1635 Han style rises again

On March 1663, 3, Jianye, Qi Palace.

"Where did this book come from?"

Qi Tian casually flipped through a few pages of the "Shang Jun Shu" in his hand, then gently placed it on the table, and looked at his eldest son - the future heir Qi Zixing seriously.

"Mr. Yuan from Jianye University gave it to me." Seeing his father's serious expression, Qi Zixing felt a little nervous, "Father, do you think this book is inappropriate?"

"Mr. Yuan?...Yuan Zuliang?" Qi Tian thought for a while and asked in a deep voice.

"Exactly."

After hearing this, Qi Tian was speechless. This Yuan Zuliang, because he once taught the king of Qi in Dengzhou when he was young, has always regarded himself as the emperor of Qi, and was extremely publicized.However, many officials and scholars in Jianye City respected and respected Yuan Zuliang because of his identity and the amazing mastery of King Qi's knowledge of all kinds of crafts.

But after long-term contacts and exchanges, everyone found that the knowledge of this emperor of Qi seems to be completely opposite to that of his own king. Confucian classics and moral articles are also refined and proficient, but for those who are agricultural, industrial and commercial, building equipment, and mountains and rivers. Geography, Little is known about internal and external facts.

However, the King of Qi was not particularly close to him, nor did he bestow important tasks on him. Instead, he was placed in the Jianye University Hall as a Confucian lecturer, teaching those students who were more interested in traditional Confucianism.As we all know, although Qi Tian was a big fan of culture and education, what he studied were all practical world-class knowledge such as real objects, mathematics, physics and chemistry.However, traditional Confucianism, Confucianism, and imperial examination stereotyped knowledge are not very important. Even the Jianye Jishi University, which trains government officials and clerks, mainly teaches practical knowledge of administrative management and agricultural and business management.

Although there are also many literati and scholars who have taken refuge in the Qi State, they continue to lament and call, not to let the traditional Chinese Confucianism die in the Hanzhou mainland, let alone let the thousand-year-old etiquette and moral culture be lost in this overseas Han family's land.However, King Qi didn't seem to take this seriously, and still insisted on practical education, but he didn't completely abandon the study of traditional Confucianism and the Five Classics, but the degree of emphasis and corresponding allocation of funds was much less.

And this Yuan Zuliang, the emperor of Qi, spent almost his entire life in poverty. Although he failed to pass the Jinshi in Ming Dynasty, he felt that he had deep gaps in his chest and was full of knowledge.The former proud student, the current King Qi did not reuse him, which made him somewhat embarrassed and unfair.After being depressed and silent for more than ten years, seeing that the crown prince of King Qi has grown up, he wanted to bet his ambitions on him.

"Can you finish reading this "Shangjun Shu"?" Qi Tian asked lightly.

"...I finished reading it ten days ago."

"Has that Mr. Yuan ever explained the meaning of it to you?"

"This book discusses that a strong country and weak people, a country that defeats a strong enemy and dominates the world must control its own people to make them "weak people" rather than "sexual people". The strength of the people is opposite. Only by making the people obedient to the law, simple and honest, will it be difficult for the people to form a powerful force against the country and the monarch, so that the country will be easy to govern and the monarch’s position will be firm.” Qi Zixing carefully replied.

"Oh?" Qi Tian continued to ask calmly: "How to weaken the people? How to make the people obey the law and be honest and honest?"

"Mr. Yuan said that the five techniques of controlling the people can be extracted from this book." Qi Zixing said bravely, "The five techniques are ignorant people, weak people, tired people, humiliating people, and poor people."

"Why?"

"Stupid people, that is, only allow the people to believe and follow the emperor's thoughts, and never doubt and disobey. Deprive the people of their thinking ability at the level of spiritual awareness, and make the people become tame slaves; Weak people, that is, they cannot make the people strong, but let the people always Feel very insecure, only then have a strong sense of attachment to the king; fatigue the people, that is, find things for the people, make the people exhausted, let the people have no free time to think about doing other things, and serve the ruler wholeheartedly; People, that is, eliminate the self-esteem and self-confidence of the people, encourage each other to report and expose, let the people live in humiliation, without decent work and dignity of life; the poor, mean that the people cannot have surplus food and property except for survival. People who are poor have short ambitions. They keep tossing and tossing, making the rich poor, making the poor rich again, and making them poor again when they are rich. It will be stable. Then let the people have no permanent property, and those who have no permanent property will have no perseverance, and let the common people live in fear all day long, living in fear, without a sense of security, and only subordinate to the government can have a little stability."

