The most arrogant in history

Ye Kun was very surprised and nodded:

"You have made great contributions to the development of the oil industry, but you must continue to work hard. In many places in the West, oil is like well water, inexhaustible.

In the future, oil will surpass coal and become the largest resource. Therefore, research on oil technology must continue to deepen.”

The person in charge was surprised and asked, "Your Majesty, coal can be used for cooking, making steel and iron, and driving steamships... How can oil surpass coal?"

Ye Kun chuckled: "The diesel engine we are researching is about to succeed. Mature diesel engine technology will replace steam engines. At that time, the streets will be full of diesel and gasoline cars running, and they can travel 2,000 miles a day.

If we look at it from a long-term perspective, in the future, China may have one car per person, all powered by diesel and gasoline. Therefore, the demand for oil is endless.”

"Two thousand miles a day? Isn't that the legendary Pegasus?"

"We don't have a Pegasus, but we can definitely make a car that can travel 2,000 miles a day."

"But if one car is owned by one person in the country, this is... too incredible."

"I'm talking about the future. You have to have a long-term vision."

Ye Kun patted the person in charge on the shoulder and said, "Ten years ago, would you have believed our current steel production? Would you have believed our coal production and grain production? All the miracles in the world come from our creations!"

"That's right, let's follow the emperor and create miracles!" The person in charge smiled happily.

Ye Kun also proposed some ideas on the deep processing of petroleum and the research of plastics, allowing everyone to boldly try and make mistakes.

It’s okay to make mistakes, and it’s okay to waste manpower and financial resources.

Among a thousand random experiments, as long as one result is achieved, it is a huge progress!

Due to his own lack of chemical knowledge, Ye Kun had no choice but to encourage researchers to make random attempts.

One day, the dead cat will meet a blind mouse!

Zhuojun Science and Technology City and Dunhuang Science and Technology City also have frequent contact and personnel exchange with each other.

In the newly built science and technology city in Jiaozhi, there is also an oil technology research base.

There, oil is transported from the sea, and the supply is larger.

A petroleum technology research center is also being built in the southern part of the Tianzhu Peninsula. Elites from all over the country will soon be dispatched to Tianzhu with the most advanced equipment to do a great job.

It is very convenient to transport oil from the Middle East Peninsula to India by sea.

Ye Kun is confident that he will be able to fully understand petroleum technology in the next two to three years.

Plastic and asphalt roads will be completed and put into large-scale use!

The development of diesel engines has made great progress.

There was not enough aluminum, which made Ye Kun cry out in anxiety.

Ye Kun stayed at the Dunhuang Petroleum Research Institute for three days, visiting the equipment and refining process and making some suggestions.

At the same time, scientific researchers are encouraged to cheer up and continue to tackle key problems.

Inspections of farms and ranches were postponed.

Zhaojiahe agricultural and animal husbandry base covers an area of ​​several hundred miles.

Ye Kun inspected on horseback and first looked at the farm here.

In order to protect the ecological environment, the farm is not large and mainly grows vegetables, with very little grain and more beans.

There are also many fruit trees, mainly walnut, pecan and almond trees.

If there is not enough food, we can transport it from Guanzhong.

There are not enough fresh vegetables, but there is no way to transport them, so we can only send dried vegetables.

Ye Kun visited some soldiers who were stationed in the fields and asked about their living conditions.

An old soldier grinned and said:

"Your Majesty, our family has immigrated here for ten years. Now, I have grandchildren, and I feel that this place is pretty good. The only thing I'm worried about is the lack of food supply.

I heard that half of Dunhuang’s grain was transferred from Guanzhong.”

Ye Kun nodded and said, "The land of Jiuzhou has a good harvest every year. Grain has piled up like a mountain and is as cheap as dirt. You don't have to worry about the food supply.

We intentionally limit the area of ​​crops to protect the soil and water here.”

In fact, there is still a lot of land that can be reclaimed in the northwest region, and there are many crops that are suitable for the soil and climate here.

For example, millet, wheat, sorghum, barley, sorghum, sorghum, millet, highland barley, peas, lentils, and black beans can all be planted.

The old soldier nodded and said:

"There is enough food in Dunhuang, but there are too many people coming and going. There are thousands of merchants coming and going every day."

"Economic development is possible only if there is business travel. The business travel teams passing through also bring us huge wealth."

"But many Western slaves have been trafficked here. Our farming and animal husbandry bases now have tens of thousands of Western laborers."

"This is the court's arrangement because there is a shortage of people in the country."

Ye Kun laughed loudly: "In the future, we will bring in a large number of Westerners to dig coal, open mines, build roads and open mountains for us. Those Western women will also marry our Chinese people and become one family."

In fact, life became much more comfortable after slaves were introduced from the West.

After several years of hard work and study, they will become members of the Chinese nation, and even become free citizens, standing up and singing!

The slave society of the West and the prosperous Chinese era created by Ye Kun are many times more backward no matter how you look at it.

After the investigation, Ye Kun convened a meeting of officials from the agricultural and animal husbandry base to give them a speech.

Ye Kun repeatedly stressed the need to treat Western workers well and ensure their living conditions are guaranteed.

The agricultural and pastoral bases were also required to select some Western workers in batches every year to follow the imperial merchant groups heading eastward and continue to migrate to the interior to supplement the interior labor force.

Guo Ping had been following Ye Kun and asked in confusion:

"Your Majesty, before I came to the Western Regions, I thought that most of the people here were foreigners, speaking and looking different from us. But along the way, I found that except for the imported Western laborers, they are basically all Chinese.

Everyone spoke Chinese Mandarin and wore Chinese clothes, and it felt like being in the Central Plains. And the foreign laborers could actually speak Chinese Mandarin, too.”

Ye Kun laughed and said:

"The Western Regions were originally populated by the Chinese people. The minority ethnic groups have been completely assimilated through immigration, intermarriage, education, and the promotion of Chinese characters and Chinese.

To get to this point, the imperial court has invested a lot of money and effort.”

The Western Qiang in the Western Regions have been controlled by Ye Kun for more than ten years. After more than ten years of vigorous immigration and promotion of education, they have already been completely sinicized.

The original ethnic minorities had no concept of home and country.

Ye Kun deceived everyone again, saying that in ancient times we were all one family, all descendants of Yan and Huang.

The indigenous people of other ethnic groups also accepted it happily and now call themselves the descendants of Yan and Huang and feel very proud!

The original lands of foreign races also changed their mainstream population through two-way immigration and became Han-controlled areas.

Therefore, within the Nine Provinces of China, there are also Xiqiang, Western Regions, Jiaozhi Peninsula, Yunmian, the former land of the Xiongnu, Jizui Peninsula, Fuso Changdao, and Izuo Island, all of which are now part of the Chinese clan.

No foreigners!

Guo Ping smiled and said, "I know that there has been two-way migration, but I didn't expect that there would be such a change and the situation today. Your Majesty's contribution is greater than the previous emperor's "standardization of writing, wheels, and weights and measures"!"

Ye Kun suddenly became interested and asked, "Grandmaster Guo, what do you think of the merits and demerits of the former emperor?"