Todd came back to his senses, touched his face, and said in surprise: "Is there any?"
Emerson nodded: "You seem to have been worried about something..."
Sighing, Todd looked at the Kingdom officials who were full of people in the conference hall and said, "Where did you report just now?"
"It's my turn!" Friar Joe raised his hand: "Your Majesty, according to your will, I issued a proposal in the name of the Holy Son a few days ago, hoping that residents will develop and operate farms, seeds, and agricultural tools outside the city.
The materials are all provided free of charge by the Kingdom..."
Todd leaned forward and asked, "How did it turn out?"
The monk shook his head helplessly and said: "No one wants to work in farming. Everyone said that they would rather work as a coolie at the dock than go to the fields. There are many jobs in the city, the pay is good, and there is no need to work hard. The most important thing is that in the past
After being used to good times, no one wants to have their palms stained with mud again."
After hearing this, Todd frowned and said nothing.
At this time, Emerson continued: "The wheat and beans shipped by sea trade are of high quality and low price. If the residents grow their own crops, including labor, losses and other costs, there is really no way to compete with the prices in the south. It is no wonder that
They don't want to."
"Speaking of sea trade, I remembered one thing." Emerson stroked his mustache: "If I remember correctly, your Majesty's proposal of not collecting taxes for three years will expire soon.
It is necessary to start discussing tax types and rates within the kingdom, and the recruitment of corresponding departments and personnel must be put on the agenda."
Emerson was stunned. He was talking about taxes just now. Why did he bring it back to agriculture?
"Hudgens, ask the royal clerk to draft a document called the Five-Year Plan for Agricultural Development." Todd said while thinking: "First, notify the North Island Trade Fleet to gradually reduce the import of food from the South;
Second, charge tiered tariffs on imported grain from abroad; third, allow immigrants outside the city to register on their own
After developing and operating farms and pastures, and producing a certain amount of food, they are allowed to become residents; fourth, in the land planning outside the city, a new type of land property is added - basic cultivated land, which can only be used for
It shall be used for agricultural purposes and shall not be used for other purposes; Fifth, post an announcement that after the three-year tax holiday, the Muxi Kingdom will continue to be exempt from agricultural taxes."
When Emerson heard this, his eyes widened, and he quickly dissuaded the king: "Your Majesty, can you reconsider the agricultural tax exemption? No matter which kingdom, agricultural taxes are the backbone of national development, so we can waive them.
Otherwise this would be too..."
Todd looked into Emerson's eyes without any hesitation: "Just do as I say! It may seem like agricultural taxes are quite a lot now, but once other industries in the kingdom develop, that little money will be nothing at all.
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Watching Huggins repeat what he just said, Todd nodded with satisfaction, and then asked Terrence: "In terms of crop cultivation, Muxi Kingdom is close to the sea, and the surrounding land is seriously salinized.
, is there any good improvement method at the college?"
"The commonly used methods are rotational cultivation and retting. I don't know the specifics about this." Terrence replied with some embarrassment.
Todd tapped his fingers on the table and said to himself: "The land around Muxi City is not fertile, and most of the raw materials in the city are used to make gunpowder. We must find a way to synthesize fertilizer. Let me think about it.
, Speaking of chemical fertilizers, in the previous life, it seemed that Haber's high-pressure reaction tower was used to chemically synthesize ammonia, and then free molecules were used to produce nitrogen fertilizer..."
Terrence looked puzzled: "Your Majesty, what are the molecules and nitrogen elements you are talking about?"
Todd slapped his forehead with his hand and smiled bitterly with a headache.
The nitrogen fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers and potassium fertilizers used in modern agriculture first require the synthesis of artificial ammonia, and the manufacture of the latter requires the country's industrial technology and chemical theory to reach a relatively high level before it is feasible.
In the chemical world of the previous life, the industrial production of ammonia using nitrogen and hydrogen as raw materials was not officially launched until 1918. But now in the Muxi Kingdom, not to mention the creation of a reaction tower, even the explanation of this complex set of chemical reactions is difficult.
Unable to explain.
Is there any way to make chemical fertilizer relatively easily?
Seeing that the king was deep in thought again, the officials at the table remained silent in a tacit understanding.
