Chapter 20 Preparations for Drought Fighting (Part II)

Modern machinery has a problem.,It's okay to have one or two.,If there's more, there's no way to guarantee the fuel supply.,This thing can't be self-produced at the end of the Ming Dynasty.,There are more difficulties involved.,It's similar to crossing the protagonist Niu B in the novel to invent the steam engine、Establish an industrial system.,I can only say.,Please try to assemble a radio by yourself.,The simplest kind.。 Wu Wei is very self-aware, he is just an ordinary person, and he is a little disabled.

And even if he has established a considerable amount of power on the modern side, has ignored the armed police and public security, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to aid the standards of small African countries to move the entire industrial system to the end of the Ming Dynasty, so what? Can you still pull the technicians and workers along? Build blocks on your own? It's impossible to think about it.

Thinking about it, at most, I can only occasionally use Dongfeng heavy trucks to drag some scarce materials over, and then I don't need too much fuel, and the equipment that can benefit a well for a lifetime can also be restricted. The others are left to fend for themselves over there. Also, you can't pass through the light gate too often in the future, you can only use it in very safe or very urgent situations, you know, whether it is in the late Ming Dynasty or in modern times, there are eyes everywhere, and when someone discovers the secret of the light gate, what will happen God knows!

A large-scale peasant uprising in that time and space was about to break out, among which the famous Chuang King Gao Yingxiang raised troops in Ansai County, and swept through several provinces, and was not defeated until the seventh year of Chongzhen. These people are strong men, they are the most adventurous people in this nation, they should not die on the battlefield for a fight, they should live with more dignity, how should they change their fate!

If you can change the famine caused by natural disasters, then the large-scale peasant uprising that ran through the entire Ming Dynasty will not appear, at least Cheng Dù will be greatly reduced, and the vitality of the Han nation will be more preserved. If the peasants who were supposed to starve to death could feed themselves and provide the country with wealth and soldiers, if the soldiers who were supposed to resist the capture of the country were not consumed on the battlefield of "suppressing thieves", if the Jiangnan region, where industry and foreign trade were developed, was not overwhelmed by the heavy "extermination" and interrupted capital accumulation, if China could avoid being conquered by foreign races and locked off for hundreds of years, then perhaps China would be able to catch up with that magnificent Age of Discovery!

At that time, China had an incomparable advantage in Asia and even the world, it had a smart, intelligent and adventurous people, advanced culture and technology, and a long tradition of navigation, and it should have fought for the largest share in this great era of redividing the interests of the planet as if it had opened the world, and shined on the whole of Asia and even the world with the light of its civilization, instead of waking up sluggishly in the ring of guns and swords hundreds of years later, and using the blood and suffering of several generations to make up for this missing lesson!

Of course, the decay of the government at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the endless annexation of land by the big landlords and nobles, and the all-encompassing oppression of the people are also the reasons why the people have risen up, but in any case, as long as they survive the most severe years of internal and external troubles, as long as the Ming Dynasty frees up his hands, it is not difficult to eliminate Jianyu. Then in the absence of a national existential crisis, a qiē change will be much calmer, the Ming may embark on the road of bourgeois revolution, maybe it will still take a long time, pay a lot of lives, but in any case, it will avoid the worst outcome, it is still the Ming standing at the top of world civilization admired by all countries!

In fact, this qiē is entirely possible, although Jianyu is barbaric and strong, but the productivity is much behind the Ming Dynasty, the impact of natural disasters on Jianyu in recent years is even worse than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the entire territory of Jianzhou has been reckless. Historically, Jianyu has borrowed the passage from Mongolia several times, plundered several provinces in North China, and survived the crisis by robbing the people, grain, rice, and wealth, and further consumed the vitality of the Ming Dynasty. Now, now that I'm here, will I let history repeat itself?

His thoughts fluctuated, Wu Wei couldn't sleep for a long time, and his mind kept figuring out the details of the measures he was going to take. Having a secret that he can't share with others, the distress is that he has to take care of a lot of things by himself, and he can only expect the best he can do.

The next day, Wu Wei got up early in the morning and went straight to the seedling market, knowing his requirements and quantity, the owner of the whole street pù tried his best to recommend him a variety of drought-resistant and high-yield crops, and finally Wu Wei chose a company called "Golden Bull Seed Industry", because the seedlings they provided were the most suitable for Wu Wei's requirements. Among them, there is a potato variety called "tiger head", which is planted in northern Shaanxi with a large planting area, 2 to 3 seasons a year, and a mu production capacity of 8,000 to 10,000 catties, which is slightly worse than other varieties, but this is just the most difficult problem for Wu Wei, just kidding, it is disaster relief, what kind of taste is to talk about, what you want is the yield!

When the seller knew that Wu Wei was looking for a crop variety suitable for water-scarce areas like northern Shaanxi, he also strongly recommended a high-yield hybrid corn seedling, an American upland cotton seedling, and a high-yield sweet potato seedling. The production capacity of corn per mu has reached more than 1,000 catties, and sweet potato is a high-yield variety called "Shixiu No. 1", and the yield per mu is more than 10,000 catties. After weighing it, Wu Wei chose potatoes and sweet potatoes, as for cotton and corn, give up for the time being, corn yield per mu is not as good as potatoes, and cotton is a cash crop, not the most important thing at present, now all around how to solve the problem of food and clothing. Moreover, cotton planting in the Ming Dynasty was already very common, and the price in various places was relatively stable, and if necessary, you could buy it with silver over there, but sometimes you couldn't buy it at a high price.

In the end, Wu Wei decided to order 30 million potatoes and sweet potatoes each, according to the calculation of 3,000 seedlings per mu of sowing, the sowing area can reach 10,000 acres, if it can reach 60% of the modern yield, more than 2 months later, you can harvest about 150,000 stone potatoes, sweet potatoes because of missing the spring potato sowing period, can only plant wheat stubble sweet potatoes, the growth cycle is slightly longer, and it can be harvested at the end of the year, but the yield is larger, it can reach 300,000 stones. It's about the same as potatoes. The output of 450,000 stone is estimated to be enough for 300,000 victims to eat for a year. Wu Wei couldn't help but sigh, sweet potatoes and potatoes have a really large output, and the famous seven mountains, two rivers and one field in Fujian rely on planting sweet potatoes to achieve food self-sufficiency! But eating sweet potatoes every day is definitely uncomfortable, no wonder even the scolding over there is called "sweet potato boy".