The big man has a living father

Chapter 249 (Long Chapter) Admonishing the Old Immortal
At a small court meeting, Liu Che looked at the report.

Ever since Wei Kang planned to attack the City of Sacrifice, Liu Che had been thinking about how much of a boost taking over North America would bring to the economy.

The current report contains all the collected information.

Liu Che looked at the report and muttered in deep thought: "Tobacco... is poisonous... a small amount will cause addiction... a large amount will cause sudden death..."

This thing has been tested on islands in the East China Sea for several years. Once you become addicted, the choking effect of the smoke can control the blood flow and heartbeat rhythm. Sometimes it can relieve stress, and sometimes it can increase stimulation.

Psychologically, it has a particularly great impact on people.

This thing looks good at first glance.

There is actually a huge shortage of workers in Dahan now. Because of the rapid development, various industries are expanding very quickly.

The large shortage of workers means that individual workers are extremely exhausted.

There is no doubt that tobacco is a good thing that can relieve stress.

And it's very profitable.

The disadvantage is that long-term inhalation will damage human health and increase the incidence of other diseases.

At the same time, this kind of addictive thing can be very profitable and profitable.

If it is promoted, there will be something to do in America.

However, Liu Che still needs to think more about it.

Liu Che turned another page of the report and saw the next item: "Cocoa butter, coffee..."

After reading it, Liu Che quickly judged that cocoa butter is a new mid-range dried fruit substitute. Because of its production process, its taste is better than most dried fruits. It can also provide people with a large amount of oil. It is a snack and can also replenish energy in critical moments.

Obviously, if it is used as a military product, it must be very powerful.

It can greatly improve the logistics supply efficiency of the Han Dynasty and continue to exert great suppression on the countries west of the Pamir Mountains.

If it is promoted comprehensively, it should have only one effect, which is to greatly enrich the material life of ordinary people, commonly known as letting ordinary people eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks.

The advantage is that the more complex the economic structure and the more product types there are, the stronger the ability to resist risks.

If the Han Dynasty were to face any problems in the railway industry, the Han Dynasty would be doomed. But if the resources were to be a hundred times more abundant than they are now, even if there were any problems in the railway industry, at most the Han people would suffer a serious loss of vitality, but they would not die on the spot.

In addition to cocoa butter, there is also coffee.

In Liu Che's view, coffee is a low-end substitute for tea.

Tea is expensive, very expensive. Especially in the inland areas, if you don’t drink tea after eating meat, you will feel unwell.

Since the promotion of tea began a few years ago, the demand has always been greater than the supply, and the price of tea has been rising year by year. In particular, the difference between good tea and bad tea has quickly emerged in the market. Currently, the best tea is hundreds of times more expensive than the worst.

And coffee can obviously replace the lowest-end tea.

In other words, if coffee starts to be produced on a large scale, the price of tea will soar and it will become a luxury product.

Liu Che nodded. Although this thing was also addictive, its harm was much less than tobacco and could be promoted on a large scale.

"This America is really a precious place. I wonder what kind of products will be produced on the continent where Rome is located."

Huo Hai was also reading the same report.

After watching it, I just felt that the professional exploration team organized by Ge San and his team was quite efficient.

So soon, we have gone deep into the jungle to investigate in South America.

Even because of the geographical location, Ge San and his team clearly discovered the earthquake. Although there have been records of it in the Han Dynasty for a long time, generally speaking, larger geological disasters of this kind occur in uninhabited areas and are rarely felt, so each record is of a relatively large scale.

Ge San and his team were on the Pacific coast of South America, and they felt earthquakes of various types with extremely high frequencies.

In addition to earthquakes, Ge San and his team even discovered Atlantic storms.

However, it was just a hasty record. After all, not many people had gone there and the frequency of observation was not high.

Liu Che pointed at the tobacco and said, "It seems that the most important crop discovered this time is this. Tobacco."

Huo Hai shook his head: "The most urgent thing is peanuts."

Liu Che was a little surprised and turned around: "Huh?"

