The Emperor Shun Zhishi

Chapter 23 Road Construction and Market Opening
Shun secretly organized road construction, and after two months of construction, the roads in Dongyi were well repaired.But there is no impenetrable wall in this world. Although Shun secretly repaired the road at night, he was still discovered by the elephant.

One night, Xiang saw Shun directing the construction team to build roads in the woods. Xiang was very angry and wanted to argue with Shun. Suddenly, he saw two beautiful women standing behind Shun. Xiang's eyes were straightened. .Ehuang is heroic and heroic, and Nvying is gentle and elegant. In Xiang's eyes, these two women are like fairies in the sky.He suddenly had a bad idea.

He walked up to Shun and patted him on the shoulder.

"Brother, are you busy?"

After hearing Xiang's words, Shun was very surprised, because the secret road building was discovered.What was even more surprising was that Xiang called him brother for the first time. Shun didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, so he didn't answer directly.

"We are checking the water patterns. It will be summer in a few months. I am worried that there will be floods at that time. For the time being, I will find a good place for the villagers."

Xiang didn't care about these things, but secretly described Nvying.

"Who is this girl?"

Shun looked into Xiang's eyes and knew what he meant.

"She is a woman from the Youxin tribe."

Looking at Ehuang and Nvying, Xiang liked them very much, and immediately wanted to propose marriage, but forgot about the road construction.

"Brother, these two girls are so beautiful, why don't you tell me about coal, and it is my duty to be my younger brother's saddle and horse in the future."

Obviously, Xiang wanted to use these two women to make a deal. As long as Shun agreed to help him, he would not expose Shun's secretly building roads.

But Shun was not willing to agree, not to mention that Xiang's intentions were not right, and he was not good enough for Ehuang and Nvying. Even he himself had a secret affection for these sisters, and he found any reason to prevaricate it.Seeing that Shun was unwilling to help, Xiang had to threaten him with road construction, but Shun ignored him.The elephant went away in a huff,
After a while, Xiang took more than 40 tribesmen of the Yu family and his father, Gusou, to the bank of the Guishui River.Although it was very dark, Shun's labor team was lighting torches, and the traces of the roadbed on the ground were clearly visible.

"Chonghua, where is it?"

Xiang supported Gusou, stood beside the Guishui River, and called Shun's name.When Shun saw his father coming, he quickly knelt down in front of him.

"Father, the child is here."

"You traitor, see if I don't kill you."

Gusou waved his crutch in front of Shun, but because he couldn't see, he didn't hit him a few times.Shun didn't move because his father wanted to beat him.It still landed on him a few times, and Nvying saw it and was very unhappy, so she hurried over and grabbed the blind old man's walking stick.

"Why do you hit someone?"

"I am his father, why can't I beat him?"

Gusou's rhetorical question stopped Nvying, although she knew it was bad to beat someone, but it was only natural for a father to beat his son.Nvying didn't refute either, she just felt that Gusou was very rude, but she didn't know what to do.

"I don't care who you are, but I just won't let you hit people."

Ehuang on the side is not as weak as Nvying looks. Seeing Shun being beaten by Gusou, she rushes over and grabs Gusou's walking stick and throws it aside.

Not only Gusou, but also Shun felt embarrassed by this move. After all, Gusou was his father, and the father beat his son, which was not at fault in itself, but Ehuang was also a heroic woman. In her eyes, right and wrong First, etiquette is second.

Seeing that the two women were protecting Shun, Xiang immediately became jealous, picked up the crutch from the ground, and handed it to Gusou.

"Well, you Chonghua, you actually dare to instigate others to disobey your father."

Xiang does not say that Ehuang and Nvying prevented Gusou from beating Shun, but that it was the result of Cheng Shun's instigation.That Ehuang was even angrier when he heard that.

"No one instigated it. It was because I didn't like it that I threw away the crutches."

"Young lady dares to take care of my Yu's family affairs, I think she is not an ordinary person."

Gusou's words were obviously telling Ehuang that he was the leader of the Youyu Clan, and he didn't need her to meddle in his own business when he beat a traitor.It's just that Ehuang has a straight temper. Hearing what Gusou said, she also got angry.

"Chonghua has been expelled from the Youyu Clan, and now you are a member of the Youxin Clan. You Dongyi people beat us Huaxia people, how can you say that I am taking care of your family affairs?"

