Competition between countries and nations can be divided into countless forms, and war is just a last resort.

Striking opponents to consume other people's strength and thus create gaps is the ultimate goal. All means can be used to achieve this goal, and you can do everything you can!

The backward Qing Dynasty never understood how important technology is, and it simply didn't understand what productivity is?

When mankind enters the industrial revolution, improving productivity is a problem that all nations must face, and it is a roadblock that no one can avoid.

To put it more than an exaggerated point, the improvement of productivity can basically solve more than 90% of the contradictions in human society!

Poor Qing Dynasty always felt that the industrial revolution that Europeans had done was foreign guns, cannons and iron armored warships. They thought that foreign devils were playing with steel parts!

It’s a big mistake. In fact, the increase in productivity is not just the prosperity of industry and commerce, but also closely related to the agriculture that is most closely related to the Chinese.

China is an agricultural nation, and the food problem is a big problem. Almost all changes in dynasties are related to the food crisis.

The population is growing, but there is only so much land, and grain output has basically not changed much for thousands of years!

Although in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, due to the emergence of high-yield crops in the Americas such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, a small-scale population expansion occurred in China.

But after all, it depends on the weather for its own income. The total population of more than 300 million has drained the potential of the land!

The gap between the rich and the poor is large, and land annexation will indeed cause major social contradictions, but these contradictions will not trigger large-scale riots or peasant uprisings!

The reason for the real trigger of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement is the root cause of hunger or the fact that the people cannot eat enough!

Even the capital's most prosperous place continues to suffer food shortages, let alone those remote mountainous areas that no one cares about. Not to mention the major famine disasters, even in some years that lack harvest, people will starve to death.

How to solve this problem? There are only two ways, and these two methods are all controlled by Xiao Letian at this moment.

The first is to add new arable land, which the Qing Dynasty could no longer do, because the future trend of the territory of the Qing Dynasty could only be to reduce rather than expand.

The newly added territory is in the hands of the Chinese, and it is all fought by Xiao Letian!

Without the large granary that warms Nanyang, it would be impossible for Chinese grain merchants to dump thousands of tons of rice!

In addition to adding new arable land, the second method is to improve agricultural production efficiency and improve agricultural productivity. What should be used to improve it? Of course, it is still technology!

Nanyang is suitable for growing rice, but it also has its shortcomings. There is too much water in this place, and there will be floods for half a year! The inability of local indigenous people to develop agriculture is also related to floods.

In order to completely solve the flood, the Huamen Reclamation Area has built water conservancy on the one hand and established a smooth drainage system, while on the other hand, it relies on advanced water pumps.

The steam-powered water pump commonly used in European coal mines has already become very mature. The drawings come to let Chinese engineers modify them. This is a farming tool that Chinese farmers dare not even imagine for thousands of years.

After the heavy rain and typhoon, the farmland has severe water accumulation, so it depends on manpower to discharge it? Or do we need to pump water by mechanical power!

If the farmlands in the continuous drought highlands are still water-deficient, the water truck will rely on the water truck? Start the water pump and there will naturally be continuous water irrigation!

Just by popularizing water pumps, many swamps that cannot produce grain have turned into fertile fields!

In all places in Nanyang where there are Chinese reclamation areas, there are such spectacular scenes, with dozens of water pumps working day and night around the vast swamp.

The hardworking farmers blocked out of the dam, drained a piece of land and leveled it. When the seedlings were planted, they could see the harvest in the past!

There are rice in three seasons a year, so how much grain is produced? Many people who cannot survive in China have to leave their hometowns. When they leave, they all plan to die. The fantasy Nanyang may still look like.

But I never expected that Nanyang is a land of fish and rice cooked three times a year. As long as you work hard, you don’t have to worry about starvation at all.

The nickname of China's infrastructure maniac has existed since ancient times. European colonists and South Asian indigenous people were all stunned. They had never seen such a nation that loved to work.

Many times, thousands of people start construction at the same time, and dozens of hectares of swamps were transformed into rice fields in three days!

There are also jungles all over the mountains. The small railway is built into the deep mountains with the footsteps of the logging camp. The sound of cutting wood scares all the animals in the rainforest retreat.

There are as many as twelve logging camps in Borneo alone, including hundreds of years of mahogany, rosewood, teak, etc., and when they arrive at the harbor, a Chinese businessman takes cash to grab goods.

The land reclaimed by the logging camp will never be spared. Plant corn, sweet potatoes and other things for two years first, and then gradually clean up stones and tree stumps in the middle. Two or three years later, there will be a large area of ​​farmland.

It is this crazy expansion that has given Xiao Letian a trump card that can dominate East Asia, that is food!

At present, only a small number of technologies are used in agriculture. After the rise of the Chinese chemical industry in the future, chemical fertilizers will definitely be the priority product.

Fertilizer is the most fundamental guarantee of agricultural output. Whoever controls this source industry can control agricultural production in the future world.

The Qing Dynasty did not realize how much grain output the Chinese people had at this moment, and they dared not imagine how much agricultural potential they had in the future!

But one thing is certain that the future Chinese people's food security cut-off will be controlled by Xiao Letian!

Once the huge killer of grain is activated, this is a strategic nuclear weapon that the Qing Dynasty could not resist. Not to mention the failure of a few Dunhuang documents, if the Japanese Sixth Guardians refused to give in, there would be a rice riot in the capital.

Of course, he can ignore the lives of the people, but your political enemies will miss this good opportunity to attack you? Cixi has rolled up her sleeves and went on stage in person, and has already put the blame on you.

In order to guarantee his rights, Yi has to admit defeat!

The next day, when Yi heard that the Chinese people dumped 100 tons of rice in the capital in one breath, he was so shocked that he didn't say anything for a long time.

"It's become a climate, it's really a climate... It turns out that Xiao Letian was really playing with us to keep a low profile!"

"He was playing a delaying strategy with us in order to fight in Europe! He deceived us so miserably..."

The return of the head of state brought the Chinese strategic focus back from Europe to Asia, and as a result, the return of the king naturally brought hundreds of millions of winds and thunders.

Xiao Letian's remote control command in Nanyang can cause a bloody storm in the Qing Dynasty!

All forces have seen the terror of the head of state, and no one dared to do anything about Dunhuang documents. Liu Jintang brought the soldiers back to Guazhou with a slight look on his face, and Zuo Zongtang also focused on commanding the war.

The Dunhuang side was completely left to King Shangtai and the left side to take care of it, and the rest of the people were completely invisible!

The remaining Qingliu and the Qing nobles did not dare to cause trouble. Those who were trying to make some ancient books disappeared in an instant!
Chapter completed!