a dragon in the Indian civilization, and at the same time, in the living habits of the Indians, you can see the former Indian civilization, and there was a tendency to move towards the cultivation of the whole people, but with the mysterious disappearance of the Mayan civilization, this process was also interrupted.
In ancient times, the ancient Han people obviously had no contact with the Indians, but many of the languages and customs were the same, which is very strange.
The only explanation is that one or two ancient civilizations were destroyed, and their remnants were displaced to China and the Americas.
It can be said that both the Chinese and the Indians inherited a part of the ancient civilization.
The lineage of Chinese and American Indians may have originated from an ancient civilization similar to Atlantis in Southeast Asia.
After the sinking of the ancient civilization of Atlantis, its remnants may have been exiled in Europe, and their surviving texts were burned and sealed by the European Holy See, and many of them are still preserved in the Vatican.
The great enlightenment of the Spring and Autumn Period was the result of the injection of ancient civilization, but the emergence of the violent Qin interrupted this process, Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit warlocks, and burned a large number of ancient civilization classics, only a few classics such as the Book of Changes survived.
Some people support the Qin state, because it is said that this unified the basic territory and formed the later Han nationality.
But everything has two faces, the brutality of the Qin State does exist, and it can be said that the decline of the ancient Han people began in the Qin Dynasty.
During the Qin Dynasty, the fate of a nation was already sealed.
During the Republic of China, some people also discovered that the ancient Han people were actually descendants of ancient civilizations.
(I forget who it is, it seems to be a point of view put forward by a relatively high-level thinker of the Republic of China, at that time Xiaocai's feeling was that it was too yy, but with the deepening of the research, it was found that this was not yy, but a fact, but as time went by, we inherited only a part of the bloodline and a small number of cultures, and the actual advantage was almost nothing) Truss can be said to be a brilliant scientist, and China has picked up a treasure at this time.
For such a scientist with special abilities, Xia Jun discussed the problem of abilities with Truss, and mentioned that some monks could be sent to assist him in related research.
Xia Jun didn't want to transfer the monk as a guinea pig, this was to act as Truss's assistant.
This proposal made Truss very happy, and if there were monks to cooperate with him in scientific research, it would obviously be twice the result with half the effort. Although monks can carry out internal evidence, they have different personal realizations, and it is impossible to transform what they see into technology. And Truss can clearly do that.
…… Soon it was the autumn harvest period again, and in 1919 China's autumn harvest suffered some disasters, and Shanghai and Jianghuai areas continued to rain after spring, with heavy rain and hail from time to time.
The stamens of cotton in the Jianghuai region were knocked down by the rain, and the output of Jianghuai cotton was reduced this year.
However, in the Western Regions, cotton was harvested.
At the same time, cotton cultivation had not yet begun in the newly opened Middle Eastern provinces of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, but in Kazakhstan, Russia, the Imperial Agricultural Company was equally abundant.
The Chinese Empire's cotton production has reached a point where it has almost monopolized 100% of the international cotton market, and this year China took the opportunity to raise cotton prices because of the Jianghuai disaster.
At this time, China's cotton exports almost occupied the global market, so the cotton planting industry in other countries shrank seriously.
China has gained pricing power over cotton.
Because cotton is a season of cotton, China has monopolized the international cotton market, and cotton production in other countries has shrunk.
China can take the opportunity to raise prices to make greater profits.
When the price is raised to the point that cotton cultivation in other countries is on the rise, next year China will start to lower the price of cotton and push it down to an unprofitable price.
As a result, cotton farmers in other countries have suffered heavy losses.
Like a roller coaster, China can raise prices whenever it wants, and cut prices whenever it wants.
The cotton planting industry in other countries will be further shrunk if it is tossed up in this way.
China, on the other hand, seeks greater profits through such price indulgence.
In China, textile companies can get cotton at a constant price, and when the price of cotton rises in the international market, they can use cotton at a lower price.
How to increase the international price of cotton is also learned, if you want to make the domestic cotton price different from the international cotton price, that is, to levy export tax.
Because the international cotton market has been monopolized by China, other countries have not produced much cotton, and they are desperate to buy China.
