At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 455: Choice is greater than effort and news about Sindhu
After five years of construction, the Korean capital Xinzheng has been well developed. Most of the houses on the streets are brick houses, and the main roads are also paved with bricks. It has the level of a prosperous county town in the Han Dynasty. However, there are very few facilities such as pubs, inns, theaters, etc. to serve the citizens. Xinzheng is still a city dominated by agricultural production.

After bidding farewell to Zhang Buzhi, some of Hu Hai's men came to his own money shop in Xinzheng.

Feihai Money House is a relatively tall building, a three-story building constructed with bricks and stones. The interior space is large enough to accommodate hundreds of people to conduct business. It is located on the main road of the entire Xinzheng. Among all the civil facilities, Feihai Money House is the best.

When Hu Hai and his companions arrived, there were three clerks busy in the money house and more than a dozen people queuing in the hall. Some were depositing money, some were sending money, and some were entrusting Fei Hai Money House to send letters, which was also an expansion of Fei Hai Money House's business.

"Boss!" Hu Hai and his companions were immediately discovered by the waiters.

Hu Hai said: "You continue to work."

The owner of the money shop immediately appeared and took Hu Hai and the other two to the backstage.

Hu Hai asked: "How much deposits did the bank absorb this year, and how much will be sent back to the Han Dynasty?"

The shopkeeper said, "There are 1000 million in deposits, and 500 million has been sent back to the Han Dynasty."

Zhuzi was surprised and said, "Korea is so rich? The richest county in Han Dynasty is only this rich."

It was a bit beyond Zhuzi's expectation that Xinzheng, which looked so deserted, was so wealthy.

The shopkeeper said, "Korea is not like the mainland of the Han Dynasty. There are fewer Han people here. Even Master Zhang has to please the local Han people. The Han people who come to Korea can not only get 300 acres of land, but also 3 households of barbarians. The treatment of craftsmen is even better. They work four hours a day and receive a monthly salary of 2000 coins. There is no such good treatment in the Han Dynasty."

Although South Korea has the support of the Han Dynasty, it is still essentially an agricultural country that relies on cash crops. The number of Korean craftsmen is less than 2% of the national population. Although they only have apprentice-level skills in the Han Dynasty, their economic status is equivalent to that of middle-level or master craftsmen in the Han Dynasty.

But these days, your salary is not determined by how high your skills are, but by how scarce you are. Even if your skills are superb, if there are a lot of people who can replace you, your salary will not increase. This is how the Han Dynasty is.
The workmanship of these craftsmen in Korea was terrible, but there were only a thousand craftsmen in Korea. If you didn't use them, would you want to use those barbarians to do the work? Zhang Buyi and his men had no choice but to use these people and pay them 2000 coins. Even ordinary farmers in Korea earned more than in the Han Dynasty, because in the Han Dynasty you could only be a self-employed farmer. Although the per-acre yield of grain was higher, you could only exploit yourself.

In South Korea, a farming household generally has ten young and strong wild men as tenants. Although commanding these wild men to do things is inefficient, they have 10 more cattle and horses to work for them, so the speed of accumulating wealth is naturally faster.

Therefore, the general income of people in Southeast Asia and the Han people exceeds that of the Han Dynasty. After all, in places with vast land and sparse population, labor costs are more valuable.

Of course, there are gains and losses. The income in South Korea is high, but there are not many places to spend money. This leads to local people saving their money or sending money back to Korea to their relatives. The middle class with a salary of 2000 yuan naturally saves more money.

Some shopkeepers were disappointed and said, "Even if they were offered triple the salary, they would not work overtime. They would leave at a certain time every day and would rather drink and chat in the tavern. Without storytellers or opera troupes, they organized their own storytelling and opera performances, but they would not make more money. They have even forgotten the simple and hardworking qualities of the Han people."

The shopkeeper is nearly fifty years old and has experienced three dynasties. In his opinion, now is the best time. If he does not work hard to change his destiny in such a good era, he would be letting down his family. He despises those young people who drink and wander around the most.

Hu Hai smiled and said, "I don't care about other people's affairs, I just need to do my own thing."

