Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1787: Chapter 1667: Already Unable to Stop

With this method of dealing with defiance, Chen Xi is confident in establishing an upper economic integration framework over the current natural economy of the Han Dynasty. Although deepening isn’t necessary, opponents that can be defeated with money aren’t truly opponents!

After seizing the aristocratic families’ land, Chen Xi won’t distribute all of it to the people. Considering the current situation in the Central Plains, the land is sufficient. The confiscated land will be used as government land, whether as a reserve for disasters or for agriculture and livestock feed—it doesn’t matter.

This land belongs to no individual and is directly placed under government ownership. As long as the Great Han Dynasty doesn’t collapse, this land will be preserved indefinitely.

Furthermore, after some industries undergo large-scale centralization, costs will plummet. With the Han Dynasty’s vast area, different regions have their resource strengths. Eventually, roads should be connected, and the state should manage the distribution of materials, planning the industries in the provinces and counties.

Chen Xi is confident that by utilizing the resources unique to different areas, he can reduce costs to a certain level. Afterwards, the task is distribution. In this way, strengthening the connections between provinces and counties will simultaneously make rebellion within a single province or county difficult.

Especially for those provinces and counties defined by Chen Xi as resource output or processing regions—if they attempt armed struggle, simply cutting off routes from all four directions will quickly lead to their collapse due to losing the independence of a natural economy.

Of course, this is an ideal scenario. Chen Xi estimates that even if the roads are properly constructed, reaching that level might be impossible. The country is simply too large and difficult to manage, likely requiring multiple well-developed points of similar type within the Han Dynasty.

These are inevitable issues, as material distribution also incurs costs. Once the distance reaches a certain degree, the price becomes a headache for Chen Xi.

Unless Chen Xi can, like in later generations, calculate the optimal locations for national distribution channels and the best arrangement for road planning.

Honestly, in later generations, these calculations were optimized through generations of supercomputers. If calculated by hand, finding a minimum among tens of thousands of nodes nationwide is an undertaking even for geniuses like Cai Yan, which could take hundreds of years, especially with each additional node increasing the complexity exponentially.

Thus, Chen Xi believes that planning such things would require a monstrous talent like Zhao Shuang, capable of unleashing a high-speed computational Spiritual Talent, boosting computational speed to trillions like a supercomputer. In that case, many things become straightforward.

With such computational speed, planning paths for tens of thousands of nodes, including geographic distribution, results in an optimal solution in a matter of minutes—choosing one optimal solution from the factorial of tens of thousands minus one.

Though Chen Xi doesn’t know how large the factorial results of tens of thousands are, he is aware that a hundred nodes corresponds to a number with 157 digits starting with nine. While many solutions might seem foolish to the average person, they are still solutions...

Therefore, when dealing with tens of thousands of nodes, Chen Xi is convinced that humans can’t calculate an optimal solution, especially when factoring in terrain.

These topics are formally approached in the latter stages, yet Chen Xi’s current goals are relatively simpler, and even without finding the optimal solution, completing his plans is beneficial for the entire Han Dynasty.

Resource integration is inherently significant for a country, especially an empire with vast territories and abundant resources. Its importance is immense, regardless of whether an optimal solution exists; Chen Xi needs to proceed.

Given his experience, even without the optimal solution, Chen Xi can provide a reasonably suitable solution, which can suffice even temporarily.

Although these are categorized in Chen Xi’s definition as later-stage tasks, in reality, they lay the groundwork for the much later phases and the distant future. As the empire expands towards territorial boundaries, division becomes the sole resolution.

At that point, economic integration might not solve all problems but at least ensures the suzerain state retains some control over its vassals. Thus, integrating domestic resources and directing each region optimally becomes inevitable, while experimenting with upper-level economic integration is crucial for future preparations.

Chen Xi feels that his endeavors will likely go unnoticed until someone in the future follows the path and perceives the effects.

Despite not delving deeply, Xun Yu understood the most straightforward aspects of Chen Xi’s explanation. He comprehended the benefits of resource integration, as stated by Chen Xi, considering it as the level of national control.

Currently, although everyone claims allegiance to the Han Empire, in reality, it is a tri-party situation. Only the Money Exchange reaches the level of national control; nothing else has any connection.

”True enough, if each region’s resources are integrated as Zichuan suggests, the Han Dynasty’s strength will increase significantly. Such a simple adjustment results in substantial change.” After careful deliberation, Xun Yu couldn’t help but look at Chen Xi with admiration.

”Actually, further adjustments to division of labor will follow. Those are relatively detailed matters, yet in this social environment, rough societal division is more appropriate; fine-tuning needs focus only on certain aspects,” Chen Xi mused aloud, almost as a soliloquy.