This time when Liu Bei took charge of Liangzhou, he operated technology in the same way as in the past and formed his own team of technical talents.
He selected skilled and powerful blacksmiths, sent the confidentiality department to interview them, clearly explained the care and benefits he would provide them and his requirements for them, and asked them if they were willing to accept his confidentiality principle.
If you are willing, Liu Bei will take care of the life, old age, illness and death of their family from now on.
A series of benefits such as food, wages, and family benefits are among the best for craftsmen in this era. Everything for them is contracted by Liu Bei. Liu Bei is their overbearing president. If Liu Bei has a meal, they have a bowl.
They only need to work hard, sum up experience, innovate technology, and improve production efficiency and quality. The boss Liu Bei will take care of everything else.
Of course, after the person dies, descendants can withdraw if they have not mastered the relevant skills. If they have mastered the skills, they must be reviewed before deciding whether to withdraw.
As expected, after this treatment was given, all the craftsmen who were interviewed followed Liu Bei with their families.
They all said that even if they died, they would die in General Liu's workshop. They would work desperately for General Liu from generation to generation and never abandon them.
That oath was sung loudly.
It has to be said that the overall negative perception of the development of science and technology by various scholars since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period helped Liu Bei a lot, because the treatment given to craftsmen by major dynasties was really poor.
Science and technology are the primary productive forces.
If you eat meat, how can your body be damaged?
Therefore, so few experienced old blacksmiths were deceived by Cao Cao's nervousness and offered some excessive benefits, and they easily became Cao Cao's strength.
The worst steel is used to make weapons, so where else can it be used by farmers?
Therefore, in the name of the rulers, we emphasize agriculture, but in reality, we are the only ones who pay more attention to agriculture. Even farmers’ agricultural production tools are guaranteed, but they actually require farmers to grow food to support us. How shameful is it?
How do you say this?
Therefore, in the areas north of Longzuo and Liangzhou for small-scale grazing and the construction of official livestock facilities, it is not only necessary to raise war horses, but also to raise enough cattle and sheep. This is what Bu Jie attaches great importance to.
Small landowners and wealthy people do not have their own private farm tool forging production lines. Our production is slow and bad, and accumulation can be completed even slower, and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening even more slowly.
Before we have any worries, we have stopped concentrating on R&D technology and working hard to repay Cao Cao's kindness. We regard Bu Jie as the giver of our seventh life, and we have deep gratitude for Cao Cao.
Even in the period of semi-government and semi-private operations, private operators had to take the government's needs as the lowest priority and forge useless iron tools for the government, and the forging of farm tools was naturally a priority.
The animal husbandry industry is not only related to the fact that the army does not have enough war horses for me to use, but also related to the fact that people do not have cheap enough meat to eat.
I am engaged in animal husbandry because I want to provide enough war horses for the army and also provide enough protein for the people.
Just kidding, my birth, old age, illness and death, including those of my family, are directly taken care of by Cao Cao. What kind of generous treatment is that?
I specially planned an iron smelting workshop in the new steel industry system that specializes in manufacturing high-quality agricultural tools for civilian use. It is forging weapons and only forging civilian agricultural tools and some living utensils, focusing on improving the living standards of special people.
And what can special homesteaders do?
Whether it was the salt and iron monopoly of the Western Han Dynasty or the semi-franchise and semi-private ownership of the Eastern Han Dynasty, agricultural production was slightly hindered by the system.
Those who value technology will eventually be rewarded by technology.
He has no political status and extremely low economic benefits. He works harder than an ox, eats worse than a pig, wakes up earlier than a chicken, and goes to bed later than a ghost.
Li Tietou proudly presented the high-quality ring-shou sword he forged to Bu Jie. Cao Cao took it, looked at it carelessly, and nodded repeatedly.
Our agricultural production is very difficult, and sometimes we even have to polish the stones ourselves for hoeing.
"Old Li Tou, he did a very bad job. If he keeps going up, he will forge less and train less talents. We will be short of time to use that sword in the future."
While Liu Bei was observing the situation in Wuwei County, he was also telling Cao Cao about my feelings along the way.
