Valley Emperor

Vol 2 Chapter 1982: Yellow River diversion plan

The empire's water conservancy construction was mainly focused on flood control and drought prevention before, focusing on the management of major rivers, especially the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, the Yangtze River and other basins.

So these disaster prevention-oriented water conservancy projects are almost done, and we are ready to start focusing on the construction of more extensive, small-scale water conservancy projects mainly in rural areas, with the core goal of irrigating farmland.

This category is relatively easy to see results in the short term. After all, small-scale irrigation and water conservancy projects in rural areas are small-scale and have a short construction period. As long as there are funds, they can be completed quickly.

The third is to increase the investment and support of agricultural production equipment, especially ordinary agricultural production tools, hoes, sickles, etc. are not conspicuous, but they are extremely important, and then some other agricultural production machinery and equipment, such as threshers. , A long time ago, a private enterprise developed a thresher driven by a human foot pedal, and the production efficiency was quite good.

But this thing is still relatively expensive to buy, because the companies that developed and applied for the patented thresher technology are counting on getting rich by relying on this thing, and with the support of the patent system, people can buy as much as they like.

In this regard, the Cabinet intends to come to a once-for-all plan, directly ask the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to carry out the acquisition, directly spend money to acquire the enterprise, and then license the patent for free so that everyone can produce it. In this way, rapid popularization can be achieved.

After all, this thing doesn't actually have much production cost. It was expensive to sell before because the patent was monopolized.

As for other types, the cabinet is going to turn some agricultural production equipment with low production costs but too high prices into cheap equipment, so that farmers can afford it.

Of course, the Empire is a country that pays attention to the law, and will not take things from companies for nothing, so the government will ask the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to directly purchase patents or simply purchase companies directly. Imperial officials have always been generous, and giving money is very happy.

10,000 is 100,000, 100,000 is not enough, 1 million is not enough, 1 million is not enough, 1,000...

Well, at this time, the tax investigators of the tax department should come out to preside over justice, find out the evidence of tax evasion and evasion, and compile one if they haven't, and sentence it to tax evasion, bankruptcy of the enterprise, and arrest and execution of the businessman.

I want to blackmail the official money of the empire, I want to be beautiful!

In addition, there is another method that can see results in the short term, but the effect is slightly worse, which is to increase investment in the natural fertilizer industry.

Support the related industries of bird droppings and synthesizing nitrogen fertilizers with saltpeter, and plan to exempt all bird droppings and saltpeter from tariffs, and even give certain import subsidies to reduce the cost of importing the above-mentioned materials, otherwise the cost is too high for farmers to buy. Egg use.

The above-mentioned projects are all short-term projects, and it is easier to see results in the short term. The only disadvantage is that they spend a lot of money.

In addition, there are several medium and long-term projects.

For example, to increase investment in artificial synthetic fertilizers, this time the cabinet will pull out a special fund to support, and its research and development expenditure has reached a huge one million. The cabinet hopes to get a cheap, can be large Mass production technology of fertilizers that is produced on a large scale and is not too limited.

Anyway, the current method of synthesizing nitrogen fertilizer based on saltpeter is not good. There is not much natural saltpeter. Now the Datang Empire has only found large-scale saltpeter mines in the Principality of Chile in the world. The saltpeter in this place is With the huge consumption of Datang, it is estimated that it will be fully excavated in a few decades.

Otherwise, it would not have given a full one million Tang Yuan in research and development support funds!

This is only the funds to support research and development, and does not include the follow-up production, promotion and other support funds.

The Royal Institute of Technology has already invested in this aspect, but compared with the special R&D funding of one million, it is much less.

With sufficient funds, the fertilizer project team at the Royal Institute of Technology can recruit more researchers and conduct multiple experiments at the same time to shorten the development time.

The fertilizer industry is a medium and long-term project.

Also belonging to the mid- and long-term projects are crop improvement and super-large irrigation and water conservancy projects.

Crop improvement, the empire has been doing, but now, the empire is preparing to increase investment, and it is a huge investment, so it is not only supported by hybrid rice and wheat, the two most important food crops in the empire. High-yield cultivation, but also There will be improvements to many other native crops.

Not only the improvement of local crops, but also the improvement of crops imported from overseas. For example, sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes are three kinds of empires that attach great importance to, and have been promoted and planted locally on a large scale.

Among them, sweet potato was introduced first, and it is widely promoted, followed by corn.

As for potatoes, it has only been introduced and planted in the last ten years or so, and the scale of planting is not large.

In other words, because the Datang people introduced potatoes in South America, Europeans also began to introduce and attach importance to potatoes on a large scale, and this thing has good adaptability in Europe. Now many farmers in Spain have begun to grow this thing.

For the improvement of crops, this will be a long-term long-term project, and basically no effect can be seen in a short period of time. It is estimated that we can see a little in the medium term, but it is hard to say, but if it continues, the effect will definitely be huge. of.

The last long-term project ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is a super-large irrigation and water conservancy project.

The cabinet officials want to build super-large dams in areas rich in water resources, divert water to irrigate the surrounding areas, and create new grain-producing areas, and their brains are so big that they want to make the Yellow River, Yangtze River, etc. The water from the river is introduced to other water-scarce areas, such as the North China Plain.

This has to remind Li Xuan of the Yellow River diversion project that the Ministry of Industry has planned for more than 20 years, and it has been stuck on paper.

The Ministry of Industry has long proposed that the Huaihe River is now seriously flooded, and the North China Plain such as Shandong and Hebei is seriously short of water. Combined with the ancient times, the Yellow River's channel flowed through the North China Plain, so it wants to take the initiative to divert the current Yellow River. , divert the Yellow River to the North China Plain.

To this end, they also put forward two detailed plans, namely the Shandong plan and the Hebei plan.

Attempts to artificially divert the Yellow River to allow the lower Yellow River to enter the Bohai Sea through a preset channel, on the one hand, is to alleviate the frequent floods in the lower Yellow River and the Huaihe River Basin, on the other hand, it is also an attempt to introduce the water resources of the Yellow River into the North China Plain, in order to improve the Good development of local agriculture.

It is a pity that this kind of manual diversion project is too huge and difficult to construct, involving a wide area and a large number of people.

Now, the cabinet has put forward this plan again!

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