The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 834

Hall of Liangyi, Nayan Huangfu Wuyi in Menxia Province, Li Jing in Zhongshu Province, Li Jing in Zhongshu Province, Yang Gongren, Wei Yunqi, Yang Shanhui, and nine ministers under his command are all present in Shangshu Sheng's three servants. In addition, there are nine ministers. Li Jing, the minister of the Ministry of War who presided over military affairs in Yiling, and the central officials of the Great Sui Dynasty were basically all together.

Jiang Xingben, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, saluted Yang Tong on the chair with a happy expression on his face, "Qizou Sheng, since ancient times, a guide is indispensable when marching. However, if the army reaches the endless grasslands and vast seas in the north, it is easy to get lost. Parachutist Li Guang is because If you lose your way, you will miss the military plane and kill yourself in anger. This is just a grassland. If you stray into the vast sea that does not divide the east, west, north, and south, you may still have the worry of annihilation. Of course, there are compass cars and magnetic spoons that point out the direction. But because of the bulkiness and manpower rotation, the direction is not very accurate. It is urgent to find something more convenient than the compass cart and the magnetic spoon. After many studies by the minister of the Ministry of Industry, He Chou and the craftsman of the Ministry of Industry, finally developed the With a light and precise compass, even in the dark and windy sand, you can accurately and clearly identify the direction."

Jiang Xingben said, and presented two round boxes, one large and one small.

Yang Tong looked at the palm-sized disc first, and saw a long pointer in the middle of the compass, surrounded by four directions, east, west, and northwest. Above the pointer was a glass cover, which looked extraordinarily delicate and suitable for marching.As for the big compass, it is even more refined, and it is not much different from the compass used by later generations to look at Feng Shui, with densely written celestial stems and earthly branches on it.

Holding the compass in his hand, Yang Tong stepped down from the dragon seat, shaking it vigorously while walking, and found that no matter how hard he tried, no matter where he went, the arrow under the glass always pointed to the south.

Yang Tong praised, "The reason why you lose your way in the vast sea is because the yellow sand is the same everywhere in the sky, and there is no reference to distinguish the direction at all. In addition, the wind and sand are so strong that a simple compass is useless at all. Now with this seal The compass can be clearly seen at a glance, and it also gives our army the capital to cross the desert, and the same goes for sea navigation.”

The compass is very famous, but Yang Tong knows that the making method is quite simple. In the physics class of junior high school, he used sewing needles to make a simple compass. In these years of marching and fighting, he is also using a simple compass. It is just the compass used before. , Comparing with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Industry, the gap comes out.

"My lord, I have studied the compass made by the Ministry of Industry these days, and found that it contains a strong principle of heaven and earth. No matter when and where, regardless of the wind or the water, the pointer will always point north. It is really ingenious. "Kong Yingda was full of praise: "I believe that the new compass is not only suitable for military affairs and navigation, but also can assist the imperial court in surveying and drawing more accurate maps of mountains and rivers."

"What Kong Shangshu said is very true." Yang Tong looked at the compass in his hand, and thought to himself, isn't this thing just for looking at Fengshui?
"My lord!" Yang Shidao clasped his hands and said, "The fishermen on the seaside make their living from fishing. They often risk their lives to sail into deeper waters in order to get a little more harvest, and the weather on the sea is unpredictable. At that time, I made mistakes in my busy schedule and couldn't find the exact way back, so there are many tragedies every year, I implore the Holy One to let the Ministry of Industry produce this simple new compass in large quantities, and promote it to coastal fishermen as soon as possible."

"Quasi-playing! Not only to promote to the coastal villages, but also to teach them how to use the compass." Looking at the simple compass with only the southeast and northwest, Yang Tong said to Jiang Xingben: "Add the southeast, northeast, southwest, northwest Four scales. And color the dial with the standards of east wood green, south fire red, west gold white, north water black, and middle earth yellow."

"I obey." Jiang Xingben understood Yang Tong's meaning after a little thought. If it was painted with colors, the compass would have color recognition in addition to text recognition.

He added: "I have one more thing to do, I want to report the good news to the Holy One."

"What's the matter?" Yang Tong asked with great interest.

