The Emperor Shun Zhishi

Chapter 22 Road Construction and Market Opening
Shun felt the warmth of his relatives when he returned to Youxin's territory and was with Cao Muzi.Cao Muzi was already over 70 years old at this time, his legs and feet were bad when he was old, and he seldom went to the mountains to collect herbs. He spent most of his day listening to Shun telling his legendary experience. When Wu Bo fought for a hundred rounds, Cao Muzi couldn't help patting his thigh, enjoying himself.

After listening to Shun's adventure stories, Ehuang and Nvying also have a more comprehensive and three-dimensional understanding of Shun.Cao Muzi knew that Shun had great ambitions, but he hadn't got a good opportunity to show his talents.One night, he called Shun out of the courtyard and asked him about his ambition in life facing the starry sky.

Looking at the sky full of stars, Shun couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion.He already knew that he was the reincarnation of Ziweixing, shouldering the great mission of exterminating demons, ruling the world, and saving mankind.Facing Grandpa Cao Muzi's concern and inquiry, Shun didn't know where to start, so he just smiled.Changing the subject, he said, "Grandpa, what do you think of Guirui?"

"That's right, the products are abundant and the water and grass are abundant. If we reclaim thousands of miles of fertile land, it may benefit the people of one side."

"How about building a capital here?"

Cao Muzi lowered his head and pondered, he felt that Shun was interested in doing something in Guirui.

"It's just that Guirui is located at the junction of Beidi, Huaxia, and Dongyi. There are dozens of tribes around it. It's a place where the Four Wars took place. It's not suitable for building a city."

Although Cao Muzi poured cold water on him, Shun knew that Cao Muzi was telling the truth. Even if Guirui prospered, it would decline due to unique geographical factors in the future.

But Shun was not discouraged, and more importantly, Xiao Xingxing, as a modern person, has modern thinking.Guirui may be in danger of war at any time because it is located in the frontier, but if the city is well protected and its people are mobilized to protect the city, once the city's defense is done well, war can be avoided.

"As the saying goes, 'No matter how big a country is, if it is warlike, it will perish. Although the world is safe, if you forget to fight, you will be in danger'. As long as we become strong, we will not cause trouble if we have nothing to do, and we will not be afraid of trouble when trouble comes! Why be afraid of war."

When Shun uttered these words, Cao Muzi couldn't help being startled. He didn't expect that the young Shun could say such shocking words. He patted his thigh again and said that he wanted to help Shun after fighting this old bone. In Guirui Jianyi.

Shun didn't know where this sentence came from, but he knew it was Xiao Xingxing who said it, so he couldn't help admiring Xiao Xingxing, thinking that he would build Guirui City by himself, and with the help of Cao Muzi and Xiao Xingxing, there would be nothing to do. No way.

After Shun made his decision, Cao Muzi also had a tribe of Xin, and told all the tribesmen that they should use all the forces of the tribe to help Shun build the city of Guirui, and that everyone trust Shun as they trusted him. In a sense, , Cao Muzi's words basically determined that Shun was the actual leader of the Youxin tribe.As for the members of the Xin family, seeing Shun's extraordinary abilities and being Cao Muzi's only grandson, they naturally supported him very much.

When Ehuang and Nvying heard that Shun was going to develop Guirui, they also agreed very much, and expressed their willingness to contribute their meager efforts.Just after Cao Muzi released the news in the Youxin tribe, Little Xingxing called all the members of the Youxin tribe to announce his thoughts.

Because Xiao Xingxing is a modern person, he has modern thinking, and he has his own views on urban planning.He believes that in order for a city to become an economic center, it must first establish a sufficiently developed infrastructure. Once the infrastructure is complete, the prices of various economic factors will drop, which will bring down the cost of commodity transactions, thereby stimulating economic development. .Once the economy develops, social culture, politics, and military will all tend to prosper.

Through the mouth of Shun, he said to all the tribesmen: "If you want to get rich, you must first build roads."

Others were somewhat skeptical, but Shun was convinced. He knew that the soul attached to his body after 300 years had extraordinary cognitive abilities. With Shun's support, the tribal alliance planned a Half of the road network connecting Dongyi and Huaxia is in the river. After all, under the conditions of ancient times, it was very difficult to build roads. What's more, the population of the entire land of China did not exceed one million at this time, and waterways were the first choice.

After finishing the planning, Shun went ahead with what he said, but the first problem he encountered was that this road network connected the territories of more than 20 tribes, some of them were in the Huaxia Alliance, and some were in the Dongyi Alliance.To build a road, they must first obtain their approval, otherwise, they will think that the Xin family's road construction is an aggressive intention against them.

Shun wanted to call all the tribes and hold a meeting, but his reputation was not enough, and the influence of relying on Cao Muzi was limited.In the end, Ehuang and Nvying called twenty Chinese tribes to participate in the meeting in the name of Emperor Yao.At the meeting, Shun vowed to build roads in one year, open a market in two years, and build a city in three years.Although the speed is a bit fast, everyone believes that Shun has this strength after seeing Shun's determination, what he has done in the past, and the support of Emperor Yao's two daughters.These twenty tribes responded to Shun's call one after another and contributed their talents.

