The 2102nd chapter Shunyi King Datang knowledge (1)
When he first arrived in Ross City, Shunyi King Chelik looked at the different Ross City in front of him. Although he was calm on the surface, he was shocked in his heart.
This is not the first time that Chelik has come to Ross. Before he succeeded to the throne, he had been leading troops abroad for a long time. He also brought his troops to Ross City back then. The original Ross City was just a small city, just like the ones in Eastern Europe.
Like many small cities.
But now, Ross City has changed so much that he cannot recognize it at all. The entire city is very large and there are huge buildings everywhere. He knows that these large-scale buildings are all reinforced concrete buildings.
People in the Tang Dynasty now build houses with reinforced concrete. I heard that in the mainland area of the Tang Dynasty, there are even skyscrapers hundreds of meters high.
If it were just the architecture, it wouldn't shock Zalik, and if it was just the prosperity, it wouldn't shock Zalik. The key thing is how orderly, clean and tidy the whole city is.
This is the biggest feature of the Tang Dynasty city.
These Tang Dynasty people are obsessed with cleanliness to the point of paranoia.
Even before he, the King of Shunyi, came here, he had to be inspected by their quarantine personnel before he was allowed to enter the Tang Dynasty.
Then, King Shunyi took his tribute delegation, a total of more than 40 people, and got on the train at Ross City Railway Station.
When he saw the train, King Shunyi became much calmer. Although he had never seen a train with his own eyes before, let alone done it, giant steel ships, trains and skyscrapers were basically the most typical features of the Tang Empire.
Many picture albums depict these things.
He even knew the principle of a train, which was just a rail vehicle powered by a steam engine.
The Tatar Kingdom has also been developing rail vehicles in recent years. In some mines or factories, rail cars pulled by horses are also used.
He is not even unfamiliar with steam engines. He has already seen with his own eyes the prototype of a steam engine developed by a research team under the Tatar Kingdom. Unfortunately, due to material issues, the prototype of the steam engine they developed was too small to be used at all.
It cannot be put into practical use, and it is not even feasible to use it in mines.
Just like when the Tatar Kingdom tried to imitate breech-loading rifled guns, they already knew the principles. Even if they didn't know the principles, they knew the basic design. After all, Tang Dynasty's breech-loading weapons had been out for so many years.
It is normal for them to obtain some samples through some illegal channels for research.
However, it was no use knowing the detailed design, they built it anyway.
Because their raw materials are not good and their processing equipment is not good!
Therefore, the Tatars actually know what many things are like and want to imitate them, but they are limited by factors such as raw materials, processing equipment, and skilled workers and cannot produce them.
After getting on the train, Li Ke and others headed eastward along the Central Asia Railway.
The train was traveling very fast, and within a few days they had passed through a large military-controlled area and truly entered the mainland of the Tang Empire, which was Haidong Province.
After entering Haidong Province, Zalik looked out the window more and more frequently.
Although most of the time outside the window is a wilderness, when passing by the town, you can see the real native city of the Tang people, and the native city of the Tang people is smaller than Ross City, which is in the military control zone.
no the same.
Not to mention the large number of people and prosperity, the more important thing is that you can see the real life of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
To be honest, even though he only looked at it from a distance, he could still tell that these people of the Tang Dynasty were not living a very good life that day as the rumors said.
He saw farmers, workers, ordinary citizens and other ordinary people along the way.
These ordinary people are also dressed in ordinary clothes. It is not said that they are all wearing silk and satin, but it is undeniable that these ordinary Tang people are in good spirits and are generally tall and strong.
No wonder my ministers have said before that the food consumption level of the Tang Dynasty people has reached 400 kilograms per capita per year, and the most terrifying thing is that the people of the Tang Dynasty only eat white rice or white bread.
An average of 400 kilograms per capita did not make the natives despair. Everyone ate only white rice and bread, which made them truly desperate.
This is a wealth that they cannot imagine even with all their brain cells!
The Golden Kingdom of Tatar is actually considered to have better conditions and price comparisons among European countries, but the per capita grain is only about 200 kilograms at most. As for other European countries, it is even worse. It is estimated that it is only more than 100 kilograms.
That’s all, and these grains are mainly rye and oats.
As for the people of the Tang Dynasty who eat more rice and noodles and less meat, the Tatars or the European aborigines traditionally eat more meat and less rice and noodles, so the fact that the European aborigines eat less grains does not mean anything because they eat all meat.
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This is even more nonsense!
When it comes to eating meat, the Tatars have the most say. When the Tatars were still living in the east, they did mainly eat meat and dairy products, but after arriving in Europe, they actually didn’t eat much meat.
and dairy products, and instead relied on cereals as the main food.
Because there are more people and the space is smaller, we can no longer graze as before. We need space to grow grains to feed more people.
Since all the land is used to grow food, there is less space for grazing, so the supply of meat and dairy products has decreased accordingly. Even if there are still some areas for grazing, meat and dairy products are mainly exported.
, and ate it reluctantly.
Who is exported to? Datang!
These people of the Tang Dynasty seemed to be like a bottomless pit, searching for food all over the world, and they wanted no matter how much they had!
People in the Tatar Kingdom can no longer eat a lot of meat, let alone other ordinary people or indigenous people in other European countries. They can't even afford black bread and still eat meat... What a joke!
Of course, if you insist on using the lives of nobles and lords as examples, there is nothing to say.
If you have to put it this way, what people eat is basically the same as what the local nobles of the Tang Dynasty eat. They can eat whatever they want.
But you can't compare the life of a king with the life of ordinary people!
But in fact, the daily food of ordinary people in contemporary Europe is still cereals, and most of them eat not white bread made from wheat, but brown bread made from rye and barley.
On the other hand, in the Tang Dynasty, they only had white rice and white bread, and not to mention, the people of the Tang Dynasty were the country with the highest per capita meat consumption in the world.
Don’t think that people in the Tang Dynasty ate rice and bread every day. In fact, people in the Tang Dynasty ate meat, and they ate a lot of meat, far exceeding the standards of indigenous people in other countries.
You have to know that the Tang Dynasty itself had almost several huge grasslands as large as Europe as pastures, whether it was the northern grasslands, Central Asia, or simply Europe. The Tang Empire vigorously developed animal husbandry in these places.
At the same time, in the Americas and other overseas territories, animal husbandry is also vigorously developed, and then imported to the mainland in the form of frozen meat.
In the Tang Empire, meat was actually relatively cheap and the people could afford it.
Therefore, the per capita grain consumption of the Tang Dynasty people has grown relatively slowly since it reached 400 kilograms, but the per capita meat consumption has increased significantly. There are all kinds of meat, such as pork, beef, mutton, torpedoes, poultry, etc.
To name a few.
Why?
Because the increase in the consumption of meat products has suppressed the consumption of grains to a certain extent.
When grains, meat, dairy products and other foods are added together, the food consumption level of the Tang people is very terrifying, far exceeding the levels of other indigenous countries.
Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty no longer calls for food and clothing, but instead calls for lowering the food index and making everyone rich.
That is to say, not only should we eat well, but we should also eat cheaply!
From other aspects, you may not be able to intuitively feel the power and wealth of the Tang Dynasty, but from the aspect of eating, you can definitely feel the power and wealth of the Tang Dynasty!
This is a country where everyone has enough to eat!
Such a country is beyond the imagination of countless indigenous people!