Chapter 1466: 1467 The devastated land
Many corrupt officials once had their own ideals and ambitions, but they failed to withstand the temptation and eventually chose to fall.
It may not be accurate to say this. In addition to temptation, the briber actually has too many methods, and inducement is just one of them. Sometimes coercion or even coercion is an option.
From Tang Mo's point of view, such bribers are actually destroying the officials he has carefully trained, almost poaching the empire.
So he seriously considered whether to impose a heavy penalty on bribery so that those **** who were willing to spend money to corrupt imperial officials could also enjoy his methods.
Frankly speaking, in an empire, some shady departments, as long as the emperor acquiesces, are fully capable of making a person feel that life is worse than death.
However, his legal advisor reminded him that if the briber were also punished with the same crime, then the briber and the bribe taker would form an unbreakable alliance and hide from each other, making it more difficult to solve the case and reducing the possibility of reporting and betraying each other.
Everything has two sides, so Tang Mo also had to think carefully whether changing the law would cause trouble for himself, which would outweigh the gains and losses.
Fortunately, he still has some special departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If he is really angry, he can order You Lin to find some other excuses and send those **** bribers to the guillotine.
A country under the imperial system is legally flexible, but as a country decays, this flexibility gradually begins to change toward serving the privileged class.
In the latest year, the Tang Empire's steel, oil, rubber, electricity and other production capacities have increased, and increased a lot: after occupying such a vast land, various indicators will naturally become more.
Although it will take time to integrate work in various regions, resuming production is indeed the common wish of all people.
After ensuring food production and beginning to eradicate famine on a large scale, all indicators in the Tang State are developing for the better. Everywhere is busy and under construction. It feels like the 1950s in China.
Everyone is full of energy, and the environment in which they can make money no matter what they produce also encourages all workers in disguise. Unlike China back then, Tang Mo had so many new technologies that could be developed, and there were no bottlenecks or restrictions on Tang's technological development.
With the support of technology, almost all regions have gained new economic growth points. Officials everywhere are busy lifting people out of poverty and becoming rich, seizing the time to make money, and have no time to consider other issues.
However, even though more than half a year has passed, traces of the war can still be seen in many corners of the Tang Empire.
This land was once devastated, and the walls of many buildings still have mottled bullet marks. Although they have been painted several times, those small pits still record the brutality of the battle at that time.
Many of the buried bomb craters were dug up, and new sewer systems and civil defense systems had to be built. Streets that were not originally spacious have become congested due to construction. Too many urban constructions have been rolled out at the same time, making many cities seem to have entered a state of war again.
Some cars that had been forcibly requisitioned by the Qin army were temporarily assigned to various regions. These cars were soon paralyzed due to lack of parts and components, and then were abandoned in the corners of certain factories, corroded by time and becoming rusty. . Some of those cars didn’t even have doors, some had engines with only dozens of horsepower, and some even had wooden wheels.
These industrial wastes that were crazily produced before the fall of the Qin State finally began to be scrapped on a large scale after persisting for more than half a year.
And the vacancies left after these cars were scrapped, the Tang Empire had to frantically expand its automobile industry. In the end, the Tang Dynasty decided to build another large automobile factory in Qingluan Port to expand the Tang Dynasty's annual automobile production capacity by another 1 million vehicles...
Far water cannot quench the near thirst. Building new automobile factories is a long-term plan. In the short term, everyone can only find ways to solve the problem of lack of automobile transportation capacity.
As a result, many ridiculous things happened during this period: There were two paralyzed and scrapped cars in two villages. Now everyone discussed it and simply pieced the two cars together to repair one that could be used. , and then the two villages continued to make do.
In other places, some craftsmen with some ability can be found to hand-knead the parts for temporary use. And the value of craftsmen who can make simple parts has doubled in a short time, and sometimes they are even too busy to take a rest.
It would be more convenient if you are close to the core developed areas of Tang State, or if you have friends and connections. They directly wrote letters asking their friends to find connections so that workers in large factories in Tongcheng or Linshui could help process some parts from scrap materials, so as to ensure that the cars in their hands could be barely used.
Anyway, it was like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers. For a time, many places in the Tang Dynasty and the cars running on the streets exuded the wasteland atmosphere of post-modern cyberpunk.
You can see wooden doors and trucks with bamboo mats as roofs on the streets of a certain city. You can also see an old Qin truck parked on the side of the street with the unit number painted on the engine hood.
The world is such a fantasy. When the subway in Chang'an was opened and people started taking the electric subway to work, in another part of the same country, incandescent lamps were not yet completely popular.
It’s no joke. After occupying the Qin State, the officials of the Tang State were surprised to find that many poor areas in the Qin State did not have electricity!
In order to improve life in these areas as soon as possible and keep up with the development pace of the Tang Empire, the first thing the new local officials had to do was to find a way to bring the power grid to the doorsteps of these people who had never used electric lights in their lives.
There is no other way. After all, if the common people hear the broadcasts of Datang Empire Radio earlier, they will be subtly affected earlier and be more likely to accept their new identity as subjects of the Datang Empire.
With electricity, agricultural production can be more efficient... New problems arise. More electricity consumption leads to insufficient electricity production capacity. The local infrastructure is really poor and there are really too few power plants. .
Since then, Tang Mo had to allocate money again and built 30 super-large thermal power plants, 4 super-large hydropower plants, and 57 medium-sized hydropower plants in the west.