I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Chapter 819 Middle Eastern Flatbread Soviet Sausage Cuban Cigar

Of course, blind horses are not all good.

Because they can't chew the cud, blind horses eat more than cows.

From time to time, I have to feed some refined grains such as beans, otherwise I will lose weight and get sick.

In the past, this is definitely a bad thing.

But now, it's the rich man who is in charge of the world, driving away the landlord's old money, and reducing the agricultural tax for giving birth to a baby. The most important thing is that there are big pancakes and sausages to eat.

It is not so unacceptable to give beans to animals.

Along the way, Li Weiming noticed that the roads were very smooth. Although it might be choking on rainy days, at least on a sunny day like today, the carriages were quite stable on these newly repaired dirt roads.

"It's all roads built by the emperor's trainers. Let's eat the big pancakes from the rich man. It's nothing to do some work. And when the road is repaired, everyone will benefit!"

The big pancakes mentioned by Uncle Li, like the rich sausages, are a general welfare for all citizens of Ming Dynasty.

This is also a trick Zhu Fugui learned from "good teachers and friends".

In the Middle East in later generations, dictators of all walks of life often provided cheap or free pies to the people.

Countries such as Egypt, Syria, and Turkey all have such policies.

For the poor people, as long as they can eat big cakes every day, their lives can go on and the society can be stable.

Large-scale riots occurred in Egypt and Syria, and without exception, there was a problem with the supply of flatbread.

On the contrary, the exchange rate of the Turkish lira has collapsed, the economic index has plummeted by 50%, and the unemployment rate has soared. However, there is no problem with the supply of pancakes. Egypt and Sultan are still sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, and their approval ratings have even risen instead of falling.

With such an excellent policy, Zhu Fugui, as a humble and studious ruler, must of course study actively.

Bread or flour, plus the monthly ration of rich and noble sausages, although the amount is not too much, it is enough for His Majesty Zhu Fugui to set up shrines all over China.

Another advantage of flatbread and sausage is that it is convenient for standardized production and has a long shelf life.

It would be better if the flour is directly fermented, but if it is pork, then there are countless tricks around fat and lean meat, with or without bones.

Too much discretion in the hands of the rationers!

With sausages, there is no such concern.

The sausages are all produced according to a unified formula in the agricultural reclamation base, and each sausage is almost the same.

In addition to the two stability-maintaining artifacts of the Middle East flatbread and Soviet sausages, Zhu Fugui also drew on the successful experience of Cuba.

Cuba, a socialist country that hangs alone at the gates of American imperialism, must have unique skills to be able to stand firm against the background of the lighthouse country's insidious tricks 30 years after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

In addition to the social system, ideals and beliefs, and free medical care, Zhu Fugui believes that the secret of Cuba lies in the ability to maintain the happiness and satisfaction of the people.

And this secret recipe is Cuba's unique natural endowment-tobacco and sugar.

Of course, in Daming, these two high-end consumer goods are not free like noodles and sausages.

But the price is also quite cheap.

No, Uncle Li, who rarely came to the city, bought a lot of cigars at the Huangying Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and he has already smoked them.

Smoking is of course not a good thing, but it is obviously much less harmful than the heavy smoking that was rampant in the early years.

And after all, the imperial court wants to have a meal.

Tobacco and alcohol are naturally monopolized by the imperial camp, and private production and trade are not allowed.

The fact that cigars have replaced flue-cured tobacco in popularity in Daming is actually an accident.

The earliest scene was in "Miss San Diego", where the hero played by Zhu Fugui rode a tall horse, smoking a cigar, and galloping across the endless wilderness of California, which advertised cigars.

In later popular Australian Western films, Fujian cowboys are always smoking cigars and raising ropes to trap those white-skinned savages.

These elements have subtly influenced cigars to become the mainstream tobacco products in Yinzhou.

This trend naturally spread from Yinzhou to Tianjin and Jinling, and from Tianjin and Jinling, it radiated to the whole of China.

It's definitely not right to promote tobacco in movies.

But it was still the 1870s, and Zhu Fugui felt that there was nothing to criticize.

Although he never smokes himself, all the props are used in the movie.

Of course, smoking is still prohibited in public places, and personal entertainment cannot affect others. This is the bottom line.

