Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 463
I haven't had a deep talk with Cao Shisi and Cao Yanming for almost half a year. Ever since this guy embarked on the road of research, he has become more and more nerdy.

Before he could say a few words, he went to do his own thing, completely ignoring people, and sometimes very irritable.

However, in front of Zhang Zhao, Cao Yanming still didn't dare to put on the appearance of an outsider.

Because he had floated a few times before, but in the end Zhang Zhao made him docile and docile.

But even so, after a few words with Zhang Zhao, Cao Yanming on the chair looked like he was sitting on a prickly pear ball, and his whole body looked uncomfortable.

So Zhang Zhao could only ask this old man to take him to the Imperial College to have a look.

There is a very peculiar thing about Liangguo, that is, in the Guozijian, the Ministry of Industry has a great say.

Because in addition to studying classics and government affairs, Guozijian also has a Mohist Qiqiaoyuan that includes Mingsuan.

The main focus is on smelting and mining technologies, and even how to burn good coke, there are special research funds.

Guozijian Jijiu Liu Na, that is, Liu Tao's father was also by Zhang Zhao's side. He looked at Cao Yanming enviously and said with a smile.

"In this Guozijian, there is already a saying that the poor are rich in writing. Every year in the Guozijian, several heavenly kings who curate classics only have thirty pennies, and they have to break their heads to grab them.

However, those who study coke burning in engineering can get hundreds of scholarships every year, and the smelting department can even reach [-] scholarships. "

Zhang Zhao also laughed, just to make you envious and jealous.

Do we need talents who study the classics and study Confucianism and Legalism?

of course yes!Literature and philosophy are absolutely the most important disciplines in human production activities.

However, it is unnecessary for the whole society to get all the smart people to study literature and philosophy.

On the contrary, the engineering subjects that Zhang Zhao covered with the skin of Mohist theory are the places that need a lot of talents.

"Learning in this world is ever-changing. As long as you have a smart mind, you can study the classics today, and you can learn from Mohism tomorrow.

Now that the world is uncertain, the warriors of my Great Liang want more steel and gunpowder to pacify the world, so naturally they want to give more rewards to the Mo family. "

"What the Heavenly King taught! This is what I teach my students on weekdays.

Whether he is Confucianism, Legalism or Mohism, they are all the knowledge of scholars. If you have the intelligence and wisdom, you can learn it concurrently. "

At this time, Confucianism did not exclude Legalism, Mohism, etc., but there was a premise, that is, the theories of Legalism, Mohism, etc. must be expressed through the skin of Confucianism.

At the same time, Liu Na is not some pedantic old man, on the contrary, he can figure out Zhang Zhao's thoughts.

Therefore, the atmosphere of the entire Guozijian is still good, and they are basically walking in the direction of Zhang Zhao.

Everyone chatted and laughed all the way, and soon came to the Guozijian KitKat Academy.

So far, the iron and steel smelting presided over by Cao Yanming has made a lot of breakthroughs, and some original versions of high-carbon steel, low-carbon steel, and alloy steel have been produced.

If it is placed in later generations, it must be a typical example of waste and pollution, and the input and output are not directly proportional.

But in this day and age, although it costs a lot, it is worth it.

Because Zhang Zhao came to this era, he realized that the biggest reason for the decline of the Fubing system was not land annexation at all.

Because who were the soldiers in the prosperous Tang Dynasty?That is a family that has been counted down for several generations. They are all slashers on the battlefield.

Imagine that you are a nobleman, and you want to annex the family's land, but this guy is a mansion soldier, and his father is also an old mansion soldier.

The father and son are as strong as cows, wearing armor and holding sharp knives, and a dozen or so people can't get close to them.

Their archery skills are not bad, and they can easily kill several people with a single bow.

Moreover, they are not from a single family, each of these government soldiers has close superiors, comrades, and righteous brothers. This kind of friendship formed by blood and fire is particularly strong.

Moreover, all the government soldiers have a knight-errant temper. For the sake of loyalty, they really dare to kill people in the street. If you offend one, you will offend a group.

