Xuande

Chapter 292 Those who do not value technology will eventually be punished by technology

This time Liu Bei entered Liangzhou, he operated the technology in the way of the past, and formed his own technical talent team.

He selected skilled and powerful blacksmiths, sent a confidential department to interview them, explained clearly the care benefits and requirements for them, and asked them if they would accept his principle of confidentiality.

If you are willing, the birth, old age, sickness and death of their family will be contracted by Liu Bei in the future.

A series of benefits such as food treatment, salary treatment, and family welfare treatment are the best for craftsmen in this era. All of them are contracted by Liu Bei, and Liu Bei is their domineering president.

They only need to concentrate on work, sum up experience, innovate technology, improve production efficiency and quality, and everything else is contracted by the overlord Liu Bei.

Of course, after the death of the person, the descendants can quit if they have not mastered the relevant skills. If they have mastered it, they must go through an audit before deciding whether to quit.

Unsurprisingly, after this treatment was given out, all the craftsmen who were interviewed without exception all followed Liu Bei with their families.

They all said that even if they die, they will die in General Liu's workshop, and they have worked hard for General Liu for generations and will never betray them.

The oath was uttered loudly.

It has to be said that since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period, the overall negative perception of the development of science and technology by various schools of thought has helped Liu Bei a lot, because the treatment given to craftsmen by the major dynasties is really bad.

Science and technology are the primary productive forces.

If you eat meat, how can your body be damaged?
So so few experienced old blacksmiths were nervously fooled by Cao Cao with some exorbitant benefits, and they became Cao Cao's strength with ease.

The worst steel is used to make weapons, so how can farmers use it?
Therefore, it is said that the ruler emphasizes agriculture in the name, but we are not the only ones who actually emphasize it. Even the agricultural production tools of farmers can be guaranteed. How shameful it is to ask farmers to grow food to support us?
How do you say this?

Therefore, a small amount of grazing in Longzuo and the north of Liangzhou, and the construction of official animal husbandry facilities are not only for raising war horses, but also enough cattle and sheep. That is what Bu Jie attaches great importance to.

Small landlords, powerful and weak do not have their own private forging production lines for farm tools. Our production is slow and bad. We can complete accumulation more slowly and widen the gap between rich and poor more slowly.

Before worrying about the future, we stopped concentrating on research and development of technology and work to repay Cao Cao's kindness. We regard Bu Jie as the giver of our seventh life, and we have no deep gratitude to Cao Cao.

Even in the period of semi-government and semi-private, private operators must take the government's needs as the minimum direction, and forge broken and used iron for the government, and the forging of farm tools is naturally focused.

The animal husbandry industry is not only about the army not having enough horses to use, but also about people not having enough cheap meat to eat.

I am engaged in animal husbandry, but in order to provide enough war horses for the army, I also want to provide enough protein for the people.

Just kidding, life, old age, sickness and death including my family members are directly contracted by Cao Cao, what kind of generous treatment is that?

In the new iron and steel industry system, I have specially planned an iron smelting workshop that specializes in manufacturing high-quality agricultural tools for private use. It is forging weapons, and only forges civilian agricultural tools and some living utensils, focusing on improving the living standards of special people.

And what can the special owner-peasants do?

Whether it was the monopoly of salt and iron in the Western Han Dynasty or the semi-specialization and semi-private ownership in the Eastern Han Dynasty, agricultural production was slightly hindered under the system.

Those who value technology will eventually be rewarded by technology.

He has no political status, extremely low economic treatment, is more tired than a cow, eats worse than a pig, wakes up earlier than a chicken, and sleeps later than a ghost.

Li Tietou proudly presented Bu Jie with the high-quality ring sword he forged. Cao Cao took it, looked at it sloppily, and nodded repeatedly.

Our agricultural production is very difficult, and sometimes we even have to polish stones to hoe.

"Old man Li, he did a bad job, keep going, forge less, and cultivate less talents. In the future, we will be short of time to use that knife more."

