In the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, although the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty were still not so smooth, the situation was already much better. With the continuous construction of water conservancy projects in recent years, the ability to resist drought has been greatly enhanced, and at the same time, the area of agricultural irrigation has been very large, the irrigation facilities for most of the agricultural land have been completed, and the water conservancy and irrigation facilities for a small part of the land are still under construction.

In the years since Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, the construction of water conservancy facilities has also been a major political achievement. Improved irrigation facilities have made them much more resilient to disasters.

Although natural disasters still occur frequently, the impact on agriculture in Daming is no longer significant. The northern provinces have been able to withstand many natural disasters, and the increase in irrigated area has led to an increase in agricultural production, and the production of agricultural products is not much worse than in the past good years.

Agriculture is the first major issue of people's livelihood and the foundation for supporting industrial development, so Zhu Youxiao is very concerned about agricultural issues, and the common people will rebel if they can't eat enough.

The summer of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse was in full swing, and as in previous years, Zhu Youxiao sent the army to the fields to help the people harvest the crops, and all of them were free of charge. There is no paid service in the army, this is to ensure the purity of the army.

The Han Emperor's propaganda theory of the military and the people as a family has been manifested and conveyed in various activities of the army going to the countryside, and the army not only goes to the countryside to help the people harvest crops, but also often sends military doctors to the countryside to treat the people.

All kinds of agricultural machinery are very common in the northern provinces at this time, and agricultural machinery factories have developed a lot of agricultural machinery at this time, although in the era of no miniaturization power, the efficiency of these agricultural machinery can not be as high as in later generations. But productivity has come a long way. A large number of laborers were liberated from the land.

As a result, the cost of agricultural production has been reduced.

On the other hand, Zhu Youxiao has trained many agricultural technicians over the years. After the reform of the northern provinces, each prefecture and county set up an agricultural bureau, and an agricultural station was set up under the agricultural bureau, and a large number of technical personnel were sent to the countryside to guide agricultural production, and the fertilization technology also developed relatively rapidly.

The farmer's organic fertilizer technology has been mastered more thoroughly and has been popularized on a large scale. However, with the development of the enclosure movement, the rural labor force has decreased, and the farmhouse fertilizer application technology has become a bit inadequate in some places. After all, the weight of farmhouse manure is too large. It is troublesome to transport, and the workload of fertilization is also relatively large.

The effects of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium on plants have been determined, and the production of chemical fertilizers has been included in the key R&D projects in the 12th year of the Apocalypse. After the advent of the steam engine and the railway, the production and transportation costs of chemical fertilizers have been reduced, and like cement, there is already the possibility of large-scale commercialization.

As for pesticides and herbicides, they were developed. The chemical industry in Daming is developing relatively rapidly, and it is not a big problem to come up with pesticides and herbicides. However, Zhu Youxiao did not approve insecticides and insecticides into the agricultural field, but only used insecticides to set up a locust extermination unit.

In the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the number of locust exterminators has expanded to more than 10,000 people, as long as the locust plague is found. Immediately rushed to the affected areas to carry out locust extermination. The herbicide is also applied when weeding is needed in construction activities.

There are no other marketable uses of pesticides and herbicides. Pesticides and herbicides cause great damage to the ecology, and the agricultural products produced are unhealthy, although they have greatly improved agricultural productivity, they also make people eat their own fruits.

Pesticides and herbicides are harmful not only to terrestrial but also to river ecosystems. While killing pests and weeds, it also kills beneficial insects.

Therefore, in agriculture, at this time, Daming insisted on biological control, and only used pesticides when large-scale insect plagues occurred, as well as herbicides for activities outside agriculture.

As for chemical fertilizers, they must be used, otherwise agricultural productivity is too low. Chemical fertilizers will inevitably cause ecological problems, which will inevitably lead to overnutrients in the water body and a large number of algae breeding under the washing of rainwater.

In the summer harvest of this year, the output of winter wheat in the north increased a lot, while the planting area of winter wheat decreased slightly, mainly due to the construction of water conservancy irrigation facilities, which turned a large amount of dry land into irrigated land, and the output was a cost jump.

The Department of Agriculture of the Royal Academy of Science and Technology and the Bureau of Agriculture jointly set up an agricultural experimental area, which is conducting large-scale research on the grafting and hybridization of crops, and the cultivation of lodging-resistant wheat varieties proposed by Zhu Youxiao has also made a breakthrough in the 12th year of the Apocalypse.

