Great time travel

Chapter 1, Political Commissar Guo's Iron Ambition
"... I remember when I was just born, the world's population was only 50 billion, but the global public opinion media at that time were already full of voices exclaiming that the population would explode and the earth would be overwhelmed. But now on the earth, the world The total population has reached 90 billion, and it may exceed 100 billion in a few years. Due to the advancement of science and technology, the average energy and material consumption per person has also increased a lot compared to 50 years ago..."

At the dining table of a seaside food stall with a mess of cups and plates, political commissar Guo was drinking raspberry wine in a leisurely manner, while talking to Li Wei, "...especially in black Africa south of the Sahara desert, there were only 80 million people in World War II. , which is equivalent to half of the population of China. Even in the 20s, there were only 5000 million people there. But now, the population of Black Africa has increased tenfold compared to World War II, and has increased to 1 billion. Then there is Bangladesh, but On a piece of land as small as the Ganges Delta, there are [-] million people crowded! There are also Pakistan, the Middle East and North Africa, which are also experiencing population explosions. Not to mention India-has surpassed China and become the world's largest The No.[-] country with a large population has been around for many years.

Then, the question arises, with the current scientific and technological strength and productivity level of human beings, can the earth support so many people?

Around this issue, I conducted a long period of investigation and research, and the final conclusion is: Unfortunately, although the level of technology has barely been reached, due to the political and economic system and racial division, all human beings are doomed to fail to move forward hand in hand. better tomorrow.

Many years ago, I followed the Chinese Volunteer Medical Team to Africa to fight against the Ebola plague, and I saw with my own eyes how incredible that place was.Can you imagine? In a big city with a population of 100 million people, there is actually no sewer, and the flood in the rainy season is mixed with sewage and flows across the street.With a population of more than 600 million, there are only more than 100 poor doctors and six ambulances, and tens of thousands of people die from malaria and cholera every year.Before the Chinese medical team arrived, half of the local doctors had died of illness, and half had fled, leaving the hospital full of patients unattended.The so-called local nurses can't even draw blood, and they don't obey the command of the medical team at all, and refuse to save their compatriots. If they make a fuss, their wage arrears will be even more irrecoverable

This is the social landscape of the African country Sierra Leone. Although many people died of Ebola during that period, more people died of riots and suppression than Ebola.Over the years, I heard that there was another civil war there, and the situation did not get better, but worse.

What's more terrible is that despite the civil war and the plague, the population in their black Africa is still skyrocketing against the trend, rather than decreasing.

Moreover, Sierra Leone is only a small country after all, and it is far from being the place with the worst population crisis in Africa.As far as I know, the most shocking part of this issue is Lagos, the capital of Nigeria. The total area is only 20.00 square kilometers, 500% of which is still water, and the population of Lagos is as high as 500 300!Both the total population and population density are higher than our Shanghai!But Lagos is not an industrial and commercial metropolis like Shanghai. There are no viaducts and small high-rise apartments in Shanghai, only dilapidated shacks in slums, no running water, no electricity, no public transportation and sewers, and no jobs—in Lagos Of the 2000 million people in Sri Lanka, only [-] million are engaged in foreign trade, petroleum, administration and other occupations, and they can receive a fixed salary every month. There are more than [-] million black people... Seriously, I can't understand how they survived in the city. It may be the same as Sanmao in "The Wanderings of Sanmao", begging, begging, picking up garbage Picking up trash, peeling bark, peeling bark..."

"...Well, it does sound pathetic...but so what? Isn't that what Africans do all the time?"

Li Wei shrugged his shoulders lacking in sympathy, "...in the old China before liberation, the life of ordinary people might be worse than them!"

“…the problem is that Nigerians are dying even on such days, while their population continues to grow!”

Political commissar Guo explained, "...No matter how bleak the old China was in the Republic of China, it was still an agricultural country. But Nigeria and many African countries are not even qualified as agricultural countries! Even food depends on the United States or the United States. Argentina will provide it!"

"...Eh? Is it because the land there is too poor for farming?" Li Wei said with a frown.

"...On the contrary, Nigeria occupies the most high-quality cultivated land on earth. The total area of ​​the country is 92 square kilometers, and the reclaimable land accounts for 60.00%18. After excluding cities, rivers, and protected areas, the remaining cultivated land is about [-] million Mu of arable land. The red line of arable land in China is [-] billion mu, and the arable land area of ​​Nigeria is roughly equivalent to one-third of China. Due to the tropical climate, crops grow fast and can reach three or even four or five crops a year , so Nigeria can theoretically support the largest population, which can reach about half of China's."

Political Commissar Guo spread his hands, "...but the problem is that Africans' farming method is really... How should I put it? It's too rough! Just get some seeds, then take a pickaxe, dig a hole and throw the seeds down. Yes. Some of the laziest blacks don’t even bother digging holes, and throw them directly into the wild. The land in Africa does not need to be plowed, and the soil is very soft without plowing, so a year’s farm work can be done in just one week over!

In places like Congo and Cameroon, many seemingly overgrown wild lands by the roadside may actually be farmlands that local people rely on for survival, but this is how they are planted.With Africa's unique natural environment, there are still good harvests.

