My son, Fusu, please abdicate the first emperor!

The emperor personally spoke up and advised Meng Yi, hoping that he could correct his problems.

Among the many courtiers of Qin II, almost no one had such a great honor.

When such a thing happened to Meng Yi, he knew very well how important it was.

If the emperor didn't regard himself as his own, how could he say such words?

Meng Yi was deeply moved. Before leaving, he said to his wife with tears in his eyes, "This time when I go, I must change my arrogant and conceited habits and do what your majesty says."

"Yes." Meng Yi's wife agreed with a smile.

Meng Yi looked at his beautiful and lovely wife, raised his arms again with confidence and said, "Just wait and see, when I come back this time, I will definitely satisfy your majesty. By then, I will make your majesty proud of me."

"kindness."

Meng Yi smiled foolishly and asked, "My dear, why do you just say yes no matter what I say?"

Mrs. Meng just smiled slightly and said, "When my husband comes back, he will understand why I am like this."

Meng Yi looked at his wife, hugged her and kissed her again, "I really can't bear to leave you."

Meng Yi was coaxed by his wife and finally walked away slowly.

This time on a business trip, Meng Yi might not be back for a year.

Mrs. Meng was ready to bear the burden of the entire family. She stood at the door and watched her husband ride away.

She and Meng Yi gave birth to a bunch of children. These children hid behind the door and watched their father and mother looking at each other affectionately.

When Meng Yi walked away, the children surrounded Mrs. Meng and hugged her, surrounding her from all sides.

"Mother, why did you just nod and say yes just now?"

Mrs. Meng looked at her husband's back as he walked away. Far from being sad, she smiled and said, "Because I know your father is just talking, and he won't change a bit after he's gone."

"Ah? Why?" The oldest child stood respectfully to one side. "The Emperor has spoken personally, so father won't listen."

"It is easy to change the country but difficult to change one's nature. If my husband is someone who will easily change himself, I will not marry her."

The young lady said this with her chin slightly raised.

He didn't take the emperor's words seriously at all.

In the Meng family, from old to young, from male to female, none of them is a flatterer.

Meng Yi rode on a steed, rushing to Chengdu through flying sand and rocks along the way.

When we arrived at Chengdu, there was indeed a large group of people waiting at the door.

From the county magistrate to the minor clerks and ordinary people, everyone came to the city gate to welcome him.

Meng Yi saw that the people at the city gate were all dressed appropriately, their faces greasy from eating, and there were hundreds of gift boxes of various sizes around them.

Meng Yi, this is the kind of practice he hates the most.

Because he knew that these gifts were all plundered from the people.

Meng Yi's face immediately turned dark and he rode his horse in a swagger.

As for the gift, of course I didn't accept it.

After that, he would do things according to his own method, and if anyone made suggestions that were detrimental to the people.

Meng Yi would repeat to the person the ways of being an official until he was afraid.

Meng Yi was very excited to be an official in this way.

He immersed himself in the world of law and reason, and analyzed every official matter with the most rigorous logic.

He likes to analyze things in detail. For leaves, he can separate all the veins and leaves clearly.

Meng Yi worked in Chengdu, preparing for the economic capital.

There has never been a place with an economy as lifeless as Chengdu's today. This is because the people in charge of managing Chengdu's economy are too rigid. When things are serious, people who come to the market to trade dare not speak loudly under the gaze of a group of Qin soldiers.

It is true that Meng Yi came to build the Wudu economy, but he was the first to initiate a planned economy.

Chengdu's economy became stagnant and prices were fixed at a certain level without any change for several months.

Merchants all over the world were delighted when they heard that the empire was going to build an economic metropolis. However, when they arrived, they encountered such a situation.

No one could figure out why the emperor would send such a person here.

Aren't you here to cause trouble?

That year, Chengdu changed.

The mercenary atmosphere of the vendors was temporarily suppressed, and Chengdu became as solemn and silent as a capital city.

However, this stage was the happiest time for the ordinary people at the bottom of society.

Because they don’t have to worry about tomorrow at all, the market price will remain unchanged, they don’t have to worry about buying the meat at a high price today, they don’t need to worry about these little things.

In the past, the price of meat in the market has always fluctuated.

Today it is five cents, tomorrow it is seven cents, and after a few days, it becomes four cents.

Why are most of the lower class people old, weak, sick and disabled? Children die quickly and many parents divorce.

