Liu Chan was supervising the construction of armored soldiers in Linqiong, and he was also busy in Chengdu.
Qiao Zhou, who had been in charge of preparing the military academy, made a breakthrough.
After he revealed that Prince Liu Chan, Shangshu Ling Fazheng, Military Advisor Zhuge Liang, and General Huang Zhong would all have their names in the school and take turns serving as lecturers, local families in Yizhou expressed their strong support.
This kind of support is not just verbal. What the Military Academy wants to cultivate is not only fierce generals, but more importantly, grassroots officers with organizational skills and generals with tactical judgment.
Even talented people with strategic vision.
It's okay for grassroots officers. Generals and commanders, except for some talented players, still need certain cultural qualities and knowledge.
Before cultural education was spread, these seedlings were basically concentrated in the hands of wealthy families, which was unavoidable.
Of course, when you are finally appointed, you still have to pass the assessment and perform martial arts.
In addition to competing to contribute outstanding family children, each family even took the initiative to contribute funds and efforts to the construction of the school.
Of course, this is also to get more places when recruiting students in the school and to improve his family's political status among Lao Liu's forces.
Recently, Qiao Zhou has been busy choosing a site to build a school. There are many side doors here. Not only is the environment quiet, but it also pays attention to Feng Shui and so on.
It seems that it will take some time to prepare for the official start of recruiting people to teach.
In addition, the paper industry also began to rise with the support of the government.
Regarding the promotion and popularization of paper, Liu Chan had already made suggestions to Lao Liu, but at this time, Cai Lun paper was still rough in workmanship, easily damaged, and not as safe as bamboo slips.
However, Liu Chan also mentioned the shortcomings of the bamboo slips, such as being heavy and difficult to find and transport, and believed that the potential of paper was still very high, and he could definitely make higher-quality paper.
In fact, Lao Liu still has little confidence in paper. As people get older, they don't like to accept new things.
But this did not prevent him from having confidence in Liu Chan. With the blessing of high favorability, he finally agreed with Liu Chan's idea.
After all, my son is no longer the foolhardy person he was when he was a child. Every step he takes has his own intentions.
Anyway, the money and resources consumed to develop papermaking are not large.
In Liu Chan's thinking, focusing on papermaking first and then printing can lay a solid foundation for the future development of culture and education.
But this is a long-term solution, so don’t worry.
After Zhuge Liang returned, in addition to helping Fazheng share government affairs, he spent almost all his spare time making inventions.
Even because Liu Chan restricted his bedtime, Military Advisor Zhuge is now drawing pictures even during meals...
The first is the improvement of crossbows. Zhuge Liang divided this improvement into two directions. One is the crossbow with the ability to fire continuously, striving to make long-range attacks with armor-breaking capabilities more intensive.
The first is to continue to improve the bed crossbow. The bed crossbow has begun to be widely used in the Han Dynasty. However, although its range is long, its accuracy is poor, and its power is not high or low, which is a bit embarrassing.
Use it for field battles. It is difficult and slow to carry and mount arrows, and it cannot meet the needs of the battlefield at all.
It's okay to attack and defend cities, but it's not as convenient as a stone machine. After all, stones are much easier to get than custom-made crossbow arrows.
After making the thunder cannon, the bed crossbow became something that grandma and uncles didn't like, with high cost and low benefits.
However, when Zhuge Liang was studying the repeating crossbow, he felt that there was still room for development of the bed crossbow.
Since there is nothing we can do about the disadvantage of being bulky, we simply give up and find a way to maximize its power and accuracy.
After all, stones fly slowly and are easy to dodge. If the accuracy of the bed crossbow is improved, at least it can still have a place when attacking and defending cities.
Then there is the armor. The existing iron armor has no sleeves or collar, so its protective power is still low.
In Zhuge Liang's eyes, nothing is worth anything. If it leads to increased casualties in order to save, then it is putting the cart before the horse.
Especially those who can wear mysterious armor, they are either officers or elite soldiers, and one will suffer the loss if one dies.
So he pulled out two more sleeves based on the original mysterious armor, and designed a stand-up collar to block his neck, and the hem was lengthened into a skirt.
At the same time, the stacking arrangement of the armor pieces has been improved to further improve the defense.
"The sleeves are like tubes, so they are called tube sleeve armor."
Compared to the repeating crossbow and improved bed crossbow, which are still in the process of research, the sleeve armor was the first to be completed.
He didn't know yet that Liu Chan's side had begun to light up the blacksmithing technology by leaps and bounds.
