Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 508 Ships
Li Qi pressed his forehead and said, "What's the reason? I'm too lazy to forget it."

"After all, they should also know that we are the ones selling them things. This war must continue, and it must continue."

Li Qi coughed lightly, his face flushed with fatigue.

He walked slowly to the outside of the Taiji Hall with his hands behind his back, looking at the sun and stars in the sky, and fell into a strange silence.

After a long while, Li Qi sighed deeply: "The air in Chang'an City is getting worse. I have been feeling it is a bit unpleasant these days. Several old ministers have also told me that we should move the capital to another place."

He sneered: "If the capital could be moved so easily, why would I need them to bring it up?"

"What was that environmental protection policy that the Academy of Sciences proposed a few days ago? I didn't really understand it. I was busy thinking about those conspiracies all day long."

Li Qi stood there, but felt tired after just a moment. He asked someone to bring a chair, and then he lay down on the recliner, looking at the sky silently. The once azure blue sky had become a little gray, which was inevitable.

The Tang Dynasty had entered industrialization for some time. Over the years, steam engines and internal combustion engines outside the city of Chang'an had been burning continuously to provide a steady supply of power for this huge city.

The source of these power is the large chimneys that constantly emit black smoke. This is the case in Chang'an City and other cities as well. There is only one city in the entire Tang Dynasty that is not like this, and that is Guandu.

Thinking of this, Li Qi looked at Chen Kuan with a little curiosity and gossip in his mind. He said, "Fubo, your Guandu City is the same as Chang'an and other places. There are internal combustion engines burning and emitting black smoke. The coal is also continuously transported to Guandu City. Why is the air in Guandu City so much better than that in Chang'an?"

Chen Kuan put down the pen in his hand and felt even more helpless when he looked at the gossiping person in front of him.

He held his forehead and sighed, "Your Majesty, do you still remember what the people from the Academy of Sciences said?"

"Although Guandu City still has those big black chimneys standing in the suburbs, emitting black smoke continuously, it has closed down many factories in the past thirty years, and has ordered factory owners to plant trees near Guandu City if they want to continue to open factories."

"Didn't the people from the Academy of Sciences say that planting trees can reduce the amount of pollutants in the air, thus making the air in the entire city better?"

The Tang Dynasty entered the industrial age much earlier, but it was not like the people in many empires such as Europe and the Persian Empire, who developed forward recklessly.

This is probably because the Tang Dynasty is already strong enough and has been strong for many years, so it is not afraid of being caught up by those people in Europe and the Persian Empire, but the people in those empires are afraid of this.

Therefore, Europe traveled at a reckless pace, while the Tang Dynasty traveled slowly, step by step, and in a very scientific manner.

It is precisely because of this that the situation in the Tang Dynasty is much better than that in Europe.

They are even better than the original Europe in history.

With the strokes of the pen by the people in the Taiji Hall, one technology after another was sold from the interior of the Tang Dynasty to faraway Europe.

Today, it is not just one country but many countries that are waging a fierce war with the Tang Dynasty, including the Eastern Roman Empire, the French Empire, the Persian Empire, and the Egyptian Empire.

The Tang Dynasty was like an extremely powerful man, able to defeat ten enemies with one, and even when it was outnumbered ten times, it could still suppress the other powerful countries in the world.

As for why the Tang Dynasty was unwilling to stop the war?

Because the Tang Dynasty gained so much in this war, so much that the Tang Dynasty's leader, Li Qi, and the nobles were all greedily looking at the world, hoping to get more. Not only the upper nobles, but also the common people at the bottom also hoped that the war could continue.

Anyway, the war was not fought in the Tang Dynasty, but in other places. They did not suffer any harm. As for the death in the war? The Tang Dynasty court took good care of the descendants of the dead with very generous treatment. If they had sons, they could even go directly to the "school" established by the court to study, which would also give them extra points for admission to university in the future.

This also led to the fact that the common people in the Tang Dynasty were as good at fighting as the Qin people of the past, especially good at war. They wanted to exchange themselves for a future.

What's even more interesting is that everyone has selfish desires, so most people - even more than 95% of the common people - would get married first and then have a child when they sign up to join the army and fight. This way, even if they die, others will not take advantage of what they have fought so hard for.

As for whether the women would agree?

Of course I would agree.

Because if their husbands died in the war, then as long as they did not go to the court to register for divorce and found someone else to marry, and went to the court regularly every month to let the court people check whether their children were doing well, then they could get a sum of money.

Every month, I can get a sum of money.

Please study this sentence carefully.

This is equivalent to not having to work and just having to support one's own children - one doesn't even have to spend money to raise the children. According to the court, that sum of money is a pension, while the money for raising the children is paid separately by the court.

How could anyone not like something like this?
There are even some women who do not want to get married and will specifically look for a husband who wants to go to the battlefield and give birth to children. They may also be looking forward to this day - men also know this, but they will not say anything, because such women often bring rich dowries and make them feel more at ease.

Because she doesn't want to get married, even if she dies, she will not remarry and will take good care of her son.

It seemed like a win for everyone.

Everyone benefited from this war and got what they wanted, so the Tang Dynasty was like a huge ship, riding the wind and waves, galloping madly in one direction. No one could stop it, not even the helmsman of the ship could control it.

The ship continued to sail.

The twenty-eighth year of Hongyuan.

The war lasted for another ten years, and this smoke-filled war seemed to have finally reached an explosion point, and all the contradictions seemed to be about to explode.

Fanatical people are looking forward to the end of this war.

People always get tired.

The 30th year of Hongyuan.

The critical point of the war has arrived.

(End of this chapter)