Although it has not been completely built, the scholars and businessmen who passed by have already seen from the outline that this is a magnificent college like a city.
Whether there are scholars who have the opportunity to go in to study or those who have no chance to go in, they are all waiting for the day when the construction of Handan College is completed. With the help of businessmen, the name of Handan College spread almost like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
All over the world.
And what spreads throughout the world along with Handan College is the name of the chief engineer - Mo Feng.
Immediately afterwards, there was a craze for learning Mohism all over the world, and countless scholars rushed to Handan from all over the country to seek lessons from the Mohists.
Mo Feng was happy and uncomfortable at the same time. The happy thing was that the Mo family not only did not perish in his hands, but instead grew stronger. The sad thing was that the Mo family was short of manpower and had to build a college, which could not teach so many people.
Even Qi Mo, Qin Mo, and Chu Mo also took advantage of this wave of bonuses to make a fortune. They attracted scholars from their own countries under the pretext that the world's Mohists are one family.
Mohism, which was already gradually declining, was like an inflated balloon, constantly colliding with each other, and even had a faint tendency to overwhelm Confucianism.
Subsequently, Confucianism was not to be outdone. With the help of Xunzi, the various Confucian factions who were already losing their minds united their front and gathered in Handan to crusade the heretics.
Xunzi first dealt with a few battles by himself, and then left it to his disciples Han Fei and Li Si.
When had these two ignorant young men ever encountered this kind of situation? They had lost consecutive battles and were about to be called fools.
Xunzi didn't have any sympathy. He just threw some books to them when they came back every night and asked them to study before spraying them back.
Both Han Fei and Li Si were smart people, constantly absorbing nutrients and growing rapidly under the influence of scolding.
Soon, the Confucian sects seemed to realize that they had become Xunzi's tools to educate his disciples, and they no longer went into battle in person, but sent out their own disciples.
Ever since, spring has come for Han Fei and Li Si...
The two of them have suffered the disadvantage of their age. If they are not rivals of their elders, shouldn't they be rivals of their peers?
The two of them joined forces and massacred everyone. They would do whatever their teachers did to them.
Soon, Han Fei and Li Si became quite famous in Handan.
Others in Confucianism aimed their attacks at other schools of thought.
The first thing they challenged was the Mohist school. The reason was the ideological dispute, which was also the most common reason used in debates between various schools of thought.
The real reason is that recently the Mohist school has a tendency to overtake the Confucian school, and the Mohist school has built the Mohist school to be larger than the Confucian school. Don’t you Mohists advocate frugality? It is too wasteful to build such a large college for yourself, so give it to us.
Use it!
But how could Mo Feng agree?
It is impossible to agree to hand over the academy to Confucians, nor to debate with Confucians.
His family knows their own affairs. Zhao Mo looks huge, but in fact there are only three or five big cats, and the rest are just recently recruited kittens. How can he be the opponent of these professional trolls?
So they refused on the grounds of building a college.
"I, the Mohist family, work hard and do practical things, and we will not engage in petty verbal disputes!"
This made the Confucians angry, but the Mohists had no choice but to target the Legalists and Gongsun Long, the famous representative who had just arrived.
The three factions debated on the stage every day, and sometimes even got physical, attracting countless people to watch.
Zhao Kuo specially arranged a venue for them and sent people to record the content of the debate. The outside was surrounded by a wall. If you want to come in, you can buy tickets first, and you can also bet on which side will win.
Zhao Kuo took this opportunity to make a lot of money.
There were also representatives from the Yang Zhu School and the Huang-Lao School who came from all over the country, as well as medical representatives who were tempted by the "Medical Classic" and came from all over the country.
Even those who are not famous doctors are rushing towards Handan. Everyone knows that Handan must be crowded with famous doctors at this time. Even if they are just watching and learning some skills, they will be able to eat and drink without worries after returning.
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Even the descendants of Kanyu, astrologers, fortune tellers and other schools came from all over the country.
For example, Tang Ju, the fortune teller who performed fortune-telling for Li Dui and Cai Ze, and astrologers Shi Shen and Gan De also came from Wei and Qi. Both of them were astrologers and astronomers as famous as Yin Gao of Zhao.
Some of them want to promote their own doctrines, some take advantage of the opportunity to find famous teachers, and some want to fish in troubled waters.
Handan suddenly became the most prosperous city in the world, and new residential areas and streets gradually appeared outside the city walls.
Now that the first phase of Handan College is almost completed, the smile on Mo Feng's face can no longer be concealed. He even smiled when he saluted Zhao Kuo.
Less than half a quarter of an hour later, the public transplant finally arrived.
"My subordinates pay homage to the king." Gongshu Yang leaned over and said.
Not long ago, Gongshuyang heard that the new King Zhao attached great importance to craftsmanship, so he rushed to Zhao from Chu State and was appointed by Zhao Kuo as a public engineer, mainly responsible for improving and promoting agricultural tools.
"Sit down." Zhao Kuo pointed to the seat and said.
"promise."
After Gongshu Yang sat down, Zhao Kuo said: "We have been called together this time for one thing: to unify weights and measures!"
The so-called weights and measures refer to the general standards used to measure the length, volume, and weight of objects. Instruments for measuring length are called degrees, instruments for measuring and calculating volumes are called quantities, and tools for measuring the weight of objects are called scales.
Zhao Kuo originally thought that before the First Emperor unified the world, even if the weights and measures among countries were not unified, they should be unified within each country. Later he learned that even the weights and measures within each country were not unified.
For example, in terms of length, a chi refers to the distance between the extended thumb and middle finger of an adult man, and a chi refers to the distance from the thumb to the middle finger of a woman's extended hand, so a chi is slightly shorter than a chi.
In some places, a hundred grains of millet are arranged in a row to make a foot. When placed vertically, it becomes a vertical ruler, and when placed horizontally, it becomes a horizontal ruler.
In addition, there are Ren and Xun, which are the length of a person's arms outstretched.
etc.
There seems to be no problem and it is very reasonable.
The question is, there are so many people in the world, and everyone’s length is different, whose length should be used as the standard?
According to you? Who are you?
According to the king? What if the king dies? Then according to the next generation of kings?
With the development of society, countries gradually became aware of this problem and began to create standard tools to unify weights and measures.
This is a good thing and marks the gradual move toward unification of weights and measures.
However, in fact, different countries still have different standards. In the same country, different regions have different standards.
There are big and small rulers, big and small buckets, and big and small acres.
At that time, the Tian family relied on small fights to enter and exit the big fight, bought the hearts and minds of the people of Qi State, and "bought" the entire Qi State.
If all the battles in Qi were of the same size, it would have been impossible for Tian to 'buy' Qi and he could only use other methods.
There are also areas that belonged to that country yesterday, this country today, and another country tomorrow. The last area has several standards.
Including Zhao's Yejun, Shangdang, Jixi and other places, they still use the weights and measures of the motherland, which brings great inconvenience to Zhao's tax collection and commodity circulation.