In this era, there is no surveillance, and there is no face recognition. It is useless to send someone to annex such a family's land.

Because they dare to kill your people directly in the countryside, ordinary officials and yamen servants dare not mess with them at all.

Even getting angry, they dared to cover their faces at night, rush into your house, and cut you down with a knife.

It's not good to do something like this, to provoke such a family is completely out of proportion to investment and benefit.

Therefore, ordinary rich and powerful families would never merge such a thorny head. There are so many people exploiting them, why bother to ask for trouble?

But in the end, why was Fubing still annexed?
Then we have to start with Wu Zetian, a prodigal woman.

Because Fubing sounds beautiful, but his foundation is self-sufficient.

This model has a prerequisite, the war cannot be defeated too much, if the defeat is too miserable, if there are too many defeats, the government soldiers will go bankrupt due to losses.

The most deadly thing is that after a mansion soldier dies in battle, if the army is defeated, his armor will basically never be recovered.

A set of armor can't be overemphasized for a mansion soldier. Often father and son have many bloody battles before they can accumulate a set of armor.

Once lost, the blow is fatal, the father dies in battle, the armor cannot be returned, and the son has no armor.

Without armor, you are still a Maoist soldier?What else can I use to obtain stable income?
So the son had no choice but to pawn the family's field in order to buy a set of armor and go to the battlefield to fight.

As a result, just after entering the battlefield, they encountered another big defeat, oh well!The son also died in battle, and the armor is gone, it's over!outright bankruptcy.

Even if you didn't die in battle, but you didn't win the battle, you didn't capture it, you didn't reward it, and when the day came for pawning, the land was gone.

The disheartened government soldiers either became thieves, or died in the next battle, or were completely reduced to tenant refugees.

That's how the Datang's Fubing disappeared.

Wu Zetian is good at political struggle but not military, and sometimes she likes to go crazy.

In her hands, the originally prestigious government soldiers suffered consecutive defeats, and in a few years the accumulation of several generations was wiped out.

As a result, the later Fubing was no different from farmers, and the Fubing system could no longer be played.

Will there be an emperor like Wu Zetian among Zhang Zhao's descendants?

That's very possible, maybe among the descendants who have Wu Zetian's ability, they should be regarded as good Mingjun.

Therefore, Zhang Zhao has been keeping an eye on the quality and output of steel, no matter how much money he spends, he must produce something to reduce the cost.

Because of this, the price of armor can be reduced. If it can be reduced to the cost of the Ming Dynasty, the government military system can be maintained for at least dozens or even hundreds of years, not to mention forever.

Don't underestimate this little time, it is very important for a dynasty and even this nation to last for such a long time.

Is it difficult to smelt high-carbon steel and low-carbon steel?In fact, it is not difficult, because the most important thing in scientific research is the direction.

As long as the direction is correct, thousands of experiments and improvements can always find a solution to the problem, which is why Zhang Zhao has been spending money.

Because although he doesn't know the specific method, he knows the general direction.

Only he is willing to spend a huge amount of money on it. Zhang Zhao's descendants must not have such great determination and vision as him.

So Zhang Zhao decided to do these initial tasks by himself.

"This time, we may have to attract a large number of disaster victims from the Central Plains to our Great Liang. On the [-]th, you must assist Liu Weng to attract more talents to enter the Imperial College, especially guiding them to learn Mohist Kit Kat."

In times of war, the most resources must be spent on war.

The two didn't have any opinions, and Liu Na even said that he would send some of the most flexible minds in the Imperial College to learn Mohist Kit Kat.

After leaving the Imperial College, Zhang Zhao went back to the palace and called his officials to discuss.

Because the matter of accepting the victims has been settled, but it is not an easy matter to attract the victims to go to Longyou, Hexi.

For a migration of hundreds or thousands of miles, at least 100,000 people, supply points must be set up along the way in advance, officials from all over the country must work together, and officials must be photographed to manage and soldiers to maintain order on the road.