To be honest, Huo Hai should have asked Ge San and the others to focus on finding peanuts five years ago.

However, Huo Hai drank little alcohol, and secondly, there was rapeseed oil in Chang'an at that time, so Huo Hai left the peanuts aside.

Today, the first batch of rubber plants have grown very large, and in another year, we can start tapping them.

But Peanuts has not landed yet.

Huo Hai explained: "Rapeseed oil actually still has some problems. Botanists and crop scientists are currently actively selecting varieties. But it is still not good to grow it in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. There is a 30% chance that the oil produced is inedible."

Of course Liu Che knew this situation.

Chang'an had no shortage of all kinds of oil, but after Liu Che started to study economics, he became very proficient in agricultural crop trading. He knew exactly the prices of crops on the market and what situations would cause their prices to fluctuate.

He certainly knew the range of rapeseed cultivation.

In fact, the current problem with rapeseed oil is erucic acid. In fact, erucic acid does not harm human health, but this thing has a great impact on consumption.

In the past and modern times, almost the entire East did not eat rapeseed oil, but peanut oil.

Since there is a solution, there is no need for Huo Hai to keep his focus on the research institute.

After hearing this, Liu Che immediately reacted: "You mean, peanuts can be used to extract oil?"

Huo Hai: "Peanuts are actually a kind of nut. Basically, all nuts can be used to produce oil. However, the yield of peanuts is much higher than that of walnuts."

Liu Che understood: "You mean to use peanuts to solve the problem of insufficient oil intake in the lower reaches of the Yellow River?"

In the lower reaches of the Yellow River, people actually have a very large appetite.

Now that the workers are enthusiastic about this, statistics have been collected from various places and it is found that people’s appetite nowadays is twice as much as it was ten years ago!
You should know that this is a unified weight, without distinguishing between different types of food, and directly calculating the mass.

The current dietary structure, especially that of workers, consists largely of meat, and as a result, they eat twice as much as they did ten years ago!
Of course, one of the improvements is the change from two meals a day to three meals a day.

But it also shows that the huge physical labor leads to an increase in the demand for food.

Fats and oils can increase calorie intake and significantly reduce food requirements.

In the future, there will be more and more workers, and as everyone's oil intake increases, the proportion of other foods will decrease. Overall, the total amount of food in the entire region will not change much.

This kind of crop can withstand the food problem caused by the entire wave of industrialization.

When Liu Che learned that peanuts could be used to produce oil, he immediately became serious.

Indeed, peanuts are the most important of this batch of crops. Chocolate and coffee are not important at all, and even tobacco has to take a back seat.

Zhang Tang: "Your Majesty, I have a question. Should the Central Kingdom be allowed to grow peanuts?"

In the previous topic, Liu Che suggested that things like tobacco and cocoa should not be grown locally but in America.

All of these require legislative provisions.

But now, if the peanuts are taken back, it will be an exception.

Liu Che nodded: "The three major nutrients, including other foods that provide trace elements for consumption, can be taken back for planting. Other things that are not needed by the entire population can be left outside if possible."

"Now that urbanization has begun, more than 1,400 new coal mines have been reported this year. We don't know how many are underreported. If we need so many workers, we shouldn't increase the proportion of the agricultural population."

The concealment that Liu Che was willing to talk about was different from the concealment that Huo Hai understood in his previous life.

Instead, opening a coal mine requires reporting and applying. Many people are still going through the procedures, but the funds and people are in place. If the mine is not opened for a day, it means a day of loss. So some people start construction ahead of schedule when they see that there is no problem with the application and they are about to get the certificates.

In fact, there are nearly 3,000 newly opened coal mines in Dahan.

Even if there are only 300 workers on average, that’s millions of coal miners.

The increase in these workers is a good thing.

In the past, ships mostly used sails to follow the ocean currents, but now with the amount of mining being done, all ships can immediately run at full power across the Pacific Ocean, and the round-trip time between the two sides will be greatly shortened.

