In Nuoda's courtyard, craftsmen are everywhere at work.
Probably because they had been waiting by the fire for a long time, these craftsmen looked red all over and had strong bodies, even stronger than Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kuo stood here, looking at the craftsmen seriously.
Busy, the craftsmen here are all Qin Mo, Lu Buwei assigned this courtyard to Chui, and asked Chui to summon outstanding Qin Mo from all over the Qin State, and then tell them the latest king's order.
The King of Qin's idea was to get them out of production and focus on developing more practical things for Qin.
However, there are still not many craftsmen that Chui can gather. He only summoned more than forty people. These more than forty people are Qin Mo Nei's outstanding disciples. In these years, all Qin Mo has done is to continuously cultivate
To produce more craftsmen, they cannot absorb these craftsmen, because Mohists are not a craftsman organization, this is an academic sect. Just being a craftsman is not enough to become a Mohist, and it is more necessary to accept the ideas of Mohists.
Qin Mo's academic achievements have long declined. Even the core disciples do not know the written language. People like this obviously have no way to engage in academic research anymore, and they can only realize their ideals through the technology in their hands and assist them.
The State of Qin came to end this endless war. When they first arrived in the State of Qin, they brought a lot of advanced technology to the State of Qin, but the State of Qin did not allow the technology to be kept privately, so the Mohists could only choose to teach others
, they must also be taught.
When all the technology was leaked, the Mohists lost the conditions they could use to guarantee their status.
They gradually became the lowest level of craftsmen, no different from other craftsmen. If we must tell their difference, it is probably that what they care about is not the title, but the people of the world. This is why the Mohists of the other two factions
The reason why they don't quite agree with Qin Mo is because they no longer look like an academic sect. How can a group of craftsmen who only know how to make tools be called an academic sect?
Affected by the Qin State, Qin Mo's pursuit was no longer to develop more novel inventions, but to improve agricultural tools and ordnance, how to make tools more quickly, and how to save more raw materials. This became the Moist.
The direction they were studying. Zhao Kuo felt that it was inappropriate to let a group of inventors do these things. However, not all Mohists were like Mozi, who could produce so many amazing things.
invention.
After Chui gathered these calligraphers, he studied hard in the courtyard. Lu Buwei also kept his word. Whatever Chui needed, he could deliver it to him as quickly as possible. Chui asked for a lot of wood.
There were all kinds of trees among them. He also bought some fishing nets, cloth, and asked twenty strong young people to help him. Zhao Kuo saw a lot of discarded bark, branches, and even leaves in the courtyard.
He vaguely remembered that paper was made from tree bark, fishing nets, cloth, etc. Chui accepted his suggestion and tried to use these things to make paper. He tried many methods, including beating, roasting, soaking in water, etc.
, after constantly experimenting with various types of wood, Chui focused on a plant, bamboo. He found that soaking the bamboo with lime water could make the bamboo soft and almost look like mud.
Come.
He was wondering, if this thing was dried, would it be able to form paper?
He did indeed do this, but in the end, the experiment failed. When he pounded the bamboo into mud and dried it, the mud directly cracked and shattered. Not to mention writing, it would be broken even when picking it up.
, Chui thought that perhaps other things could be added to increase the degree of solidification, so he began to conduct more and more experiments. Zhao Kuo would often come here to see Chui's progress.
At this time, Zheng Guo, who had just been appointed as a subordinate of the prime minister and was in charge of water conservancy projects, proposed that Qin State could build a channel and use this channel to irrigate Qin State's large arable land. According to his estimation, he felt that it could be done
Irrigating more than 40,000 hectares of cultivated land. This sentence really scared the King of Qin. Forty thousand hectares?? Then how big a project should this channel be?
The King of Qin asked Lu Buwei what he thought.
Lu Buwei thought: Regarding this matter, you can ask Li Bing, the prefect of Shu County. He is the only person in Qin who is good at water conservancy. He should know the pros and cons. The King of Qin ordered Zheng Guo to write a detailed plan and the materials needed in all aspects.
, Zheng Guo immediately left Xianyang and rushed to Beishan, Jingyang, Sanyuan and other areas to conduct on-site inspections again. Zheng Guo was a very typical old-fashioned engineer.
