Han Dao world

Chapter 1078
Liu Xie was not surprised or worried when he received Liu Bei's invitation to fight.

With Liu Bei's current strength, plus the money, food, and logistical resources provided by Liaodong and Le Lang, as long as he is not stupid, it is not difficult to control Sanhan and Dongwo.

Of course, it will take some time to fully control it. This is not something that the military can do, and it requires culture.

It was an accident that Liu Bei was able to seize the opportunity of Kong Rong's visit to Liaodong, and use Kong Rong's influence to persuade some Confucian scholars living in Liaodong to follow the expedition, but it was an accident that Liu Xie liked to hear.

Liu Bei lost Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, but he got the support of Qingxu Confucian scholars, which can be regarded as gains and losses.

As far as his current strategic goals are concerned, it is enough.

The actions in all aspects are carried out according to the plan, and the specific affairs are arranged by the Situ Mansion, and the Sikong Mansion cooperates. Liu Xie can also relax a little and concentrate on the intensive cultivation of Nanyang.

On the one hand, he taught the newly recruited students in the martial arts hall, mainly about shape in mathematics.

That is, something to do with geometry.

He attached great importance to this matter, and spent a lot of time preparing the lecture notes. "Nine Chapters on Arithmetic" and "Nine He Originals" were the subjects of his materials.

Of course, the Indian numerals that were mistaken for Arabic numerals in later generations are indispensable.

This kind of digital symbol can become a universal character in the world. In addition to taking a ride on the expansion of Western Europe, its own advantages should not be underestimated.It's just that there are still some differences between the current Tianzhu numbers and the numbers of later generations, so Liu Xie pretended unceremoniously and got it right in one step.

The numbering method has been improved, and of course the abacus cannot be missed.

There were already abacus in the Han Dynasty, but they had not yet been finalized, especially the kind of abacus that was strung together with disc beads and drilled holes so that it would not fall apart.Liu Xie talked a little bit, and ordered people to make a batch, not only for the students in the lecture hall, but also for other people in need.

Nanyang's commerce is well developed, with workshops everywhere, and there are many places where abacus is needed.

The multiplication formula does not need to be "invented" by Liu Xie, there are ready-made ones, but it starts from nine nines and ends one by one, so it is also called nine nine multiplication formulas, or nine nines for short.

Applying the multiplication formulas to the abacus, under Liu Xie’s deliberate promotion, the related formulas were soon released, and quickly became popular in Nanyang because of its practicality. People holding abacus can be seen everywhere on the streets, while chanting words like flying fingers .

After Song Zhong and others read it, they praised it and asked for these achievements to be included in the scope of basic lessons, so that computing ability becomes an essential skill for everyone who has received basic education.

Of course, Liu Xie had no reason to refuse.

Compared with this, he has a bigger plan to print the relevant lecture notes into a book as a professional introductory mathematics textbook.

A huge base of science and engineering talents is the necessary foundation for industrialization, and mathematics is the foundation of the foundation. Even if you are not a science and engineering talent, it is impossible to study literature, history and philosophy without basic mathematical thinking.

Everything has a number.

Happiness education that cannot even master the simple four arithmetic operations is a big lie.

In addition to teaching the freshmen in the martial arts hall, Liu Xie has also done a big thing.

He engraved several steles in Nanyang County School, depicting several Nanyang scientists including Zhang Heng, and introducing their scientific achievements.

It does not talk about Confucian classics, nor does it involve personal morality or official position, but only their scientific achievements.

In this regard, Song Zhong tactfully put forward different opinions.

Your Majesty advocates that the four peoples are all men and encourages the skills of all kinds of craftsmen. This is good.But not mentioning Confucianism, not mentioning morality, is it an overkill?

Liu Xie said that Confucian classics are studied by every county school, so why bother to emphasize them?

It is an overkill to mention morality in everything.

