Winter and summer in South Africa are the opposite of those in the Northern Hemisphere.

It was still a bit chilly in South Africa at the end of September, but as the race progressed, the temperatures were getting more comfortable.

Two months flew by.

The fifteenth year of Dewu has finally reached the end of the year.

South Africa has a hot climate, the competition is hot, and the phoenix is already covered in silver.

This year, the global climate is much colder.

You must know that the Seattle area where Fengdu is located, although the latitude is very high, is further north than the legendary housing price depression Hegang.

However, due to the influence of warm currents, the northwest of the North American continent, like the northwest of Eurasia, has a temperate oceanic climate with warm winters and cool summers, and the temperature difference between the four seasons is not large.

In previous years, even if it snowed in Seattle's winter, the snow would not be too much, which is completely different from cities on the east coast of the mainland, such as Beijing and New York.

In later generations, 20 centimeters of snow fell in Seattle, and the whole city was paralyzed, which is enough to show that the city is not closely related to heavy snow.

But the first snow of the fifteenth winter of Dewu was earlier and more violent than in previous years.

In fact, according to the statistics of the Ming Royal Meteorological Bureau, whether it is Shenzhou or Yinzhou, the temperature in the fifteenth year of Dewu is low.

There is a saying that whether the monarch is virtuous or not, whether there are capable ministers and officials, whether there is foreign invasion, whether the land annexation is serious and other factors are actually not the underlying logic of the cyclical law of ancient Chinese dynasties.

There is only one underlying logic that really affects the Mandate of Heaven, and that is temperature.

Looking at the curve of annual average temperature change over thousands of years, it is surprising to find that every time the temperature plummets, it is the time of trouble.

On the other hand, if the climate is warm, then there is a high probability that it will be a prosperous time.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, not only was the grain production in the Central Plains stable, but also a large area of land suitable for cultivation appeared in the north, especially in the northeast, which attracted the Central Plains Dynasty.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the agricultural men in the Central Plains exploded instantly, and a man became a five-hundred, and the long car went out of the north.

And whenever the ice age came, not only the natural disasters in the Central Plains continued, the peasant uprisings continued, but the Hulu outside the Seychelles also began to be forced to group south to rob because of the extreme weather.

The Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms, are all the same.

Unfortunately at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was precisely the time when the average annual temperature in the history of China was the lowest since the Yangshao Warm Period.

Therefore, the old uncle Chongzhen hanged himself on the crooked neck tree, maybe it was not his dish, but just the will of God.

In fact, this Xiaoice period, which began at the end of the Ming Dynasty, has not ended until now, and from time to time there will be a convulsion and a strange thing such as the freezing of the West Lake.

The Great Famine in India two years ago was a weather anomaly, and it has continued into this year.

Continuous low temperatures have led to a reduction in global crop yields, which is also the objective reason for the acceleration of dog brains in European countries.

The more food is scarce, the more wars are necessary.

Some eat when you win, and at least a few fewer mouths when you lose.

However, this global food shortage did not affect the Ming Dynasty.

After taking down all the production equipment of a small fertilizer factory on the verge of closure in a small county town in Jiangxi, the grain yield per mu of the production and construction corps in the Ming Dynasty has been increasing in the past two years.

Of course, today's Daming's industrial imitation ability is quite good.

These equipment imported from Japan in the early days of the last century, with the help of Master Guo, a special consultant of the Ministry of Industry, Daming's engineers also opened the road of cottages.

Even if the efficiency of the imitation machine is poor, it doesn't matter, Daming wins by quantity.

Moreover, the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium used by Daming are rich ores, and the difficulty of treatment is much lower than that of the small fertilizer factory in Jiangxi.

These days, there are treasures everywhere.

If nothing else, guano on the island of Nauru has not yet been developed.

Isolated in the Pacific Ocean, Nauru was once an island under the name of the British Empire.

The Spanish governor of Guam also claimed Nauru under his jurisdiction.

However, such a small coral reef island 60 kilometers south of the equator, in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, with a diameter of only 6 kilometers, Britain and Spain did not even bother to quarrel over it.

Historically, it wasn't until 1888 that the Germans actually took possession of it.

It's all tears to say, Germany finished industrialization too late, and perfectly missed the era of the Great Colonization.

So much so that such a small broken island was reluctant to give up, and specially sent someone to handle it.

However, the Germans were soon surprised to discover that this small island, which had no fresh water resources, was actually full of treasures!

Seabirds have bred on Nauru Island for millions of years, and their droppings accumulate over time to form phosphate ore.

This treasure trove suddenly became the target of the great powers.

Even Japan was involved at one point, sending a full 2,000 soldiers to this 6-kilometer-diameter island in World War II.

