Chapter 188: Imperial Examination System
Li Si joked: "Sir, you are not testing us, you are insulting us."
Qin An smiled and said: "Aren't I afraid that everyone doesn't know, since everyone knows what it means to rely on God for a living.
So the role of the farmer is to specifically fight against God, I remember telling everyone.
The rice outside can produce two thousand catties per mu, but in ancient times it was already very good to have two to three hundred catties.
But two thousand kilograms of rice is not something we just say we have. It is cultivated again and again, and we finally succeed after repeated failures.
Farmers are used to cultivate high-quality grain seeds, vegetables and fruits, and even raising chickens, ducks, dogs and pigs are considered farm work.
No food can be separated from farmers. "
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "What you said is absolutely true. Farmers not only cultivate the land, but also cultivate high-quality seeds.
Only good seeds can produce high yields of food. "
"Yes, the Mohist school is next. The Mohist school is very complex. He advocates benevolent government, universal love, non-aggression, respecting the virtuous, etc.
I don't know if this is useful. "
"Sir, since you don't know if it's useful, why are you still included in the imperial examination?" Fusu interrupted Qin An.
Qin An smiled and said: "Because the Mo family's mechanism technique is very famous, you may look down on this mechanism technique, but its uses are very great.
Is my water tanker useful? "
"It's easy to use, very easy to use. Mr.'s waterwheel should be promoted all over the world." Fusu said.
Qin An smiled and said: "The construction of this waterwheel is inseparable from the Mohist's mechanism skills.
In external terms, the Mohist's mechanism technique is actually the technology of mechanical salt production.
This is my major. To put it bluntly, the Mohists can be regarded as my ancestors.
If it were not annihilated in history, China's technology would be the best in the world and would not be surpassed by other countries.
The imperial examination will test the Mohist art of mechanism, and the knowledge related to the art of mechanism is, to put it bluntly, technology. "
"Can the public loser also become a subject in the scientific examination?" Fusu asked.
"The two are different. The Gongshu family has a family-owned craft, and they don't seem to pass it on to others, while the Mo family hands over the technology to others.
There are also many topics in Mohism that can be used as scientific examination questions, such as geometry, physics and other subjects founded by Mohism.
I will teach you these knowledge in the future, and they are more advanced than those of Mohism.
Don't look at me like that. I said that Mohism can be said to be the originator of science, but it didn't develop and eventually declined.
What I studied was science, but I also learned a lot of things? "Qin An saw the strange looks in everyone's eyes, so he kindly reminded them.
Ying Zheng said: "The Moh family can use it, the Moh family can use it."
Qin An said: "Of course the Mohist family can use them. Strictly speaking, those agricultural tools are also scientific inventions and belong to the Mohist family.
A good technology can double productivity.
For example, to describe weaving, I don’t know what the looms of the Qin Dynasty were like, but modern looms can produce thousands of pieces of cloth a day. "
When Ying Zheng heard this, he immediately said: "Li Si, if you are looking for someone from the Mohist family, you must find the giant of the Mohist family."
"No." Li Si responded.
He knew that Ying Zheng was very excited. The most valuable things on the market today are grain and cloth. Having these two things means that your family is wealthy.
Because cloth is difficult to weave, food is scarce.
Now that we know how important the Mohist technology is, if we are still not sure about it, can the First Emperor still become the First Emperor?
"Sir, I know the importance of the Mohist family, but what about the medical family?" Fusu asked, "Why is the medical family important?"
Qin An shook his head and said: "Of course doctors are important, everyone will get sick, and when you are sick, you should see a doctor.
Being a doctor is a very special profession. When you are fine, a doctor is of little use, but when you are sick, you cannot live without a doctor.
If the First Emperor wanted to live forever, he might as well have a few highly skilled people around him, so that he could live to at least sixty or seventy years old.
And that's not the point. The point is the plague. "
"Plague?!" Everyone was shocked.
Everyone knows how terrible the plague is. A plague can kill hundreds of thousands of people in a city.
Fusu said tremblingly: "First...sir, why did you mention such a terrible thing?"
"You are afraid, that's right." Qin An said.
“Plague is actually a disease that is highly contagious and can kill people quickly. This disease is not impossible to treat and prevent.
Do you know about smallpox? "Qin An said.
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "We know that once you are infected with smallpox, you will definitely die, and everyone talks about it with a stern tone."
Qin An said: "Yes, smallpox has been ravaging the entire world, not just in our country, but in other countries for thousands of years. No one can cure it. But it can be prevented.
Because there is a characteristic of smallpox, that is, people who have had smallpox will never get smallpox again. "
"Sir, don't be joking. Anyone who gets smallpox will definitely die. How could he get it a second time?" Fusu said.
Qin An said: "Although the mortality rate of smallpox is particularly high, not everyone will die. Also, the prevention I am talking about does not mean that you want to get smallpox."
Ying Zheng was a little excited and said inexplicably: "Sir, do you know how to prevent smallpox?"
Qin An nodded and said: "Yes, the method is very simple. It is to find a cow that has smallpox, and then use the cowpox from the cow to plant it into a human, so that the human can get the cow's smallpox.
Cow's smallpox will not cause death. In severe cases, it will only cause a fever. It will be cured in half a month at most, but you cannot take a bath during this half month.
For people who are in good health, they may not even have a fever until the wounds are scarred. Of course, they will not be able to take a shower for fifteen days. "
After Qin An finished speaking, he rolled up his sleeves, revealing an acne scar on his arm, and said: "This is the acne scar I planted. We all got the acne when we were one year old, because children don't have to worry about it being scratched. .
The wound will be itchy when it heals, but scratching it is not good for your health and can easily cause the wound to become infected. "
Ying Zheng nodded, but still asked uneasily: "Sir, are you sure this method is feasible?"
"Of course it's feasible." Qin An said confidently, "Actually, this is also one of my amulets.
Village chief, don’t tell the chiefs of other villages that if they don’t let me out in two and a half years, I will scare them with smallpox.
I believe that after seeing smallpox, none of them dared to do anything to me. "
Everyone looked at Qin An in embarrassment. If you hadn't said it, everyone might still have been scared. But now that you have said it, how could we be scared?
"Sir, let's not talk about it." Ying Zheng said awkwardly, "I understand what you mean, sir. Including doctors in the assessment scope is actually not to let doctors become officials, but to let doctors specialize in medical skills, so that there will be more doctors in the world. .”
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