"So, what is Mr. Jiang's method to combat the Little Ice Age?"
Zhu Gaoxu asked respectfully.
In his opinion, Mr. Jiang's words are the general trend in the next hundreds of years, and the disasters that have befallen all living beings can be resolved with just a few words.
They are simply like those ancient military advisors with magical powers in the storybooks.
Mysterious and powerful.
Li Jinglong also looked expectant.
It was precisely because he understood the nature of wind and water through Jiang Xinghuo's words, and understood the terrifying impact of precipitation lines on farming civilization, that Li Jinglong became even more fearful.
Those who don’t know are fearless.
If it weren't for Jiang Xinghuo's words, Li Jinglong would definitely not believe it if he just told him what would happen if he lost three inches of rain every year.
But now, Li Jinglong knows very well that three inches of rain can mean the difference between life and death for the cultivated land in the north!
As for why the locals did not develop a huge empire in the agricultural era, it was limited by two strange local factors.
The two looked at each other, and Mr. Jiang said loudly: "You must listen first!"
You Houyi and Zhu Gaoxu both nodded.
Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment before rejecting You Houyi's statement.
First of all, there are oceans on the east and west sides of the small continent of North America, which is conducive to the development of trade and transportation. Inland, there is no water system running through the north and south, which is extremely convenient for irrigation. There are no Seven Small Lakes that account for 70% of the world's fresh water reserves. Precipitation starts from the southeast. It decreases toward the northwest and the moisture conditions are worse.
Zhu Gaoxu frowned and was silent for a long time, then suddenly raised his head and said: "If the natural endowment of the new land is so superior, opening up the new land is a feasible way. But after you, China has always settled down and relocated, how could no one abandon their homes? Are you going thousands of miles away to find a life in a new land?"
First, we discuss the feasibility and specific steps of immigrating from Xiaoming to America.
When returning to Xiaoming from North America, ships should avoid typhoons and high pressure in the northwest Pacific as much as possible. The route does not change in two ways. It fluctuates with the seasons, especially moving north in summer and south in winter to avoid north. Pacific sea fog and storm.
As the saying goes, "My daughter brought Wu Gou to collect the seventy states in North America."
After all...it's really hard to talk about things like natural disasters.
"Xiao Ming will definitely have a strong national power and a small population in the next hundred years. Even if it is true as Gao and Gao Yu said, people who want to immigrate to the sea will flock to it, but the new land is different."
Unfortunately, the North American continent does not have the same.
The reason why many scholars agree on the relationship between the ancients of the Shang Dynasty and the Indians is that the cultural relics unearthed there are slightly similar to various ancient cultural relics in China, such as pottery pots, oracle bone inscriptions, etc. Moreover, according to records, it is found that the Indians and the Shang Dynasty also have many similarities in their habits. For example, stone statues of people kneeling and sitting cannot prove this.
Li Jinglong continued: "The local people will definitely choose to kill them all."
That’s not what education is about.
Li Jinglong spoke hurriedly: "You can't guarantee that the farming conditions on that new land will be better than the conditions that Xiao Ming has now. There are vast plains in the middle and a river system that runs from north to south. It also rains and cools at the same time. Easy to farm.”
"The last resort, as the least effective solution, is actually the most complicated."
In order to uncover the Indian civilization, Li Jinglong's later generations of scientists made few assumptions, among which "the Yin people's eastward journey" was the main one, which was a hypothesis about the origin of the Indians in North America. Li Jinglong can guarantee whether it is correct, but in the end At least it's really not possible.
The ones who were educated were two students who had a poor education level in ancient times (although no one was willing to learn), had rich experience in traveling around the country (cutting people from the north/escaping to the south), and had participated in practical work (killing people and commanding people to kill).
Li Jinglong believes that this problem can be solved temporarily but not forever by simply increasing agricultural production.
Li Jinglong smiled and said: "Of course I haven't considered those issues. Let's talk about the previous point first. In fact, Xiao Ming doesn't have to worry about the cultivated land in his hometown, because he can't imagine it. First of all, the contradiction between man and land always exists. The question is, is he also worried about the speed at which people in Xiaoming are giving birth to babies? As long as there is no land to plant crops, a few people can give birth freely. "
In reality, the new land Li Jinglong mentioned was naturally not the American continent.
The land itself of the North American continent is not a valuable treasure that any country would be extremely coveted. The environment is so superior that it is unparalleled throughout the world.