Why.

Just because of these trivial matters.

The family only earns one hundred cents a month, but how much does it cost to support the family?

Even if it's just eating meat once a month, parents have to budget carefully.

If a mother did not check the market price and bought a bunch of meat for eight cents, it would be a huge sin for the family.

This family is about to fight over this string of meat.

Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, they fight and quarrel every day, just over trivial matters.

I have heard the rich and powerful people laugh, "Why, you can't afford to play? You can't afford to lose?"

Let me ask you, how can the poor afford to play, and how can they afford to lose.

If he plays, death will be waiting for him.

If he loses, he will never have to marry in his life.

Why should we encourage young poor people to take more risks? Will rich people collect the bodies of poor children?

He brags a lot every day and deceives normal people into becoming idiots, and makes them lose money all over.

For the sake of reproduction, in order to make big cows and horses give birth to calves and horses, they advocate love.

I ask, where is the conscience of these people?

Despite committing numerous heinous crimes, he was still able to sit in that high position with his name engraved in the book of merit.

Nonsence!

Meng Yi was a young man who only followed the rules of conduct invented by those treacherous officials and villains, doing things in a methodical manner and completing tasks step by step.

Because those people once told Meng Yi that all the things in the book were the truth, and those things made up by people were the way to save people.

Meng Yi naturally did as he was told.

The only thing that can defeat magic is naturally magic.

Meng Yi dealt severely with the corrupt officials and unscrupulous businessmen in Chengdu. They were afraid when they heard the name Meng Yi.

Although things were messed up, as the saying goes, misfortune often brings good fortune, and good fortune often brings misfortune.

The economy was mostly unsuccessful, but the people of Qionglai had a few days of peace and quiet. These were probably the happiest days of their lives.

People at home don't quarrel over trivial matters.

The affairs of the world are the affairs of the family, and the affairs of the family are the affairs of the world.

Here's why.

When a big country is not at peace, a small family will be uneasy.

If the small family is not at peace, the big country will inevitably be at unrest.

Meng Yi originally thought he had done a good job.
However, Meng Yi's approach is still criticized.

The emperor who lived a life of luxury in the city of Xianyang, no, who worked diligently and slacked off every day, once again received a petition to accuse Meng Yi.

The ministers already harbored resentment towards Meng Yi, and were waiting for him to reveal his true colors so that they could report him.

Although the ministers hated the emperor, the emperor could make them love him and not want to part with him. It is easy to make people love or hate someone, but it is difficult to make people love and hate someone at the same time.

But Meng Yi is different. He is very young and doesn’t understand who makes the rules of this world.

Ever since Meng Yi proposed building five cities, he had only thought about executing the emperor's will and completing the task. He never thought about giving the ministers any chance to tamper with the plan and gain no benefit.

The emperor's words had little influence on Meng Yi's deeply rooted sense of right and wrong, good and evil.

To be honest, Qin II was still too cunning.

People like Meng Yi could not digest the actions of Qin II at all.

Meng Yi would never learn how Qin II managed to make so many changes, but he always insisted on doing one thing.

Sometimes, Meng Yi even couldn't stand the emperor's pretentiousness, didn't understand the emperor's hypocrisy, and didn't like the emperor's hypocrisy.

If Fusu didn't have everything that everyone liked best, Meng Yi might have stayed away from him.

Meng Yi blocked everyone's path to wealth and was already not far from death.

Unfortunately, he is still unaware of it.

When the emperor saw the document, he was so angry that smoke came out of his eyes, ears, mouth and nose. "This Meng Yi really doesn't take my words seriously."

Chen Ping had already expected this result.

Meng Yi, after all, was a close confidant of the retired emperor. Although he submitted to the emperor, that was also the retired emperor's wish. In addition, his brother's dissuasion also persuaded him to stay by the side of Qin II.

In his heart, he could never treat Qin II the same way as Qin Shi Huang.

This accident was indeed expected.

Qin II was not as quick-witted as Chen Ping.

"Your Majesty, now that things have come to this, let's think about who should clean up the situation."

After all, Chen Ping just couldn't understand why the emperor would send Meng Yi, a young and inexperienced man, to build the Five Cities.

After Chen Ping finished speaking, he realized that his words just now were somewhat inappropriate.

He lowered his head.

Unexpectedly, Qin II looked at Chen Ping, looked at him again and again and said, "I think you are quite good. You are as slippery as a loach in the mud."