After the war, Nauru was among the top in the world by brainless mining of phosphate rocks, and its per capita GDP once crushed many oil tycoons and European powers.

They built highways, golf courses, and all the people lived a life of spending, making it the country with the highest obesity rate in the world.

However, in just half a century, the island's phosphate mines were depleted, and Nauru fell from heaven to hell.

On this plane, the Ming declared war on the Spaniards, the allies of the French, in the Second Ming-French War.

And after the Ming Dynasty accepted the surrender of the three emperors, it has not signed an armistice agreement with Spain, and the two countries have been at war.

Two years later, the soul of the Ming Navy and the eternal admiral of Nanyang, Li Chunfa's father-in-law, went to Nanyang for disaster relief and weight loss trips, and by the way, he shelled Manila Bay and recovered Luzon Island occupied by the Spaniards.

When Li Chunfa's father-in-law brought a 1.8-ton Borneo elephant, a 1-ton Javan rhino, and an 80-kilogram Sumatran tiger...... When the younger brother beast returned to Fengdu to offer the treasure to the Lord of Long Life, he passed through Nauru and marked it as the inherent territory of the Ming Dynasty.

And now, with the Ming Dynasty completely expelling all Western forces from the Pacific Ocean and turning the Pacific Ocean into an inland sea, small Nauru has naturally become an island actually controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

To be honest, the attitude of the Ming towards Nauru is not much different from that of later generations of Nauruans.

His Majesty Zhu Fugui's order is to tap the phosphate resources on the island as quickly and as much as possible, without having to consider any environmental issues.

After all, a small island with a diameter of 6 kilometers, even if it is destroyed, it has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty.

And the resources it contains are enough for Daming not to worry about phosphate ore in 20 years.

As for the aborigines of the island......

Now there are three to five hundred natives on the whole island, living a primitive fishing and hunting life of Ru Mao and drinking blood.

In terms of ethnography, Nauruans, like Polynesians, belong to the Austronesian race.

The Austronesians are also a branch of Dongyi, and although they have integrated many primitive aborigines along the way, they are still relatively advanced and will not be unable to be educated.

The Ming court is willing to give them a chance to work, become an employee of the Nauru branch of the Ming Royal Mining Group, and directly obtain a Juka and become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty.

If this kind of treatment is heard by the Japanese and North Koreans, I am afraid that they will be jealous and their eyes will turn red.

But there is no way, people do have mines at home, and Daming is not a clever robber.

There are only a few hundred natives, and of course Da Ming is willing to carry them.

Surprisingly, however, the natives of Nauru seem to be reluctant to work, let alone discipline.

They prefer to play with coconuts in a straw skirt.

In fact, they never dug phosphate rock themselves.

Rather, foreign capital and mining companies mine on their islands and give them a share of the profits.

After all, Nauru has an average of two or three hundred catties per capita, and he can't work at all.

This is almost a common disease of tropical people, and Da Ming has no good way.

But directly raising the Nauruans as pigs, giving them unearned treatment, and then waiting until the island's resources are exhausted and letting these pigs fend for themselves, this also makes His Majesty Zhu Fugui unbearable, and it is very unfair to other Ming citizens.

Although there are 50,000 people in the Ming Dynasty, none of them are idle, and everyone must support themselves, except for the elderly.

In the end, after research, Honglu Temple decided to respect the wishes of the Nauru tribal leaders themselves and relocate them to the Tasmanian Primitive Tribal Reserve.

And according to the agreement, when the Ming pilots airdrop supplies every year, they will give their tribe extra care.

Tasmania is larger than Tongliao, nearly 2 Taiwan, and many times larger than tiny Nauru.

Although there are already many primitive tribes of the Ming Dynasty who have been resettled from the Andaman, Borneo, Java, Papua New Guinea and other places, the population density is still extremely small.

The Nauruans were so pleased that they called it a "pact with the gods."

In this regard, Zhu Fugui can only say, 'Give you a chance, you are useless!' ’

In any case, just one Nauru can meet all the phosphate rock needs of the Ming Dynasty, and has made great contributions to the increase of grain production and income of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Fugui named the fertilizer produced by the Royal Fertilizer Factory [Jinkela brand].

One thing to say, the name is really good, simple and clear, very down-to-earth, and also in line with the noble atmosphere of royal products.

The word "坷拉", many people will think that it is Manchu.

In later generations, there were many half-buckets of water, or people with ill intentions said that a large number of words such as "hole", "轱辘", and "旮沓" were Manchu.

Baidu Encyclopedia is even so popular.

It seems that if a word is taken apart and does not make a single word, it is Manchu, or Mongolian.

This statement is actually very wrong.

Words such as "hole", "轱辘", and "坷拉" are not only not Manchu words, but even the lowest level of inherent words in Chinese.

For example, the word "轱辘" is very old.