"Hui Sheng, the two-track track between Luoyang and Daxing has been completed."

"What's the effect?" Yang Tong became even more excited. When he came to Daxing, he also saw the track built by the Ministry of Industry between Daxing and Luoyang, but it was not yet completed and he couldn't experience it for himself.

Jiang Xingben saluted and said: "Please also ask the Holy One to move to the sand table room of Qianqiu Palace."

"Let's go together." Yang Tong walked towards the sand table room impatiently.This huge Sui sand table was completed not long ago. The Sui army mainly relied on a large number of scouts to inquire about information in various places, and drew it into a map. Therefore, the sand table around the city and the plain area is more accurate, but the mountains, rivers and lakes can only provide an approximate map. Information, but with the strengthening of the Sui Dynasty's control over the world and Yang Tong's emphasis on accurate terrain, the Ministry of Industry invested a lot of talents in surveying and mapping, so that the Da Sui map and sand table have been improved and perfected, like some familiar Mountains, fields, rivers, cities, roads, passes, and bridges have all been clearly presented on the sand table.

On the track connecting Luoyang and Daxing, exquisite 'train' models have been placed.

"Please look, Your Majesty." Jiang Xingben pointed at the track with a wooden stick, and introduced: "Because there is no better material at present, the track and sleepers are all made of pine wood. If there is a new material in the future, it will replace pine wood. "

"Pine wood is soft, why not use hard wood?" Yang Tong was a little puzzled.

"My lord, the sleepers are not only exposed to the sun, rain, wind and freezing in the wilderness, but half of them have to be buried in the compacted soil. If they are not specially treated, they are easy to rot. Compared with other hard miscellaneous materials, pine wood is buried even if it is buried for a hundred years. It is still intact, so you only need to pay attention to the exposed part, which will save at least half of the process and financial resources."

"I've learned a lot, Jiang Shangshu continues." Yang Tong signaled Jiang Xingben to continue.

"Here." Jiang Xingben said again: "The track and sleepers are made of pine wood, while the roadbed is a compacted dirt road. It is level with the sleepers so that the horse will not stumble. As for the load-bearing capacity of the rail car, it is distinguished according to the length of the car and the number of wheels. As you can see, this model is currently the most loaded railcar. It has 800 wheels in total and can carry about [-] jin of weight. It only needs eight horses to pull it. As long as the driver is skilled, it is easy to travel [-] miles a day. The track from Luoyang to Daxing is only more than [-] miles, that is to say, it can be run once in two or three days, and it only needs to change horses three times along the way."

"A rail car with a load of 32 jin can travel five hundred miles a day. If it is built on a large scale, there will be no need to recruit civilian workers for supplies from Luoyang to Daxing in the future, and it will save time. This is definitely a huge leap forward," Yang Tong said. When he got here, he asked again: "Can sixteen horses be used to tow a [-]-wheeled cart? Wouldn't the transportation be doubled?"

Jiang Xingben said with a wry smile: "Wei Chen has thought about it too, and thinks that the possibility of success is still very strong, but the car's load capacity is limited. If it exceeds the cut, the car and wheels will not be able to bear it."

"That is to say, the track can bear more weight, but the car can't?"

"good."

"It's very simple." Yang Tong shook his head, people in this era still have a rigid mind.

"Please make it clear, Your Majesty." Jiang Xingben asked excitedly.

"The wheels and bearings of a car can't bear such a heavy load, so you can change it into a four-wheel, six-wheel, or eight-wheel car, and then string these small cars together. Isn't it the same? And change the height of the car to The length can not only avoid overturning, but also make the bearing capacity of the track change from a point to a surface, and the life of the track will also be increased.”

Yang Tong continued: "The wooden rails are not resistant to corrosion, and you can gradually replace them with iron rails in the future! You first make a mold according to the pattern of the wooden rails, pour the iron juice, and a complete rail will come out. Of course Now, the rails are not easy to nail to the sleepers, so the nail holes must be left on the mold in advance.”

"The Holy Majesty's words are like enlightenment, which made my minister suddenly enlightened!" Jiang Xingben's eyes lit up, and he bowed excitedly.

