C2802 A History of Millennium Disaster Relief

Zai Chun did not have time to think why a general like him would have such a deep understanding of the Chinese people.

He could not imagine how much work Britain had done in Asia. In fact, from the moment the Chinese were born, the British Intelligence had never stopped spying on them.

Each step of the Chinese development was clearly fed back to London, where many Asian experts and professional military, political and economic figures joined forces to analyse and judge the situation.

They have to give advice to senior members of the government, and whether or not every step of the Chinese way will have an impact on British interests, that has to be considered.

As a high-ranking officer who had suppressed Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Kingdom of Qing, Gordon naturally became a Military experts who was familiar with East Asia and was absorbed into the group.

Therefore, the fact that Gordon was able to appear at the scene of the welcoming ceremony and establish a close relationship with the Tongzhi Emperor was all inseparable from the influence of the British Government.

The fact that Britain was doing all of this was not to say that it was about to start a war against the Chinese. This was purely due to the natural vigilance of the world's strongest country.

If the Chinese had been careful not to offend Britain's core interests and were willing to cooperate with Britain, the British Empire would not have attacked and destroyed them.

All that Britain has done is to prevent it from happening!

Fortunately, Xiao Letian was very smart, he was a calm Transcender. He was completely different from his peers who were filled with violent thoughts.

This guy was good at hiding himself, at taking advantage of others' power, at using class conflicts, and was good at finding allies to balance out the situation … It was these cautious moves that kept him at the bottom of the British ladder.

Take a look at the development of the Chinese in Southeast Asia. Basically, the Chinese avoided the most profitable industries in the British, and even avoided the big cities controlled by the European colonists. Instead, they chose to build a new city in the wilderness.

It was precisely this kind of low-key, intangible infiltration that did not pursue sudden profits that allowed the Chinese to extend their reach to Southeast Asia without angering Britain.

In the end, the result was very good. The Chinese were finally recognized by the United Kingdom and became an independent nation in the world!

Gordon was familiar with all of the things inside, he even knew that Xiao Letian had almost touched the reverse scale of the British people a few times. Luckily, he was crafty enough to adjust his policies in time, thus lowering the level of the alarm.

Through his research and analysis, Gordon gradually familiarized himself with the Chinese financial, political, economic and cultural … It was because he had followed her all along that she brought up the crucial issue of food today.

Food! When these two words jumped into Zai Chun's ears, the little emperor immediately tensed up.

Zai Chun might not know much about finance, but food was something that the governance of China had not been able to go around for thousands of years!

Some people once said that the feudal history of China, to put it simply, was a history of dealing with food, or a history of disaster relief.

China was too big! Ten miles was different, while a hundred miles was different! Mountains, hills, highlands, basins, plains, ponds... From north to south, from east to west, the climate and terrain were all different.

In such a large country, there was no guarantee that every place would be plentiful and that the people would be fully clothed!

Usually, it was a drought, but there was a flood in Hunan, resulting in another bumper harvest in Sichuan … At the same time, a great plague of locusts had also descended upon the river plain!

Even if there weren't any disasters in the Central Plains this year, there was a chance that there would be a disaster on the prairie!

Since there were disasters, they had to be relieved. The management of the Ancient China Empire focused most of their energy on the relief efforts, and in the end, they still had to contend with the food.

In an agricultural society, people could not eat meat. Without money to spend, it could even be said that a wife was fine … But you have to make sure the people don't starve to death!

This was the last red line to maintain the dynasty's rule. Since this rule couldn't be done, then just wait for the rebellion. Wait for the beacons to light up all over the ground!

The key was that logistics was not smooth. This made the ancient relief efforts a headache for all politicians.

But a headache still has to work, because if you do well, then the dynasty's life can continue. If you don't do well, then the only thing waiting for you will be a heaven-shaking revolution!

Didn't the Ming dynasty end up dying in the midst of a disaster? During the Little Ice Age, the northern part of China suffered from a series of calamities. The people lived on nothing. In the end, the people who didn't have any food to eat could only rise.

Relief turned into repression! The last bit of the Great Ming Dynasty's vitality had been completely used up!

Zai Chun's parents had carefully studied the history of Ming Dynasty's rise and fall, so they had always placed importance on food security, and Zai Chun had received the purest of Emperor's education, so they naturally knew what food meant to China.

Once the great revolution arrived, victory would not be based on reason, but on victory with food!

Whoever had food in their hands would have a population in their hands. Only with a population could they have everything!

Gordon had finally woken up from his dream today. So Master had always been tidying up the lands of Nan Yang, using administrative power to force the reclamation area's main economic source to be agriculture.

Planting rubber and spices was definitely more profitable than farming rice, but Xiao Letian would rather lay his hands on the money than making money so that he could stash away the food.

Was he waiting for natural and man-made disasters? Should we use food to lure our people?

His heart could be destroyed! His heart truly felt like it could be destroyed!

No wonder his master kept asking the Chinese universities to research new food storage technologies. No wonder he was trying so hard to introduce the most advanced canned food production equipment in the United States.

At the end of the day, he not only wanted the production, he also wanted the stocks!

Xiao Letian wanted to create the largest grain empire in Asia in his hands, and these grains were the bullets that would compete for the hearts of the people in the future!

What do these lowly commoners know about being loyal to a sovereign!? Whoever gave them food was the Emperor!

He suddenly thought of the thousand man army grain factory in Ryukyu. Countless rice, wheat, oil, spices, mixed grains … It was ground into powder and then roasted in a huge mechanical oven.

These oily special flour with heavy oil, sugar and salt had turned into compressed biscuits under the pressure of the high pressure machinery.

These compressed biscuits had to go through three or four drying procedures before being wrapped in oilpaper and even sealed in cans.

At that time, Zai Chun only knew that these biscuits were used as food for the soldiers, but he suddenly realised that these things were not only used for military purposes!

"Damn it!" Ordinary packaged compressed biscuits could be stored for more than two years! They can even be stored for more than five years! "

"This is too scary. Adults only need a small piece, and can be cooked into porridge to their fill. What if this is used as a relief for disasters?"

"Rebel!" This is what we really need to do! "