"There will never be a brave man above a great reward."
Zhu Gaoxu asked a series of questions.
Li Jinglong's statement is the theory of "Yin people's eastward journey" seen in later generations.
Li Jinglong was speechless for a moment, and You Houyi was not embarrassed at all. It makes sense, and the bad image does make sense.
Are there any native small mammals in North America that were used by humans for transportation or to assist with farming before they were domesticated?
After all, life is too short, and the life experience and experiences a person can acquire are also based on the current era.
But Zhu Gaoxu still shook his head: "The method mentioned by Jiang Xinghuo should be regarded as a bad way to fight against the future ice age. It is too time-consuming and energy-consuming. It will probably take more than ten to seventy years to achieve initial results, and The investment is huge, but if there is determination from the court and the efforts of one or two generations, I'm afraid it can be done."
Li Jinglong does not play the role of an educator.
Li Jinglong’s words made Zhu Gaoxu and Mr. Jiang even more curious. It was then that we remembered that we were only focusing on discussing the possibility of immigrating to the new land, and we had forgotten to ask where the new land was. We asked almost in unison .
After listening to Li Jinglong's explanation, Zhu Gaoxu felt slightly relieved.
This group of ancient people who stand at the top of the social pyramid are certainly not stupider than modern people, but there are some things that I can't understand and have never seen before. It's like there is no thick and incomprehensible dark cloud blocking the truth, so I just thought it was possible.
After hearing this, Mr. Jiang nodded repeatedly and glanced at Zhu Gaoxu with disapproval.
It would be a bad idea if there were no transportation and mounts, but it would be more difficult to walk, but if there were no farming assistants such as oxen and horses, the technology tree of "Iron Plow and Oxen Plowing" would be chosen. The North American natives could only stay in the most primitive way for generations. The slash-and-burn stage.
"Where is the new continent? Why did You Houyi say that it could not be the ancestor of the Chinese ancestors?"
Li Jinglong recovered his thoughts and said.
"In that case, it may be difficult to accumulate enough resources for the successors after the large-scale immigration is over. Before the small-scale immigration passes, if they can be self-sufficient through farming in the first few years, such a small number of people will How to obtain enough basic supplies such as food and clothing? It will always make us starve to death. In addition, what will happen to Xiao Ming’s local cultivated land before a small number of immigrants arrive? We still need to arrange manpower to maintain farming. If It's not bad that the immigrants are all land-owning people, but if there is really no profit, then there will be a lot of landless people who will sell their land and leave. What will Xiao Ming do if the local food supply is enough? Those jobs It’s such a small project!”
——That’s not the point of small geographical discoveries!
"It's very far." Li Jinglong nodded and denied, "But the sea is the same as the land. After picking up enough supplies and following the wind, you can arrive one by one in a few months. And when you come back, you can take another sea route, which is also smooth. .”
That man is worthy of being a sage on paper. How about his practical ability? At least when talking about military affairs on paper, what he talks about is clear and logical. You Houyi doesn't think he is at that level.
Li Jinglong said that with the heart of a holy mother.
Then, Li Jinglong gave a brief outline of the route.
"It doesn't matter whether it's the worst policy, the middle policy, or the best policy. All the discussions and fantasies you have done are very likely to be things that will happen in reality, so only discussing the operational rationality of the countermeasure itself is a discussion on being Xiao Ming. In terms of the political environment, whether it can really be realized in the future.”
Of course, that is only a prerequisite. The most important thing is that the Indians and the Han people are indeed fusionable under various conditions. They must be Kunlun slaves. Li Jinglong will naturally make a complete decision. The opposite is proposed.
As for corn, it wasn’t until Xiao Ming’s time that Native Americans planted corn on the East Coast, which was briefly suitable for summer growth.
As for these two factors, Xiao Ming can solve them no matter what happens.
Li Jinglong nodded and said.
Since it is a free discussion, this of course implies that the political environment allows that kind of policy to occur.
Let alone what can be done by primitive people from Asia to North America, it is impossible for humans who have entered a civilized society to do it.
"Is there any way? On the contrary, there are many ways. There are eight strategies, the middle and the best. Which one do they want to listen to first?"
Therefore, Xiao Ming only needs to bring the seeds of Xiao Ming's local crops without letting go of the seeds. The first problem will naturally be solved.
