Cleveland: By the way, our cities are also growing rapidly, with almost 20 cities of more than 100,000 people. Among them, the population of New York, Chicago and Philadelphia has exceeded 1 million...... It is your city, Mr. Washington, our capital, Washington...... Today, the population has exceeded 100,000. 】

[By the way, though...... Our population, resources, industrial totals, oil production, and food reserves are all greater than or equal to those of Great Britain, but they ...... Our military strength is still in the third rate of the world, no, not even as good as the Qing Dynasty in the East. Our ground forces are less than 30,000 men, and the navy is negligible...... However, the lessons of the civil war were so profound for us that ...... In the past 30 years, we have consciously or unconsciously avoided developing the military, and it is simply difficult to describe the military achievements. 】

Cleveland was so sudden, and he was so excited to meet Washington and Jackson that he just thought of where he wanted to go with this sudden debriefing.

After all, at this time, the comprehensive national strength is already the second in the world, and he has too much to report to his ancestors and ancestors.

But these corners and corners are enough to shock the group members in the group.

"Seventy million people?"

"Isn't it? In the Lincoln era, there were only 30 million people, how can it be that in 30 years, the population has doubled in one generation? ”

"Isn't this the annexation of the overlord's population?"

"And ...... How much steel is produced? Eight billion catties? Billion catties!? Are you kidding! ”

Zhu Houzhao was directly stunned.

He just thought that the United States was annexing the suzerain's resource model to the strongest, and a fierce man fell from the sky or something.

But what Cleveland reported was diametrically opposed to what he expected, and even the opposite.

The model of annexing the suzerain's country in war, the population can indeed grow, and he reluctantly accepts.

But steel production ...... This indicator of comprehensive national strength is too exaggerated!

Iron! Steel! This is the representative of the core technology of the Ming Dynasty, after all, it can produce firearms and armor.

At the same time, the output of iron is also an important indicator of the comprehensive national strength of all dynasties!

He doesn't know how much data there is in the past dynasties, but the current output of Daming iron is about 10 million to 20 million catties.

But how much is American!

Eight billion! Hundred million!

How much armor can this have, and how many firebolts can it produce?

Zhu Houzhao was shocked by this terrifying data.

I was also puzzled by the different strength of the United States, what route did this America take to become so strong?

Not to mention him, Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, etc. did not expect it, and they were all shocked.

[Meitaizu Washington: Steel production turned out to be 8 billion catties...... How can it be? God, what the hell is going on? How is it possible to have so much iron? 】

Washington was also shocked by the terrible production of steel, after all, steel is also the current hard currency of the United States!

[Jefferson: Aren't we going to develop a big agricultural country? What about agriculture? 】

[Jackson: yes...... The handicrafts of the North, which eventually completely overshadowed the plantations, agriculture of our South? 】

And Jackson and Jefferson, who didn't care about that and cared about agriculture.

[Cleveland: Needless to say, agriculture is of course! The development of science and technology has made our agricultural production more convenient, we have invented new types of plows, improved many types of plows, and invented harvesters, seeders, threshers...... Originally, a farmer could only grow five acres of land a day, but with the help of these things, it is not a problem to grow 200 acres a day. 】

[In this regard, I don't have specific data, anyway...... Now there are about five million large farms in the country, more than 10,000 acres. The food produced by these farms is enough for one or two hundred million people to eat and drink, and we also export the surplus to Europe ......]

Cleveland also briefly talked about the development of agriculture, knowing that Jefferson and Jackson had their hearts and minds on building the United States into an agricultural power.

Now, the goal has been achieved.

Presidents like Jackson and Jefferson should be very satisfied.

[Mattew Jefferson: This ...... Five million large farms, and ...... The food produced is enough for 100 million or 200 million people to eat and drink...... This...... It's all thanks to what you say, the development of science and technology? 】

[Jackson: Technology! It turned out to be technology! It's like Whitney invented the ginning machine, which made cotton threshing a thousand times more efficient! That's why we in the United States grow cotton everywhere, because we can make a lot of money...... Therefore, in other aspects, planting corn, rice, etc., it is also because of the use of science and technology by workers to invent all these things, so that we can really become a big agricultural country? 】

Jackson finally combined their agricultural history with the current agricultural development situation in the United States, and saw the possibility of Cleveland's depiction of the situation.

[Mitaizu Washington: Oh my God! The output of steel is 8 billion catties, and the grain is enough for 100 million or 200 million people...... It can also be exported! We are ...... in the United States of America Got so powerful? 】

Under the shock of specific figures, Washington completely saw the strength of the United States.

[Mercer Joe Lincoln: These seem to be the signs of our time...... So, is it the victory of the civil war that finally allows these things to be fully resolved? We, the United States, have ushered in an incredible outbreak, a miracle of development? 】

Lincoln once again responded to the Civil War, feeling that the Civil War seemed to have resolved some contradictions that restricted the development of the United States, so that the United States finally broke through the shackles and plugged in the wings of take-off.

[Cleveland: It is indeed the development of science and technology!] Technology has driven change in all aspects of our lives in the United States...... Not only the United States, but now the whole world is being transformed by the influence of technology. However, because we are American...... Unlike constitutional monarchies and monarchies, so ...... Our scientific and technological development has not been stopped by some decadent and ignorant people, just like the old European countries! We grow faster...... There is no need to fight, there is no need to invade, we bury our heads in development...... Peacefully rise to the current comprehensive national strength, which is considered to be the world's leading power! 】

Cleveland gave Jackson and Jefferson an affirmative answer!

[Cleveland: And...... President Washington and His Majesty Louis XVI, you don't necessarily understand...... The development of science and technology is like ...... It turns out that our cold weapons, the war with the sword, turned into a war with muskets! Now a musketeer of 1,000 men will be able to face 10,000 troops in the Middle Ages! In the Middle Ages, iron was only a few hundred catties a day, but now, the development of science and technology ...... Let iron produce 10,000 catties a day, 100,000 catties! 】

I'm afraid that Washington and Louis XVI don't understand it either, and Cleveland explains it in passing.

After all, the United States today is more than the United States of a hundred years ago, and the United States is almost modern versus ancient.

Cleveland tries to explain technology in terms of what they can understand.

"This ......"

"The development of technology?"

"Technology can ...... It can make a farmer grow five acres of land a day to two hundred acres a day! ”

"Also, technology can make steel dozens or hundreds of catties a day, and turn it into 10,000 catties a day, 100,000 catties!"

"From Swords to Firebolts......"

"Is it the development of technology?"

Zhu Houzhao was also deeply shocked, but under Cleveland's explanation, he understood what scientific and technological development was.