Because of competition, the price of coal is about to plummet, or in other words, the price of coal remains unchanged, while the prices of other items are skyrocketing, and workers' wages are also rising rapidly.

Both situations are the same.

In short, cheap energy is being produced in large quantities.

Once the coal mining is completely stabilized, Huohai’s power plant should be put into operation.

It is actually difficult to count the number of steam engines in the country at present. After all, steam engines are easily damaged, and some primitive small steam engines that are too heavy to do work are eliminated after they break down.

But everyone knows how many steam engines have been manufactured so far.

In the first year and a half, a total of 6,800 steam engines were manufactured across the country.

At the beginning, Huo Hai was very worried about one thing, because it took Britain fifteen years during the Industrial Revolution to increase the number of improved steam engines from the first one to 5,000, and fifty years to increase from 5,000 to 100,000.

It took Dahan one and a half years to increase the number of steam engines from one to more than 6,000. Huo Hai was worried that if the number was calculated proportionally, the number of Dahan steam engines would exceed 100,000 in three to five years? !
But it turns out that Huo Hai thought too much. Now four and a half years have passed.

A total of 84,000 steam engines were manufactured across the country!

A large part of these 84,000 steam engines are on ships, and most of them are only used one or two days a week, while the rest of the time the ships are just drifting.

In fact, the reason why there were not enough 100,000 units was not because the Han people suddenly had enough manpower, but because of the hydraulic machines.

At the beginning, Huo Hai installed a hydraulic machine in the paper mill. This hydraulic machine was imitated by many places that needed energy. However, because it was not as dazzling as the steam engine, many people did not notice it.

But in fact, a large number of factories are located near large rivers, and using hydropower machines can reduce coal expenses.

But the problem is that with a hydraulic press, it is impossible to keep the machine running for a long time, so it cannot be used in the textile industry.

But the textile industry cannot use it, there are many other industries that need energy.

Therefore, hydraulic engines replaced steam engines on a large scale.

This resulted in the entire Han Dynasty being like a mixture of Britain, France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution, rather than following a single route.

It just so happens that the Guanzhong region followed the British route, those along the river towards Luoyang followed the Gallic route, and those further downstream to the coal-mining mountains followed the German route.

Because the area is large enough and the population is large enough, it should have repeated the mistakes of the Song and Ming dynasties.

However, Huohai's violent development of the infrastructure and construction industries occupied a large number of male workers.

This has led to a rapidly increasing shortage of workers, which is even larger than the shortage of workers in Britain, France and Germany during the Industrial Revolution!

As a result, the steam engine developed very rapidly.

And now, the arrival of cheap coal means...the quantity of industrial products is going to start to skyrocket.

The top priority is to open up a larger demand market, otherwise prices will fall.

At present, in addition to the fact that all places are actively integrating the barbarians hidden in the mountains and the natives in the four borders into the life of the industrial age, the most critical thing is precisely the road heading south.

There are two areas with population markets near Dahan.

One is Parthia and the other is India.

The Han Dynasty still had one country, Yuezhi and Daxia, to conquer before it could pacify Parthia.

It’s a long way from Tianzhu by taking the northern route, but… it’s possible to go south.

After several years of continuous exploration, the Southern Naval Base has finally explored all the shipping routes north and south of India.

At the same time, the road built from the direction of Shu County was extended to Myanmar and then to India.

This is the total industrial output value of Shu County. All of it was invested, and workers were frantically recruited from Yelang and Dian to participate in the road construction.

This road is built on the top of the mountain and between the mountains.

Even the compensation for work-related deaths and injuries alone amounted to tens of billions!
However, for the people of Yelang and Dian, such a large amount of money was enough to attract them. Even if there was a certain risk to their lives, they were willing to do it.

In the past, if you joined the army, you would be at risk of death at any time. But people joined the army just to have enough food to eat.

Now, the probability of death as a worker for the Han people is much lower than joining the army, and the money earned is not only enough to feed yourself and your family, but the remaining money can also be used to buy clothes, salt, iron, and various tools.