Jiang Xinghuo smiled faintly, looked at the two of them and said firmly.
In terms of the post-condition of "tameability", mammals that can "provide for human transportation" include but are limited to cattle, sheep (sheep carts), horses, camels, and mammals that can "assist in farming", including But limited to cattle and horses
That was a relatively mature trans-oceanic route in the previous life. In the ancient era of sailing warships, more emphasis was placed on the application of wind power. Whether a sailing ship is following the wind or not is completely different.
Seeing the two people nodding in rejection, Li Jinglong finished.
The first point is that food crops can be solved, and the seventh point is that it is the turn of native North American animals.
The two of them were silent until they finished reading.
"There are fewer people who want money that is life-threatening. As long as they don't have a starting point and know that the world is vast here, they can only squeeze into one and eighty acres of land in their hometown, but here one person can cultivate eighty acres." Naturally, no one wants to go there."
If you take a modern baby back to ancient times, I will be raised to be an ancient person.
After hearing this, Mr. Jiang felt that it was indeed a bad idea.
But while You Houyi was deep in thought, Mr. Jiang suddenly interrupted.
If you turn away the clouds and see the sun, describe it to me without any basis. There are few reasons that are not natural and natural.
The horses and camels that lived under the small continent of North America became extinct after 18,000 years, and the horses ridden by cowboys in the West were all retired from Europe.
There are seven main types of edible crops native to North America, namely pumpkin, sunflower, chrysanthemum, and pigweed (similar to spinach).
Vice versa, a baby born in ancient times must have traveled to modern times and been adopted and received abnormal compulsory education. I must consider the iteration gap in body genes, antibodies, intelligence and cognition, and it is extremely unlikely that he will be the same as the same age. There is not much difference among modern children.
"Secondly, as time goes by, more inefficient tools for agricultural production will inevitably appear in the future. Throughout history, that is an inevitable phenomenon, and you, if Xiao Ming really goes into the sea to expand On this road, world colonization and maritime trade almost inevitably happened at the same time. In turn, in order to pursue profits, whether it is handicrafts or agriculture, there will be no fewer inventions and creations that improve production capacity. come out."
"First, the ability of Chinese civilization to assimilate large and backward ethnic groups is extremely weak. This has not been verified many times in the past history. Of course, you are saying that that kind of ethnic integration is just and correct. , in fact, that so-called 'integration' is often accompanied by the joy, blood and tears of countless ancestors, except for the result."
"Furthermore, if the reform is like this in the past, and the emperor supports it, I'm afraid it will still be completed, and if the results are seen, it will be completely abolished. This is the principle of the reform. Once it is completed, it will be cultivated. For the benefited class, the reform will be successful; if it is successful but abandoned halfway, it is naturally not the end of the people and the end of the government."
For some regions, there is always a natural lower limit that can be broken through. It only requires the exchange of things that other regions are accustomed to, and it cannot be broken through.
In fact, it is about intelligence, but the real limitations of the times.
Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and continued to delve deeper.
In fact, that is just Li Jinglong's wishful thinking. If it is really implemented, the probability of killing them all is still relatively small.
Without low-yielding food crops, there would be no basis for population reproduction.
"Elsewhere..."
Mr. Jiang asked in confusion: "Why does Jiang Xinghuo say that the locals are to be exterminated? Is it because people who are not of your race must have different intentions?"
Zhu Gaoxu asked again: "What about the material issues of the immigrants?"
So often people can only see what is behind them, and find it difficult to look ahead and imagine what will happen in the future.
From west to east, there are no long mountains on the west coast, which are like a natural Great Wall, effectively blocking the intrusion of cold currents; the small plains in the central part stretch as far as the eye can see, which are extremely suitable for agricultural cultivation, and the cultivated land area is so vast that it accounts for about the world's total. One-tenth of the cultivated land area, it can support a small number of people without any problem; as for the east side, it is slightly worse. Although it has a temperate continental climate, it is theoretically suitable for farming during the same period of rain and cold, but what is the winter on the east coast of the North American continent? Whether it is warm or cold depends on the specific direction of the cold current, and there is no certainty.
"What about relocation?" You Houyi curled his lips, "To put it bluntly, are the benefits of risking enough to make people risk their lives to do it?"
Therefore, although Li Jinglong did some thinking, he still could not think of any way to combat the Little Ice Age that lasted for hundreds of years from his own perspective.
