The 413th tech tree still has to be climbed

Whoever can master the sea trade is the real master of the Shunta Kingdom. At this moment, Yang Xinning is obviously the real real power of the Shunta Kingdom, and all armed merchant ships are under his direct or indirect jurisdiction. If Wei Dongsheng rashly participated in the sea trade, it would be equivalent to tearing his face and competing for military power with the powerful minister Yang Xinning, forcing Yang Xinning to kill him to stabilize his authority.

For the sake of safety, it is better for Wei Dongsheng to avoid the focus of contradictions such as maritime trade, and choose some industries with smaller interests or longer return on investment.

The Shunta Kingdom was a trade-led economy, and almost all of its citizens lived indirectly in Xiagang. There are almost no valuable specialties in the Shunta Kingdom, and the port is more like a transit port connecting East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. For example, the Mengyuan maritime merchants bought green salt, pepper and other goods on the island of Java, and sold salt beads, gold and silver, colored silk, porcelain, ironware and other goods. Apart from spices, a specialty product of the South Seas, Java has few pillar industries that can balance imports and exports.

Of course, this is just Shunta in the eyes of the people.

Wei Dongsheng examines the Shunta Kingdom from a 21st-century perspective, and Shunta can ensure the balance between imports and exports by casually engaging in some primary and secondary industries. After all, it was only 1297, the load of merchant ships was limited, and the share of maritime trade was very limited, and a few factories might be enough to meet the needs of the entire South Seas. Even if there is a technological barrier in the construction of the factory, the Shunta Kingdom can also target the development of the plantation industry in the raw material export area.

After a preliminary investigation, Wei Dongsheng fell in love with the industrial chain from sugarcane planting to sucrose production.

In the 21st century, sugar, salt, oil and vinegar are all ordinary condiments, and these commodities have almost no investment value. But now, after all, it is 1297, which is far away from the industrial revolution, and all countries in the world, including Mengyuan, regard cane sugar as a light luxury, and will only buy a few taels to satisfy their hunger during the New Year's holidays. In the real world, from the 16th century to the 18th century after the Great Geographical Discovery, sugar was not only an important trade material, but also surpassed raw materials such as spices, tobacco, tea, and coffee to become the most important commodity for a long time.

Running a sugar industry on the island of Java can continue to make profits for at least two to three hundred years.

Speaking of the plantation, it is the agricultural branch of the tech tree, as if violating the classroom discipline of "prohibiting the dissemination of social and natural sciences" established by the inferior Tomorrow Ring.

However, Wei Dongsheng has Wei Dongsheng's ideas, and Wei Dongsheng also has Wei Dongsheng's insistence.

Wei Dongsheng understands the constraints of "prohibiting the dissemination of social sciences and natural sciences" of the inferior Tomorrow Ring. Just like strategy games such as Europa 4, which is relatively close to the era, if there is no restriction on the prohibition of the spread of social science and natural science, the effect is similar to activating the all-tech buff in the 1444 dungeon. The medieval infantry of the Napoleonic phalanx crushing the medieval infantry of other countries, and the ability of any player to wreak havoc on the whole world is hardly a difficult experience.

The "prohibition of disseminating social sciences and natural sciences" constraints of the inferior Tomorrow Ring has stripped Wei Dongsheng's natural advantages and raised the difficulty of training to a normal level. Also taking strategy games such as "Europa 4" as an example, Wei Dongsheng needs to accumulate points to upgrade technology, and needs to pile up ideas outside of Europe to experience this game on normal difficulty.

Only in this way can the rebirth of the tenth life have a certain significance.

Therefore, Wei Dongsheng understands the hardships of inferior products and is willing to accept the constraints of inferior tomorrow rings.

However, this does not mean that Wei Dongsheng is willing to live a life of confusion.