In addition, Zhang Zhao himself wanted to relocate the Long family in Suzhou, the Huangtou Uighurs in Gannan, and some party items in Lingzhou, which was close to 100,000 people.

There are really many things to do, and almost all the officials in the country will be mobilized.It seems that this year in Xiaguan, it is estimated that it is not realistic.

. . . .

Huazhou is the later Huazhou District of Shaanxi. At this time, it was a military state with Jiedushi, under the jurisdiction of Zhengxian, Huayin, and Xiayu counties, and the state city was in Zhengxian.

To the west of Zheng County, there is a small river called Yuxian River, which flows into Weihe River from south to north.

Along the Yuxian River, there is a small town named Yuxian Town.

As the east gate of Chang'an, Huaxian County was the gathering place for dignitaries and dignitaries in the heyday of Tang Dynasty.

The same is true for Yuxian Town. When the land in Guanzhong was fertile in the past, Yuxian Town, with thousands of miles of fertile fields, was a first-class prosperous place.

Although Yuxian Town at this time is no longer so prosperous, it is not bad in this troubled world.

Most people in the town are surnamed Han, and they come from the Han family in Changli. They are the descendants of Han Xiu, the prime minister of the Kaiyuan period, and his brothers.

Because this place was Han Xiu's manor in the past.

However, nearly 200 years have passed since the era of Han Xiu, and the prestige of Han Wen Zhonggong naturally can no longer protect future generations, and they have been reduced to civilians.

At the end of last year, Yuxian Town first encountered severe floods in winter, and then encountered locust plagues in spring.

However, the Han family, a big family living in a group, is more capable of resisting disasters than ordinary people.

Under the command of the patriarch, the clansmen built embankments to prevent the flooding of the Yuxian River, and then organized themselves to successfully resist the attack of the locust plague.

Therefore, even in the year of the catastrophe, Yuxian Town still guaranteed [-]% of its previous grain production.

It is indeed a bit low, but if you mix it with wild vegetables or even grass roots, you can still barely survive this catastrophe.

In fact, the fact that the Han family came from the entire Yuxian Town to have such a situation is due to one person, the patriarch of the Han family - Han E.

Han E is 58 years old this year. At this time, people who are over [-] will be considered long-lived.

But Han E is very good at maintaining health, he is almost 60 years old, and looks younger than some 40 years old farmers.

And although he is a bit fond of things like divination, choosing auspiciousness, and setting towns, he is familiar with agricultural books and collects miscellaneous knowledge.

Uh!In fact, in this era, being able to divination, choosing auspiciousness, and suppressing disasters is probably more respected than talent.

It is also because of this respected prestige that Han E was able to promote his technique of fruit tree grafting, interplanting of tea and hemp, millet, alfalfa and wheat in Yuxian Town.

In the entire Yuxian Town, the yield per mu of farmland was [-]% to [-]% higher than that of the surrounding areas. This was the capital they could use to withstand the catastrophe.

Han E was making tea at this time. Ever since Zhang Zhao brought the new technology of frying and making tea, the tea soup with green onion, ginger, tangerine peel and sheep oil was not very popular in the past.

Scribes like clear tea, and warriors like salty or sweet milk tea made with ghee.

Han E also drinks it sometimes, but from the bottom of his heart, he still likes to drink tea soup that has been drinking for decades. He likes the mixed taste of this complex spice, meat oil and fruity aromas such as tangerine peel.

Taking a deep breath of the scent he liked, Han E considered his words and began to write carefully on a piece of yellow paper.

He was working on a book, a work of his collection and his own knowledge of agronomy.

Since Jia Sixie, the prefect of Gaoyang in the Northern Wei Dynasty, wrote the great agricultural work "Qi Min Yao Shu", no similar work has been published in the past 400 years.

Han E vaguely felt that the techniques he summed up such as planting, brewing, grafting, medicinal cultivation, fungus cultivation, and extracting (starch) powder from lotus root, lotus, gorgon, and water chestnuts should be very useful.