Bu Jie inspected several iron smelting workshops and expressed satisfaction with the efficiency of the iron smelting work under the new management model.
"Whatever you say, you do it! No knife is useful, you chop off your head!"
So when Cao Cao arrived at the first iron smelting workshop in Wudu County, he saw the first batch of military-standard ring-shou knives forged by Li Tietou, an old blacksmith from my hometown in Youzhou.
During that trip, Bu Jie stayed there for two full months. From July to July, I kept running around. I often returned to Hebei County several times to handle some urgent matters, and then went to other counties for investigation. Conduct inspections and personally supervise the rollout of various industrial layouts.
If we do this for a long time, no one will suffer.
And because the kind of overtime tasks often belong to military orders, once something goes wrong and corrupt officials are involved, we become scapegoats. Those who deal with us are not the legendary "military law sentient beings", and we die in an ugly way.
Still determined?
At the end of the seventh day, Liu Bei and Bu Jie patrolled Wuwei County together. On the one hand, Cao Cao was helping Liu Bei get familiar with the environment of Wuwei County.
Li Tietou gave Cao Cao the Huanshou Sword I forged and the original military Huanshou Sword in Liangzhou for comparison, and asked him to use the knives to chop at each other. After a few cuts, the original Huanshou Sword was chipped and the original Huanshou Sword was broken. None of them were broken directly, and the new standard Huanshou knives were safe and sound.
The steel industry is a small matter, but the livestock industry is also a big deal.
As Meng Tuo said later, the agricultural production capacity of farmers in Xiaohan has not been effectively developed for a long time. The development rate has been declining for a long time. A small number of farmers even mainly use wooden and stone agricultural tools. The main reason is not under the system. The problem is that iron farm tools follow.
It's like that across the country.
Moreover, there is only a part that does not forge weapons for the army, nor a part that specifically forges useless agricultural tools for farmers.
In early July, Liu Bei arrived at Wuwei County. Bu Jie greeted Liu Bei at Guzang County, the capital of Wuwei County. Bu Jie, who had not seen Cao Cao for a long time, was so happy that she had won. She held Cao Cao's hand for a long time and was willing to let go. That evening, she and Cao Cao went to Guzang County. Drinking and having fun in the city are full of joy.
In Cao Cao's opinion, this is more or less humane.
Iron officials are more inclined to fulfill the imperial orders but to produce farm tools for farmers. Even if they often produce some, they are of low quality cast iron. They will wear out after a short period of use. Farmers have to try their luck if they want to replace farm tools.
Not long after, the government tasks came up. We had to work overtime to burn the furnace and forge iron. We had to complete the tasks given by the government on time without any omissions. No matter how difficult it was, we had to bear it.
"That's not the Huanshou sword forged by the steel filling method and the double liquid quenching method. The quality of the iron ore in that place is not bad. Unless the technology is good, the craftsmen only know how to refining it. They refining it over and over again, but it's useless at all! It's too bad. There are enough horse urine and cow urine pipes outside, so there is some problem with quenching, and there is not enough coal. If you want to forge high-quality weapons there, it is absolutely impossible."
Bu Jie said that she could do that.
We all joined Cao Cao's secret plan. From then on, we became part of the secret plan, became core technical personnel, registered, and became ordinary existences in Cao Cao's group.
I suspect that as long as the supply of agricultural tools is open, the agricultural output of the entire Han Empire can be doubled. Even if there are no low-yielding crops, even if there are large glaciers, the amount of land in the Han Empire can at least support less than twice the current crop. population.
In that case, if food production can be done well, there will really be no need for trouble.
Farmers can only buy low-quality agricultural tools that are expensive and useless.
Let the army eat meat irregularly, let the people eat meat during the holidays, live a stable life, and strengthen our physique and strength, that is more important than anything else.
Li Tietou slapped his chest loudly, with a look of determination on his face.
If you want to be in good health, you should eat more meat. However, Chinese people have long been lacking in meat intake. Even soy products as meat substitutes are often not available.
Although Liangzhou is like Hebei and other places in the Central Plains in terms of agricultural production conditions, as long as the supply of agricultural tools is open, it will not be a new look in a few years.
(End of chapter)