Even if Wei Dongsheng was willing to accept the constraints of the inferior Tomorrow Ring, he would also guide the Shunta Kingdom to develop natural science with an attitude of "everything cannot be said". In Wei Dongsheng's view, social structure and natural science complement each other, and without an industrial base, how can human beings form an industrial society? If the natural sciences have stagnated, and social development will most likely stagnate with it, what is the point of being reborn in the 10th dynasty of the small peasant economy?

If the inferior Tomorrow Ring forces Wei Dongsheng to be a historical observer who can only watch and listen, it is okay not to learn this class.

If the inferior Tomorrow Ring forces Wei Dongsheng to be a historical observer who can only watch and listen in the future, the inferior Tomorrow Ring will not be fine.

Whether or not to interfere with history should depend on Wei Dongsheng's original intention, rather than the rough restrictions of the inferior Tomorrow Ring!

As the inferior product Mingri Huan said, whether there is a loophole in the restriction of "prohibiting the dissemination of social science and natural science" depends entirely on Wei Dongsheng's self-discipline. As long as it is not opportunistic and lucky, it will reduce the difficulty of reincarnation in the tenth life, why should Wei Dongsheng be wrapped in layer after layer of shackles against his will?

Wei Dongsheng was willing to give up the advantages of science and technology in the 21st century, but insisted on guiding the people of Shunta to explore natural science with their own wisdom. Taking sugarcane cultivation and sugar production as an example, Wei Dongsheng will not condescendingly disseminate the technology and research methods of the Shunta people in the 21st century, but will use money bait to guide the Shunta people to practice and study the sugarcane planting technology and the production technology of cane sugar. As long as he did not deliberately interfere with the research ideas of the Shunta people, and as long as these natural science achievements came from the wisdom of the Shunta people, Wei Dongsheng believed that he had not violated the restriction of "prohibiting the dissemination of social science and natural science".

Therefore, the tech tree still has to be climbed.

The difference is only that Wei Dongsheng has changed from a simple and crude communicator to a guide hidden behind the scenes.

Wei Dongsheng's goal shifted to how to establish a system that suited the times, and how to encourage the people of Shunta to steadily promote the development of natural science.

The topic returns to the sugar industry chain itself.

Nanyang is one of the origins of sugarcane, and sugarcane has been widely cultivated on Java Island during the Zhao and Song dynasties, and there is no technical threshold. At the same time, the island of Java has a low degree of development, or whoever develops and occupies it, or pays a certain land transaction fee to the local indigenous chiefs, Wei Dongsheng can reclaim a large area of sugarcane plantations based on 100 acres. The remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty or the Mengyuan Si and other southerners who fled to Nanyang in recent years, among them, there are many elders with a skill, and it should not be difficult to hire a few sugar craftsmen.

As a business leader of the Spring and Autumn Period, Wei Dongsheng's business skills and organizational skills were by no means weaker than those of ordinary maritime merchants and ordinary plantation landlords in 1297, even though he borrowed more opportunistic elements from thinking control and computer intelligence life. Compared with Yang Xinning's threat, commercial affairs such as the sugar industry chain could not be simpler.

The road ahead was set, and Wei Dongsheng immediately began to prepare for the sugar industry chain.

In the blink of an eye, it was the late spring of 1298, and when it was time to plant sugarcane, Wei Dongsheng started the sugarcane plantation program as scheduled.

Thinking that everything was in place, Wei Dongsheng took the risk of persuading Yang Xinning to allow him to relocate to Batang and supervise the nearby chief workers to plant sugarcane in an orderly manner with modern agricultural techniques. The administrative planning of the Shunta Kingdom is one government and one county, one government refers to the Shunta Province, and the jurisdiction area is the core essence of the port; A county refers to Batang County, which is said to be a county, but in fact, the population size is less than 1,000, and it is not even as good as a township. However, Batang County was the direction of expansion of the Shunta Kingdom, and as the cost of living in Xiagang gradually increased, some bankrupt nationals and Mengyuan refugees gradually went to Batang County sporadically to cultivate their fields. If Wei Dongsheng wanted to develop sugarcane plantations, he could only go to the barren Batang County and expand the actual land area of the Shunta Kingdom to the east.

