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Chapter 669 Is This Here To Give Benefits?

After an afternoon of discussion, the placement of the Maurya Dynasty has been completely decided.

Although it was nominally a meeting and negotiation between the Qin Dynasty and the Maurya Dynasty.

But in fact, from the beginning of the meeting, it was Daqin who proposed the planning and resettlement plan after the Maurya Dynasty, and the Maurya Dynasty had no opinions at all on these various arrangements proposed by Daqin.

Because the opinions put forward by Da Qin were simply a great good thing for the Maurya Dynasty.

It's too late for them to thank you, so how could they object?

But at this time, of course, when everyone in the Maurya Dynasty was laughing secretly, so was Ying Yu.

It seems that these agreements were unilaterally made by Qin to provide great convenience to the Maurya Dynasty.

It can even be said that Da Qin is helping the poor and providing them with benefits.

But in fact, from a long-term perspective, the benefits Da Qin can gain from doing this are far greater than the current efforts.

The first thing I want to say is that the emerging industries in Daqin are now close to saturation and are beginning to impact the original old industries. Although Ying Yu has been suppressing them, there is still constant friction.

If this continues, sooner or later a conflict will break out.

By then, Da Qin's economy will inevitably be affected.

If this matter cannot be resolved as soon as possible, such a situation will definitely occur in the future.

This is the consequence of revolution, even if it is just the industrial revolution.

At this time, Great Qin could not allow such losses to occur, because not long after Ying Yu came to power, he planned to expand.

This is only one of the reasons. In addition, although various actions of Da Qin seemed to provide convenience to the Maurya Dynasty.

But when providing them with convenience, their labor force is actually needed.

Because the Maurya Dynasty has been living in extreme hardship for so many years.

So for them, their requirements are very low.

Compared with hiring workers from Da Qin, using common people from the Maurya Dynasty will greatly reduce labor costs.

In other words, with the same amount of money, you can even find ten times more workers.

Such a large and low-cost labor force may not be seen to be very important at present.

But Ying Yu's vision is not comparable to that of people of this era. What he values ​​​​is the future.

Although the working efficiency of machinery is now much higher than that of manual work, this is because many of today's tasks do not require very high precision, so simple machinery can completely replace manual work, with lower costs and higher efficiency.

But in the future, based on Daqin's current level of technological development, it won't take long before there will definitely be people working in industries that require more expertise.

At that time, due to constraints on materials, knowledge systems, etc., machines that can complete those tasks with higher precision will inevitably not be able to be manufactured so easily.

Even if Ying Yu is a modern person, let alone he is not a true scientist, even though he was the most professional scientist in a field in his previous life.

Then his major can only be within his field. When technology has developed to a certain level, it requires cooperation from all fields.

Therefore, Ying Yu had no delusions that he could achieve any kind of modernization in a short period of time. He had even made preparations long ago and would not be able to see the products of modernization in his lifetime.

He really wanted Da Qin to cross the barriers of eras, but even if it crossed eras, it would not be possible to directly cross over to modern times.

This is a leap that can only be achieved by a lot of experience and a long period of accumulation of technology.

But in the industrial age, there is no need to be so cutting-edge.

Ying Yu didn't want to let everyone develop, and everyone had the consciousness that manpower was more expensive than machinery.

Once such an idea becomes popular in most people's minds, the cost of employment will immediately rise.

When large-scale manpower operations are required, the costs may be unimaginable now.

The people of the Maurya Dynasty could solve this problem very well and instilled ideas in them from this time on.

They are here to work. The more you work, the more you get. The more you get, the better your life will be.

Let them mentally feel that as long as they work hard, they will be able to get more things and have a better life.

Compared with the previous ideas of the Maurya Dynasty, this is an unprecedented change.

Because in the previous Mauryan Dynasty, no matter how much they paid, they would not get any reward.

Now, Ying Yu has given them an opportunity to have enough food and clothing as long as they work hard, so how could they not accept it?

This can also be regarded as a precautionary measure by Ying Yu. Ying Yu wanted to rule the people of the Maurya Dynasty economically, technologically, and ideologically.

These are plans for socio-economic and technological development.

After that, Ying Yu proposed a more important reform, regarding the humanities.

Ying Yu proposed to completely cleanse the nobles of the Mauryan Dynasty.

When this topic was raised, the faces of all the Maurya ministers, including the eldest prince, finally changed.

If everything Ying Yu proposed before was for the sake of the Maurya Dynasty, then the request made by Ying Yu now has touched upon the fundamental interests of their senior officials.

Ying Yu directly said that the Mauryan Dynasty is now a country that has completely surrendered. For the current Mauryan Dynasty, there is no need for nobility and everyone should be equal.

As soon as Ying Yu said these words, all the ministers felt as if they were struck by lightning, which was tantamount to a death sentence for them.

Before the Mauryan Dynasty surrendered, even though the country was in decline, as the nobles and top leaders of the country, their quality of life did not decline at all.

Now after surrendering, Ying Yu directly told them to abolish all the nobles in this country and everyone would stand on the same level.

That means that even though they are still ministers in this hall at the moment, after today, all their identities will be stripped away and they can only become the most ordinary people in Da Qin.

This is a very difficult proposition for those of them who are accustomed to high-level and aristocratic life.

The ministers exchanged glances with each other, and Ying Yu saw all their actions.

The reason why they are like this is simply because they cannot accept the fact that they are about to become civilians.

All of this was within Ying Yu's expectation. Even so, no matter how many ideas they had, they couldn't change anything.

Equality for everyone is a beautiful fantasy, although Ying Yu knows that people can never be truly equal.

But Ying Yu also knows that if everyone was equal, that kind of society and that kind of world would be beautiful.
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