Chapter 2442 The Traveler in Prison
They entered the world and had a general overview of the world.
I found that they were all dressed in ancient costumes, and there were no people flying into the sky and escaping from the earth, so I subconsciously judged that this was the world of the feudal dynasty.
After arriving, I looked further into the distance and saw a flag with words written on it.
"Da Ming".
There is also a yellow dragon hovering on the flag.
“That’s the Yellow Dragon Banner of the Ming Dynasty!” No. 1 said suddenly.
They actually came to the Ming Dynasty.
“This is the Ming Dynasty, what a pity.” No. 3 shook his head.
“Tsk, there are many deceptive places in Ming Dynasty, and there are also many good places.”
"In short, there are both barbaric places and upward places."
After everyone discovered this, they felt depressed.
The 10 people looked around and found that this place was really just a feudal dynasty and felt very boring.
What secrets can a feudal dynasty have to discover?
Only when they looked carefully, they quickly discovered something different.
That is, there are many things here that are different from the feudal era.
They came to an ordinary county town.
Everyone lives and works in peace and contentment.
Everyone has a rosy face and no patches on their clothes.
The food is good and the clothes are good.
Of course this is nothing.
Many small towns in the south of the Yangtze River can achieve this by relying on sea trade.
The difference is that there is a telegraph station here!
It is the most luxurious and sturdy building in the entire county.
Located in the center of the county, protected by the strongest castle!
The county government is located among them.
You must know that the Ming Dynasty generally did not build castles in inland counties.
But now here it is completely the opposite.
The castles are each 30 meters high.
There are hundreds of elite soldiers stationed on the castle.
They are real elite soldiers, the kind with iron armor.
In the center of the castle, there is a tall mast with wires wrapped around it.
Is that a radio station?
How is that possible?
A feudal dynasty could actually have a radio?
Ten people were shocked.
Then think about it carefully.
It’s actually not that special.
The radio telegraph was actually invented in 1895.
In 1895, both the East and the West were still dominated by feudal monarchs.
It was not until after 1918 that the monarch fell.
Their first guess was that history occasionally changed, and the Ming Dynasty continued into the 19th century.
The second guess is that there are time travellers.
Then they went to investigate the age here.
When I asked the time carefully, I found that the Gregorian calendar was used here.
And it’s 1643.
Under normal circumstances, this is only one year away from the real time of the demise of Ming Dynasty orthodoxy!
However, for now, there is still peace in front of us.
Of course they also know that the demise of the Ming Dynasty was a comprehensive collapse caused by local festering.
When the orthodoxy in the capital fell, most places in the south were still peaceful, and the people could still live their lives.
However, by observing the clothes and accents of the people in the county below them, they discovered that this should be the north, or the land of Donglu.
No. 1 frowned and said: "Since there is a radio, it is 1643, and the scene is still the same, then there is a high probability that a time traveler is coming."
"This time traveler is very smart. "
"There is no such thing as a republic."
No. 2 said with a smile: "Since there is a radio, there must be something else."
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Sure enough, they found another railway north of the town.
There is also a train rumbling along on the railway, pulling out streams of steam.
Railway, steam train, the first means of transportation for mankind to completely conquer nature.
But something happened that shocked them.
After two days of investigation.
Apart from radio and railroads, little more has changed.
Other technologies are not developing so well.
Steam ship, not seen.
Rifled muskets were not seen either.
The most important thing is that there are no professional primary schools, middle schools or high schools. On the contrary, people still read the Four Books and Five Classics, and they still learn the Three Cardinal Guidelines and the Five Constant Rules.
There is just a miscellaneous subject, the mechanical engineering subject, which is used to obtain scholarships.
“I understand!” No. 3 said suddenly.
He had been the son of a script once, and he understood it faster.
“What do you understand?”
“I understand that this place mainly uses specific technologies to consider the stability of the empire’s rule.”
"The first is the train, and the second is the radio. The radio can ensure that the empire's news is transmitted to the border."
"And the train can ensure that the empire's force is transmitted to the border."
"Thus, The goal of suppressing local forces by the central government can be achieved. "
"With radios and trains, it can be said that it becomes extremely difficult for those local forces to rebel."
Everyone nodded.
They thought carefully.
In history, since the emergence of trains, there have been very few cases of large forces with complete railway networks wanting to rebel internally and then win.
