If you say you are a master of Mohism, you are a master of Mohism!
There were quite a few Qin Mo who would be the Young Master, and Liu Pi wanted to give them all to Zhao Si, but due to the number of people, he only carefully selected twenty-seven people.
"If Minister Zhao is short of manpower, you can always come here to ask me for help." Liu Pi introduced Zhao Si one by one with an eager smile on his face.
Most of them are young people in their twenties and thirties, Mohist disciples who have mastered certain professional skills, mastered a certain amount of knowledge, are quick-thinking, and have good cultural literacy.
Liu Pi was very smart and did not assign Zhao Si to the old antique who liked to preach.
When Zhao Si saw this, he was not too polite and went directly back to Lang Zhongling.
"Second and Third Son, this is the art of papermaking... which is to use grass and wood to make paper comparable to silk to replace bamboo slips. Nowadays, the art of papermaking has been slightly accomplished, but if you can improve it, you will be awarded titles and bounties. No less.”
"This is the art of printing!" After introducing the art of papermaking, Zhao Si began to introduce the art of printing to a group of Mohist disciples before they could curiously observe the process of papermaking and the hemp paper that had been produced.
"Like this seal, if it is covered with ink and printed on paper, it can save the inconvenience of copying and engraving." Zhao Si briefly introduced the principle.
The important thing about printing is the production of engravings...
Printing is divided into movable type printing and block printing. It seems that printing is movable type printing, and block printing is an antique.
But this is not the case...
The advantage of block printing lies in large-scale printing, which saves time, effort and money. On the contrary, movable type printing is costly and difficult to produce. In fact, block printing was the mainstream until the end of feudal society.
"Liu Zhonghou must have told you all, so I won't repeat it again. In short, these two items are the most important. As long as they are made well and can be mass-produced, there will be no shortage of titles or monetary rewards." After Zhao Si finished speaking, he looked at the military craftsman transferred from Lantian.
"Do you have some spare time for reading?"
The arithmetic book is the arithmetic book that Zhao Si made in Lantian before. It records all the mathematical formulas in Zhao Si's memory, as well as the calculation methods of Arabic numerals.
Zhao Si has nothing to hide, but he has no ability to promote it widely. At present, it is only widely circulated in Lantian.
There is no way. In this era, there is no paper or printing technology. We only rely on manual copying and word of mouth. It is not possible for ordinary people to write books and explain things.
Counting is the most important thing and is the foundation of everything.
Zhao Si planned to make some corrections and typesetting of the arithmetic books he had summarized during the development of papermaking and printing. He also planned to collect some of the few basic knowledge of physics and chemistry in his mind.
When papermaking and printing were completed, three books on mathematics, physics, and chemistry were printed together.
Zhao Si is not a scientist, nor is he a good teacher.
He can only read rote books, and the most knowledge he remembers is at the junior high school level.
But this is enough. Just the knowledge of physics, mathematics and chemistry in junior high school is enough to avoid hundreds of years of detours in this era.
The military craftsman presented the calculation book written by Zhao Si, and Zhao Si handed it to Zhuo.
"This is a book of calculations I wrote in my spare time. It's a family story. You can take a look."
Compared with the old military craftsmen who did not have much cultural foundation and only knew how to read rote books, Zhao Si had more expectations for the twenty-seven young Mohist disciples in front of him.
Zhuo didn't pay attention. He just silently took the arithmetic book and thanked him. He kept staring at the papermaking production line, thinking about how hemp turned into paper through these processes. What role did these processes play and what kind of functions did they have? reason……
As for the arithmetic book sent by Zhao Si, he didn't really care...
The main reason is that Zhao Si is too young and has no scholarship. Although he holds a high position, the pride of an educated man still fails to make them take him seriously.
"During this period, in addition to papermaking and printing, if there are other techniques that benefit the people and the army, you are free to do it. As long as it can benefit the people and the army, I will personally ask for credit from you. If it benefits the country, To benefit the people, even upgrading to three levels is not an exaggeration." Zhao Si smiled.
"Do you really mean what Minister Zhao said?" A Mohist disciple had doubts on his face when he heard this.
"A promise worth a thousand gold!"
"I can design a waterwheel. Has Minister Zhao ever heard of a waterwheel?"
Zhao Si nodded.
"The waterwheel I built, under the same circumstances, costs 50% less than the ordinary waterwheel, but it is twice as powerful. What reward is it worth?"
Zhao Si smiled, shook his head and said with a smile: "Will it hinder downstream production and farming?"
"There is some impact, but not very big." The other party pondered for a moment and said.
"If the waterwheel you design can only benefit a few dozens or hundreds of people, it can only give you some monetary rewards." Zhao Si pondered and then spoke.
"If the waterwheel you design can benefit thousands of people, I will guarantee that you will be promoted to the next level."
"If the waterwheel you design can benefit a whole county, I will guarantee that you will be promoted to level three."
"If the waterwheel you design can benefit counties all over the world, I will guarantee that you will be promoted to level five!"
"This is not only true for waterwheels, but also for anything you design, as long as it can benefit the world..." Zhao Si looked at everyone with burning eyes.
Papermaking and printing were the ideas and main ideas proposed by Zhao Si himself, so to have a high-ranking official, three consecutive titles, and a large number of low-level titles, to be honest, it was the First Emperor who was unusually generous.
With Zhao Si occupying the main idea and main creative direction, this group of step-by-step craftsmen are not worthy of receiving so many titles and rewards.
But Zhao Si just bought horse bones for a thousand gold.
"Everyone should know that the title I am going to come to this time is a doctor, and there will be no change of three." Zhao Si looked at the crowd and said in a deep voice.
