Would Luo Chong worry about how to feed the people?
Would he worry that the people had nothing to do?
How could that be?!!!
He had a vision that surpassed this era by thousands of years. With just a few ideas tossed out, he could find a whole heap of things for the people to do.
What troubled him most, in truth, was the lack of population.
Take the cart shop, for instance. In the modern day, it would be a taxi company. A single business like that could support how many people and families?
Speaking of this human-powered tricycle, Luo Chong instantly thought of the rickshaws from the Republican era, but he had no intention of promoting that vile contraption.
What were rickshaws? They were symbols of slavery, actually treating people like beasts of burden and having them haul the carriage from the front!!!
It was utterly anti-human. Things like that could only breed the slave nature buried in people's hearts.
But the Han Tribe was not a slave-owning nation.
Although the Han Tribe possessed a great many slaves, they were all official slaves. Ordinary people were not permitted to keep private slaves.
The Han Laws stipulated that the buying and selling of people was forbidden, and private slaves were even more strictly prohibited.
Want to keep a few servants? No problem, but you had to pay to employ them, just like hiring a nanny in modern times. The nanny and the head of the household had an employer-employee relationship—a boss and a wage worker. That was worlds apart from the relationship between a slave and a slave owner.
And although a human-powered tricycle was powered by human effort, its rider pedaled while seated on the vehicle. That meant he was not livestock, but a cart driver—or, one could