Emerson exchanged images and sounds in his memory with Terrence through the computer screen; Mary was concentrating on drinking coffee while flipping through the famous paintings on the computer.
As for Cumberland, the highest official in the royal family, since he had nothing to do at the regular meeting this morning, he simply picked up the mouse in front of him and started browsing on the computer.
The computer data and stored information in the soul space are all transformed from the memories in Todd's mind.
Since these people who enter the soul space are all people whom Todd trusts, apart from some particularly secret information, a considerable part of the data is actually open.
Cumberland used the mouse and clicked around abruptly, and accidentally entered a file interface. The folder icon on the left said American TV Series - Spartacus, and the right said Manual Joystick Driver.
"Huh? What are these two?" Cumberland used the mouse curiously, swinging between the two folders for a while, and finally opened the folder named Spartacus. Next, he found a lot of
Click the video icon, select the first file, and double-click it to start playing.
On the computer screen, an epic battle unfolded before the eyes of the old knight. Impassioned background music sounded. The two armies fought together in the heavy rain. The blood, steel and fighting made Cumberland tremble with excitement.
On the other side, the meeting is still going on.
"Yes!" Todd slammed the table, startling everyone.
After flipping through his memory for a while, Todd shared an instructional video on microbial synthesis of nitrogen fertilizer with the hosts of everyone present.
The video is 30 minutes long and is simple and easy to understand. There are basically no special terms. There are relatively few theoretical parts and more operational introductions. It mainly talks about a topic in extracurricular teaching for college students - how to use bacteria to synthesize nitrogen fertilizers needed for crops:
In the microbiology community, there is a type of bacteria called rhizobia. It was discovered in 1884 and was not noticed until 1975. Rhizobium can live in symbiosis with leguminous plants, form root nodules, and fix inorganic nitrogen in the air and water into
Organic nitrogen fertilizer, thereby providing nutrients to plants.
In terms of agricultural applications, peanuts artificially inoculated with root nodules can fix 72-124g of nitrogen per square meter per year, that is, each mu of peanuts can obtain nitrogen equivalent to 10-17 kilograms of urea from nitrogen fixation. Especially in poor soil, root nodules
94% of the nitrogen fixed every day is supplied to the plants, and only 6% remains in the root nodules, which can increase the original yield by about 70%.
The most important thing is that artificial cultivation of rhizobia is not complicated, and the inoculation process is relatively simple. These are simply the most suitable technologies for the agricultural development of Muxi Kingdom.
Todd explained to everyone while playing the video: "As for the development of microbial fertilizers, Muxi College and the Monastery are working together. First, they can conduct trial planting on a small scale. After finding the best vaccination plan, they can then promote it comprehensively.
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After talking about agricultural development, Todd exchanged some kingdom affairs with the officials, and then quietly found the old craftsman Aiden and demonstrated to him the 3D modeling screen of the musket in his memory.
"How about it? With the kingdom's current industrial level, can this gun be copied?"
The hopeful look in the king's eyes made the pressure on the old craftsman's shoulders feel as heavy as a mountain.
"Your Majesty, this barrel requires drilling and rolling technology; this gunpowder chamber requires a metal-controlled variant; and this trigger requires a special spring and firing device... In addition, there are many more
I won't be able to see things clearly for a while, so I need to study them in detail."
Todd nodded after hearing this: "Before the meeting ends, I will ask Mary to write down pictures of this model and some other muskets, and then ask her to draw them in reality and give them to you. Old Aiden, call me your men
The best craftsmen try their best to imitate this weapon!"
After explaining these things, Todd said goodbye to the officials one by one and planned to close the soul space.
When it was Cumberland's turn, the other person's eyes were almost glued to the screen. He was completely immersed in the plot of the TV series, and he didn't even hear other people saying hello.
Terrence leaned over curiously, looked at it for a few times and never moved his eyes away. While looking at it, he said, "It's amazing! I can actually trace the fate of a historical hero through this crystal box!"
Seeing more and more people gathering in front of the computer screen, Todd shouted dryly: "The daily meeting is over. If you have nothing to do, please go back quickly. There are still a lot of things in the kingdom!"