Chapter 114 Three meals a day are potatoes
After sending Feng Bao away, Zhu Zaijing was in a good mood.
Since Taoist Master Jiajing has already said "it's OK", then Li Shizhen's appointment as the chief medical officer of his family is considered a certainty.
So, Zhu Zaijing also found Li Shizhen again, told Li Shizhen the good news, and asked Li Shizhen to prepare immediately. Don't waste time. It's time to recruit disciples and study them.
Time is very precious!
If Li Shizhen can really make a breakthrough on Penicillium, Zhu Zaijing will be extremely surprised, let alone whether he can produce high-quality penicillin, even if it is of low quality.
After all, this thing can be called a miracle medicine!
If the magic drug penicillin can be successfully produced, then in future very intense wars, the survival rate of wounded soldiers will be greatly improved!
In addition to these soldiers injured by the war, some colds, fevers and other illnesses that ordinary people occasionally contract are no longer scourges. As long as they are treated properly, they can be cured directly with a high probability. .
So now, whether it is Zhu Zaijing or Li Shizhen, time will be extremely precious.
As long as the secret of Penicillium can be conquered one day sooner, the world will be healthier one day sooner. What encouraging news!
But at the same time of such exciting fantasy, Zhu Zaijing thought of another very important thing.
That is - food!
Food is the basis for population explosion. With food, there will be a steady stream of people. With a steady stream of people, more geniuses will emerge. With more geniuses, more geniuses will emerge. Only in the future will there be incredible technological breakthroughs.
At first glance, all these may seem like far-fetched things, but they are actually like an interlocking chain, and food is the most important first link.
Therefore, the issue of food cannot be ignored.
Most people in later generations attribute the increase in grain production to the explosion of seed technology, but those who have actually paid attention to the history of grain evolution know that what really determines grain harvests is fertility. With good fertility assistance, generally The seeds can also produce a considerable harvest.
As for the advancement of seed technology, it is just the icing on the cake of fertility, allowing seeds to absorb more fertility and produce more fruits.
Of course this is also extremely important.
But if you ignore the essence and simply think that only cultivating high-quality seeds can greatly increase food production, this is a completely wrong misunderstanding!
Because if there is not enough fertility to assist in the growth process of food, no matter how good the seeds are planted on land with average fertility, the final fruits will be thin and shriveled seeds, and they will not be able to produce a few grains of food at all.
So, if you want to quickly change the problem of food supply, the best and fastest way is to find a way to produce nitrogen fertilizer.
However, the invention of nitrogen fertilizer required progress and breakthroughs in the chemical industry. With the current level of science and technology, neither the European civilization, which is on the verge of a big explosion, nor the aging Eastern civilization, has such a long history of accumulation. the basis of.
Furthermore, Zhu Zaijing himself is not a talent majoring in chemical engineering. For many things, he has at best benefited from the explosion of knowledge and information in later generations, and only then did he see bloggers from all walks of life through various platforms. I learned about it from the short knowledge videos we produced.
As for some advanced scientific and technological knowledge, it cannot be learned by Zhu Zaijing by watching short videos several times.
Therefore, if you want to invent nitrogen fertilizer in Ming Dynasty in a whimsical way, it will be more difficult than becoming an immortal in Jiajing.
After all, sometimes you can take a shortcut to becoming an immortal by relying on idealism. When you think you are an immortal, you can also self-hypnotize yourself into thinking you are an immortal; when everyone thinks you are an immortal Sometimes, you can also be a fairy.
So becoming an immortal can sometimes be accomplished by relying on idealistic feelings.
But the invention of nitrogen fertilizer is a real thing, because the amount of food in the field can be harvested in one season, that is how much it is. If anyone dares to risk his life by lying about grain production, the consequences are no joke, and millions of people may die as a result.
This kind of sin is not something that anyone can bear. Even if it is deliberately concealed, the consequences will be unimaginable on the day of historical judgment.
Therefore, Zhu Zaijing did not dare to be so arrogant as to think that he could do this.
And today’s Ming Dynasty people are not so easy to bully, and even if the court has knives and guns, it may not be able to control everything.
So it’s better to be pragmatic and think of reliable methods is the right way.
In addition to nitrogen fertilizer, Zhu Zaijing really has one or two good ways to replace nitrogen fertilizer.
One of them is sweet potatoes that grow in the Americas. If potatoes and sweet potatoes from the Americas can be introduced to the Ming Dynasty in advance, then the food problem will naturally be solved to a certain extent.
But such a problem will also be very serious, and it is likely to directly distort the future development of food culture and turn sweet potatoes, which are not usually served on the table, into a staple food.
When he thought that people in the future would eat potatoes three times a day, Zhu Zaijing couldn't help but shudder. It was so scary!
So Zhu Zaijing thought of the second method.
Zhu Zaijing remembered that he had seen the rise and fall of a certain Pacific island country before traveling through time.
That island country is very small with only ten thousand people. The foundation of the country is selling bird droppings.
These bird droppings have been accumulated for thousands of years. I don’t know how thick they are, and I don’t know how thick they are. As they accumulate on small islands in the vast ocean over time, they undergo chemical changes and become a very high-quality fertilizer.
This kind of high-quality fertilizer can be said to be a gift from God. If Zhu Zaijing could actually prove the power of this kind of guano fertilizer, even the Ming Dynasty is still obstructed by certain interest groups. Although they adhere to the so-called ancestral laws and implement the policy of sea ban, they cannot stop the surging public opinion across the country.
At that time, the ships of the Ming Dynasty will rush out of the rivers and lakes like dumplings, galloping across the vast ocean to plunder these islands that have accumulated countless guano fertilizers. And will complete the brutal evolution driven by profit, thus becoming an invincible super battleship in the world!
Such a magnificent scene makes people excited just thinking about it.
So the most exciting thing Zhu Zaijing has to think about now is how to present the power of guano fertilizer to the Ming Dynasty, so that all the people of the Ming Dynasty will realize from the bottom of their hearts that in addition to dangers, there are countless wealth on the sea, which cannot be stopped. Live in good luck.
In this way, Zhu Zaijing would not have to put much thought into it. The Ming Customs, which had been forcibly closed for nearly two hundred years, would be opened naturally. At the same time, it would also inspire the people who had been silent in this nation. Hundreds of years of pioneering spirit in our genes!
Of course, the premise of all this is that Zhu Zaijing must first find a "paradise island" full of guano fertilizer, and then use this island to tell stories.
In this way everything will come naturally, otherwise it will all be a fantasy.
So, you still have to find a way to get into the sea first. Only when you get into the sea can you have a chance to find a guano island and show the power of guano fertilizer to the world!
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