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At the same time, the influence of Taiping Road in the city has gradually increased.

Some of Zhang Jiao's disciples only like to practice. They all became disciples of "Taoist masters" who settled in the city. They made friends with the disciples of those aristocratic families, talked about metaphysics, and collected a lot of court news.

The news about these children of aristocratic families is also very comprehensive. It will also be of certain benefit to Taiping Dao if this news is passed back.

Because of the large amount of news, Taipingdao also has the upper hand in certain businesses.

Because Ma Yuanyi and the others built a lot of machinery, especially the steel field. After Ma Yuanyi and the others continued to update this stuff, in terms of technology, it is definitely not as good as later generations, but compared to Da Qin, it is definitely not bad.

As for iron ore, there is still a lot of it.

There are now three steel mills on Taiping Road, each with a monthly output of more than one million tons. In addition to being used for other machinery, some of the steel has been turned into armor for storage.

Prepare for future uprisings.

The remaining part is shovels, sickles, etc. used for various agricultural tasks. These agricultural tools made of steel are naturally much easier to use than iron tools.

After all, there is still a gap between steel and iron.

In addition to being scattered in the countryside, these steel farm tools are also sold in cities. The sharpness of these steel farm tools is no less than that of many swords, and they suddenly attracted countless people.

Steel was not unavailable in Liu Han, but when it came to steel, the Liu Han Dynasty was not like Da Qin, which had assembly line engineering.

The Liu Han court also had an autocratic department of salt and iron. Unfortunately, the actual output was not much every year. On the contrary, the output of iron was more.

As for soldiers and armor, they are all made of iron. Only the truly elite will use steel or better alloys.

Naturally, there are local aristocratic families who are interested in steel, but most of them are small private iron-making houses, and the scale is not large.

Even if it is large, it can produce hundreds of thousands of tons of iron every year, which is already very good.

As for steel, even less so.

Most aristocratic families don't pay much attention to this steel, and there are only a few ambitious people who forge a large number of iron tools in order to make weapons. However, these are all used in weapons.

Those used for agriculture are naturally not valued by them.

But this is a good thing for Taiping Dao. Farming tools, other iron pots, etc., etc., are sold in large quantities, but they gather a huge amount of wealth for Taiping Dao.

These small things may seem inexpensive, and a family may not need much in a year, but Jizhou alone has hundreds of millions of people and tens of millions of households.

Even if the steel shovel is sold cheaply, at least one piece will cost a hundred dollars.

This price is already very cheap. The price of steel is so expensive.

You know, before the Qin Dynasty, there was a time when iron could be used as money.

Today's Liu Han coins are made of a silver-copper alloy.

Because steel can be tempered, it cannot be used as a coin. As for gold, it is still a coin.

The prices of iron and steel items in Taipingdao are similar to those of iron items. Even so, the money earned is endless.

Most of them were bought by Taiping Dao and then hid in valleys or other places to wait for troubled times to come in the future. These grains and grass could become Taiping Dao's military rations or rations.

Moreover, the food purchased by Taipingdao is also unlimited. Anyway, as long as you have money, you can buy food and store it.

As for if the storage time is too long, no one will eat it. Are you kidding me? In troubled times and wars, food will only become less and less. When the time comes, when there is no food to eat, those people can even chew the bark of trees, let alone old food.

As long as you can eat it, nothing is off limits.

Chenliang is also a supreme delicacy for those who are extremely hungry.

In the future, these foods will not only be military rations, but also rescue for those displaced by war.

Once trouble comes, the number of refugees will probably be huge. Jizhou alone has a population of hundreds of millions. Once trouble comes, Jizhou alone may have [-] million refugees.

So it is probably unknown how many refugees there will be when it spreads to Kyushu.

Once war breaks out, hunger, epidemics, etc. can take away countless people.

Historically, there were tens of millions of people at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, after the Three Kingdoms returned to the Jin Dynasty, there were only a few million people left.

Among them, the number of soldiers who actually died on the battlefield was only a few million, at most.

After all, it was really a big war, with millions of people fighting, and I am afraid that only more than [-] people died on the battlefield. In the ancient army, [-]% of the casualties were casualties, and those who did not retreat were already elite.

There are only a few in the entire history who can still fight despite thirty thousand casualties.

Like the people's soldiers of later generations, who can become organized and die on the battlefield and fight to the death without retreating, that is really terrifying.

This was naturally impossible in ancient times. Even if they were as powerful as Great Qin's elite troops, [-]% casualties were already the limit.

If one-tenth of the million-strong army dies, that side will not be able to hold on.

At that time, they will only become prisoners and soldiers of other princes. Therefore, at the end of the Han Dynasty, the princes fought in a melee. Many soldiers at the bottom may be Cao's army today and Yuan's army tomorrow.

However, during the last hundred years of the late Han Dynasty, tens of millions died, and almost [-]% of the people died of starvation or disease.

This is the most terrifying thing, and starvation is also the most common thing.

Once a war breaks out, it will be difficult to have food in the fields. Most of the food will be used by the army, and the people will have no choice but to wait to die.

Kyushu has a population of hundreds of billions. Naturally, it is impossible for tens of billions of people to die in the future. But if a war does occur for tens to hundreds of years, the number of people who starve to death will probably be in the billions, and there will definitely be more.

Such a large population is the wealth of the human race, and each one has a certain amount of luck. Saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. If you save billions or even tens of billions of people, you will become a Buddha instantly.

I don’t know how much better it is than just shouting slogans in Buddhism.

At the same time, the people saved will definitely become the staunchest believers of Taiping Dao. At that time, Taiping Dao will no longer have any rivals.

Taiping Dao has no shortage of weapons, and countless people have become the subsequent militia. It is conceivable how powerful Taiping Dao will be in the future.

And once troubled times come, food will be the most precious thing.

Maybe at this time, there are people with lofty ideals who have seen the future, and some people have begun to save food, but compared with Taiping Road, it is naturally incomparable.

The wealth of Taipingdao in just a few years will probably not be much worse than that of those families that have been around for thousands of years.

As for the foundation, Taiping Dao does not have much. However, the inheritance of Taiping Dao is only stronger than those of those aristocratic families that have existed for thousands of years. At least compared with the Yanmen Zhang family, the former is far beyond it. (End of chapter)