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Text Chapter 329 Wang Mingyang¡¯s Worries

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    "The Taiping Kingdom today is no longer what it used to be. In the Taiping Island period, even if people immigrated here every day, they were only a minority. But now we have a broader territory and national security can be guaranteed. If we add high  Welfare and national treatment, I am afraid that the number of immigrants in the future will increase by tens of thousands. If it is only tens of thousands of people, or even hundreds of thousands of citizens, it can be supported in this way, but millions of people can be supported no matter how much money they have.  When it runs out." Concerns similar to Wang Mingyang's are very common among the senior leaders of the Taiping Kingdom, and many people have already given advice to Li Xiang.  "Money is dead, people are alive." Li Xiang was naturally unmoved.  There is food in hand, so don¡¯t panic.  With the materials of the space earth around him, not to mention millions, but tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of people, Li Xiang felt that he could support one or two.  Except for food of uncertain safety, other welfare items can be used as short-term consumables and are not affected by the time limit of space and earth.  The resources on the surface alone can support billions of humans. The resources of the entire earth are far more than some claimed data.  It's just that the cost of mining and utilizing those resources is too high, or the technology is not up to standard, but for Li Xiang, this is easy.  For example, diamond, which is very rare on the surface, is extremely common deep in the earth's crust where there is high pressure and temperature.  Those forbidden areas in the earth's crust that human technology cannot reach are just the price of a little more energy for Li Xiang.  Li Xiang has long estimated that even if the superposition method is used to synthesize diamonds that can be stored for a long time, it will be enough to overwhelm the world diamond market.  Therefore, the problem of money is not a problem for Li Xiang. The difficulty is just how to launder the blood diamonds.  However, many practical items do not need to be washed and can be used directly.  Many consumables may only be used for more than ten years.  It can even be updated in just a few years.  As long as it survives the first few years, the Taiping Kingdom will be able to form a virtuous cycle and support itself.  "As long as our people are willing to work hard, our farmland will soon grow crops and bear abundant fruits; our factories will soon be built, and the products on the assembly lines will soon be filled with large and small stores; our cities will be very  It will soon cover Taiping Island, providing convenient and comfortable living and activity space for every citizen. In just a few years, we will be able to create huge wealth through labor and support the normal operation of the entire high welfare system.  Haven't we already discussed it?" Li Xiang was somewhat dissatisfied with Wang Mingyang's wavering of confidence.  The two of them had a long discussion on the virtuous cycle of finance and welfare, and based on the welfare and tax policies of various countries, they perfected the current welfare policy of the Taiping Kingdom.  Li Xiang once revealed that he would not exceed the bottom line of his private treasury.  Guaranteed for this.  More importantly, Li Xiang also agreed with the theory once proposed by Wang Mingyang.  "Didn't you once say that as long as there are no major problems in the redistribution system, there is no problem in maintaining a high-welfare society? Just like the theory of Soviet Russia." Li Xiang asked Wang Mingyang.  Li Xiang, who owns the earth's resources, has long looked past those conflicts of interests. At least he will not take the big picture for himself in the national redistribution system.  Li Xiang, who no longer has ordinary financial interests to worry about, wants to create an ideal society through a high welfare system, even if it is just a test product.  "But reality is reality!" Wang Mingyang, who has always been eloquent, wriggled his lips for a long time.  In the end, he just sighed and uttered one sentence.  ¡°He still underestimated the difficulty of governing the country before, and his eloquent talk on the keyboard was a bit high-minded and low-end.  During the Taiping Island period, even tens of thousands of people could handle one or two according to his previous management experience. However, with the rapid expansion of the country, he found that many things had deviated from his original expectations.  "Is there any serious problem now?" Li Xiang pondered for a moment and then asked.  "There is no problem now. It does not mean there will be no problem in the future." Wang Mingyang shook his head.  There really aren¡¯t many problems in the Taiping Kingdom now.  Even the water source problem that once caused him the most headache has now been solved smoothly.  Li Xiang has never wanted to use his own people for this experiment.  