I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Before the first month, Wu Changqing ended his vacation and began to handle official business.

Wu Changqing remembered that in history, Aixinjueluo Boluo would become the general of the south, personally led the army of the Eight Banners to the south, and wiped out King Lu and the Longwu regime in one fell swoop.

Finally, King Gui announced in Zhaoqing to supervise the country and was known as Emperor Yongli in history.

The arrival of Wu Changqing has changed the course of history to a great extent. For example, the Wusong area and Hangzhou, which were originally controlled by the Manchu Qing, were now under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

The details have changed, but Wu Changqing believes that the general direction of the Qing army should not change. After the Spring Festival, the main force of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty will definitely go south again.

This is not the motley army of the Green Battalion. Because of the particularity of the organizational system, the Eight Banners soldiers are quite powerful in terms of combat effectiveness.

Of course, when any force is in ZTE, the army's battle is very tough. The guardsmen of the Ming Dynasty once had their moments of glory, but now they have fallen.

And now the Eight Banners soldiers, who seem to be roaring with bullocks, will also become a joke-like existence in the late Qing Dynasty.

The reasons for this are very complicated and cannot be explained in a few words. In short, if an army wants to maintain its combat effectiveness, it cannot be static and must keep pace with the times.

In order to meet this battle, Wu Changqing started preparations early.

Those craftsmen only rested for three days before being forced to continue working to build ordnance.

In addition to preparing for war, Wu Changqing also paid attention to economic development.

In an official document, it was reported that the price of cotton in Wusong area has risen sharply, and the price increase has even reached 50%, which is very abnormal.

From the secret fold, Wu Changqing figured out the whole story.

It turned out that this was something that a group of cloth merchants jointly made.

This batch of cloth merchants has hoarded a large amount of cloth, but because of the cheap dumping of Wu's cloth, the cloth of those merchants cannot be sold.

They are definitely not happy to let them cut prices, because it will cause huge losses.

As a result, a group of cloth merchants joined together to increase the purchase price of cotton by relying on the advantages of channels, and collected cotton from farmers and the market at high prices and hoarded them.

They use this method to increase the cost of Wu's cloth, forcing Wu's cloth to increase the price.

As long as the price of Wu's cloth goes up, they can also sell the cloth in their hands.

And their plan is to sell these cloths, and then sell the hoarded cotton to Wu's cloth at a high price. That way, they don't have to lose money.

As for whether to change careers or what to do in the future, we will talk about it later.

Seeing the information on the secret newspaper, Wu Changqing felt a little sympathetic to these cloth merchants, because the opponents of these cloth merchants were too invincible, forcing them to make this move.

Their strategy is high risk and low return.

If Wu's cloth insisted not to buy high-priced cotton, other cloth merchants would be dumbfounded. Cotton purchased at a high price makes fabric more expensive and more at a loss.

Moreover, Wu Changqing also knew that these cloth merchants were doomed to fail, because he had already had the Dutch and Portuguese bring in large quantities of raw materials.

Counting the time, the first batch of goods is almost here.

So, when he saw this situation, he did not stop those cloth dealers. Anyway, they are willing to pay a high price to collect it, which is also a disguised way to increase the income of the people.

Moreover, high cotton prices can attract more people to plant cotton.

If Wu Changqing wanted to accumulate capital by dumping cloth, he needed a lot of cotton, silk and linen.

As for the reduction in food production, this can only be temporarily imported from Southeast Asia and other places.

At the same time, Wu Changqing also exchanged resources for 1,000 kilograms of hybrid rice seeds.

The seeds of these hybrid rice are very expensive. One kilogram costs 100 resource points, which is 500 times more expensive than pig iron.

Of course, the price is also worth it. This is hybrid rice, which is super high-tech.

These 1,000 kilograms of rice seeds can grow about 1,000 mu of rice. In later generations, with fertilizers such as chemical fertilizers, the yield of hybrid rice per mu is about 1,000 kilograms.

In this era of lack of chemical fertilizers, Wu Changqing estimates that 600 kilograms is not bad.

Six hundred kilograms is not a lot. In this era, the average yield per mu of rice is only over 300 kilograms. That is to say, if hybrid rice is planted in the future, the yield per mu can be doubled.

This can feed twice the population. Based on this alone, Wu Changqing can be rated as the emperor of the ages in the future.

However, it may take two or three years to fully realize the cultivation of hybrid rice if it is to be fully promoted, because there are too few seeds now.

When this batch of rice is harvested, the number of seeds will reach 600,000 kilograms, and these seeds are almost enough for the Jiangnan region.

The grain of this batch of hybrid rice is not used for eating, but must be used as seeds and distributed to the people.

And in order to attract people to accept this new seed, it is best to distribute it for free.

Thinking of his future plans, Wu Changqing couldn't help feeling that he was too great, and he worked hard to care for the food and clothing of the people.

In addition to exchanging hybrid rice seeds, Wu Changqing also exchanged a batch of potato seeds.

Potato seeds are much cheaper, because potatoes have actually spread to China during this period. It's just that the potatoes that have just been passed on have not yet adapted to the climate of China, so the output is not as high as imagined, so the speed of potatoes spreading in China is actually very slow.

, it has been decades of variety improvement, and finally potato production exploded, thus feeding a large population.

According to statistics, the population of China in the late Ming Dynasty was a little over 100 million, but by the time of Qianlong, the population had already reached 300 million to 400 million.

At its peak, the population reached 450 million, accounting for more than a quarter of the global population.

Among them, potatoes also made a great contribution.

The biggest advantage of potatoes is not the high yield, but because it does not pick the ground, no matter how barren the land is, it can be harvested when planted.

It is not like rice, which must have good water conservancy irrigation, and it will be finished if there is no water.

China's arable land appears to be a lot, but in fact it is very small per capita, and most of the land is unsuitable for rice and wheat cultivation. Potatoes can perfectly fill this vacancy.

The potato seeds that Wu Changqing exchanged are all seeds that have been adapted to the land and climate of China, and can be directly planted on a large scale.

With hybrid rice and potatoes, Wu Changqing felt that China's population would have a big explosion next.

And population is what Wu Changqing cares about most. The number of people is powerful, and this is by no means an empty talk. Especially in this age where technology is not yet developed, the number of people can determine many things.