Thinking of this, Han E hurriedly changed another piece of paper and began to write and draw.

Because he recently discovered that wheat bran can be used to make bran soy. Although it is not delicious, it is cheap and can save food. It is the most satisfying thing in troubled times.

He also found that when making sauce, if wheat beans are combined to make dry sauce grains, and then the juice of salty fermented soybeans is fermented and boiled, meat can be obtained without meat, and a sauce similar to meat sauce can be obtained. Very delicious.

If Zhang Zhao was here, he would know that the sauce that Han E explored was the common seasoning in later generations - soy sauce.

While the sauce that Han'e fumbles for is cloudy and often has a lot of tempeh leftovers, it's really soy sauce.

Brewing soy sauce without meat is a very cost-effective event.

The more Han E wrote, the more excited he was. He walked around the room, planning to name his agricultural book "Four Seasons Compilation Essentials".

Of course he would be excited, for the Chinese, it is an extremely honorable thing to have writings passed down to later generations.

However, Han E didn't write much, and there was noise and crying outside the house.

In such a catastrophic year, Han E, who was extremely vigilant, immediately put down his pen and ran out the door.

Although Yuxian Town is a small town, it has a city wall. Although it can only be called an earthen wall and is only more than one meter high, it can still block wild animals and even thieves.

Before Han E arrived, Ding Zhuang from the Han family and other families in Yuxian Town had already climbed up the earthen wall.

There are no iron guns, but each has a carefully sharpened wooden gun. There are only a few real war bows, but there are many hunting bows.

Moreover, the war bow is in the hands of a few young men who are good at shooting, which is quite intimidating.

The cries were made by a group of victims who looked ragged. There were hundreds of them, and they were not moving fast at all. Many of them looked as if they were about to fall down.

Hundreds of people, just so lifeless, came to Yuxian Town with a feeling of dying, as if they were not human beings, but just black clouds floating here.

Ding Zhuang in Yuxian Town didn't panic at all, because before that, they had driven away three groups of victims who came to beg for food.

"Shiro, ask someone to prepare fifty cakes, and bring some hot water. Wulang, please shout twice, and call out the person in charge." Han E handled it methodically and seemed to be very experienced.

Refugees also have their own way of survival. They usually choose a direction to move forward, and then eat up everything that can be eaten on the way, including the food in other people's homes.

Then the people whose food has been eaten up will become a member of the new army of refugees.

They will continue to walk, like locusts, the team will get bigger and bigger, and when there is really nothing to eat, it will become the norm for children to eat each other.

In the final outcome, either everyone found a place with food and clothing, and escaped the famine.

Either there is government relief and barely survives.

Or after weeding out the old and the weak, they would become rioters and be wiped out.

Generally speaking, the third type may be the norm.

However, for the victims of hundreds of people, a town like Yuxian Town with hundreds of strong men and earthen walls would not be so easy to move.

Of course, the people in the town don't want to fight with them, just give them some food, not only to give them the motivation to go to the next place, but also to make them full enough to have the strength to do harm everywhere.

And even in such a group of victims, there is still a leader.

The fifty cakes that Han E produced were for the disaster victims, which consisted of a small amount of soybeans, wheat and corn mixed with a large amount of wild vegetables.

But for the leaders inside, they can’t be greeted with wild vegetable cakes, they must serve regular flour cakes, and maybe some wine and meat.

"Which big man is talking about the matter below? The Han family in Yuxian Town is polite, please come out and speak."

Han Wulang, who was upset, shouted at the top of his voice. Although this is a wild vegetable cake, it is still a cake. Especially in this famine period, if someone took one away, he would feel distressed.

But after shouting a few times, the hundreds of disaster victims were still lifeless, only occasionally a few people looked up, and the pace of progress did not stop.

Feeling a little strange, Han Silang quickly took off the longbow on his back, took an arrow from Hu Lu, and shot it like a shooting star on the arrow string.

The arrow didn't shoot at people, but stuck on the ground, and the tail feathers were still trembling slightly, like a cobra shaking its tail non-stop.