Most of them have strong external intervention, and the internal economic conditions have deteriorated to the extreme, and even the soldiers' pay cannot be maintained.
This kind of collapse often occurs under the impetus of external forces.
The most typical one is the collapse of the Hans royal family, which was the failure of the First World War, which led to the loss of popular support and prestige.
It was only when the soldiers on the front lines and the rear started to cause chaos at the same time that it was over.
It was not a direct rebellion by internal soldiers.
In places where people still walked on two legs before the establishment of trains, local separatism was more common.
If you think about it carefully, you will understand the importance of trains.
Trains can quickly gather troops to achieve a situation of using more to defeat fewer.
When unrest is discovered, troops can be quickly moved over in advance.
There is no need to keep too many troops on the border.
After their observation, this is what Ming Dynasty is like now.
They built trains and wireless telegraph stations everywhere to transport soldiers to various places.
So the mystery should lie with the time traveler.
No. 1 said seriously: "Now it seems that the time traveler should have technology that this space does not have."
"We can obtain this technology from him."
Others see After arriving here, everyone nodded.
Only No. 3 wondered: "What technology? Steam engines, radios, why do you need such things? Can you print out a bunch of information when you go home?"
"Are you stupid? I'm talking about time travel technology!" No. 1 said helplessly.
If you rank IQ.
If No. 3 did not have the bonus of the son of the previous script, he would definitely be at the bottom.
“Yes, if we get the time-travel technology, it will be very beneficial to us. In the future, we will not need to dig tunnels randomly and go to a certain world randomly, but can go to various worlds in a directed way.”
"The safety factor can also be greatly improved." No. 9 followed.
Others nodded.
So they started looking for this time traveler.
As a result, after searching around, they found nothing.
At first they thought the other party should be in the royal family.
Or at least it was documented among the royal family.
However, it was discovered that there was no record at all. Even in the local chronicles, there are no special figures.
It wasn't until No. 1 unlocked the special power that he discovered a very funny thing, or a very sad truth.
They thought that the time traveler should have become an emperor, or at least a powerful minister.
After all, in their opinion, time travelers have too many advantages in terms of vision.
The so-called time travel without rebellion is a chrysanthemum set with an electric drill.
However, the truth now is that they found that the time traveler was actually in a prison.
And it is the deepest part of the dark prison.
This is a middle-aged man with a sloppy beard and rags.
Only at noon, the sun shines through the iron fence to bask in the sun.
He can only drink a little wine every day, and can only rely on chicken, duck and fish to numb himself.
Traveling through feudal society and not being an emperor, no matter what you do, you will end up with the same fate as being a dog.
Live in fear all the time.
But it is indeed very difficult to be an emperor.
Generally speaking, if there is no cheating, or the gold finger is too small, or the luck is not good enough, it will be difficult for even a time traveler to become emperor.
After all, even if ordinary people have advanced vision, personal charm, language communication, determination, body, and luck, these things are indispensable.
"I took the test, this guy is really frustrated."
No. 3 shook his head and said: "I have seen so many time-travel entrepreneurs, but having said that, he is not the most frustrated."
“The more frustrated time-travelers cannot become human at the beginning, and even die after living for a day or two.”
“Yes, the successful time-travelers we have seen are all survivors. Deviation, countless frustrated travelers have left no records at all."
Hearing this, Wen Rensheng nodded slightly.
Is it a big deal if the time traveler is unlucky?
I don’t know when, one by one started to become more miserable.
As everyone knows, those who can leave a chapter behind are already lucky.
99% of time travelers end in one line.
For example, "Xiao Ming fell into the toilet and disappeared without a trace."
There is a high probability that it was shattered by the space-time channel, and not even a scrap was left.
So it’s good that this time-travel entrepreneur can actually live, enjoy food and wine in a prison.
It’s just that compared to other time-travelers who left imperial biographies, it’s just a bit frustrating.
The stories of most time-travelers are too short to form a world.
In Wen Rensheng’s opinion, the story of this time traveler is so long that it can form a world.
From this point of view, it is not easy.
At this time, the 10 people had quickly agreed to find the time-travel technology from this time-traveler.
At least it is the opportunity and mystery of time travel.
Then No. 1 volunteered to accept this task.
Considering that he is responsible for everyone’s wisdom, he must do his part.
So No. 1 came to the prison.
