In the next two days, Xu Yuan still did not travel to the late Ming Dynasty.
Instead, they are waiting for the goods from the warehouse of Cross Alliance Company to arrive one after another.
At the same time, a new purchase order was also prepared for Lao Zhu to be responsible for the next batch of purchases.
Because over there at the end of the Ming Dynasty, spring plowing work had officially begun.
In addition to Xujiazhuang, which does not need to purchase too many things, the other ten newly established manors must purchase some products in modern society in order to improve production efficiency and increase this year's grain output.
For example, a water pump is used to fight drought. This is an essential artifact to ensure a good harvest. Every manor must purchase at least ten units.
For example, excavators are used for road and irrigation canal construction, house construction, land reclamation and other purposes.
For example, a plowing seeder can complete the sowing work while plowing. It can plow hundreds of acres a day, and you have to buy hundreds of them.
There are also improved seeds, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides, which are essential.
In addition, the electric rice mill in the rice mill can quickly remove the hulls and is used to process rice and wheat. It is extremely efficient and replaces the hard and inefficient rice pounding work of the ancients.
Beater for grinding beans.
Mechanical pressing equipment in oil pressing mill.
Wooden board cutting machine used in furniture factory.
Can sealing machines used in canneries, and raw metal sheets.
Seamless steel pipes used in the military, processing machine tools, compound fertilizer potassium nitrate, sugar, bicycles, motorcycles used to increase mobility, and civilian walkie-talkies and other products.
Finally, there is the energy aspect.
In order to drive water pumps, excavators, tillers, motorcycles and other equipment, diesel must be purchased in large quantities. If you purchase hundreds of thousands of tons, it may not be able to be used for a long time.
In order to drive power-consuming equipment such as rice mills, beaters, presses, and cutting machines, a large number of photovoltaic power generation panels must be purchased and installed on the roofs of houses to use photovoltaic power generation to solve the power supply problem of a large number of electric machinery.
Based on the power generation power of 40 watts per square meter of photovoltaic panels, each manor must install approximately 10,000 square meters of photovoltaic panels to meet the most basic production and living needs.
Ten new estates mean purchasing 100,000 square meters.
This does not include batteries, transformer equipment, transmission lines and other items.
Anyway!
This time Xu Yuan had to purchase a lot of materials and equipment, which cost a lot of money. It took Xu Yuan two days just to sort out the orders and think about the purchase quantity.
And this is just preparation for spring plowing.
During the autumn harvest in a few months, when grain has matured in a large area, you have to start thinking about whether to purchase large agricultural machinery such as combine harvesters to speed up harvesting efficiency.
It's just that there are too many aspects that Xu Yuan has to consider, so he can only do it step by step, first thinking of ways to do a good job in the spring plowing work at hand.
Then here comes the problem.
This is a water pump, an excavator, a tiller, a rice mill, a cutting machine, etc., and we also need to purchase a large amount of diesel and photovoltaic power generation panels, all of which are products of modern high-tech industrialization. Isn’t this too troublesome?
Already?
Although they can increase production efficiency hundreds of times and hundreds of times, their dependence on Xu Yuan is too high. Once he stops purchasing diesel and repair parts from modern society, the manor over there in the late Ming Dynasty may have to immediately
Paralyzed and unable to function normally.
Why not try to tap into the manpower, animal power, and natural resources of the late Ming Dynasty, such as inventing ox-drawn plows, horse-drawn seeders, and water-powered rice mills, wind-powered cutters, wind-powered water lifters and other facilities. Although the production efficiency
The improvement is only a few times or more than ten times, but it is an order of magnitude different from the working efficiency of human muscles. It also brings huge productivity improvements and will not form a serious dependence on modern society.
Why not take this path of primary industrialization, but play such a high-end game from the beginning?
Xu Yuan did this intentionally.
I also got advice from the big guys in the ‘Travel Alliance Exchange Group’.
Because there is no need to exist in a world in the late Ming Dynasty that can gradually develop without relying heavily on Xu Yuan. After all, in the later stages, there is no difference between having Xu Yuan and not having Xu Yuan, so why do we need Xu Yuan?
