Datang doesn't have kerosene? There is no oil in China?

Suning instantly linked these two sentences together, and immediately felt that Li Erma was a fool, a fool, the Manchu Dynasty was a second goods, Nima China is a big land, you told me that there is no oil oil? China basically has everything that should be in the world, it's just a matter of quantity, fire oil is oil, is there no oil in China? The earliest name for oil is from the Song Dynasty's "Mengxi Bi Tan", okay?

The Eastern Han Dynasty historian Ban Gu wrote in his Hanshu. In the Geographical Chronicle, it is recorded that "Gaonu County has water that can be burned", Gaonu County is in the northeast of Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, and it is said that there is an overflow of oil floating on the water; Fan Yezhi of the Southern Dynasty "Book of the Later Han Dynasty. The "Chronicles of the County Country" records the collection and use of oil by the ancients: "(Longevity) There are mountains in the south of the county, and the spring water comes out of the stone, which is as big as that, and the burning is extremely bright, and it is not edible. The county people call it stone paint. The so-called "stone paint" in the text referred to petroleum at that time.

And even if you don't know this era for a long time, during the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Turks attacked Jiuquan in Gansu, and the locals used oil to ignite fire to resist the Turks and successfully repelled the Turks. Suning was a little worried about Li Er's IQ, but at this time, the eldest grandson Wuji stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has heard a little, it seems that in the first year of Xuanzheng of the previous Zhou Dynasty, the Turks sent troops to attack Suzhou, and the locals used the stone grease water to repel the Turks, and the water poured the fire more and more hot, as if, it was similar to this fire oil."

Although the source of fire oil since the founding of the Tang Dynasty came from the Champa State, it is not that there is no fire oil in the Tang Dynasty, but it is a long way away. Moreover, it is inconvenient to mine, it is not easy to transport, and all along, no one has been able to use the oil to the best place, and it is impossible to directly burn 30,000 people to ashes like Su Hou......"

The meaning of the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Er Majesty understood, glared at him, and Li Er Majesty said: "In that case, Suning." Now that you know how to fight with fire oil. So, do you know how to extract fire oil for Datang's use? As he spoke, he put on an expression that he was going to say that he would die if he didn't know, and Suning was depressed. Why did this old guy get involved with himself?

Helpless. Besides, this matter can really be investigated. If others don't know, they must know, and the history of the locals using oil is not short. If you ask a little bit, it's not a problem, it's just that the oil in Yan'an is not the richest, but there is a cradle of China's petroleum industry near Yumen Oilfield, which was put into production in 1939 and is the place where Daqing Shengli and other oil fields were born, and the oil production is quite abundant, but this road is not far away.

If you want to say that the road is more convenient, then it is North China, there are many oil fields on the Jizhong Plain, and there are also many oil fields in Sichuan, but they need to be explored, and there is no modern equipment, it is difficult to exploit and use oil, and only a small part of it can be used......

Suning could only say: "Your Majesty, this may indeed exist in the territory of Datang, and there must be a lot of them, Datang is a big place, what is not there?" It's just that this oil is not easy to exploit, it will burn in case of fire, and once the number is too large, it will also produce an explosion, don't think about living people within a few miles, the threat is too great, if you don't have good preparations, rashly mining fire oil, I'm afraid it will only be a disaster.

Your Majesty might as well send someone to the country of tribute to the country of fire oil to ask how the oil is mined there, and bring its methods to the Tang Dynasty, and we can do it cheaply, right? ”

Modern technology can't be helped, but ancient technology is still possible, Baidu should be able to search for ancient oil exploitation technology, not much, if there can be the Ming and Qing dynasties is enough, anyway, it is also a few hundred years later, along with foreign countries to ask, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar where there is still relatively rich oil, such as the famous Ringanqiang oil field in World War II.

Li Erma Xià felt right, so he agreed, and ordered to go down, this matter was said, but Suning began to raise another question, that is, about the issue of edible oil, at this point, it should be decided as soon as possible, and then gradually implemented, even if it starts immediately, it is estimated that it will take several years to achieve initial results, if you want to let all the people of the Tang Dynasty eat oil, it is estimated that it is a matter of a century-old national policy, but this has to be said.

"Your Majesty, I don't know if you have noticed, how big is the difference between a meal with oil and water and without oil and water?" Suning asked a question.

Li Er was stunned for a moment, shook his head, didn't know what Suning meant, so Suning asked Yu Chigong, who had a relatively advantageous family environment: "Your Majesty is from a nobleman, I don't know this, but General Wei Chi may know, right?" Is the amount of food eaten the same when you can't eat oil and when you eat oil? ”

Everyone turned their eyes to Wei Chigong, and they didn't know what Suning meant by this.

Wei Chigong was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and said slowly: "This, don't say it, in the past, the family was poor and couldn't eat oil, so you could only eat, one meal, there were no four or five bowls of food, so don't want to be full, hey, at that time, natural disasters and man-made disasters, how could you want to be full?" It's good to have food to eat, and then I followed His Majesty Xià and became a general, and my life is good, I eat well, this food ...... Alas? Su boy, don't say it, it seems, it's true, if you have meat to eat and wine to drink, two large bowls of grain seem to be enough......"

Wei Chigong cast his puzzled eyes on Suning, and the ministers also looked at Suning, wanting to know why Suning asked this, and what was the value of Wei Chigong's answer, Li Erma looked at Suning with blazing eyes, and Suning then said: "This matter, the minister also noticed it when he traveled the world before, General Wei Chi has a strong physique, and the amount of food is naturally greater than that of ordinary people, ordinary peasant men, a meal without three or four bowls of grain is not enough, but the minister follows the master, and the food is better, sometimes eat a meal of meat, Even a plate of green leafy vegetables, a bowl of grain will solve the problem.

