Doctor 985: Planting a Prosperous World in the Kangxi Dynasty

1662, The first year of Kangxi, was the coldest moment of the Little Ice Age. The Qing Empire was slipping into the abyss of the Malthusian trap: the land was barren, famine was everywhere, and the corrupt bureaucracy was like a parasite, squeezing the last vitality out of this civilization. Su Xing, a 985 doctor of agriculture, unexpectedly came to this era of hunger and madness with a massive agricultural database and modern logic in his mind. Here, he does not talk about morality, only the second law of thermodynamics. Starting from a pile of horse manure in Ningde, he used anaerobic fermentation to gain political chips and used the phosphate fertilizer revolution to create miracles in per-acre yields. In the eyes of the gentry, he was the "Farming Sage" who had the Midas touch to gold; in Kangxi's eyes, he was the "heart" of the empire; but in his own eyes, he was just an experimenter playing "system optimization" in the Qing Dynasty. While famous Neo-Confucian officials were still talking about "preserving natural principles and destroying human desires", Su Xing had already locked up the southern finance with "grain chips", colonized the Nanyang Islands with "seed patents", and shattered the backbone of the old era with the roar of steam engines. "Imperial power is illusory, and only calories are eternal." This is a violent and elegant civilizational dimensionality reduction transformation led by a doctor.