After the tribal meeting ended, Shun, Ehuang, and Nvying began some necessary surveying and mapping work.Shun rode Sixiang, Ehuang and Nvying rode horses, and walked around the [-]-mile radius of Guirui. After familiarizing themselves with the terrain, the three decided to build a road from Huaxia to Dongyi along the bank of Guishui River. Guirui Avenue.The reason why it was chosen to be built on the bank of the Gui River is that the city of Guirui should not be too far away from the water, otherwise it would be difficult to carry out labor production, which is not conducive to population gathering and the establishment of the capital.

After making the plan, Shun selected [-] young and middle-aged laborers from the tribal alliance, and began to dig mountains and build roads.After more than half a year of hard work, Shun completed planning the road in Zhonghuaxia.However, they encountered difficulties when building roads in Dongyi territory, and a section of the roads was planned in the Youyu clan's territory.However, Shun had already been expelled from the Youyu clan. To build this road, Shun had to enter the territory of the Yu clan again and negotiate with Gusou.

In order to build the road smoothly, Shun had no choice but to bite the bullet and enter the territory of the Yu clan again to look for Gusou.However, at this time, Gusou appeared to be the leader of the Youyu clan, but was actually under house arrest by Ji Hao and Xiang.They used Gusou's poor health as an excuse to replace him as the leader. Gusou not only didn't feel that his power was usurped, but felt that he was very filial.

Shun was walking towards Gusou's house at the entrance of the village, but was stopped by the elephant.

"You traitor, what are you doing here again?"

Shun looked like a younger brother, but he was still patient.

"I'm here to see my father, please let me know."

"Who is your father? Isn't your grandfather Cao Muzi? Since you belong to the Xin family, why did we have the Yu family here?"

Xiang laughed at Shun, but Shun still swallowed his anger. He knew that he had nothing to talk to Xiang, and only he could talk to Gusou. He vaguely felt that although Gusou was angry, he still had his son in his heart.Xiang counted Luo Shun, but Shun didn't even speak back. At this time, Ji Hao came over and was very surprised to see Shun.

"What are you doing again?"

"Greetings to mother," Shun respectfully knelt down to Ji Hao, "My son intends to build a road from Huaxia to Dongyi centered on Guirui, hoping to get help from my mother."

"Oh." Hearing Shun's words, Ji Hao was quite surprised. He didn't expect Shun to be more and more accomplished now, "Do you want to build roads?"

"Yes, my son thinks that Guirui is rich in water and grass and rich in products. In the future, we can build roads and build cities to build a prosperous capital. To gather the population, we must first build roads. I hope that the Dongyi and Huaxia ministries will put aside their past suspicions and build roads together. , common prosperity in the future.”

Ji Hao knows that Shun has great ambitions, which cannot be compared with his short-sighted son Xiang, and also knows that Shun is a capable person, but the more capable Shun is, the more Ji Hao is jealous.Although Shun still respectfully called her mother, Shun was born to the Beidi Hu girl who stole her love after all, so no matter what, she still couldn't love Shun.

"It turns out that you want to build roads to our Dongyi people. In the future, China will invade our Dongyi people and come on horseback. Is this your plan?"

"Mother, why do you say that? Road construction is good for Huaxia and Dongyi. Goods from all over the world can be exchanged in Guirui, which is convenient for people's lives. How can you think so?"

"Youdao is everything to guard against, and it is hard to guard against family thieves. You originally belonged to the Yu clan. If you hadn't joined the Youxin clan, I could still trust you, but now you have become a traitor. How do I know if you belong to the Huaxia clan?" If the road is built in the future, and the Huaxia people raise their troops to attack the Dongyi tribe, wouldn't I, Ji Hao, be a sinner."

"Yeah, as far as your trick is concerned, who else doesn't know?"

Xiang also scolded Shun, but Shun couldn't argue with anything, he just asked to see Gusou, but Ji Hao and Xiang incited the people of the Yu clan, saying that the purpose of Shun's road construction was to facilitate the Huaxia tribe's attack on the Dongyi tribe.Under the instigation of Ji Hao and Xiang, the tribesmen of the Youyu clan took poles and hoes one after another, and drove Shun out of the Youyu clan's territory.

Although this is the expected situation, but now he can't even see his father, which makes Shun feel very shocked.After returning to Youxin's territory, Shun didn't eat all day, but was alone, sad in silence.Ehuang and Nvying saw him and thought he was sad because of the road construction. Ehuang suggested that since the Yu family did not allow road construction, they could secretly repair it.They don't allow it now, but they will naturally be happy when the road is built in the future and there are benefits.

Everyone felt that Ehuang's words were not unreasonable, so Shun organized a labor team to enter the Yu family's territory after dark and secretly repair roads.

(End of this chapter)