Ehuang's eloquence is not comparable to a weak female hero. Little Xingxing can't help admiring Ehuang's logical logic.Gusou was choked up by Ehuang's words, so he faltered and couldn't speak.

"Hmph!" Gusou gritted his teeth with hatred, and vented his anger on Shun, "You traitor, you brought a group of savages to build roads for the Yu family, and you want us Dongyi people to become Huaxia people. A slave?"

When Nvying and Ehuang heard that Gusou said they were savages, they were immediately angry.Before they revealed their identities, Shun explained to Gusou:

"My father doesn't know that these two girls are actually the daughters of Emperor Yao, the leader of China. The elder sister is called Ehuang, and the younger sister is called Nvying."

Both Gusou and Xiang couldn't help being surprised when they heard this.Gusou was just the leader of the Youyu clan, a small Dongyi tribe, and Emperor Yao was the leader of the Huaxia tribal alliance. The two women in front of him were actually his daughters, and what was even more unexpected was that these two women were actually together with Shun. .Thinking of Shun and Emperor Yao's relationship, Gusou felt very complicated.Xiang was also very surprised to hear what Shun said, and hoped that Shun could introduce the two women to him, and even hoped that his father could rely on his status as the leader of the Yu clan to propose marriage to Emperor Yao.Just seeing that they are all protecting Shun, Xiang hates Shun even more.

"Oh, sorry."

After being silent for a long time, Gusou finally regained some sense of reason, because Emperor Yao's daughter, even the leader of a small tribe like him would have to curry favor with her.

"It turns out that Emperor Yao's daughters are all on the move. So, you Huaxia are definitely going to build roads to our Dongyi."

This sentence sounds gentle, but it implies that the Huaxia people used force to build roads to Dongyi in preparation for future invasion of Dongyi.Gusou's words not only turned defense into offense, protesting against the suspicion of the various tribes in China annexing the Yu clan, but also aroused the anger of the Yu clan's people.Sure enough, under the instigation of Xiang, the more than 40 people of the Yu clan brought by Xiang believed that Shun built this road in preparation for the Huaxia tribe's future invasion of Dongyi tribe.

"No, they must not be allowed to build roads."

"Let them build roads today, and tomorrow they will come and rob our women and kill our children.

Seeing that Gusou's words had aroused Youyu's anger, and Shun was not good at words, the little Xingxing was very anxious in his eyes, and thought, now it's time to go out on his own.

"Joke, you said that the road was built to facilitate Huaxia's attack on Dongyi, but have you ever thought about it, wouldn't it be easier for Dongyi to attack Huaxia?"

When Little Xingxing asked this question, everyone was stunned. Thinking about it, it was right.Everyone was speechless.

"But our Dongyi is relatively weak, we don't have the ability to attack Huaxia, but once you attack, we can't stop it."

Seeing that everyone was questioned, Xiang quickly stood up and accepted Xiao Xingxing's move.Elephant is very cunning, and his eloquence is not much worse than that of Little Xingxing, but Little Xingxing has gone to college and participated in college debate competitions, so he is not comparable to Xiangxing in terms of knowledge reserve and language logic.

"Whether building roads has anything to do with fighting is another matter for us. Even if we want to fight, we are not interested in the Youyu clan. The Youyu clan is so poor, will it be useful for us to fight the Youyu clan? 20 years ago, I left Youyu There were still more than 1000 people in the Yu family, but now there are less than 200 people left. I can’t see anyone over the age of 40 in the Yu family, except my father. Why? What has the Yu family experienced over the years? What has become so poor and weak?"

Little Xingxing's words spoke directly to everyone's hearts, and more than 40 young people couldn't help asking themselves, why has the population of the Yu family decreased so much over the years?

"Is it only because of natural disasters? If so, then why the population of the Youxin family has not decreased. Earthquakes and floods have erupted every year, but the population of the Youxin family has only increased. Have you ever thought about it? Why the population has decreased. Because of poverty, most people have no food to eat. The sage said well: if the granaries are solid, you will know etiquette, and if you have enough food and clothing, you will know honor and disgrace. Once people have no food to eat, people will rob and deceive like wild animals. Think about how the Yu family threw old people into the mountains to starve them in order to have enough food, how is this different from animals."

Little Xingxing used Guan Zi's words to teach the members of the Youyu clan. They all lowered their heads, thinking that what he said made sense. Reduced, can't help but blame myself.

