Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

As the saying goes, history can serve as a guide to gain and lose. History is the mirror of reality. Even in the parallel world where Ning Fan once lived before time travel, history still has an indelible reference role here.

Spreading out the map, Ning Fan drew a circle around Yuezhou. Ning Fan chose Yuezhou instead of Jiangzhou as the first stop of his trip. This was Ning Fan's deliberate decision.

The location of Yuezhou has been a thousand-mile swamp since ancient times, similar to the former Jiangzhou. In the eyes of ordinary people, Yuezhou is a barren land, but in Ning Fan's eyes, Yuezhou is a treasure land.

Because Yuezhou is an alluvial plain that has accumulated a large amount of black soil. If the river embankments upstream are repaired, the entire Yuezhou will immediately become thousands of acres of fertile farmland.

Today's society urgently needs large-scale agriculture to support future industrial development. Food is the foundation for the stability of the entire country.

Ning Fan thought of the world before he traveled through time, where the U.S. dollar was anchored in gold, but Ning Fan decided to issue a new currency anchored in grain.

If one dollar could always be exchanged for a pound of grain, then this currency would have unparalleled credibility around the world.

Before that, Dakang must become an agricultural country, and its food self-sufficiency rate must even reach 1,000%.

In other words, Dakang wants to reverse the current situation and make a leap from importing grain to exporting a large amount of grain.

Ning Fan has studied this huge map. The large area in the northeast contains black land. Except for the northeast area, among the lands occupied by the Rakshasa Kingdom during the Northern Expedition, there are about two million square kilometers of land, belonging to Black soil, this is Ning Fan's confidence to build Dakang into the granary of the future world.

We must know that if the three million square kilometers of black soil are fully developed, the grain yield will be unparalleled. There is no need to use chemical fertilizers at all on these black soils. As long as the use of well-selected seeds is used, the yield can be greatly increased. , and with sufficient sunlight, it can even produce three seasons a year.

This matter can't wait any longer. In this summer, Ning Fan will take action on this matter and can't wait too long.

Agriculture needs to be based on the weather. Waiting for one month is equivalent to waiting for one year.

Three days later, the train left Kyoto. Accompanied by the whine of the train, the Shenlong No. 1 steam train ran at full power and galloped towards Yuezhou.

It takes about a day and a half to reach Yuezhou from Kyoto. The living conditions aboard the Shenlong 1 are fully equipped. Living on this steam train is as comfortable as living in your own palace.

"Your Majesty, what does this mean? You want to build a new thing called inns across the country."

Ergou felt a little weird about the policy that Ning Fan suddenly proposed. You must know that there were originally inns scattered throughout the counties, provinces, and cities of Dakang. The function of these inns was to transmit information to the court.

Since the invention of the telegraph machine, the role of these stations has been greatly reduced. With the advent of wireless transmission technology, the employees of these stations have become completely unemployed.

Now Ning Fan suddenly proposed to rebuild these stations, which not only left Ergou puzzled, but even Zhou Qun also raised strong objections.

"Don't you even understand what I mean? This station is not just used to deliver letters. In the future, it can also deliver packages, items, etc."

"I ask you, it is extremely difficult for ordinary people to send a letter. Some people have no chance to exchange news in their lives because of the distance. A separation means that they will never see each other again in their lives. This kind of Life will be completely changed in the future, and the role of the new station is to establish a logistics network. "

Ning Fan spread out the map and explained it clearly to Ergou.

When Ergou heard Ning Fan's blueprint, he couldn't help but open his mouth with disbelief on his face. He felt that it would be difficult for Ning Fan to realize this idea.

"It's not difficult. As long as Dakang fully operates at full capacity, in two or three years, the entire country will be shuttled by the railway network in all directions. By then, our Dakang steam locomotives will run day and night, from east to west. It only takes three or four days to travel west, and these trains can not only transport people, but also cargo."

“Transport fruits from the southern tropics to the north, and let people who have never eaten fruits from the south have a taste of fruits from the north, so that fruits from the south don’t have to rot in the ground.”

“In this way, our domestic economy will be revitalized. As long as people spend money, they will have buying and selling relationships. As long as there are buying and selling relationships, it means that the economy is developed.

As long as there are various economic transactions, the court can collect taxes. "

Ning Fan explained some basic business logic to Ergou, but Ergou became more and more confused as he listened.

"But Your Majesty, the people in our country have no money. What do they use to buy it? You must know that these substances do not appear out of thin air. Everyone uses them for consumption. Everyone pays attention to food and clothing. But where do these things come from? Where do you come from?”

Ergou raised questions.

"Of course it's production! As long as you want to improve your living standards, you must find time to work. For example, people used to spend a lot of time in the farmland, but now the situation is different. After the popularization of new agricultural technology, the time people spend in farmland will be greatly reduced. Even growing food does not require much labor in the fields. In this way, a large number of laborers will be released, and they can enter various fields. All kinds of factories.”

"Those who produce clothes are called clothing factories, those who produce food are called food factories, and those who produce toys are called toy factories. As long as the people need it, our factories will produce it. In the future, these factories will not need to be unified by the imperial court. Businessmen can also build factories privately, as long as they pay taxes to the court. "

Ning Fan explained the problem more and more thoroughly, while Ergou became more and more confused.

He felt like his brain was running out of energy for these profound questions. He usually thought he was quite clever, but in front of Ning Fan, Ergou found that he was almost like a three-year-old child, and he was confused by many things.

On the high-speed train, the lights were bright, but outside the window, it was a dark night. When the train passed through a forest, Ning Fan saw two tall and towering trees, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of loneliness in his heart. Feel.

"Your Majesty, it's getting late, you should take a rest."

Ergou brought the hourglass.