Half seawater, half flames.

After inspecting the northern and southern provinces of the border, King Richard of the Tang Kingdom returned to Chang'an City (San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco) in early June, completing his longest tour in more than half a year.

In the following two months, His Majesty did not convene a single meeting of military dignitaries, but devoted himself to legislative and economic construction, and promoted the adoption of important bills such as the "Urban Management Law", "Amendment to the Civil Code", "Property Law", "Kingdom Election Law", "Detailed Rules of the Import and Export Customs Tariff Law", and further improved the rule of law construction system in the Kingdom.

During this period

His Majesty has also visited the University of California, Chang'an University, the Royal San Francisco Institute of Technology and other institutions of higher learning, where he has been among professors and students, and has come to the laboratory to discuss cutting-edge scientific research and development with researchers.

In the world's leading diesel-powered machinery laboratory, His Majesty expressed his high appreciation for the research and development personnel, and awarded the scientific and technological leader of the laboratory, Professor Antoine Gordon, the title of Baron of the Kingdom (baron for life, not hereditary), a manor located on the outskirts of Chang'an, and four concubines.

After the laboratory has developed and put into production 6 horsepower and 12 horsepower diesel engines, in recent years, it has overcome many material problems and launched a new 20 horsepower diesel engine, which has been rapidly mass-produced.

The 30 hp and 55 hp diesel engines under development have also made significant progress, and the 80 hp and 120 hp diesel engines have been approved, which is the top laboratory with the highest technical level and reputation for diesel-powered machinery today.

With a wave of his hand, Richard doubled the amount of funding for the experiment's scientific research to an astonishing 180,000 yuan a year, unparalleled in the world's scientific and technological community.

In addition, His Majesty the King is very concerned about the Nutritional Chemistry Laboratory involved in agriculture, and has increased the funding for the laboratory's research projects with potash as the core, and encouraged the professors to work harder to contribute to the Kingdom's agricultural production.

Agricultural fertilizer research belongs to the frontier field of the world today, has a history of 10 years, but has not made a dazzling scientific and technological breakthrough, and the general research level in the world is low.

Early 19th century

European scholar Liebig carefully studied the law of plant growth and development, and came to the conclusion that plants need nitrogen, calcium, potassium, phosphorus and other components for growth, which pointed out a clear way for the development of the fertilizer industry.

In 1842, the British were the first to build a phosphate fertilizer factory, mainly to apply bone meal-based phosphate fertilizer to the acidic soil of England to increase production.

In order to raise a large number of human and animal bones, the British even went to the battlefield of the Battle of Waterloo and mobilized local farmers to dig up the bones of fallen soldiers and use them to make phosphobone meal.

Today, the world's most efficient fertilizer is guano and its efficacy has been widely known, Chile and Venezuela are the beneficiaries of the guano trade, with an annual export value of up to 25 million pounds, becoming the envy of the rich countries in South America.

Due to the acidic soil conditions, the British chose phosphate fertilizer as the main direction of attack, and due to the limitation of the level of the chemical industry, no significant progress has been made in the research in the past 20 years.

The agricultural area of North America is dominated by loam, which is a soil with good characteristics, and its permeability, storage and potential nutrient content are between sandy soil and clay soil, which is suitable for the growth of various crops and has a good effect of applying potassium fertilizer.

Therefore, in the plant breeding and agricultural laboratories of the Tang Kingdom, potash fertilizer is mostly the main goal of scientific and technological research, which is determined by the innate conditions of the soil, and is transferred by human will.

Professor Liebig's research results have shown that plants need potassium fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer, nitrogen fertilizer and calcium fertilizer, and now due to the limited level of science and technology, nitrogen fertilizer is basically clueless, and human and animal bones are rich in phosphorus and calcium, so they are regarded as the main raw material by the British.

But this thing is very difficult to do, and the source of raw materials is very limited, and it is impossible to expand production.

After the discovery of potash ore, potash fertilizer was quickly promoted to key scientific research projects, striving to make breakthroughs.

In Leigh County, New Mexico, mineral resource surveyors from the Tang Kingdom discovered the purest potash in the world, with a purity of more than 80%, which is simply a God-given treasure.

This purity basically achieves the pure quality obtained by calcining methyl alkali in a reverberatory furnace or kiln, and is called "pearl gray", and the white color is slightly gray, which is a symbol of high quality.

Potassium was widely used in the industrialization of Britain at the end of the 18th century, and it was generally extracted from potassium pits to make fertilizer or prepare wool for yarn production.

As early as 1767, Canadians obtained potash from wood ash, and Paradise Island also obtained a large amount of potash from the burning wasteland, which was collected and used in local soap making.

In 1857, the Canadian colonies exported 43,958 barrels of potash and pearl ash to the United Kingdom, and in the same year, the Germans began large-scale production of potash from mineral salts, which is an important raw material for the production of potash fertilizer.

However, due to the high cost, it is mostly used in industrial production, and agricultural applications are limited to experimental fields, the input-output ratio is very uneconomical, and a large number of trees need to be burned to obtain potash, which is not sustainable.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Canadian potash production provided much-needed cash for settlers who cleared trees from their woodlands, the easiest way being by burning wood or wood that was not needed for construction.

The ash from the hardwood tree can be used to make lye, which can be used to make soap, or it can be boiled to produce valuable potash.