In later generations, Cuban cigars have always been synonymous with luxury, but in fact, there are many cheap cigars.

Now Ming has controlled the Gulf of Mexico and South America, mastering the best tobacco production area in the world.

Either Daming produced sporadically by himself, or ordered the tributary countries in Central and South America to eradicate grain fields to grow tobacco, and the country's food security was entrusted to Daming's father to ensure it.

Today, Daming has occupied 70% of the world's tobacco industry.

As long as you don't take the route of handmade cigars, but take the route of low-cost industrial cigars, you can provide a large number of cigars at affordable prices to the whole country.

Of course, this price is mainly for cigarettes, and the price of cigars is much cheaper than that of later generations.

There are still many people who like to smoke cigarettes or dry tobacco.

It’s just that due to a deviation in the historical background, the flue-cured tobacco family dominates in later generations, and it has become a situation where cigars are more dominant.

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Seeing that his second uncle liked to smoke cigars, Li Weiming took out several boxes from the interlayer of his backpack and stuffed them into his bag.

"What is this?"

Second Uncle Li looked down and exclaimed, "Chun Fa card? This is a good thing!"

Like most of Huangying's products, Fugui brand is the best, and Chunfa brand is a little behind.

The supply and marketing cooperatives in the county may not sell Chunfa brand cigars, and you have to go to the department store in Anqing to buy them.

Although Second Uncle Li is from the countryside and has not seen much of the world, he is in his fifties after all.

From Li Weiming's woolen clothes, he could more or less guess that his nephew might have made a name for himself outside.

Now seeing that he made a move like Chunfa's big cigar, it confirmed his guess.

However, Zhuangzi now has no worries about eating and drinking, and Second Uncle Li has no intention of asking his nephew for help, but he must ask carefully what happened in the past ten years.

Li Zhuang was a bit far from the county seat, and it was already noon when the carriage arrived at Zhuangzi.

Zhang Boshan was completely helpless.

It might have been a bit sloppy to joke about Ah San earlier.

I saw that there may not be anything else in front of Li Zhuang's house, but the manure piles must be piled high.

If you come earlier, you can still see old people and children picking up dung with bamboo baskets on their backs.

There is no way, as the saying goes, a crop is a flower, and it depends entirely on dung.

Lizhuang does not have any chemical fertilizers, and can only rely on farmyard manure to increase the fertility of the land.

Although there is no shortage of chemical fertilizers in Daming, they are mainly supplied to the larger agricultural reclamation corps and large-scale farms in various Duhufu.

Scattered fields like this are for ordinary people to plant for fun.

Chapter 820 A little understanding, a little understanding

Li Weiming knew that, to be honest, the imperial court really looked down on the grain grown in the countryside.

Li Weiming has a few old brothers from the Huai army, who failed the physical fitness test to meet the standards of the second type of soldiers, so they were assigned to the agricultural reclamation division.

During the gatherings a few years ago, Li Weiming heard that they had heard a lot about Long Live God's big agricultural strategy.

Li Weiming heard that there are three best-quality black lands in this world, namely the Ukrainian Plain of Maozi, the Northeast Plain of Heishui Dufu, and the New Yangtze River Plain of Northern Yinzhou.

Today, there are two ways to cultivate fertile land tomorrow.

Although there is no intensive cultivation, according to the words of the old people in the past, there is still some waste of food, such as direct throwing of rice and rough planting, but the yield per mu is so high.

There is no way, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield seeds, these things are dimensionality reduction blows to farmers in the manual planting era.

Li Weiming doubts whether the grain grown on Zhuangzi will be sold.

Asked about this, Second Uncle Li was smoking his cigar, scratching his head.

"Grain cheap hurts farmers!"

Uncle Li's throat was stuck for a long time, and he came up with a word from some drama, "It's just food, even if you can't sell it, it's safe to pile it in the warehouse. You see, Huang Siye's old house is piled up." full."

Huang Siye is a big landlord in several nearby Zhuangzi.

This guy is not a good gentleman, he has done a lot of wicked things, so he was nicknamed Weasel.

