In history, the United Kingdom had actually tried to do so.
They used their huge fleet and sharp weapons to colonize many parts of the world.
They would use the local land and natives to help them grow food and produce materials.
At its peak, the British colonies were spread all over the continent. No matter how the sun turned, it could shine on the British colonies.
Hence, England had a nickname at its peak, the Empire of the Sun Never Sets!
However, a colony was just a colony after all. It was not a real rule or assimilation. Therefore, over time, it would lose control and would not last long and be stable.
Once there was a change in the homeland, the colony would be in turmoil and lose control.
It was just like the dynasties of the Central Plains in history. When they were strong, the surrounding small countries were respectful and treated the Central Plains as a superior country.
They were willing to treat the Central Plains Dynasty as their suzerain while they themselves obediently became affiliated kingdoms.
However, once the dynasty of the Central Plains became weak and fell into chaos, these affiliated kingdoms would start to jump up and down, and even develop some ambitions.
And why were there places and people that did not originally belong to the Central Plains Dynasty, but after they were occupied by the Central Plains Dynasty, they were completely integrated into the Central Plains Dynasty for generations?
Even in modern times, the huge Chinese nation was made up of dozens of ethnic groups.
Every race recognized themselves as the sons and daughters of the Chinese race from the bottom of their hearts.
This was the power of national culture!
The colonies could only restrict the human body, but culture could assimilate the human mind!
"After occupying the land, we must move a large number of people over to live there. Then, we must spread the culture of the Great Tang and completely assimilate the thoughts of the local natives!”
"In less than three generations, there will be no more natives, but the people of the Great Tang who live there!”
"China's culture is the greatest weapon to conquer the world!”
Thinking of this, Li Ke's eyes became brighter and brighter, as if he had found his ultimate goal after transmigrating!
Not enough food?
That would take up all the cultivated land in the world!
"Good heavens, I was indeed too narrow-minded!”
"This time, my vision is indeed too short-sighted!”
"What grain production? If there was not enough food to eat, they would go and conquer a continent. If they could not, they would conquer another continent!”
The other netizens were also dumbfounded by this person's reply.
However, everyone quickly reacted and realized that this idea was indeed simple and crude, and it was also very effective. They immediately apologized!
Li Ke continued to read for a while and found that it was almost done. There were no new replies, so he opened his laptop.
Similarly, he drew a few branches on the big tree that belonged to Mi.
Then, he wrote down 'conventional rice seeds',' wheat seeds','curved beam plows',' tube-shaped wagons','overseas crops','increase cultivated land', and other key information.
"What about cooking oil? What kind of oil did the ancient people eat?"
"During the Tang Dynasty, sesame oil should have been used. Ever since Zhang Qian brought back sesame from the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty, the cooking oil of the ancient people was mainly sesame oil.”
"Then when did we start eating the vegetable oil we're eating now?”
"After the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, rape was introduced to China during the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, there were not many people planting it at that time.”
"Because the crushing technology of soybeans was not mature at that time, the oil yield was very low, so very few people used soybeans to extract oil.”
"In the late Ming Dynasty, peanuts were introduced into China, but like soybeans, the crushing technology was not in place, and the oil yield was low.”
"It wasn't until the late Qing Dynasty that the oil extraction rate of soybeans and peanuts soared and gradually became mainstream edible oil.”
"Now, we have soybeans, peanuts, sesame oil in the north, and vegetable oil in the south.”
After watching for a while, Li Ke roughly understood the situation of ancient edible oil.
Simply put, back in the Great Tang, they mainly ate sesame oil.
Rich families might eat some animal oil, such as pork fat.
If he wanted to make money from cooking oil, he had to increase the variety of cooking oil.
Increasing the types of cooking oil was easy to understand. He could make both vegetable oil and soybean oil.
As for peanut oil, because peanut oil was introduced to China from America in the late Ming Dynasty, there were no peanuts in the Tang Dynasty.
Only after the fleet reached America could they bring the peanut seeds over.
However, the addition of vegetable oil and soybean oil was enough. In addition to the original sesame oil, the three types of oil were enough to eat.
Moreover, there was animal oil, and lards could also take up a large proportion.
Of the three types of vegetable oil, two were unique to him.
Moreover, once they got peanuts from America, they would have a monopoly on three types of vegetable oil!
How could a monopoly not make money?
He only needed to control the price of cooking oil to a price that ordinary people could accept, and he could easily make a lot of money!
After all, one had to eat oil!
He was the only one who could extract the oil from the canola and soybean oil. Even if someone else learned from him to extract oil from the canola, what about soybean oil?
He could create a steam engine and use steam power to extract oil, but could others?
Therefore, there was still a lot of potential in cooking oil!
He drew a few branches on the big tree 'oil'.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
'Rape Planting',' Rapola Oil Pressing Technique','Soy Oil Pressing Technique',' Peanut Oil Pressing Technique','Oil Pressing Machine Principle and Blueprint'
He quickly wrote down the key information on the branches.
He casually flipped through his notebook and found that three trees had already become 'luxuriant and leafy'.
"If these daily necessities are gathered together, they really can't be underestimated!”
Li Ke looked at the information recorded in the notebook and suddenly had a strong confidence in his heart!
He imagined that after he transmigrated, he would control all the honeycomb briquettes and matches in the world, as well as most of the rice, wheat, and cooking oil. He would control the entire grain and oil market.
By then, everyone would no longer burn firewood, and the flint used to make the fire would be thrown away.
Most of the rice and wheat he ate were sold by the grain store under his name.
Other than sesame oil, the edible oil she ate was all from him.
At that time, as long as he said the word, the price of cooking oil could rise or fall!
If he was unhappy, the price of rice and wheat would skyrocket!
He was unhappy. No one could even buy a honeycomb briquet or a box of matches!
If he couldn't buy honeycomb briquettes and matches, and he didn't need flint, he couldn't even start a fire!
There was no rice for cooking and no oil for cooking.
At such a time, there would be a huge mess!
At this moment, who in the Great Tang would dare touch him?
Would Li Shi Min dare?
If Li Shiming dared to touch him, the commoners who had no rice to cook and no oil to cook would not hesitate to pull Li Shiming from the throne!
Therefore, these seemingly small things in daily life were not eye-catching.
But in reality, it could greatly affect people's lives!
Someone said in the comments section that the protagonist should take in Li Lizhi and Li Mingda. I don't know if it's you or me who's wrong. I don't understand.
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