Chapter 1088： Best times

Eighteen years in Yongxing, March.

Dahua Daily put forward a word, the best time.

The newspaper summarized the development achievements of Dahua, and then called the current era the best era.

At present, the total population of the Dahua area has exceeded 750 million, accounting for about 90% of the global population. The total global population is about 850 million, which is about 100 million more than in the original time and space.

It is also approximately equal to the level of 1750 in the original time and space.

It seems that the rate of population growth is far behind the development of science and technology.

But this is actually normal. Technology can grow explosively, but the population cannot mature, and it is still following the laws of nature.

However, the age composition of the global population is very scary, mostly young people and children.

These are the fertility army.

According to data experts, Dahua’s population will explode in the future, and the population will double within ten years.

If there is no control, it will be doubled in 18 years, and it will reach 3 billion in 25 years.

At the current level of agricultural development, it is not possible to feed so many people for the time being.

You must know that the current agriculture has also achieved large-scale mechanization in the plains of the Central Plains, and there are enough chemical fertilizers.

Agricultural technology in other places is still developing.

The area of ​​arable land and grain output have yet to be improved.

At the conference at the end of the 17th year in Yongxing, Wu Changqing put forward the requirement to focus on the development of agriculture in order to cope with the exploding population growth.

The level of agriculture must be improved. As long as there is no food, no matter how well the industry develops, there will be turmoil.

At present, Dahua’s arable land area is only about 9 billion mu, while the global arable area is about 28 billion mu, which means that Dahua’s development of arable land is still relatively low.

There are also nearly 20 billion acres of arable land waiting to be developed and regained. The Eastern European Plain is also an excellent granary.

During the 17 years of Yongxing, Dahua’s national grain output was about 250 million tons, which is about one-twelfth of the global grain output in 2020.

This data is actually quite good, because the current population is only one-ninth of that of later generations.

In other words, Dahua’s current grain output can completely feed everyone, and there is a lot more to store, process non-staple food or raise poultry and livestock.

"The best era, not bad, is the best era."

Zhu Sanlang from Shangqiu, Henan Province looked at these words in the newspaper and nodded.

In his opinion, Dahua today is countless times better than before.

When he was a child, it was twenty years ago. His family has a total of eight acres of land, and if all wheat is grown, the annual output can reach about 1,500 jin.

But in fact, because some land is very barren, only sorghum and corn can be grown.

After paying all kinds of taxes, he can only leave a thousand catties of rations at most.

And among the thousand catties of grain, a large part of it has to be exchanged for copper coins to buy salt and other necessities of life.

What can really fall into the stomach is less than six hundred catties, and all of them are sorghum and corn. White noodles, a refined food, can only be eaten a little during the holidays.

At that time, there were eight people in his family. On average, one person couldn't get a hundred catties of food a year, so he couldn't eat enough, and he needed some wild vegetables to satisfy his hunger.

This is still not affected by the war, and the situation is even worse when it is affected by the war.

Zhu Sanlang starved to death with two elder brothers and a younger brother. His life was relatively hard, and he had survived the Northern Expedition of the Chinese Army.

When he was about to starve to death, he ate Dahua's relief food and survived.

After that, his family was allocated another fifty acres of land, as well as tools such as hoes.

After being poor, his family lived very frugally, saving money every year, for fear that all the beauty in front of him was only a temporary fantasy, and worried that the world would become the same one day.

As this continued, his family’s wealth quickly accumulated.

When Dahua allowed the land to be bought and sold, he used his savings to buy another 50 acres of land from a neighbor’s house. His neighbor was even more ruthless. He moved his family to the county seat and all of them went to work in the steel factory.

After buying 50 acres, Zhu Sanlang rented another 100 acres from other families in the village.

Those people went to work in Nanjing and Tianjin, leaving only the elderly and children at home, and they couldn't grow much land.

Two hundred acres of land, with the help of the imperial court, his family can handle it.

And these two hundred acres of land can produce about 80,000 catties of wheat a year.

After paying 10% of the tax, there are still 72,000 catties, of which 70,000 catties are used to sell money, and the minimum can be sold for 350,000 yuan. Occasionally, grain merchants will buy them at a price higher than the official price.

(Note: For the convenience of readers without calculating purchasing power, there is an intuitive comparison. At this time, Wu Changqing adjusted the denomination of the currency to be the same as that of later generations. In other words, the next 1 yuan is approximately equal to one yuan for later generations.)

Excluding the expenses for buying chemical fertilizers, seeds, and machinery for harvesting, etc., Zhu Saburo's family has a net income of nearly 200,000 this year.

However, there are ten people in his family.

Father, him, wife, three adult laborers, and seven children from 1 to 17 years old.

This income is already pretty good, but life pressure is also quite high, after all, there are many children.

As these children grow up, he must also build a new house, otherwise he can't live.

However, Zhu Saburo is full of hope for the future, because as long as his children grow up and start to make money, his burden can be reduced a lot.

"Accelerate the construction of agricultural irrigation water conservancy and improve agricultural planting technology..."

Zhu Saburo read the newspaper with difficulty. He had only attended the evening school for half a month, and he didn't know all the words.

"The second child came over and took a look, what did you say in the newspaper?"

Zhu Sanlang called his second son, and his eldest son was studying at Zhengzhou University, studying applied mathematics, and will graduate next year.

The second son, Zhu Changyao, took over the newspaper and explained after reading it: "The imperial court is meeting again. His Majesty said that he would continue to build water conservancy projects, start the mid-line project of the South-to-North Water Diversion, and transfer the water from the Danjiangkou Reservoir to Beijing. At the same time, the imperial court will also have planned reclamation. Land, promote planting techniques..."

There are many contents, but the core is one point. Dahua must vigorously develop agriculture.

"Good, good, good."

Zhu Sanlang called three times. He didn't know much. In his opinion, the policy of vigorously developing agriculture is a good policy.

"Second, if you graduate from high school, you should learn how to build a harvester. More and more land will be cultivated, and more and more people will need to build a harvester. If you learn how to build a harvester, you will definitely make money."

Although Zhu Saburo is uneducated, it does not mean that he will not plan the life for his children.

In front of children, elders will have inexplicable confidence in their own life experience.

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