Steel Dynasty - Chapter 737

[Chapter 736 Industrial Planning]

“Fertilizer?”

In the imperial study, Pang Yukun and Fiji had doubts in their hearts at the same time.

Yesterday, he and Brandon reached an agreement to exchange rubber for a steam engine. Pang Yukun and Fiji sent Brandon away in the drizzle the next morning.

This visit of the Dutch mission can be regarded as a diplomatic event. He also had to use corresponding etiquette to receive people. At the same time, he also gave some gifts to Brandon in return.

Of course, Xiao Ming was not willing to suffer a loss. Brandon brought a bunch of industrial products, and he also returned a bunch of industrial products, including perfume, white sand beach, silk, tea, pendulum clocks and a series of other things.

The reason why he chose these is actually very simple. He just wanted to let the Dutch Congress know the strength of the Great Yu Kingdom.

Brandon’s arrival was just a diplomatic incident. After sending Brandon away, he was still faced with the development issues of Great Yu.

Now that the industry is booming, it has been able to provide some materials for soil fertilizers, so he called Pang Yukun and Fiji over for the fertilizer matter.

“Your Majesty, what is this fertilizer?” Pang Yukun asked directly.

After pondering for a while, Xiao Ming said, “This fertilizer is a kind of fertilizer that can increase food production.”

“It turns out to be fertilizer.” Fiji nodded, “There are people among the people who collect manure and retting it, so this must be it.”

“Fiji Mr. Ge is absolutely right, but this is just fertilizer, not chemical fertilizer.” Xiao Ming smiled lightly, “This chemical fertilizer refers to fertilizer that is made or mined by chemical methods and processed. It is also called inorganic fertilizer, and Fei. Mr. Ge was talking about organic fertilizers.

“Organic, inorganic?”

Fiji and Pang Yukun were confused again. With the development of industry, new terms appeared one after another, which made them overwhelmed.

So much so that talking to Xiao Ming now makes both of them very stressed, because the emperor would have some unfamiliar words pop out of his mouth from time to time.

At the same time, in order to understand what Xiao Ming said, the two had to go to Qingzhou University from time to time to replenish some knowledge.

Xiao Ming nodded and acted as a teacher on the spot to explain to the two what organic and inorganic are.

After the two of them understood, Pang Yukun said, “The emperor means that chemical fertilizers are more powerful than fertilizers and can make crops more productive?”

“Yes, this is why I came to you. In the past, Qingzhou did not have an industrial base for the production of chemical fertilizers. But the steam engine made this possible, and the most important point is that phosphate ore in Qingzhou Prefecture is scarce and mass production of fertilizers cannot be achieved. But now that the world is so vast, I can easily obtain it. “Xiao Ming is in a happy mood and has achieved this. In this position, he increasingly feels that sometimes developing a country is like playing a strategic game.

If you want to push the industrial technology tree forward, you have to build various ore smelters so that the corresponding industries can be developed, otherwise everything will be in vain.

So he didn’t mention chemical fertilizers before just because there were no conditions to implement it.

Because according to information in the science and technology database, Dayu is one of the major phosphate rock producing areas in the world. It is quite rich in phosphate rock resources, with a total resource volume of nearly 50 billion tons, ranking second in the world.

Moreover, the phosphate ores of Dayu are concentrated in the five provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan. The phosphate ores in these places are not only rich but also of the best quality. It can be said that the phosphate ores of Dayu are mainly distributed in the southwest region. Just like the coal mines in Dayu are mainly concentrated in Shanxi.

Because of this, Xiao Ming was unable to produce fertilizer at that time, but it was different after the Northern War.

Now these southwestern lands are basically under his control.

“That’s it.” Pang Yukun and Fiji suddenly understood.

Xiao Ming continued: “Simply speaking, as long as there is phosphate rock, fertilizer can be produced, so the fertilizer workshop must be built in a place with abundant phosphate rock. From my point of view, let’s build a fertilizer workshop in Yizhou, etc. They produce fertilizers and then sell them to all parts of the country.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Pang Yukun nodded, and then asked, “Is this fertilizer factory allowed to be built by private factories?”

“Private mining of phosphate mines is allowed. The factory must be run by the government. When this fertilizer is used on the land, you will understand that the people will cause trouble if they don’t have the fertilizer. I won’t trust it if it is handed over to profit-seeking businessmen.”

Fiji and Pang Yukun agreed in unison.

After explaining the matter of the fertilizer industry, Xiao Ming suddenly remembered something and said, “I have heard something during this period. It is said that many wealthy families have poured into Qingzhou and turned into businessmen.”

The affairs of the wealthy families have always been supervised by Fiji. Hearing this, he said, “Yes, Your Majesty, this is indeed a fact. As the Emperor said, land is the foundation of a wealthy family. Now that the Emperor has taken back illegally occupied land by wealthy families in various prefectures and re-equalized the land, the wealthy families can only find another way to survive. So, “

Becoming a merchant with rich family assets is a good thing in the eyes of Xianguan.”

“Your Majesty, what Mr. Fei Ge said is true. The wealthy family originally relied on local clans and land, but now they have become merchants.” Rootless duckweed is easier to control than it is in the local area.”

Xiao Ming frowned. The easy victory over the north this time was largely due to his tolerant attitude towards the wealthy people, but this did not mean that Xiao Ming was over. Compromise to the wealthy family and follow the old path of Great Chongqing.

In fact, he has always been wary of these wealthy families. Even though these wealthy families are doing business, he believes that they still hate him in their hearts.

After all, he was the one who ruined the leisurely days of these wealthy people being local emperors.

So he said; “Even so, you have to be wary of them. Businessmen are sometimes very dangerous.”

Fiji and Pang Yukun looked at each other. They knew what Xiao Ming was worried about, and they said at the same time: “Yes , Your Majesty, I will remember this.”

Without mentioning the matter again, Xiao Ming asked the two of them some questions about the reform. He was slightly satisfied when he learned that both private workshops and government-run workshops were now booming. .

At this time, he talked to the two about the industrial system.

For Xiao Ming, his development of industry this time was not blind, but he had his own set of plans. The source of this plan was the contemporary international industry classification in the technology library.

This classification standard covers everything from agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery to mining and manufacturing to electrical appliances, gas, construction, transportation, information industry and other industries, totaling more than a thousand projects.

As long as all these industries are established according to this standard, Dayu will be able to reach the level of the twentieth century.

And this is a complete national industry system, including the industrial system.

Of course, Xiao Ming has only completed a dozen of them now, and most of them have not yet been realized. After all, if some things are to be realized, technological progress must continue, and he still has a long way to go.

PS: There is one more chapter.

(End of chapter)