Ironmaking and forging are the earliest new technologies in Liangzhou. Basically, the first batch of technological innovations promoted by Liu Bei were ironmaking and forging.
In order to refine better steel and build stronger weapons, Liu Bei invested a lot in this aspect.
Especially after the salt trade business improved, the finances became abundant, and Liu Bei poured money into it, giving the craftsmen enough room to delve into new technologies.
Huangtian has paid off his hard work, and the craftsmen have continued to innovate in their forging and smelting technologies. So far, five generations of technology have been innovated, and each generation has made significant improvements.
When Liu Bei took Lu Zhi to see the conditions of the forge, he showed him weapons forged with steel smelted using fifth-generation technology.
"This is the Huanshou Sword forged by the fifth-generation technology. This is the Huanshou Sword forged by the first-generation technology. It is also the Huanshou Sword when I fought with the Qiang people in the second year of guarding Liangzhou. ."
Liu Bei brought two knives to Lu Zhi to show. Lu Zhi took the two knives. From the perspective of a semi-professional soldier, he could indeed easily see the difference between the two weapons.
This Huanshou sword forged with the so-called fifth generation technology does not look very different from the first generation, but when you weigh it, you can still feel the slight difference in weight. The two swords collided with each other in just three times. There is a small gap in the first sword of the technique.
"Is this the fifth-generation technology of the Huanshou Sword currently used in the military?"
Lu Zhi dropped the first-generation Huanshou sword with a look of surprise on his face, and stroked the fifth-generation Huanshou sword with his hand, feeling quite unable to put it down.
"Currently, the military is mainly equipped with the third-generation technology of the Huanshou Sword. The interval between the fourth and fifth generations is relatively short. Not many of the fourth-generation Huanshou Swords have been produced. The fifth generation is now being mainly produced. It will probably take about half a year to complete the replacement.”
Liu Bei said with a smile: "I was the one who wanted to improve the quality of weapons in the beginning, and I was the one who put forward some opinions. But now, they have spontaneously summarized these forging technologies and iron smelting technologies, and started to change them from the source, which has made the weapons more and more sophisticated. Sharp and tough.
Although they have not read many books, are not heirs of classics, and do not have a high status, the technology they have summarized can make the Han army invincible. The reason why I am invincible is that their contribution is crucial.
Without them working hard here for me, summarizing technology and seeking innovation day after day, how could I train the army to win again and again? How can you achieve such a prestigious reputation? Teacher, what do you think? "
Lu Zhi stroked the fine Huanshou knife in his hand. He felt speechless and could only nod.
That was indeed the truth. After seeing it with his own eyes, Lu Zhi felt the power of craftsmanship.
If one side uses this fifth-generation ring-shou sword during a war, and the other side can only use the most primitive standard ring-shou sword, then the battlefield will turn into a slaughterhouse within a few seconds of the confrontation between the two armies.
Lu Zhi still knows how much the advantage of weapons can play on the battlefield.
When he first participated in the counter-rebellion, he also fought with one side using a ring-shaped sword and the other using wooden sticks and bamboo spears. It was almost a one-sided situation.
Looking at this technological innovation from a professional perspective, Lu Zhi can understand why Liu Bei's army is always invincible and invincible, and almost never fails.
After that, Lu Zhi followed Liu Bei to visit the trebuchet factory, the paper making factory, and the Menghuo Oil Factory. He discovered many novel gadgets, and many technologies that have been put into military or civilian use are still being improved. middle.
For example, in the Fierce Fire Oil Research Institute, craftsmen are constantly trying to expand the range and power of fierce fire oil explosions. This is also the largest research site in the entire Gongqiao Research Institute. As soon as Lu Zhi entered, he saw a scene of flames and fireballs exploding. .
"This fierce fire oil was accidentally mentioned by the disciples when he was serving in Liangzhou. He picked it up and found it to be of great military significance, so he stored it to study tactics. Now the fierce fire oil tank has become It is one of the most important main battle weapons in the army."
Liu Bei pointed at the exploding fireball and introduced his results to Lu Zhi.
Lu Zhi looked at the exploding fireball and suddenly thought of the critical battles he had fought. If such weapons could be used, the difficulty of critical battles would be reduced accordingly, and the losses of the army would also be reduced accordingly. .
Unfortunately, he had nothing at the time.
There is no easy-to-use Huanshou knife, and there is no fierce fire oil tank, and all of this was born in the Gongqiao Research Institute. He saw unlimited possibilities and innovation, and also saw the huge uncertainty in the future. .
Did Liu Bei do so much work in private in order to win the war and increase his strength?
