Chapter 996 If you want to get rich, build roads first
Most of the original tall walls of Chaoge Castle have been demolished, and the moat has been filled.
Twelve cement roads are being rolled out.
And in the southeast, along the Qishui River, there is also a railway, which is slowly being laid...
Chu He left Chaoge and went to Kunlun. Dare to go back from Kunlun again, play casually on the way, see the land of this era, and collect some rare fruits by the way.
It's only half a month's work to be full.
Has the whole Chaoge City changed?
This is going to explode... ๏ผ
Chu He rushed back to the palace with his head full of muscles.
But I happened to see that in front of the main gate of the palace, a huge white bell tower was being built.
In front of the Shouxian Palace, Chu He walked with a sinister aura.
And Di Xin Gao was sitting on the throne, talking cordially with Shang Rong and others, and there was still an unbearable look of pride in his eyes.
When he saw Chu He, he subconsciously shook a little, and then greeted Shang Rong and the others casually, and went to carry out the task he assigned first.
Shang Rong keenly sensed that the atmosphere was wrong, in the past, Di Xin would only have such an expression when facing Taishi Wen Zhong.
How can the national teacher Shen Gongbao also have such power now?
That's not a good thing.
Taishi Wenzhong, the elder of the two dynasties, was entrusted by Emperor Yi on his deathbed to restrain the king and not to deviate from the right path.
Therefore, the majesty of the Taishi can also be given by the emperors of the previous generation.
But Shen Gongbao... How can a national teacher who specializes in the matter of sacrificial Jiao be able to shake the king and make the king afraid?
Shang Rong had already thought about it, and decided to visit Bigan another day to discuss the matter together, so as not to let the unpredictable people manipulate the king and threaten the society.
Today's big business is booming, and in such a great era, Shang Rong even feels a surging breath from history. He felt that if he could realize one-tenth of the blueprint drawn by Di Xin before, they would all be together with the monarch and the minister, and their names would be passed down through the ages, comparable to the ancient sages.
When there were no more outsiders in the Shouxian Palace, Chu He barely suppressed the anger in his heart, and said in a low voice: "What do you want to do? What do you want to do? Do you know what you have done?"
Three questions in a row, as if they were all one question.
But the kernel is very different.
Di Xin smiled indifferently, with a hint of Chu He's unclear color: "Of course you know, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads! โ
"The three main elements of business development are productivity, sales and marketing, and transportation. Today, hundreds of thousands of workers are working every day in Chaoge's factory, and the cloth, silk, porcelain, and handicrafts produced are sold to the princes' territories across the country through official roads and qishui. โ
"But Qishui is not the Yangtze River or the Yellow River after all, and even if someone has started to improve the boats, the throughput is still limited. Transportation is now the only drawback to business development. And now, I am using my right to make up for this last point. โ
Chu He coldly mocked: "But you don't know, what kind of evil beast you have unleashed. Forget about building a big road, what else do you want to do? Build a railway? Then you need a train! When the train moves, it needs the power it needs... You also got a steam engine?"
"The freedom of commerce, the liberated slaves, these are the two sharp weapons I have prepared for you, with them, you can cut off the constraints from the nobles and the princes, so that the strength of the great merchants is far above the princes, so that they will never rebel again. โ
"But now, you yourself have opened the cage, loosened the chains, and freed the beast with your own hands. When the free merchants get more benefits, they will have a greater claim to rights. Any force that restrains them will become their enemies and be torn apart by them. โ
"You are... Dig your own grave!"
Chu He was already a little dazed at this time, so he took the risk to settle the Yuan Shi Tianzun, and by the way, he received a wave of secret help.
Turning his head Di Xin made such a big show in the old nest, and in just half a month, it made such a big progress.
To say that Di Xin is not rushing for time, not deliberately forming an irreversible situation, Chu He can't believe it.
Di Xin suddenly laughed, laughing very freely, patted the throne under his buttocks, then stood up and turned to look at the seat.
This position, his father, his grandfather, his ancestors have all sitted.
And according to fate, according to the will of heaven, he will be in this chair, watching the entire Great Shang fall, watching everything that his ancestors guarded go up in smoke.
"Since I've lost it, except for what I have to take back, the rest... Hand them all over, but what's the matter?" there was a kind of clarity and transparency in Di Xin's voice. It was such a calm mood that made Chu He suddenly quiet down from his anger.
"It's embarrassing!" Di Xin turned his head and said as he looked at Chu He.
Then he smiled meaninglessly and said: "Actually, I know very well that the survival of gods and big merchants can actually be two things. It's just that many conditions are piled up and pinched into one thing. And if you want to ensure the existence of Dashang and avoid the appearance of the War of the Gods, it will indeed be too difficult for you. โ
"Since I can sit for you in this position, I can sit for someone else. Shang ยท ยท ยท It still exists, turned into a symbol. Even if it's no longer what it is. And I, who have been a lonely ghost for many years, why should I not be obsessed with this position?"
"This beast I unleashed, he hurt others as well as himself. But if I'm willing to compromise, I'm willing to be a puppet of those people. They will protect me, and they will go to great lengths to maintain them around me. And Ji Chang father and son... Speaking of this, Di Xin's eyes were full of coldness: "How can they be reluctant? They are not reluctant, so they will definitely turn back the wheel of history." Stand in the way of the general trend of humanity, and then be broken and destroyed. โ
The Chu River was completely calm.
He didn't expect that Di Xin would already have such a determination and such an idea.
In fact, from the bottom of his heart, how could Chu He never have such thoughts?
Unleash the beast called 'Capital' completely, and then use enough nutrients to nurture it to grow.
It won't be long before they crush everything and become a humanitarian trend.
However, maintaining stability and controlling the country for Di Xin, Chu He could only choose to use them slightly, but he did not dare to really release them.
And Di Xin, he did what Chu He did not do.
Maybe Di Xin has a very ordinary political sense most of the time, but as an emperor, as an emperor who has absorbed the knowledge of the future, is he really so unbearable?
When he knows how to give, he will surely gain.
"In that case, then you are ready, this train is gone, and there is no turning back. When the smoke of the steam engine filled the sky above the great merchants, when the railroad tracks connected the princes, when the radically revolutionary productive forces completely replaced the past. No one knows what the world will become. Chu He said in a low voice.
Di Xin smiled and said, "At least, our slave society has an advantage over feudal society, because most people have nothing. Being able to go from being a slave to a worker is already a kind of progress. And those nobles and princes, if they accept it quickly enough, will be big businessmen who are rich enough to rival the country, big oligarchs who monopolize a certain industry. There will be resistance, not as much as imagined!"