Wild North America 1846

Half sea water, half fire.

After inspecting the provinces north and south of the border, King Richard of the Tang Dynasty took a special train and returned to Chang'an City (San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco) in early June, ending the longest inspection tour that lasted more than half a year.

In the following more than two months, His Majesty the King did not convene a single meeting with military officials. He devoted all his energy to legislation and economic construction, pushing the Parliament to successively pass the "Urban Management Law" and the "Civil Law Amendment".

"Property Law", "Kingdom Election Law", "Import and Export Customs Tax Rules" and other important bills have further improved the Kingdom's rule of law system.

During this period

His Majesty the King has also visited the University of California, Chang'an University, Royal San Francisco Institute of Technology and other institutions of higher learning many times, where he went to inquire with professors and students, and came to laboratories to discuss cutting-edge technology research and development with researchers.

In the world's leading diesel-powered machinery laboratory, His Majesty the King expressed high appreciation for the R&D personnel and awarded Professor Antoine Gordon, the leader of the laboratory's science and technology, with the title of Kingdom Baron (baron for life, not hereditary), and he was awarded a seat on the outskirts of Chang'an.

One manor and four beautiful concubines.

After successively developing and putting into production 6-horsepower and 12-horsepower diesel engines, the laboratory has successively overcome many material problems in recent years, launched a new 20-horsepower diesel engine, and quickly mass-produced it.

The 30-horsepower and 55-horsepower diesel engines under development have also made significant progress, and projects of 80-horsepower and 120-horsepower diesel engines have been approved. It is a top laboratory with the highest level of diesel power machinery technology and a high reputation today.

With a wave of his hand, Richard doubled the experimental scientific research funding to an astonishing level of 180,000 yuan per year, unrivaled in the world's scientific and technological circles.

In addition, His Majesty the King also paid great attention to the Nutritional Chemistry Research Laboratory involving agriculture, increased funding for the laboratory's key scientific research projects centered on potassium fertilizer, and encouraged professors to work harder to contribute to the Kingdom's agricultural production.

Agricultural fertilizer research is a cutting-edge field in today's world. It has a history of several decades, but no eye-catching scientific and technological breakthroughs have been made, and the level of research is generally low around the world.

early 19th century

European scholar Liebig carefully studied the laws of plant growth and development and came to the conclusion that plant growth requires nitrogen, calcium, potassium, phosphorus and other components, which pointed out a clear path for the development of the chemical fertilizer industry.

In 1842, the British took the lead in building a phosphate fertilizer factory, which mainly applied phosphate fertilizer based on bone meal to the acidic soil in Britain to increase production.

In order to raise a large number of human and animal bones, the British even went to the Battle of Waterloo battlefield and mobilized local farmers to dig up the bones of fallen soldiers and use them to make phosphorus bone powder.

The most efficient fertilizer in the world today is guano, and its efficacy has been widely known. Chile and Venezuela are the beneficiaries of the guano trade. The annual export value is as high as 25 million pounds, making them the rich countries in South America that are envied by everyone.

Due to the acidic soil conditions, the British chose phosphate fertilizer as their main research direction. Due to the limited level of the chemical industry, no significant progress has been made in research in the past 20 years.

North American agricultural areas are dominated by loam. Loam is a soil with good properties. Its permeability, retention and potential nutrient content are between those of sand and clay. It is suitable for the growth of various crops and has better effects on the application of potassium fertilizer.

Therefore, in the plant breeding and agricultural laboratories of the Tang Dynasty, potassium fertilizer was mostly used as the main target of scientific and technological research. This was a range determined by the innate conditions of the soil and shifted by human will.

Professor Liebig's research results have shown that plants need potassium fertilizer, phosphorus fertilizer, nitrogen fertilizer and calcium fertilizer. Nowadays, due to the limitation of scientific and technological level, there is basically no clue about nitrogen fertilizer. Human and animal bones are rich in phosphorus and calcium, so they are regarded as the main raw materials by the British.

But this thing is very difficult to do, the source of raw materials is very limited, and it is impossible to expand production.

After the discovery of potassium mines, potassium fertilizer was quickly promoted to a key scientific research project in an effort to achieve breakthroughs.

In Li County, New Mexico, mineral resource surveyors from the Tang Kingdom discovered the purest potassium ore in the world, with a purity of over 80%. It is simply a treasure given by God.

This kind of purity basically reaches the pure quality obtained by calcining alkali in a reverberatory furnace or kiln. It is called "pearl ash". The bright white color is slightly gray, which is a symbol of high quality.

Potassium was widely used in the industrialization of the United Kingdom at the end of the 18th century. It was usually extracted from potassium pits and used to make fertilizers or prepare wool for yarn production. The value was relatively high, and it was not luxurious enough to be sprinkled on the land to increase soil fertility.

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As early as 1767, Canadians obtained potassium alkali from wood ashes. Paradise Island also obtained a large amount of potassium alkali from burning wasteland. After being collected, it was mostly used in local soap manufacturing.

In 1857, the Canadian colony exported 43,958 barrels of British potash and pearl ash. In the same year, the Germans began large-scale production of potash from mineral salts, which is an important raw material for the production of potash fertilizer.

However, due to the high cost, it is mostly used in industrial production. Agricultural applications are limited to experimental fields. The input-output ratio is very uneconomical. Moreover, it requires burning a large amount of forest trees to obtain potassium alkali, which is not sustainable.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Canadian potash production provided much-needed cash to settlers, who cleared woodlands of trees, the simplest method being to burn the logs or unneeded wood for construction.

