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

Chapter 705: Paying Tuition Fee and Qin Fa in Tianzhu
When Liu Heng and Liu Jian heard what Liu Ruyi said about his time in the Seleucid Empire, they were extremely surprised. They had not expected that the Seleucid Empire's governance capabilities would be so poor.

Liu Ruyi, on the other hand, said a few good words for his comrades: "No one is born knowing how to govern a country. With these experiences, the Seleucid Empire will get better."

Expectations are all based on comparisons. If Liu Ruyi compares the Seleucid Empire with the Han Dynasty, he would be so angry that he would want to kill people. But compared with the chaos in other countries in the Qin Continent, he was shocked to find that the Seleucid Empire was actually an excellent student.

After the Datong Party established its ruling position, small countries such as the Greek city-states also carried out equal distribution of land and industrialization. These Datong Party members took the Han Dynasty as their goal and were enthusiastic about building the country.

But they only had enthusiasm but no experience in governing. They set many industrial standards that were beyond their country's ability to bear and built various factories on a large scale.

The capital exported by the Han Dynasty increased from less than 55 billion in the 500th year of the Han Dynasty to more than 60 billion in the th year of the Han Dynasty.

This seemed to make the Han Dynasty's exports booming. The large number of obsolete machines could recover 30% to 40% of the machine costs, and they could also be replaced with new motor equipment. The countries in Daqinzhou also obtained cheap machinery for industrial development, which was a two-pronged approach.

But the reality is that investment in Daqinzhou is overheated, and with the Han Dynasty behind the scenes fueling the flames, these countries have built factories far beyond their capabilities and purchased too much equipment. These countries cannot use these factories reasonably to realize capital appreciation, but instead suffer large-scale losses.

Now the small countries in the Greek city-states are facing a surge in debt, fierce internal conflicts and contradictions, and the ruling position of the Datong Party is already shaky. If they had not won the support of the peasants through equal distribution of land in the beginning and the support of the Han Dynasty outside, they would have been attacked and liquidated by the nobles long ago.

The situation of small countries is not good, and the situation of the four major countries in Daqinzhou is not very good either.

Due to the disagreements on how to govern the country and the incomplete purge of the senators, most of the benefits of the industrial age were reaped by the Roman senators, which caused dissatisfaction among the Roman citizens. The Roman Council was divided into two factions, and the contradictions deepened and conflicts continued.

The situation of the Pax Romana in Egypt was even worse. Khnum formed a Pax Romana Army with the new troops trained by the allies as the backbone. It took him three years to finally reunify Egypt.

However, the Datong Theological Society was originally a force formed by a mixture of all kinds of religions and people. They had different ideas on governing the country. After they gained state power, they soon split again due to political differences. They drove out the old warlords and welcomed new warlords, but everything in Egypt remained unchanged.

Carthage, which was relatively in the best situation, also showed a tendency to split. The Carthaginians invested huge resources in the three Celtic islands and finally built the three islands into an agricultural base with rich resources. However, Carthage itself was restricted by the Sahara Desert and its development was not as good as the three Celtic islands. In order to change this situation, the Carthaginian elders built an industrial base in Carthage itself.

However, the industrial investment was too large, and a large amount of wealth flowed to Carthage, which caused dissatisfaction among the local forces of the three Celtic islands. Carthage was already showing signs of division.

With these forces as comparison, Liu Ruyi was not dissatisfied. After all, the country was still there, and after paying the tuition, the country was on the right track.

Liu Heng said: "Back then, the founding heroes of the Han Dynasty did not know how to govern the country at first. The emperor did a good job in this regard. He reduced the difficulty of governing the world by governing by inaction, and formulated government affairs procedures, breaking down government affairs like an assembly line, making complex government affairs simple. In addition, the founding heroes were heroes who emerged from wars, so they naturally got the hang of governing the country quickly."

Then he looked at his brother and sighed, "Third brother, what you lack is the same prestige as the emperor. You didn't stop them from making trouble in the beginning..."

Liu Qi was deeply touched and said, "The Seleucid Empire, where Uncle San is, is the norm in the world. Our Han Dynasty is an outlier."

Liu Ruyi smiled and asked, "Your name has been heard by my uncle. I heard that the Indians call you Luohou. The Indians dare not discuss your name and only use Luohou instead."