"You have to fully develop your imagination, and you can't blindly keep the old. Only in this way can you create more and more novel things." Yang Tong asked, "Have you tried this car? Is it safe?"

"Your Majesty, don't worry, 25 of these cars were built, and each car was run four times, and there were no accidents in a hundred times. If you follow the way your Majesty said, lowering the car and changing it to a longer length will not only be safer than it is now, but also dare to let the horses Let go of the speed and run, not to mention traveling thousands of miles a day, but at least hundreds of miles faster than now."

Traveling thousands of miles a day sounds fast, but in fact it is about 42 miles per hour. It is naturally not fast for Yang Tong who has traveled by plane and high-speed rail, but for this era, this kind of transportation speed is already top-notch. .If it is used for military purposes, it will be even more remarkable. Eight horses can draw tens of thousands of catties, and the supplies needed for the expedition can be transported away with only a few hundred horses. The most important thing is that these supplies can replace ten thousand catties. Tens of thousands or even more civilians, and more efficient, the loss on the road is almost negligible. For this alone, the future transportation network composed of rails, canals, and official roads will be enough to allow the Sui Dynasty to stand firm in future wars. Take the initiative firmly.

Of course, this is only an ideal state. To realize this ideal, it will take a long time, a lot of manpower and material resources to build the track.

"Railway cars and horse-drawn carts are both bad names, so they will be called Shengwu cars in the future."

"Thank you Holy One for the name."

Yang Tong pondered for a moment, and said, "From today onwards, the Ministry of Industry will increase the Department of Railroads, and assign the skilled craftsmen who are engaged in railroads into the Department of Railroads to specialize in this line of work. We must improve on the existing basis and strive for excellence."

"Here."

"The first track has been successful and proved its worth, so it's time to build a new track."

"Everyone has repaired the track, everyone has experience, and the roadbed is not very skilled, so it is not too difficult for them to build a new track. But I don't know where the Holy One wants to build it?" Jiang Xingben laughed.

"Let's extend from Daxing to the Western Regions!" After the Sui Dynasty, the center of gravity will be in the west, and Yang Tong plans to first create the 'Longhai-Lanxin Line'.Not to mention laying the sleepers immediately, but you can go to the mountain to dig the road and tamp the roadbed first. Even if it fails in the future, it can be used as a new, flatter, wider, and newer official road.

"Here."

. . . . . .

A group of people returned to the Liangyi Hall and took their seats.

"In the past few years, the Ministry of Industry has made remarkable achievements, and various skills have affected all walks of life and all aspects. I won't talk about anything else. Now I want to talk about academic aspects." Yang Tong said: "In papermaking, movable type printing Before the invention of art, books were regarded as heirloom treasures by aristocratic families, and the number of books in the family became one of the symbols of wealth and status. But now, whoever proudly says "my family There are thousands of volumes of books', people around will probably look at him as a fool."

When everyone heard the words, they understood and laughed.

"Books and knowledge are no longer monopolized by a very small number of people, so we have made a big step forward academically. However, illiterate people account for nine out of ten of the total population. What does this mean?" Yang Tong looked at He glanced at everyone, asked himself and answered: "Explaining that books in the hands of these people still cannot produce knowledge. The only difference between it and blank paper is that there are more strokes that they don't understand..."

Faced with these words, everyone felt very uncomfortable, because this is an old historical debt, and there is no time to make it up for a hundred years.

"Now we can use cheap books to help literate people improve, we can educate the next generation through free learning, and they can also use free learning and books to understand. But that is in the future." Yang Tong continued: "Currently illiterate people There are too many, and these people are relatively simple-minded, and they don't have much ability to distinguish right from wrong. Most people like to follow the general trend and follow others. If people with ulterior motives instigate groups that are bewitched by others, the political situation will soon become turbulent. Even many decrees to maintain stability that benefit the people are deliberately misinterpreted by people with ulterior motives, making the people think that they are targeting themselves. So many things are actually caused by the imperial court. Said, the disaster caused by the common people’s misunderstanding. In view of this, I decided to publish the residence newspaper in the whole world, explaining the imperial government’s decrees one by one, and firmly control the initiative in the hands of the imperial court.”

