At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

No matter how much Guo Jin thought about it, she couldn't think of a reason, so she had to think about asking Guo Peng when she was free in the future.

After Guo Jin left, Guo Peng did not look for Cao Lan, but sat alone in the pavilion in the back garden of Mount Tai Palace for a long time.

While throwing fish food into the pond beside the pavilion to feed the fish, he sighed lonely.

Guo Jin is right, this kind of thing has already threatened the existence of the Guo Wei regime and even the entire ethical system.

Once it spreads, it will definitely threaten the stability of Guo Wei's regime, and it's hard to say what will happen at that time.

During the Little Ice Age, the Wei Empire must maintain its existence and unity, and must maintain the stability and peace of the country. Under the environment of reduced food production, once the Wei Empire collapses, the number of deaths caused by the war will far exceed that of the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Guo Peng's 40 years of struggle were all in vain.

Guo Peng has always agreed with one sentence.

When the level of productivity is not enough, don't think about changing the nature of society, otherwise, society will collapse.

The root of all problems can actually be attributed to the problem of social productivity. If the productivity is sufficient and the common prosperity is achieved, then the world will be in harmony.

But the problem is that the advancement of social productivity is a huge proposition.

From the agricultural age to the industrial age, the earth-shaking changes in social productivity require more than just a steam engine...

Even if it is a steam engine, from the laboratory to the practical, how many difficulties and obstacles have been overcome during the period?

And to have a working steam engine, there must be industrial-quality steel of excellent quality.

High-quality industrial-quality steel requires the development of ironmaking technology, as well as the development of coking technology. For blast furnace steelmaking, refractory bricks are needed.

A considerable degree of chemical knowledge will be involved in the middle, which requires this set of chemical theories to be fully mature and become a technology that can be used in production.

And each set of mature technology needs an entire mature mass-produced industry, and the formation of each mass-produced industry also needs its own norms, its own management model, its own business model, and behind it are countless interests.

Of course, there is also a huge amount of original capital investment.

More importantly, social needs.

Only when there is demand in the society will there be a market, and only when there is a market will people consume and generate profits, and only then can this industry continue to develop and continue to innovate.

Guo Peng sat in the small pavilion and seriously thought about what kind of scene it would be if the current Wei Empire owned trains.

Of course it is very beneficial.

It is very meaningful in terms of military affairs. The efficiency of the army's operations and delivery of materials will be greatly improved. The Wei Empire can control its own territory almost perfectly.

The speed of information transmission will also become very fast, the efficiency of government administration will be greatly improved, and the efficiency of centralization will also be greatly improved.

At the commercial level, the time cost of commercial transportation will also be greatly reduced, and business efficiency will be greatly improved, which is definitely a blessing for businessmen.

Well, the most elite and wealthiest people in the Wei Empire have fully enjoyed the convenience of the train.

Then what about the common people who occupy the vast majority of the population?

Do they...need to use the train at the moment?

What are they doing with the train?

The greatest significance of trains for ordinary people should be to facilitate business and go out to work, but in terms of the commercial development level and handicraft development level of the Wei Empire...

It doesn't seem to make much sense.

How many people did the level of commercial development and handicraft development of the Wei Empire absorb?

Well, not much anyway.

Do other farmers who work the land need trains?

What are they using the train for?

sightseeing?

Visiting relatives and friends?

Given their average means, could they afford to travel by train?

The Wei Empire had a strict household registration system, and people needed guidance when going out.

Common people spend most of their time in production, farming in spring, weeding and pest control in summer, harvesting and paying taxes in autumn, and only have a little leisure time in winter.

But from time to time there are corvees to pay in spare time, young men also have to pay for military service, and children have to go to school no matter what.

Moreover, they all have land and homes, and the income gap between urban and rural areas is not that big. It seems that there is no urgent need to move to the city for work or business.

Even if you go to the city, you go to the nearest county seat, not the big cities on the southeast coast, so there is no need for large-scale migration.

Of course, the most important thing is that the yield per mu of land is too low.

Working all year round, it is still a bit difficult to feed a few bear children after paying taxes on the imported food.

The greatest happiness is to tear a few pieces of cloth to make clothes and eat something good during the holidays. Spending money to take the train to other places, eating food without earning money to raise children... Are you out of your mind?

From this point of view, ordinary people probably have no hope.

Only relying on the elite and the richest few people, can the research and development costs, train operating costs, railway construction costs and subsequent maintenance costs be shared?

Officials must not pay for their official business trips, and military transportation must not be paid by army soldiers, right?

So this cost still has to be counted on the businessman.

How much is that ticket?

In case it was more expensive than a long distance carriage ride...would so many people take the train?Can a car be full?

If this group of people can't even out the cost to achieve profitability, then the government will keep adding money, money, money...

With the fiscal revenue model of the Wei Empire as the main body of agricultural taxation and commercial taxation as the auxiliary, build railway lines all over the territory of the Wei Empire, and maintain their operation, how long can they last?

Can the benefits brought by the train and the price paid, be able to find a balance between the two?

Guo Peng thought about it seriously, and thought it would be better to study how to increase the yield per mu of land.

This is what really improves productivity, isn't it?

Farming technology, farming efficiency, cultivated area, and fertilizers, the goal of increasing the grain yield per mu aimed at by this series of actions is the real increase in productivity.

Productivity cannot be improved in an all-round way, and only one or two utensils are obtained, which will be harmed.

And if it is necessary, what Guo Peng hopes to get is the greenhouse technology rather than any other technology.

With the greenhouse technology, Little Ice River is really not an oversized threat to the Wei Empire.

Of course, this reality also made Guo Peng feel lost.

Clamping thoughts, ignoring the people and weakening the people, in order to stabilize the rule, of course, has positive meanings, such as making the country more stable, less turbulent, less dead, and everyone can live happily.