Hu Hai actually also discovered this situation. Although the Han Dynasty brought the light of civilization to the Nanyang area, the laziness of the Nanyang people seemed to have also affected the Han people. As long as the people in this area are lazy, they are all so lazy. But who can blame them for their good luck? The competitive pressure in Nanyang is not as great as that in the Han mainland. Even though they are so lazy, their income is still much higher than their counterparts in the Han mainland, so sometimes choice is more important than hard work.

Xinzheng Palace in the evening.

Zhang Buzhi invited Hu Hai and others to a banquet. Although he could learn about the latest news of the Han Dynasty from newspapers, reading newspapers was not as good as communicating with people. He was not satisfied with chatting at the dock just now, especially since he did not know much about the inside story of the Second Steam Expo. So he specially invited Hu Hai, who had experienced it firsthand, to talk about the latest news of the Expo.

Hu Hai naturally did not disappoint Zhang Buzhi and directly told him what he saw and heard at the expo.

"The Han Dynasty is changing with each passing day. There are more than 3000 exhibits at the Second Steam Expo. Although many of them are agricultural products, there are also more than 500 machines. The most advanced spinning machine can spin spindles of yarn at the same time. The efficiency of steam locomotives has further widened the gap with water locomotives. At the same time, steam trains have begun to completely replace horse-drawn carriages. I even saw a steam car that can run on its own without being on the track. Steam pumps, steam grinders, steam machine tools, as long as the machinery uses power, have been converted to steam, and the efficiency has also been significantly improved.

I even saw a calculator that can quickly calculate large amounts of data. I saw that their calculations for three-digit numbers were good, but still not as good as abacus. However, their potential can be seen. If they continue to develop, they may have a steam calculator. The steam engine has shown a bright future and will eventually replace all water conservancy and animal-powered machinery in the world. "

Zhang Buyi said excitedly: "When we were debating in school, we believed that steam engines would completely change the Han Dynasty, but we didn't expect it to be realized so quickly. I really want to fly to Chang'an City. Compared with the ever-changing Chang'an City, my Korea has remained unchanged."

Zhang Zhong said: "Korea has also changed a lot. We have reclaimed millions of acres of land and established more than a dozen manors. Korea just doesn't have the foundation. Once we have laid a solid foundation, it will also change with each passing day like the Han Dynasty."

For Zhang Zhong, South Korea is the best place now, especially every blade of grass, every brick and tile here, which were all developed by them bit by bit. He likes South Korea more than the big men who are full of malice towards them.

Zhang Buyi said, "Uncle, should we also make some steam engines?"

Zhang Zhongdao said: "Korea doesn't grow mulberry and hemp, so having a steam engine won't be of much use."

Zhang Buyi said, "Get some steam pumps for agricultural irrigation, which can increase crop output."

Zhang Zhong shook his head and said, "Nanzhong doesn't lack water. Waterwheels and windmills are enough. Steam is not only impractical but also expensive. Moreover, if it breaks down, no one knows how to repair it. Waterwheels and windmills are cheap and easy to operate."

Hu Hai also advised: "Sir, you should wait until Korea is well developed before you think about building a workshop."

Zhang Buyi thought that most people in Korea were still savages, and even farming required manual training. It was indeed difficult to ask these people to operate a steam engine.

Then Zhang Buyi pointed at a man in foreign clothing and said, "This is the master from Shentu, Master Jiuma Luo. The master has extremely high attainments in mathematics and astronomy. It can be said that he is not much inferior to the masters of the hundreds of schools in my Han Dynasty."

Hu Hai was surprised and asked, "Did the Yuezhi capture Sindhu?" He felt it was a little unbelievable. You know, Sindhu is west of the Western Regions, tens of thousands of miles away from the Han Dynasty, and even more so from Southeast Asia. How could a master from Sindhu appear in Korea? Is he a liar?

Zhang Buyi said proudly: "At first, I also thought that the master was a liar, but after many confirmations, I found that Sindhu is connected to my Nanyang."

After that, he took out a map of the entire Han Dynasty, pointed to the blank area of ​​information in the Western Regions and Southeast Asia, and said, "Sindhu is not a country, but a group of dozens of countries with a different civilization from our Han Dynasty. It is equivalent to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of our Han Dynasty. The Yuezhi people destroyed the Sindhu country in the north, but they still have more than a dozen countries in the south."