A few years ago, when the imperial court returned to Shenzhou and amnesty the world, the weasel was reluctant to go to Suzhou to report to Mr. Li. Instead, he encouraged a group of scholars to "defend the famous religion", but was hanged by Jin Yiwei Tiqi The old locust tree is up.

Originally, he could be a South African slave owner, but he insisted on going against the trend of history. In the end, he could only be eaten by crows and wild dogs.

A person's destiny, of course, depends on self-struggle, but the process of history must also be considered.

The chicken soup master will only tell you the first half of the sentence, and only the real elders will tell you the whole sentence.

In short, Huang Siye's house was taken over by the emperor and became the Huangzhuang shared by several nearby Zhuangzi.

Nowadays, it is not only used as the office of the pavilion chief and the imperial trainer, but also used to store grain.

Both the pavilion chief and the imperial trainer were appointed by the imperial court, and the old calendar that the imperial power does not go to the countryside has long been broken.

Li Weiming really wanted to persuade the second uncle not to farm the land, at least let the young people go out and venture more.

Now the imperial court obviously wants to slowly transfer part of the heavy industry to China.

When he was in the county, Li Weiming saw the recruitment notice of the Lujiang Steel Plant on the pole.

It is reckoned that Shenzhou, like Yinzhou in the early years, is full of chimneys beeping black smoke, and the days when construction sites are full of dust are not far away.

How should I put it, it’s not that farming is not good, but that the cost-effectiveness of personal farming is too low, and it’s not as comfortable as going to a factory as a worker.

But the imperial court said that once the war is over, they will implement a two-day work system every week, and their wages will also be raised. Isn't this much better than farming?

Anyway, in Yinzhou, it is still very easy for a dual-career family to earn 500 yuan (equivalent to a little over 10 yuan) a year.

There are also free bath tickets and labor insurance supplies for the holidays, all of which are comparable to real money.

Guarding an acre of three-point mountain land, working hard, how much money can I make a year?

Moreover, there is really nothing good to plant in the mountainous land in central Anhui.

Now some of the grain grown can be sold, but it is just "cheap grain hurting farmers". Li Weiming estimates that in a few years, it will not be a problem of "hurting farmers", but completely free.

Because the food from the south, which is closer, is about to come in!

As the captain of the Nanyang Metropolitan Commander, Li Weiming knew very well that in the next few years, Siam and Cochin, which have unique climates, will also establish commodity grain production bases.

By that time, I am afraid that Siamese rice and Cochin rice will be everywhere in Anhui.

Local rice can only rely on feelings to add points at most.

But in the face of quantity advantages and price advantages, this feeling is tantamount to a mantis arm.

In fact, what Li Weiming thought was right.

Siam in later generations has too much rice to export, and the government encourages pig feeding!

The same is true for Cochin. Later generations of Vietnam have a population of [-] million in such a small country. Although they are not rich, there is almost no famine.

In this life, the Ming court will properly control the population of Jiaozhi and turn it into a commercial grain base for supplying South China.

Just like today, Wajima has become the corresponding relationship of the vegetable basket in East China.

How can the vegetables of Wajima raise people...

Shouguang has no chance to be a vegetable town in this life, just wait and eat organic Chinese cabbage from Edo!

Maybe in the future there will be some Japanese cabbage gangs pretending to be Shandong native cabbage, so as to increase their value.

In short, with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, high-yield seeds, and high-quality agricultural land, Daming can distribute flatbread and sausages to every citizen of Daming just by relying on the grain production base controlled by the state, and provide a wide variety of agricultural products. up.

For other land, if the common people want to plant it, they can plant it for fun.

But the supply of chemical fertilizers can't keep up. After all, the transportation cost of these loose fields is too high.

In places like Anhui, the imperial court had no intention of developing it into a large agricultural province, but because of inertia, the common people were still reluctant to part with the one-acre three-point field, and cared for their crops greedily from morning to night every day.

However, whether it is Anhui or Henan, except for the farmland of the Heishui Dufu, the cotton fields of the Western Regions Dufu, and other sporadic farming areas, the vast number of Chinese farmers will sooner or later be driven by the tide of the times. Bid farewell to the traditional life of facing the loess and facing the sky, and the ancient land of China will also move towards the general direction of high-end manufacturing and comprehensive industrialization without restraint.