And when everyone attacked the city, the Zhao court was not feeling well either.
At this moment, Emperor Zhao was sitting in the court hall with a gloomy expression.
Now he already knows the power of firearms, but it is regrettable that Zhao Guo has never taken firearms as a big killer to heart. In the past, he had always thought about what he, the emperor, would do if such firearms were distributed to the border troops guarding the four directions.
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Will the people below be dissatisfied with the court and want to rebel because they have firearms?
Now it seems that the Zhao court has to study firearms!
If they did not study firearms, Zhao State might not have time to guard against the border troops and would have to start guarding against the rebels first.
Zhao Huang looked at the Minister of the Ministry of Industry and asked: "The Minister of the Ministry of Industry! I ask you! If you are asked to make firearms, how long will it take to complete the production of the firearms?"
Upon hearing Emperor Zhao's words, the Minister of Industry came out from among the hundreds of officials and said with cupped hands: "Your Majesty, if firearms are to be used in actual combat, it will take a lot of time to research, and I cannot guarantee it."
Emperor Zhao frowned and said in a deep voice, "Now that firearms are related to our country, you actually say you can't guarantee it?!"
The Minister of the Ministry of Industry quickly raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty, although I don't know how long it took for Chu's firearms to be developed, it is certain that Zhou's firearms took one to two years.
time, and Zhou’s firearms are still lagging behind Chu’s. Zhao’s experience in this area is almost zero. I’m really not sure!”
Zhao Huang said: "Even if it takes one to two years, isn't it enough that I give you two years?!"
The Minister of the Ministry of Industry smiled bitterly and shook his head: "According to the information we obtained from the Zhou State, the Zhou State also imitated the Chu State and recruited many Taoist priests who made alchemy, and asked them to use the method of alchemy to refine the gunpowder containing thunder and fire.
, and after thousands of tests, now our country, Zhao, is in short supply of Taoist priests..."
Emperor Zhao was puzzled: "Taoist priests? Isn't it possible that our great country of Zhao still can't find a few Taoist priests who can make alchemy?"
The Minister of Industry raised his hands and said: "It's not that it can't be found, it's that it's hard to find, Your Majesty."
Emperor Zhao asked: "Why is it so hard to find?"
The minister of the Ministry of Industry said: "Generally, only Taoist priests with profound Taoist skills can make alchemy. The environment in Zhao State is not conducive to the development of Taoism, so there are few Taoist priests with profound Taoist techniques. Nowadays, Taoist priests in Zhao State are rare, even if they are seen, they are rare."
It's fortune-telling and fortune-telling, and there may be many who look like Taoist priests but are actually charlatans, and almost all the Taoist priests who know how to make alchemy have disappeared, and even if there are any left, it's hard to find them."
All kinds of development require money, even a religion that pays lip service to austere desires.
None of the seven Buddhist treasures are cheap. They say all four are worthless, but it really can’t be done without money.
Of course, the same goes for Taoist priests. Who is still doing this job when they are hungry and can’t even get enough to eat?
Maybe some eminent monks and Taoist priests really have such noble moral character, but it is obvious that most of the believers cannot achieve this.
Nowadays, the business of Taoist priests in Zhao State has almost been robbed by Buddhism. Taoist priests can tell fortunes and now monks can do it too, and the temples are better built. It goes without saying who the believers go to.
Taoist priests can't make money here, so they have to go elsewhere to develop.
Originally, faith and teachings were just little girls dressed up casually by the rulers. In fact, the development of Buddhist teachings to the present cannot be entirely blamed on the monks.
There is no way, if you don’t cater to the rulers, you will be eliminated!
Just look at how miserable the Taoist sect was before firearms came out, and how prosperous the Buddhist sect was.
We can push it further back to the period of various schools of thought.
What did Confucius originally teach in Confucianism?
How to repay kindness with kindness? Repay kindness with kindness and kindness with kindness.
As a result, most people have remembered a quarter of it now, and 80% of the people in the world don't know the remaining three-quarters...
The six arts of a gentleman are etiquette, archery, charioteering, music, calligraphy, and numeracy.
It can be said that at this time, all disciplines were fully developed. Scholars not only had to study but also learn mathematics, archery, and driving.
Now I guess all that's left is reading...
Confucian teachings have been changed again and again in order to cater to the ruling class. It has developed to the point where it is estimated that Confucius would not recognize Confucianism even after he was resurrected.
How can one become this virtuous?
However, it has been passed down in various ways. Except for Confucianism, there are probably not many descendants of the various schools of thought even if it has been passed down to this day. This is the difference.
Do you still want to prosper without catering to the rulers?
I'm afraid you're not thinking about shit.
But who would have thought that Taoism would actually hide an alchemy technique that could produce gunpowder in the end?
As soon as this thing came out, Zhao Guo was dumbfounded, so now he was watching helplessly as Chu and Zhou made firearms.
Nowadays, it is not easy for the State of Zhao to find Taoist priests who can make alchemy. Although there are many eminent monks in the State of Zhao, the eminent monks cannot make gunpowder!
At this time, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry was even thinking that anyway, the Taoist monks who used to know fortune-telling and fortune-telling had now learned how to do fortune-telling and fortune-telling. It would be too late to let them try their hand at alchemy...
But even if it’s a bad supplement, someone still needs to teach it...
Now, if the State of Zhao wants to have more Taoist priests who can make elixirs and can refine gunpowder on the soil of the State of Zhao, it will cost a lot of money to go to Chu and Zhou to dig.
But it is obvious that the Taoist priests who are good at alchemy have long been regarded as a piece of cake in the two countries and have been strictly controlled. It may not be that easy to dig them out.
Now Emperor Zhao asked the Minister of Industry to find some Taoist priests who knew how to make alchemy to make gunpowder. He was probably not trying to make things difficult for him.
It’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
Now the only way for Zhao State is to test the gunpowder from the circulated fireworks formula, but the power of this thing is too weak, and it is not easy to deduce the gunpowder that can hurt people through the fireworks formula.
Sometimes if you are one step behind a neighboring country, you cannot catch up by taking just one more step. You have to take ten or twenty steps to catch up.
Now the power of Chu State's firearms has been enhanced three times, and Zhao State's firearms have also completed a second generation replacement. Zhao State cannot even produce a decent firearm.
Zhao Huang looked at the Minister of the Ministry of Industry and the Minister of the Ministry of Households and said: "Now that I am well aware of the gap between firearms and weapons, I ordered the Ministry of Industry to set up a firearms department to develop firearms. If necessary, the Ministry of Households will spare no effort to cooperate!
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The Minister of Hubu and the Minister of Industry immediately came out and said, "Yes!"
At this time, Emperor Zhao's heart was already full of regrets. If he had known that when Zhou State began to develop firearms, Zhao State should have followed suit and started to develop firearms simultaneously. However, at that time, he only cared about the interests of his own emperor and forgot about the interests of Zhao State as a whole. If
If the entire country of Zhao were to lose its generals, could the power of the emperor still be maintained?
At this time, Emperor Zhao only thought that it was not too late to remedy the situation.