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Chapter 448: Comprehensively Improved Qin Technology Tree

Richard was responsible for building twelve Tianxing flying boats, each of which could carry 10,000 people and 100,000 stones of food and supplies at the same time.

On the other hand, the First Emperor also let the eldest son Fusu learn from Richard. Although the First Emperor did not like Fusu's way of doing things, he was still prepared to let Fusu inherit the throne.

Therefore, he wanted Richard to educate Fusu.

The first time Richard met Fusu was in Ganquan Palace. The First Emperor made this palace Richard's residence, and Richard spent most of his time reading books here, except when he supervised the construction of the flying boat.

In order to make the imperial teacher live comfortably, the First Emperor asked the eunuchs to select the best palace maids in the palace and send them here to serve the imperial teacher.

Richard looked at the young master Fusu in front of him. Fusu was handsome, tall, and looked very heroic, with a Confucian temperament. Originally, he was somewhat dissatisfied with his father asking him to study with Richard.

In his opinion, Richard, the national teacher, was just like the alchemists before him, all of whom were liars who deliberately made things mysterious. The so-called immortality and fairy mountains overseas were just lies.

But not long ago, he witnessed with his own eyes the giant flying boat built by Richard falling from the sky. He was stunned when his father and thousands of guards walked down from the boat.

For three whole days, he was thinking about whether there were really gods in this world? Was there really immortality? He wanted to deny it, but everything that happened not long ago seemed like an ironclad fact.

"Imperial Master, I would like to ask you a question." Fusu finally couldn't help but ask.

"What do you want to ask?" Richard said without raising his head, looking at the classics of various schools of thought in his hands.

"Imperial Master, are there really immortals in this world?" Fusu asked.

Richard looked up at him and said, "Of course there are immortals. I am one of them. But if you want to see other immortals, you probably won't be able to see them."

"Why?"

"Because most of the immortals have gone to the immortal world, and those who have not become immortals are also busy practicing, so you naturally can't see them."

"Can that person really live forever?" Fusu asked again.

Richard smiled and said, "Forget about it. If you want to live forever, you can only cultivate to become an immortal, and emperors and princes cannot cultivate to become immortals. Moreover, cultivating to become an immortal requires aptitude and immortal bones, as well as sufficient luck. Otherwise, you won't even be able to see an immortal, let alone cultivate."

Hearing Richard's words, Fusu felt a little excited, but also a little disappointed.

"As an emperor on earth, instead of thinking about cultivating immortality, it is better to think more about how to govern the country well, and then be canonized as a god by the heaven after death."

"If you can govern the world well and make great contributions to the world, you can become a god after death and live forever in the immortal world."

Richard repeated the same words again, hoping that future emperors would be able to work hard to govern the world.

After hearing Richard's explanation, Fusu nodded. He also felt that the pursuit of immortality was illusory.

"Master, what do you think of the county system currently being implemented by the court?" Fusu asked again.

Richard put down the scroll and said, "The county system is the general trend, and the feudal system is no longer appropriate."

"But if we don't assign princes to guard the four directions, those places will be out of reach of the imperial court and difficult to govern. What should we do?"

"So we need to have counties and prefecture-states running in parallel for a period of time to make the transition. Once the roads are built and the court has enough officials to govern the country, we can remove the prefecture-states and fully implement the county system."

"Master Fusu, your teacher taught you to learn the Zhou rituals and to reorganize the etiquette so that the people of the world can live and work in peace and contentment. However, things change with time, and the Zhou rituals are not immutable."

"The well-field system was first implemented during the Zhou Dynasty. Where can you see it now?"

"The Zhou Dynasty implemented Zhou Li. Did the world become peaceful?"

"Not all of Zhou Li is suitable for today. If we don't know how to adapt and copy all of it, the world will inevitably be in chaos."

"You can implement benevolent policies, but you need to know what is appropriate and what is not."

"For example, right now, do you think that if we implement benevolent governance, the world will be peaceful?"

"Will the nobles of the six countries appreciate your kindness? They have a complex network of power in the local area and control a large amount of land and farmers. If you implement benevolent policies, they will not give up a single bushel of grain."

"If you want to implement benevolent policies, you must have the power to suppress the world. Otherwise, your benevolent policies can only be like flowers in the mirror or the moon in the water, which only look beautiful."