"If you don't update, you will be rewarded based on your merit."
"These titles are only for papermaking and printing. I will give you extra credit for the things you design!"
After the words fell, the twenty-seven Mohist disciples were obviously in a commotion.
Benefiting a county, the title was promoted to three levels...
Benefit the world, be promoted to the fifth level...
What kind of temptation is this? Unfortunately, if the Qin Dynasty had given such a generous reward, I don't know how many of the Qin Mo people who poured into the Qin Dynasty in the past would have been able to become marquises.
You must know the smelting technology of the Qin Dynasty, the design of engineering equipment, the design of irrigation channels, and even mulberry and hemp textiles...
Essentially speaking, a large number of Mohist disciples poured into Da Qin and became Qin Mo, which directly improved all aspects of Da Qin to a higher level, and even allowed Qin to innovate and inflict a crushing blow to the six countries on a technical level.
Why was the Mohist family divided into two, one to resist Qin and the other to help Qin, but Qin got the biggest improvement?
This is because the Mohists are not welcomed everywhere. They are used but not reused.
Although Qin's rewards are low, at least the rewards are clear and well implemented, while other countries...either reward are ridiculously low, or the credit can easily be misappropriated...
And what is Zhao Si's promise?
Upgrade three levels in a row, upgrade five levels in a row!
Comparing the current titles and rewards in Great Qin, is it more than an order of magnitude higher?
The merit that was originally only worth a first-level knighthood is now worth a third-level knighthood, or even a fifth-level knighthood...
At present, the twenty-seven Mohist disciples were carefully selected by Liu Pijing. They can be regarded as the smartest Mohist disciples in the entire Jiang Zuo Shaofu and the most capable among the younger generation.
Who doesn’t have some skills?
Zhao Si simply announced a standard for requesting credit. After all, it has not become customized yet. This is just a small experiment, but for this group of Mohist disciples...
hiss!
A dozen Mohist disciples took a breath of cold air and wished they could immediately invest in technology research and development.
Zhao Si didn't stay long after he finished speaking. The title moved people's hearts, not just because of the title, but because in this era, title was linked to power. Without reaching the corresponding title, many powers were ineligible to compete.
What Zhao Si wants is not to open a political channel for this group of technical talents.
Likewise, he didn't want to break Lord Shang's rules, destroy Da Qin's promotion system, and leave a hole to gain credit.
What he wants is for this group of technical talents to receive reasonable and generous treatment to stimulate their creative enthusiasm, and at the same time, let this group of technical geeks not to participate in politics, not to be linked to politics and rights, but to invest honestly in scientific research and development and theoretical innovation. among.
Facts have proved that the Mohist school's political skills cannot be said to be poor, only to a fault. Otherwise, the dignified school would not have fallen to this level, or even be on the verge of extinction.
In order to devote himself to politics, he even had to come up with all kinds of weird theories, and in the end, he was seriously divided internally...
Zhao Si doesn't care about the Mo family, he only cares about the group of technical geeks who rely on the Mo family.
Leave here and report to Meng Yi. After all, Lang Zhongling has more than 30 people at once, and the salary must go to Lang Zhongling. He also needs activities and office space. There must be an official report.
After the report was completed, the sun had already set in the west, and Zhao Si went straight to the palace.
After Tong Bing searched and verified, Zhao Si went straight to the office of the First Emperor.
"Your Majesty, Zhao Si, comes to see you!"
Zhao Si stood still outside the door.
The First Emperor, who was talking to Li Si, nodded and motioned for Zhao Si to enter.
"Your Majesty, I think... there is no need to adjust the salt price, just maintain the status quo." Li Si did not look back. The First Emperor signaled Zhao Si to come in and ignored Zhao Si again.
Several months have passed since the sun-salting method was put into use and the official popularization and reform of the salt field began.
Nowadays, one-third of Daqin's production methods in seaside salt ponds have changed from boiling salt to sun-drying salt.
The remaining salt-drying ponds along the coast, where corvées were initiated to assist Lishan in transferring concubines, are still being constructed and put into production in an orderly manner.
It is expected that in the next year, the coastal areas of Daqin will be able to change from the original backward salt boiling method to the more advanced sun salt method.
You know, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the salt-drying method was still the largest salt-producing method in the Xia lands.
Now that the first batch of salt ponds in Daqin have begun production, the intuitive changes brought about are that salt production has increased significantly and costs have dropped significantly.
Compared with the time-consuming and labor-intensive production method that requires firewood to boil salt, today's sun-dried salt method is simply too advanced.
Now that the salt pond construction and production are on track, they have been handed over from Lang Zhongling to Shaofu. However, as the leader of the initial work, Meng Yi knew that salt production was increasing and salt production costs were decreasing, so he proposed to lower the salt price.
Meng Yi's move caused dissatisfaction with Chi Gong, the right prime minister of the Shaofu.
The Shaofu is responsible for production and construction and the taxation of mountains, rivers and rivers.
To put it bluntly, it is an autocratic tax on salt and gold, and it is the young man's pocketbook. How could Chi Gong agree to reduce the price?
The output of his cat has just gone up, and the cost has just come down, and he is about to make a big fortune. Can you, Meng Yi, say it will be reduced?
Li Si, the left prime minister, is obviously more inclined to Chi Gong, the right prime minister of the Shaofu.
The so-called Guanshanhai Salt Monopoly is nothing more than cracking down on illegal salt sales while incorporating taxes into the price. To put it bluntly, the salt tax is added to the salt price. It is a complete monopoly business, and it is also the bulk of Daqin's current fiscal revenue.
Li Si is a Legalist...
(End of chapter)
