Chapter 668 Construction of Spiritual Civilization
The construction of five wooden boats was successful, and after skilled training, the shipyard officially launched a large-scale shipbuilding plan in May.
This time, in addition to leaving only one workshop to continue building small fishing boats, three medium-sized wooden boats with a capacity of 20 people, five large wooden boats with a capacity of 30 people, and a larger wooden boat that is expected to carry more than 50 people are being built at the same time.
Very large wooden boat.
Medium-sized wooden ships still use the single-barrel and single-hull model, while large wooden ships and super-large wooden ships use the double-cabin and deck model. Because of their huge size, these large wooden ships all use keel and mast sail technology, so the structure is more complex and the construction is more troublesome.
The materials used and time consumed will also be longer.
It took five months to build the first wooden boat with a capacity of thirty people.
Of course, it won't take that long now.
The current level of craftsmen and shipbuilding technology are no longer the same as they were four years ago.
Therefore, Xu Chen's request to the shipyard was that all eight large and medium-sized wooden ships must be completed before the Witchcraft Festival in September.
With this new batch of wooden boats, not only can the waterway traffic conditions be greatly improved, but the plan to build the Pakistani navy that he planned can finally be put on the agenda.
As for the super large wooden ships, because the scale was too advanced, Xu Chen did not set any rigid requirements. He just asked the shipyard to make reasonable arrangements according to the situation and strive to complete them within one year.
In May, we enter the most violent rainy season of the year.
The Jicang River surged and roared all day long. The turbid river water came from the upper reaches. After being bound by the river near the royal city, it violently impacted the wooden bridge. However, the thick bridge piers still withstood the impact of the flood. After Xu Chen
Arrangements were made for constant monitoring and observation, and it was found that several flood peaks passed by in succession without causing any damage to the wooden bridge.
The wooden bridge withstood the test of floods, which indicates that this bridge, which consumed a lot of manpower, material resources and time, has truly met the design requirements Xu Chen wanted.
This result also allowed Xu Chen to finally relax and concentrate on his shipbuilding and upgrading tasks.
Time flies by, and in the blink of an eye it’s autumn harvest time again.
In July, Gonghuo Basin once again ushered in a lively harvest scene.
The shipyard has also begun to launch medium-sized wooden ships that are seaworthy.
As brand new boats began to appear in the river one after another, the harvest atmosphere in the royal city became more and more lively.
In August, three large boats with a capacity of 30 people were also launched one after another. By the end of August, this batch of medium and large wooden boats were all completed. A total of eight boats were parked in a row on both sides of the pier under the bridge, which looked spectacular.
In the largest shipyard, the keel of the super-large wooden ship has been laid, and a group of craftsmen are working hard to install the ship's keel. The nearly two-story-tall figure is breathtaking, gradually showing unparalleled high spirits and domineering.
Xu Chen issued a new round of recruitment orders, selecting young hunters who were proficient in water skills from various tribes to form the Ba Navy, and began to conduct naval training.
In September, at the new Wu Zhu Conference, Xu Chen announced the establishment of the Ba Navy and appointed Mo as the commander of the navy.
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In October of the ninth year of the King of the Morning Dynasty, the Ba Navy conducted its first long-distance training, with the goal of exploring the vast area from the middle and lower reaches of the Wulong River to the Mengmao River Basin.
Wangcheng also launched the second round of river embankment expansion project at the same time.
In January of the tenth year of the King of the Morning Dynasty, the Navy returned from its first expedition training. The map of the Ba Kingdom expanded to the six hundred miles downstream of the Wulong River. The geographical environment of the mountains and rivers on both sides gradually became clearer. At the same time, another large tribal gathering area was discovered, which was once
The old Baimao tribe is located on the southeastern bank of the Wulong River, a hundred miles away from the lower reaches of the Cicha tribe.
Because the local environment was complex and harsh, and natural resources were scarce, Xu Chen ordered the entire ethnic group to move to settle near the tung forest lakes and salt mines. They would cut down trees and cultivate the fields and mix with the Yu Gong tribe to create his core triangle economic development area.
population.
