Lin Fu originally thought that to solve this problem, he had to wait until nylon was produced. But he had to wait for nylon to be produced. He didn't know that he would have to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the donkey.

The cost of iron wire rope is extremely high. Whether it is military or commercial ships, iron wire rope is currently only used in critical places. Hemp rope is perishable, so the worst thing is to replace it more frequently. After all, with the huge profits from sea trade, it is not impossible to replace it.

rise.

The discovery of Johor abaca suddenly solved this big problem.

Abaca is produced from the banana tree that is commonly grown in Johor. Local people use abaca to make clothes, ropes, nets, and mats. It has a history of hundreds or thousands of years. Abaca products are light in weight.

, tough, especially not easy to rot after being soaked in sea water for a long time, it is almost the highest quality raw material for woven fishing nets and ship cables that can be found at the moment.

At first, the fleet going south to Nanyang mainly purchased ready-made fishing nets and hemp ropes from Johor. After the characteristics of abaca were further confirmed, this year, the fleet going south to Nanyang began to purchase abaca raw materials from the local area on a large scale.

Supplied to Jianghuai's rope-making and net-making factories.

Due to the high-quality characteristics of abaca, the military department also included it in the list of military supplies that are strictly outflowed.

The current strong growth of new industries in Huaidong can be said to have laid the foundation for new learning, but the direct stimulating effect of the large-scale use of many new species with high-quality characteristics is also increasingly obvious.

Listing natural history separately in the new science is also intended to encourage the discovery and application of new species. After all, it may take hundreds or hundreds of years to wait for natural history to develop to the stage where new species can be synthesized on a large scale, and nature itself is

It contains countless treasures. As long as you are good at discovering and utilizing them, you can continuously inject new vitality into the development of new learning and new industries.

Lin Fuqi wanted to set up museums in Haizhou, Jiangning, Chongzhou and other places. In addition to stimulating the development of natural history, he also wanted to show the world the achievements of the development of new learning. He also wanted the world to have more opportunities and more opportunities when entering the museum.

Open your eyes to see the world intuitively.

Building a museum is not simply about building a building, but also about collecting as many species as possible, classifying them and identifying their characteristics, which is also the main thing that natural history has to do at present. At the moment, we just need to set up the framework and collect the species.

And the work of categorization needs to be done slowly.

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Lin Mengde and Liu Shidu left Haizhou and returned south in the afternoon, and Haizhou City returned to its former peace.

But in the afternoon, it started to snow again. Lin Fu practiced his swordplay in the snow courtyard without any problems. His forehead was slightly sweaty. He watched Song Jia and Liu Miaozhen, who was holding a big belly, walk in. He put away the white cloth spatula and put on his clothes.

, walked to the corridor.

Song Jia sighed: "The two annoying guys are finally gone..."

Lin Fu laughed and said regretfully: "It's a pity that Mr. Liu is already old!"

"Oh!" Song Jia looked at Lin Fu in surprise, knowing that he would not express such emotion without thinking.

Lin Fu helped Liu Miaozhen sit down, and he followed him and sat on the railing covered with snow particles, not feeling cold.

He has been examining candidates who can truly chair the Privy Council on his behalf, as well as candidates for the chancellor of the new empire.

Lin Xuwen was the direct head of the Lin clan and was not suitable to serve as prime minister. Lin Fu planned to let him replace Lin Tingli in presiding over government meetings in the future, instead of leaving the Privy Council to him.

Lin Mengde has rich experience in handling practical affairs, but he also has serious flaws. He is one of the future ministers, but it is inappropriate for him to fully preside over the Privy Council.

As a minister of the new empire, he must not only be able to accept new learning and new policies, but also have the ability to actively guide the development of new learning and new policies. Although Liu Shidu appears to be a bit conservative, and although he is a figure born out of an old official, he has long been

He has served successively in Hailing, Huai'an and other places, and also led the Salt and Iron Department, and presided over the implementation of the new salt and iron taxation policy. He has rich political experience; or he can spontaneously generate new ideas from the new policy and new learning.

In Lin Fu's view, the most rare thing about Liu Shidu was his overall perspective that Lin Mengde and others could not match.

Before the war, the population of the entire Central Plains region was about 120 million to 140 million. Taking the Qinling Mountains and Huaihe River as the line, the population of the south (excluding Liangchuan) was about 70 million.

Affected by the war, the population losses in western Zhejiang, eastern Fujian, eastern Jiangxi, Huaixi, Jingxiang and other places were the most severe, with population figures falling by 20 to 70% respectively. In the south, the 20 million people lost due to the war were

Mainly concentrated in these areas.