Not to mention anything else, just a pair of scissors produced in Chengdu was not even available to the royal family in Yelang before, but now you can buy one for just over ten dollars.

They are certainly willing to take risks.

Originally, Chengdu started building a road to the south eight years ago, but it ended at the Jinsha River.

Six years ago, the King of Dian surrendered, and the Han people organized the construction of the road here.

After the cofferdam method was developed in the north, Chengdu was also on the front line to learn it.

After a lot of effort, we finally connected the roads on both sides.

That bridge cost Chengdu all of its three months’ income!

However, Chengdu is not connected to Shaanxi now, so the money earned must be spent, so Zhang Qian did not feel sorry and almost spent all the money to build this road. If it were in Chang'an, this much money would be enough to build another railway line to Tongguan.

Three years ago, the navy established several bases along the coast of Myanmar. After exploring the area, people on the road used positioning methods to determine the shortest and best road route.

However, during the three years of construction, the entire road construction project encountered four mudslides and two rainstorm disasters.

The construction was suspended for six or seven months.

Finally, three years later, the road was built through Fugandulu to the southern border of India. The people of Magadha were dumbfounded.

They met some Han merchants in the west a few years ago.

Now, in the east, we see the Han merchants again.

In Magadha's worldview in recent years, the world has been dominated by the Han people and they are surrounded.

They have no ability to climb mountains. If they climb over the mountains from the Buddha's hometown, they will find that there is also a Han cavalry base to the north.

They also had no ability to go south, and had no means to treat deadly dysentery and other problems, so they dared not go south.

Otherwise they would find that the edge of the sea is also a port base built by the Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty had surrounded India, or Magadha, from four directions.

It was imperative for the Han Dynasty to develop the commercial market of Magadha.

Liu Che looked at the name on the document and began to spell it out: "This, ka ka le ala la, the Karaoke King... Didn't you say last time that you wanted to sing karaoke? This Karaoke King, is he good at singing and dancing?"

Huo Hai spat out a mouthful of water.

The god damn karaoke king.

"Ahem, Your Majesty, the kala is not pronounced as Kara, but as Gara. The last one is not pronounced as Ouk, but as Souyu. If you read them together, it should be pronounced as Gara Ashoka."

Liu Che pointed and said, "Oh, this King Ashoka can be used to find a group of people to spread the Buddha's ideas and ask to return to the holy city, so that the current King of Extremely Thin Gyro will give up his throne."

Huo Hai: "That is pronounced as Bhadraka King."

Liu Che was curious: "What does this Bhadrapala mean?"

Huo Hai: "In Sanskrit, Dhāra means mentor, Rāga means world, and Bhagavan is a respectful title for the Buddha."

Liu Che nodded: "Then the name of the current king of Tianzhu is called World Guide Old Immortal, right? He omitted a few words in the continuous reading, so it should be translated as World Guide Old Immortal."

Huo Hai laughed: "It seems... that's the case."

Although this name is very San Ge-like, but damn, Jie Dao Lao Xian, is this a human name? Isn't this definitely a brother of the Nofap forum?

A proper translation would be better to translate it as Tianshi Laoxian. But since Liu Che personally selected him, then Jiedao Laoxian should be Jiedao Laoxian.

Also, has the practice of using people's names to conceal personal information started in this era?
Huo Hai remembered the old immortal with huge hand strength in his previous life. His name was "Ren + Indra". In Sanskrit, Indra means the Emperor of Heaven, so the name means the Emperor of Heaven among Men, or the Emperor of Man.

In other words, that person is called the Immortal Emperor.

They are really not afraid of being crushed to death by not being able to memorize the name.

But the third brother is also right. If you can't carry it, then let it die. There are so many people born, there will always be someone who can carry it. Didn't the Immortal Emperor carry it?

Sima Xiangru: "Your Majesty, what strategy should we adopt to deal with India? We can't just keep fighting in the west and seek business in the east, right?"

Liu Che: "Why not?"

This question stumped Sima Xiangru.

