Chapter 311: The Emergence of Fertilizers
In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Royal Academy of Sciences graduated the first batch of students. These students learned a lot of mathematics, physics and chemistry knowledge, all of which passed through this era.&1t;/p>
This knowledge was developed by Western civilization for more than two hundred years before and after the Industrial Revolution, and it was proved by a lot of exploration and experiments. The students of the Royal Academy of Sciences directly crossed this era and learned these things that were against the will of heaven.&1t;/p>
So Huming Creation began to emerge wildly.&1t;/p>
According to the knowledge of physics and mathematics, various machinery are designed and manufactured, including agricultural machinery, textile machinery, and various production machinery. The trend among them is to use steam engines as the source of power for these machinery.&1t;/p>
And those chemists are working tirelessly to study how to make various chemical substances on a large scale.&1t;/p>
According to the plant nutrition and return science proposed by Zhu Youxiao, it is believed that the nutrients required by plants are water, carbon dioxide, and minerals. Through experiments, it is verified that the main minerals required by plants are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and the medium is magnesium, sulfur, etc. The concept of chemical fertilizers suddenly appeared.&1t;/p>
Return theory believes that plants do not directly consume organic matter. Only when organic matter is mineralized by microorganisms can they produce nutrient minerals required by plants in the soil. Under natural conditions, because the land output and the acquisition of nutrients tend to be balanced, fertilization does not need to be applied. However, artificial crop planting causes the minerals in the soil to be involved in and transported by humans and animals, which will lead to poor soil after a long period of cultivation.&1t;/p>
According to this theory, state-owned agricultural companies have now begun to use a large amount of organic fertilizer to increase soil fertility. Of course, if organic fertilizer is not used well, it will be a waste, because organic fertilizer may contain a lot of parasites, and it may also cause an imbalance in nutrient intake in crops. Because plants do not eat organic matter, these organic matter must be mineralized to become inorganic matter in order to provide nutrients to plants.&1t;/p>
Organic fertilizers have been used in China in the Spring and Autumn Period and even earlier. However, this thing requires a lot of labor and organic mineralization generally takes several years. Therefore, farmers often don’t like to use it.&1t;/p>
The concept of organic fertilizer in later generations was actually an environmentally friendly concept. But I don’t know when it was hyped up by people into something that is beneficial to health. It seems that the quality of agricultural products grown with chemical fertilizers is not as good as organic fertilizer, which is a completely wrong understanding. Anyone with a little common sense knows that plants do not eat organic matter.&1t;/p>
Chemical fertilizers directly provide minerals to plants, so they have strong fertility and quick results. The disadvantage is that weeds also obtain a large amount of fertilizer, which causes weeds to grow wildly. In order to deal with these weeds, people have to spray a large amount of herbicide. At the same time, after rainwater erosion, the fertility of these chemical fertilizers is washed into the river channel, resulting in the nutrient enrichment of river water, and the algae grows wildly, causing a series of ecological problems.&1t;/p>
The original purpose of organic agriculture was to solve these ecological problems. As a result, some people hyped organic agriculture into something that is beneficial to human health. What concept of organic agricultural products is completely a concept scam, and they fooled ordinary people who don’t understand it.&1t;/p>
Organic fertilizers must first be fermented and disinfected, and transported to the fields and fields for application. There will be no results in two or three years. It is normal for farmers to not like to use this method to fertilize, but farmers still prefer to use inorganic fertilizers that can take effect quickly.&1t;/p>
There are no fertilizers in the Ming Dynasty, and the disinfection of human and animal manure fermentation is being promoted on a large scale. In fact, it cannot completely solve the problem of low grain output. There have been many breakthroughs in the research of fertilizers.&1t;/p>
We have made breakthroughs in phosphate fertilizers. Through the mining of phosphate ore, the first batch of phosphate fertilizers were manufactured, which is still acceptable in terms of cost.&1t;/p>
Urea has also been successfully synthesized, but it needs to be produced on a large scale, and it needs to be improved in the fields of machinery, electricity and steam engines to reduce costs. At present, there is obviously no way to synthesize ammonia required for synthesis of urea on a large scale through coal.&1t;/p>
The largest research result in the sixth year of the Tianqi revelation was that it was successful in the manufacture of soda ash and chemical dyes. The emergence of soda ash and chemical dyes gave the textile factories under state-owned textile enterprises a great advantage. In the past, the Ming Dynasty used natural dyes and the cost was relatively high.&1t;/p>
The emergence of chemical dyes greatly reduces the cost of fuel. At the same time, the immersed cotton cloth is more durable and has higher added value.&1t;/p>
This technology was put into production and application by Xun. After being soaked and dyed, the quality of the cotton cloth produced by Songjiang Prefecture exceeded that of Songjiang Prefecture. As state-owned textile enterprises entered Songjiang Prefecture, this advantage soon emerged. The colored cotton cloth market was occupied by the state-owned cotton cloth Xun.&1t;/p>
In addition, the state-owned dyeing and printing factory also purchased a large number of cotton cloth in Songjiang Prefecture and then dyed it with colors for sale.&1t;/p>
State-owned textile enterprises have now entered the southern market, but have not had much impact on the employment of textile workers in the southern market, because the previous exhibition of textile industry in Beizhili was mainly due to the expansion of the northern market. When entering the southern market, workers were recruited in Songjiang Prefecture.&1t;/p>