"Why do we need to build roads, because the ancients said well: if you want to be rich, you must first build roads. Only when the roads are built, people will gather together and be able to exchange the surplus food produced. They will gather together. I assure you that as long as the roads are built, Guirui will become the most prosperous city within a radius of [-] miles within ten years. Allotment, no one will be above others, everyone is equal. Hardworking people will be respected, only lazy people will be despised. If you are hardworking people and help me build roads, then I salute you Guaranteed, in the future Guirui City, you will become a kind-hearted tribe and be respected by the people."

Little Xingxing's excellent speech skills not only infected the tribesmen of the Yu clan, but also infected the laborers of the Youxin clan, especially his words "he who tills the land" inspired everyone's enthusiasm.These tribesmen were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. As for whether they would be successful in the end, Little Xingxing felt that it was up to people to plan things, and it was up to God to make things happen. In everything, one must first have an idea before taking action.A whim can often lead to success.

After Xiao Xingxing finished speaking, everyone cheered, and most of the members of the Youyu clan joined the road construction team. Xiang and Gusou saw that everyone was persuaded, so they had no choice but to agree to Shun's work in the Youyu clan's territory. build roads.

After the Yu family joined the road construction team, Shun's reputation was strengthened.Not only the Youxin and Youyu clans, but also the surrounding tribes also spread the famous saying of Little Xingxing: "If you want to get rich, build roads first."

Little Xingxing uses easy-to-understand words to transmit modern economic thinking to the ancients, so that people understand that poverty is firstly caused by traffic congestion.Disseminated by these tribes, Shun was portrayed as a saint who was about to accomplish a great deed.After the accumulation of these things, more tribes joined Shun's team. Unlike the initial conflict, those newly joined tribes all hoped that the road built by Shun would pass through their territory.In this way, after another half a year, the Guirui Road that Shun planned to run through Huaxia and Dongyi was finally completed.

After the completion of the Guirui Avenue, the contacts between the tribes around the Guirui became more frequent, and as a result, the population began to gather to form a regional market.As a modern person, Xiao Xingxing knows that the result of population aggregation is the convenience of commodity exchange, which will drive the market prosperity. Once a large unified market is formed, it will also ensure the taxation of a government. Gradually, the city and even the country The prototype was born.

The mortal world is a symmetrical society, everything has its origin and its end, and everything has its beginning and end; if there is an advantage, there must be a disadvantage.Little Xingxing suddenly realized that the city he had devoted all his efforts to help Shun build, although on the one hand it facilitated people's material exchanges and improved people's quality of life.But on the other hand, it opens the door of convenience to the culprit of restraint—selfish desire.Needless to say, the construction of the city of Guirui is indeed a small step taken by the ancient people towards the establishment of a country, but it is a dangerous step taken by human beings towards the "family, country and world" that is ruled by others. Enlightenment and cultivating immortals put on the shackles of imprisonment.

History is history, and the only constants are facts.It doesn't really matter what causes it and how it goes about it.There are many things that Little Xingxing knows can't be done but is powerless to change. Sometimes, instead of stopping, she even has to help her past life.

The first thing Shun had to do was to build a bazaar.After another half a year, Guirui's market was formed, which led to Guirui becoming a distribution center for goods from Huaxia and Dongyi.In the near future, it will become the logistics center of China.

Shun's plan became reality step by step, and related economic effects appeared immediately, and more importantly, the construction of the city of Guirui triggered a political chain reaction.Because Guirui played the role of a bridge between Huaxia and Dongyi economically, Guirui brought Huaxia and Dongyi into a unified economic market.After economic unification, the result will be political unification.Little Xingxing speculates that Huaxia and Dongyi will be united soon.Sure enough, a year later, Little Xingxing's speculation was initially verified.Emperor Yao and Gao Tao heard that Guirui's construction of the city was very successful and deepened the economic and cultural connection between Huaxia and Dongyi. Both sides were willing to negotiate peace and even form an alliance.

Although this is a trend, not everyone thinks so.Emperor Yao's important minister Gun thought that the opening of the Guirui market was a good opportunity for China to annex Dongyi.But Uncle Wu believes that at this time, it is also an excellent opportunity for Sanmiao to challenge Huaxia and Dongyi.One year after the opening of Guirui, the two started their respective conspiracy.

(End of this chapter)