Of course he came in invisible.
He saw the time traveler talking to the guy whose real identity was the emperor, but whose apparent identity was a jailer.
As for why he knew, of course it was the information obtained during previous investigations.
They made a point of observing the emperor himself.
The emperor asked: "Sir, how should we solve the land problem?"
"The world is so big now that seven percent of the land is in the hands of the landlords."
"We are together. The county forcibly divided the land, but within 20 years, most of it would still be in the hands of the landlords."
The middle-aged traveler shook his head and said: "Stupid, didn't I tell you last time?"
“Just launch a great voyage and move all the excess population away.”
"Migrate as many as you give birth to."
"But it is easier to learn than to do. Many people are unable to leave their homeland. Forcibly separating other people's flesh and blood is a shame." The emperor sighed.
“It’s ridiculous. It’s hard to leave their homeland. That’s because they haven’t been hungry to a certain extent. When they are hungry to a certain extent, people will migrate away. How did you come to escape from famine?”
“ Isn’t it just to migrate on your own?”
“The key is that you have to provide a good migration channel,” the middle-aged man said while drinking.
"But won't those people rebel if they go overseas?" the emperor worried.
The middle-aged man said disdainfully: "Humph, it's a boring idea. The only real solution is to move overseas."
"In this case, we can also solve the problem that remains. The problem of high land rent for the common people is that there are fewer people renting land. If the landlord does not want to work in the fields himself, he must lower the land rent and interest and treat the people better. "
The emperor nodded silently.
But I still feel bad.
He thought of what a great man said: "If there are too many people, just kill them. The more you kill, the better."
"Rather than releasing them overseas and causing hidden dangers, It’s better to kill them right in front of them, but find a way that doesn’t hurt their reputation. Let them starve to rebellion first, and then kill them, so that they won’t hurt their reputation.”
The middle-aged man saw that the emperor disagreed. , couldn't help shaking his head and said: "This is to use economic laws to solve this land annexation problem."
"Because land annexation itself is an economic law, which cannot be resisted by humans. It must be developed through economic development and expansion. To solve it, if you try to suppress it by force, it will definitely fail.”
After hearing this, the emperor nodded.
"Sir, what you said is good."
It's just that he said it verbally, but in fact he didn't think so in his heart.
The measures proposed by this gentleman are good, but they do not stand from the standpoint of his emperor.
Of course the other party never knew that the person he was talking to was the emperor.
He thought about it.
It is okay to relocate the population.
But it must be moved to a place that you can control.
For example, places where trains and telegraph stations pass.
Where the train cannot pass, you cannot move.
For example, the central Yazhou and the south-eastern regions.
There is already a long train running there.
More than 10,000 kilometers of railways.
The population is now migrating from the dry lands in the north to the south-east.
Moving all the time.
The population of a county in the north is not comparable to the population of a town in the south.
In this case, the land rent in the north is almost 10%, or even half.
Even if landlords occupy large amounts of land, they can only rent it to common people at low prices.
During the holidays, we have to visit each other and win over each other.
It is rare for bullies to oppress the people.
There are only a few people there, but you still bully them. Do you really think they won’t run away?
Wherever the train goes, there is fairness.
I climbed on the train in the middle of the night, wandered off and ran away.
Of course now many landowners in the north have begun to purchase castrated Kunlun slaves and use them to farm the land
However, the royal family strictly prohibits this.
Slaves still can't work.
Relocating the population is indeed a good strategy.
Many problems of land rebellion can be solved every year.
Twenty years ago, 100,000 people gathered in Xishan Rebellion.
The imperial court sent people to provide compensation, and only used 2,000 people, carrying 200,000 stones of food and 300,000 silver, and relocated 80,000 people. The rebellion was immediately suppressed.
As soon as he shouted in front of the formation, the morale of the other party's soldiers was in chaos.
Some people even clamored that the emperor had tricked him into killing him.
However, there are a large number of telegrams as evidence, many of which are code words and customary words among family members that only family members can speak. This is ironclad evidence.
So it is impossible to trick him into killing him.
By the way, there are photos and newspapers as evidence.
Now it seems that taking photos and newspapers can be a little more relaxing.
However, the emperor did not allow large-scale migration across the sea.
Although many people go to sea secretly.
The cross-ocean migration is too difficult to control.
(End of this chapter)