However, areas such as Huaidong, Ninghu and the south of Hongzepu were not greatly affected by the war. On the contrary, the population increased significantly due to the influx of refugees, especially in Chongzhou, Hailing, Pingjiang, Huai'an and other places.

The number of Dingkou in the five counties of Chongzhou increased from 500,000 to 600,000 before the war to 1.2 million at this time. In addition to Chongzhou County, the number of Dingkou in Hailing Prefecture also increased from 1.1 million before to 1.1 million.

1.6 million.

The excess population provides sufficient labor for the reclamation of coastal wastelands in Chongzhou and Hailing as well as new industries and the increasingly prosperous maritime trade industry, stimulating the strong growth of new industries and maritime trade.

However, some problems have gradually been exposed. After the construction of the sea dike, coastal wastelands have been developed on a large scale, resulting in as many as 3 million acres of new grain fields in Chongzhou and Hailing in the past ten years. But just

Against this backdrop of a large amount of newly reclaimed wasteland, the per capita amount of cultivated land occupied by farmers in Chongzhou and Hailing Prefectures has dropped by approximately 8% in the past ten years.

However, Lin Mengde, Li Shuyi, Wu Meijiu and others did not notice the problems exposed in these details.

Over the past two hundred years, the population has approximately doubled, and the natural increase rate is less than two thousandths. In the world's traditional habit of having more children, such a low natural increase rate is due to the high mortality rate, epidemics, and

Additional factors such as famine and bloody internal large-scale wars were forcibly suppressed.

Lin Fu's implementation of the New Deal was to address the high mortality rate, large-scale uncontrollable epidemics, famine, and internal war problems. If he still wanted to let it go, he would allow Dingkou's annual natural growth to remain at 100%.

About three thirds will be an extremely terrifying figure.

Many people don't realize how terrifying the "three percent" natural growth rate is, but if we want to maintain such a high natural growth rate, taking the southern population of 5,000 as the base, it will increase to 100 million in 23 years.

, will increase to 200 million in forty-six years; within a hundred years, the southern population will increase to 800 million, but within a hundred years, the total grain output in the southern region south of the Qinling Mountains and Huaihe River will increase

Sixteen times?

The new empire is about to kick off. The development of the country should be based on a hundred years of development, and the establishment of national policies should be based on the long-term vision of a hundred years, rather than just looking at five or ten years.

Lin Fu hopes that the population will increase significantly, but this should be within limits and should not be unrestricted.

Lin Fu estimated that after regaining the north, he would bring the two Liaos, northwest, southwest and other places under the central government, and the country's population would be about 90 million.

The population will increase fourfold within one hundred years, including overseas immigrants, and the population will increase to between 300 million and 400 million. This is tolerable and may also be beneficial.

One hundred years from now, the New Deal thinking, new industries, and the development of new learning and new technologies will have taken root completely. People's living standards will have been greatly improved, and the habit of procreation will be overcome. By then, it may even be reversed.

Come here and encourage fertility.

However, within a hundred years, the total population has increased sixteenfold, which is definitely not a good thing.

Lin Fu did not explicitly raise these issues, but he had laid the foundation for the "Yu Ding tax"; in the new military service system, Yu Ding was also recruited into the army before Du Ding; in the New Deal, Lin Fu also intended to maintain the eldest son inheritance

The tradition of homesteading deliberately weakened Yu Ding's economic, family and social status. In the final analysis, it was the lead that was laid in advance.

Lin Fu was deeply impressed by the explosive growth of population after entering modern industrial society.

Lin Fu wanted to use these means to control Dingkou's explosive and uncontrolled growth at the macro level, but he did not expect to bring down Dingkou's high growth rate immediately in the short term.

When formulating national policies, weighing the overall situation with a hundred years as a unit of time is a quality that a prime minister-level figure must possess. At present, Lin Fu has only seen a little shadow of Liu Shidu, which can be regarded as the biggest surprise of his trip to Haizhou.

.

But it is a pity that Liu Shidu is already over sixty years old, and he just took up the post of Jianghuai Propaganda Envoy this year. It will take two or three years to transfer him to the center, and then conduct a period of observation. When it is confirmed that he can be used as a prime minister, Liu Shidu is afraid

He is almost seventy years old.

Lin Fu really had no interest in appointing a seventy-year-old man as the prime minister of the new empire; therefore, Song Fu, who was already sixty-three years old, was not at all among Lin Fu's candidates.

Thinking of this problem, Lin Fu had a headache. There was no suitable candidate for the prime minister. After the war, he couldn't even think about being lazy.
Chapter completed!