He probably only has his own project in his eyes, and the manpower and materials used are not in his plan. All he wants to do is to complete the project he wants to complete, and other things are not considered by him.
He absolutely does not agree to slightly change his plan in order to save manpower and material resources. If he wants to start construction, it must be completed and done well. Only Qin can accept people like him.
Because the Qin State itself is like this. People of different classes do different things, and they should not interfere if it is not their own duty. Zheng Guo’s thinking is quite in line with the values of the Qin State. He conducted a five-month-long
After the on-the-spot investigation, a detailed strategy book was finally produced, which specified in detail the areas that the channels would flow through, the areas that could be irrigated, their length, costs, and more detailed project content.
The King of Qin sent the bamboo slips to Shu County and asked Li Bing to check them.
No country will rush to start such a big project unless it can verify its correctness and confirm its effectiveness. This is especially true in the Qin State. If Zheng Guo randomly comes up with a
It is impossible for the Qin State to start construction with a plan, because the Qin State also has people who are good at water conservancy construction, as well as officials who have been engaged in water conservancy for a long time. These people can see the general direction of the plan and the costs involved.
If the cost is too high but the benefits cannot exceed the cost, then such a project is absolutely not allowed.
Zhao Kuo vaguely remembered that in history, King Han sent Zheng Guo to build water conservancy for Qin State in order to consume Qin State's strength and make Qin State busy with corvee and unable to take action against the six countries. Zhao Kuo now felt that King Han's move
It is really stupid. If Zheng was asked to come up with a plan that would not benefit Qin much and would only consume his national power, then Qin would not build it at all.
Because the people of Qin are not fools, Zheng is not the only one in the world who can do water conservancy.
And if Zheng Guo came up with a project that allowed King Qin to temporarily put aside the conquest of the six countries and would rather spend huge manpower and material resources to complete it, then how much benefit would such a project have to Qin? This is self-evident.
metaphorical.
Korea is a country that probably has bad feng shui and has successively produced some not very smart kings.
"Your Majesty, no! Your Majesty, you can send soldiers to welcome the people in the five cities of Zhao Kingdom, and let these people come to Yan Kingdom to enrich the strength of Yan Kingdom. This is okay. Because this is the voluntary movement of the people of Zhao Kingdom.
When we arrived at Yan State, even if King Zhao knew about it, there was no way he could send people to attack Yan State and take away those people, because they can escape once and then continue to escape again, which is completely unreasonable."
"But if you send soldiers to garrison these cities and turn these cities into the land of the Yan State, then King Zhao will definitely send people to attack the Yan State. I heard that you can form an alliance with others by passing the checkpoints, and give them five hundred gold."
When kings come to drink wine, the envoys just come back and break the covenant, march into their cities, and take away their lands. This is unlucky and cannot be won!"
"I ask you not to send people to garrison the cities of Zhao State. We can take the people away and leave the empty cities to the Zhao people. I heard that Zhao is busy with reforms, but the people are defecting. They will not attack us.
Having these people will be of great benefit to the Yan State. We can move them to Liaodong and give them farmland, so that the Hu people there can become our people as soon as possible." He knelt down and sat down with the young Yan State.
In front of the king, he begged bitterly.
King Yan looked a little irritable. He was very angry. He looked at the general in front of him and accused: "My eldest father, King Wu Cheng, sent Li Fu and others to attack Zhao. He used hundreds of thousands of soldiers and spent several
Millions of stones of grain were provided, but they failed to capture a single city and did not bring any benefits to the Yan State. But after I ascended the throne, I was able to acquire five cities out of thin air without spending any troops. Hundreds of thousands of Zhao people were killed because of me.
He came to serve others out of kindness."
"How can you persuade me to abandon these cities?"
"If I ask you to attack the State of Zhao on normal days, can you capture five cities for the State of Yan?"
He was stunned for a moment and then continued: "Your Majesty, the strength of the Yan State is not strong. If King Zhao sends Lian Po to attack the Yan State, how can the Yan State resist him? You have turned against Zhao State for several cities today.
, what should we do if the Zhao people kill the Yan State?" King Yan sneered, shook his head and said disdainfully: "I heard that after Ma Fujun left, the people of the Zhao State were panicked, and the soldiers did not fight.