Just clamping down on the development of ideas and restricting the birth of new ideas is not a good thing after all.

To say a thousand words and ten thousand is still productivity.

If the Wei Empire could have stronger productivity, new ideas would be able to spread, but the Wei Empire's productivity is limited, and it cannot withstand the impact of new ideas and the disintegration of social structures.

Under the invasion of the Little Ice River, a strong government needs to use national decrees as a means to carry out the large-scale project of transporting grain from south to north over a long period of time, and to control costs and grain prices. In the context of the increasing population of the Wei Empire, To ensure the peace and stability of the land of China.

Once the Wei Empire falls apart, the war and cold will surely destroy the agricultural system on which the people depend for survival. By then, the number of dead people will be tens of millions, and the disaster will be no less than the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Productivity... Productivity... Productivity...

Guo Peng muttered these three words, waved his hand, and threw all the fish food in his hand into the pond.

He knows that he can't continue to do more things. If he wants to change the world, he must first start from the bottom, from the most basic place, from productivity.

Empty thoughts without productivity are just castles in the air.

and so.

After sighing deeply, Guo Peng chose to compromise.

The next day, Guo Peng ordered the department to send all the printed sample Geology textbooks to Taishan Temple, and not a single one was allowed to be kept.

Then I only left three copies, and all the rest were piled up in the large yard at the entrance of the Taishan Palace, and let the servants who served me burn them all.

Waiters, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know why, but I still acted according to the emperor's wishes.

As a result, all the trial editions of physics textbooks that had been published were burned.

Looking at the blazing fire, Guo Peng clutched the only three books left in his hands.

Watching his hard work disappear into the flames with his own eyes, Guo Peng was very calm in his heart, neither happy nor sad.

After the flame was extinguished, Guo Peng stared at the servants to clean up all the traces, then returned to the palace, took out a box, and put the three brand new textbooks on Gephysics in it.

The one in Guo Jin's place was for him to keep and pass on to future generations of emperors, and Guo Peng planned to keep these three. At that time, he asked the artisans to embalm them and bring them to his mausoleum for burial.

Thousands of years later, if one's own mausoleum is destroyed so that it needs to be excavated, then the descendants will make this first edition of Gephysics textbook public.

Since this era cannot match such thoughts, then let such thoughts lie in the ground with one's own death.

Hopefully by the time they see the light of day again, that era has had enough productivity to take it all.

After Guo Jin heard about this incident, she remained calm and did not go to Guo Peng.

He just silently left the solitary book in his hand on the desk, intending to define it as a forbidden book that can only be read by the emperor, and no one else can read it.

It doesn't matter whether others are open-minded or not, but as the emperor himself, he must have an open-minded thought. He has to read any book to get enough information.

But don't really think that the sense of harmony between heaven and man is true, and it can limit the existence of the emperor.

The emperor himself needs to know, hold your head up three feet... there is a fart!

Guo Jin, the emperor, has become more and more decent and handy.

Chapter 1622 One thousand five hundred and forty-two 540 years at a glance

In the flames of burning books, Guo Peng saw the end of the Wei Empire.

The end is destined to come, no matter how much you try to save it, you can't save it.

But before the end, in the midst of crisis, there may not be a path that can continue the life of the Wei Empire.

Guo Peng can't change the production relations of the Wei Empire, but he can make the Wei Empire have an extra colonial attribute.

The Chinese Empire has never had a colonial attribute.

Is this okay?This is not good.

This can only cause the aging Chinese Empire to be attacked and violently beaten by young and strong Western colonists when the colonial era comes.

They don't talk about Wude, and it's useless to reason with them.

However, their approach is not without value and significance for reference.

Guo Peng has no way to lead the Wei Empire to an unimagined path. Since the Wei Empire cannot be turned into an ideal country, then it is better to turn the Wei Empire into an empire on which the sun never sets.

If you can't become a god, then you can become a demon, which is better than an endless loop that cannot be escaped!

Let the Wei Empire become a terrible empire on which the sun never sets. When the internal contradictions accumulate to a certain extent, they will transfer the contradictions through colonization, oppression and slavery to continue the life of the Wei Empire.

On the basis of this cruel primitive accumulation, the opening of the early age of great navigation may be able to light up the future of science and technology. Everything needed for great navigation and colonization can force the progress of science and technology. The progress of the society will inevitably affect the thinking.

To develop a powerful overseas interest group, in the future if some people who are dizzy want to close the country, it probably won't be possible.

After 100 years, 200 years and 300 years, the ghost knows what will happen to the Wei Empire.

Thinking about it this way, Guo Peng found that he had actually made two-handed preparations from the very beginning. If the Wei Empire could not be sublimated, then he might as well bury his head and walk on another path.

Whether it is feudalism or empire, since there are already many crimes, it is nothing to add a penny.

Wouldn't it be beautiful to have a feudal colonial empire?

Anyway, both are unimagined roads, but one can't go through right now, and the other can go through.

Guo Jun went to India, Guo Qiong went to Indonesia, and other children will be entrusted to other places in the future. The land silk road, the sea silk road, and the external circulation of the Wei Empire have become a trend.

The empire on which the sun never sets will not be vain, nor will it be an unattainable dream.

Sitting in a small pavilion in the back garden of Mount Tai, Guo Peng looked at the fish pond and strengthened his belief.

In order to prevent the people of the Wei Empire from suffering too much, they had to transfer the conflict outward. As for the cruel treatment that the aborigines were about to suffer, of course it was the price that had to be paid.

In order to survive the cold 300 years, Guo Peng had to do whatever he could.

When the sun never sets and the sun sets in the empire, the city of Chang'an in February should already be full of peach blossoms.