China's cotton export tax has been raised, and other countries still have to continue to buy it.
However, because there is no export tax on cotton in China, the price is still constant.
At the same time, in terms of soybean planting, China's soybean cultivation has also developed rapidly, and in the three northeastern provinces, the soybean planting area continues to expand.
The high yield of soybeans and the mechanization of agriculture have also given China's soybeans a monopoly on the market.
In terms of sugar, China's sugar also has a monopoly on the international market.
At the same time, China cultivated a large number of hemp crops, and produced a large number of ropes and textile hemp. Raw silk has achieved an unshakable monopoly position in the international market.
With the administration of the Jiaozhi Prefecture, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture also began to plant a large number of high-yielding rubber trees in the Jiaozhi area.
This high-yielding rubber tree, which produces twice as much natural rubber as a regular rubber tree, has been cultivated in large quantities in the Nanyang Republic two years ago.
The Nanyang Republic, Cochin, Taiwan, and Hainan all began to grow tropical cash crops at this time.
Palm trees, sisal, cocoa, coffee beans, rubber, bananas, pineapples, mangosteens, coconuts and other cash crops are cultivated in large quantities in this area.
Agriculturally, the Chinese Empire developed in an orderly manner.
The planting of various cash crops is expanding every year, and because of the careful layout of the Ministry of Agriculture, the planting area of these cash crops is not blindly expanded.
Last year, the value of China's agricultural exports to the world reached 1.8 billion Asian dollars, which may not seem like much, but in fact it is already very much in agriculture.
And this is only a direct export of agricultural products, a lot of cotton is spun into finished products and then sold, and the direct sale of cotton is not too large in terms of the total.
During the harvest season, all provinces in China are busy.
The standard of living of the people rises every year after the autumn harvest.
And every year there is a big problem that plagues the people, that is, the capacity is not enough, and this year this problem has been greatly solved.
China's annual production of trucks has grown to three million units, and production is growing rapidly.
Xia Jun began to cheat on a large scale again, buying hundreds of various vehicle production lines in one go, and expanding the production capacity of trucks to six million next year.
In terms of tractor production capacity, due to the early development of tractors, the annual production capacity has reached 8 million vehicles, and a large number of them can be exported every year.
At this time, the main means of transportation of agricultural products in China was still tractors, but the speed was very slow.
However, it is cheaper, the price of a new tractor is only 60 yuan, and basically ordinary workers can buy one after five months of work.
At the same time, tractors are also a kind of thing that Xia Jun bought in large quantities from the exchange platform, so there are a lot of tractors in China at this time.
As soon as the autumn harvest arrives, there is the roar of small diesel engines everywhere.
According to the problems of the means of transportation reacted by the lower classes, Xia Jun launched an agricultural tricycle using gasoline engines this year.
Agricultural tricycles do not carry as much cargo as tractors, and their power is not as great as that of tractors, but they are lighter.
In normal times, individual farmers may not need to transport so many things when they manage the cash crops they grow, and a lightweight agricultural tricycle is very useful.
Usually transport anything outside to sell, if not much, you don't need to drive a tractor.
The improvement of means of transportation has greatly reduced the labor intensity in agriculture.
At the same time, China's tractors are also famous in the world, and the sales are very good, China's "Yongfeng brand" tractor, is a brand of East China Group, and the advertisement is - Yongfeng tractor, the same engine as the chariot.
The engine used in the Yongfeng brand tractor was indeed used in combat vehicles, but it was a relatively early model, and the Crusher 1 used this kind of engine.
This type of combat vehicle was seen in large numbers on the battlefields of Europe.
When countries buy tractors, the first choice is China's tractor, China's tractor is a relatively mature engine.
First of all, this is a wheeled type, no longer a tracked type, and special tires solve the problem of grip.
At the same time, Chinese tractors are very good in quality and the best in terms of power.
Moreover, China East China Group also provides after-sales service.
China exports a tractor, the final price will reach hundreds of Asian dollars, which is the result of export tax plus import tax, but it is still very hot.
(To be continued)