"The Qin Empire has its own laws. The ways of kingship and hegemony are mixed together. How can we use only one law?"

Fusu had learned a lot of Confucianism before, which seemed very good indeed. But Confucianism requires extremely high moral standards to be promoted, otherwise it will become unrecognizable.

The simplest question is, in Confucianism, who are the "people"? Are they the common people, the common people, or the powerful, the aristocratic families, and the countrymen?
"Your Majesty has now realized the problems of the Qin Empire and has begun to revise its national policies. You can take a look at those policies and then share your thoughts."

Richard did not preach blindly, because preaching blindly often does not work, but will cause a counter-effect. So Richard let him see for himself, people cannot teach people, but things can teach people once.

There are indeed many good things in Confucianism, but there are also many bad things. We only learn the good parts, and the same is true for Legalism.

For example, the harsh laws of the Legalists and the heavy sentencing also need to be changed. Richard has suggested that the First Emperor abolish corporal punishment and replace it with forced labor.

The corporal punishments of this era were very cruel, such as cutting off noses and feet, etc. Richard suggested that they be sent to work in mines or to do forced labor. Mining and forced labor were very hard in this era, and the mortality rate was extremely high.

Imprisoning prisoners not only wastes food, but also wastes land. Letting them work can make use of waste. Moreover, being able to exempt them from corporal punishment is also a benevolent policy.

After listening to Richard's words, Fusu thought about it and decided to go to the place himself to take a look.

After the First Emperor abolished 90% of corvée labor, people's lives became much better. For the remaining places where corvée labor was needed, prisoners were used, and the time limit was also relaxed.

On the other hand, the imperial court relocated the nobles of the six kingdoms and also allowed many people to obtain land. The originally turbulent situation in the world was immediately eased, and the localities became much more stable. At the same time, the imperial army also began to eliminate bandits in various places. The imperial decree had been issued for more than three months, and those people who had originally become bandits to avoid labor had basically returned to their hometowns.

Some bandits who had committed minor crimes returned to their hometowns after hearing that the court had issued a general amnesty. Now, those who are still bandits are either people with ulterior motives or extremely vicious people.

Naturally, these people could not be kept, so more than three months later, the imperial court began to crack down on the bandits in Guanzhong and Central Plains.

After all, many projects of the imperial court require a large amount of manpower. Now that the imperial court has just suspended labor, some urgent matters can only be done by asking these bandits to do the work.

After Richard took over the Tiangongyuan, he was not only responsible for building large ships, but also for building other things. Richard asked people to find kaolin, and then instructed the craftsmen to use kaolin to make porcelain. At the same time, he ordered the craftsmen to make paper.

Since Richard was going to help Daqin open up the technology tree, it was natural for him to help them master these technologies that did not require advanced skills as soon as possible.

Glass, porcelain, papermaking, printing, gunpowder, all these things had to be taught. In fact, the production of these things was not difficult, and the Qin Dynasty's technological level could do all of them.

Next, Richard began to improve the iron smelting method. Qin's iron smelting method was not advanced, and the iron smelting method that Richard wanted to teach was the traditional blast furnace.

This kind of earthen blast furnace is an earthen steelmaking method that appeared for a period of time after the establishment of the Republic. Although this earthen blast furnace can make steel, the quality is not good. However, for the Qin Dynasty, this kind of iron is already very good.

Both the output and quality are higher than other iron smelting methods. Apart from other things, traditional blast furnace iron smelting can be said to be the pinnacle of iron smelting in the feudal era.

Richard led people to build a traditional blast furnace, taught the craftsmen the traditional steelmaking techniques, and told them why they should do so.

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Bronze weapons and armor are still too heavy for soldiers, and now most of the Qin people use stone armor and leather jackets, and only a few people use bronze armor.

Richard led people to make steel in blast furnaces in order to promote iron armor and iron tools, while bronze should be used to make coins.

The construction of a blast furnace is not difficult. Richard has sufficient technical information here, and he can build it according to his information. In addition, in order to smelt iron and steel, Richard also found the coal distillation technology.

Coal distillation technology can remove sulfur from coal, turn coal into carbon, and then use carbon to make iron. At the same time, promoting the use of coal is beneficial to Guanzhong and the north.