Ashes from hardwood trees can be used to make lye, which can be used to make soap, or can be boiled down to produce valuable potash.

Based on experience;

When burned, hardwoods produce ash at a rate of 60-100 bushels per acre, and the rate of obtaining grass ash is satisfactory.

In 1790, in rural New York State, ashes could be sold for $3.25 to $6.25 per acre, which was the same price as hiring workers to clean them. To this day, ashes are a good buy.

The primitive and rugged potash fertilizer industry swept through large tracts of forests with the axes of American lumberjacks. It is obvious that this method of acquisition is not sustainable, and few people use it today.

The truly modern industrial production of potash fertilizer will have to wait almost 100 years.

Richard obviously couldn't wait that long. The continuous immigration boom in the Tang Kingdom had already caused considerable pressure on food production, and the food on Paradise Island had to be transported by long sea routes, which was not cost-effective.

Therefore, he had to open a golden finger and exchanged a set of preliminary potash fertilizer factory production process and equipment drawings from the prestige store. He had arranged for the Special Operations Division to track the entire process and implement the entire process from production equipment research and development to factory construction and production.

Although we have the equipment drawings, there is still a long way to go before we can produce a complete set of production equipment for a potash fertilizer plant, and we need to organize elite troops to overcome the difficulties.

As for where the production process and equipment drawings came from, they could only use the name of an agricultural laboratory in the north.

All the designers of this local-funded agricultural laboratory unfortunately encountered a shipwreck and sank when the passenger ship was heading to Chang'an City to receive royal recognition. Not even the body was found.

Although the civil war in North America is raging today, King Richard still focuses his work on economic development. The potash fertilizer industry is his key project, and the entire construction process is solely funded by the royal family.

An investment fund affiliated with the Ministry of Internal Affairs established the Portland Potash Company. While developing high-purity potassium deposits in Li County, it also issued orders to more than a dozen domestic machinery factories to develop special machinery and equipment.

Portland was the city with the largest concentration of heavy industry and machinery industry in the Tang Kingdom. It was adjacent to a large river with abundant water, and had excellent shipping conditions. It could import large amounts of sulfur ore, which was the main raw material for potassium sulfate production.

It is expected that in about two years, relevant chemical equipment such as reactors and pressure vessels will be in place, establishing a world-leading potash fertilizer production capacity.

With large tracts of fertile land and potassium fertilizer, the bottleneck of food production and supply has been solved. Richard is confident that the population of the Tang Kingdom will increase to 60 million or more by the end of this century, and he will establish an unprecedentedly prosperous Datang Empire.

In his opinion

This is more important than the American Civil War. Now he is fully committed to economic development and strives for the Tang Kingdom's total industrial and agricultural output value to exceed that of the northern United States in 1858, which is more than 1.5 billion US dollars.

If this goal can be achieved, the Tang Kingdom will become the second country in the world to fully embark on industrialization. Its national economy will rank fifth in the world. Its economy and military will reach a new level, and it will proudly rank among the world's second-tier powers.

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Daming Palace, Qinzheng Palace

Richard reviewed some important memorials in the morning, then stretched out happily, put down his pen, and said with a warm expression to Dong Jie, the head of the secretariat who was also waiting on him: "Dong Aiqing, it's the weekend tomorrow, what are your plans?"

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"Replying to Your Majesty, I am here to entertain some guests at the manor. This weekend cocktail party has been planned for a long time. It is mainly for friends and family to move around."

"Haha... I walked a lot with me in the first half of the year, visiting all the border provinces. I guess you don't like to move anymore. It's good to get together with your family more on the weekends."

"I dare you to ask Your Majesty if you plan to travel on the weekend?"

"No, I haven't trained my tigers, bears, and leopards for a while. I just want to teach these beasts some rules while I'm free. I heard that old Kahn was bitten by a brown bear at home. That's what happened.

Bar?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Dong Jie did not dare to conceal the reason, and told the whole story. He replied with a subtle look on his face; "The two male bears raised by Count Kahn's family have both reached the estrus period, and they are in quite the same mood.

He was irritable and no longer suitable for playing with. Count Kahn drank some more wine that day, and he was so drunk that he insisted on teasing the male bear, so he was slapped down with a paw. Fortunately, the guards quickly killed the crazy brown bear, and then

Saved a life."

"How's the injury?"

"Five broken ribs, my left arm is broken, and there are serious scratches on my back. By the way, my nose is also broken. Now I can only lie in bed to recuperate."

"Hehehe... You go to express condolences on my behalf and get him some old ginseng and deer antlers from the inner treasury. Alas, he loves to play, so he must be suffering now!" Richard shook his head with a smile and carried it on his back.

He left Qinzheng Hall with brisk steps and hands, and soon disappeared.

The old ginseng in the inner bank are all rare Northeastern old mountain ginseng and sika deer antler. The effect is countless times better than the local American ginseng. There is no comparison between the two.

If we really want to talk about the trend of the nobles of the Tang Dynasty raising wild beasts, we have to trace it back to His Majesty today. On the Ten Thousand Beast Mountain in the Daming Palace, there are almost all lions, tigers, brown bears, jaguars, wild wolves, lynxes, and bald eagles.

Everything is available.

Wanshou Mountain and Wanshou Mountain are homophonic, and it is a place that His Majesty likes to visit frequently. The number of animals raised there is unparalleled in the world, with more than 270 beasts of all kinds, including more than 110 wild wolves, making it the largest zoo in the world.

What is good above will be replicated below!