In March of the 10th year, the training of the first batch of little witches in the temple was completed. After passing the examination and certification, those who passed the test were awarded the titles of witch doctors and wizards, and returned to the tribes to start promoting basic medical care and education.
In the same year, under the guidance of Xu Chen, the Temple Witch College began to compile and promote the first Medical Code of the Witch King. The content of the medical code involves emergency treatment, midwifery, infant care, analysis of common drug properties, basic pharmacological knowledge, and treatment and prevention of common diseases.
Various daily medicine and rescue knowledge such as processing of medicinal materials, prevention and control of common diseases and pests, etc.
In addition, the medical code also partially explains basic surgical debridement, disinfection, suturing, hemostasis, bandaging, and some correction and treatment methods for muscle and bone injuries.
Although these contents are very superficial, and many of them are not necessarily correct, the basic medical knowledge guided by these scientific methods has laid the right direction and a solid foundation for the future medical development of Pakistan.
Medicine has finally entered the stage of systematic treatment and saving people from the primitive stage of pure soil leaves, witchcraft, singing, dancing and dancing.
Compared with the layout of agriculture and industry, Xu Chen paid more attention to the development of medicine.
After all, he no longer had to worry about food, clothing, and shelter, and taking care of his own life was the most important thing. He didn't want to die before he had a chance to enjoy the good start he had finally made.
In addition to the compilation and promotion of medical classics, Xu Chen is also guiding the compilation of two important classics, the Basic Industry Manual and Farming Minutes of Pakistan.
The basic industry manual mainly records a summary of existing simple industrial technologies such as building houses, firing bricks and lime, metal smelting, stone tool making, wood processing, leather processing, bamboo and rattan weaving, pottery making, oil extraction, vehicles, shipbuilding, etc.
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Farming minutes mainly summarize and promote various agricultural knowledge such as land reclamation, canal construction, embankment construction, irrigation, breeding, sowing, making agricultural tools, farmland management, harvesting and processing, food storage, animal husbandry, and breeding.
These contents were not compiled because of promotion, but a large amount of knowledge has been accumulated through diaries and essays since Xu Chen's time travel.
Ye and the little witch have been helping him collect and organize them, but in the end they just classified and compiled them.
In the past, except for the witch group, everyone in the tribes had always been blank in reading, writing and calculation.
But with the graduation and return of the first batch of little witches from the witch academy, these purely text-based classics have a basis for promotion.
At least, these contents have the ability to be interpreted by various tribes and can have a promotion effect.
Xu Chen believes that as more people with reading, literacy and numeracy skills graduate from witch colleges and official schools and join the grassroots tribes, everything he has done will slowly reflect extremely powerful energy. In the future, these people will rely on these
With the guidance and promotion of basic knowledge, various ethnic groups in Pakistan will develop faster and better.
However, with the growing number of reading and literate groups, and the development of agriculture, tribes are constantly getting rid of the hunting survival mode. The output of animal skins is getting smaller and smaller, and the demand for written records and writing is increasing. The continued use of animal skins has
Gradually it became out of date, so there was an urgent need to find a good carrier to replace animal skin writing.
The bamboo and wooden slips were immediately rejected and abandoned by him.
It's not that it's impossible, but after getting used to animal skins, which are light and easy to carry and store, he can no longer bear the trouble caused by bulky slips.
Although bamboo and wooden slips are indeed simple and cost-effective, they are not in line with the development direction of the times.
Because he had better alternatives, Xu Chen decided to start developing paper.
Papermaking is actually not difficult. Compared to complex industries such as metal smelting, shipbuilding, and oil extraction, it can only be regarded as a pediatric invention.
Moreover, the raw materials for papermaking are simpler and more abundant.
Hemp is readily available, and there are many fibrous and tough bark and weeds in nature that can be used to make paper.
As for the papermaking process, Xu Chen believes it is easy to solve.
It is nothing more than soaking and beating plant fibers such as hemp bark, then filtering and shaping the pulp with appropriate equipment, and then squeezing and drying it.
