Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 145 Malthus's Trap and Mobilization Order
In the first stage of the "Crossing the North Sea in 1784", the Thunder God transported troops across the sea and landed in Shachuan. Under the leadership of the Shachuan tribe, they went straight to the plain (Sapporo); at the same time, Deng Fei drove the Thunder God to the south of Matsumae Castle, waiting for an opportunity to destroy Matsumae Fan's navy ships blocked the sea lanes.

In the second stage, Wang Yuanfang led a battalion and an engineering team of 500 people to the Sulfur Mountain in the southwest of the plain, and pulled out all the strongholds set up by the Matsumae Domain near the Sulfur Mountain.And set up military depots locally to prepare for the subsequent sulfur collection.

In the third stage, Liu Sheng led a battalion from the plain to the southeast, heading straight to Makomai (Ainu language, meaning a river entering the deep mountains), and established a military base by the sea.

Zhao Xin read the whole plan in silence, then found a map of modern island countries and looked at it for a long time. After thinking for a while, he asked, "How do you know about Makomai?"

"Tuka said that. He said that there is also a tribe there, and that the Matsumae Domain also has a tax office and a trading post there."

"Then do you know what Makomai means?"

Liu Sheng said triumphantly, "Hey, I'm going to ask Tuka's sister about this."

"Oh?" Zhao Xin looked at Liu Sheng with interest. "What did she say?"

"The river in the deep mountains."

"Brother~~" Zhao Xin shook his head before saying, "I told you to learn more Japanese, but you just don't."

Liu Sheng rubbed his beard on his chin and asked, "What's wrong?"

"What's the matter? Makomai is the Tomakomai city of the later generations, which is Tomakomanai, which means the river in the swamp!"

"Swamp?" Liu Sheng swallowed with surprise.

"It's summer now, are you going to take the troops to the swamp?"

"Then what do you mean to do?"

"The tax office and commercial warehouse must be resolved, but the location of the military depot must be changed to the river beach plain outside the swamp."

"Ok."

"There is one more. The engineering team of 1000 people is too small, change it to 2000 people. After occupying the plain, let another 1000 people follow you and build the road from the plain to Makomai."

Let the shogunate and Matsumae clan go to hell, the future of Ezo can only be controlled by yourself!In Zhao Xin's plan, he plans to develop animal husbandry and planting in Pingyuan, which will be used as a meat and feed base in Beihai in the future.

Seeing Liu Sheng leaving excitedly, Zhao Xin couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

The island nation's "Famine at Daybreak" has only entered its second year, and a large number of refugees are still begging for their lives.Starting from the second half of this year, severe droughts will break out in Shandong, Henan, Hubei, and parts of Anhui and Zhejiang one after another. This disaster will last until the 51st year of Qianlong.

From the very beginning when Zhao Xin came to this time and space, he never thought of being king or hegemony.From helping hundreds of refugees absent-mindedly at the beginning, to taking these people across the sea to occupy the ice-free port in the end, his purpose is to mine gold in this time and space; there are too many gold mines in Solenji Island, Thousand Island Islands, and Ezo up.

However, with more and more refugees under his command and the idea of ​​helping the victims, Zhao Xin can only start to deal with agricultural issues.

For the island countries and the Qing Dynasty in the 1782th century, the large number of victims brought about by several disasters from 1785 to [-] can no longer be solved by changing the dynasty. Everything is the combined effect of natural factors and human factors. caused by.

Taking Henan as an example, by the 45th year of Qianlong, the population of Henan province had exceeded 2000 million; this is only official statistics, and the actual population has exceeded 100 million if the hidden population is included.

The problem of insufficient arable land caused by the increasing population has also gradually emerged.In order to solve the contradiction between man and land, the Qing court has always encouraged the strategy of reclamation.After more than 100 years of reclamation in Henan, the unowned wasteland since the establishment of the Qing Dynasty has basically been reclaimed.At that time, people couldn't help feeling, "Milk has been planted on the top of the mountain, there are continents in the middle of the river, old forests in the middle of the Sichuan, and deep greens in the seedling caves have been opened. There is still not enough to support them, and the power of heaven and earth is poor."

On the other side of the island country, the situation is similar. In the Taiping era of nearly 200 years, almost all the wasteland that can be reclaimed has been developed.Frequent natural disasters have led to the stagnation of agricultural production technology, and the stagnation of agricultural technology development has caused farmers to rely on the sky for food.

This situation cannot be changed by a certain traveler rising up in the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty.Only by solving the problem of farmers' land ownership and improving agricultural production technology can we change the status quo of relying on the sky for food.

If this problem is not straightened out and resolved, large-scale land mergers will occur once the disaster year arrives.After the land is lost, the peasants lose their land again, and then wander and migrate; the vicious circle will continue in the end.

Even if Zhao Xin is a god, he cannot change the backward agricultural production technology in the entire Northeast Asia in a short period of time. (Forget about the stupid idea of ​​buying [-] walk-behind tractors. Who will do the maintenance? Who will do the parts processing? Who will do the skill training? Modern industrialization is a complete and comprehensive system, rather than relying on someone’s whim.)
Since it cannot be changed in a short period of time, it can only increase the area of ​​arable land that can be planted.