Of course, not everyone is happy to see Wei Dongsheng running the sugar production chain.

For example, Yang Niansong.

Despite being proficient in crossbows and bows to be able to hunt wild boars, Yang Niansong's mind was still filled with Song Confucianism's dogma. In Yang Niansong's concept, "those who work hard govern people, and those who work hard govern people", and those who work hard are naturally higher than those who work hard. As the king of Shunta, Wei Dongsheng should work hard to govern the world, not to rush to the fields to grow sugar cane. After all, no matter how good the sugarcane is grown, it is also a farmer's talent, and no matter how good the cane sugar is boiled, it is also a craftsman's talent, and it is not beneficial to govern the country.

Sullenly followed Wei Dongsheng to Batang County, Yang Niansong chattered unexpectedly: "How can you grow sugarcane with a group of ordinary people?" ”

Wei Dongsheng smiled and said, "What do you do if you don't grow sugarcane?" ”

Yang Niansong: "Go study!" ”

Yang Niansong's so-called reading is not the concept of reading in later generations, and the "book" here specifically refers to the four books and five classics of Confucianism. In order to understand the mentality of Zhao Song Meng's Yuanshi doctor, Wei Dongsheng really needs to read through the Four Books and Five Classics, after all, knowing each other and knowing oneself can not be defeated in a hundred battles. However, Wei Dongsheng, who has the insight of the 21st century and the inferior five-level civilization basic teaching system of the Tomorrow Ring, how could he foolishly regard the Four Books and the Five Classics as absolute truth? Yang Niansong's suggestion was full of nonsense in Wei Dongsheng's ears.

Wei Dongsheng did not argue with Yang Niansong about the value of the Four Books and the Five Classics, and continued to separate the father-daughter relationship between Yang Niansong and Yang Xinning: "Why do you want to study? ”

Yang Niansong subconsciously recited the famous sentence of "The Book of Rites": "Self-cultivation Qi family rules the country and the world." ”

Wei Dongsheng deliberately laughed at himself: "What kind of country to govern!" With my father (Yang Xinning) and uncle (Yang Beiwang) here, I will be in the country, the people will be safe, and the people will be in the dynasty. ”

Yang Niansong didn't understand Wei Dongsheng's irony, thinking that Wei Dongsheng was praising Yang Xinning: "With my dad here, you really don't worry a lot less." But Nanyang is hot and sweltering, and countless remnants have died in the prime of life, how long can my father live? What if my dad is gone all of a sudden? Big brother can't support you, my dad often says that he is 'unbearable, it is a blessing to be able to keep the family business', you don't expect him to help you much. ”

Wei Dongsheng was depressed about Yang Niansong's IQ, and simply said it more clearly: "Do you think my father is willing to return to me?" ”

Yang Nian Song was stunned, and then his face was full of anger: "What are you talking about?" If it weren't for my father's support, how could you succeed you ten years ago? My dad would have been a king a long time ago, so why wait ten more years. How can you, who have no conscience, doubt my father's unbridled loyalty? ”

Wei Dongsheng comforted Yang Niansong step by step: "It's not that I have unwarranted doubts, but that destiny is impermanent, and only the virtuous live in it." Taking the Mongolian Yuan as an example, the Japanese and Java were defeated one after another, which shows that the Mongolian iron cavalry is not invincible. The reason why Zhao and Song Dynasty had the defeat of Yashan was not because the country was inferior to the Wa State and Java, but more because of the misguided monarchs from generation to generation. If the emperor is resided by a virtuous person, even if he implements 'the sage is above, and the mediocre is down' within the clan, why is it that generation after generation is a faint king? is like Liu Bei entrusted Zhuge Liang, his father is virtuous and virtuous, and it is natural to be a king. ”