Alien Knights

Soul Space, Muxi Kingdom's daily meeting.

"Your Majesty, your complexion is not very good."

Todd came back to his senses, touched his face, and said in surprise, "Is there?"

Emerson nodded: "You look like you've been worrying about something..."

Sighing, Todd looked at the kingdom officials who were sitting in the conference hall and said, "Where did you report to?"

"It's my turn!" Brother Joe raised his hand: "Your Majesty, according to your will, I issued a letter of proposal in the name of the Holy Son a few days ago, hoping that residents will develop and operate farms outside the city. The kingdom will provide seeds, farm tools, and materials for free..."

Todd leaned forward and asked, "How did it turn out?"

The monk shook his head helplessly and said, "No one is willing to work in agriculture. Everyone says that they would rather work as a coolie on the pier than go to the fields. There are many jobs in the city, and the pay is good, and you don't have to work hard. The most important thing is that no one wants to get their hands dirty in the mud after getting used to a good life."

After hearing this, Todd frowned and said nothing.

At this time, Emerson continued: "The wheat and soybean grains brought in by sea trade are of high quality and cheap. If the residents plant their own crops, including manpower, loss and other costs, there is indeed no way to compete with the prices in the south. It's no wonder they don't want to."

"Speaking of maritime trade, I think of one thing." Emerson stroked his mustache and said, "If I remember correctly, your Majesty's proposal of no tax collection for three years will soon expire. It is necessary to start discussing tax types and tax rates within the Kingdom, and the recruitment of corresponding departments and personnel must be put on the agenda."

Todd suddenly said: "About Muxi City's agriculture..."

Emerson was taken aback for a moment, what he said just now was taxes, why did he bring it back to agriculture?

"Hagins, you asked the royal clerk to draft a document called the 'Five-Year Plan for Agricultural Development'." Todd said while thinking: "First, notify the North Island Commercial Fleet to gradually reduce the import of food from the South; The land can only be used for agricultural purposes and not for other purposes; fifth, post an announcement that after the end of the three-year tax holiday, the Muxi Kingdom will continue to be exempt from agricultural taxes."

When Emerson heard this, his eyes widened, and he quickly dissuaded the king: "Your Majesty, can you reconsider the matter of agricultural tax exemption? No matter which kingdom, agricultural tax is the pillar of national development. Exempting it is too..."

Todd looked into Emerson's eyes without any hesitation in his eyes: "Just do what I say! It seems that the agricultural tax may be quite a lot, but once other industries in the kingdom develop, that amount of money is nothing at all."

Seeing Huggins repeating what he said just now, Todd nodded with satisfaction, and then asked Terrence: "In terms of crop cultivation, Muxi Kingdom is near the sea, and the surrounding land is severely salinized. Is there any good improvement method for the academy?"

"The common methods are crop rotation and composting. I don't know much about this aspect." Terrence replied with some embarrassment.

Todd tapped the table with his fingers and said to himself: "The land around Muxi City is not fertile enough, and most of the raw materials in the city are used to make gunpowder. We must find a way to artificially synthesize fertilizers. Let me think about it. When it comes to chemical fertilizers, in the previous life, it seemed that Haber's high-pressure reaction tower was used to chemically synthesize ammonia and then use free molecules to produce nitrogen fertilizer..."

Terrence looked puzzled: "Your Majesty, the molecule you mentioned contains nitrogen, what exactly is it?"

Todd patted his forehead with his hands, and smiled bitterly with a headache.

The nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers used in modern agriculture first need to be synthesized artificial ammonia, and the manufacture of the latter requires the country's industrial technology and chemical theory to reach a relatively high level before it is feasible.

In the chemical world of the previous life, the industrial production of ammonia using nitrogen and hydrogen as raw materials did not officially come out until 1918. But the current Muxi Kingdom, not to mention creating a reaction tower, can't even explain this complex set of chemical reactions.

Is there any way to make fertilizer relatively simply?

Seeing that the king was lost in thought again, a table of officials of all sizes kept silent in a tacit understanding.

Emerson and Terrence exchanged pictures and sounds in memory through the computer screen; Mary was drinking coffee intently while flipping through the famous art paintings on the computer.

