In Downing's plan, the residents along the canal must have begun to plan, and Liebig of the University of Munich will also become a consultant for the agricultural support of the settlement, and the residents will build high-yield water vapor circulation soilless hydroponic greenhouses.

In Munich greenhouses, we should do everything possible to increase the light transmittance of the greenhouses, and in the Red Sea desert area, we can do the opposite - shading, so as not to burn vegetables that should not appear in the desert area.

A large number of vegetables can be soilless hydroponics, and the staple food, which is easy to store and transport, does not need to waste energy in the desert.

Now that Liebig has tasted the sweetness of soilless hydroponics, (most of which have been successful), it is time to introduce the killer feature of agriculture - fixing nitrogen from the air and producing nitrogen fertilizer.

There are all kinds of wealthy people in the City of London, and one of them makes a fortune selling seabird droppings, because nitrogen-rich fertilizer is scarce. Seabird droppings are rich in nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers, and the superphosphate discovered by Liebig can solve the problem of phosphate fertilizer, but not the problem of nitrogen fertilizer. Therefore, sea bird droppings are a strategic resource. It is different from the bird droppings that everyone thinks, and the "treasure" accumulated by seabirds in the abundant area over millions of years has a layer of guano hundreds of meters thick, just like the coal formed in the Carboniferous Period, which is a treasure given by nature to mankind. They are mainly found in Chile, Bolivia, Peru and other seabird places in South America, and like coal, they are treasures that can cause war. As soon as Lord Windsor made a move, it is likely that a South American war would have been prevented from happening, and of course, a large number of dung diggers could be unemployed. Guano is good, but it contains a lot of bacteria, parasites and insects, which is not good news for soilless hydroponics, in fact, all farm fertilizers are not better than reasonable and optimized fertilizers, and most people who are obsessed with natural products are not well aware of science and technology. Don Rather than pollute his precious vegetables with such a fertilizer.

Nitrogen and hydrogen are combined under the action of high temperature and high pressure catalyst (iron) to form ammonia, and then converted into other valuable compounds through a series of reactions, such as nitric acid, nitrogen fertilizer, nitrogen-**, etc., pay attention to the last good thing, and by the way solve the most important material problem of excavating the canal. These nitrogen-fixing plants alone can transform the Suez Canal Company from a shipping company with little technical content on the surface to a Windsor-style company that stands on the back of its time.

With the vegetables and grain problem solved, the next thing is the meat problem. The Red Sea has huge seafood resources, but for large-scale colonization, it is still necessary to have aquaculture. The father of genetics cannot be in vain, to contribute to the cause of breeding, the full-time work used by the animal real room to prove the knowledge of genetics is no longer so important, and the work of breeding fast-growing chickens is the right thing.

The cycle of raising pigs, cattle and sheep is longer than that of chickens, so fast-growing chickens are a shortcut to solve people's livelihood. The best white-feathered broiler can grow in just 40 days if it is raised, which is faster than most vegetables. The most important thing in the so-called breeding method is the ratio of protein. If a certain amino acid is deficient, the chick will grow very slowly, mainly because the amino acid type of a particular plant is unique, and the chick food source is usually not suitable for the growth needs of the chick.

Of course, this method can also be used in other breeding industries, and you can't always eat broiler chickens every day. The pig with the right protein ratio can even shorten the time for piglets to raise 100 kg from two years to half a year, but the use of feed has been saved by more than half, and the total calculation is an eightfold increase in production, because the saved feed can raise a large pig.

When it comes to pig farming, there is also the issue of increasing the lean meat rate. Fatty meat is neither tasty nor healthy. There are two drugs that can improve the lean meat rate, one is called clenbuterol, which will promote protein synthesis in the metabolic process after pig consumption, accelerate the conversion and decomposition of fat, and improve the lean meat rate of pork. However, Clenbuterol hydrochloride needs to be used in large quantities in feed to achieve the effect of increasing lean meat rate, which is more than 10 times the dose of human medicine. Clenbuterol is metabolized at a slower rate in the body, with a half-reduction phase (the time it takes to reduce to half the original amount) of about 30 hours. Due to the large dose, long use time, slow metabolism, "Clenbuterol" in the pig body residue is very large, and because of the "Clenbuterol" nature is stable, it will be heated to 172C to decompose, so the general home cooking can not destroy its toxicity, people will be poisoned when eating, dizziness, nausea, tremors of hands and feet, palpitations and arrhythmia, and even cardiac arrest to coma and death. Of course, this kind of clenbuterol can't be used, and Downing is considering another kind - ractopamine.

Unlike Clenbuterol, ractopamine is dosed in a small amount, with 4 per ton of feed. 5~18 Clark dopamine can significantly increase the lean meat rate of pork. Moreover, the metabolism of ractopamine in the pig body is very fast, the semi-reduction period is only about 4 hours, and 97% of the ractopamine has been excreted from urine and feces after 7 days of feeding, and the residual amount is low. It is also very low toxic to humans. Eating 10 micrograms of Clenbuterol a day can cause symptoms such as rapid heartbeat. However, for ractopamine, it is possible to show symptoms only after eating more than 20,000 micrograms a day. Due to the low residual amount, pigs fed ractopamine practically do not need a withdrawal period and can be slaughtered on the same day. Eating 350 kilograms of pork or 15 kilograms of pork liver a day, (in order to prevent the kind of not so good clenbuterol from harming your health, please try not to eat animal liver in countries where food safety is unreliable), the ingestion of ractopamine is still within the safe range. Of course, it is impossible for anyone to eat so much pork and pork liver, so ractopamine is very safe.

