Days are everlasting

Although there was a lot of pressure from the elders, Bigan didn't have his first child with Yougui until he was 20 years old.

When Bigan's eldest son Ziquan was born, Zixian had already given birth to his third son.

Zili died unfortunately when she was three years old, and You Jiang also died soon because of excessive grief. After her death, the position of crown princess in the palace has been vacant.

Although Bigan is very happy that my brother is not the kind of scumbag who spoils his concubine and kills his wife, but from his modern perspective, Zixian cannot be called a good man.

Zixian's second son is named Qi, which is the same name as Xia Houqi, the first generation of the former Great Xia.

After Ziqi got his name, Bigan even went out of his way to find out what his brother said. He didn't really like Ziqi's mother and wanted to promote her to be a princess, but he still doted on her.

Soon after Ziquan's birth, Zixian's third son and actual second son, Ziyan, was born.

Of course, these years they are not only busy with childbirth, this matter can only be regarded as a spice of life, they are mainly busy with family and country affairs.

Anyang City, as the capital of the great merchants, has a problem. The Anyang River often suffers from floods. It is a lucky luck not to hear that the dams of the Anyang River have problems again in a year.

Of course, it is not a good thing for a country's capital to be plagued by disasters, so there have been proposals to move the capital in the court.

Wen Ding is not unwilling, but there are advantages and disadvantages to moving the capital. Now that the new capital has not been determined, moving the capital rashly will do more harm than good.

As a large commercial city, the traffic condition of Anyang City is second to none in the whole country.

In this era of difficult information exchange, why does the big merchant issue orders to its vast ruling area and surrounding princes?

Isn't it relying on the more and more developed traffic in Anyang City under the management of successive Shang kings!

If the capital is moved hastily, it is very likely that information exchange will be inconvenient, and that's fine. If a complete road is to be rebuilt, the manpower and material resources required are not trivial.

So Wen Ding's final decision was to suspend the relocation of the capital, but the address of the new capital had already been determined, which was Chaoge.

Chaoge is not that kind of small and unknown city. This place exists as the capital of the great merchants. There was a palace built by the king of Shang there before, and the basic traffic conditions are also very good.

When the road from Chaoge to other areas is completed, the big merchants will be able to move their capital soon.

Although he was only a liberal arts student before time travel and knew nothing about various technological inventions, Bigan's analysis of the demise of the great merchants and dynasties is still very smooth.

There are many factors for the demise of a country. Powerful foreign enemies are one aspect, and the country's own shortcomings are another aspect.

When Zhou destroyed Shang, when the Shang army came out in full force, internal emptiness was a big problem. If it weren't for this, Di Xin would not have organized a large number of slaves to resist Zhou's army in desperation.

The slaves already had resentment against the big merchant, and most of them were captured by the big merchant after defeating the enemy. It seemed even more unreasonable to help the big merchant conscientiously instead of defecting.

Di Xin was too confident in the big merchants, and believed that the Zhou people would not send troops at that time, otherwise they would not have sent all the domestic troops, but when the Zhou people sent troops, if he could receive the news earlier and recall the outside troops, Nor will they fall into the unfortunate situation where they can only hastily organize slaves to resist the Zhou army in Muye not far from Chaoge.

After all, the main reason is that the traffic conditions of Dashang are not good.

Although the people of Zhou gave Emperor Xin a posthumous title of King Zhou, only a few years after the demise of the Great Shang, the remnants of the Great Shang still had many rebellions. It was not until Wu Geng, the son of Emperor Xin, was sent to manage them that "the people of Yin were happy", You can know that Di Xin is not the lewd and immoral king of Shang Zhou in the legend, he is still very popular.

It is terrible to ruin the reputation caused by unequal information. Dashang has also reached a point now. Starting from the former king Wu Yi, he has actually carried out reforms intentionally, and has been criticized by many nobles, and the common people have also been criticized. Influence, the reputation of the royal family is good in the areas directly under it, but it is not so good in the Fangguo of the princes and the fiefdoms of the nobles.

Although many aristocrats serving in the court can be traced back to the source, and can also be related to the royal family of the great merchants, but after so many generations, they have long since become different branches. How many people can really think about the world instead of For their own profit first?

As a direct royal family of Dashang, Bigan certainly wants to make Dashang continue for a long time. Although he can't "eight hundred years, the longest" like Zhou, he can't die tragically in his nephew's generation, right?

As a time-traveling man, he has such a good beginning of being born in the royal family, and there is still enough information from later generations in his mind. If he does this, he will end up with the tragic end of his own ancestors in history. Bigan feels that he might as well immediately kill himself and go to reincarnation. , at least you don’t have to live in this world to waste resources.

What is the guarantee that a regime will last for a long time?It is popular support.