How can you conclude that the Yan Congress failed?"
He added: "The State of Zhao is now at its weakest. If King Zhao insists on starting a war, I will not be afraid of him. What's more, as you said, the State of Zhao is busy with reforms and has no strength to attack the State of Yan."
General Juxing on the side said seriously: "Your Majesty, General Lejian once said: Zhao is a country that fights on all sides. Its people are familiar with military affairs and cannot fight." When King Yan heard this, he became even more angry.
Said: "As a general of the Yan State, how can you praise the Zhao State? Do you also want to betray the Yan State like Le Jian did?"
Ju Xing didn't speak anymore and shook his head helplessly.
The King of Yan looked at them coldly and just said: "I will personally lead the soldiers of the Yan State into the city. If Lian Po dares to fight, I will cut off his head!" After saying that, the King of Yan stood up and moved towards the city.
As he walked towards the palace gate, he was startled. He quickly stepped forward and tightly pulled the seal belt around King Yan's waist. He said urgently: "Your Majesty, you must not go there in person. The war is dangerous and your son is underage!"
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King Yan was furious and kicked Jiang Qu. How could such a thin old man withstand such an attack? Jiang Qu immediately fell to the ground and could not breathe. Ji Xing hurriedly stepped forward to check Jiang Qu's body.
According to the situation, after King Yan kicked Jiang Qu over, his eyes were full of disgust, and he said disdainfully: "Cowardly old thief!" After saying that, he left here without looking back, and Jiang Qu was breathing heavily and bleeding.
He said with tears: "I am not doing it for myself, I am doing it for the king."
"Your Majesty, don't go, don't go."
Ju Xing grabbed his arm and helped him up. He gasped in pain. Ju Xing said angrily: "Even the common people in the countryside will not attack someone older than themselves. You
At the same age as his eldest father, he actually treats you like this." Jiang Qu hurriedly stretched out his hand, pulled him, and said seriously: "Please go to Zhao and be prepared to fight. I am really worried about Lian Po.
It will destroy Yan State."
Just as Jiang Qu expected, when King Zhao learned that King Yan had rushed to Zhao with his army and accepted the cities that had surrendered to him, he was furious and immediately ordered Lian Po to raise troops to attack Yan.
When the King of Yan heard about it, he took Ju Xing as his general and led Yan's partial army to fight against Lian Po.
Ju Xing did not send troops and waited for Lian Po to arrive in Wu Sui. However, the King of Yan thought that his behavior was because he was afraid of Lian Po and asked him to send troops immediately. Ju Xing had no choice but to lead his soldiers to the hinterland of Zhao State. King Yan
Marching with a partial army behind him, the two sides encountered each other in Zhongren City. Lian Po personally drove a chariot into Yan's central army, split the main force of Yan into two, outflanked each one, and cut off contact.
But King Yan, who was marching in the rear, hurriedly returned with his partial troops out of fear.
Ju Xing was defeated and fled to Wu Sui with his remaining soldiers. Lian Po raised his troops to pursue them. The Yan army was like a frightened flock of sheep, fleeing continuously, with Lian Po chasing after them. The war went very fast, and there were not even any ups and downs.
, it was completely a unilateral crushing by the Zhao State. When the elites of the Zhao State, who had been fighting against the Qin State all year round, fought against the Yan State, even though they no longer had the high will to fight as before, they still temporarily recruited the Yan State from all over the country.
The army was beaten to the point of panic.
And General Lian Po fought bravely and commanded well, and he was also not something that the drama could stop.
In the war between the two sides, the Yan state failed at the moment of contact. Lian Po only used a single charge to kill the Yan army. The formation of the Yan army was in chaos. The soldiers dropped their weapons and ran away. Fortunately, there was no way to control them.
However, several of Ju Xing's orders were unable to be carried out by the soldiers, so Ju Xing could only watch his army collapse at the first touch. As for the partial divisions in the rear, they had long since disappeared.
In this way, Lian Po drove the sheep towards the capital of Yan.
ps: The King of Yan did not listen, so he led his troops to follow him. He led the canal to the king's ribbon, and the king kicked it with his feet. He led the canal and cried, saying: "I am not acting for myself, but for the king!" Zizhi Tongjian