"What if the five techniques of controlling the people are not effective?"

"...Kill it."

"..." Qi Tian's eyes gradually turned cold, "What do you think about this?"

"My child thinks that...all of them are inappropriate, not to mention that the Five Arts of Controlling the People are against the current policies and development model of Qi State, even the actions of such disabled people are not the actions of saints, and are contrary to human relations." Qi Zixing hesitated Once, said softly.

"You haven't been brainwashed by others!" Qi Tian breathed a sigh of relief, and his face softened, "We established a country in Hanzhou, in addition to seeking survival in troubled times, and trying to follow a path that is different from previous dynasties and dynasties. We promote culture and education, develop the wisdom of the people, develop industry and commerce, enrich the country and strengthen the army. In just over twenty years, we have been able to stand proudly in the Nanyang region and continue to expand overseas. Why? We will build a self-confidence in the future. It is simply impossible to build a powerful nation-state by relying on the so-called five arts of controlling the people in the "Book of Shang Jun"."

"All dynasties and dynasties have been home, country, and the world. The emperor is above the countless people in the country. He takes what he takes and takes what he wants, and treats everyone in the world as slaves. As everyone knows, at the end of the dynasty, these high-ranking emperors will be trampled under the feet of the people. Trampling wantonly. It should be known that in the thousands of years of Chinese history, the creation of countless people and the never-ending culture are our enduring national heritage. In this world, the most unwise thing is to let the country's son The people have always been in a state of ignorance and weakness, using foolish people, tired people, and poor people to harm the people, so that the throne of the emperor and the seats of officials can rest easy."

"However, today's world is different from ancient times, and even more different from the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago. Now, it is a world of great disputes. There are many countries and ethnic groups, wild beasts run rampant like a jungle, and the law of the jungle is followed. The winner is King, the loser will be annihilated in the dust of history. If a country, a nation, still wants to be honored by a family and a family name, it will show the likes and dislikes of the people. In the end, it will either be defeated by its own people, or conquered or enslaved by other powerful countries."

"There is no dynasty in this world that lasts for thousands of years, but the nation and the country that will remain unchanged will be shaped. Perhaps, at some point in the future, our royal family of Qi will also go against the trend of history and the wishes of the people. , and be overthrown or destroyed by the people in the country. But we should not use this so-called five techniques of controlling the people to rule our people and the country. That will make the country and the nation into a state of doom , all the people will also sink into the heaviest disaster. Here, the legacy will be endless!"

"Father, my child has made a note." Qi Zixing solemnly nodded in agreement.

"Of course, if our descendants learn how to compromise, how to make concessions, and how to assess the situation and follow the historical trend and the wishes of the domestic people, maybe the Daqi Dynasty we created can last for a few more years." Qi Tian shot He patted the eldest son on the shoulder and said with a smile: "As long as the country and nation we have established continue to be strong, even in the future, it is not impossible to be a false king."
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March 3, Montenegro.

As an ordinary craftsman, Tu Fuyou never dreamed that he would win the Bi Maokang Award, the highest scientific general issued by the Qiguo Industrial Research Institute, for his improvement of the hand-cranked cotton gin. Received a cash reward of three thousand Hanzhou silver dollars.

Since more than ten years ago, Qi State began to vigorously develop the cotton textile industry. Cotton spinning factories started from the earliest Weihai (now Cairns, Australia), Guangling (now Townsville, Australia), Yunyang (now Mackay, Australia), etc. The northeastern region of Hanzhou gradually expanded to Jianye Mansion, Daxing Mansion (now Brisbane, Australia), and Linzi Mansion (now Sydney, Australia).Most of the cotton raw materials used come from India and Daming, except for a small part from several counties in the Northeast. It is the most bulky commodity that Qi imports every year.

A large amount of cotton raw materials sailed into the port with merchant ships, and then transported to various cotton spinning factories by horse-drawn carts one by one, and then spun into yarn, and finally woven into pieces of cotton cloth, which were sold to domestic and overseas markets.

However, in the cotton textile industry, there is always a key process, which seriously restricts the rapid development of the industry.That is to deseed the cotton and turn it into lint, the ginning process.

The earliest cotton ginning method relied entirely on manual work, peeling and removing seeds and cleaning cotton one by one with fingers, which was extremely labor-intensive and inefficient.However, during the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, Huang Daopo, a famous textile pioneer, first invented the method of rolling seeds, that is, holding a small smooth iron rod, placing the seed cotton on a hard and flat stone, and rolling out the cotton with the iron rod. The efficiency of cottonseed separation has been more than doubled.