The huge impact was the factory owners in southern Jiangsu. These factory owners were the strongest group of merchants in this era. Salt merchants and grain merchants actually did not have the strength of these factory owners. Because although these factory owners seem to have not had that huge capital, their influence is actually stronger.&1t;/p>
The factory owners of the Ming Dynasty used to have no taxes, but now outside the new provinces, those factory owners still do not need to pay taxes. Therefore, the profit returns of these factory owners are not so profitable, but they are very stable and continuous.&1t;/p>
They control many means of production, which means that salt merchants and grain merchants are no match for marine merchants. As long as these factory owners in southern Jiangsu say that the price of goods will increase, they will immediately lead to soaring prices. From the perspective of social influence, they are the most powerful group of merchants in the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>
Businessmen in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, are very good at operating production, and this has been the case in all dynasties.&1t;/p>
State-owned enterprises have shown advantages in dyeing, and those dyeing and printing factories are the most impacted, and those merchants have suffered the most direct impact. The impact of those textile merchants is mainly due to the problem of state-owned capital squeezing into the market. These state-owned textile enterprises are not inferior in textile equipment at all, and even have certain advantages, because the equipment of state-owned textile mills has made certain improvements to the equipment of private textile mills.&1t;/p>
Of course, it is not possible to impose absolute suppression on private textile factories now, because textile machinery powered by steam engines has not yet begun to be used. However, textile equipment in this area has begun to be developed.&1t;/p>
There are also cloth merchants in Songjiang Prefecture who are greatly affected. These cloth merchants usually collect cotton cloth from the hands of the people, then dip in and dye, or sell directly to other places.&1t;/p>
Textile factories are not completely mainstream. Many cotton cloths in Songjiang Mansion are still scattered in various households. Workers purchase small equipment to produce cotton yarn and then carry out textiles.&1t;/p>
State-owned capital joins the acquisition of cotton yarn and cotton cloth, which greatly affects the business of those cloth merchants.&1t;/p>
The silk reel factory established by state-owned capital also invaded a lot of market share, causing those raw silk merchants to encounter strong competitors.&1t;/p>
Because overseas trade is monopolized by state-owned capital, coupled with the expansion of trade barriers in the northern market, state-owned capital is very stable in the sales of raw silk, and when purchasing raw silk, it is not afraid of fighting price wars with those raw silk merchants.&1t;/p>
In the sixth year of the revelation, the trade volume of North Korea began to rise. As the scale of copper mining expanded, Japan's demand for raw silk, cotton cloth, deer skin, spices, ceramics, steel products and other products was increasing. The trade with North Korea was due to the increase in investment in North Korea, and the scale of logging and mining in North Korea began to increase. At the same time, a large number of steel products from the Ming Dynasty were imported into North Korea, which increased North Korea's productivity to a certain extent and increased output.&1t;/p>
Private capital can enter the trade with North Korea, but after the tariffs are collected, many commodities have lost their competitiveness against the export of state-owned capital.&1t;/p>
Trade with Japan is completely monopolized by the government. Private merchant ships are not allowed to travel to Japan. The Japanese government does not like the Ming Dynasty's private merchant ships to trade in Japan. This will lead to some local daimyos smuggling trade with external sources, threatening the dominance of the Tokugawa shogunate.&1t;/p>
After several years of development, the trade between the Ming Dynasty and Japan quickly rose to more than 40 million yuan. The Ming Dynasty could make tens of millions of yuan in profits from trade every year, and Japan's precious metals began to flow to the Ming Dynasty in large quantities.&1t;/p>
Trade with Europeans was also completely monopolized by the authorities. After the Portuguese gave up Malacca, the Ming Dynasty quickly took control of the city of Malacca and used Malacca as the center of trade with the Portuguese.&1t;/p>
Trade with countries on the Indochina Peninsula has been progressing relatively smoothly, but state-owned capital has basically not invested in the Indochina Peninsula.&1t;/p>
There are too many places that state-owned capital needs to invest in at this time. The Northeast region has not been completely digested. It also needs to digest a Southeast Asian country, and Australia is waiting to open.&1t;/p>
The pace of state-owned capital has taken great steps, and no matter how big it is, it will be a big deal.&1t;/p>
Therefore, the main force of state-owned capital is still in the Northeast region, first opening up large areas of arable land in the Northeast region, thereby obtaining a large amount of commercial grain and various raw material resources.&1t;/p>
At the same time, in Nanyang, we only open the essence of convenient coastal transportation first. However, areas that need to be pruned in the 6 areas are basically in a state of being temporarily unblocked.&1t;/p>
The same is true for Australia. We first open areas with convenient coastal transportation, and the investment in infrastructure construction is relatively low.&1t;/p>
The Luzon Archipelago has developed a total of 150 million mu of arable land. The Spaniards have left many plantations. Currently, there are only about 50,000 mu of agricultural resources in operation. Nearly half of them are owned by state-owned capital, and the other half are plantations opened by private capital.&1t;/p>
Open large islands first, and small and medium-sized islands first.&1t;/p>
The domestication of the indigenous people on the island is also carried out slowly. After all, the food is eaten one by one. Those indigenous people who are unwilling to enter the plantation and are managed by the Han people are temporarily under the management of the indigenous regime. The Ming Dynasty also charged taxes on these indigenous peoples.&1t;/p>
The degree of opening of Indonesian archipelago in later generations was even lower, basically continuing the Dutch rule over Jawa Island. The third-grade and ninth-class plantation model is only planned to be 30,000 acres. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!