In addition to being supplied at low prices in some places in Japan and Bangzi countries, even the water for flushing toilets on the Taiping Islands does not use water from the space earth, because they are worried that the self-circulation of nature will eventually circulate into the human body.  If it is far away, or integrated into the oceanic continent, after a long period of circulation and dilution, the impact will be smaller. In a place as small as Taiping Island, there is really no room for redundancy.  Having Taiping Island is slightly better.  At least there is more natural rainfall. After such a long period of time, plus the rain from a tropical storm period, Taiping Island has become full of ditches and lakes, and most of the rivers have taken shape.  But even the surface of Taiping Island has been permanently superimposed and solidified by Li Xiang.  But Li Xiang was still cautious and did not dare to use the water easily.    You can never be too cautious when using it on people.  Some genetic defects may not be discovered until several generations later.  The genetically modified war between countries is raging, not to mention that the space earth in his hands comes from an unknown alien civilization.  If we just compare technology, the gap between those aliens and the earth is more exaggerated than the comparison between elephants and ants. But since I heard about the involvement of the Pig-headed Space-Time Administration, there are too many implications to ponder, and no matter how careful I am, I can¡¯t be careful.  Too much.  Even after three years of experiments in Japan and other places, as well as experimental data sent to many laboratories around the world, no abnormality was found in the space water on the human body. Li Xiang still just allowed the rainwater to be used only for the entire Taiping Island.  It is a natural cycle. On Taiping Island, most flowers and plants are watered. After purification, it is only used for washing clothes and flushing toilets. It is definitely not used for daily meals. Even vegetables, fruits and newly planted food crops basically do not use it.  Plant water.  As a result, the water problem is particularly serious.  During the Taiping Island period, most of the people's water supply was imported, and they even had the luxury of enjoying mineral water from various countries for free.  ??The daily per capita water consumption in cities such as Shanghai and Kyoto, including domestic water, is only two to three hundred liters.  If you save a little, it is less than a hundred liters, and people's drinking water is even less. It is less than two liters a day when normal fruits and vegetables have a large water content.  Taiping's desalination ship's daily production capacity of 3,000 tons alone is enough to meet daily expenses, not to mention that Taiping also owns three water carriers converted from oil tankers.  A water carrier can transport 100,000 tons of water at a time, which is enough for tens of thousands of people on Taiping Island for a month.  These are enough to ensure that there is no shortage of water resources during the Taiping Island period.  Even if there is a war with the Japanese, there is no need to worry because of the water reserves on the island and the daily desalination production.  But these were only suitable for the Taiping Island era with a population of no more than 100,000 people. Later, the population continued to grow, especially after the emergence of Taiping Island, the population surged by hundreds of thousands.  The pressure on water resources is increasing. Even if the desalination capacity will be increased to 10,000 tons per day in the next step, and even if two more 100,000-ton water transport ships will be added, the fundamental problem will still not be solved.  On one side is the pressure on water resources, and on the other side is the gradually abundant surface water.  Li Xiang once issued a ban on the arbitrary use of groundwater on the grounds that the water source was unclean, which gradually became criticized.  Modern society pursues personal freedom after all, even if Li Xiang bears the title of King of Peace.  It does not mean that what is said is an imperial edict that everyone must obey.  Not to mention those who jumped into the rivers and lakes to bathe after the rain fell on Taiping Island, there were also picnickers who didn't mind taking a few sips of the clear stream water that washed through the mountain streams while picnicking, cooking and drinking.  After being continuously washed by rain, the stream flowing on the rocks is crystal clear, not contaminated by the filth of industrial civilization.  Even modern humans have learned not to drink raw water easily, but there are still many people who boil it and drink it in the wild.  Many people who don¡¯t take their bodies seriously will naturally not take Li Xiang¡¯s prohibition seriously, and Li Xiang cannot use legal means to judge such behavior.  Even among Taiping¡¯s senior officials, there have been constant proposals to use surface water as the water source for the Taiping Island waterworks.  Even Wang Mingyang, Fatty and others did not understand Li Xiang's paranoia after learning about the surface water test report.  But these are no longer troublesome.  There is a new water source on Taiping Island.  "I didn't expect that there would be such clear and sweet groundwater under the seabed rock formations!" After tasting the seabed deep well water drilled by the drilling team, Wang Mingyang not only marveled at the wonder of nature, but also marveled that there was such rich groundwater under Taiping Island.  Be grateful for the resources.  Little did he know that before Taiping Island or even Taiping Island appeared, Li Xiang had long known that the groundwater here was rich.  The reason why Li Xiang chose to build an island here is that he has actually explored the space earth many times.  As a relatively perfect place to build an island, in addition to natural conditions such as geographical location and climate, water source issues are naturally a top priority for the cautious Li Xiang.  Even the water quality has been tested through space water samples.  Although we had known for a long time that there was groundwater under Taiping Island, there was no urgency at the time, so we did not take any action. It was not until Taiping Island appeared that drilling equipment was erected.  However, it is not raised on the ground.  Instead, it was erected underground.  As the cost of oil extraction increases, modern drilling technology is constantly developing, driven by huge profits. Even in harsh environments like the North Sea and even thousands of meters of seabed, let alone a person in politics.  Under the influence of other factors, the Kola Peninsula deep borehole with a depth of more than 10,000 meters was drilled.  The area where Taiping Kingdom is located was not originally very deep.  Many areas are less than 1,000 meters deep. Even if the depth of the seabed rock formations is added, it is not that difficult.  Wang Mingyang, who didn't understand this, was worried at first.He wanted to drill into the rock formations under the surface of Taiping Island, but unexpectedly, the ubiquitous underground caves under Taiping Island solved even this small trouble.  When Taiping Island first appeared, its huge hollow underground caves played a great role in alleviating the huge waves caused by the crowded seawater.  When the island was built, those underground caves became part of the three-dimensional structural space of the Taiping Kingdom.  The seawater that filled it was quickly squeezed out by the seawater released by Li Xiang from the space earth. When the seawater in space expired and disappeared, the cooling magma under the rock mass had blocked the seawater intrusion gap, forming  A huge sealed underground cave.  After artificial drainage of remaining seawater, injection of clean air, and construction of various facilities, underground bases gradually took shape.  Although the conditions of many bases are not perfect, there is no problem in erecting drilling equipment in some places. ? 24 wells drilled in eight underground caves can provide 300,000 cubic meters of water per day, which can easily supply urban water for a million people.  The preliminary exploration of more than 10 billion cubic meters of groundwater reserves is enough to eliminate the hidden danger of water shortage in Taiping. Not to mention that many industrial water sources and some domestic water sources can directly use the increasingly abundant surface water.  With water, and with sufficient water sources, agricultural construction in Taiping Kingdom also started.  However, due to Li Xiang's caution, the area of ??cultivated land used for food crops in the Taiping Kingdom is now only less than 30,000 acres.  In addition to the fact that the air cannot be strictly controlled, Li Xiang is very cautious about things entering the entrance that may contaminate the space with too many factors.  The water source issue is one aspect, and so is the food issue.  Even though there is soil on Taiping Island, the cultivated land used for food crops is still piled with imported soil.  Ore transport ships transporting soil dock at Taiping's newly built dedicated wharf from time to time, but the carrying capacity of the five 200,000-ton ore ships is still unable to compare with the vast land of Taiping Island, especially in the setting of cultivated soil.  At least 80 cm.  Perhaps the area of ??cultivated land for food cultivation will continue to expand, but it is an ironclad fact that the Taiping Kingdom will not be self-sufficient in food in a short period of time.  "The land planning plan for the entire Taiping Kingdom has taken shape. Perhaps in ten years, increasing the cultivated land area to 10% of the land area and increasing the yield per mu can solve the problem of feeding millions of people. But now the food problem has always been unresolved.  There is a huge hidden danger above our heads. And our population will soon exceed one million or more, and peace is always too short, and our maritime lifeline is too fragile." Wang Mingyang avoided talking about the issue of high welfare.  He talked about the food problem, and then sighed and said, "If you don't have long-term worries, you must have immediate worries. Not only the food problem, Taiping is also worried about domestic and foreign troubles. There are three problems that may not be obvious now, but they will definitely be our fatal injury in the future."
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