I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Before the first month passed, Wu Changqing ended his holiday and began to deal with official duties.

Wu Changqing remembered that in this year in history, Aixinjue Luoboluo would become a general in South China, personally led the Eight Banners army to go south, and wiped out King Lu and the Longwu regime in one fell swoop.

In the end, King Gui declared the government in Zhaoqing, and he was called Emperor Yongli in history.

The arrival of Wu Changqing has changed the course of history to a great extent. For example, at this time, the Wusong area and Hangzhou, which were originally controlled by the Qing Dynasty, were both under the control of Daming.

The details have changed, but Wu Changqing believes that the general direction of the Qing army should not change. After the Spring Festival, the main force of the Manchu Eight Banners will definitely go south again.

This is not the miscellaneous army of the green camp. The Eight Banners are quite powerful in terms of combat effectiveness because of the particularity of the organization system.

Of course, when any force is in ZTE, the military's battle is very tough. The guards of the Ming Dynasty once had a bright moment, but they are now degenerate.

And now the Eight Banners soldiers, who seem to be raging, will become a joke at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

The reason for this is very complicated, and it is not clear in a few words. In short, if an army wants to maintain its combat effectiveness, it cannot be static and must advance with the times.

In order to meet this battle, Wu Changqing started preparations early.

Those craftsmen only took a three-day rest, and they were forced to continue working to build ordnance.

In addition to military preparations, Wu Changqing is also concerned about economic development.

In an official document, it was reported that the cotton price in Wusong area had risen sharply. The price increase even reached 50%, which is very abnormal.

From the secret, Wu Changqing figured out the whole story.

It turned out that this was a gadget made by a group of cloth merchants.

This group of cloth merchants stocked a large amount of cloth, but because of the cheap dumping of Wu's cloth, the cloth of those merchants could not be sold.

They are certainly not happy to let them lower their prices, because this will cause huge losses.

As a result, a group of cloth merchants united, relying on the advantages of the channel, to increase the purchase price of cotton, to collect high prices for farmers and cotton from the market, and hoard them.

They want to use this method to increase the cost of Wu's cloth, forcing Wu's cloth to increase the price.

As long as the price of Wu's cloth increases, the cloth in their hands can also be sold.

And their plan is to sell the hoarded cotton to Wu's cloth at a high price after these cloths are sold out. In this way, they don't have to lose money.

As for whether to change careers or what to do in the future, let's talk about it later.

Seeing the information in the secret report, Wu Changqing felt a little sympathetic to these cloth merchants, because their opponents were too invincible, forcing them to make the next move.

Their strategy has high risks and low returns.

If Wu's cloth insists not to buy high-priced cotton, other cloth merchants will be dumbfounded. Cotton purchased at a high price, the cost of fabrics manufactured is higher, and even more at a loss.

Moreover, Wu Changqing also knew that these cloth merchants were doomed to fail because he had already allowed the Dutch and Portuguese to deliver a large amount of raw materials.

Calculating the time, the first shipment is almost here.

Therefore, when he saw this situation, he did not stop those cloth merchants. Anyway, if they are willing to pay a high price, they will collect it, which can be regarded as an increase in income for the people in a disguised form.

Moreover, high cotton prices can attract more people to grow cotton.

If Wu Changqing wants to rely on dumping cloth to complete his capital accumulation, he needs a lot of cotton, silk and linen, which is a good thing for the people.

As for the resulting reduction in grain production, this can only be temporarily imported from Southeast Asia and other places.

At the same time, Wu Changqing also exchanged resources for 1,000 kilograms of hybrid rice seeds.

The seeds of these hybrid rice are very expensive. One kilogram costs 100 resource points, which is 500 times more expensive than pig iron.

Of course, the price is also worth it. This is hybrid rice, with super high technological content.

With this thousand kilograms of rice seeds, about one thousand acres of rice can be planted. In later generations, with chemical fertilizers and other fertilizers, the yield per mu of hybrid rice is about 1,000 kilograms.

In this era of lack of chemical fertilizers, Wu Changqing estimated that 600 kilograms would be good.

Six hundred kilograms is not a lot. The average yield of rice per mu in this era is only over three hundred kilograms. In other words, the yield per mu can be doubled by planting hybrid rice in the future.

This can feed twice the population, and this alone will make Wu Changqing an eternal emperor in the future.

However, it may take two or three years to fully implement hybrid rice planting if it is to be fully promoted, because there are too few seeds now.

When this batch of rice is harvested, the number of seeds can reach 600,000 kilograms, and these seeds are almost enough for the Jiangnan region.

The grains grown in this batch of hybrid rice are not used for eating, but all must be used as seeds and distributed to the people.

And in order to attract people to accept this new seed, it is best to distribute it for free.

When Wu Changqing thought about his future plans, he couldn't help feeling that he was too great, and he took pains to worry about the people's food and clothing.

In addition to exchanging hybrid rice seeds, Wu Changqing also exchanged a batch of potato seeds.

Potato seeds are much cheaper, because potatoes have actually reached China during this period. It’s just that the potatoes just passed over have not yet adapted to China’s climate, so the output is not as high as expected, so the spread of potatoes in China is actually very slow. After decades of variety improvement, the final potato output It exploded, thus feeding a large number of people.

According to statistics, the population of China at the end of the Ming Dynasty was a little over 100 million, but by the time of Qianlong, the population had reached three or four billion.

At its peak, the population once reached 450 million, accounting for more than a quarter of the global population.

Among them, potatoes also made a great contribution.

The biggest advantage of potatoes is not their high yield, but because they don’t pick up the land. No matter how barren the land is, it can be harvested when planted.

It is not like rice, which must be irrigated with good water conservancy, and it will be over if there is no water.

The area of ​​arable land in China seems to be large, but in fact, the per capita is very small, and most of the land is not suitable for growing rice and wheat. And potatoes can fill this vacancy perfectly.

The potato seeds exchanged by Wu Changqing are all seeds that have been adapted to China's land and climate and can be directly planted on a large scale.

With hybrid rice and potatoes, Wu Changqing feels that China’s population will have a big explosion next.

The population is what Wu Changqing cares most about. There is a lot of people and power. This is by no means empty talk. Especially in this era when science and technology are not so advanced, the population can determine many things. The address of the latest chapter of the aircraft carrier I built in Daming: https://www.wuxiahere.com/book/149212.htmlI built the full text of the aircraft carrier in Daming to read the address: https://www.wuxiahere.com/read/149212/I built the aircraft carrier txt download address in Daming: https://www.wuxiahere.com/down/149212.htmlI read it on the mobile phone built by Daming: https://m.wuxiahere.com/read/149212/For the convenience of reading next time, you can click \"Favorites\" below to record this (Chapter 92 Hybrid Rice) reading record and open it next time You can see it on the bookshelf! If you like "I Build an Aircraft Carrier in Daming", please recommend this book to your friends (QQ, blog, WeChat, etc.) ,Thank you for your support! ! (www.wuxiahere.com)