As a rule of thumb;

When arson, hardwoods produce ash at a rate of 60-100 bushels per acre, and the rate at which plant ash is obtained is satisfactory.

In 1790, in rural New York State, ashes could be sold for $3.25 to $6.25 per acre, the same price as hired workers to clean up, and ashes are a good sale to this day.

The primitive and rugged potash industry, with the axes of American lumberjacks sweeping through vast swathes of forest, is clearly not sustainable and is rarely used today.

Truly modern industrial potash production will have to wait almost 100 years from now.

Richard obviously couldn't wait that long, the continuous immigration boom in the Tang Kingdom had already caused considerable pressure on food production, and the grain on Paradise Island had to go through a long sea transportation, which was not cost-effective.

Therefore, he had to open a golden finger and redeem a complete set of production process and equipment drawings of the primary potash fertilizer plant from the prestige store, and has arranged for the special operations department to follow up the whole process and implement the whole process from the research and development of production equipment to the construction and production of the factory.

Although there are equipment drawings, there is still a long way to go to produce a complete set of production equipment for the potash plant, and it is necessary to organize elite soldiers to overcome the difficulties.

As for where the production process and equipment drawings come from, they can only be in the name of an agricultural laboratory in the north.

All the designers of the agricultural laboratory funded by this place were shipwrecked and sunk when the passenger ship was on its way to Chang'an City to receive the royal commendation, and even the body was not found.

Despite the ongoing civil war in North America, King Richard still focused his efforts on economic development, and the potash industry was his main focus, with the entire construction project funded by the royal family.

The investment fund under the Ministry of Internal Affairs established the Portland Potash Fertilizer Company, and while developing the high-purity potassium deposit in Lixian County, it also issued orders to more than a dozen machinery factories in China to develop special machinery and equipment for tackling key problems.

Portland is the city with the highest concentration of heavy industry and machinery industry in the Tang Kingdom, bordering the great river with abundant water and excellent shipping conditions, which can import a large amount of sulfur ore, which is the main raw material for the production of potassium sulfate.

It is expected that in about two years, the relevant reactors, pressure vessels and other chemical equipment will be in place one after another, and the world's leading potash fertilizer production capacity will be established.

With large tracts of fertile land, and potash fertilizer, the bottleneck of food production and supply was solved, and Richard was confident that the population of the Tang Kingdom would increase to 60 million or more by the end of the century, and establish an unprecedentedly prosperous Tang Empire.

In his opinion

This was more important than the American Civil War, and now he was focusing on economic development, striving for the total industrial and agricultural output of the Tang Kingdom in 1858 to surpass that of the northern United States, that is, more than 1.5 billion US dollars.

If this goal can be achieved, the Tang Kingdom will become the second country in the world to fully step into industrialization, and the total national economy will rank fifth in the world, and the economy and military will reach a new level, proudly ranking among the world's second-rate powers.

Daming Palace, Qinzheng Palace

Richard reviewed some important recitals in the morning, and then stretched out happily, put down his pen, and said to Dong Jie, the head of the secretariat who was also serving him, with a warm expression; "Dong Aiqing, it's the weekend tomorrow, what's the arrangement?"

"Back to Your Majesty, Weichen is to entertain some guests in the manor, and this weekend drinking party has been planned for a long time, mainly for relatives and friends to walk around."

"Huh...... In the first half of the year, I walked a big circle, and I ran all over the border provinces, I guess you don't like to move anymore, and it is good to reunite with your family more on weekends. ”

"Weichen dares to ask His Majesty if he plans to travel on the weekend?"

"No, my tigers, bears, and leopards haven't been trained for a while, and I just have to give these beasts a good time to pet them when I'm free, I heard that old Karn was bitten by a brown bear at home, is that the case?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Dong Jie didn't dare to hide the reason, and told him what had happened, and he replied with a subtle look on his face; "The two male bears in Earl Karn's house are in heat, and they are quite irritable, and they are no longer fit to play with. The Earl of Karn had drunk some more wine that day, and was so drunk that he had to tease the bear, so he was slapped over with a paw. Fortunately, the guards quickly killed the mad brown bear, and only then did they save a life. ”

"How's the injury?"

"I broke five ribs, my left arm was also broken, I still had a serious scratch on my back, and by the way, I broke my nose bone, and now I can only lie in bed to recuperate."

"Hehehe...... You go to condolences on my behalf, and get him some old ginseng deer antler velvet from the inner library, alas, people love to play again, so it's hard to suffer! Richard shook his head with a smile, and left the Qinzheng Hall briskly with his hands behind his back, and soon disappeared.

The old ginseng in the inner library is all precious Northeast old mountain ginseng, sika deer antler, the effect is many times better than the locally produced American ginseng, and the two are not comparable at all.

If you really want to talk about it, the trend of the nobles of the Tang Kingdom raising fierce beasts, it has to be traced back from His Majesty today, on the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain in the Daming Palace, lions, tigers, brown bears, jaguars, wild wolves, lynxes, and bald sea eagles are almost everything.

Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain and Wanshou Mountain homonym, is His Majesty likes to go to the place often, the size of the herd is incomparable, more than 270 beasts of all kinds, only the wild wolf has more than 110, can be called the world's largest zoo.

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