My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

Chapter 778 Wooden Railcar

Daqin's welding technology is already leading the world.

When Fusu saw that the craftsmen under Qin Shihuang actually used such advanced technology to make horse mane decorations, he wanted to pull Qin Shihuang off the carriage on the spot.

Because this scene made Fusu's mind suddenly flash back to the absurd historical event of Empress Dowager Cixi asking a horse to pull a train.

Fusu had a favorable impression of Ying Zheng, but unfortunately he was a modern man. Fusu was extremely disgusted by Ying Zheng's wasteful behavior.

Fusu is a modern man after all. Although he admires the culture of his ancestors, their ancestors' teachings on cultivating their inner self are often outdated.

If you want to prevent yourself and your people from being bullied in this world, both individuals and countries must improve their national defense capabilities. People must make themselves rich, and countries must develop science and technology.

Especially after witnessing the power of Western technology, Fusu insisted that he must industrialize the Qin Dynasty during his lifetime.

Fusu had an inexplicable obsession with industrialization.

This brings us to a shame that most Chinese people will never forget.

At that time, Japan made a comeback and attempted to encroach on the Chinese crabapple leaves, threatening to eat up the crabapple leaves within three months. Although it failed in the end.

However, the impact of this rather protracted war on the later Rooster Kingdom was not only the disaster at the time, but more seriously, because of Japan, the original time for China to learn from the West was greatly shortened, which led to the extreme compression of China's learning process from the West.

How to put it, the Chinese are not that stupid. After realizing that the West has surpassed China and that China is in danger of being invaded.

The enterprising Chinese people are already learning advanced foreign technologies in order to defeat them, hoping to catch up.

Unfortunately, the Insect Kingdom showed up and launched a war, which hindered China's normal process of learning Western science and technology. It was also because of them that China's traditional culture and Western science and technology could not be slowly integrated. The two sides were almost incompatible, causing China's traditional culture to almost perish.

That is to say, ancient China should have had 40 to 50 years to develop its own technological armaments. Given China's vast territory and abundant resources, if it had developed peacefully, it would have been no problem for it to surpass Britain and catch up with the United States.

It’s a pity that in history, the small Japanese country did not give China this opportunity, allowing China to have the chance to develop peacefully.

[I didn't expect that writing about real modern history is not possible nowadays. Readers can experience it for themselves. The content has to be modified from here on, as the original text is very intense.]

After those shameless people landed in China, they carried out massacres and lootings time and time again, causing countless disasters and sufferings. This disaster was like an avalanche, triggering more secondary disasters.

They forcibly interrupted Ancient China's initial crude development strategy, which naturally caused serious damage to China.

Since then, China has been like a wounded tiger, having to endure harassment and bullying from foreign enemies while licking blood in its cave and waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.

Those were truly the most difficult years.

Only in this way can those who intend to destroy the Central Plains escape from the inherent predicament.

The leader at that time had to make a decision and let two or three generations work hard day and night to complete the historical progress in a short sixty years, which should have taken two or three hundred years to complete.

However, the Chinese nation has created such a great myth and has truly achieved world-renowned achievements. From being beaten to hemiplegia, it eventually caught up to a transcendent position among the world's superpowers. All this was not without a price.

The price is that every Chinese family will bear tremendous pressure, and every Chinese person will share the tremendous pressure of this era of change.

From rural aristocracy to urban affairs, from respecting the heavens and ancestors to not recognizing the ancestral tablets, from father-son inheritance to creation, the gap of ten years is a generation gap in interpersonal communication, which has put a heavier responsibility and suffering on the shoulders of the Chinese nation than the people in the pre-Qin era...

For the sake of those Western trophies, the rabbits were deceived by outsiders, manipulated by traitors, and confused by themselves, and finally discarded the essence passed down by China for thousands of years in the tide of reform.

Speaking of it, it’s all tears!

Not to mention, in this difficult process of transcendence, the Chinese themselves have to bear the exploitation and oppression of their peers. Those who do more get less.

Those who are cunning and cunning get along well, while those who are honest suffer losses.

But the Chinese are still awesome!
No matter how hard or tiring it was, the Chinese people still accomplished this feat.

However, too much was paid during this period. Even though he had traveled to the Qin Dynasty more than ten years ago, Fusu couldn't help feeling suffocated when he recalled that era.

Fusu couldn't explain what happened later.

But as a modern man, Fusu always remembered deeply what that war had brought to the Chinese people;
Of course, to be fair, not all the problems that have occurred in China were caused by that battlefield. China’s own civilization structure is biased, and we still need to reflect on this.

What to do? Start from Daqin.

Where should we start from Daqin? Naturally, it is industry.

To develop industry, we must start with trains.

Because the Mohists invented something that was ahead of the world - the railcar.

In the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang——

This large mausoleum mine was dug entirely by hand, and the roar continues to this day.

However, the roar was not made by machines, but by the vibration of the ground as a team of thirty or even fifty people pulled a stone roller and pressed out a road step by step.

That's right, the mine pit of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum has been completely excavated. Since last year, they have started to move precious objects to fill the tomb pit. At the same time, they have used people to pull stone rollers to complete the layout of the river channel in the underground palace and the paving of roads in various parts of the underground palace.

This unprecedented feat was so huge in scale and consumed so much time and manpower that even Fusu, a modern man, would find it daunting.

Sometimes you have to admire the Chinese people in history. They are really amazing. Under such productivity conditions, they can accomplish such a feat.

Zhang Han stood on a high place in the mausoleum, overlooking the mausoleum that had lost its soul.

That god-like existence was knocked off the altar by his son and himself.

And now, Zhang Han did not become the top leader of the Qin Empire just by helping Qin II. He even faced the risk of being pushed down from the position of second in command.

People are like this. It's not that you can't make mistakes of principle, but it's better not to make one even if it means you die. Once you make one, there is no turning back.

Not to mention that Qin Shihuang could not violate certain social consensus and openly practice Taoism, which caused an uproar, and collecting the first bunch of wheat in autumn also caused complaints from the people.

Zhang Han stabbed Qin Shi Huang in the back once. Not to mention that Qin Ershi still had lingering fears about him, who among Qin Ershi's true supporters in the entire court dared to be sincere to Zhang Han?

Zhang Han stood on a high tower, looking at the huge pit exposed on the surface. However, under the ground, there were only other palaces that had been dug, still hidden under the ground.

However, on this open-air pit, relying on the high artificial mountain, six wooden rail cars circle along the mountain, using the power difference potential energy generated by the difference in height.

These six wooden railcars are almost indistinguishable from modern train tracks.

It can only use the kinetic energy generated by the difference in terrain to transport some stones, wood, tools, and even people.

(End of this chapter)