"Honeycomb briquettes and matches will be my two most important industries after I transmigrate!”
He immediately picked up a pen and drew seven thick trunks on the big tree that represented 'Eaten'.
Then, he added a few branches to one of the branches that represented firewood.
On the branches, he wrote 'honeycomb briquet',' coal cleaning and processing technique','distribution map of open-pit coal mines and large-scale coal mines',' match technique', and so on.
"After the firewood is rice. As for rice, as mentioned on the first day, we just need to bring conventional rice seeds.”
"Indeed, the yield of conventional rice seeds with a yield of 10 dan per mu is five times higher than the original yield of 2 dan per mu. It's enough for the people of the world to eat.”
"The population in the early Tang Dynasty wasn't that large. As long as the conventional rice seeds were promoted, it would definitely be enough to eat. Moreover, there would be a lot of food stored.”
"Are the people upstairs all southerners? If they only focused on rice, the northern side would like to eat noodles, so they would definitely have to plant wheat!”
"Indeed, I wanted to say it before. The yield of wheat in the Tang Dynasty was about 2.5 dan per mu, while the modern wheat seeds can reach about 9 dan. This is also a three to four times increase!”
" Rice and wheat are enough for a short period of time, but as the world is at peace for a long time, the population will increase exponentially. We still have to reclaim more farmland, and we have to get the bent shaft plow and the tube cart!”
"We still have to build a fleet that can sail across the ocean as soon as possible and bring back local crops from all over the world to plant, such as sweet potatoes, peppers, and other crops that the Great Tang doesn't have.”
"You guys are still too small-minded. Even if the yield of the seeds brought by the building master is several times that of the original, the yield is still constant.”
"We know that the land and production are constant, but the population is growing rapidly. Then, what should we do when the population exceeds the food production?”
"Therefore, instead of thinking about this, why don't we use a powerful army to occupy more land? Only then can we have more food!”
"As long as we keep up with the rate of land occupation and population growth, we can truly ensure that the people will not starve!”
The discussion about rice was different from firewood.
Because no matter the north or south, everyone had to use fire to cook, so honeycomb briquettes and matches were no different to everyone.
However, due to the food culture and habits, the netizens in the south naturally focused on discussing the issue of high-yield rice seeds.
The netizens from the north were definitely discussing the issue of high-yield wheat seeds.
It was just like how netizens in the north ate dumplings during festivals. The dumpling skin was made of flour ground from wheat. How could they make dumplings without wheat?
However, netizens in the south did not eat dumplings during festivals, nor did they have the habit and culture of eating dumplings. Their diet was mainly based on rice.
However, this was not a problem. It was just a small difference in the category. The main difference was still food, so there was not much difference.
The problem was that as time passed, the population would grow rapidly. Even if there were high-yield seeds, there might still be insufficient food.
Therefore, a large amount of cultivated land was needed to maximize the use of the land.
At this time, he needed the curved shaft plow and the carriage.
Compared to the straight shaft plow of the early Tang Dynasty, the curved shaft plow was more energy-saving and efficient, which could speed up the progress of reclamation.
The tube-shaped vehicles were water irrigation facilities. They did not need to manually divert water. They only needed to dig ditches and build tube-shaped vehicles by the river to direct water into the fields through the tube-shaped vehicles.
There were also people who suggested that they quickly establish a fleet that could sail across the seas and bring back crops that the Great Tang did not have.
This was indeed feasible, because although the Great Tang was vast, it lacked many things!
For example, the Great Tang didn't have sweet potatoes with a high yield of 3000 kilograms. At that time, only South America had them.
For example, chili peppers, a very popular crop, were also found in South America.
If he wanted to obtain these crops, the only way was to form a voyage fleet.
There were even irascible older brothers who thought that increasing grain production and opening up more land was useless!
For example, conquering the world's land through a powerful army.
Let the locals use their land to help the Great Tang grow food!
As long as the land they conquered was more than the population, the people would never go hungry!
This could be considered to have stolen the concept of colonization from Europe!
"But I like this idea!"
Li Ke smiled slightly. He quite agreed with this idea.
Since ancient times, land had been a key factor in determining the rise and fall of a dynasty!
When the new dynasty was established, the powers of the world underwent a reshuffle, and a large amount of land became ownerless.
The new dynasty distributed these lands to the common people so that they could have land to grow and food to eat. Therefore, the world was stable and the hearts of the people were gathered.
However, as time passed, a natural or man-made disaster, such as a flood or drought, could cause the fields to lose all crops.
However, the imperial court didn't care if you had no crops in your fields. The taxes that should be collected couldn't be less.
At this time, the common people had no grain to begin with. They didn't even have a bite to eat. Where would they get the grain to pay taxes?
Ordinary people could not resist this risk. In the end, they could only sell their land to the squires and landowners so that they did not have to pay taxes.
Natural disasters and man-made disasters had caused more and more people to sell their land. This also led to more and more land for the squires and landowners, while the land for the people was getting less.
In the end, all the commoners became tenants of the squires and landlords. They were exploited by the squires and could not survive anymore. They started a peasant uprising.
Most of the dynasties had been trapped in this endless cycle.
The reason why such an endless cycle was formed was that the area of cultivated land was constant, and the population was constantly increasing.
If the growing population had no land to grow and no food to eat, they could only rebel.
Therefore, if he wanted to solve this problem, he could only do as that person had said.
That was to use a powerful army to occupy more land and distribute the newly occupied land to the newly growing population.
This would result in the Great Tang becoming larger and larger, and the Great Tang becoming more and more populated!
At this rate, it was only a matter of time before the entire Earth became the territory of the Great Tang and everyone on Earth became a citizen of the Great Tang!
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