The preparations started several years ago. How far had he looked and how much had he thought about it?
When he was trapped in sect disputes and personal agendas, how much long-term thinking did his disciple do, and where did he set his sights?
After briefly looking around the entire Gongqiao Research Institute, standing at the door of the original printing office, Liu Bei asked Lu Zhi the same question as before.
"Teacher, are you willing to promise me now?"
Lu Zhi looked at the thread-bound Zuo's Spring and Autumn Scroll in his hand, flipped through a few pages, and smiled bitterly.
"Your Majesty, do I have the right to say no?"
"Of course, you are my teacher. You have the power that others don't have."
"Xuande, I promise you."
Lu Zhi thrust the book "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu" into Liu Bei's hand: "This thing is no longer useful. You can do whatever you want. I understand now that the future of the Han Dynasty lies in this Gongqiao Research Institute. Here, not in Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period."
"Why did the teacher say that?"
Liu Bei raised the corner of his mouth and said with a smile: "Obviously the age of the Zuo family is also very important."
"It's not that Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period is important, but your existence makes some people mistakenly think that Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period is important."
Lu Zhi shook his head and said: "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period has never allowed people to win battles, and everything here can help people win battles. Now that things have happened, it makes no sense for me to continue to insist on these things.
Xuande, you have seen too far. Compared with you, I am just a frog in the well and cannot see the real thing. But the only thing I am curious about is Xuande. How far have you seen? What did you see? "
Lu Zhi looked at Liu Bei with curious eyes, as if he wanted to get this answer from Liu Bei.
But Liu Bei couldn't give him this answer. He couldn't tell Lu Zhi that he had seen the rise and fall of history two thousand years later, and the farce of human cycles.
He could only say something vague.
"What I see are some things that ordinary people don't pay attention to. Teacher, I can only say that what I want to do in the future is to make Gongqiao Research Institute stronger, and then go out, and keep going out. Find newer places and explore unknown territories.
Of all the possible ways to bring about change, only the Gongqiao Research Institute and going global can actually bring about change. The others are nothing but the death of the people and the rest of the government. So I will definitely go in these two directions. What I am doing now Everything we do is to lay the foundation for these two goals. "
"That's it..."
Lu Zhi seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to understand too much. He could feel the depression in Liu Bei's words, which made him even more depressed because his students were not willing to tell him too much.
Could it be that his students didn't think that he, the teacher, could help him in this aspect?
After thinking about it this way, Lu Zhi felt that this was also his problem - he hesitated among the options of private schemes just now.
Perhaps it is this kind of hesitation that makes students no longer believe in themselves?
Lu Zhi was a little sad, a little guilty, and a little helpless.
But in any case, he agreed to Liu Bei, and he decided to hand over the inheritance of "Zuo Shi Chun Qiu" belonging to the Lu family. From then on, the Lu family in Zhuoxian County returned to its original ecological niche and bid farewell to the status of the family of Yue.
This also ended the existence of the last Wenyue family.
Instead, he had only one request.
He wanted to come to Gongqiao Research Institute from time to time to see the development of the latest technology. He wanted to see what kind of changes this vigorous and progressive place could bring to the big man.
Liu Bei agreed to him and gave Lu Zhi the right to freely enter and exit the Gongqiao Research Institute.
So, Liu Bei succeeded, and he successfully eliminated the last family of Yue.
On December 11, the fifth year of Jian'an, Liu Beiming issued an edict to the world, declaring that his own family would be the head of the three major clans: the Liu family of Zhuo County, the Ma family of Fufeng Maoling, and the Lu family of Zhuo County. The Yue family will also give up the inheritance of "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals" and return the inheritance of family learning to the country.
In the edict, Liu Bei clearly stated what happened at and after the Baihuguan Meeting, explained the birth of the Fuyue family in his own understanding, and then announced that the Fuyue family would give up everything and What originally belonged to the emperor and the country shall be returned to the emperor and the country.
The outflow of academic power caused by the young and weak emperor came to an end with Liu Bei.
Over the past decade or so, the world's Yue Family has experienced many changes, including death, relegation, and voluntary giving up. In the end, it was completely destroyed.
From then on, there was no longer any Fei Yue family in the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty.
The royal family itself has taken the lead in giving up, who else can persevere?
All family traditions were separated from the family and incorporated into the Taixue collective. From then on, academics were owned by the public and belonged to the world's universities, allowing students all over the world to study freely. There was no longer any tradition of sects or inheritance of family traditions.
All interpretations and objections will come to an end in the imperial court, and sectarian opinions will become history forever and will no longer be a shackle that restricts scholars from further developing their academics.