To discuss these practical studies, first of all, the right and wrong of the learning itself, personal morality can be put aside later.

Pei Qian is a simple person, and some actions are not completely in line with etiquette. Isn't the sword he forged not sharp?
Hearing this sentence, Song Zhong was short of breath, glanced guilty at Liu Xie's waist knife, and bid farewell.

Under the deliberate guidance of Liu Xie, Nanyang set off a wave of research on practical studies.

Especially those old feudal monarchs who were deprived of their titles but kept their property other than land.They saw the example of He Xian, and they also thought that one day they could restore their titles, so they invested in the construction of schools and academies, recruited bachelors, and studied various knowledge.

Cai Mao, who had cooperated with the imperial court for a long time, was the most sensitive. He funded the construction of Xiangyang Academy and asked the local Lord Pang De to preside over it.He also built Wuweitang, specializing in the research of brewing technology, and took advantage of the trend to promote his own fine wine to the market, earning a lot of money.

This incident aroused Situ Yang Biao's concern.

He wrote to Liu Xie, suggesting that wine should be discussed exclusively.

There are two reasons: one is to increase taxes, and the other is to control the scale of brewing.

Brewing requires food.Now that Dutian is implemented, grain production can just meet the demand, and it is not rich, so it is not suitable for large-scale winemaking.If folk wine making is allowed to consume a large amount of grain, it will inevitably cause fluctuations in grain prices, and ordinary people will be affected first.

Moreover, drinking is easy to cause trouble. If everyone is addicted to drinking, it will have a great impact on the atmosphere.

Liu Xie felt that Yang Biao's suggestion made some sense, and he couldn't be as rude as he was with Song Zhong.

Han people are good at wine.It's just that because of the gap between the rich and the poor, those who can consume a lot of alcohol are limited to the wealthy and powerful, which has little effect on ordinary people.Now Dutian, every family has some spare money, it is inevitable that the trend of extravagance will not sink, and alcohol, an addictive consumer product, will also become the first choice.

This is not the result he wants.

But he is also not in favor of monopoly.

Monopoly is also a monopoly, and the government controls production and sales in a unified way, which is speciously different from a planned economy.The purpose of the planned economy is to reduce waste as much as possible and to achieve a balance between production and sales, while specialization is purely for tax collection, and such things as controlling the scale have never been realized.

When the imperial court wanted money, the counties and counties also had to share a piece of the pie, and the officials in charge also had to take advantage of it. In the end, it would inevitably lead to a sharp increase in the price of wine, and even the normal consumption needs of the people would be affected.

Although alcohol is a first-class carcinogen, a world without alcohol is indeed lacking in meaning.

Liu Xie was not in a hurry to draw conclusions, but asked Yang Biao to convene wine shop owners represented by Cai Mao to discuss how to control the production of wine to meet normal demand without affecting food prices.

Situ Mansion issued the document, and half a month later, the relevant personnel arrived in Wancheng.

Cai Mao came the fastest and brought a large boat of fine wine.The top [-] stones were dedicated to the emperor, and the remaining [-] stones were sent to the market, where they were sold out almost instantly.

Yang Biao was furious and called Cai Mao to the mansion for questioning.

what do you mean?You were called here to limit alcohol, but you are selling alcohol with great fanfare, are you dissatisfied with Situ Mansion?
Cai Mao was wronged.

First of all, Situ's Mansion only said that we were called to discuss matters, but did not say that there was a limit on alcohol.I'm a businessman, so I can't make a trip in vain, and sell some wine by the way to earn some travel expenses, isn't it too much?
Secondly, I didn't expect the wine to sell so quickly.More than five hundred stones were gone in half a day.It seems that the people in Wancheng had heard the news and knew that there was a limit on alcohol, so they went to grab it.

Master Situ, shouldn't you check the person who leaked the news first?

Yang Biao was furious, and reported Cai Mao's arrogance to Liu Xie.

(End of this chapter)