Tianzhu is closer to Daqinzhou, so Liu Ruyi can know the news of Tianzhu. In recent years, Liu Qi's reputation in Tianzhu has been very great, even surpassing that of Tianzhu King Xu Aijun.

Liu Qi sighed and shook his head, "The people of India have no industrial habits. I can only use Qin law to change the behavior of the Indians. If there is any other choice, I am unwilling to do so. After all, Qin law has a bad reputation in my Han Dynasty, and I don't want to be called a cruel official. However, India has preserved its bad habits for thousands of years. Without severe punishments and laws to change the Indians' lax habits, the industrialization of India will not be successful."

Liu Qi and his group of Han officials who went to India had deep feelings. In the 56th year of the Han Dynasty, the new Seoul city completed the infrastructure of three connections and one leveling with the help of tens of thousands of Indian workers. Then he brought a group of Han merchants to build cotton textile factories, garment factories, luggage factories, shoe and sock factories and a large number of factories related to the textile industry in the new Seoul city.

At the beginning, there were not many of these factories. There were only a dozen textile factories led by his uncle, and the investment was not large. Except for his uncle Liu You who invested 30 million, the rest were small factories with investment of millions or hundreds of thousands. Everyone was afraid of being cheated by Tianzhu, so they only dared to use such small factories to test the waters.

Liu Qi also understood that this was the time when Tianzhu was selling horse bones for a huge sum of money. As long as these factories made money, naturally a large number of merchants would come to Tianzhu to invest.

So Liu Qi personally kept an eye on these projects. He personally went to each factory to start production and helped them solve local problems and production funding issues.

Then all kinds of magical things happened. The workers did not pay attention to hygiene, and the factory became a toilet, polluting the raw materials. When they went to the countryside to purchase cotton, they were robbed by local tyrants. Or the contracts they signed were not honored. All these things happened frequently.

This was still a problem among the people. There were also many problems in the officialdom of New Seoul, because Liu Qi positioned New Seoul as a trading city dominated by the cotton textile industry. New Seoul had a special port and customs to facilitate the export of factory-produced cotton cloth, clothing, luggage, shoes and socks and other goods to the Han Dynasty.

Although Xinhancheng was a new city, it required an extremely large system of officials. Liu Qi and his group of Han officials were only department leaders, and the middle and lower levels were still mainly Indians.

After Liu Qi and his men learned about the administrative situation in India, they no longer had any hope for the Indian officials. They knew it was impossible to improve the administration of a country spanning thousands of miles in a short period of time, but it should not be too difficult to concentrate their efforts and make just one city reach the level of administration in the Han Dynasty. So Liu Qi asked Dong Zhongshu to concentrate the best officials in India in the new Han city, and then they would assess some of the Indians to supplement them as minor officials, thus building a new Han official system.

But this system disappointed Liu Qi. The speed at which they became corrupt was beyond Liu Qi's imagination. They soon mastered the habits of Indian officials and learned how to take bribes and extort money without any instruction. Even the textile looms that Liu Sui transported to India were stuck at the customs.

The clerk at the customs said that in order to speed up the process of passing through the customs, they needed some money as lubrication. Liu Sui immediately said that he was the cousin of Liu Qi, the Shaofu Ling.

But it was of no use. The Indian officials said that anyone who wanted to enter the port had to pay money. Liu Sui did not want to trouble his cousin for such a small matter, so he gave these officials a little bribe, thinking that it was better to deal with the King of Hell than with the little ghosts.

But he was exposed for his wealth. Others who invested in Tianzhu only had a few machines, but he had a whole boatload of machines. Naturally, he could not let go of such a big fat sheep easily.

When transporting the machines later, these people said that if they wanted to get the machines out of the port, they had to use their professional transport team, and the price of transporting these machines was 5000% higher than that of the Dahan Wharf. You should know that the salary of a craftsman in the Dahan was 500 coins, while the salary of a craftsman in Tianzhu was coins. This clearly showed that he was being taken advantage of. Liu Sui wanted to hire craftsmen to transport the machines himself, but these people could not enter the wharf, and even his machines were seized. Liu Sui laughed in anger and directly found Liu Qi to get his machines out.

After this incident, Liu Suiyou said helplessly to Liu Qi: "The Han people are saying that Tianzhu is not a place to do business. This time, I finally understand what it means that it is better to deal with the devil than the devil. The machine has finally been delivered. I will send a shopkeeper to Tianzhu to be the factory manager. It is really difficult for you to be the Shaofu Ling in such a place."