Later, Huang Daopo used the bicycle principle used by Li people in Qiongzhou to invent a hand-operated and pedal-operated cotton gin, which turned cotton ginning into a batch-scale, time-saving and labor-saving process, which improved the separation efficiency of seed cotton by three times compared with the rolling method. It is more than 500 times ahead of the first cotton gin invented by American Whitney.

Therefore, in the face of the booming cotton textile industry in China, several machinery manufacturing factories produced countless hand-operated and foot-operated cotton gins, which were sold to many spinning mills and private individual households to remove seeds and clean cotton. Spinning provides ample lint raw material.

However, compared with the production efficiency of the spinning machine, this kind of cotton gin is still too low. Even if the many women and children around the spinning field work part-time at home to handle the cotton ginning work, it cannot meet the daily consumption of the yarn field. , which greatly affected the normal operation of the subsequent cotton spinning industry chain.

Tu Fuyou is a senior craftsman at the Heishan Machinery Factory. He immigrated from Daming Foshan to Hanzhou mainland ten years ago. Because he had experience working in an iron factory, he was assigned as a blacksmith to the Heishan Machinery Manufacturing Factory.

In Hanzhou, he started as an apprentice and rose step by step from a junior craftsman to a senior craftsman. He also witnessed the rapid development of Qi's industry.Various lathes, boring machines, milling machines... From hydraulic drive to steam engine drive, the efficiency has also increased from several times to more than ten times. Countless mechanical products are continuously manufactured from the factory, and then use heavy carriages. track, transported to the port, and finally shipped to various places in Hanzhou and overseas markets.

Of course, as a machinery manufacturing factory, their main products are production machines that can be used to process various raw materials.The hand-operated and pedal-operated cotton gin is one of the more important machines for their production and processing.

As a senior craftsman in the factory, Tu Fuyou tried to improve the current production of cotton gin five years ago in order to improve its operating efficiency.But at that time, almost all machinery manufacturing factories in Montenegro devoted their energy to the development and improvement of steam locomotives.

Two years ago, after the "Pioneer" series steam locomotives were gradually finalized and put into use, Tu Fuyou turned his attention to the research and improvement of cotton gins.

By mid-June last year, after repeated trials and modifications, a new cotton gin was finally manufactured.His design, the structure is relatively simple, but the idea is exquisite.The main body of the machine is a large cylinder, and a large number of nail teeth are installed on the wall of the cylinder.When the big cylinder rotates, the nail teeth forcibly tear off the cotton lint from the cotton seeds, and use centrifugal force to filter out the cotton seeds and throw out the cotton fibers.

With this new gin, an average laborer can separate more cotton in a day than in a month.If driven by water power or steam, [-] kg of seed cotton can be cleaned every day, and the efficiency is increased by more than ten times.What's even more amazing is that this cotton gin is extremely easy to operate and can be operated by only one person, and it picks cleaner than the hand-operated and pedal-operated cotton gin.

The big treasurer of the Heishan Machinery Manufacturing Factory immediately authorized Tu Fuyou to preside over the production of this new cotton gin, and actively applied for the Pi Maokang Award from the Industrial Research Institute for this invention.

Considering the variety of scientific and technological inventions that are applied for every year, Tu Fuyou does not think that he will have the chance to win the Bi Maokang Award because he has only made significant improvements and upgrades to the original hand-operated and pedal-operated cotton gin.He is very satisfied with the 50 Hanzhou silver dollars that the factory rewarded him.

However, at the beginning of February this year, an unexpected surprise hit his head.After several months of evaluation, the drum cotton gin invented and improved by Tu Fuyou won the Bi Maokang Award, and on March 3, the crown prince will personally present the award and commend him at the Montenegro Industrial Research Institute .

After Tu Fuyou heard about this, he suddenly fainted from excitement.

Goodness see you!We craftsmen, how have we ever received such a high courtesy!
In the past, in the land of Daming, it was just a humble craftsman family, who would never make it to the top for generations, but unexpectedly, after immigrating to Qi State, not only can they have enough food and clothing, but they can also start a family and start a business.Just making some improvements on Baigong utensils, you can get generous rewards, and you will be personally awarded and commended by the crown prince.

Could it be that the ancestral grave of my old Tu family is smoking? !

This country of Qi treats its people so kindly, how can it not be supported by all, and how can it not be yearned for by the people of insight in the world!