People close to him can find that Zuo Menggeng will be very happy as long as he comes to Taiwan. The island is really nice though.
The scenery is pleasant, the products are rich, and the location is important. But the emperor's sentiments are still surprising.
"As of this year, most of the wasteland has been reclaimed. Immigrants from Fujian, Jiangxi, and Guangdong have settled down and like the life here." In front of Zuo Menggeng and Gongduan, the endless rice fields are lush and golden. The ears of rice sway gently in the wind, playing the most beautiful melody in the world.
No matter in any era, a good harvest is the most joyful thing. Taiwan is uniquely blessed with crops that can be harvested three times a year.
Therefore, after taking office, Gong Duan devoted a large part of his energy to agriculture. The results are naturally gratifying.
Nowadays, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and many other places rely on food from Taiwan. Don't underestimate this.
With three provinces finding a source of food supply, it means that more food from the south can be transported to the north.
Coupled with Liaodong's output, the empire's grain industry has begun to overflow. Grain prices are falling step by step, forcing grain merchants to start looking for new ways to increase the added value of grain.
Zuo Mengeng actually saw snow cakes being sold in the market. Taiwan's geographical location determines that it is difficult to develop even if it is not developed.
This is the hub that connects the mainland with Luzon, Batavia, Ryukyu and other places. Just the ships passing here every year are enough to make Taiwan a lot of money.
As a result, Gongduan, the provincial government of Taiwan, has completely escaped the tragic situation of being sent to a smog-infested land. He is broad and fat and has a rosy complexion.
"In three years, I can increase Taiwan's output value tenfold. By then, I'm afraid Jiangnan will lag behind here." Zuo Menggeng believed in Gongduan's rhetoric.
In my previous life, when I was wandering in Taiwan, I could become one of the Four Little Dragons. Now that there is a huge country behind us, it is a luxury to not develop.
What he likes about Taiwan is actually not its geography, but its output. Nowadays, Taiwan's sugar industry is in full swing. There are sugar processing plants in Tainan, Taipei, and Taichung. They produce up to 20 million kilograms of sugar every year, making them the largest source of sugar supply across the country.
"Luzon is also increasing the construction of sugar plantations, and the conditions there will be better. Only now I discovered that after the people became rich, the demand for sugar was so terrifying." Speaking of cane sugar production, the company Duan was filled with emotion.
In the past, ordinary people only cautiously bought a little bit of candy, except during festivals, and the quality was not very good.
But now, if you walk into any grocery store, you can see all kinds of candies openly displayed on the shelves.
When doctors tell people to eat less sugar, it indicates how good life is.
"No matter how high the sugar output is, we are not afraid of waste, but we are afraid of not being able to keep up." Zuo Menggeng has a different view on the development of the sugar industry.
The public side only sees commerce and the food industry, but Zuo Mengeng sees the military and chemical industries. The use of sugar in the military industry and chemical industry has now entered the fast lane in the empire.
The military consumes as much sugar every year as the civilian population. The benefit is that the weapons become more and more powerful, which greatly helps the army in combat.
The latest rocket launcher has a range of 13,000 meters. Although it's still not very accurate, hitting far is the way to go.
Zuo Mengeng also knew that the equipment department was already researching a thing called a gyroscope. Once successful, the rocket's error will be reduced exponentially.
There was a guy who retired from the rocket launcher unit. He was deeply inspired by seeing rockets and wondered if this thing should be able to send people into the sky?
So he made a homemade rocket and fired it upward instead of forward. As a result, the rocket fell and caused a fire, which cost him everything.
Just when he was about to be thrown into prison, he received a venture capital investment of half a million yuan from the royal family and happily threw himself into research.
Of course, no matter how prosperous the sugar industry is, it is not worth Zuo Menggeng's personal trip. The only thing that made Zuo Menggeng come to Taiwan was something very important.
Tall and straight trees soar into the sky, neatly arranged on the vast land. Obviously, these trees are artificially cultivated.
The workers carried the buckets into the forest, inserted the small iron pipes in their hands deeply into the tree trunks, and hung the buckets on them.
After a while, milky white liquid slowly flowed out of the small iron pipe. Seeing this scene, even a powerful man like Zuo Mengeng couldn't help but tremble all over.
For this thing, he put aside his status and walked into the factory himself. After all, in this era, no one except him knew what the milky white liquid was used for and how to use it.
His Majesty the Emperor gave up his busy government affairs and stayed in the factory, personally guiding the workers in their work.
Not only that, he also asked a small steel factory to produce a large number of parts according to his drawings.
A month later, His Majesty the Emperor assembled these parts together in full view of the public. Finally, take out the things that the milky white liquid has turned into one by one.
Seeing the soft thing turn into a circle, the male side is not stupid.
"Can this thing be made into a wheel?" Zuo Mengeng took an air pump and filled it with air.
After a while, the originally flat thing became completely swollen and felt tight and hard.
"This is an epoch-making product. From now on, we will be able to go further." Things produced from milky white liquid are divided into two types.
One is an inner tube that can be inflated, and the other is a hard outer tire with patterns. When Zuo Menggeng assembled the inner tube and outer tire with his own hands, the world's first bicycle was born.
This is a complete bicycle. It not only has rubber tires, but also has spring shock absorbers under the seat.
When people saw the monster with two wheels on the front and back being ridden by Zuo Mengeng at such a speed that it could not fall down, they were all stunned.
After the male end also tried it, his eyes turned red.
"Send the order and ask the military to take care of the rubber plantation. Anyone who dares to leak the secret will be killed without mercy!" When the tires were put on the wheels of the artillery, the heavy artillery that originally required three horses to pull now only needs one horse and is still walking fast, The military understands the strategic value of rubber far better than the government does.
"The rubber plantation must continue to expand, and the Luzon side must also expand. There is not enough of this stuff, so don't be afraid of someone taking the business." Zuo Menggeng was afraid that the public would be too careful to keep the broom in his hands, so he gave special instructions.
As the name suggests, Gongduan is indeed a generous person.
"The construction of cement roads will be accelerated."
