While throwing fish into the pond beside the pavilion and feeding the fish, he sighed lonelyly.

Guo Jin is right. This kind of thing has threatened the fundamental existence of the Guo Wei regime and even the entire ethical system.

Once it spreads, it will inevitably threaten the stability of the Guo and Wei regime, and it is hard to say what trouble will happen at that time.

During the Little Ice River Age, the Wei Empire must maintain existence and unity, and must maintain national stability and peace. Under the general environment of food production reduction, once the Wei Empire collapses, the number of deaths caused by war will far exceed that of the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

All of Guo Peng's forty years of struggle was in vain.

Guo Peng has always agreed with one sentence.

When the productivity level is not enough, don’t think about changing the nature of society, otherwise society will collapse.

The root of all problems can actually be attributed to the issue of social productivity. If productivity is sufficient and common prosperity is common, then the whole world should be harmonious.

But the problem is that the progress of social productivity is a huge proposition.

Transitioning from the agricultural era to the industrial era, social productivity has changed drastically, and it is not just a steam engine...

Even a steam engine has overcome many difficulties and obstacles from the laboratory to practicality?

Moreover, if you have an available steam engine, you must have high-quality industrial-quality steel.

Industrial-quality steel with excellent quality also requires the development of ironmaking technology, and also requires the development of coking technology. For blast furnace steelmaking, refractory bricks are also needed.

A considerable degree of chemical knowledge is involved in the middle, and this set of chemical theory needs to be fully mature and become a technology that can be used for production.

After each mature technology, a complete mature mass-producible industry is needed. The formation of each mass-producible industry also requires its own specifications, its own management model, and its own business model. Behind it is countless interests involved.

Of course, huge amounts of original capital investment are indispensable.

More importantly, social needs.

Only when society has demand can a market be created. Only when there is a market can people consume and generate profits. Only when this industry develops and continues to innovate.

Guo Peng sat in the pavilion and thought carefully about what kind of scene it would have been if the Wei Empire now owned a train.

Of course it is very beneficial.

It is very meaningful in military affairs. The military's actions and material delivery efficiency will be unprecedentedly greatly improved, and the Wei Empire can almost perfectly control its own territory.

The speed of message transmission will also become very fast, the government's administrative efficiency will be greatly improved, and the centralization efficiency will be greatly improved.

The business level will greatly reduce the time cost of commercial transportation and greatly improve business efficiency. It is definitely a blessing for merchants.

Well, the most elite and wealthy group of people in the Wei Empire have fully enjoyed the convenience of the train.

Then what about the civilians who occupy the vast majority of the population?

Do they... need to use trains at the moment?

What are they doing with trains?

The greatest significance of trains to ordinary people should be to facilitate business and work outside, but in terms of the level of business development and handicraft development of the Wei Empire...

It doesn't seem to make much sense.

How much population has the Wei Empire absorbed?

Well, there aren't many anyway.

Do other farmers who cultivate land need trains?

What do they use trains?

Sightseeing tour?

Visit relatives and friends?

Based on their general financial resources, can they afford to take the train?

The Wei Empire had a strict household registration system and needed a way to go out.

Most of the time for ordinary people is needed to produce, farm in spring, weeding and insect removal in summer, and taxes for harvesting in autumn. Only a little leisure time in winter.

However, there are labor service to be borne from time to time in your spare time, young men still have to be borne by military service, and young children have to go to school no matter how hard they are.

Moreover, they all have land and homes, and the income gap between urban and rural areas is not that big. It seems that there is no urgent need to work or business in the city.

Even if you enter the city, you will go to the nearest county town, rather than the big cities along the southeast coast, so there is no need for large-scale migration.

Of course, the most important thing is that the land yield per mu is too low.

I have been busy all year round, and it is still difficult to support a few naughty children after paying tax on the food I brought.

It is the greatest happiness to pull a few pieces of cloth to make clothes during festivals and holidays. If you spend money to take the train to another place, just eat food but not earn money to raise children... Are you crazy?

From this point of view, the common people probably can't count on it.

Can the R&D costs, train operation costs, railway construction costs and subsequent maintenance costs relying solely on elites and the richest group of people?

