Chapter 19 If you want to get rich, you must first build roads
"There is no road in the world, and when there are many people, a road is formed! There are big roads, small roads, roads, easy roads, bad roads, flat roads, bumpy roads, mud roads, bluestone roads, and mountain roads. Where there is a road, there are people, and where there are people, there must be a road. You must have experienced the distress of mud on a rainy day, and the soles of your feet are smeared, right? Most of you are from a foreign land, and you must have seen the inconvenience caused by narrow roads, right? So we have to build roads, and building roads is not a meaningless thing, you think, when we build roads, then people from all over the world will definitely come back here, there will be more people, more trades, and the materials brought will definitely be hidden, and when there are more people, productivity will definitely rise in a straight line. In 10 or 20 years, more and more people will come from other places to settle here. Increase the total value of wealth by increasing the flow of people. ”
Ai Tingnan recalled the words of the later generations to persuade people to build roads, and at the same time gave a speech to the more than 10,000 people standing in front of him with a megaphone.
Originally, there were only more than 1,000 hungry people, but since hearing about the remuneration given by Ai Tingnan, more and more poor people in the city have run out of the city, and those who have no way to live can live, and the farmers who have planted the fields at home, and some orphans and widows, all who have the ability to work, have come to come and want to earn some extra money.
"In a word, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. This is the only way I can think of to bring you permanent peace. So, pick up the tools in your hands and build your better tomorrow together! ”
After Ai Tingnan finished speaking, the residents below cheered at the same time, rushed to the edge of the road that had been drawn, and began to clear weeds and stones.
Ten coachmen, also in trucks, carrying more than a dozen people, went to the river to pull sand and collect stones, while women and emaciated old men prepared lunch.
In the past week, Ai Tingnan has not been idle for a moment, either as an instructor to teach lessons to the coachmen, or with Cui Qingsong planning the route of the road to be built. After Cui Shizhong's lobbying and Ai Tingnan's fall from the sky, the Fancheng County Commander also happily agreed to this request, and hoped that Ai Tingnan could leave a miracle and save the hungry people in their county.
Ai Tingnan was also not stingy, and directly threw 10,000 catties of grain. In order to prevent the local wealthy gentlemen from robbing, Ai Tingnan directly spent 1,000 electricity coins to buy a smart warehouse, which requires face recognition and fingerprint verification before he can go in to get food.
At that time, after Ai Tingnan told Fancheng County Commander Cui Jinghui, Cui Jinghui also sighed that it was indeed a fairy method.
After a long time in the air, Cui Qingsong finally pointed out a new route, which is more convenient and faster than following the previous path to reach Fancheng, and the perimeter of the path is wide, and many houses can be built along both sides of the road. At that time, both sides of the road can be developed into residential areas and spread to Fancheng, and it is not impossible for the two cities to integrate in the future.
After experiencing so many days of ancient life, Ai Tingnan also had some insights.
The economic model of the ancient people was "relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the mountains to eat the water", an ancestral piece of farmland that they could guard with their lives. Their most mainstream means of survival is farming and growing vegetables. Most of the modern people rely on industry and commerce, because agriculture can be promoted by industrial means, such as the light sound automatic intelligent multi-purpose farming machine, which almost completely eliminates the situation of ancient farmers competing for the season of mango planting. One can top the productivity of a village, or even a city.
This is both the power of science and technology and the power of industry, so Ai Tingnan feels that in order for people to achieve the most basic desire to have enough to eat, it is not enough to rely on farming. In their spare time, they can create more value. For example, building roads, or engaging in industry, aquaculture.
The wealth of society determines the level of civilization, and only when people's total wealth is worth more, people will have time to think about other things.
As the saying goes: full of warm thoughts**. If you don't eat enough and dress warmly, where will you have the energy to think about other things.
Ai Tingnan has a lot of feelings, so he has only one goal now, that is, to build a smooth road, and then slowly take out the experience of creating an economy in later generations.
Of the more than 10,000 people, 5,000 chose to build roads and 3,000 decided to build houses. Two thousand are the elderly, weak, women and children, the disabled, who are responsible for boiling water and cooking. The rest were literate, literate, or prestigious people who did more important work.
For more than 10,000 people, the amount of food to be digested every day is huge. What Ai Tingnan has to do every day is to exchange the grain that Cui Shi keeps transporting for power coins, and then exchange them out of the store again. One pound of Cui's grain can be exchanged for ten pounds of grain produced by the system in the end. However, if you exchange the food of the system for electricity coins, you can only exchange a pound for a little, which makes no sense.
In order to speed up the pace of construction, Ai Tingnan has exchanged a lot of things in the past few days, such as chainsaws for cutting trees, machines for mixing cement, road rollers, and several super trucks that can carry more than ten tons. However, the road has not been repaired yet, so it will not be used for the time being.
In order to deal with many bad diseases, Ai Tingnan spent 500,000 power coins to buy ten intelligent medical robots, which can diagnose and treat diseases, and can also prescribe traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, most of which can be synthesized, and can perform minimally invasive surgery, and the treatment ability is very powerful.
In the city, whether it is a dignitary or a common beggar, they can come to see a doctor, free of charge, and do not charge money.
Some dignitaries were unwilling to receive treatment free of charge, and after knowing Ai Tingnan's actions to help the hungry, they donated food and some clothes and other materials at home, and some directly said that they would send their houses and land deeds, and some even sent their daughters over to Ai Tingnan as a maid.
However, Ai Tingnan refused, as a workaholic, Ai Tingnan has his own professional ethics, he is just working, how can he accept gifts from employers at will when he is working? Before he was reborn, his company had strict rules that anyone who accepted bribes during work would be fired.
Although he doesn't work for anyone now, he has a ruler in his heart.
Once there is a first, there will be a second, and then the third and fourth times will follow. If this goes on for a long time, he will gradually lose his fair and peaceful mentality, and he will treat high-ranking officials and nobles differently.
His original intention was to help the poor people of the world embark on the road to prosperity, to bring this backward era into the palace of modernization, and to dedicate himself to the ideal of mankind in his heart.
If it must be said that he has selfish desires, then his selfish desires are to build Datang into the pinnacle of the world, so that the soul of China can exist for a long time and stand tall.
In this world, he has no family, friendship, and no love, he can be an absolutely just person, he can be cold-blooded and ruthless, and he can also be world-minded.