My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 110 The Lost Ancient Book

In the past few months, Li Momo would drag Xu Nian to the antique shop whenever he had time. After a few visits, Li Han got used to having two more companions in the store.

But thanks to Li Momo, the store's business is getting better and better with her promotion.

The batch of wooden artworks that Lao Zhu sent last time has sold dozens of pieces.

If it were a boutique, it would have to close down if it only sold dozens of pieces in a few months.

However, what Li Han sells are genuine luxury goods. Compared with flashy bags and perfumes, these wooden artworks not only have extremely high artistic value, but also have a lot of room for appreciation.

Dozens of wooden artworks have successfully increased his bank balance to tens of millions.

However, with his indifferent personality, he neither bought houses nor land, nor purchased luxury cars. Therefore, except Li Momo and Xu Nian, almost no one knew that Li Han was already a multi-millionaire.

This also saves a lot of trouble. If those nosy relatives knew about it, my shop would be crowded with matchmakers.

In Xu Nian's words, Li Momo is saving up her dowry.

Li Han didn't take it seriously. After all, he was the COO of a large group and a real rich second generation. In Nanjing, tens of millions in deposits were not something he cared about.

But it feels really good to have money. Looking at the string of zeros in the mobile banking account, my sense of security suddenly increases!
Moreover, this money cannot be spent indiscriminately, as it is the start-up capital for the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty. In Li Han’s own words, we, Old Li, are now also the original shareholder of the Ming Dynasty.

After seeing off Li Momo and Xu Nian, it was already nightfall. After closing the shop, Li Han had nothing to do, so he went to the warehouse, opened his mailbox, and then saw the reply letter from Zhu Yuanzhang.

In addition to the reply letter, there was also a thick stack of books. Li Han was stunned and wondered what Lao Zhu was up to.
Looking at the stack of books, with typical Song Dynasty linear craftsmanship, they seemed to be classics from the Song Dynasty. I put on gloves and took them out carefully.

Then he saw the two big characters "Mozi" written with a brush on the cover!
Mozi?

Lao Zhu gave himself a set of Mozi?
I carefully opened the book and saw the words written on the title page: "All people in the world love each other. The strong do not oppress the weak, the majority do not rob the minority, the rich do not humiliate the poor, the noble do not bully the humble, and the cunning do not deceive the foolish."

This is……

Li Han's heart moved, he took a deep breath, and then quickly browsed through every article of Mozi.

Sixty-one articles in total!
All the hair on his body stood up immediately!

This is the "Mozi" proofread and copied by the Western Han Dynasty writers Liu Xiang and his son Liu Xin!
It’s just that the version of "Mozi" by Liu and his son has a total of 71 chapters, but many of them were lost in the long river of history. Until the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, only 61 chapters were left.

Wow, Old Zhu has sent the lost book to me!
The only Mohist classic handed down today is the book "Mozi", all of which are included in the "Daozang", a classic of Chinese culture.

The Daoist Canon classics currently available on the market are derived from the Daoist Canon compiled twice during the Ming Dynasty.

The first time the Ming Dynasty compiled the Taoist Canon was in 1403, at the beginning of Zhu Di's reign. He ordered the rd Heavenly Master Zhang Yuchu to revise the Taoist Canon. After Zhang Yuchu's death, his brother, the th Heavenly Master Zhang Yuqing, continued to preside over the compilation.

It was not until the ninth year of Emperor Zongying's Zhengtong reign that the book was officially completed, and it was revised and printed in the tenth year of Zhengtong reign.

This version of the Daoist Canon is called the Orthodox Daoist Canon.

Later, during the Wanli period, the "Daoist Canon" was supplemented and was called the "Wanli Continued Daoist Canon".

Although the current "Daoist Canon" is a revised version of the two editions of "Daoist Canon" during the Ming Dynasty, it only contains 53 chapters of "Mozi"!
Eight of them were lost somewhere over the centuries!

Old Zhu is helping himself by completing the 8 missing articles!

Holding the Song Dynasty's "Mozi" in his hands, Li Han's hands could not help but tremble. The book in his hand was a cultural treasure handed down from generation to generation, unique in the world, and there is only one such copy!
For a moment, Li Han didn't know what to do with these books. He couldn't sell them, even if he was beaten to death, or...

Li Han was thinking, should he find an opportunity to publish it?
No, that won’t work. How to explain the source of the missing 8 articles is a big problem.

It’s better to keep it for yourself first and talk about it when there is a chance.

I found a sandalwood box, carefully packed the 61 chapters of "Mozi" into it, and put some insect repellent in it. Only then did I feel relieved.

He naturally understood Lao Zhu's intentions. The Mohist school was the culmination of the craftsmanship of the pre-Qin period. Sending the "Mozi" book was certainly not Lao Zhu's way of loving all and not attacking, but an expression of respect for technology.

Then he opened the letter and began to read.

Li Han could fully imagine how shocked the people of the Ming Dynasty would be by the flying hot air balloon.

Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has had a beautiful vision of flying. When people actually see that there are instruments that can carry people into the sky, the visual impact goes straight to the soul. In such a shocking scene, debate will become meaningless.

After reading the letter, Li Han closed his eyes and lay on the bed, but an intense brainstorming session was going on in his mind.

Historically, during the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang launched several northern expeditions, with both victories and defeats. However, in the 29th year of Hongwu, the army led by Lan Yu completely defeated the Yuan court at Buyur Lake, causing the Yuan Dynasty to completely disappear in history.

Now that he has epoch-making weapons and equipment such as the needle-fire gun, Zhu Yuanzhang wants to end the history of the Yuan Dynasty in advance in the 15th year of Hongwu.

This is a good thing, as it will completely end the threat posed by nomadic peoples to the Central Plains dynasty and free up energy to develop maritime trade.

However, before launching the Northern Expedition, Zhu Yuanzhang could also use newspapers to carry out propaganda to stabilize the people's hearts and create an atmosphere of social opinion that unites people against the common enemy.

At the same time, the production of guns and ammunition is indeed the top priority, the key among the keys.

How to increase production based on the existing number of craftsmen, to put it simply, is to increase efficiency and increase production. This is actually a systematic engineering problem that involves management, statistics, optimization of resources, effective allocation, etc.

Should we give Lao Zhu a systematic engineering course?
This is not a bad idea. Daming already has a professional technical school, so this course can be added there. As for the teachers, we can just buy a few more laptops and projectors and send them over.

However, what Mr. Zhu needs now is output rather than teachers. So how can he achieve efficiency improvement and increased production under the premise that the existing means of production cannot be increased?

Li Han thought about it, and a flash of inspiration came to his mind, and he instantly had the answer.

Standardization, assembly line!
Although the Ming Dynasty has established various types of factories today, in essence, they are just large-scale handicraft workshops.

Every worker actually goes through the entire gun production process, from the manufacturing of parts to the assembly of guns.

Not only is the efficiency low, but there is also no guarantee that every part is qualified, so a large number of skilled craftsmen are needed to ensure the qualification rate of the products.

So what about the assembly line? To put it simply, it is to break down the gun manufacturing process and let different workers be responsible for different parts.

Of course, this is just a simple concept. Its actual implementation is much more complicated. The most critical thing here is the standardization of each component.

Having made up his mind, Li Han jumped up from the bed and began to look up information and write the engineering process of the first assembly line in the Ming Dynasty.

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