In the time and space of the eighteenth century, the required arable land area could only be found in the vast black land in the outer northeast.This is why Zhao Xin spared no effort to occupy this black land.Since you have to occupy it sooner or later, it is better to occupy it early.

As long as the family has land and enough food to eat, those Chinese who are not willing to live in the fields will naturally spread their branches and leaves.At that time, there was no need for Zhao Xin to catch strong men, as long as he gave a little guidance, someone would go east along the Aleutian Islands to explore and occupy another vast land.

After dinner that day, Zhao Xin called eleven time-travelers to the conference room of the Thunder God for a meeting, and told everyone the results of his thinking.

Eleven people fell silent after listening to Zhao Xin's words.Some people understand, some people are still ignorant.

In other words, this is the first time that Zhao Xin has fully revealed his thoughts on solving the predicament of this era.Everyone did not expect that this young man who was just 30 years old would actually play such a big game of chess!

After a long time, Chen Qingsong lit a cigarette produced in Beihai Town, and muttered in his mouth: "Correct the cycle of chaos, control the cycle of chaos... Malthusian trap!"

"Old Chen, what did you say?" Everyone looked at Chen Qingsong.

"The essence of the Malthusian trap is a growing agricultural population and almost never increasing agricultural productivity!" Zhao Xin explained loudly.

Chen Qingsong took two deep puffs of cigarettes, and said slowly, "Mr. Zhao is right, that's what he meant! Simply put, under the premise of constant agricultural productivity, a country is prone to a dead cycle of population growth.

Food production is high, the country prospers, and then the population grows.If the population increases and the agricultural production technology remains unchanged, the per capita food supply will decrease, and then there will be food shortages, and eventually wars and diseases will break out.

Then the population declines, and the cycle repeats.In fact, this cycle is a dead end in feudal society!No matter who comes to power, it can only delay and cannot break through. "

Hong Tao said: "I understand what you mean. For example, Kangxi and Yongzheng created a prosperous age, and the population of the Qing Dynasty skyrocketed. Now, no matter how hard Qianlong works, he cannot escape the fate of decline."

Chen Qingsong nodded and shook his head again: "Right or wrong. Now that the first industrial revolution in the West has begun, if the Manchu Qing can seize the opportunity and improve productivity, then even if the population increases, there will still be enough food. What a pity!"

Liu Zheng said, "What about the Opium War decades later?"

Chen Qingsong said: "That's just an external cause. The root cause is still food pressure. That's why the leader once said that the only way to break out of the vicious circle of the 'circle of chaos' is to liberate and develop productivity."

Zhao Xin continued to explain: "The initial crisis of the dynasties in the past was nothing more than 'finance', and the lack of finances led to wars. The financial crisis was caused by disasters that destroyed agricultural production, forced a large number of agricultural populations to migrate, and formed a threat to the rulers. Huge disaster victims.

When the imperial court wanted to allocate funds for disaster relief, it wanted to break the Malthusian deadlock and use food from wealthy areas, such as Huguang or Jiangnan, to help the disaster-stricken areas survive the difficult period of agriculture and minimize the death of victims.But in fact, it is tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall. In the end, it will definitely evolve from a local disaster to a national problem. "

Chen Qingsong added: "In fact, there is only one way to deal with this situation in all dynasties, but they can do it but can't say it."

Liu Zheng asked, "What is it?"

Chen Qingsong said coldly: "You will live and die, and you will not save yourself!"

"That's right! If the ruler has the ability to save but does not save, it will arouse public resentment; if he is unable to save but gives up, there will be a civil uprising. Therefore, the prosperous times have declined, chaos has begun, and people are dying." Zhao Xin paused and continued. Said: "From the national level, behind all the problems are actually economic problems, that is, productivity problems."

Chen Qingsong added: “Historically, with the entry and domestication of corn and potatoes, the Qing Dynasty saw an increase in agricultural productivity.

The abundance of food made the population of the Qing Dynasty begin to grow rapidly.The upper limit of China's population has been raised from more than 9000 million in the Southern Song Dynasty to [-] million.

The nearly quadrupled population growth led to huge pressure on food production in the late Qing Dynasty.I dare say that even without the foreign aggression of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, the Qing Dynasty was on the verge of collapse. "

"Amazing! Old Chen, I didn't expect your theoretical knowledge to be amazing." Liu Zheng praised.

Only then did the other people in the conference room finally understand what was said in the middle school textbook; they also finally realized the significance of people like themselves coming to this time and space.

Liu Siting looked up at Zhao Xin and said, "It's not fun to make it so complicated for you to say something that was originally fun!"

What the hell!Zhao Xin, Chen Qingsong and others almost turned over from their chairs.Everyone also knew that Director Liu did this on purpose to avoid making the topic too heavy, so they all smiled heartily.

Doctor Hong Taohong let out a long sigh at this time, and then said: "Education, the foundation of everything is education! I understand why Zhao Xin is in school every day."

