Chapter 118: Capital and Science

Little by little, the afterglow of the setting sun fell on the earth.

In a courtyard in the imperial city, a young man was standing with his hands in his hands and looking at the sunset that was about to sink in the distance.

This young man is naturally Li Xiaodao, and he thinks about the changes in the Great Song Dynasty in the past six months.

The day after he left the Chengde Hall.

In the early dynasty, Shenzong showed the hundred officials those machines brought by Li Xiaodao.

and Li Xiaodao's "Wealth of Nations Theory" that was picked out and peeled off, so that everyone could clearly see the operation of the country.

How could these people have such a clear sense of how to make a country strong?

"The Wealth of Nations" is enough to rank among the top ten great works in the history of mankind on earth.

Although Li Xiaodao only briefly stated one or two of these points, it had already made the officials of the current dynasty feel like they had heard the "Tao".

That is equivalent to putting some kind of mysterious and mysterious Tao in front of them, cutting it open, and dissecting it bit by bit......

Let them clearly see what kind of state and what kind of existence a country's core and economy are.

Although, there were still some old diehards, old party conservatives who thought this was a fallacy and a heresy.

However, under the tough attitude of the Divine Sect, which had already stimulated Li Xiaodao's ambitions, the few people who stood in the way were all dismissed from their official positions.

The official position of the Song Dynasty was in a very mysterious state.

After that, Li Xiaodao once again subtly pushed a hand.

He went to the homes of the old party one by one, and cast a mental trick on them one by one, never giving these people the chance to jump out again.

With the implementation of the new system unhindered, the Great Song Dynasty soon began to build large-scale textile mills, building textile machines, steam engines, and generators in batches.

Steel mills were also established, so the mine was about to be opened.

Coal mines, iron ores, etc. are all included in the project.

When the Great Song Dynasty carried out this series of big actions, the people were stunned, what was the court going to do.

But a month later, after a large amount of cloth suddenly appeared on the market, the aristocratic class of the Great Song Dynasty showed a greedy expression like a wolf.

By the time they learned that they had come from a textile mill, and that they were produced by something magical called the loom, a machine that could produce a hundred pieces of cloth a day.

One by one, they suddenly became impatient, and this kind of thing, which can produce a large amount of cloth without manpower, will bring them much profit.

After that, the imperial court began to sell looms and other things.

This made them unbelievable that the imperial court would be willing to sell this magical instrument to them.

As a result, some large families began to buy textile machines and steam engines in large quantities.

After the loom, Li Xiaodao brought the sewing machine to the Great Song Dynasty.

In this way, the cloth can be quickly made into clothes.

This ushered in another major reform.

The large production of cloth and clothing will inevitably lead to the scarcity of cotton and linen, so a large number of barren mountain land was reclaimed by the government.

Because it was ordered by the imperial court and funded by wealthy merchants, a large amount of land in the cotton and linen rich areas was reclaimed.

Started planting all cotton and linen.

In just half a year, Da Song has already given birth to large and small factories.

Greenhouses have also been promoted, and after half a year, some crops have been ripe.

At the same time, because of the birth of the steam engine, which saves manpower, skilled craftsmen from all over the country have developed various tools in half a year to save manpower.

With the help of Li Xiaodao, the first tractor powered by a steam engine was born, which could not only load, replace the plow but also plough the land, once again liberate manpower, and after replacing the machine, improve efficiency and increase a large amount of productivity.

And because of the birth of the tractor, only a small amount of manpower is needed, and a large amount of land can be reclaimed.

The grain fields were reclaimed, and the wealthy merchants began to cultivate the fields, and then purchased the date, and planted a large area.

Half a year later, the grain production of the Great Song Dynasty had at least doubled.

Today, more than 3,000 factories of all sizes have been born in the Great Song Dynasty, and these factories support hundreds of thousands of laborers.

These laborers were originally rented landlords' grain fields, but now they are workers, so they have to spend money to buy food and clothes.

As a result, the results of the first reform were reflected half a year later.

Workers spend money to buy clothes and food, and the increase in total production, coupled with the needs of the people, naturally ushered in economic growth.

The imperial court then collected high taxes from the major factories.

The tax revenue harvested by the Great Song Dynasty in just this half year is worth the total tax revenue in the past five years.

The officials of the imperial court were almost so happy that they couldn't close their mouths, especially Emperor Shenzong.

In just half a year, the shriveled treasury began to be full, and the country became rich, and Shenzong began to think of building railways and trains.

A series of things are starting to run according to Li Xiaodao's script.

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Outside the small courtyard.

Li Xiaodao looked at the sunset with a pair of eyes.

In the past six months, the entire imperial court has seen the strength of the Great Song Dynasty.

And what he saw was the terrifying giant mouth of capital, which gradually began to devour this dynasty step by step.

From the time he suggested to Emperor Shenzong that the people should set up factories, he had already unleashed the demon of capital.

And once the flame of capital begins to burn, it will never be extinguished.

The whole society will be dominated by money, and money is the most powerful weapon in the human world, and it can dominate everything.

It only takes a few decades for these newly born capitalists to reach into the imperial court, and then the feudal dynasty will end, and the Northern Song Dynasty will enter a road called "capital".

He personally pushed a feudal dynasty into the abyss, but he would create a soil that was most suitable for the development of science.

The early stage of the birth of science is primarily to serve human beings, which is also the reason for the birth of the Industrial Revolution, and once capital controls the world, then under the drive of capital, one new invention after another will be born.

These things are all about making capital stronger and saving labor in the first place.

And because of the birth of these machines, capital will naturally choose to pay attention to "science".

As a result, capital will begin to invest, and it will begin to choose to let people study science, in order to create more machines that liberate labor, and then expand their own capital.

This is the effect that Li Xiaodao wants, he has made a dynasty move towards the road of capital, and only in this way can the seed of science usher in rapid development in this soil.

He has already made this start, and the next changes will have capital to automatically lead science forward.

Li Xiaodao is now selflessly imparting the scientific knowledge he knows, and will give this society another boost in the future.

In this way, it will not take three hundred years for this feudal society to reach the scientific height of the world in which it lives.

And three hundred years later, a highly developed civilization will naturally bring about an equally civilized society.

Just like the country he lives in, for the people, everyone has completely got rid of the problem of food and clothing, and even has mastered the super weapon of nuclear bombs that can destroy the earth.

And what about five hundred years from now?

What about a thousand years from now?