Sima Xiangru was already quite old, and his brain was not as sharp as it was a few years ago when Huo Hai first met him. In addition, he had a child in his old age, and the child caused him a lot of trouble. He was tortured so much that his brain can't think straight now.

After being asked back by Liu Che, he was completely confused.

Zhang Tang: "When the West goes to war, the East does business. The East is getting richer and better off, and those in the West who are close to the Han will naturally go east."

“And the West must fight, and those who want to fight should go west.”

"Over time, it will naturally split apart."

The Sunga Dynasty of the Magadha Kingdom was in a state of division from the beginning.

His previous dynasty, the Maurya Empire, was a violent unified dynasty.

After the Sunga dynasty split, it gradually came together because of Brahmanism.

Now it is in a state of being useless, unplayable and loose.

It tears easily.

From the very beginning, Huo Hai wanted to artificially divide this place into two parts.

After all, there is experience.

After looking at the map, Sima Xiangru reacted: "Your Majesty, what you mean is to establish a Buddhist country in the northwest and retain the Brahman country in the east, so that the north and the east are naturally opposed and cannot be united."

Liu Che nodded and said: "After doing business for a long time, we need to rely on the Confucian scholars of Guliang School to change their ideas."

This is actually not difficult, because the main doctrines of Brahmanism are almost entirely used to create a strict hierarchy.

And Guliang School also does this.

Just take out the original set and connect it in seamlessly.

Even the name doesn't need to be changed.

The Confucian scholars could just directly publicize that Liu Che was the emperor and that would be the end of the matter.

The Brahmans resisted, and the Confucian scholar Guliang said: "Yes, yes, yes, you are right, but His Majesty Liu Che is the son of the Emperor of Heaven."

In Brahmanism, the three main gods form a trinity, forming a system.

In the current pantheon of the Han Dynasty, the three main gods of heaven, earth and man constitute a trinity system.

The theory that the three main Brahman gods are three-in-one and are the Emperor of Heaven can be covered by the three great gods, the God of Heaven and the God of Heaven.

At present, Brahmanism is not in the strict setting like in later generations, so it is easy to take advantage of it.

Today's Confucian scholars of Guliang School have received professional training, and have enhanced their invasiveness. They can be said to be variants, being Guliang internally and Gongyang externally.

If the trade starts at all, they will surely produce results in a very short time.

As for the north, it is easier to fight, and now Liu Che proposes to establish a Buddhist country.

According to their current Brahman system, it would be easy to conquer them physically, and this policy stimulated all the strong-willed people in India to go to the western front.

What was left after the fierce and brave ones were all gone? In the midst of the devastation of war, people became peaceful and picked up Buddhism again, which was also natural.

After a long time, when the Buddha's Vajra wrath once again ignited the world, the Buddhist India and the Brahman India were completely separated.

The question now is what to sell them.

"It seems that this place has hot weather all year round and has no need for textiles."

Huo Hai: "Plaster, molds, and cast statues, all statues must be strictly designed, with both divinity and clothes."

"Then spread the word that only untouchables don't wear clothes, while Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Vaishyas all have to wear clothes."

Liu Che thought for a while and then said, "Do we really want to give up the Shudras? The Shudras are the most populous people in India."

Sima Xiangru: "We have to give up this. They can't afford to sell the cloth."

Liu Che could only give up and nodded: "Okay, let's decide it this way."

The policy towards India has been finalized.

Fight in the West and promote the establishment of the Western Buddhist Kingdom.

Wash in the east, wash out of Guliang and learn Brahmanism.

The word Brahmin means priest, person of prayer, person who performs rituals, which is represented by scholars and monks. Translated into Chinese, isn’t it Confucianism?

Therefore, it is correct that Brahmanism and Confucianism are one family.

After the small court meeting, Huo Hai brought out his own affairs: "Your Majesty, this year is the time to try the power architecture."

Only then did Liu Che remember that the original purpose of proposing credit currency was to free up copper.

Although a lot of metals were shipped back from overseas, everyone was convinced that the Han Dynasty's copper was far less valuable than big money.