"According to Master Jiuma Luo, the Sindhu civilization also has a long history, and its history is not much different from that of the Han Dynasty. It's just that they didn't have a first emperor to unify this continent."

Then he said proudly: "Compared to the martial virtues of our Han people, the Sindhu people are much weaker. According to Master Kumarajiva, the Sindhu people have been ruled by foreigners for thousands of years. Therefore, when the Yuezhi people arrived in Sindhu, they were able to sweep across thousands of miles and rely on the wealth of the Sindhu people to restore their vitality."

He even felt a little regretful that he was not in the Western Regions at that time. After all, Uncle Ji Bu was too calm and did not have the habit of being ruthless when he was in an advantageous position. Otherwise, he would definitely chase him for thousands of miles, all the way to Sindhu, and maybe he would become the one who ruled Sindhu. Being able to rule Sindhu and tens of millions of people would be better off as the King of Han.

Hu Hai was surprised and said, "There is actually such a thing."

But when he looked at the map, he felt it was very possible. South Korea had already discovered that Namchuria was just a peninsula, and there was also sea on the other side of the continental line. It was very likely that the other side of the sea was Sindhu.

Hu Hai was immediately excited. It was difficult for the Han Dynasty to influence Sindhu via tens of thousands of miles of land, but it was possible by sea transportation. If he could penetrate Sindhu, which had a population of tens of millions, then his Fei Hai Money House would surely soar to the sky and reach a scale comparable to the four major money houses.

Zhang Buyi continued, "This Sindhu is really different from our Han Dynasty before. Thousands of years ago, after Emperor Zhuanxu "cut off the connection between heaven and earth", our Han Dynasty was no longer affected by theocracy.

"But they are different. The Sindhu people are too weak to use force to drive out the foreigners. They can only regain their ruling power through cultural influence. Unbelievably, they succeeded. Sindhu has two ruling classes, one is the wizards who worship the gods, and the other is the foreigners who have military power. But in Sindhu, the status of wizards is higher than that of nobles who have military power."

This was difficult for Hu Hai to understand. One could conquer the world only on horseback. His father, the Han Emperor, and even emperors for thousands of years had all done so. How could the Sindhu civilization be so peculiar that they could regain the ruling power through charlatans? How did they do it? He had seen the weakness of charlatans. When Xu Fu offended his father, his father was furious and killed hundreds of alchemists, but he did not see them have any means of resistance.

Then Zhang Buyi took out a book and said, "This is a translation of Sindhu's Song of the Original People. Some people understand how they regained their rights."

Hu Hai picked up the book, which roughly said that more than 1000 years ago, during the Shang Dynasty, a thing called Rig Veda, the song of the original man, appeared in Sindhu. It defined the class hierarchy of all the people in Sindhu through songs.

In this ballad, the Sindhu people imagine all the people in the world as one person, the original man.

The eyes of the original man turned into the sun, the chest of the original man turned into the moon, the mouth of the original man turned into a Brahmin, the arms of the original man turned into a Kshatriya, the legs of the original man turned into a Vaishya, and the feet of the original man turned into a Shudra!
Then it was recorded that there were four caste systems in Sindhu. The Brahmin monks were the mouths of God. They spread the gospel and conveyed the imperial edicts. They were the most noble. The Kshatriyas were willing to be emperors and generals. They protected the world and were the upper castes. The Vaishyas were merchants and commoners. The Shudras were farmers. The identities of all people were determined by heaven.

Seeing the above content, Hu Hai's first reaction was that he could not accept it. If he were a Vaisya in Sindhu, as long as he thought that he was a person of the third class, he would find it difficult to suppress his inner anger.

If you think about it carefully, if the Sindhu caste system had existed during the Qin Dynasty, peasants like Xu Fan would not have rebelled. But when you think about the fact that the emperor was only of the second rank and the Sindhu people were the ones who rebelled against the Tiangang, and some useless charlatans and alchemists became the supreme rulers, it is no wonder that they remained weak for thousands of years.