So old that he was even older than the Han and the Chinese, a term that existed back in the days when the yellow and white races, at least the two male males of the two human races, Zhuxia and Indo-Europe, had not yet separated.

Its ancient pronunciation is called "轱辘", and the Chinese language has miraculously preserved its original flavor, and compared to other Beifeng speakers, the pronunciation of Chinese is the closest to the ancient sound.

(Beifeng is the common language spoken by the yellow and white people about 15,000 years ago, and the differences between Chinese and English are much smaller than those between Chinese and the Black African, Australian Aboriginal and other ethnic groups.) ）

Of course, there is nothing to be proud of at this point, after all, the original is not necessarily good, and some other words may be better preserved in English than in Chinese.

It's just that, from this point of view, it is ridiculous for some ill-intentioned people to say that [轱辘] does not conform to Chinese habits and is a foreign word.

In fact, there are many words in Chinese that are variants of "轱辘", which have evolved slowly, such as "hole", "circle", "car", and "road......

The word "car" may seem incredible, but in fact, linguistics can verify its evolution in detail step by step.

It's not a coincidence that in Japanese "car" can be called "轱辘馬", and in Latin "car" is called "currus" (pronounced: grunt: grunt), but in ancient times they themselves called wheel-like things "wheels".

In English, "轱辘" evolved into "cycle", "wheel", "colony", and "car".

So what is amazing is that "circle" and "cycle", "car" and "car", "road" and "road" are all cognate words that have been lost for one or two thousand years.

What's even more special is that in the Sanskrit language of the Indo-European language family, "轱辘" has also evolved a word that is close to the direction of evolution of [car] - [cakras].

That's right, [cakras] is chakra......

All in all, His Majesty Zhu Fugui was far-sighted and determined to use the lofty name of [Jin Kela] as a gift to his people.

Jin Ke La did not live up to the expectations of His Majesty the Emperor, it frantically provided nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium for the improved crops of the Ming Dynasty, and still ensured the goal of 100% grain self-sufficiency rate in the Ming Dynasty under the general rain and heat conditions this year.

In addition, there was a large amount of abundant grain used to raise livestock, make wine, make non-staple food, aid the vassal states, and export.

Of course, although Daming's own agricultural products are completely enough to eat, Zhu Fugui still imported a lot of agricultural products from later generations.

The reason is similar to the reason why rabbits in later generations imported Thai fragrant rice and Indian broken rice.

Thai rice is used to adjust the taste, while Indian rice is too cheap, and it is a bit unfortunate to not buy it to feed the animals.

Of course, on the whole, the Ming Dynasty is still export-oriented in the trade of agricultural products to later generations.

Among them, seafood is the main force.

Later, with the overfishing of Americans, the snow crabs that used to be found throughout the Pacific Ocean have become fewer and fewer, and their distribution latitudes have become higher and higher.

As a large number of benthic organisms in cold water seas, the growth cycle of snow crabs is much longer than that of ordinary freshwater crabs.

It takes 10 years for an adult snow crab to grow.

Overfishing in the United States and Canadians has made recovery of snow crab populations nearly impossible.

And Europeans and Americans, who usually talk about environmental protection and protect wild animals, accuse Chinese of eating shark fins, do not want to stop their consumption of this delicious crab.

In addition, snow crab fishing in the colder Arctic regions has led to harsher working conditions and higher wages for fishing workers.

The price of snow crab has skyrocketed to unbelievable proportions.

Daming saw this opportunity and vigorously developed the snow crab fishing industry.

Of course, we can't fish as indiscriminately as Europeans and Americans.

After all, the snow crab is a renewable resource, unlike bird droppings in Nauru.

Guano can theoretically regenerate, but the cycle needs to be measured in 100,000 years, which is basically negligible.

But snow crabs can grow another wave in ten years.

So Zhu Fugui didn't want to make a hammer deal.

Although there was no royal monopoly on Artemia like Salt Lake City, the imperial court still managed the snow crab fishing industry through a special fishing license issued by the Department of Agriculture of the Ministry of Household Affairs to avoid overfishing.

Zhu Fugui's internal funds injected capital to set up an acquisition company, which purchased more than ninety percent of the snow crabs on the market and exported them to future generations.

Of course, the living standards of later generations are also improving, and I want to try things like snow crabs, whether they are as delicious as the legend.

Therefore, [Dameng Industry] mainly sells snow crabs to domestic customers.

As for whether there are middlemen who resell to Europe and the United States, this Zhu Fugui can't control it.

At least on the dining table of the Chinese people, the figure of [Dameng Industry] has appeared more and more frequently.

Wajima Uniu, high-quality watermelon, organic vegetables, is also the fist product of [Dameng Industry], widely acclaimed, and there are cute beautiful girl endorsements!