In fact, newspapers existed in ancient times, but their circulation was narrow. If you really want to think about it, "Di Bao" was the earliest newspaper. As early as the Han Dynasty, all counties and states set up "di" in the capital, and its function was equivalent to the local news stationed in Beijing. The organization focuses on conveying the news of the government. All the emperor's decrees, ministers' memorials, and the appointment, removal and transfer of relevant officials are all the contents that the officials need to collect and transcribe. "Dibao" was originally circulated and copied within the imperial court, and later posted on the palace gate for public biography, so it is also called "Palace Gate Copy" and "Yuanmen Copy". This is actually the earliest way of news release.

Yang Gongren agreed: "This method is wonderful. As soon as government orders and articles come out, they can be printed with movable type and distributed to counties, counties, and towns."

"Not only government orders, but also major events can be published." Yang Tong said.

"Big event?"

"That's right!" Yang Tong nodded and said, "The Ertu Coalition Army and Koubian is a major event that concerns the fate of the country and the common people. Before there was a mansion newspaper that spread all over the world, then we can write articles on the mansion newspaper, expressing the strength and harm of the Ertu coalition forces one by one, so that the people know that Ertu is as powerful as the East/Turks in the past. There will be endless troubles, do you think the common people will fight against the enemy? Will they support the Great Sui to fight?"

"This!!"

Everyone's eyes are getting brighter.

They finally understood the true meaning of Yang Tong's mansion newspaper.

If there is a war in the future, it is entirely possible to preemptively use this kind of mansion report to erect a banner of justice in the hearts of the people, so as to achieve the effect of gathering public opinion and motivating the morale of the army.

The ministers of the DPRK and China were all very shrewd, and soon realized that the benefits brought by this kind of mansion report were far from being as simple as announcing government orders, on the contrary, they could play a vital role in various aspects, so they couldn't help adding to this mansion report Big attention.

"In addition to major national events, news that is closely related to the people can also be published on the mansion newspaper, such as how to prevent fire, how to give first aid to injuries, how to raise fish and sheep to become fatter; you can also publish current events, customs, anecdotes and anecdotes in special pages , biographies of celebrities, excellent essays and poems by candidates for imperial examinations and school students, etc.” Yang Tong said.

Fang Xuanling clasped his hands and said: "According to what the Holy Majesty said, this mansion newspaper covers a wide range of topics. A mansion newspaper is equivalent to a book, and Xinying can't bear it at all. What's more, what the sage wants to do is to publish the world's mansion newspapers, and the number of them is huge. , heavy, how to deliver in time?"

Yang Tong replied: "The center of Dibao is located in Luoyang, and another printing station is set up in Daxing, Taiyuan, Zhuojun, Yecheng, Jiangdu, Jiangling, Qijun, and Pengcheng. Xinying sent to various printing points for printing, and then sent from these printing points to the surrounding county government and county schools, county schools, township schools, garrison locations, supply and marketing cooperatives, hero buildings in various places, temples and Taoist temples. After a long time, you can Let the people who go to the printing place to take it back to the county and county, and you can also let the business travelers take it back to various places. This residence newspaper creates a copy every half a month, and the name is "Da Sui Ban Yue Tan."

"Your Majesty, I think you can give it a try." Yang Gongren thought for a while, "However, "Ban Yue Tan of the Great Sui Dynasty" is a new book after all. To be cautious, I suggest trying it out in Luoyang and Daxing first."

"Of course." Yang Tong nodded, "The first few copies of "Da Sui Ban Yue Tan" were co-founded by the ten departments of Shangshu Province. When the experience matures, which department will manage it."

"Here."

"The content of the first "Ban Yue Tan of the Great Sui Dynasty" will be provided by everyone." Yang Tong knew that everyone likes the 'first' that may go down in history, so he said so.

Sure enough, he found that all the ministers were short of breath and their eyes were bloodshot, so he smiled and said: "After you go back, just write as much as you want, as long as you have something to say and the writing is excellent, all of them will be signed and published, including poems, songs and prose."

"Here."

Everyone responded loudly.

It got louder.

"Of course, some core secrets cannot be written."

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will understand."

(End of this chapter)