Then he left Tianzhu without looking back.

This incident made Liu Qi furious. These petty officials from Tianzhu were a slap in his face. He immediately arrested these corrupt officials and confiscated their property. But this was Tianzhu, not Han. He could only find petty officials from Tianzhu to replace the customs. The new Hancheng had more than just this problem. There were problems in almost everything. Except for the name, everything else was the same as Tianzhu, and this was something Liu Qi could not tolerate.

Liu Qi could only solve these problems one by one. First, he drove out the Shaofu Ling and moved to Xinhan City, and personally served as the city lord. Then he started a comprehensive transformation of Tianzhu. He severely punished the unhygienic behavior of the Tianzhu people. As long as such an incident was discovered, he would whip the person in public and make him clean the toilet for three days. Even if you dropped three leaves, you would be whipped three times.

As for the tyrants who blocked the road and robbed people, he ordered Ning Cheng to capture the local tyrants and confiscate their property. Then he personally helped these factories to buy raw materials, trying to reduce the gap between them and the Indians, and only let the Han merchants complete the two tasks of production and export. As for the factories, he recruited Indians who returned from the Han Dynasty and put them under militarized management to eliminate their bad habits.

In order to deal with the corrupt Indian petty officials, he also recruited a large number of Legalist disciples through Ning Cheng to increase the proportion of Han officials.

Then we discussed with them how to change the bad habits of the Indian people. In the end, these people helplessly discovered that it was almost impossible to change the Indian people's habits of greed, laziness, treachery and slipperiness.

But Ning Cheng said disdainfully: "The Indians are nothing. The Qin people were brave in private revenge but timid in public war. I, the Legalists, have not changed. The tyrannical Qin was powerful and famous among the six kingdoms."

Zheng Zhuang was stunned and asked, "You want to use Qin law in Tianzhu?"

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This time even Dong Zhongshu looked unhappy. Originally, because of his reforms in India, many people within Confucianism considered him a traitor. If he applied Qin laws in India again, he, a Confucian scholar, might become a Legalist scholar.

Moreover, the tyrannical Qin Dynasty did not have a very good reputation in the Han Dynasty. To make a fortune, one had to get rid of the historical burden, and the First Emperor and the Qin Dynasty were the best scapegoats. Therefore, the reputation of Qin law was naturally not good, and it has been criticized in the academic community for decades.

Ning Cheng showed an excited expression and said: "To correct a wrong, we must first correct it. If we want to eliminate the greed, laziness, treachery and slipperiness of the Indians, we must have strict laws and severe punishments. In this regard, Qin law is the culmination of it. If the Indians can really become as honest as the people of Qin, the industrialization we want to build will be a success."

In the end, Zheng Zhuang and Yan Yi opposed it, but Ning Cheng, Liu Qi, and Liu Xian agreed. After thinking for a few days, Dong Zhongshu decided to hand over Xinhancheng to Liu Qi, and he pretended not to see it.

So Liu Qi, Ning Cheng and Liu Xian discussed the laws to be used in the new Seoul City. Naturally, it was impossible to copy the Qin laws completely. After all, it was a system of war, and there were too many tortures that mutilated the limbs. There were not many excellent craftsmen in India, and if this set of laws were used, no one would do the work. India did not need war, but industrial construction. There was a big difference between the two.

After discussion, the three men, based on the Han laws and learning from the excellent experience of the Qin laws, made detailed requirements on the Indians' food, clothing, housing and transportation. They managed the Indians' work, farming, walking, and even their daily life, and formulated strict laws. Anyone who violated these laws would be punished with flogging and forced labor.

There is zero tolerance for corruption. If the amount of corruption exceeds 800 coins, the person will be sentenced to 10 years in prison, and if the amount exceeds 10 coins, the person will be sentenced to years in prison. Ning Cheng also set up a monitoring system for New Seoul. If the Indians dare to commit corruption, they will be regarded as adding free labor to New Seoul. Of course, in addition to such high penalties, the Indians who serve as officials in New Seoul will receive times the salary of those in India, and they will also receive bonuses if they do a good job. The highlight is the heavy rewards and heavy punishments.

The same goes for craftsmen. If they make mistakes while doing their work, they will be whipped. If they are unhygienic, they will be whipped. If they are lazy and slack, they will be whipped directly to make you dare not make mistakes.