After Han Silang on the top of the city shot the arrow, he shouted loudly.

"Hurry up and stop, we will not be polite to those who pass this arrow."

After he shot the arrow, the young men of Yuxian Town on the dirt wall took their guns and bows in their hands one after another, and the atmosphere became chilling.

According to the general situation, if the people on the top of the city shot a bow and arrow warning, the rest of the victims would usually stop.

Because although there were a large number of them, they were starving all the way, and if they really wanted to fight, they would definitely not be able to fight.

It can only use the method of sacrificing human life to coerce the people in the city to hand over a little food.

So Han E on the top of the wall thought he was safe after seeing Han Silang shoot the arrow, and he continued to shout.

"Brothers from far away, the land in Yuxian Town is barren, and there are hundreds of young adults to feed. There is really not much food, and at most fifty cakes can be produced.

Also please come forward who can talk, take the cake and go out to find food, if you want to break through, our hundred and ten bows don't have eyes! "

After Han E finished speaking, the victims in the city finally responded.

However, it wasn't that the people of Yuxian Town took things and left as they imagined, but a tall and strong man sneered and stood up suddenly among the lifeless refugees.

The moment he stood up, a long-tipped bow suddenly appeared in the complainant's hand. With one hand, he shot at Han E on the dirt wall.

And before the tall man shot the arrow, Han Silang, who was closest to them, immediately noticed something was wrong.

Because this man was surrounded by Kong Wu's powerful and strong men, who seemed to be unable to lift their feet and stumbled, but in fact their faces were pale, obviously pretending.

This is not a refugee!This is a soldier!
Han Silang, who had been in the Jinchang army in Chang'an for several years, quickly made a judgment, and then he saw the tall man bow and shoot at the patriarch's third uncle Han E.

With a howl, Han Silang flew over as if with divine help, and threw Han E to the ground in a very dangerous way before he was hit by the arrow.

"Mother thief, there are still a few nimble hands and feet!" The tall and strong man snorted in extreme displeasure.

Pretending to be a refugee, he walked for more than ten miles, and finally lurked outside Yuxian Town. After finally recognizing the leader of the townspeople, he miscalculated.

At this time, the people on the dirt wall of Yuxian Town realized that dozens of strong men had gathered around this strong archer.

Under their tattered clothes, they were still wearing something that looked like armor, and what they were holding was also a standard horizontal knife.

"Thieves, they are thieves from Yaozhou." Han Silang yelled, with the horror of the doomsday on his face.

In fact, he knew in his heart that the so-called Yaozhou thieves were fake, they were the soldiers of the National Army of Huazhou Town, who came here to rob Fuyu Zhuangzi of food.

As the local garrison, it is impossible for the soldiers of the Zhen Guojun to come and rob with great fanfare, but it is still possible to pretend to be bandits.

Seeing that both sides used bows and arrows, those real refugees cried out, burst out their last strength, and ran away in all directions.

They were escorted to Yuxian Town just now, to cover the armored soldiers behind them.

Under the earthen wall, a tall and strong man took out a large black thing and asked his men to light it. It turned out to be wolf smoke.

Afterwards, the 'thieves' wearing ring lock armor and cowhide armor raised their bows and shot at the dirt wall.

Ding Zhuang in Yuxian Town had no other choice but to fight desperately with a wooden spear and a hunting bow.

A bloody battle broke out so suddenly.

And in the distance, another beacon was lit, and Han E's face was pale, which showed that the thieves were not limited to the 30 people who appeared now.

The dozens of people who came this time wanted to use the victims as cover to attack suddenly. Now that the attack is unsuccessful, they will directly attack the city.

"Silang! Get on your horse quickly, take a detour to Huazhou, go to Zhao Ying and Zhao Jieshuai, and ask him to send soldiers to rescue him."

　Two in one, the date of birth and death of Han E is unknown, but it should probably be from the Houliang to the Later Tang period, here move a little bit back and write a stroke.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)