The big man has a living father

Chapter 47 It's called heat
Zhao Guo was quickly convinced by Huo Hai's chain of reasoning.

First of all, eating meat is more filling than eating rice.

Secondly, eating oil can help you stay full longer than eating meat or rice.

Again, transporting the same weight of oil consumes far less oil than transporting millet and wheat.

Finally, the cauliflower, which was officially named Brassica rapa by Huo Hai, can be used to extract oil.

What kind of horrific news is derived from this chain of evidence?
The empire is currently waging war, and each soldier needs ten or fifty households to support him.

This only involves food, and does not involve the soldiers' food wages and salaries, or subsidies for their families.

The empire also manufactures weapons and armor, raises war horses, and so on.

Every soldier requires the harvest of thirty households, or one hundred and fifty people!

And now, it is possible for him to reduce this consumption to one soldier for every five households and twenty-five people!
What happens if you succeed?
The Empire's Northern Expedition army can be expanded from the current 350,000 to 150,000 or 250,000!

After such a large-scale improvement, the Huns will go from occasionally winning to being beaten all year round!

To take a step back, the empire does not need so many soldiers to fight the Huns every day, so the cost of the empire's wars will drop dramatically.

And all it takes is growing rapeseed.

But the prerequisite for growing rapeseed is to make sure that every link in this chain of evidence is true.

"It's easy to check that rapeseed can be used to produce oil. It used to be grown in the barren lands of the northwest by the Qiang people and some poor border dwellers. After the recent wars, the empire's territory expanded, and rapeseed has spread to Longxi and has been grown for several seasons."

"And the rest is just about experimentation."

Zhao Guo: "How do we test this?"

Huo Hai: “Controlled experiment.”

"I asked all the soldiers in advance and came to a conclusion that people of similar height and weight eat about the same amount of food."

It stands to reason that it would be difficult for a group of people to compare calorie consumption.

But soldiers really can.

Because their daily activity levels were almost the same during the training period, the calories they consumed during exercise were very similar.

In this way, it is easy to come up with the theory that people of the same height and weight have similar basic body consumption.

"In this case, we use soldiers of the same height and weight as a reference group and have them do the same thing every day."

"But, one person eats pure millet or wheat with vegetables without oil or water, one person eats reduced amounts of grains, adds the same amount of vegetables, and adds some meat, the third person eats an even smaller amount of grains, the same amount of vegetables, the same amount of meat, but eats more oil, and the fourth group does not eat meat, eats the same grains and vegetables as the third group, but does not eat meat, but increases the intake of oil."

Zhao Guo: "Then let them do the same thing every day, and they must strictly follow it. Then, every once in a while... weigh them! You will know how much they can bear hunger."

Anyone who is not a fool knows that eating too much will make you fat, and eating less will make you thinner.

As long as we can compare the weight, we can study the degree to which each food can alleviate hunger.

Huo Hai: "Tolerating hunger is a very subjective thing. Everyone feels differently. Why don't we use a more professional word to describe it?"

"When people are alive, they are hot, but when they die, they become cold... The amount of this substance that sustains human life, why not call it heat?"

Zhao Guo's eyes lit up: "Good idea!"

Huo Hai smiled and said, "Objects can be weighed in kilograms, water can be measured in liters, and cloth can be measured in feet. We also have to determine a unit of measurement for this heat."

Huo Hai thought about it, then pointed at the wheel: "Look, my wheel ruts are bigger than the average ones. It hasn't rained here for a long time, so the soil is loose. The wheel ruts are caloric. Let's just call the unit of heat calorie."

Zhao Guo thought, what a weird unit this is? But Mr. Huo can name it whatever he wants.

Zhao Guo: "Second Master Huo, you brought so many soldiers with you..."

Huo Hai: "They are the experimental subjects. They are all carefully selected by me."

"So many?" Zhao Guo and his gang.

Huo Hai: "If our experiment is to be convincing, we must have more experimental subjects. And you also said that some people will have diarrhea after eating too much oil. What if some samples are invalid?"

Zhao Guo: "That doesn't need so many people."

Huo Hai: "Besides oil, do you think there are any other foods that can be produced on a large scale? We can also experiment with milk and eggs. We can even experiment with whether different groups of people have the same ability to resist disease when they have different diets."