The paper mill was built near the dyehouse three miles downstream from the south of the city. It was not very large in scale. It was a courtyard covering an area of four or five acres. Like the dyehouse, there were several large and small soaking pools built with clay bricks.
Several more pergolas were built to serve as pulping and cooking areas and papermaking and drying areas.
The conditions were very simple. The biggest investment was just a few stone mortars for punching paper pulp, and the most difficult thing was the bamboo curtains for papermaking. In order to weave a bamboo curtain with a fine enough mesh, Xu Chen personally took several bamboo craftsmen through it.
After repeated production experiments and busy work for nearly a month, I finally made a bamboo screen that was fine enough, and then built several water filter nets that were two feet long and three feet wide.
Of course, the successful production of the copy net only solves the most important tool for papermaking. If you want to successfully make paper, the pulp raw material is the top priority.
In order to find suitable raw materials to make practical paper that meets writing requirements, Xu Chen plunged into the paper factory and conducted repeated experiments for nearly two months.
In August of the tenth year of the King of the Morning, after the autumn harvest and before another witchcraft conference was held, the paper mill finally produced the first generation of practical hemp paper that could be written on.
This kind of paper is made of hemp bark as the main raw material. In addition, a kind of wild grass and two bark materials with the same toughness are added. It is soaked, soaked, soaked, cleaned and beaten, and then the paper is made and dried to obtain a kind of hemp-yellow paper, which is slightly
It's thick, but there's no problem with writing. It's just that it's not very resistant to folding and tends to fluff.
Although Xu Chen was not completely satisfied with the result, there was no big problem in using it to record and write official court documents on a daily basis.
The birth of the magical paper made the little witch overjoyed.
When Xu Chen said that he wanted to develop a cheap, economical and easy-to-write material to replace the expensive and complicated animal skin paper, the little witch was full of trust, but when she actually saw the hemp pulp paper, she felt something strange.
An unreal feeling.
This material called straw paper is light, soft, and easy to write on. The material is available everywhere and the production is not complicated. After witnessing the process of papermaking with her own eyes, she was once again deeply impressed by Xu Chen's ability to turn decay into something magical.
In recent years, with the construction of the royal city and the growing prosperity of the Ba Kingdom, Xu Chen has shown less and less of his miraculous creation ability.
Most of the time, Xu Chen focused on managing the royal city and guiding the stable development of each tribe.
But the emergence of hemp pulp paper seems to have opened another magical door.
Paper is cheap and easy to make. Although the paper factory is not big, it can produce hundreds of sheets of paper a day, which is enough to support the daily needs of various departments in the royal city.
The most important thing is that the paper is easy to write on and easy to bind. It is easy to write or even draw on it. The only disadvantage is that it is not strong, it is afraid of water and fire, and it is not durable for preservation.
But compared to the cost, this shortcoming is completely negligible.
So since the success of paper production, it soon began to be promoted at the official level of the royal city, witch colleges, and official schools.
At the same time, Xu Chen requested that the Witch King’s Dictionary, the Witch King’s Medical Code, Farming Minutes, Basic Industry Manuals, Enlightenment Literacy and Calculation and other teaching books should be produced and promoted using the new paper book method.
In order to cooperate with the compilation and promotion of standardized paper books, Xu Chen recruited craftsmen to start printing the first series of books soon after the paper was successfully developed.
Although the country is small, with a small number of people and not many books, as the kingdom develops and the literate population continues to grow, the demand for books will become greater and greater in the future.
The various diaries and essays he, the little witch and others have accumulated over the years have also piled up. Although those animal skin carriers can be stored for a long time, they need to be carefully sorted and copied for easy management and storage.
Books are the spiritual food of human civilization.
Only by accumulating enough books can a civilization become deeper and develop more steadily.
A nation that does not study has no future.
And a nation without written heritage has no future.
The emergence of paper represents that Pakistan has shown the characteristics of an advanced civilization, moving from the stage of simple material needs of food and clothing to a higher level of spiritual civilization needs.