Disasters are a classic driver of collective power.
However, Wang Qi's relief project did not intend to expand the territory to a large extent. It was still aimed at absorbing labor force.
It's not that he doesn't realize the importance of territory, but during the special period of floating islands, the burden of territory will be greater.
There are two major differences between floating islands and normal territory.
One is the border.
The ratio of floating islands' borders to area is larger. After the separation trend eases, the distance between floating islands is generally around 3.5 kilometers, and the closest locations are rarely less than two kilometers.
This width also requires defense between adjacent floating islands, because demons may rush up from below.
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The second is resource attributes.
In the territory of normal times, before the establishment of the Phoenix Kingdom, the average mining depth of minerals was less than 300 meters. Of course, there would be some underground city-like minerals with slightly greater depths.
In the period of floating islands, the sides of the floating islands can also be used for resource extraction. Therefore, from a resource perspective, the territory of the floating islands is larger than the actual performance.
Take the Dark Floor tile as an example.
The Dark Land is a long strip with a maximum width of no more than 60 kilometers from north to south, nearly 300 kilometers from east to west, and a total border length of about 820 kilometers.
Excluding the relatively high temperature in the part close to the vapor cloud, based on the four kilometers of mineable vertical surface, there are more than 4,000 square kilometers.
Moreover, in terms of engineering, the basic technical difficulty of horizontal wells is less than that of vertical wells.
In terms of area, the Black Land, Wind Valley, and Pangxun plates are about the same. For other plates, at most, evacuation points will be set up, and administrative divisions will not be retained.
If other areas cannot provide the insufficient resources on the three plates, there are still a large number of seabed plates with no permanent population in the west waiting to be discovered.
The key point is still people. To form a relatively complete industrial chain and climb up to the top technology, no one can do it.
The sacred tree can offset a large proportion of the agricultural and sugar-making population, but to develop technology that can shake up the world, at least 30 to 40 million people will be needed.
This number is definitely a bit outrageous, and Wang Qi may not be able to see it in his lifetime, but through various means to integrate the productivity of the exile, he maintains a core group of five million people, and moves less important basic production to other places. There is still hope of taking out satellite weapons.
The current aid scale of one million is still a bit small, but if we want to continue to expand, it is not easy to do so.
The main problem is too few seeds.
Wang Qi only had three seeds in his hand, one of which was used to build a giant city, and only two of which could plant small trees everywhere.
More than thirty were obtained after being transformed into floating islands, plus one or two in each city except Phoenix, as well as several nodes on the original railway line, for a total of almost forty.
Outpost trees with stable functions do not need to be adjusted every year, but in order to deal with the surprises brought by the demons from time to time, it is always necessary to keep at least one in hand.
Only one can be obtained from overseas.
The risk of wandering around outside with a sacred tree seed is not small.
Even if the Eight Great Vajras with only six left are adjusted and planted safely, it does not mean that they can function according to Wang Qi's ideas.
There is a very real problem like this - food is expensive and scarce.
Counting from the time of the great collision, food at that time was affected by volcanic ash suspended in the upper atmosphere and even the outer layer. The amount of sunlight was reduced, resulting in a reduction in production.
The organizational form of the penal colony is particularly old. The farmers were already suffering from hardship due to taxes and land rent. Once food production decreased, some farmers began to look for a way out, resulting in a decrease in the number of farmers year after year.
It was already teetering on the edge of famine when the tectonic plates cracked.
After the floating island took off, it may be due to the vapor washout and altitude rise, or the coincidence of the worlds may also have some influence. Anyway, the visibility of the atmosphere is much higher, and the sunshine is slightly better than in the early years. However, disasters such as unstable temperatures, steam explosions, heavy rains and floods came one after another, overwhelming the already fragile agriculture.
The famine model is unreasonable. It does not mean that when the sunshine and temperature are suitable for farming, production will definitely resume, because when there is no food, many people will immediately turn into bandits, which leads to no self-protection. The free people with no strength are not even qualified to farm... unless they farm in the bandit camp.
Without strong intervention, the famine pattern will cause the scale of agricultural reclamation to decrease until the population density drops to a certain level.
The current stage is when various places are about to rise. The number of wandering bandits has increased sharply, but they have not yet been able to challenge the fifth and sixth rings.
In this case, if you plant a sacred tree in an unfamiliar place, it might turn out to be a bandit headquarters, and you will be in trouble for nothing.
There is another situation. Although the sacred tree is "god", it is actually an ordinary plant whose cell evolution direction is controlled by the parasite. It also needs nutrients, water, and light to produce sugar, but the workload is less than growing sugar cane. That’s all.
The sacred trees within the territory are mainly integrated with the city's domestic sewage purification system. Even if half a battalion like the outpost is taken care of, the production capacity cannot be compared with the city-level sugar-producing trees, and soldiers alone cannot supply the nutrients needed for the trees. Land fertility is lost quickly, and the tree's productivity will decline within a few years.
In times of famine, this kind of tree can easily be mythologized. There are situations where even though people are told to compost, they just don't dare to dump sewage near the roots of the tree.
The risks are high, the effects are unpredictable, and it is obviously not a legitimate business.
Therefore, with the two seeds in hand, I still plan to use them to adjust the use of urban trees within the territory, so that the additional surplus can benefit a larger population.
Urban sugar production requires wages for the composting and fertilization work, which is a joint achievement of workers in all cities. It also involves the interests of a few small businesses holding sugar production certificates, so this part is not given away for free.
After the adjustment of the city's sacred tree, the scale of the sugar production license will be expanded and the export volume will be increased.
If you give a dollar of candy to a local snake, the other party may sell it for 20 or 30 yuan, but most ordinary people can only wait to starve to death.
In order to achieve the purpose of stabilizing overseas pricing, the no-price-limiting strategy is still maintained.
Without restrictions on export prices, merchants will definitely make profits close to the market price, which will squeeze a lot of money from leading snakes.
For example, if a sugar merchant sells sugar for 15 yuan per kilogram, how much can a local snake eat?
At 15,000 per ton, more than 130 tons are equivalent to 100,000 gold coins in the original precious metal currency of Fatel. With the current scale of relief, the daily sales volume of future mass sales will definitely exceed 100 tons. What kind of local snake can bear the burden of coming every day? The goods have been selling for thirty yuan? Can it be sold?
Local snakes have only two choices, either to maintain the health of their funds, while suppressing the price of goods, and at the same time lowering the terminal selling price to balance the difference. Either raise a large group of civilians to mine or do something else, and pay with goods to ensure that you don't go bankrupt.
No matter how you choose, you can achieve the goal of "letting more people live".
But no matter how well planned it is, the combined impact of the Ganlin project and the reduction in grain prices in other places will only benefit three million people.
There is no way, the kingdom is too small after all, it has to keep an eye on the demons, and at the same time it has to take care of the needs of the high-end population, so the power it can devote to maintaining the total population is very limited.
Wang Qi found the files from relevant departments, and it was time for the private enterprise's artificial gemstone project to start.