At that time, the minister was strange, and asked those peasant men how they could eat so much grain, but they came to ask the minister, saying how the minister could eat so much food? Although the minister is young. But the average peasant boy also has three bowls of rice, otherwise how can he have the strength to do farm work? Both the minister and the master felt strange, so they lived there for a while, only to find that the dishes that the minister and the master ate had oil in them, and those peasant men only ate grain, and by the way, they ate something else as a dish, and there was no oil at all.

However, they also have a time to eat oil and water, and celebrate festivals every year. Well fed. They couldn't eat a bowl of food for a meal, and when the minister asked them, they also thought it was strange, but they blamed the meat for the reason. But Shizun said. Not the cause of meat. It should be the cause of oil, and there is oil in the meat, isn't it? To prove. Shizun made a real yàn and invited a farmer with a large amount of food to have a meal, the dish was very simple, a large plate of fried green leafy vegetables in oil.

This peasant man has never eaten this dish, and he has eaten up the whole plate of green leafy vegetables, and there is no juice left, as a result, he could have eaten five or six bowls of grain, but after eating the green leafy vegetables that have been put on the oil, he only ate two bowls of grain and could not eat, saying that he was full, and the master concluded that whether the food he ate had enough oil and water determined the amount of food to be eaten, and the minister had also experienced it himself, not eating oil and water, only eating a bowl of rice, and as a result, he was hungry and panicked after an hour, but what about eating oil and water? You won't feel hungry for at least three hours.

In this way, the amount of food eaten by a person will be reduced by about sixty percent, whether there is oil and water in the food eaten, it can produce a sixty percent quantity difference, if a peasant man has oil and water every meal, he can eat about sixty percent less grain, Datang's grain can be sixty percent rich, and he can raise sixty percent more people, as long as there is oil and water, Datang's grain will be extremely abundant in a short period of time.

Therefore, Datang's current predicament of food shortage can be changed, as long as there is sufficient oil and water, there is no need to worry about the problem of insufficient food, although Datang's grain output has risen slightly, but the so-called self-protection due to the lack of progress, once there is a big battle to be fought, these accumulated grain will be used up, in case of natural disasters, it will be more dangerous, but if there is enough oil and water to guarantee, coupled with the rising grain output year after year, and a large amount of land gradually developed by Datang, these are not problems! ”

Suning's words lit up Li Erma's eyes, and he hurriedly asked, "Is this really the case?" If there is enough oil and water, can we reduce food loss by 60%? Is this true? ”

Suning nodded: "Experience it yourself, there is no mistake!" ”

Li Er's majesty was overjoyed, and the ministers were also surprised, I didn't expect it to be like this, I have usually experienced it, but only this kid noticed it, if it is extended to the Tang Dynasty, how big will it be that a batch of grain will be vacated? How many wars can be fought? How many captives were captured? How much wealth do you get? This kid is really a blessing!

Everyone fell into a beautiful fantasy, and Fang Xuanling had to stand up again to be a fly: "Although what Su Hou wants to set up is very good, but, please don't forget that Datang's current oil and water production is already insufficient just for us, not to mention the tens of millions of people in Datang?" How easy is it to say? How long will it take to do this? How many cattle and sheep are enough? What's more, cattle are an important labor, how many sheep does Datang have? ”

Fang Xuanling's fly technique was performed very well, and immediately made all the people who fell into a beautiful fantasy eat a fly as disgusting, and looked at Fang Xuanling with unkind eyes, but had to bow his head and admit that what he said was right, oil is a luxury, it is really a luxury......

So they set their eyes on Suning again, Li Erma looked at Suning viciously, you kid always put forward beautiful ideas, but there is no way to realize them, isn't this disturbing? !

Suning knew what this old shameless was thinking, so he said: "Actually, this is not very difficult, although it takes time, but it is predictable, about seven or eight years will be about the same, there is enough land, enough people to plant, there is no need to think about others, the master did this before, the minister can eat oil, otherwise the cattle and sheep are too expensive, flax is not easy to obtain, where can the minister eat oil?" ”

Li Erxi asked angrily, "Is there any way to get enough oil quickly?" Say it quickly, don't ask for your marquis if you don't say it! ”

Suning rolled his eyes and said: "That is, you can't think that you can't eat enough, don't mention oil and water, the two-pronged approach, the land of Datang is enough, while planting food, in addition to increasing the amount of flax planting, we must also increase the planting area of soybeans, just use the land of Shandong and the newly developed land of the south of the Yangtze River, use a lot, plant a large number of flax and soybeans, not only flax can be extracted from oil, soybeans can also be extracted from oil, although the amount of oil is not much, but one more crop to extract oil is good, isn't it?" Besides, the tofu is also very delicious, and the more soybeans you can make more soy sauce, isn't it good? ”

Everyone was stunned, can soybeans still be squeezed for oil?

In fact, soybeans in ancient times have always been used to make tofu, no one used to squeeze oil, and the oil content of soybeans is relatively low, it is difficult to extract the oil in it by the ancient pressing oil method, and the oil content of sesame seeds is about 45%, so for a long time China is the sole leader of sesame oil, and the reason why a large amount of soybean oil is eaten in modern times is because of the improvement of the process.

And during this period, the production of sesame seeds and soybeans is very small, how can you get enough oil? Only higher technology and sufficient quantities of sesame seeds and soybeans can be used to have enough oil, and the population of Datang is not large, and the amount of oil that everyone eats cannot be considered large, so this trick should be able to work. (To be continued......)