While Liu Bei was observing the situation in Wuwei County, he was also telling Cao Cao how I felt along the way.
Bu Jie inspected several iron smelting workshops and expressed satisfaction with the efficiency of the iron smelting work under the new management model.

"Just say what you say, do what you say! No knife is useful, you cut off your head!"

So when Cao Cao arrived at the No. [-] iron smelting workshop in Wudu County, he saw the first batch of military-style ring swords led by Li Tietou, an old blacksmith from my hometown in Youzhou.

During that trip, Bu Jie stayed here for two full months. From July to July, I was always running around here. I often went back to Ji County several times to deal with some urgent affairs, and then went to other counties for research. Inspection, personally supervise the rollout of many industrial layouts.

If you do that for a long time, no one will suffer.

And because the task of working overtime is often an order of the army, once something happens, corrupt officials have something to do, we become scapegoats, and the one who deals with us is not the legendary "military law and sentient beings", who die ugly.

Still firm?
At the end of the seventh day, Liu Bei and Bu Jie toured Wuwei County together. On the one hand, Cao Cao was helping Liu Bei to get acquainted with the environment of Wuwei County.

Li Tietou gave Cao Cao the ring-shou knife that I forged and the original military-use ring-shou knife in Liangzhou for comparison, and asked someone to slash at each other with the knife. None of them were broken directly, and the new standard ring head knife was safe and sound.

The iron and steel industry is a big deal, but the animal husbandry industry is also a big deal.

As Meng Tuo said later, whether the agricultural production capacity of the whole Xiaohan farmers has not been effectively developed for a long time, the development rate has been declining for a long time, and a small number of farmers even mainly use wooden and stone farm tools. The main reason is not under the system The problem is that iron farm tools are the next.

It's like that all over the country.

Moreover, there is only a part outside that does not forge weapons for the army, nor a part that specifically forges farm tools for farmers.

In the first ten days of July, Liu Bei arrived in Wuwei County. Bu Jie greeted Liu Bei in Guzang County of Wuwei County. Bu Jie, who had not seen Cao Cao for a long time, was happy to win. Drinking and having fun in the city has boundless joy.

In Cao Cao's view, that is more or less humane.

Iron officials are more inclined to fulfill imperial orders but to produce agricultural tools for farmers. Even if they produce some often, they are high-quality cast iron.

Not long after the government task came up, we had to work overtime and burn the furnace forging iron, so that we could not miss the slightest omission, we must complete the task given by the government on time, no matter how difficult it was, we had to push through.

"That's not the ring-shou knife forged by the steel-filling method and the double-liquid quenching method. The quality of the iron ore in that place is not bad. It's not because the technology is good, the craftsman knows how to refine it, refining it again and again, it's useless at all! It’s too bad, there are enough horses and cows, there is something wrong with quenching, and there is little coal, so it is absolutely impossible to forge high-quality weapons outside.”

Bu Jie said that he could do that.

We all joined Cao Cao's secrecy plan, and since then we have become part of the secrecy plan, core technicians, registered and registered, and become ordinary existences in the Cao Cao Group.

I suspect that as long as the supply of agricultural tools is open, the agricultural output of the entire Xiaohan Empire can be doubled. population.

In that case, if the food production can be done properly, there is really nothing wrong with it.

Farmers can only buy poor-quality agricultural tools that are expensive and useless.

It is more important than anything else for the army to eat meat irregularly, for the common people to eat meat during festivals, to live a stable life, and to strengthen our physique and strength.

Li Tietou slapped his chest loudly, with a determined expression on his face.

If you want your health to be bad, you need to eat more meat. However, Chinese people lack meat intake for a long time. Even soy products, which are used as meat substitutes, are often unavailable.

Although Liangzhou is comparable to Hebei and other places in the Central Plains under the conditions of agricultural production, as long as the supply of agricultural tools is open, if it takes a few years, it will not be a new look.

(End of this chapter)