Although the loyalty of the aristocratic scholar-bureaucrats is also very important, the most important thing is the hearts of the people.

If you want big business to exist for a long time, you have to take measures to serve the people. It is not finished, but you have to let the people know that these actions and policies are for their own good.

Things are back to square one.

Given that literacy is still only the privilege of the nobles, what is needed is the most primitive method - face-to-face publicity, to let the common people understand that the orders issued by the king of Shang mainly harm the interests of the nobles and princes, but benefit them instead.

The Qin Dynasty did a very good job at this point. Although their purpose was to popularize the Qin Law, they could ensure that the Qin officials at the grassroots level could fully explain the provisions of the Qin Law to the head of Guizhou under their rule, no matter how detailed they were. Let the heads of Guizhou understand, this is very scary.

The Qin State was able to do this only because when they first implemented this measure, most of Qin State’s territory had already been plundered by Wei State. With a relatively small land area, it is better to accomplish one thing in the whole country than the land area. Bigger is easier.

Later, when the area of ​​the Qin State gradually increased, those later areas needed to be popularized, and the total workload did not increase much.

And applying this situation to Dashang seems to be okay.

The area under the direct control of the imperial court is not that big, and the farther places have inconvenient transportation, and most of them are feudal cities by nobles and princes, so there is no need to rush to spread the news, and the priority should be to build roads.

Because there are a large number of slaves, coupled with the frequent foreign wars of the big merchants, there is basically no need to worry about manpower.

As for how wide the road needs to be built and according to what regulations, Bigan had to sacrifice a magic weapon-the same track of cars from the era of Qin Shihuang.

Because most of the roads in ancient times passed by horse-drawn carriages, the width of the road was generally determined by the width of the carriages.

Not to mention the different widths of carriages and roads caused by different regulations in different countries during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, even today's big merchants also have the problem of different widths of carriages.

The carriages were all built by the nobles themselves. Those who were poor were made smaller, those who wanted to promote themselves were made larger, and those who wanted to pretend but didn’t want to look too ugly, they moved closer to the mean.

Because the chariots of the feudal princes were also produced by themselves, and they were different from each other, Bigan's original idea of ​​using chariots as the standard to build roads was also shattered.

Bigan, who originally thought that the chariots would have to be produced in a unified manner, was stunned when he heard the news.

Unexpectedly, both his father and his elder brother said in a very informal way, as long as the chariot can be used on the battlefield, it doesn't matter if it is bigger or smaller!

Bigan: I lost.

After Bigan, who was very tired, came up with a plan for his father and brother, he felt that he should explain to them why he did this, but his father and brother thought quickly, so they naturally thought of Bigan. What is the meaning of the plan given, he was overjoyed immediately, and ordered to implement his plan.

Because the earliest road construction started from the area under the direct control of the big merchants - at this time, in addition to the road leading to Anyang, the road leading to Chaoge was also built - so the noble ministers who served in the court were not concerned. No matter what influence, they don't want them to pay money and food. Naturally, they will respond to everything. As for those ministers from humble backgrounds who were single-handedly promoted, or the confidantes of the Shang royal family, they even waved their flags and called this policy a It is a good policy to benefit the country and the people.

As the proposer of this plan, Bigan took charge of this matter with all his strength.

In this regard, of course, it is not military generals like Fei Lian who can help him, but civil servants.

As the prince, Bigan is in charge of this matter, but the young master, that is, the prime minister Shang Ke, of course also has the right to intervene.

Shang Ke's surname is Shang. From this surname, it can be seen that he is also a descendant of the royal family. To be precise, the merchant should have the surname Shang.

Since Cheng Tang replaced the Shang Dynasty with the Xia Dynasty, some descendants of the Zi surname took the country name as the Clan to show their orthodox origin.

Although Shang Ke and Bigan can be regarded as relatives, the relationship between the two is not good. Shang Ke's family has a long history and is not a close royal family in recent generations. Of course, it deviates from the interests of the current direct royal family.

Although Bigan was confiscated in Biyi, he hadn't developed there for many years. Of course, he still focused on the interests of the royal family, but the foundation of the Shang clan that developed in Shangyi was transferred to the fief. Of course, he didn't want to damage to one's own interests.

Shang Ke is a capable person, and he quickly saw that this road construction plan was not complete, or it was only a preliminary plan.

It is worth thinking about why the follow-up plan was not presented.

He did not stop the progress of this road construction plan, but he kept pressing Bigan step by step.

Zigan diary:

If you want to get rich, build roads first. I just want to lead the whole country to get rich together. Shang Ke, tell me, what kind of image does a baby have in your heart!

The author has something to say: the stupid author who is seriously nonsense because of insufficient information hhh