Iron Dynasty

fertilizer?

In the imperial study, Pang Yukun and Fiji had a hint of doubt in their hearts at the same time.

Yesterday, he and Brandon reached an agreement on replacing the rubber with a steam engine. The next morning, Pang Yukun and Fiji sent Brandon away in the drizzle.

The visit of the Dutch embassy is also a diplomatic event. He also used the corresponding etiquette to receive people. At the same time, he also returned some gifts to Brandon.

Of course, Xiao Ming didn't want to suffer. Brandon brought a bunch of industrial products, and he returned a bunch of industrial products, including perfume, white sand beach, silk, tea, pendulum clocks and a series of other things.

The reason for choosing these is actually very simple, he is to let the Dutch parliament know the strength of the Great Yu country.

Brandon's arrival was just a diplomatic matter. After sending Brandon away, he was still faced with the development of the Great Yu Kingdom.

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

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

After pondering for a while, Xiao Ming said, This fertilizer is a fertilizer that can increase grain production.

It turned out to be fertilizer. Fiji nodded, There are people in the folk who pick up manure and compost, so it must be this.

What Feige said is very true, but this is just fertilizer, not chemical fertilizer. Xiao Ming smiled lightly, This chemical fertilizer refers to chemically manufactured or mined ores, and processed into fertilizers, also known as inorganic fertilizers. And Feige is always talking about organic fertilizers.

Organic, inorganic?

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

So now they are under pressure to talk to Xiao Ming, because some unfamiliar words will pop out from the emperor's 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 supplement some knowledge.

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

After the two understood, Pang Yukun said: The emperor means that chemical fertilizers are more violent than fertilizers, and can make crops more productive?

Yes, this is also the reason why I came to you. In the past, Qingzhou did not have an industrial base for producing chemical fertilizers, but steam engines made this possible. The most important point is that Qingzhou Prefecture's phosphate rock is scarce, and it is impossible to achieve mass production of chemical fertilizers, but now The greatest things in the world are king soil, I can easily get them. Xiao Ming was in a good mood, and in his current position, he felt more and more that sometimes developing a country was like playing a strategic game.

If you want to push the technology tree of industry forward, you have to build various ore smelters, so as to develop the corresponding industry, otherwise everything will be in vain.

So he didn't mention fertilizers before just because there are no conditions to achieve.

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

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

Because of this, Xiao Ming was unable to produce chemical fertilizers even if he wanted to, but after the Northern War, it was different.

Now these southwestern territories are basically under his control.

So it is. Pang Yukun and Fiji immediately understood.

Xiao Ming continued: Simply put, as long as there is phosphate rock, fertilizers can be produced, so this fertilizer workshop should be built in a place rich in phosphate rock. From my point of view, let's build a fertilizer workshop in Yizhou, etc. They produce fertilizer and smuggle it all over the country.

Yes, Your Majesty. Pang Yukun nodded, and then he said, Does this fertilizer workshop allow private workshops to be built?

The phosphate rock can be mined privately, but the fertilizer factory must be run by the government. When the fertilizer is used on the land, you will understand that the people will cause trouble without the fertilizer. If you hand it over to a mercenary businessman, I don't worry about it.

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 about it during this time. It is said that now many wealthy families have poured into Qingzhou and have turned into businessmen.

The matter of the wealthy family has always been supervised by Fiji. Hearing this, he said; Yes, the emperor, this is indeed a fact. Just as the emperor said that the land is the foundation of the wealthy family, now the emperor has taken back the illegally occupied land by the wealthy family in each province and re-equalized the land. The wealthy family can only find another way to survive, so they became businessmen with their rich family wealth, which is a good thing in the view of the lower officials.

Your Majesty, what Feige said is very true. The wealthy family originally relied on local clans and land. Now that they become businessmen, they are rootless duckweed, which is easier to handle than local.

Xiao Ming frowned. This time he easily won the North is largely because he adopted a tolerant attitude towards the wealthy family, but this does not mean that Xiao Ming compromised with the wealthy family and followed the old road of the Great Yu Kingdom.

In fact, he has always been wary of these wealthy families. Even if these wealthy families are engaged in business, he believes that these wealthy families still hate him from the bottom of their hearts.

After all, it was he who ruined the leisurely days of these wealthy clans as local emperors.

So he said; Even so, 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. They both said in unison, Yes, Your Majesty, please remember it.

No longer mentioning this matter, Xiao Ming asked the two about the reform, and he was slightly satisfied when he learned that both private workshops and government-run workshops were flourishing.

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

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

This classification standard covers everything, from agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery to mining, manufacturing, electrical appliances, gas, construction, transportation, information and other industries, a total of more than 1,000 projects.

As long as all these industries are established according to this standard, the Great Yu Kingdom can reach the level of the 20th century.

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

Of course, Xiao Ming has only completed more than a dozen of them, and most of them have not been realized. After all, if some things are to be realized, they must continue to advance in science and technology. He still has a long way to go.

PS: There is one more chapter.