Ning Cheng was even more excited to develop a special whip that could hurt people but would not cause serious injuries. Even if there were injuries, they would heal quickly. So in New Seoul, people believed in the system of producing good craftsmen under the whip. The greedy, lazy, cunning and slippery characters of the Indians disappeared, and their bad habits such as being unhygienic were also changed. They went to work honestly and returned home with a sense of responsibility.

No one could have imagined that the Qin laws that had disappeared for decades would actually reappear in this way. This made the Legalist giants extremely concerned about what was happening in Tianzhu, and they even sent many Legalist elites to assist Liu Qi.

After such reforms, the new Seoul had a new look, and the people of India began to become simple and honest, dressed appropriately, and began to keep their word and no longer lied as before.

The petty officials in New Seoul are serious and cautious, they enforce the law strictly, and they are honest and clean. They do not form cliques for personal gain and are efficient in their work. Although all kinds of corruption and extortion are not completely eliminated, they will be dealt with immediately once reported. The wealthy merchants who invested in New Seoul were surprised to find that although other places in India had not changed, New Seoul had become more efficient and honest than the Han mainland.

Of course, these have little to do with merchants. The most important thing is that after these changes, the business environment in New Seoul has improved, and they can recover half of their investment in Tianzhu in one year.

Making money is what they care about most, and they are surprised that doing business in Tianzhu is so profitable. The textile industry, which has very low profits, can increase its profits several times in Tianzhu to more than 50%. Many small factories have doubled their profits. Their profits have caught up with or even exceeded those of the high-tech industries in the Han Dynasty.

The reason is very simple. The clothing and textile industry is a labor-intensive industry. In the new Han City, the salary of female workers and craftsmen is only one-tenth of that in the Han Dynasty. In addition, Liu Qi tried his best to catch up with the Han Dynasty in infrastructure and industry. Tianzhu is one of the origins of cotton and can obtain a large amount of high-quality and low-priced cotton. These factors combined, the cloth, clothes, bags, shoes and socks and other cotton textiles produced in Tianzhu are of high quality and low price, not to mention more than half the price of the Han Dynasty, and the profit is twice as high.

There was no way around it. Although the Han Dynasty had a complete industrial chain and advanced machines, the salaries of local craftsmen were too high, especially in Kuaiji County. The salary of female textile workers generally reached 8000 coins, and it was normal for excellent ones to earn over 500 coins. In contrast, the salary of female workers in India was only around coins. The salary of a dozen female workers in India was equivalent to that of one female worker in the Han Dynasty. When the labor cost was low enough, it could even narrow the gap with the machines.

In Xu Fan's world, Bald Eagle and Japan had already begun researching industrial robots to reduce labor costs, but the wage gap in China directly caused a severe blow to the robot industry in the millennium. Those capitalists found that instead of spending a lot of manpower, material resources and funds to research industrial robots, it would be more profitable to move the factory.

In this world, Indian cotton cloth and Indian textiles began to sweep across the southern border of the Han Dynasty. The Han merchants who made money increased their investment in the new Han City. In the second year, the new Han City added hundreds of textile-related factories. The Han Dynasty invested more than 3 million yuan in the new Han City, and the number of textile factories doubled in the third year. By the 60th year of the Han calendar, the new Han City had thousands of textile-related factories of all sizes, with annual exports of tens of billions, and it was still in a stage of rapid growth.

With the rapid development of the new Han City, Indian cotton no longer had to be sold to the Han Dynasty in the form of raw materials. Instead, it was bought as ready-made garments with higher profits. At the same time, these thousands of textile factories employed more than 500 female workers and craftsmen. Although their salaries were only around coins, in India, this was already a very high income. A couple could support the whole family by working and let them live a meat-eating life.

In order to reduce the living cost of Tianzhu craftsmen, Liu Qi helped them build a craftsman community, purchased cheap food from Tianzhu, and solved the worries of craftsmen in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. As long as the Tianzhu people had a job in New Seoul, they could live a middle-class life. This is why the management of New Seoul is so strict and even harsh, but every year a large number of Tianzhu people still flock to this emerging light industrial city.

Of course, because of Liu Qi's harshness, people were often punished by whipping for breaking the law in New Seoul, so Liu Qi had a very bad reputation in India, and his name was replaced by that of Rahu, the most brutal deity in Indian mythology.

(End of this chapter)