People close to him can find that Zuo Menggeng will be very happy as long as he comes to Taiwan.
Although this island is really nice.
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 Mengeng and Gong Duan, the endless green rice fields stretched as far as the eye could see, and the golden ears of rice swayed 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 Gong Duan took office, he 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.
The three provinces have found a source of food supply, which 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.
Due to Taiwan's geographical location, it is difficult to think of it as undeveloped.
This is the hub that communicates with the mainland and 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, a Taiwanese provincial government, has not suffered from 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 Mengeng believed in Gong Duan's bold words.
In the previous life, Taiwan could be regarded as one of the Four Little Dragons even if it was wandering abroad. Now with a huge country behind it, it is a luxury to think that it is not developed.
What he values 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 do I realize that after the people become rich, the demand for sugar is so terrifying."
When it comes to sucrose production, people are filled with emotion.
In the past, ordinary people only bought a little bit of candy cautiously, 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 grandly displayed on the shelves.
When doctors tell people to eat less sugar, it indicates how good life is.
"No matter how high the sugar production is, we are not afraid of waste, but we are afraid of not being able to keep up."
Zuo Mengeng has a different view on the development of the sugar industry.
What the public sees is only the commerce and food industries, but what Zuo Menggeng sees is 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 is still not very accurate, shooting 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 rocket launchers 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 half a million yuan in venture capital 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 and are 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 dignity 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, he took out the things that the milky white liquid had turned into one by one.
Seeing the soft thing turn into a circle, the male is not stupid.
"Can this thing be made into a wheel?"
Zuo Mengeng took an air pump and pumped air into it. After a while, the originally deflated thing became completely inflated and felt tight and hard in the hand.
"This is an epoch-making product. From now on, we will be able to go further."
What is produced from the milky white liquid is 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 himself, the world's first bicycle was born.
This is a complete bicycle, not only with rubber tires, but also with spring shock absorbers under the seat.
When people saw the monster with front and rear wheels being ridden by Zuo Mengeng at such a fast 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 tires were put on the wheels of artillery, and the heavy artillery that originally required three horses to pull now only needed one horse to move quickly, the military understood the strategic value of rubber far better than the government.
"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 your business."
Zuo Mengeng was afraid that the public would be spoiled for choice, so he gave special instructions.
As the name suggests, Gong Duan is indeed a generous person.
"The construction of cement roads will be accelerated."