"Him? Do you really think he is so noble? Don't be funny, he did it for... um, eh~~"

Liu Siting glanced at Zhao Xin who was covering Liu Sheng's mouth with his hands, and said, "Don't cover Liu Sheng's mouth, we all understand. Isn't it that little teacher Shen?"

"Oh, listen to me, that's not the case..." Zhao Xin tried to defend himself.

"Hahaha~~" Everyone burst into laughter.This guy Zhao Xin would go to Shen Xuan's side every day if he had nothing to do, and everyone was watching.

After laughing for a while, Wang Yuanfang asked, "So, what shall we do next?"

Zhao Xin coughed a few times, cleared his throat, and said, "Food and houses need to be prepared in advance. As for the cultivated land, you three are the only ones who can drive the three machine monsters. Even if you are exhausted, you will not be able to plow dozens of fields." Tens of thousands of acres of land! Don’t look at the few of you who are very happy to drive. A set of 9620RX costs more than 600 million. It is impossible for me to buy dozens or hundreds of units now. Even if I have the money to buy it, who will drive it? Bad Who will fix it?"

"So Mr. Zhao, you place your hopes on those children?" Zhang Bo finally spoke.

"That's right, blank paper is the best way to draw! What we teach, they can learn!"

"It's not easy, just like us, can't you fool hundreds of teachers to come?" Liu Siting said with a smile.

"My Director Liu, the five of you made me worry all day long. If I get dozens or hundreds more, it will really explode!"

"What are you going to do?"

"Well, it's easy to handle. Actually, I have an idea that I've been thinking about. We're like this..."

After hearing Zhao Xin's idea, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.What does this guy think, this trick is too bad!

But if you think about it carefully, it might be a good idea.

Such a fun thing, how can I not be there.So all the people present asked to follow to learn more next time.

But they are all gone, who will look after the house?

Discuss again... Anyway, we have to wait until the Ezo operation is over.

One day later, as Liu Sheng and the others revised the battle plan, Zhao Xin, as the commander-in-chief, issued the battle order to "cross the 1784 Beihai".

The Security Department is left behind by Wu Siyu and Zhao Liang. Liu Sheng, Wang Yuanfang, Deng Fei, Ding Guofeng, Sheng Haizhou, Jiuzang, Liji, Huji, Pan Xiucheng and seven companies with a total of 810 people will be on the third day after the order is issued. Board the ship and set off.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Qingsong, as the person in charge of the civil affairs system, issued a mobilization order to all residents of Beihai Town.

The general mobilization order requires that Beihai Town will send a 30-member medical team headed by Hong Tao and a 2000-member construction team headed by Wanzao and Maosuke to go to Ezo with the ship to cooperate with the combat troops to build clinics, military depots, outposts, roads and other facilities .All dispatched personnel should actively cooperate with combat troops to help maintain security in the rear and prevent spies.The medical team should quickly rescue and transfer the wounded during combat to ensure that the wounded recover quickly and return to the team.

Residents of Beihai Town who did not participate in the operation should overcome all difficulties and work hard to complete various tasks in the rear.The military industry department must step up production; the police department must be ready to receive prisoners.

Zhao Liang looked at the combat mobilization order on the bulletin board in front of him, and thought to himself, what should I hurry up to produce?Fermented human urine?If you have to wait until I make real black powder here, then you have to wait.

For this operation, the only thing that Zhao Liang, the workshop leader, is interested in is the sulfur from the Sulfur Mountain in Ezo, which is a must for the production of gunpowder.In addition to this, sulfur soap can also be made.

Taking advantage of his free time these two days, Zhao Xin quietly returned to another time and space, and placed an order online in eight batches, ordering a total of [-] tons of wheat as grain reserves for Beihai Town.In addition, he also ordered a [-]-ton flour mill through his cousin.

Most importantly, he asked his cousin to post a recruitment notice online.

Recruitment positions: ten full-time teachers working abroad.

Requirements: 22 years old and above, male or female; teaching-related work experience is required.If there is no relevant experience, excellent conditions are also acceptable; college degree or above, Chinese language and literature, mathematics, physics, chemistry related majors.

Work place: XX city, XX country

Salary: basic salary 12000~20000 per month.

A day later in the afternoon, in a teaching and research room in a county-level city in China, a scruffy man who was nearly 40 years old saw the recruitment information on the Internet.After hesitating for a long time, he called the contact number under the recruitment information. More than 20 minutes later, just as he put down the phone, a student knocked on the door and walked in.

"Teacher Fang, I have a question I want to ask you."

"Bring it to me to see."

The student handed over the question booklet in his hand.

"Which question?"

The student cautiously tapped his finger.

"Oh. Calculate the molar mass. Let me talk about your thinking first."

An hour later, the student walked towards the door with a face full of joy.He stopped at the door, turned around and asked the middle-aged man, "Mr. Fang, I heard that you are leaving?"

The middle-aged man adjusted his glasses and asked with a smile, "Who did you listen to?"

"It's spread all over the grade. Teacher Fang, can you not leave?"

"Really." The middle-aged man laughed at himself, looked at the student in front of him and said, "Study hard."

Two days later, the middle-aged teacher named Fang Hua completed all the resignation procedures and boarded the train with a suitcase.

(End of this chapter)