Major Construction [Third Update]

Although, for most ancient rulers, such large-scale construction projects were suspected of exhausting the people and draining the treasury due to the limits of productivity, Ye Ting felt that some construction work would do Egypt good in its current state.

After the previous wars, Egypt had fallen into a certain degree of depression. Many commoners had been left destitute by warlords and war. It would be difficult to restore Egypt's prosperity in a short time simply by allowing the people to recover, but construction projects were different.

Compared to the intensive farming of other peasants, Egyptian farmers enjoyed the convenience of the Nile River, and their cultivation methods were quite extensive. Moreover, the Nile had both flood and dry seasons.

During the dry season, Egyptian farmers naturally had nothing to do. At such times, only paid construction work could put wealth into their hands. This would stimulate public consumption and Egypt's prosperity.

Therefore, for Egypt as it was now, a certain degree of construction was nothing less than a potent remedy.

People of this era did not understand this, but Ye Ting did: money could only create value when it circulated.

Ye Ting was now the only person who could stop Nitocris from embarking on construction projects. Since even he supported it, Nitocris plunged headfirst into the bottomless pit of building things.

Unlike the pharaohs of the past, while every generation of pharaohs had carried out some hydraulic construction along the Nile, what Nitocris did was by far the most extravagant.

Rather than merely patching things up like the other pharaohs, Nitocris undertook revolutionary construction outright: building dams and reservoirs.

Reservoirs could hold back floods, store water, and regulate water flow. For a river like the Nile, which was prone to flooding during flood season and parched land during the