As for Cumberland, the supreme military officer of the kingdom, since there was nothing to do with him during the regular meeting this morning, he simply picked up the mouse in front of him and looked at the computer.

The computer data and stored information in the soul space are all transformed from the memory in Todd's brain.

Because these people who entered the soul space were all trusted by Todd. Therefore, except for some particularly secret information, a considerable part of the data is actually in an open state.

Using the mouse, Cumberland clicked bluntly, and accidentally entered a file interface. The folder icon on the left said "American TV Series-Spartacus", and "Manual Joystick Driver" was written on the right.

"Huh? What are these two?" Cumberland used the mouse curiously, swung between the two folders for a while, and finally opened the folder named "Spartacus". Next, he found a bunch of video icons, picked the first file, and double-clicked it to start playing.

On the computer screen, an epic battle unfolded before the eyes of the old knight. The impassioned background music played, and the two armies fought together in the heavy rain. The blood, steel and fighting made Cumberland tremble with excitement.

On the other hand, the meeting is still going on.

"Yes!" Todd slapped the table heavily, startling everyone.

Flipping through his memory for a while, Todd shared a teaching video of "Microbiological Synthesis of Nitrogen Fertilizer" with the hosts of all present.

The video is 30 minutes long, simple and easy to understand, basically there are no special terms, the theoretical part is relatively small, and the operation introduction is more. It mainly describes a subject of extracurricular teaching for college students - how to use bacteria to synthesize nitrogen fertilizer needed by crops:

In the field of microbiology, there is a bacterium called Rhizobium (Rhizobiaceae), which was discovered in 1884 and was not paid attention to until 1975. Rhizobia can co-exist with legumes, form root nodules, and fix inorganic nitrogen in the air and water into organic nitrogen fertilizers, thereby providing nutrients to plants.

In terms of agricultural applications, the amount of nitrogen fixation per square meter of peanuts artificially inoculated with root nodules is 7.2-12.4g per year, that is, peanuts per mu can obtain nitrogen equivalent to 10-17 kg of urea from nitrogen fixation. Especially in poor soil, 94% of the nitrogen fixed by root nodules is supplied to plants every day, and only 6% remains in the nodules, which can increase the original yield by about 70%.

The most important thing is that the artificial cultivation of rhizobia is not complicated, and the inoculation process is relatively simple. These are the most suitable technologies for the agricultural development of Muxi Kingdom.

While playing the video, Todd explained to everyone: "With regard to the development of microbial fertilizers, Muxi College and the Monastery cooperate together. First, we can conduct trial planting in a small area, and after finding the best vaccination plan, we can promote it in an all-round way."

After talking about agricultural development, Todd exchanged some kingdom affairs with the officials, and then quietly found the old craftsman Aiden, and demonstrated the 3D modeling screen of the musket in his memory to the other party.

"How? With the kingdom's current industrial level, can this gun be imitated?"

The hopeful eyes of the king made the pressure on the shoulders of the old craftsman feel as heavy as a mountain.

"Your Majesty, this gun barrel requires drilling and plate rolling techniques; this gunpowder chamber requires a metal control heterogeneous to cooperate; and this trigger requires a special spring and firing device... Besides, there are many things that I will not be able to see clearly for a while, and need to be studied in detail."

Todd nodded upon hearing the words: "Before the meeting is over, I will ask Mary to write down the pictures of this model and some other firearms, and then let her draw them in reality and hand them over to you. Old Aiden, call me the best craftsmen under your command and try our best to imitate this weapon!"

After explaining these things, Todd said goodbye to the officials one by one, intending to close the soul space.

When it was Cumberland's turn, the other party's eyes were almost glued to the screen, and the whole person was completely immersed in the plot of the TV series, and he didn't even hear the voice of others saying hello.

Terrence leaned over curiously, glanced at it for a few moments and then never shifted his gaze. He said, "It's amazing! I can actually go back to the fate of a historical hero through this crystal box!"

Seeing more and more people gathered in front of the computer screen, Todd shouted dryly: "The daily meeting is over, everyone should go back if you have nothing to do, there are still a lot of things to do in the kingdom!"

Of course, no one paid him any attention.