Common Clothes

Yesterday, she was a career woman struggling in the corporate world, but in the blink of an eye, she had become the legitimate granddaughter of Duke An's Mansion, the first wife of the Imperial Top Scholar...

She Became A Downfall Noble Lady

Ye Xinyan nodded involuntarily when Jinrong said this.


Considering the low productivity of ancient times, the State Treasury's silver primarily came from taxation, but how much tax revenue could be generated with such productivity? Most of the treasury silver was used for tasks like river management, responding to emergencies, and warfare. Using the treasury silver to build a large infrastructure project like railway transportation would be immensely difficult to get approved.


When Emperor Yang of Sui built a canal that lasted for a thousand years, it not only directly led to the downfall of the Sui Dynasty, but he was also scorned for a thousand years, becoming a classic negative example for emperors for generations. The widespread promotion of railway transportation would mobilize huge amounts of manpower and financial resources, and it was very likely that even emptying the State Treasury would not complete the project.


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