Officials must not pay for their own expenses for official travel, and military transportation must not allow military soldiers to pay for them, right?

So the cost is still counted on the businessman.

How expensive is that ticket?

What if it is more expensive than a long-distance trip by carriage... will there be so many people taking the train? Can a carriage be filled?

If none of these people can spread the cost and make profits, then the government will continue to post money, pay, pay money...

How long can a fiscal revenue model with the main body of the Wei Empire as the auxiliary agricultural taxation and commercial taxation to create a railway line covering the territory of the Wei Empire and maintain operation?

Can the benefits brought by trains and the costs paid?

Guo Peng thought carefully and thought it would be better to study how to increase the land yield per mu.

This is really improving productivity, right?

The goal of increasing grain yield per mu by this series of actions is to truly improve productivity.

If productivity cannot be improved in a comprehensive way, only one or two objects will be harmed.

And if it is necessary, Guo Peng would rather get greenhouse technology than other technologies.

With the greenhouse technology, Xiaobinghe is really not an excessive threat to the Wei Empire.

Of course, this reality also made Guo Peng feel disappointed.

To suppress the mind, fool the people and weak people, and to consolidate the rule, of course, this has positive significance, such as making the country more stable, less turmoil, and less dead, so that everyone can live happily.

It is not a good thing to just suppress the development of ideas and limit the birth of new ideas.

Saying a thousand words is still productivity.

If the Wei Empire could have stronger productivity, new ideas could be spread, but the productivity of the Wei Empire was limited and could not withstand the impact of new ideas and the collapse of social structure.

Under the attack of the small ice river, a strong government needs to use state decrees as a means to carry out major projects for transporting grain from south to north for a long time, and control costs and control grain prices, and ensure peace and stability in the land of China in the general environment of the population increase in the Wei Empire.

Once the Wei Empire collapses, war and cold will surely destroy the agricultural system on which the people rely for survival. At that time, the number of people who die will reach millions and tens of millions, and the disaster will be no less than that in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Productivity…productivity…productivity…productivity…

Guo Peng muttered these three words, waved his hand and scattered all the fish food in his hand into the pond.

He knew that he could not continue to do more. If he wanted to change the world, he had to start from the bottom, from the most basic, and from productivity.

If you have thoughts but no productivity, you are just castles in the air.

so.

After a deep sigh, Guo Peng chose to compromise.

The next day, Guo Peng ordered the academic department to send all the published sample essay textbooks to Taishan Hall, and no one is allowed to be left.

Then I only left three books, and the rest were piled up in the large courtyard at the entrance of the Taishan Palace, and the eunuchs who served me burned them all.

Eunuchs, look at me, look at you, I don’t know why, but they still do it according to the emperor’s wishes.

Therefore, all trial versions of the study of physics textbooks that have been printed were burned.

Looking at the burning fire, Guo Peng tightened the only three books left in his hand.

Seeing his own eyes disappear into the flames, Guo Peng felt very calm, without joy or sorrow.

After the flames went out, Guo Peng stared at the eunuchs and processed all the traces, then returned to the palace, took out a box, and put these three brand new textbooks on the study of matters.

The one from Guo Jin was asked to keep him and pass it on to the descendants of the emperors, and Guo Peng planned to keep these three books. At that time, the craftsmen would take some anti-corrosion treatment and then take them to their tomb to bury them.

Thousands of years later, if your tomb is destroyed and needs to be excavated, then future generations will make this first edition of the study of matters public.

Since this era cannot match such thoughts, let such thoughts sleep underground with your own death.

I hope that when they see the light of day again, that era already has enough productivity to accept all this.

After hearing about this, Guo Jin remained silent and did not go to find Guo Peng.

He just silently left the lonely book in his hand on his desk, intending to define it as a forbidden book that is only for the emperor to read, and no one can read other than that.

It doesn’t matter whether others are open-minded or not, but as the emperor himself, he must have an open-minded mind and read all books to obtain enough information.

Don’t really think that the harmony between heaven and man is true, and it can limit the existence of the emperor.

The emperor himself must know that he has to raise his head three feet... There is nothing wrong!
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