Zhang Zhong said, "I think there is some truth in the original song of the Sindhu people. It is the same as the Han Dynasty, where there are distinctions between the superior and the inferior, between the old and the young, between the inside and the outside, and between the relatives and the strangers. Although the Han Dynasty was in a prosperous era with flowers blooming and brocades being built, it was not without its flaws. The order of superiors and subordinates was not established."

"The emperor is a king, but he often mingle with the people and work with them. The people have seen so many emperors, how can they have dignity? Now my Han Dynasty has nobles, but no order. If this continues for many years, how can there not be chaos?"

For Zhang Zhong and other old aristocrats of the six kingdoms, except for the fact that the status of the Kshatriyas was wrong, everything else in "The Song of the Original Man" was simply the perfect ideal order they had imagined.

The Han Dynasty is now their enemy, having destroyed their status, relationships, and wealth in their lives. Everything they were proud of has been destroyed by the Han court.

In the eyes of Zhang Zhong and others, the Han Emperor was a more brutal monarch than the First Emperor. However, what made them helpless was that the Han Emperor was also a more powerful monarch than the First Emperor. He did what the First Emperor did not do. With the help of the Qin-Han War, the Han Emperor completely destroyed the aristocratic system that had existed for thousands of years over three generations and demoted them to the most barbaric world.

Zhang Buyi said contemptuously: "Uncle, what you said is totally inappropriate. If the Sindhu system was really good, the Sindhu people would not have been weak for thousands of years."

He said disdainfully: "I learned from Master Jiuma that the Sindhu people have a population of tens of millions and can recruit an army of 200 million, but they still cannot defeat the Yuezhi people who have been crippled by our Han people. You should know that the Yuezhi people only have a population of more than , and less than young and strong people. But even with such a weak Yuezhi people, the Sindhu people have no power to resist.

The Sindhu people have become like cattle and sheep under the captivity of these so-called Brahmin charlatans. Any foreign race can slaughter them. Brahmins are the biggest pests in Sindhu. They can neither defend the country nor the people. What is the point of the Sindhu people supporting these rulers? Or it is precisely because the Sindhu people have supported these useless rulers that they have been suffering for thousands of years. "

Zhang Buzhi accepted the new ideas of the Han Dynasty. How could he agree with this? Although his father was also an old aristocrat from the Warring States Period, the current status of his Zhang family was not obtained by inheriting a thousand-year-old bloodline, but by his father giving advice to the emperor and governing the world for the people.

Hu Hai also agreed, "As a noble, you can be cruel, cold-blooded, and untrustworthy, but you must not be incompetent. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, hundreds of countries have disappeared. Those tyrants who were not as righteous as benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness were still able to protect their countries, but those incompetent monarchs were the first to lose their countries. Their people also became slaves of other countries and disappeared without a trace. It is a miracle that Sindhu survived after thousands of years of weakness."

Zhang Zhong could only smile bitterly. After all, Zhang Buyi was different from them. They were the beneficiaries of the Han Dynasty's order and naturally supported its policies.

Zhang Buyi said, "The reason I invited Lord Zhao to this banquet is not only because I want to learn about the affairs of the Han Dynasty, but also because I want to join forces with Lord Zhao to march into Shendu."

Zhang Buyi said excitedly, "Although Sindhu is weak, it has a population of tens of millions. Sindhu is also a place of wealth. Zhao Jun should know how much profit there will be from the emergence of such a huge market, and the first person to appear in the Sindhu market will occupy the most lucrative profits. I want to unite with Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun will provide Han silk, porcelain and other handicrafts, and I will send someone from Korea to find a sea route to Sindhu. We will all march into Sindhu together and sell Han goods. We don't need to occupy it for a long time. As long as we occupy it for two or three years in advance, it will be enough for us to double our wealth."

Hu Hai thought about the dozens of times profit from spices back then, and he could make hundreds of millions of dollars in one trip to the sea. The first wave of people who went out to sea became wealthy merchants of the Han Dynasty, which shows the importance of this soup. Sindhu is a brand new market. As long as they go there, they can make dozens of times the profit. Hu Hai naturally would not give up such a good opportunity to make a fortune.

He bowed and saluted, "If you dare not obey my order, I will organize a fleet to return to the Han Dynasty and then meet you with the goods from the Han Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)