Master Kong Zhongni

Chapter 140
As soon as Zai Yu finished speaking, Zhao Wujiu nodded with a half understanding.

After all, he was still young, and he couldn't understand everything.

Zaiyu didn't expect him to comprehend all of them. According to Zaizi's thinking, the word benevolence and righteousness still needs years of nurturing.

Scientific knowledge can be learned step by step, but if a person's concept is not established at an early age, until he grows up, unless there is a major change, it will be difficult to change.

And Zhao Wuji was born as a lowly bastard and suffered from discrimination since childhood, so it is easier to have empathy for the people at the bottom.

As long as his three outlooks are not crooked, then even if he risked his life, Master Zai would have to promote him to the position of the next Suzerain of the Zhao Clan.

Jae Yu asked kindly: "Do you want to continue asking if there is anything you don't understand?"

Zhao Wuji thought for a while, then leaned over and said, "Although there are things I don't understand, the students want to continue thinking. If you still don't understand after thinking, I will ask the master again."

After hearing this, Zai Yu felt relieved.

Zhao Wuxie is much more sensible than Gongshuban.

Although both of them have relatively introverted personalities, when Gongshuban encounters problems, he always asks something, and he has to ask all the way to the end.

If it's a small problem like math, it's not too difficult for Jae Yu to deal with it.

But the problem is that Gongshu Pan sometimes insists on asking him about carpentry work.

Although Zaiyu has read some physics books in the library, he has never actually done it. Gongshuban and him deduct the details of the process, so what can Zaiyu do?

Jae Yu was so forced that he had no choice but to practice carpentry in the backyard secretly before going to bed at night.

However, practicing carpentry is not a bit of a benefit. At least in the past six months, he and Xiaogong Shuban have tossed out a lot of new gadgets together.

For example, a balsa wooden umbrella, a continuous crossbow that can fire three arrows at the same time, and a lock and key specially used to prevent Zigong from opening the door and breaking the house, etc.

Now Zaiyu's backyard is almost full of these prototypes of useful or useless inventions.

Zaiyu was thinking about Gongshuban, and he didn't know if there was a telepathy between master and student. Zaiyu glanced at it from the corner of his eye, and suddenly found Gongshuban's small face pressed against the wall outside the door.

He was leaning on the window and looking in, his little hands kept greeting Zaiyu, as if telling him to come over quickly.

Seeing this, Zaiyu sighed: "Ban! What are you doing?"

Gongshuban heard the master calling him, so he ran into the hall with small steps, and said excitedly.

"Master! I found what you wanted!"

"What did you find?"

Xiaogong Shuban stretched out his little hand behind his back, and what he held tightly in his palm was a handful of red clay.

"Master, look, the terracotta you've been looking for! I found it when my grandfather and the others went into the mountains to cut wood!"

When Zaiyu saw the handful of red clay, he couldn't help showing a smile.

"Good! Good!"

The envoys of Qin Shang and Zhao looked at the master and apprentice in bewilderment, not knowing what to be happy about with a handful of red mud.

When Zaiyu saw it, he smiled and explained to them: "I heard that everything has its distribution law.

Just as the best jade is produced in the mountains of Kunlun, Yuanjin is always produced in the depressions on the right side of the Ru River and Han River in Chu State, and pearls are produced in the Moguang area of ​​Chiye.

As long as you master the law of their distribution, you can enjoy the wealth of geographical advantage. "

Qin Shang wondered: "Then what does this have to do with Chitu?"

Zigong helped explain: "Guanzi once said that if there is terracotta on the surface of a mountain, it means that there is evil gold under the soil.

If there is lead on the surface, it means that there is silver ore under the soil.

Those with Dansha on the surface and Yuanjin on the bottom.

There are magnets on the surface and US dollars underneath.

Now that terracotta is discovered, it means that there may be evil gold in the mountains and fields of Tuqiu.

Don't you understand why I am happy now? "

From half a year ago, Zaiyu began to smelt coke one after another, but there was no trace of copper or iron.

After all, these two minerals are not like coal, which may appear on the shallow surface.

But in this period, he couldn't get a metal detector, so he could only use a stupid way to send people to detect it bit by bit.

However, the people in Tuqiu are usually busy farming, and they have also developed the habit of digging stones in their spare time.

Therefore, during the period from summer to late autumn, almost no one is interested in diving into deep mountains and old forests for prospecting.

It wasn't until winter came that some people began to take advantage of the slack season to go hunting in the mountains while prospecting for mines.

After spending so much effort, I didn't expect that in the end, the kid in Ban would inadvertently get in the way.

But now that the mine has been found, manpower is needed to dig it, and skilled iron smelters are needed to help smelt it.

As for the people in Tuqiu, there are only a few hundred households in the country, plus two hundred or so savage households, and those craftsmen who moved here with Zigong's paper workshop.

These people usually have to do their own work, and there is a high probability that they have no time to do part-time jobs.

Where should I find someone?
Zaiyu thought and thought, and suddenly turned his gaze to the east.

Do you want to visit Qi State?
Nowadays, there are three main iron smelting centers in the world, one is Wandi in the state of Chu, the other is Handan in the Zhao family of the state of Jin, and Linzi in the state of Qi.

Although Mrs. Zhao has a good relationship with him, Jin State is too far away after all, and it takes more than a month to go there and back.

And if he goes to Qi State, he can board the boat directly at Tuqiu, and then go down the Zishui River all the way to Linzi.

Moreover, Qi State was also the first country to implement the official mountain and sea policy. The so-called official mountain and sea means that all famous mountains and rivers in the country will be brought under state control.

The most important policy in Guanshanhaizhong is the monopoly of salt and iron.

The importance of Qi salt is self-evident, and the smelting and mining of Qi iron has further improved the efficiency of land reclamation in Qi.

Because the biggest use of iron ore in Qi State is to make farm tools.

At that time, iron smelting technology was still immature, and the iron ore smelted usually contained high carbon content, so it was easy to break and was not suitable for making weapons.

Therefore, after Guan Zhong nationalized the iron ore, he directly stipulated that from now on, all weapons will be made of copper, while iron will be used exclusively to make farm tools.

Although Guan Zhong may not have thought of the far-reaching impact of iron making farm tools when he made this rule.

But Qi State has indeed become prosperous and strong because of this policy, and the main basis for prosperity is population growth.

Linzi, the capital of Qi, is now a well-deserved number one city in the world.

Later, during the Warring States period, the population of Linzi alone in Qi State reached [-] households.

Zaiyu thought about this population carefully, even if there are no [-] households in Linzi now, [-] households would be a lot.

In [-] households, as long as there are three or five skilled iron smiths who are willing to come to Tuqiu to lead apprentices and let them overcome the difficult problems in the early stage, wouldn't it be easy to gradually train iron smiths later?

Thinking of this, Zai Yu immediately said, "Hurry up! Let Zi You and Zi Zhou come to see me right away!"

　It turns out that you have been looking at other authors.

　　——Excerpt from "Zaiyu's Diary"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)