For example, many of the annual crops we know will become perennials on the land of Africa, growing endlessly due to the tropical climate.China Construction Company once went to Cameroon to carry out work, brought some cucumbers there, and planted them next to the station.As a result, I didn't fertilize much, and the cucumber grew as big as a winter melon, and it could be harvested continuously for several years once planted.There are also chili peppers, which grow into pepper trees in tropical Africa, a full five meters high, and they have been picked for three consecutive years without finishing.After the Chinese construction team left, the local blacks could continue to harvest... As for potatoes, it was even more powerful. At first, only a few seeds were planted, and after a few years, it automatically became a potato field larger than a square, without relying on Do manual transplanting or something..."

"...This...Since the land in Africa is so fertile, why can't it be self-sufficient in food?" Levi asked strangely.

"...The problem is that because of the good natural conditions, the black people have been raised to be lazy. They have no concept of hard work, no awareness of savings, and no understanding of what it means to be prepared for danger in times of peace—the ancient Chinese did not farm for a year. Or they will starve to death if they fail to harvest. There are so many kinds of berries and nuts in the African tropical rainforest.

Therefore, African blacks have not had the habit of storing food since ancient times. Anyway, there are food everywhere in the woods, so why eat something that is not fresh?The result is that agricultural technology has never progressed, and it is even more backward than the slash-and-burn farming in China's pre-Qin period, and there is no motivation for improvement.

Even if it is the most advanced agricultural civilization in Black Africa, according to Chinese standards, the farmers there are just as lazy-they can grow crops for three seasons, **** people I don’t bother to plant crops for only one season, because the crops planted for one season are enough to eat, and there are surpluses that can be sold to the city for some pocket money, so why bother?Wouldn't it be more comfortable to bask in the sun and brag about girls?
And the same goes for black people in the city.In Europe, the Greeks and Spaniards have always been known for their laziness.But if compared with African blacks, even the Greeks who only work from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm every day are already considered model workers. It is normal to play for three days a day, and it is considered lazy to play for a week.The monthly salary system simply cannot recruit people.

However, although tropical Africa is rich in food, it is not suitable for growing wheat, rice and corn. Uh, it may also be that the technology of black farmers is too poor to play.Although the fruits and tubers of the tropical rain forest are rich in nutrients, they are difficult to store for a long time like rice flour.As a result, Nigeria clearly has [-] million mu of arable land that can be cultivated at least three times a year, but it still has to import nearly [-] million tons of wheat and corn from the United States every year to supply emerging large cities such as Lagos, and the cost of purchasing grain is Rely on oil, minerals or something to make up.Then, since black people have no sense of savings since ancient times, most African countries have not engaged in strategic food reserves. As a result, international food prices fluctuate, or financial resources are exhausted and there is no money to import food from the Americas. Live as you want, but those black people in the city who don't farm the land immediately starve to death everywhere. "

Professor Guo said, "... Politicians in black Africa have not thought about this issue, but on the one hand, the United States has been dumping food to Africa-everyone knows that the three major world strategies of the United States are the oil strategy, the US dollar Strategy, food strategy. Because the politics of African countries are not independent enough to withstand the pressure of food dumping from the United States, African countries usually cannot compete with imported food by growing their own food, and cannot afford agricultural subsidies. On the other hand, modern agriculture has long been not only It is just a matter as simple as digging the ground and throwing seeds, but it will involve major industries such as systematic breeding, agricultural machinery, and agricultural chemicals, as well as dozens of secondary industries. Most countries in Black Africa, Without a decent steel factory, it is impossible to manufacture complex agricultural tools; without modern chemical plants, it is impossible to manufacture pesticides and fertilizers; the education rate is too low, and the illiteracy rate is much higher than in old China, and the number of agricultural technicians is almost zero. Establish your own large-scale breeding company; without heavy industry as a support, you can't manufacture agricultural vehicles and tractors, you can't make water pumps and irrigation pipes; you lack your own cement industry, so almost all irrigation canals in Africa are mud canals, which will burst when it rains heavily ; Light industry is also extremely underdeveloped, so even sprayers for spraying pesticides must be imported.

All in all, modern agriculture is linked to modern industry, and they cannot be separated from each other at all. The construction of industry in backward countries must squeeze capital from agriculture before it can feed back agriculture.This relationship is somewhat similar to flowers and bees.Flowers need bees to pollinate them to reproduce, and bees need nectar to survive.If Africans want to engage in modern agriculture like China, the United States and Europe, they must first establish a complete set of industrial systems!
However, with the two industrial giants of China and the United States crushing the world, it is almost impossible for African countries to develop their industries... What's more, with the laziness and hedonism of African blacks, if they really want to Like the Chinese in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, they squeezed out large sums of money to build industries at all costs, and if they wanted to implement family planning to limit the population, African politicians who dared to do such nonsense would definitely be kicked out of power by the unbearable people.Moreover, Western powers in Europe and the United States will also support agents to sabotage, and even we Chinese will participate.

