northernbook Chapter 800 is forced to rise.
Chapter 800 is forced to rise.
Ye Kun explained:
"The proportion of industrial output value exceeds that of agricultural output value. Or from the details of life, more than half of the vehicles on the road are driven by machines, not ox-drawn carts or horse-drawn carts or rickshaws."
He Tiantian added: "The rice and flour that people all over the country eat are processed by machines instead of stone mills, which means that the industrial age has truly arrived."
Tintin also attended the meeting and said with a smile: "If all human-powered water wheels in the country are replaced with mechanical water pumps, and all people in the country can use electric lights, then it will be 100% industrialized."
The experts present at the meeting all laughed and said: "It may be difficult to achieve this goal within ten years."
Ye Kun smiled and said, "What I mean is not to achieve national industrialization within ten years, but to use these ten years to lay the foundation and usher in the era of industrialization. It will take at least a hundred years to truly achieve full industrialization."
As a time traveler who is familiar with the history of human development, Ye Kun knows very well that only a highly developed agricultural society can give birth to a mature industrial society.
However, the agricultural society of the super empire that they built was not very developed.
Ye Kun also understood that his vigorous development of science and technology and industry was actually too hasty.
This is a forced elevation!
However, Ye Kun had no other choice but to force it higher.
With the rapid increase in population, social, economic and ecological conflicts will also erupt.
Only by developing science and technology and ushering in the industrial age can these contradictions be resolved.
Pang Jia was very confident and said with a smile: "In five years, all the vehicles on the national highway will be replaced by mechanical vehicles. There should be no problem. It is a bit difficult to replace all the water trucks with mechanical water pumps because there are too many farmers and too many water trucks are needed."
Sun Yi laughed and said, "To be honest, even if we give mechanical water pumps to farmers for free, they still can't use them well. Whether it's a diesel engine or a steam engine, they need someone to operate and maintain them."
"Junior Brother Sun, what you said makes sense. The conditions for large-scale promotion of machinery are not yet mature in any aspect."
Ye Kun nodded and said, "But the court can build a number of irrigation stations and use steam engines to pump water to solve the irrigation problem in arid areas. As the population grows, the area of land to be reclaimed will increase significantly, and water conservancy facilities must keep up."
Everyone nodded together.
There are also many local representatives at this industrial technology conference.
Some people came here for the first time and were amazed by the sights they saw in the Science and Technology City.
Especially the electric lights in the Science and Technology City made the representatives from remote areas envious.
Today's electric lights are already very mature.
There is a dedicated large-scale thermal power station here in the Science and Technology City to provide electricity for the city.
In order to show off the scientific and technological achievements, the lights were on every night during the meeting.
After the science and technology conference, there is the National Agriculture Conference.
Qin Chou happened to be sick, so Ye Kun made a work report on behalf of Qin Chou and announced the latest agricultural data for the year.
The newly reclaimed land this year has reached tens of millions of acres.
Half of the wasteland was reclaimed by the imperial army, and the other half was reclaimed spontaneously by the people.
In the past, due to wars, a large amount of land in the Jianghuai region was abandoned. There were bones everywhere for a thousand miles and no roosters crowed for ten miles.
Now, all the abandoned land has been reclaimed.
Ye Kun spoke on the stage, and more than 500 representatives listened to the report below.
Ye Kun finally said: "From the perspective of the land reclamation area, it seems that our productivity has increased and the total grain output has also increased. But everyone should know that there is a limit to the land, and it is impossible to reclaim land indefinitely. One day, we will have nowhere to reclaim land.
Judging from the current population growth rate, we will have no land to reclaim in 20 years. Or even just 10 years.
At that time, the forests will be cut down in large quantities, and we will have no wood to build ships, no wood to make furniture, and even no firewood to cook."
Whether in ancient times or in the later intelligent industrial era, the earth's ability to bear population has an upper limit.
Ye Kun estimated that even with sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes, the population limit of China's nine provinces would only be two to three hundred million.
Once it reaches 200 million, the ecosystem will be over.
Before Ye Kun traveled through time, he read some information. In the late Qing Dynasty, many places in China were bare and dusty because all the trees were cut down.
The ancients had no environmental awareness, and if we don’t warn in advance, this day will come soon!
The experts present at the meeting could understand Ye Kun's worries and asked one after another: "Your Majesty, can we solve the problem twenty years from now?"
"It can be solved." Ye Kun nodded:
"We have two ideas to solve the problem of overpopulation. The first is to develop science and technology and industry to feed back agriculture. The second is to emigrate abroad and occupy fertile land overseas. The third is to obtain resources and energy from overseas to provide blood transfusion to China."
An expert asked: "How do you understand industry feeding back to agriculture? Can Your Majesty explain it in detail?"
Ye Kun smiled and said, "This is easy to understand. For example, the mechanical water pump we invented can solve agricultural irrigation problems and ensure a good rice harvest. In the future, we will have more agricultural machinery put into use, such as harvesters and tillers, which will greatly improve efficiency.
In addition, we can industrialize the production of chemical fertilizers. Once the fertilizer technology matures, the rice yield per mu can be increased to more than 1,000 kilograms. At that time, China's land can feed a billion people."
Everyone nodded, expressing their understanding.
But Ye Kun knew that there was still a long way to go before industrial production of fertilizers could be achieved.
Technology, equipment and raw materials are not easy to get.
You know, even in the era of intelligent industrialization, many small countries are unable to produce fertilizers on a large scale and rely entirely on imports.
After the year 2000, there are still many countries in the world that are collecting manure to make fertilizer.
Taking advantage of the agricultural conference, Ye Kun boasted about the Tianzhu Continent again:
"Dear experts, we have already occupied the entire Tianzhu continent, which is the ideal place for agriculture. The climate there is relatively hot, with sufficient rainfall, and three crops a year. Rice can be planted at any time and harvested in four months.
The fruits there are especially sweet and the soil is especially fertile. Just sow a handful of seeds and wait for a good harvest.
The most important thing is that there are free workers there to help us with the work, and we don’t have to worry about anything at all.
We Han immigrants all became farmers. One family could get a thousand acres of land. The food we harvested in one year could not be eaten in ten years..."
Another expert said, "Your Majesty, isn't the South a place of miasma?"
"The southern mountainous areas are considered to be smoky and miasma-ridden areas. In our Huaxia country, the area south of the Yangtze River was a smoky and miasma-ridden area hundreds of years ago. It was a barren land, but it can be transformed. Hasn't Jiangnan become a land of fish and rice now?"
Ye Kun continued to explain: "The Tianzhu Continent has a flat terrain, which is the same as our Great Central Plains. The arable land in the Tianzhu Continent is twice that of the Huaxia Continent. The grain output and quality are also much higher than that of the Huaxia Continent."
Another expert asked: "Your Majesty, how long will it take to immigrate to India?"