The 100 acres of lodging-resistant winter wheat cultivated and planted by the Royal Academy successfully grew wheat in the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, and the yield per mu directly exceeded 500 kilograms, which is equivalent to the yield of five stones.

Lodging-resistant wheat directly doubles yields, and the secret is ...... The sowing density has also more than doubled, so the yield per mu has increased.

In this year, the lodging resistance of wheat is relatively poor, so the sowing density is relatively low, and the wheat planted too densely will be blown down by the wind.

Lodging-resistant wheat can increase the planting density, and the yield per mu of wheat will naturally increase.

The reason why the yield of this wheat per mu has reached 500 kilograms is that the climate is more suitable, and the fertilizer is also used, so the yield will increase by leaps and bounds.

If it is a local farmer, the estimated yield is two or three hundred kilograms. If it is a professional agricultural company, the yield per mu will not increase too much, because the agricultural company pays more attention to the efficiency of labor, and the mode of intensive cultivation is more and more marketable with the increase of cultivated land resources due to external expansion.

Is it cost-effective for a laborer to cultivate 30 acres and produce 500 kilograms of wheat per mu, or is it cost-effective for a laborer to cultivate 100 acres and produce 250 kilograms per mu?

For agricultural companies, it is obviously the latter that is more cost-effective, because food can be grown anywhere, and there is now more and more land.

The emergence of lodging-resistant wheat made Zhu Youxiao very happy, although the yield of 500 kilograms per mu of the experimental field was completely a street variety in later generations, and the yield of wheat per mu in the experimental field in later generations was usually seven or eight hundred kilograms, but in this era, the yield of 500 kilograms per mu was already very unnatural. Immediately issue a decree of commendation and reward.

"Your Majesty. According to the Ministry of Agriculture. In addition to wheat. The new varieties of maize are also growing well, and the yield per mu will be relatively high. Qian Guoxing reported to Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao said happily: "Let the Ministry of Agriculture report the output as soon as it comes out, and there is no need to deceive." ”

He doesn't want to see how bold people are and how productive the land is.

The establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture and experimental fields to cultivate excellent crop varieties and livestock varieties through the strength of the state is obviously very effective.

Because no dynasty has done so professionally in the past, the crop varieties grown by the people generally have the problem of low yield. Even if there are good varieties appearing. In many cases, it was not popularized, or it was simply buried, and no one found that there were so many special plants in the crop field, let alone collected wild varieties to the experimental base for hybridization, grafting, and the like.

Therefore, after the establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Ming Dynasty, after mastering the hybridization and grafting technology, a huge change in the emergence of a large number of high-yield crop varieties was immediately formed.

In the absence of official forces, the development of talents who simply rely on the whims of individual people to act is relatively slow, and even if a breakthrough is made, the speed of promotion is relatively slow.

Nowadays there is official support. Both R&D and promotion are very rapid. In this era of relatively low level of science and technology, under the leadership of the government. Coupled with the enthusiasm of the workers to improve and invent production techniques, the speed of scientific and technological progress will become very rapid.

The seeds planted by Zhu Youxiao many years ago finally sprouted in large quantities at this time, and technological progress began to emerge like a blowout.

After the advent of anesthetics, some biological theories put forward by Zhu Youxiao, and a large number of anatomical experiments, the surgical ability has been greatly enhanced. Medical surgery has been successful, but medical surgery is more cautious.

The principle of internal medicine surgery is that if it can be solved by traditional Chinese medicine, it should not be solved by surgery. Because Western medicine itself cannot be called medicine, because Western medicine has no systematic theory, only a piecemeal theory that is pieced together like a stack of bricks, and there are problems in the concept of medicine.

Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to human life, and there is a lot of money. Western medicine often treats the human body as a battlefield, and when the disease is cured, the person is also dead, what is the point?

In this era when traditional Chinese medicine occupies the mainstream, the western medicine advocated by Zhu Youxiao has become a military doctor, and at the same time, it is also deeply influenced by the concept of traditional Chinese medicine and has gradually become a part of traditional Chinese medicine.

The failure of the integration of Chinese and Western medicine in the Qing Dynasty was mainly due to the fact that Western medicine was placed on an equal footing, resulting in the inability of theories to fit. Nowadays, Daming is Western medicine as an auxiliary medicine, although it has its own development in theory, but it is close to traditional Chinese medicine.