If he combines his newly designed sleeve armor with the armor pieces made by Liu Chan's latest forging technology, Ji Han's several humanoid Gundams in the past can wear a suit... tsk tsk tsk.
Zhuge Liang is focusing on inventions and creations, while Fa Zheng is adjusting official salaries according to Lao Liu's instructions.
The impact of the tax reform was too great. After deliberation, Chengdu's senior officials decided to use Nanzhong as a pilot project and observe it before making any decision.
So Lao Liu planned to start by improving official salaries. What did his son say... narrowing the gap between rich and poor?
Nowadays, the salaries of officials at all levels that follow the old system are actually very unreasonable.
Mainly reflected in the fact that the low one is too low and the high one is too high.
Although some officials can become officials, they don't care much about their salary.
But there are also people who really rely on these meager salaries to support their families, and it is often these people who are more honest and dedicated to the public.
On the contrary, those who can hold high positions are not short of these three to five hundred stones, but they receive high salaries.
There was an incident where a county magistrate in a small county died of hunger and cold at home in winter because his salary was not enough for food (less than a hundred shi).
Later, it was quoted as a good story, praising this man's integrity.
When Liu Chan first heard about it, he thought it was nonsense.
Isn’t this an institutional disgrace? Is it something that should be praised?
Could it be that the purpose of praising such misery is to make other grassroots officials imitate him and starve themselves to death?
You have the ability to praise such sad things, why don't you do something practical.
When Liu Chan talked about this matter with Lao Liu, Lao Liu also believed it deeply.
It is a good time to take advantage of this window period, and it is also the time when the reputation of the Liu Family Central Committee is at its highest. It is a good time for reform.
To put it simply, it means that the top is reduced and the bottom is increased. Of course, now everyone is nominally an official of the Han Dynasty. Even if there is a change, it is a real change but not a change of system.
That is to say, the payable wages remain unchanged and only the actual wages are changed.
Most of the high-level officials are our own people, so there is little resistance to its implementation, while many at the grassroots level are locals from Yizhou. Therefore, this move has also improved the treatment of locals in Yizhou in a disguised way and further brought the relationship between the central government and local scholars closer.
Not only Zhuge Liang and Fa are busy, Liu Ba is also presiding over the continued improvement of Jing Yi's economic situation.
Today's society is different from that of later generations. Agriculture is the well-deserved economic pillar. In the final analysis, this is determined by the level of productivity.
But that doesn’t mean that other economic production is unimportant, but the proportion is generally not high.
Liu Ba’s understanding of the low proportion is: huge potential.
Before Liu Chan began to control Zhao's business, Zhuge Liang had already seen the powerful ability of Shu Brocade to attract money.
Now, Liu Ba not only continued Zhuge Liang's strategy and continued to encourage people to grow mulberry, raise silkworms for sale, but also expanded the scale of Jincheng and standardized Jinguan's management of Jincheng.
The government-owned and private channels are expanding production and operation, coupled with Liu Chan's wine industry, and striving to create Yizhou's flagship product.
If you are a noble, you should wear Sichuan brocade and drink aged wine.
Otherwise, what kind of dignitary would he be? What kind of celebrity is this?
How to show your noble temperament? That's too embarrassing, okay.
I don't know when this idea started, but it has spread among the scribes, officials, wealthy households, and merchants who came and went from Shu.
Gradually, a popular trend formed and spread among the upper classes of Wei and Wu. It had the potential to "clear the world and sweep away all the wastelands" with one step.
Most of the fine clothes and water and wine produced by the Wei and Wu real estates were defeated. Only Dukang was able to compete in the northern market because of the endorsement of Boss Cao during his lifetime.
At a time when high-quality liquor has not yet appeared, the wine improved by Liu Chan and Zhuge Liang, especially the aged version, has a mellow and long taste, which can be said to be outstanding.
Coupled with conscious publicity and momentum, as well as the upper management's emphasis on it as one of the strategies, we have the current situation.
Not only were Shu brocade and wine a great commercial success, but also the private circulation of direct money in Wei and Wu.
Since Dong Zhuo's misuse of low-quality five-baht coins destroyed the credit of the monetary system, Cao Wei also tried to recover, but ultimately failed.
Coupled with the shortage of materials caused by the war, people have returned to bartering in order to not be affected by inflation.
Unexpectedly, Lao Liu originally created Zhibaiqian to solve the emptiness in the treasury, but instead used this opportunity to develop his strong products, which gradually became popular.
In addition to military equipment, the Lao Liu Group has gradually begun to make efforts in other aspects such as economy and system.
And these are even more difficult for opponents to detect...
(End of chapter)
