C2802 A History of Millennium Disaster Relief (2/2)
In an agricultural society, people could not eat meat. Without money to spend, it could even be said that a wife was fine … But you have to make sure the people don't starve to death!
This was the last red line to maintain the dynasty's rule. Since this rule couldn't be done, then just wait for the rebellion. Wait for the beacons to light up all over the ground!
The key was that logistics was not smooth. This made the ancient relief efforts a headache for all politicians.
But a headache still has to work, because if you do well, then the dynasty's life can continue. If you don't do well, then the only thing waiting for you will be a heaven-shaking revolution!
Didn't the Ming dynasty end up dying in the midst of a disaster? During the Little Ice Age, the northern part of China suffered from a series of calamities. The people lived on nothing. In the end, the people who didn't have any food to eat could only rise.
Relief turned into repression! The last bit of the Great Ming Dynasty's vitality had been completely used up!
Zai Chun's parents had carefully studied the history of Ming Dynasty's rise and fall, so they had always placed importance on food security, and Zai Chun had received the purest of Emperor's education, so they naturally knew what food meant to China.
Once the great revolution arrived, victory would not be based on reason, but on victory with food!
Whoever had food in their hands would have a population in their hands. Only with a population could they have everything!
Gordon had finally woken up from his dream today. So Master had always been tidying up the lands of Nan Yang, using administrative power to force the reclamation area's main economic source to be agriculture.
Planting rubber and spices was definitely more profitable than farming rice, but Xiao Letian would rather lay his hands on the money than making money so that he could stash away the food.
Was he waiting for natural and man-made disasters? Should we use food to lure our people?
His heart could be destroyed! His heart truly felt like it could be destroyed!
No wonder his master kept asking the Chinese universities to research new food storage technologies. No wonder he was trying so hard to introduce the most advanced canned food production equipment in the United States.
At the end of the day, he not only wanted the production, he also wanted the stocks!
Xiao Letian wanted to create the largest grain empire in Asia in his hands, and these grains were the bullets that would compete for the hearts of the people in the future!
What do these lowly commoners know about being loyal to a sovereign!? Whoever gave them food was the Emperor!
He suddenly thought of the thousand man army grain factory in Ryukyu. Countless rice, wheat, oil, spices, mixed grains … It was ground into powder and then roasted in a huge mechanical oven.
These oily special flour with heavy oil, sugar and salt had turned into compressed biscuits under the pressure of the high pressure machinery.
These compressed biscuits had to go through three or four drying procedures before being wrapped in oilpaper and even sealed in cans.
At that time, Zai Chun only knew that these biscuits were used as food for the soldiers, but he suddenly realised that these things were not only used for military purposes!
”Damn it!” Ordinary packaged compressed biscuits could be stored for more than two years! They can even be stored for more than five years! ”
”This is too scary. Adults only need a small piece, and can be cooked into porridge to their fill. What if this is used as a relief for disasters?”
”Rebel!” This is what we really need to do! ”