I, Zhu Houzhao, join the US imperialist chat group

Chapter 47 Zhu Houzhao: Steel production is billion jin? what's the situation? Technology is shocking!

[American Yingzong Cleveland: By the way, our cities are also developing rapidly, with almost 20 cities with more than people. Among them, the population of three cities, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, has exceeded one million... It is your city, Mr. Washington, our capital Washington... Now the population has exceeded . 】

[By the way, although...our population, resources, industrial sum, oil production, and food reserves all exceed or are on par with the United Kingdom, but...our military strength is still among the third-rate in the world, no, even Not as good as the Qing Dynasty in the East. Our ground troops are less than 30,000, and our navy is negligible... However, the civil war taught us such profound lessons that... we have intentionally or unintentionally avoided developing the military in the past thirty years. In terms of military achievements, it is simply difficult to describe. 】

The addition of Cleveland to the group was too sudden, and he was so excited to meet Washington and Jackson that he just talked about this sudden report wherever he thought.

After all, at this time, the comprehensive national strength is already ranked second in the world, and he has too much to report to his ancestors.

But these little details are enough to shock the group members.

"Seventy million people?"

"Isn't it right? During Lincoln's time, there were only 30 million people. How come the population doubled in one generation in thirty years?"

"Isn't this annexing the population of the suzerain country?"

"Also...how much steel is produced? Eight billion catties? One hundred million catties!? What a joke!"

Zhu Houzhao was stunned.

He had just thought that the United States had become the strongest by annexing the resources of the suzerain country, sending fierce men from the sky, or something like that.

But what Cleveland reported was completely opposite to what he expected, and even the opposite.

The population could indeed grow under the model of war and annexation of the sovereign state, so he reluctantly accepted it.

But steel production... this indicator that measures comprehensive national strength, has grown too exaggeratedly!
Iron! Steel! This is a representative of the core technology of the Ming Dynasty. After all, it can produce firecrackers and armor.

At the same time, the output of iron is also an important indicator of the comprehensive national strength of past dynasties!
He didn't know the specific data of the past dynasties, but the current iron output of the Ming Dynasty was probably 10 million to 20 million jins.

How much is America!

Eight billion! 100 million!
How many armors can there be and how many fire guns can be produced?
Zhu Houzhao was completely shocked by this terrifying data.

I am also extremely puzzled by the unusual strength of the United States. What route did the United States take to become so strong?

Not to mention him, Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, etc. did not expect it, and they were all shocked.

[American Taizu·Washington: The steel output is eight billion kilograms...how is that possible? Oh my god, what the hell happened? How could there be so much iron? 】

Washington was also shocked by the terrifying steel production. After all, steel is also the current hard currency of the United States!

[American Taizong Jefferson: Aren’t we going to develop an agricultural country? What about agriculture? 】

[Meixuanzong Jackson: Yes...the handicraft industry in the north eventually completely overshadowed the planting industry and agriculture in the south? 】

And Jackson and Jefferson, they didn't care about this, they cared about agricultural development.

[American Yingzong·Cleveland: Needless to say agriculture! The development of science and technology has made our agricultural production more convenient. We have invented new plows, improved many types of plows, and invented harvesters, seeders, and threshers... Originally, a farmer could only plant five acres a day. Land, with the help of these things, it is not a problem to plant two hundred acres a day. 】

[I don’t have specific data in this regard. Anyway... there are about five million large-scale farms in the country with more than 10,000 acres. The food produced by these farms is enough to feed and drink one to two hundred million people, and the excess is exported to Europe...] Cleveland also briefly talked about agricultural development, knowing that Jefferson and Jackson were dedicated to building the United States into a major agricultural country.

Now, the goal is achieved.

Presidents like Jackson and Jefferson should be very satisfied.

[American Taizong Jefferson: These... five million large-scale farms, and... the food produced is enough to feed and drink enough for one or two billion people... This... is all due to what you call, the development of science and technology? 】

[Meixuanzong Jackson: Technology! It turns out to be technology! Just like Whitney invented the cotton gin, which improved the efficiency of cotton threshing by a thousand times! This is why we in the United States grow cotton everywhere because we can make a lot of money... Therefore, in other aspects, such as growing corn, rice, etc., it is also because workers used technology to invent all these things that we can truly become Is it a big agricultural country? 】

Jackson finally combined their agricultural development history with the current agricultural development situation in the United States and saw the possibility of the situation described by Cleveland.

[American Taizu Washington: Oh my God! The output of steel is 8 billion kilograms, and the food is enough to feed one or two million people... and it can also be exported! Our United States...has become so powerful? 】

Under the impact of specific numbers, Washington has completely seen the strength of the United States.

[Mercy Lincoln: These things seem to have started to appear in our period... So, was it the victory of the Civil War that finally allowed these things to be fully resolved? Have we, the United States, ushered in an incredible explosion and development miracle? 】

Lincoln once again responded to the Civil War. He felt that the Civil War seemed to have resolved some of the contradictions that restricted the development of the United States, allowing the United States to finally break through its shackles and gain wings to take off.

[American Yingzong Cleveland: It is indeed the development of science and technology! Technology has driven all-round changes in the United States... Not only our United States, but now the whole world is also being transformed by the influence of technology. However, because we in the United States... are different from a constitutional monarchy and a monarchy, so... our scientific and technological development has not been blocked by some corrupt and ignorant people like the old European countries! We develop faster... We don't need to fight or invade, we focus on development... We peacefully rise to the top of the world in terms of comprehensive national strength! 】

Cleveland gave Jackson and Jefferson a definite answer!

[American Anglo-Cleveland: And...President Washington and His Majesty Louis XVI, you may not understand...the development of science and technology is just like...our cold weapons, wars with swords, have become wars with muskets. ! A thousand musketeers today could face ten thousand troops in the Middle Ages! In the Middle Ages, the amount of iron produced was only a few hundred kilograms per day, but now, with the development of science and technology... it is possible to produce 10,000 kilograms or 100,000 kilograms of iron a day! 】

Afraid that Washington and Louis XVI would not understand either, Cleveland even explained it in passing.

After all, the current America compared to the America a hundred years ago is almost the same as modern times versus ancient times.

Cleveland tried to explain technology in terms they could understand.

"This……"

"The development of technology?"

"Technology can... enable a farmer to grow five acres of land a day, instead of growing two hundred acres a day!"

"Also, technology can make steel from dozens to hundreds of kilograms a day to ten thousand kilograms or one hundred thousand kilograms a day!"

"From swords to muskets..."

"Is it the development of technology?"

Zhu Houzhao was originally deeply shocked, but after Cleveland's explanation, he understood what technological development is.

(End of this chapter)