This news is actually quite shocking, because with the disclosure of this news, an important social phenomenon that has accompanied the Eastern Han Empire for more than a hundred years is about to come to an end.
His disciples and former officials are all over the world.
Without the inheritance of family education, no one is qualified to recruit students.
Without disciples, how could there be disciples all over the world?
When academics are returned to the public, it means that only official schools run by the government have the power to teach students, and teachers in official schools always have a layer of official status blessing.
They preached and taught in an official capacity, and the place where they taught their disciples was in official institutions. It was impossible to form a close system of disciples and former officials like the family school era.
This is public, not private.
Liu Bei made it very clear that from now on, all individuals, including him, Liu Bei, will no longer recruit disciples in their personal capacity or as family successors.
Everyone should study in official institutions headed by Ethereum, and study classics freely with official teachers, instead of looking for private teachers to become private disciples or disciples.
In the edict, Liu Bei also clearly stipulated that after the classics are returned to the public, Liu Bei will participate in the compilation of the "Five Classics of Justice" as a Confucian scholar, sorting out all the differences in the Confucian classics that have been debated for hundreds of years. .
All different glyphs, pronunciations, understandings, and different opinions from different schools will all get the most reasonable explanations in the "Five Classics of Justice". In order to facilitate everyone's reading, Liu Bei also announced that he will create punctuation marks for sentence segmentation.
He would use punctuation marks to complete sentence fragmentation of the text that was jointly determined by the imperial court and scholars all over the world, and then promulgate it to the world, so that people all over the world could read without having to learn sentence reading, eliminating this learning link and reducing the difficulty and threshold of learning.
It can be said that wherever the announcement of this edict spread, the literate groups there were shaken and shocked.
Even before the release, when Liu Bei held an internal meeting, it caused collective shock among the participants.
It can be said that sentence reading is the most important thing in this era to distinguish between reading and writing players and serious readers. Only when you learn and master sentence reading can you become a reader, otherwise you will be a simple reading and writing player. , does not have the ability to learn by itself.
Once a public, fully recognized way of segmenting sentences was created and used in books and articles, the gap between literate athletes and readers was eliminated.
In the terms of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the distance between the literate common people, the powerful and the scholars was artificially smoothed.
Then everyone is a scholar.
Even the difference between ordinary scholars and scholars with family support will begin to narrow, the difficulty of learning various types of knowledge will further narrow, and the further expansion of the scholar group will become a reality.
Originally, the Han Dynasty only had 3.5 million scholars with sufficient knowledge of the Eight Classics. But once punctuation marks become popular and sentence reading becomes history, this number will expand more than ten times in a short period of time, and as time goes by, the number of such people will increase. Come more and more.
In the end, reading and writing may become a basic skill that every Han citizen can master, and scholars will no longer be so favored by heaven.
Wise officials were surprised and worried about this.
Kuai Yue, who had just followed Liu Bei and was serving in the cabinet, anticipated this and raised some concerns.
"Your Majesty, this is naturally a good thing, and it seems to be a good thing now, but after ten, twenty, or thirty years, people who have mastered knowledge may be all over the Han Dynasty. There are so many people who have mastered knowledge, and there will be so many people in the Han Dynasty. Can official positions be provided to them?
People without knowledge are the best to rule, and people with knowledge are very difficult to rule. Once they are dissatisfied and a group of people get together, they can bring huge trouble to the Han Dynasty. Therefore, I suggest that this matter should be considered in the long term. Better. "
Kuai Yue's ideas were also those of some officials.
They all pointed out that it is indeed a good thing for Liu Bei to reduce the difficulty of learning, but from a governance perspective, it will only bring more uncontrollable factors, which is not necessarily a good thing for maintaining national stability.
It is true that Liu Bei must admit that their purpose is not only for themselves and their family, but also for the stability of the Han Empire. Even at this time, the consideration of the stability of the Han Empire outweighs their own interests. Consider.
However, when Liu Bei looked at their anxious looks, he knew that his previous speculation was correct.
The end of troubled times and the arrival of governance will bring a stable life to people, but at the same time, it will also be accompanied by the strengthening of governance and the suffocation of free thought and creation.
Because the rulers just want to maintain stability, everything is for stability.
And this is almost a subconscious behavior, a subconscious action of a group and a class. Even if he has only been emperor for a few months, this situation has appeared.
He remembered a story he had read in "Huainanzi" written by Liu An, a member of the Han royal family, and his disciples.
That's a very interesting and touching story.
(End of chapter)