But this was originally done to make electrical wires, and now that electricity research has been going on for several years, it has never been made public to the general public.

Now seems to be the time.

Copper is almost in short supply.

In the territory of the Han Dynasty, copper was being mined crazily in many places including Jiazhou, south of Wancheng, and Zhao State.

The islands in the East China Sea and in North America are all mining copper and transporting it to the Han Dynasty.

If copper is not used quickly, its price will soon collapse.

Liu Che: "Once it is opened, there will be no turning back."

That thing, a steam engine, would take up a huge factory building.

And a motor is only as big as a box.

There is a huge difference in size between the two things.

There is also a huge gap in manufacturing costs.

The most important thing is that there is a huge gap in the cost of use and maintenance.

Once electric motors appeared, steam engines gradually began to be phased out.

Of course, factories currently using steam engines will definitely not change.

But no new factories will buy steam engines anymore.

The huge industrial chain that had manufactured more than 80,000 steam engines in the past few years had to transform itself and produce other machines.

Only a small number remained to continue manufacturing steam engines for trains and ships.

This is a huge change.

Liu Che certainly had concerns.

Huo Hai: "When credit currency came out, there was no turning back, it was long gone."

"Your Majesty, don't think that so many mechanical workers will lose their jobs after the steam engine is discontinued. There will be more and more machines in the future. This year, there are thousands of new machines invented, and nearly a hundred of them can be put into large-scale production. They will not lose their jobs at all."

Apart from anything else, research on bicycles is proceeding like crazy, and sewing machines have appeared a long time ago and are now undergoing iterations.

These two things alone could consume all the mechanics in the steam engine industry, and still not be enough to fill the gap.

How long can we wait for future internal combustion engines?
Even if it is just a single-cylinder engine, to make a tractor, to make the simplest motorcycle, or anything else, it will require countless mechanics.

As time goes by, people will not lack jobs, but the population gap will only get bigger and bigger.

Because the basis of everything is that when Huo Hai first built this system, he deliberately raised wages and violently improved the status of workers, resulting in a much higher consumption power than in the normal industrial era. The demand for goods is ten times that of the UK, and the population is ten or even dozens of times that of the UK.

Quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.

Seeing Huo Hai's determination, Liu Che said, "I heard that the research institute is researching electric lights, and has already developed a light that can light up for more than 20 days?"

Huo Hai nodded.

It's made of bamboo charcoal filaments.

Bamboo itself is not conductive, and bamboo fibers certainly are not conductive either.

After carbonization, it conducts electricity like a carbon rod.

How long this thing can last depends entirely on the rolling process.

The institute is currently researching other materials, but at present, carbonized bamboo filaments are the most reliable.

Liu Che: "Then hold a party at... the stock exchange center. When the lights come on, everyone will be shocked."

Liu Che found that whenever he thought of holding large-scale events, he would think of public places such as stock trading centers and docks, rather than the imperial palace.

Huo Hai: "Then let the people in the research institute set up an independent power company, start building a thermal power plant, and lay cables and wires."

The Han people used to plant a large amount of Eucommia ulmoides, and now the yield of Eucommia ulmoides gum is very high, which can be used to make high-voltage cables.

Of course, it's not that high, but it's slightly better than ordinary wires.

In this way, the thermal power plant can be placed downwind instead of in the urban area.

Although it takes a little more time, it is good for future planning.

Huo Hai explained the whole process again.

The three dukes and nine ministers at the small court meeting all nodded in approval of this plan.

Liu Che saw that no one else had any objections: "Let's do it this way. But since we are going to demonstrate it, why not demonstrate the motor as well? What can we do with the motor?"

Huo Hai proposed alternatives: "Electric fan, thresher."

Liu Che made the decision: "Don't put more of the others, it's better to add more safety warnings."

Huo Hai: "Use electric wires to burn a live cow, and then offer it to our great ancestor, so that he will know that the Han Dynasty invented electricity."

Liu Che gave a thumbs up and said, "Okay! Let's add a sheep and a pig."

(End of this chapter)