The most arrogant in history

Chapter 852: Compensate you well.

When it comes to business and doing business, Ye Kun is also well-informed.

There are many classic business cases in later generations, which are all Ye Kun’s topics of conversation and teaching materials.

It’s just that the ancients didn’t understand, otherwise, Ye Kun could also talk about virtual currency and regional chain.

After talking for half an hour, Ye Kun finally stopped.

Everyone applauded enthusiastically, marveling at Ye Kun's profound knowledge and brilliant ideas.

Guo Ping sighed: "The emperor is truly a genius and knows everything. We can always learn a lot from listening to the emperor's lectures."

Ye Kun nodded and smiled: "Thank you for the compliment. Let's learn and grow together."

After the meeting, Ye Kun visited several families of soldiers stationed in the fields to check on their actual living conditions.

The conditions here are not harsh at all.

However, in recent years, Ye Kun has advocated vigorously developing the population and arranged for everyone to have women of other races as concubines for free. This has resulted in too many newborns, a rapid population increase, and a decline in living standards.

Ye Kun comforted the veterans who had taken root here: "The court will improve everyone's treatment and increase subsidies. As the population continues to increase, we can also develop westward. There are a lot of fertile land in the west, which has been controlled by our Western Expedition Army.

In the future, everyone who immigrates here will become a farmer, and they will have no worries about food and drink for generations to come!"

There are so many good places overseas.

It’s just that the traffic pressure and immigration pressure are great, so we have to take it slow.

On the second day of the farm inspection, Guo Ping suddenly said, "Your Majesty, I thought of a suggestion last night. I wonder if it is feasible..."

"Tell me about it, and let's discuss it."

"I think the overall population of the Western Region will still grow significantly. The pressure on the court to support them will only increase." Guo Ping pondered and said:

"We should consider recruiting soldiers in the Western Regions. Let unmarried young men and women join the army, give them some simple training, and then follow the route of the Western Expedition Army to occupy land and resources in the West.

These young people go to the West, where they can start families and become a new generation of farmers, expanding the Chinese nation.”

Ye Kun smiled and said, "I have devoted all my energy to overseas immigration. As long as it is a feasible suggestion, I will approve it. What I am most afraid of is that those young people would rather starve to death at home than go out and take risks.

Since you proposed this matter, you can do it."

Guo Ping smiled and said, "Your Majesty, rest assured. Young people prefer the outside world. I'm thinking that we can form a construction corps with a hundred people in a team and set out together to find suitable farmland in the west."

Ye Kun waved his hand and said, "There's no need to look for farmland. Our Western Expedition Army has already explored the route and knows where the good places are. You can contact the Western Expedition Army and ask for a detailed map, and then arrange the immigration step by step."

For European immigrants, it is even more difficult.

Because there is no sea route.

If the Chinese people were sent to Europe from the vicinity of Chang'an, it would take one or two years.

After crossing the Western Regions, people had to rely on themselves for supplies, as the imperial court was unable to continue providing them.

Guo Ping nodded and said, "Your Majesty's great cause is to unify the world. However, it is too much work to rely on the court to send troops and people. I agree with your feat of lifting the ban on private maritime trade. In this way, the adventurers of our Chinese people will go overseas to start businesses, which will naturally drive the descendants of Yan and Huang to the world and greatly reduce the pressure on the court.

The people in western China can also take this route to expand westward and let adventurers get involved.

As for China's nine provinces, as long as there is enough food, there won't be any major problems."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "We now have sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn. The land utilization rate is very high, and the grain is abundant every year. Even if the food in China's Jiuzhou is not enough, there is still a huge supply of food in Jiaozhi. It is also very easy to send it by sea. Therefore, there is no need to worry about the food problem in the past fifty years."

Normally, there is no shortage of food in the nine provinces of China.

Most of the famine years in history were caused by wars, floods, droughts and locusts.

Another most important factor is the inconvenient transportation and the difficulty in transporting food.

Now that transportation is well developed, transporting grain is child's play.

It only takes five days for grain from the south of the Yangtze River to be delivered to Zhuo County via the Grand Canal.

It only takes seven or eight days to transport the grain from Jiaozhi to Zhuojun by sea.

It only takes two or three days to deliver the grain from Luoyang to Chang'an.

There are railways, canals, densely-woven national, provincial and county roads, and a telegraph communication system; these are Ye Kun's confidence.

Fifty years from now, the population of China's nine provinces may exceed 200 million.

But Ye Kun felt that with such a large land, coupled with the continued development of science and technology and industry, there would still be enough food.

Taking the late Qing Dynasty as an example, China's industrialization had just begun and its population had developed to 400 million.

Guo Ping nodded repeatedly and asked, "How is the progress of the chemical fertilizer that the emperor proposed many years ago?"

“It’s slow, but it’s progress.”

Ye Kun smiled and said, "A small amount of chemical fertilizer has been produced and is used in our agricultural experimental base. According to the experimental results, the best rice has an output of 800 kilograms per mu; the best sweet potato has an output of 4,500 kilograms per mu; and the highest wheat output per mu is 550 kilograms... However, the production of chemical fertilizers requires strong technical support and the support of materials science. We are currently unable to produce on a large scale.

It will probably take another 100 years for chemical fertilizers to become widely used among the general public.”

When Guo Ping heard about the highest yield per mu, his face showed joy.

I heard that it would take another 100 years to fully popularize chemical fertilizers. I couldn't help but feel disappointed and said with a wry smile: "100 years, this time is too long..."

"But our current scientific composting has also greatly increased the yield per mu."

Ye Kun was optimistic and said with a smile: "Chemical fertilizers are mainly nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. We can already produce phosphorus and potassium fertilizers in large quantities, but what we lack is nitrogen fertilizer. The nitrogen fertilizer problem can only be solved by composting technology."

Guo Ping nodded: "As the emperor said, we must believe in the wisdom of future generations. With the foundation laid by the emperor, future fertilizer research will surely be successful."

Ye Kun conducted research at Tuntian Farm for three days.

Guo Ping accompanied Ye Kun and issued a military order to further improve education, medical care and the quality of life of the people in the Western Regions.

At this time, Yelihu, the son of the young wise king of the Xiongnu, had already arrived in Dunhuang, waiting for Ye Kun's summons.

Ye Kun led everyone back to the ancient city of Loulan.

Ayibo knew that Ye Kun was leaving. That night, he took Ye Kun's arm and asked in a low voice, "Is the emperor planning to return to Zhuo County?"

Ye Kun stroked Ayibo's long hair and said, "Yes, I should go back. Then I will take a rest for a while and then go to the Oil Peninsula. Ayibo, do you want to go to the Oil Peninsula with me?"

"No, I will go to Zhuo County with you and stay with my sister from now on. When my sister's prince grows up, we will go to the new city of Loulan and spend the rest of our lives there."

"This...is fine."

Ye Kun nodded: "I will stay in the Oil Peninsula for a few years and will come back. Then, I will compensate you well."