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There are countless forms of competition between nations and nations. War is only the last resort.

The ultimate goal was to strike at the opponent that consumed their strength and thus created a gap between them. In order to achieve this goal, they could use any method they wanted, using every method at their disposal!

The lagging Qing Dynasty would never understand how important technology was, she simply had no idea what productivity was.

When humans entered the Industrial Revolution, raising productivity was a problem that all races had to face. It was a stopgap that no one could avoid.

To put it in an exaggeration, the increase in productivity could basically solve more than 90% of the human society's contradictions!

The pitiful Qing Dynasty had always felt that the Industrial Revolution s made by the Europeans were just Gun s, they felt that the foreign devils were playing with steel parts!

It was a mistake. The increase in productivity was not just a boom-business boom, but a close relationship with the most closely related Chinese agriculture.

China is a farming nation, the food problem is a big problem, almost all dynasties change has something to do with the food crisis.

As the population grew, there was only so much land. The food production hadn't changed much in the past few thousand years!

Although in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the emergence of corn, potatoes, sweet potato and other high-yielding crops in the Americas, China experienced a small population expansion.

However, it was still a matter of living by the heavens after all. The population of over three hundred million had already drained away all of their potential!

The large gap between rich and poor, land annexation will indeed cause major contradictions in society, but these contradictions will not lead to large-scale uprisings or peasant uprisings!

The real reason behind the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's movements was due to hunger and the fact that the commoners could not eat their fill!

Even the capital's best land was constantly suffering from starvation, not to mention those remote mountains that no one took into account. Not to mention the famines, even the years when people were in need of harvests, they would still starve to death.

How to solve this problem? There were only two methods, and both were controlled by Xiao Letian at the moment.

The first was to add new arable land. This was already impossible for the Qing Dynasty, because the future trend of the Great Qing's territories could only be reduced rather than expanded.

The newly added territories were all in the hands of the Chinese, and were all won by Xiao Letian in battle!

Without a warm granary in Nanyang, Chinese grain merchants would not be able to dump tens of thousands of tons of rice!

In addition to adding new cultivated land, the second method was to increase the productivity of agriculture. What was needed to increase the productivity of agriculture? Of course, technology!

Nan Yang was suitable for growing rice, but he also had his shortcomings. There was too much water in this place. Local aboriginals are unable to develop agriculture and have a bearing on floods.

In order to completely solve the water problem, on one hand, the Chinese reclamation area had built up a water conservancy and established a smooth drainage system, and on the other hand, they were relying on an advanced pumping machine.

The steam power pumping machines used in European coal mines were well-developed, and the blueprints had to be modified by Chinese engineers. This was a masterpiece that Chinese farmers had not dared to think of for thousands of years.

After torrential rain and typhoon, the farmland water is serious, relying on manpower to drain? He still had to use mechanical power to pump water!

Continuously arid highlands farmland still relies on water wheel? After starting up the pump, there would naturally be endless amounts of water being poured in!

Just the popularization of the pumping machines had turned many food-producing swamps and highlands into fertile land!

In Nan Yang, wherever there were Chinese reclamation area, there would be such a spectacular scene. In the vast swamp area, there were dozens of pumping units working day and night.