Let's put it this way, if the difficulty of industrialization in old China is about heaven-defying, but in black Africa, the difficulty of industrialization is at least universe-defying, because even the language must be unified from the beginning. , but also can make any teacher despair.

Therefore, although the vast and fertile land of Black Africa is enough to feed 20 billion or even 30 billion people after being fully developed and utilized with modern technology, Africans can only sit on so much fertile land due to various objective conditions. However, modern agriculture cannot be developed on a large scale.Just like the Indians in the Age of Discovery, they could not rely on the rich resources of the American continent to resist the invasion of whites.

At present, African blacks can still hang their lives by importing food from the West. Once the United States and Argentina, the major western agricultural countries, no longer export cheap food, or the population of Africa expands further, it will not even be able to pay for the minimum rations... Then, a mass death event whose scale is far greater than the Rwandan genocide will be staged in Africa in an instant, either suicide or homicide..."

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"...In addition to the exponential growth of the population of Africa in the past few decades, which is almost the rhythm of two, two, three, and three, there are Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, India, etc. Middle East and India, etc. In South Asian countries, the population growth rate is also insane, and it has reached the point where the US bombs can’t stop killing them. In a sense, the situation of the Arabs is more tragic than that of the blacks, because if the black lands work hard, or from a certain With technical support from a big power, they can grow some food before they starve to death. However, the land and water resources of the Arabs have already been developed to the limit, and no matter how modern industrial and agricultural technologies are introduced, it is impossible Do better.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, Middle Eastern countries have been relying entirely on exporting oil and importing food to support the growing population bomb.The situation in the South Asian subcontinent is not much better, and because of their lack of oil, the life of most Indians and Pakistanis is not as good as that of Arabs. According to the Chinese view, a civil war should have started long ago.But due to the instinct of human beings to reproduce, they are still giving birth vigorously, regardless of whether their own country can support them.As for the education of the children, there is no consideration at all. Anyway, after the children are born, it will be the business of the future generations.

When we Chinese want to have children now, we basically have to consider whether we can afford our children to go to college, and hope that future generations can live better than ourselves. If we can’t, we would rather have fewer children.However, those countries in South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa don’t consider this kind of thing at all. They are born with ten or eight children. Because the family is poor, they go to work directly without going to school, so the illiteracy rate is even higher than in the colonial era. up.

Such an ignorant and illiterate population is not actually a labor force in a modern society with advanced technology, and they are even expelled from the ranks of laborers. At best, they are at the same level as livestock.In the world trade order dominated by industrial countries, there is no need for these low-quality people-for a highly automated modern manufacturing industry, it is far cheaper to upgrade software and update robots than to feed and train this bunch of undisciplined illiterates .As long as automation technology continues to advance, developed countries will not hinder economic growth even if their population stagnates. At most, they will selectively accept some smart students from the third world.As for the remaining billions of low-quality people who can neither engage in modern industry nor modern agriculture, from the perspective of social productivity, they are simply superfluous, no different from disabled people, and they rely entirely on the kindness and kindness of others. Charity is living.

However, whether it is the kindness of people or the quantity of surplus agricultural products in the whole world, specifically, the cheap grain available for sale in the international market is limited within a certain period of time.Once a certain threshold is exceeded, these redundant populations are destined to be eliminated and destroyed automatically.Just like the 300-year cycle law that ancient Chinese feudal dynasties have never been able to break through-when technological progress stagnates and land expansion stops, the population that a civilization system can support is always limited, and when the limit is reached, wars will automatically start, Massacres and other population eradication procedures.

In the same way, on today's earth, although technological progress has not stagnated, land expansion has stopped-human beings only have one earth.Moreover, due to political factors, the advancement of technology cannot benefit the whole world, and the allocation of various resources cannot achieve the optimal allocation with the goal of feeding the largest population due to the division of national boundaries and the defects of the capitalist system. The population limit is further reduced.

Under such circumstances, in order to restore the "natural state" of human society, these overloaded third-world poor will be the first to lose their right to survive.Their fate includes famine, war, plague, massacre, ecological collapse... Seven or eight years before and after the Second World War, only [-] million people died.And once the population on the earth collapses, it is natural that one billion people will die a year-the Rwandan massacre is a vivid example. Under the right conditions, the killing efficiency of rubber tapping knives and mountain axes is no more than that of atomic bombs and aircraft carriers. The group is even worse..."

Li Wei's face turned pale when he heard Professor Guo's creepy and terrifying speculation, but he still retorted, "...Even if the future prospects of Africa, the Middle East and South Asia are horrific, it has nothing to do with us Chinese. What does it matter? Even if thousands of Africans, Arabs and Indians starve to death or kill each other bloody rivers, our country should not be affected? They can't fight!"

"...Hey, one billion and two billion people died on the earth at one go, and you actually think that this has nothing to do with China? You are so superficial! The current earth is no longer the situation in which the ancient continents are old and dead and do not communicate with each other! You Do you understand what a global village means?"

Professor Guo drank a small glass of wine again, shook his head and smiled, "...when hunger, turmoil and destruction come, do you think those low-quality people in the third world who have been eliminated will stay at home obediently and wait to be cut down?" die or starve instead of flocking to the rest of the world to find a way out?"