It is indeed difficult for the advanced to accept the low-level theory, but the low-level want to integrate the advanced theory, and with the development of science and technology, the fusion will be successful one day. Just like the Western medicine of later generations, they are actually learning the concept of Chinese medicine.

The development of traditional Chinese medicine has just seen signs of improvement, and the eight-gang syndrome differentiation in the late Ming Dynasty is not yet the mainstream, after Zhu Youxiao's reform of the traditional Chinese medicine hospital, he finally succeeded in suppressing the unhealthy trend of the eight-gang syndrome differentiation, which is to stabilize the degeneration momentum of traditional Chinese medicine.

At the same time, a juvenile medical class was also set up, and talented students were selected from primary schools around the country to learn the six meridians of Chinese medicine from an early age to improve their professionalism.

Traditional Chinese medicine will fall, or because there are too many people who are halfway monks, but it was not the mainstream in the Ming Dynasty. It was also due to the high illiteracy rate in the Qing Dynasty, the poverty of the common people, and the lack of official guidance.

Now that Zhu Youxiao has developed nine-year compulsory education, the people's income can also afford the diagnosis of authentic Chinese medicine, and the development of Chinese medicine has official guidance and strong support, and the quality level of Chinese medicine is beginning to continue to improve.

In particular, the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals has been improved, and the medical research mechanism has been initiated, which is very similar to the model of the Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, traditional Chinese medicine can develop to the peak of the past dynasties, mainly because the government has resources, and at the same time attaches importance to education, a group of traditional Chinese medicine doctors serve the imperial court, which can be described as worry-free, can concentrate on the study of medical science, and do not have to think about making money all day long.

The most important system of TCM hospitals is to share and share research results. People who have studied traditional Chinese art know that this thing is too profound, and if a person lacks communication, he will not be able to touch the peak in his life without a closed door, so the development of traditional Chinese medicine requires teamwork, and those traditional Chinese medicine in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals must also have the spirit of research.

For TCM personnel with the spirit of study, the imperial court will enhance their industry status according to their contributions, and give rewards, and finally those who can go up, those who can't, form a good atmosphere, and avoid a large number of people who have a corpse vegetarian meal.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, medicine is a very serious topic. The medicine of the cheating father will cause great social harm. Although traditional Chinese medicine is not very profitable for state-owned capital, because it can't make a lot of money by selling traditional Chinese medicine, even if the price of traditional Chinese medicine is manipulated, traditional Chinese medicine is a big deal to replace it with local herbs, there are so many animals and plants on the earth, as long as the characteristics of medicinal properties are mastered, which one can't be used to prescribe prescriptions?

But the kind of money that has no conscience, can earn less and earn less.

Of course, Chinese medicine should be developed, and Western medicine should also be developed. After all, the training cost of TCM talents is too high and the time is too long, and it cannot be cultivated as quickly as Western medicine. In the future, Daming will still take Western medicine as the mainstream, but the scale of traditional Chinese medicine cannot be small.

It is equivalent to not blocking the way for ordinary people to seek medical treatment, so that ordinary people have more choices. For example, some incurable diseases that are terminal diseases in Western medicine can be easily cured by Chinese medicine. If Western medicine is chosen comprehensively, it will cause many medical tragedies.

At this time, state-owned pharmaceutical factories were engaged in the business of finished medicines, and were making some traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions into finished drugs for sale, and pharmacies were no longer only selling unprepared medicinal materials, but selling them together with finished medicines. At the same time, state-owned pharmaceutical factories have also begun to develop Western medicines, and the biggest difference between Western medicine and important medicine is that Western medicine is often not made of biomass as medicinal materials, but more by refining chemical substances.

The development of Western medicine has a certain blind nature, what yin and yang five elements, the four qi, five flavors and seven emotions of the drug, it is completely black eyes. It's all about experimenting and experimenting, spending a lot of money, or discovering it by accident.

Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions are different, there are many complex prescriptions in ancient China, and if these prescriptions are carried out by the research model of Western medicine, the productivity of ancient times simply cannot support such a huge project. Traditional Chinese medicine relies on a complete theoretical system to formulate these prescriptions, which is the 'four qi, five flavors and seven feelings' mentioned in the "Shennong's Materia Medica".

Although the development cost of Western medicine is a little larger, the profit is relatively high, and state-owned pharmaceutical factories can also carry out research and production. This thing is definitely a good thing to exploit the people of the world, and Western medicine also has the advantages of Western medicine, such as penicillin, as long as it is developed, the medical progress will be very huge. (To be continued.) )