Each manor will become independent one after another, breaking away from Xu Yuan's control, or they will be won over by other forces, and they will work hard to make wedding dresses for others.
Xu Yuan would never do such a stupid thing!
Like the time-travelers in some novels, in ancient times, they were making steel and burning cement, burning glass to make soap, drying sea salt, and spinning. They were very busy and had no worries about technology leaks. They thought that these technologies were high-tech.
The end result of being so unprepared is that these technologies will spread rapidly and gradually be in the hands of more powerful people. In the end, your time traveler will be bankrupted and you will be prosperous for twenty or thirty years at most.
He would never be so stupid.
Because modern history told him: Even the first country to enter industrialization can maintain its technological lead for at most thirty years; even a country with an extremely weak industrial base can catch up with the most advanced countries as long as it has the population, resources and fighting spirit.
, it’s only thirty or forty years.
Technology generation gap is extremely unsafe. If you are careless, your competitors will catch up, especially for relatively rudimentary technologies. As long as you know the principles and have the resources, backward primitive people can catch up.
So Xu Yuan chose the high-tech route.
That is to completely skip the first industrial revolution represented by the steam engine, start directly from the internal combustion engine represented by the second industrial revolution, use diesel that can only be cracked by modern chemicals, and come up with photovoltaic power generation with a maximum power generation efficiency of 25% in modern society.
Boards, and various mechanical equipment products that the ancients would never be able to manufacture except in modern industry.
Among them, there is a huge technological generation gap of at least more than 100 years, which requires a whole set of industrial systems to create crystals. No matter how clever the ancients were, it would be impossible for them to crack it. The probability of technological theft is zero.
Of course, it is not ruled out that some ancients got inspiration from these modern mechanical products and imitated the principles to produce some products such as water-powered cutting machines and wind-powered rice mills. However, these mechanical products are different from electric cutting machines and electric rice mills.
In front of the rice machine, there is no competitiveness, and the efficiency is several times worse. Even if it is invented, it will only end up being eliminated and will not make any waves.
Therefore, the technological development route with a high starting point can have a very good suppression effect and create a huge technological threshold. It is almost impossible for the ancients to catch up.
Xuyuan's technological leadership can be maintained for a long time.
As for low-tech products such as glass mirrors, soap, and sugar, Xu Yuan simply imported them from modern society and did not set up factories in ancient times to produce them. If he wanted to steal the technology, he would not be able to find a place, and the confidentiality was also very high.
Finally, in the world of the late Ming Dynasty, Xu Yuan would make corresponding adjustments to the high-starting technological development route according to the development and changes of the situation. If the resources of the entire late Ming world were in his hands, the rule he established would be unbreakable.
So in order to reduce his own burden, he will continue to transfer the modern industrial system to the late Ming Dynasty, cultivate high-tech talents, and allow the ancients to enter modern society... But that should be a very distant thing, and I won't go into too much detail here.
Shaked his head.
Xu Yuan got rid of all the messy thoughts in his mind.
Your career has just started, so why do you want to go so far away?
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The third day.
May 21, afternoon, Cross Alliance Company.
In the company warehouse, Xu Yuan nodded when he saw piles of materials that had been basically purchased.
"Lao Zhu, please go home and rest after work immediately. I will personally take care of the rest of the work. In addition, new orders have been sent to your mobile phone. I hope you can complete this batch of purchases as quickly as possible. I have urgent needs.
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Xu Yuan said to Zhu Yuntian in front of him.
"Okay, boss, I'm going back. I will complete the new order as soon as possible."
Zhu Yuntian, who was a little tired after working for several days, nodded.
Wait for Lao Zhu to walk out of the warehouse and drive away.
Xu Yuan locked the warehouse door, then used his mind to control it, expanding the halo to surround the piles of materials in the warehouse. In only half an hour, he transferred all the materials to the underground storage room in Xujiazhuang in the late Ming Dynasty.
middle.
After the transfer is completed, lock the warehouse door.
Xu Yuan drove back to Villa No. 8 in the Shengshi Haoting Community. Without stopping, he first entered the underground vault on the second floor, then opened the time door and stepped in. His figure finally appeared in the basement of Xujiazhuang in the late Ming Dynasty.