The northern region is dry, and the people's long-term logging has caused continuous damage to the environment. During the Qin Dynasty, the Guanzhong Plain was a fertile land of thousands of miles, and the 800-mile Qinchuan was one of the richest places in the world, and it could be said to be the foundation of the emperor. However, after the Tang Dynasty, Guanzhong became desolate.

A big reason for this is deforestation, soil erosion, barren land, reduced food production, and reduced arable land. Now that this situation can be avoided, Richard will naturally do it.

Richard ordered people to prepare coal, and then used a traditional blast furnace to make steel. The yield of steel made in the traditional blast furnace was not high, but it was more than enough for iron smelting.

The scorching flames rose and ignited the blast furnace. Soon, the iron ore that had been prepared long ago was thrown in. After calcining, the ore quickly melted in the blast furnace.

Three days later, accompanied by a cry of "Open the furnace!"

Molten iron gushed out from under the blast furnace, and the scorching hot iron flowed into the molds that had been prepared long ago. The molten iron was directly sent to the workshop next door to be processed into weapons, armor, farm tools, etc.

A furnace of molten iron was used to forge dozens of pieces of armor and weapons. Richard then took these weapons and armor back to Xianyang City to meet the First Emperor.

"Master, are you here today? Do you have any good news?" Ying Zheng was practicing the Daoyin technique that Richard taught him. After several months of training, Ying Zheng clearly felt the benefits of this set of Daoyin techniques. He was now full of energy and strong as if he was in his twenties.

During this period, he would practice the Daoyin technique for half an hour every morning, noon and evening. Now he was not only sharp-minded and strong, but also more relaxed in controlling the government affairs after receiving Richard's reminder. Therefore, he became more respectful to Richard.

"Your Majesty, please look what this is." Richard waved his hand and asked the soldiers to carry in several large boxes.

"What's in this box?" Qin Shihuang asked curiously.

Richard had the box opened, revealing the armor inside, and then took the armor out for display.

"Is this iron armor?" Qin Shihuang recognized the equipment at a glance.

In fact, most armors of this era were made of stone, wood, leather, or bronze, and their defensive capabilities were very limited. Only a few elite soldiers and generals had armor like this.

Then Qin Shihuang tried the iron armor himself. It was lighter than stone armor and bronze armor. There was also a layer of leather and linen lining inside the iron armor, so it was quite comfortable.

"How good is this armor at defending?" asked Qin Shi Huang.

"Your Majesty, how about trying it on the spot?" Richard said with a smile.

The First Emperor nodded immediately after hearing this: "Yes, let's go to the parade ground!"

Soon, everyone arrived at the training ground of Xianyang Palace. The First Emperor asked several soldiers to put iron armor on the wooden rake and then conduct a test.

After putting on the armor, he ordered his men to attack with bows, crossbows, long spears, and long swords. The result was surprising: none of the armor was penetrated by these weapons.

At most, there would be some dents on the armor plates.

After seeing this scene, the First Emperor ordered people to put on armor for testing, and the test results were exactly the same as before.

"Good, good, good!" Qin Shi Huang said three good words in a row. As the emperor who unified the world, Qin Shi Huang knew the power of this set of armor. With these armors, the strength of the Qin soldiers was directly increased several times.

"Good stuff, really good stuff!" The First Emperor said happily: "Master, I wonder how the production of this armor is? Is it easy to produce?"

The First Emperor asked a key question. If these armors were difficult to produce or the production cost was extremely high, then although these armors were good, they could not be equipped in large quantities and their role would be very limited, so they could only be equipped in small quantities.

"The blast furnace I just built can produce 200 sets of armor and weapons and hundreds of iron plows a month if it is fully operational. If we expand the scale and build more blast furnaces, as long as there is enough iron ore and coal, it will not be a problem to produce tens of thousands of armors a year."

Hearing Richard's words, the First Emperor was very happy: "Hahaha, if that's the case, then the strength of my Great Qin warriors will be doubled!"

The emergence of iron armor will inevitably greatly enhance the strength of the Qin army. Even if there is unrest among the remnants of the six kingdoms in the future, the army can quickly put it down.

(End of this chapter)