"No one can catch you, and no one can do anything to you."

"Go ahead, team up with Meng Yi and boost Chengdu's economy."

“Chengdu is an important place, adjacent to too many strategic locations.”

"If we improve Chengdu's economy, we can also help feed a group of people around it. Otherwise, what's the point of building this economy?"

The assignment given by the emperor was exactly what Chen Ping had always dreamed of.

Chen Ping had always wanted to do something that would make him famous for generations. After arriving in Xianyang City, he saw that even a mediocre person could get excellent resources because of the platform and high position, thus having the opportunity to be recorded in history.

This made Chen Ping even more angry.

But even with such a high platform, you still need a good opportunity.

An opportunity to demonstrate one's strength.

Chen Ping is a talented man. For a talented man, the most important thing is that his talents can be brought into play.

Because the most torturous thing for talented people is not giving them things to do, but instead letting them enjoy wealth and glory in vain.

This is more painful than cutting out a person's heart with a knife.

Chengdu is so rich that it is named "Land of Abundance".

In fact, in history, many places have been successively regarded as rich lands of abundance, but only the Chengdu Plain has continued to prosper - Tianfu has almost become synonymous with Chengdu.

Handan and Linzi, which were once prosperous, later declined, while Chengdu, which was one of the "Five Capitals", remained prosperous.

The fertile fields stretch for thousands of miles and are known as the land and sea. When there is drought, water is drawn to irrigate the land, and when it rains, the sluice gates are blocked. Therefore, it is recorded that: floods and droughts are controlled by people, there is no famine, and there is no famine. The world calls it the land of abundance.

At the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, the world's population was no more than 50 million.

Chengdu has a population of 7 households, or about 6 people. Its level of prosperity is comparable to the eastern metropolis of Linzi.

The "Shu Brocade" produced in Chengdu is popular in every place in Daqin.

Chengdu not only stands out in terms of population, but also leads the country in many fields such as culture and education.

Meng Yi's main mission when he came to Chengdu this time was to develop a larger textile factory here.

The empire was in the period of the Industrial Revolution, and any economic construction would inevitably have the shadow of the Industrial Revolution.

Coming to Chengdu to build an economic metropolis is not just to make the local economy prosperous, but more importantly to bring the fruits of the industrial revolution to this city.

Historically, the institution established in Chengdu during the Western Han Dynasty to manage the silk handicraft industry was "Jinguan City". In the words of Li Jieren, a Sichuan scholar in the Republic of China, this was the earliest "special industrial zone".

Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the main product of the "Jinguancheng" park has been called "Shu Brocade", a veritable geographical indication product, sold all over the country.

Emperor Wu of Han's armguard with a pattern of "Five Stars Rising from the East" is made of Shu brocade produced in Chengdu.

The lacquerware produced in Chengdu became famous earlier than brocade, and had been circulated in the Central Plains and some overseas regions during the Warring States Period.

In 139 BC, when the Silk Road had not yet been opened, Zhang Qian, who was on his first diplomatic voyage to the Western Regions, discovered in Dayuan (now the Fergana Basin) and Bactria (now Afghanistan) that there were Shu cloth and Qiong bamboo sticks shipped from Sindhu (now Pakistan and northern India) - from the description, it can be seen that these two products came from the Chengdu Plain.

Lacquerware with the inscription "Shujun Gongguan" has been unearthed in archaeological discoveries in the former Lelang County of the Korean Peninsula during the Han Dynasty and in Mongolia. Among them, a Chengdu lacquerware called "Golden Inlaid Shu Cup" is a hot-selling model.

In other words, Chengdu’s economic foundation is very strong.

Once Chengdu becomes an economic metropolis, the surrounding cities will soon follow suit.

And it is precisely because Chengdu’s heritage is so great.

This place has become the most suitable place to transplant the achievements of the Industrial Revolution.

Textiles and lacquerware, these two major categories, once factories are opened, will provide tens of thousands of jobs.

Qin II gave this important task to Meng Yi.

The ministers are all doomed.

In the minds of the ministers, there are actually two types of ministers in the emperor's mind.

The emperor would give ministers the opportunity to be promoted only if they did their job well.

The other type is that I ask you to do this in order to get you promoted.

It is easy to imagine how angry the emperor was when Meng Yi messed up this matter. (End of this chapter)