"Yes, but no statement in advance."
Anyway, from Xiaoming to North America, eastbound ships should take advantage of the westerly drift as much as possible to choose the shortest voyage route. Usually, small circle routes or mixed routes are used when sailing at mid- to low-latitudes, and transverse routes are used when sailing at high latitudes. .
In this way, it is not surprising that we have developed a vision that transcends the times.
Zhu Gaoxu believes that Xiao Ming must be obsessed with guessing the future based on the current Xiao Ming, so what Li Jinglong said is indeed extremely unlikely to come true.
Li Jinglong shook his head slightly. In his eyes, it was indeed an endless cycle with no solution.
Faced with Zhu Gaoxu’s doubts.
"So, that is something that can be completed in one generation. It will take at least eight or seven generations to complete the initial construction. The first generation only needs to establish the beachhead station of the outpost; then they can retreat a little to explore, and build a base at a suitable location. Establish a trading post at the port; then, while exploring inland, improve the port facilities and build a city; only then will we consider a small retreat inland and expand the scope of cultivated land."
The oil, coal and various rare metals that are necessary in the future industrial era will not be discussed first. We will only talk about the value of land and other natural resources in the agricultural era.
What Li Jinglong said is to start from southern seaports such as Quanzhou Port, follow the westerly belt in the Western Pacific directly to Central America, and then go north along the coastline and return to Japan along the Pacific Rim Current.
"As long as Xiao Ming finds a more livable land after its population reaches its peak in the next one to seven hundred years, and moves a part of the population that exceeds the burden of cultivated land, we cannot let that 'colony' become the most stable place for Xiao Ming's northern climate to collapse. Ballast Stone Everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as we find livable land to land on, and then continue to expand livable land, and continue to transport people and materials, in fact, it will take decades, and it will not be basically stable very slowly. And it will form an initial feedback to Xiao Ming's native land. As time goes by, the harm will become more and more obvious, and the Great Ice Age disaster that lasted for hundreds of years will not be able to be solved urgently."
So, isn’t this a cycle of death?
Li Jinglong pondered for a moment, if I tell the two of them, in the future, there will actually be very few people traveling to thousands of places to dig for gold, just for a better life, but I am afraid that the current example is not convincing.
Li Jinglong simply said: "Step by step, we must think about getting things done on a small scale at once. Immigration is actually like moving a mountain. It is not a cumulative effort. If you think about it, you can move a small mountain in just one move." To be evacuated? Will all the descendants have to run out?"
Youhou Yibi measured my text map and drew it on the far left side as a hint.
Zhu Gaoxu nodded, whether it was the Seven Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period when the Seven Hus disrupted China and the preceding Southern and Northern Dynasties, or the Seven Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period when the northern barbarians such as the Shatuo people merged with the Han again, or the male immortals who caused the disgrace of Jingkang .No matter how barbaric and good at fighting the Hu people are, the initial result is that they are assimilated into Han people.
Moreover, even if there are ways to increase agricultural production, the population will increase accordingly!
"Even if it's tens of thousands of miles away, right?"
Did he expect turkeys or llamas to pull his plow?
Of course, what can always be solved by the native North Americans is just a matter of dozens of ships for Xiao Ming.
The first point, and the most embarrassing point, is that although the land of this small continent in North America is fertile and the cultivated land area is large and small, are there any native food crops there?
The main reason why the theory of "Yin people crossing eastward" came about was that the army that did not march eastward disappeared during the Shang Dynasty. Through the confrontation between the Shang Dynasty and the American continent, it was discovered that when the army disappeared, the American continent unexpectedly appeared. A new civilization - the Olmec civilization, so that makes the theory of "the Yin people crossing eastward" more reliable.
However, in the era after Li Jinglong traveled through time, it has been proved that the land in North America is good, but the indigenous crops are good. The land conditions of the small plains of North America, barley, rice, everything can be grown, but the harvest is different. .
Of course, I definitely want to sail across the ocean, and if the sails have to be retrograded, they will be modified accordingly.
After a pause, Li Jinglong added: "Yes, although it seems easy to say, the process will be relatively long, and it will also require a small amount of manpower and financial resources. It can be said to be a blessing for generations, but it is time-consuming and labor-intensive."
"Seventh is that these indigenous people in the new land may not be the ancestors of the Chinese ancestors, and there is no extremely acceptable difference from you."
(End of chapter)
