Chapter 1519: Increasing Production
The food problem soon faced the Dacheng Dynasty.
Wen Rensheng sat in a corner of the restaurant, still watching.
He also wants to know how the other party solves this problem.
The little mysterious power he allowed could not make food drop from the sky out of thin air, nor could it make the weather smooth and turn dry fields into irrigated fields.
With the trade blockade, food prices suddenly rose, and hungry people everywhere had to rely on relief to survive.
In the past, there would have been large households taking the initiative to provide relief.
But this is war time, and who knows how long it will last?
The needs of reincarnation are also covered by war. If there is not enough food, we will starve to death in this life. How can we talk about the next life?
And if food is not abundant in the market and cannot meet everyone's needs, then their prices will not double, but will rise until some people are unable to pay the price of food and starve to death.
"Teacher, those people are so miserable, should we help them?" Zhao Han's sidekick, a little palace maid, ran over and begged.
"Oh, I understand, next time I will let you play a supporting role in a sweet love drama." Wen Rensheng thought for a while and said.
"Uh, what does this mean?" Zhao Han was stunned.
“You are not suitable for this kind of drama about the evolution of civilization,” Wen Rensheng shook his head and said, “Did Xiaohuan ask you to come here?”
“Yes.” Zhao Han had no choice but to sell it. teammates.
"Lao Han, you are unethical and promised not to betray me!" Xiao Huan suddenly appeared and rubbed Zhao Han's maid's headdress into a mess.
"I didn't betray it, the teacher guessed it."
"Next time I will let you be a pet dog, the kind that can only eat dog food!"
"No."
Wen Rensheng rolled his eyes and the two of them disappeared.
Sure enough, this kind of civilized drama requires a rough man.
His eyes were on Lao Wu, his father, and the driver.
Lao Wu formed a eunuch death squad, claiming that "you can have no roots, but you can't have no seeds"!
My father is using plagiarized poems to raise funds from all over the place.
The driver, Lao Li, haunts the back houses of various places, trying hard to turn the wives' private money into military expenses.
Or you guys understand the key.
This war is all about money and food.
The Dacheng Dynasty had plenty of money, but did it have food?
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The Forbidden City in the capital, the small chapel in the south study room.
"The Ai family has long said that they need to build more granaries and prepare more food. However, upon further investigation, it turned out that 30% of the 100 warehouses were empty, 20% were rotten rice, and the other 50% were also unevenly packed. !”
“Bring all the warehouse envoys to the Ai family. The Ai family wants to see where the rats have moved the food!”
Lu Zhi fly into a rage.
At this time she felt the same as Liu Jian.
You know you shouldn’t do something, but you just can’t stop some people from doing it.
Do they lack that little money?
There is no shortage, even though the gallows is hanging above the head, there is still an endless stream of people who are lucky.
She could not understand the stupidity of those people at all.
As expected, robots are better.
If you are not allowed to do something, you will never do it unless you are poisoned.
"Follow the Queen Mother's orders." The ministers trembled.
In fact, everyone knows this well.
Warehouses have always been a high-risk area.
What is trading old for new, selling new rice and replacing it with old rice, only covering the surface.
Don’t have too many ways to deal with the censor. If it doesn't work, there are many natural disasters such as drifting, rodent infestation, etc. as cover.
Don’t the Queen Mother know?
The Queen Mother knows, but it is impossible for her to control it.
There are granaries in various places in the Dacheng Dynasty, large and small, more than tens of thousands?
The First Assistant then said: "Queen Mother, please calm down. In fact, there is a lot of food stored among the people. As long as we severely crack down on hoarding and force grain dealers to sell food, there will be no crisis of food shortage."
"It won't work. Just by cracking down, the grain merchants will have no enthusiasm. They will just think that the court is short of grain, and they will be more and more reluctant to sell." The Minister of Household Affairs shook his head.
He is very knowledgeable about these business matters.
The more the court takes control, the more people below have countermeasures.
If you want grain merchants to sell grain at a low price, there is only one way: sell more grain at a lower price than they do.
If this is not possible, just relying on strikes may be effective for the time being, but they will cope, delay, and hide. How can the court have so much energy to play hide and seek with them?
Everything has to pay attention to cost.
"Your Majesty, our main grain-producing areas require a large amount of overseas fertilizer imports, such as struvite, a production-increasing magic product, which can no longer be imported."
"I heard that the West People have developed a synthetic ammonia production line to produce chemical fertilizers. They will be introduced immediately. Whether it is stolen or robbed, Aijia needs to see it. "Lu Zhi still has some knowledge and knows that modern agriculture is based on modern fertilizers.
Mass is conserved.
If plants want to produce high yields, they must have enough nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in natural soil cannot withstand the absorption of crops.
A piece of land that has been planted for several years will become barren and must be abandoned to allow it to regain its fertility.
If you don’t want to abandon the wasteland, you must fertilize and artificially supplement it.
"Yes, Queen Mother." The ministers breathed a sigh of relief.
"There is also an order that people from the Guangming Department must enter the granaries in various places, and the common people will take turns to guard them!" Lu directly ordered.
She finally knew that just by relying on these ministers, they would be able to do things, but they would not offend others easily.
Even though they knew there was a problem in the warehouse, they turned a blind eye because there were too many people offended and they couldn't see any benefits, and there were even benefits in themselves.
Where do all kinds of ice, charcoal, and Four Festival gifts come from?
It’s not from here.
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Hylarson Port, coalition headquarters.
"Haha, according to the information provided by the Dacheng merchants who have taken refuge in us, the price of food has tripled from before the war started! Many low-income families have long run out of money to buy food and are struggling. They can only rely on relief porridge to survive. "The coalition commander said happily holding a piece of information.
“Great, this means that our blockade is effective. We can suspend the attack on their inland. As long as the maritime trade is blocked, they will fall into the feudal dynasty’s cycle of chaos because of insufficient food. And the resulting collapse,” the chief of staff cheered.
"Poor those poor people, who didn't let them see clearly the face of the Queen Mother earlier? If they had come to our side early, they wouldn't have to worry about food problems."
"Yes, these Stupid Eastern guys worry about food every year, but they don’t know that they deserve to starve to death if they go overseas to open up wasteland.”
“We pinched their testicles, and they will die within a year. There is going to be civil strife, and when that happens, we can take advantage of it.”
The coalition saw a bright future.
Just new news came that the imperial court killed 120 warehouse envoys and thousands of grain merchants who colluded with them.
Then the copied grains were concentrated on some major markets, causing a collapse in grain prices.
Yeah, where did the food go?
They must have gone to the grain merchants before they could eat so much grain.
When the court captured these rats, they naturally received a large amount of food.
The chief of staff did not care about the new news. He said arrogantly: "It doesn't matter, this is destined to be a temporary decline. As time goes by, the food will rise."
Everyone nodded.
Indeed, when the imperial court released food, the price of food dropped significantly. As the supply of food decreased, the price of food rose again.
The only real solution is to increase production far beyond people's basic needs.
Increasing production is the only way.
(End of this chapter)