"All kinds of experiments require people."

"In addition to the soldiers, I have also found children and women for you. They are all good families in the empire. You can do experiments on them, but you must serve them well in other aspects. They are all meritorious service to the empire and warriors who have shed blood for the empire!"

Zhao Guo immediately became serious: "Of course!"

Huo Hai: "Then I'll leave these people to you?" Zhao Guo thought for a moment and waved a soldier over: "Can you find a way to rent some houses in the neighborhood closest to us, and then buy some daily necessities? If there is anything missing, buy them all. Don't worry about the money. Our research is very important!"

Huo Hai laughed: "I'll leave the people to you. It just so happens that I don't come to the north very often, so I'll go and take a look at my own property."

Zhao Guo said seriously: "Don't worry, Mr. Huo, I will study and record it carefully!"

What Huo Hai didn’t know was that he had actually found the right person.

Historically, before and after Emperor Wu's reign, the per-acre yield of various types of soil differed by about twice.

It was because of Zhao Guo’s various experiments and innovations in farming methods and farming equipment.

However, Huo Hai did not need to know this, he also knew that once these experiments were completed, the Han Empire would become truly prosperous.

The current per-acre yield is too low. Although Huo Hai does not understand the history of the Han Dynasty, he understands the history of the following dynasties and knows the per-acre yield in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Two to eight times higher than it is now!
Just imagine new farming equipment, new plants, new planting ideas, and the promotion of fertilizers.

These can dramatically increase per-acre yield in a short period of time.

At present, the annexation of farmland in the world is not serious. After the per mu yield increases, the price of grain will inevitably fall, and the per capita quality of life will inevitably improve.

Don’t say that low grain prices hurt farmers.

Cheap grain prices only hurt landlords.

People who don't have enough food can quickly get enough food. Whoever calls this harming farmers is the one who is really hurt.

Moreover, Huo Hai has already made a plan to wait until the car production gets into rhythm.

Let Iron Man Tang Sier research more efficient plows, water wheels, windmills and other things.

Huo Hai has been staying at home for many days recently and has not gone out. It is a rare opportunity for him to come to the north, so he went directly to the ranch further north.

……

Soon, Duke Ying drove Dong Zhongshu and the prince to the experimental field.

"Excuse me, where is Lord Huo?"

Zhao Guo: "Oh, I went to the ranch."

in the palace.

After hearing Cao Xiang's report, Emperor Wu of Han remained calm and said, "The crown prince just went out of the palace for a while, it's no big deal."

……

Soon, Cao Xiang reported again.

Liu Che remained calm and composed: "As the crown prince of the Han Dynasty, do you think I should be afraid of a group of old Xiongnu people who can't walk and the Xiongnu women who raise cattle and sheep for me?"

……

pasture.

Dong Zhongshu: "Excuse me, where is Lord Huo?"

Bu Shi: "Oh, after inspecting the ranch, I went to the coal mine."

Soon, Cao Xiang reported again: "Your Majesty, Mr. Dong took the prince to the Tongguan coal mine."

Liu Che could no longer hold back his anger. "The prince is only less than eight years old! Eight years old! Are Shi Qing, Dong Zhongshu, and Huo Hai all crazy?! Someone, I want to... inspect Tongguan!"

Liu Che was extremely anxious.

Those 10,000+ Xiongnu were originally warriors, but now that they were defeated, they were forced to work as illegal coal miners. Needless to say, how much resentment did these 10,000+ vicious Xiongnu surrendered soldiers have? !

If they knew that the Prince of Han was right in front of them.

What can you do?!

By the prince's side were two sixty-year-old men, Dong Zhongshu and Shi Qing, and Ying Gong, a scholar who had never touched a sword in his life to avoid suspicion as he was a descendant of the Qin royal family. The three of them took the prince to join the more than 10,000 surrendered Hun soldiers.

How the hell is this?!
This is like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth! This is like a piglet running into a butcher's house - meat is delivered to your door!
Liu Che, who was about to climb onto his horse, discovered that no one was looking at him, so he slapped himself twice: Damn it, why am I still playing around with allegorical sayings at this time!

……

Huo Hai finally saw the prince and his entourage when they were crossing the river.

So I waited on the other side of the river.

(End of this chapter)