Cangguo's strategy succeeded.

Nowadays, the countries have completely trusted Cangguo and no longer see it as a big threat.

On the contrary, they all believe that Cangguo is an ally worth wooing.

Why?

Because it is obvious that Cangguo only wants to do business with all countries.

Do business, that's easy to do.

Everyone's favorite is this kind of country that only needs money.

So, in a short period of time, merchants from all over the world rushed into the country.

The trade atmosphere is stronger than in the past.

The difference is that the attitude of Cangguo seems to have changed somewhat, in addition to the equipment of the heavy cavalry, it intends to reduce the output of weapons and equipment to various countries, except for the Wu Kingdom, the Yun Kingdom and the Mang Kingdom, the conventional weapons that the rest of the countries can obtain are very limited.

It is simply not enough to equip an army.

The statement given by Cangguo is very simple, that is, the steel plant of Cangguo will use the main production capacity for domestic construction, so it will not build too many weapons for the time being, and everything will be centered on domestic economic construction.

This statement suddenly made many countries speechless.

But at the same time, it is also very helpless.

There is no way, people Cangguo is now wholeheartedly developing the economy, many places, such as the construction of canals, need to use a lot of steel on the wharf, after all, the output of steel is very limited, and there is no way to use it in the key places.

Anyway, everyone can't buy it, and you don't have to worry about what one is going to do or the other, so there's not much difference.

As a result, for a long period of time, there were more and more envoys sent by various countries to Cangguo.

For this phenomenon, both Ruan and Chu are very worried.

These two countries, look a little further.

Because, they all understand that Cangguo is transitioning from a big country to the center of the world.

In the past, whether it was the Jin State or the Qi State that had long since disappeared, the way to become the center of the world was to hegemon, and after hegemony, it would naturally be able to become the center of the world economically and culturally.

Cangguo is taking a completely different path.

Through its own trade status, and then with the military ability as the auxiliary, and then advocate the Grand Canal, and finally become a well-deserved center of the world, step by step strong, and when all countries are inseparable from the Cangguo, and militarily, and lag behind the Cangguo, then the Cangguo is the uncrowned king.

More powerful than the overlord of the Jin Kingdom in the past!

It's a pity that even if they understand this truth, they are helpless.

After all, the general trend is unstoppable, and even these two big countries are now unable to stand up against it.

It is not easy for Cangguo not to take the initiative to attack the rest of the countries with the advantage of heavy cavalry!

In this way, the sixteenth year of Taiding passed in a hurry.

The countries in the world seem to have a tacit understanding, no country has taken the initiative to provoke wars, even the Ruan State and the Wu State, which had a lot of friction before, have maintained great restraint and focused all their energy on domestic development.

In the seventeenth year of Taiding, the Jincang Grand Canal was first completed.

In the same year, there were several relatively short canals in Cangguo, which were officially opened to navigation.

At the end of the year, Mang and Nguyen also dug waterways one after another.

Without exception, all countries have mobilized millions of people to dig hard.

Everyone knows that digging a canal is a matter that must be done quickly, and the sooner it is, the more beneficial it will be.

How can millions of people build a canal?

According to Yang Mu's knowledge, the Sui Dynasty recruited millions of people, and two were repaired in five years.

Moreover, the mileage is much longer.

This is equivalent to investing several times the manpower to build a canal, how can it not be happy?

According to rough estimates, the total number of people invested in the construction of the Tianxia Canal has reached 8 million.

Among them, there are countless people who stain the canal with blood.

The excavation of the Grand Canal is magnificent, but at the same time, there are countless sins and blood underneath.

Yang Mu is not very clear about the number of people who died in the canals dug in various countries, but under the humanized management and workmanship mode of Cangguo, thousands of people have died due to accidents and diseases, not to mention the rest of the countries.

Regardless of anything else, let's talk about Chu State, Yang Mu has long heard that in order to dig a river in a group of hilly areas, Chu State has been driving people to do things day and night, beating and scolding at every turn, and there have been several people's riots.

During an excavation, in order to meet the construction deadline, the people were asked to start construction in a torrential rain, and then encountered a landslide, and more than 2,000 people died in the mudslide.

With the completion of the two canals, the rest of the countries were also a little anxious, and immediately invested more manpower and material resources, urging the craftsmen and people below to speed up.

Yang Mu knew very well in his heart that the construction of the canal must have a great chain reaction.

For example, the remote state of Wu, because of the distance between the state of Ruan and the state of Wei, could not afford to dig the Grand Canal alone, but it also sent people to the state of Cang and asked the Ministry of Industry to send technicians to help the state of Wu design a canal to connect the state of Wei.

It was also at this time that Yang Mu knew that the original Wu State and the Wei State had begun to raise eyebrows.

However, this is also normal, it is normal for countries to form an alliance to keep warm, and after the alliance between Wei and Wu, the strength can barely be compared with Ruan.

By the end of the seventeenth year of Taiding, several canals directly connected to Cangguo were all completed.

Nowadays, it is possible to see some small boats floating on the river, and when spring comes, the new rain will irrigate the river, and the passage of large boats will not be a problem.

It was also at this time that a phenomenon was discovered in various countries.

That is, after the Cangguo dug the river, the wharves built were very special, and all the steel and copper pillars were used.

Aren't you afraid of rust?

Of course, the countries did not know that all the wharf piles built by Cangguo had a small box on the shore, and there was a box containing zinc blocks.

This involves a series of principles such as the activity and ionization of metals, and of course countries do not know what they mean.

Anyway, after installing the zinc block, the corrosion of the copper pillar is greatly reduced.

Based on this principle, Cangguo established another shipyard.

As for the shipyard, the first ship launched was a tin ship, which stunned the major cities along the way, including the caravans.

After coming and going, Cangguo's foreign trade has one more new thing, that is.

Due to the promotion of various countries and the huge interests in the middle, the advantages of Caoyun are becoming more and more obvious, and almost every large caravan has its own fleet.

It can be seen that there is already an endless stream of pedestrians coming and going on the canal.

At the end of the seventeenth year of Taiding, Xincangcheng officially became the center of the world.

In this case, the government of Xincangcheng is both happy and sad.

The good news is that Cangguo is becoming more and more prosperous, and the heritage is becoming deeper and deeper.

The sad thing is that Xincangcheng, a new capital that has just been built for less than ten years, is about to be saturated again, which means that the city has to be expanded!