I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

In the reclamation order, encouraging reclamation is only the most important one.

In fact, there are a lot of fine print throughout the regulations.

For example, encourage the breeding of cattle.

There is a big difference between farming with and without cattle. When ploughing the ground, ten people can't reach one ox, so having an ox can save time and effort.

However, it is not easy to raise a calf, not to mention the cost of a calf is already sky-high, it is not easy to feed the ox alone.

To raise a farm cattle, you must graze every day, usually twice a day. And grazing alone is not enough, because cattle eat a lot.

In addition to grazing, it is necessary to feed a lot of straw, or straw, or rice bran.

However, during this period, the stalks after the people harvested rice needed to be used for cooking, or they were thrown into the fields to rot or burned to make fertilizer.

In short, there are no rich ones to raise cattle.

In order to change this situation, Wu Changqing expressed the need to increase the mining of coal, and then make it into honeycomb and provide it to the people.

The use of honeycomb briquettes can solve the problem of fuel, and more straws can be used to feed the cattle.

At the same time, the use of briquettes can also reduce the excessive deforestation of the forest, and can grow more grass and trees.

During this period, except for those large trees in the mountains, there were basically no trees in the plains.

The hillsides in the plain area are all bare, and those trees will be cut down for firewood before they grow up. Even tree stumps and roots will not be spared.

The more this is the case, the smaller the tree grows. The smaller the trees, the less firewood they provide, creating a vicious cycle.

Using briquettes, it is forbidden to cut down small saplings and small trees. As long as it lasts for a few years and waits for those trees to grow up, this problem can basically be effectively alleviated.

As for the pollution and damage to the environment and the air caused by the use of too much coal, Wu Changqing can't take care of that much, and he will develop it first.

In the future, if you are rich and wealthy, you can also improve the environment. The most important thing is to feed the people.

Only those who have nothing to do when they are full and have nothing to do will call for environmental protection.

Before he came across, Wu Changqing was disgusted when he saw those environmentalists in the West and those in big cities.

Those bastards in the West and big cities first used a lot of coal to destroy the environment and developed, and then they were rich and then told those backward areas to be environmentally friendly.

They made a lot of money, they destroyed the environment, and then asked the rural people to follow them in environmental protection.

To paraphrase a famous saying of Zhuge Kongming, that is, I have never seen such a brazen person.

Environmental protection must be environmentally friendly, but it must be said after the economy develops.

Moreover, Wu Changqing is actually not too worried about environmental problems.

Because the air is so good right now, if you want to pollute it, you have to burn coal for at least a few decades before polluting it. It's too early to worry about it.

When the time comes, Wu Changqing will make another rule that does not allow foreigners to burn coal, forcing them to engage in environmental protection.

Well, if you can't stop others from being shameless, it's better to do it yourself.

In addition to farming cattle, the decree also encourages and promotes the use of simple agricultural tools, as well as the cultivation of potatoes, corn, and cotton.

Compared with rice, potatoes and corn have lower land requirements.

In some places where rice cannot be grown, it is a good choice to grow potatoes and corn.

Especially potatoes, which have a high yield.

Although it is not good to use potatoes as a staple food for a long time, it is easy to get tired.

However, it's still good to eat once in a while.

For some people who still can't get enough to eat, good food is secondary, and some food is the most important.

When people are hungry, let alone potatoes, people eat grass roots and bark.

The promotion of potato cultivation can greatly increase the yield of grain.

Cotton cannot be eaten as food, but it can be processed into commodities and sold abroad, and then imported food. In fact, it is even more cost-effective to grow cotton than to grow grain.

When the reclamation decree was promulgated, an article appeared in the People's Daily, analyzing the intention of the imperial court's policies. In fact, the government was explaining to other classes why it was so good to the people.

Without explaining it, policies that are beneficial to the peasants are always formulated, and people from other classes will definitely have opinions in their hearts.

In this world, good people and noble people are always in the minority, and most people only care about their own interests.

Like those businessmen, scholars, landlords and gentry, they don't care too much about the life and death of the peasants, they only care about whether they can live a better life.

The court always favored the resources to the peasants, and they would get less benefit.

As the gap between the rich and the poor narrows, their social status will virtually decline.

Maybe they dare not say it, but they will definitely have opinions in their hearts.

When you have emotions, you might be tempted to do some little damage.

In order to appease the other classes, Wu Changqing asked Wei Ziwen to write an article explaining the benefits to other classes when the peasants became rich.

In the article, a term appeared for the first time, consumption power.

The argument of the article is very simple. If the people are not rich and have no money for consumption, then who will buy the fabrics they make, and who will buy the commodities that they make.

You can't just count on the rich class, in the whole world, the number of rich people may be less than 100 of the poor people.

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The tens of thousands of poor people are a huge consumer group and a market that can be opened up.

Only when these poor people are fed and have spare money can they have spending power and this market can be developed.

Just imagine, if 10 million people can afford perfume, then the annual profit of the perfume industry can increase by more than 100 times.

The scenes depicted by Wei Ziwen are quite attractive to businessmen.

In addition to the word consumption power, Wei Ziwen also explained that the fundamental purpose of supporting farmers now is to liberate productive forces.

Only by increasing the output of grain and reducing the difficulty of farming can more labor be freed up to serve the rich.

If the peasants can't even eat enough to eat, how can they have enough people to participate in the construction of towns.

Without those people coming to town, who would make perfume, make cloth, make BMWs for the rich to enjoy?

And those dirty, tiring jobs, which rich people are sure to do?

This kind of rhetoric also has some truth, at least it can persuade a large part of the wealthy class and make them feel balanced.

Although they are unbalanced and can't make any troubles, a harmonious society is conducive to the development of society, and it is still necessary to ease the contradictions between various classes.

Wu Changqing's plan is to solve the problem of food and clothing first and increase productivity first.

In the future, everyone will be rich, and then we will work on changing the gap between the rich and the poor in society and create the ideal society in our hearts.

After finally becoming an emperor, he certainly won't just think about unifying the world and it's over.