Some friends may worry about whether fast-growing chickens are not good for people's health when they grow up with hormones? In fact, this is all rumor, and the fast growth of broilers is mainly due to the breed and breeding method. Injections of hormones are quite expensive and cumbersome, and they also need to be injected non-stop, and it is not like one injection of hormones that people imagine and the animals become fat. There are people who do the business of killing heads, and no one raises broilers who lose money, so it's good to put a hundred hearts on this matter.

In addition to broilers, there are good at laying eggs of chickens, excellent breeds can lay 280 eggs a year, eggs are such a perfect source of protein, (in addition to the high cholesterol content in the egg yolk of the elderly to eat less), this kind of laying hens per capita can greatly improve the nutritional status of the human body. This is just an analogy, and the chicken farm directed by Downing certainly cannot be free-range, but more like a giant factory than like a farm.

The volume of eggs and the way they hatch are so standardized that laying and hatching eggs can be like an assembly line, with hens laying eggs rolling off the "production line". The temperature of the incubator simulates the hatching eggs, and the automatic tilting of the egg rack at a certain time can simulate the hen turning the egg baby, and even the hatched chicken baby is very well-behaved, and can be used to carry out various treatments with the assembly line, such as: gender, this is a job that compares the price in the eyes of the worker, the gender characteristics of the chicken baby are very small, and even Downing is not clear, so you have to ask the expert. The future of the baby rooster is on the table, and the future of the hen lies in laying eggs, mothers and daughters, girls and granddaughters, daughters and grandchildren, and infinite scarcity.

Nutrition is better than eggs is milk, (the best source of calcium), high-quality and high-yield dairy cow breeds can squeeze out 10,000 kilograms of delicious milk a year, squeeze nearly 30 kilograms of milk a day, can feed 30 men, for the milk is a mother of human beings how many wonderful business.

These human delicacies will be happier in the farm than in the wild, because there is no threat of predators, all day long to eat to open their mouths, clothes to stretch their hands, estrus and staff to send breeding chickens and pigs. Even more incredible was having air conditioning. It's not because of humanitarianism, they can grow and produce milk and eggs in a good climate.

After the penguin refrigerator, it is time for the penguin air conditioner to shine again, their principle is the same, if it were not for the idea of playing the Arabian Peninsula, Downing would not have paid attention to the invention of the air conditioner. The climate of that place...... Desert, make up for the heat in your own brain.

Summary: Clean, even, cheap, stable supply of nitrogen fertilizer, ultra-high-yield vegetables, chickens and eggs running out of the assembly line, lean and fast-growing pigs, and cows that milk all year round. People will be surprised to find that the farmers who follow the Windsor people are all high-income groups, and the farmers in the settlements of the Suez Canal are by no means a derogatory term.

By the time Downing had made the dotted Red Sea colonies prosperous, his prestige in the Suez Canal would be more than "one in three parts of the world", and after the establishment of the Red Sea state, the transportation arteries connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean would be his world.

Nature is now the absolute leader among scientific and technological journals, and all scientists are proud to publish in this top journal, and many universities have measured their professors' academic abilities by the number of papers published in Nature journal. （http：／/）。 None of the academics expected that such a project as the Suez Canal, which seemed to have nothing to do with agriculture, would trigger a series of agricultural scientific papers published by Lord Windsor. Artificial nitrogen fixation, fast-growing seeds, and balanced protein breeding have all been released in just a few months, even if Marx and his founding plan are secret, the people of the world have a faint feeling that Downing seems to be too concerned about the Suez Canal, which is the rhythm of something big about happening.

Downing's original appeal was strong, even if the reputation of the atheist was not good, it could not stop him from leading his men to get rich, these papers once again greatly boosted the prestige of his canal colonization project, this is his intention to publish the papers, expand the influence of the colonial project, and unite the atheists of the world to turn the beautiful Red Sea into a rich blue ocean.

British Prime Minister Palmerston and the French Emperor were stunned by the recent reports on the canal colonization plan. On the surface, Downing only built those colonies for the convenience of the operation of the canal, but the size of this scale is exquisite, but it can be big or small, according to the current momentum, the scale is not small, if it is just to get some operators, why do you have so many technologies that can increase the food supply capacity by several times? If Downing had only set up these factories in the colonies, it would have aroused the rich imagination of the do-gooders.

Marx, who had no pedigree, was now full of confidence in the birth of this red empire, and he had a premonition that although this empire was located in a desert area, it was likely to be an industrial and agricultural power, and the people would be very rich, and this was without talking about oil. The only bad thing is that such a capitalist-led state-building will not be too strong in the future? Marx seemed to hear himself beating a side drum next to him.