Prehistoric six ears against the sky

Chapter 110 Outbreak
The princes were actually not willing to send troops to suppress the rebellion, but the northern prince Chonghou Hu sent troops because of face, and the eastern prince Jiang Huanchu sent troops because of his in-laws. I have to move.This is an opportunity, Sun Ming used the opportunity to let the princes send troops to attack Yuan Futong, and Yuan Futong is still relatively young, if it is not for Chaoge's new decree, his fief can still stand up, there is no need to rebel now.

Due to the hardships of life, the farmers had to drag their families and flee to Chaoge, which caused the population of Yuan Futong's fief to drop sharply, and had to launch a rebellion in advance.Sun Ming received a battle report every half a month. Every time Wen Zhong came to analyze the content of the battle report with Sun Ming, Wen Zhong wanted to explain some forms of war. After all, the king must understand these.

"My lord, if this goes on like this, it won't take a year for the rebellion of the 72 princes to be suppressed. How will their fiefs be dealt with? Is it really owned by the royal family?" Wen Zhong asked.

"Naturally, but the princes who participated in the judging need to be rewarded. I need to think about it again. This matter is not urgent. Although their speed is very fast, the number of soldiers and horses is actually the same after all, and they will fight for a while." Ming is very determined to reclaim the land, and he is very clear about the problems on the land. Only by reclaiming the land and prohibiting trading can the problem of land annexation be solved.

There is also an advantage, giving more gold and silver to ministers and princes, not giving them land, not only can the new currency be circulated, so that they will go into business in order to become richer, the country can be prosperous and strong when the business is developed, and the business tax Sun Ming It is not intended to charge less.

To collect more commercial taxes and less agricultural taxes is the principle of a rich and powerful country. Sun Ming is quite familiar with this. After all, he is a Chinese.The only problem is that after the merchants develop, they are very powerful, powerful enough to overthrow the rule of a country, but is it really possible in the face of feudal kingship?

The foundation of China's royal power is the peasants. As long as the peasants have land to grow and food to eat, then everything is not a problem. The same is true here in Honghuang. Sun Ming only needs to stabilize the peasants, and then the merchants will not be able to make big waves. No one will followed them in rebellion.

Sun Ming has his own plan, boil the frogs in warm water, it is difficult for the princes to unite and rebel unless they are forced to a certain level, and he needs to appease them so that they can be kept hesitant. Weakened, in the end, it is just a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

Wen Zhongyi shared his thoughts with Wen Zhong, and Wen Zhong thought for a while, "Your Majesty, if all the princes are cleared up in this way, how can my Dashang manage such a large territory?"

"Didn't the prime minister train officials at the beginning?" Sun Ming said.

"My lord, it is very difficult to popularize characters now, and most of the hundreds of people don't even know the characters. How to train officials?"

Sun Ming suddenly realized that he had forgotten such an important thing. What he used now was just bamboo slips, and the characters were mostly pictographs. I have a long way to go, Simplified characters?
I intend to introduce simplified characters, but it seems that traditional characters are more suitable. Traditional characters are also called traditional Chinese. The "First Batch of Simplified Character List" in 1935 is called traditional Chinese, and European and American countries call it traditional Chinese.Sun Ming is a Chinese medicine student, so he knows traditional Chinese characters naturally, and he is also good at writing with a brush. Thinking of this, he thought of making paper.

"I have my own ideas about this matter. Grand Master, go and find some craftsmen for me!" Sun Ming thought of craftsmen again, and at the same time thought of the status of craftsmen. He must face up to craftsmen. Although they may not be literate, their The technology is good, and the development of civilization is inseparable from them. Those scholars cannot be allowed to suppress the status of craftsmen, and everything must be done at the beginning.

Wen Zhong left, while Sun Ming got up and looked at the map hanging in the back hall of the Yizheng Hall. It was a very simple sheepskin map with the approximate distribution of the princes, and the fiefs of the 72 princes were connected together. There is a fief of Northern Bohou Chonghouhu between them and Chaoge.

It stands to reason that the geographical location of the princes of Route 72 is good. In the central part of the north, there is still a long distance from the miasma on the North Sea. The miasma there does not affect them, and the land is also fertile, but the winter is particularly cold. That's all.

Such a place makes the people under the rule want to flee, which shows how corrupt their rule is. If all these places are brought back to the center, then the population can be increased by at least 80, right?If the land is divided, the population will inevitably double within five years. Although the population cannot be reduced to a small population, what will happen in ten years?When these newly increased populations, combined with the population growth of Chaoge, can pull up an army of at least 30, it will not be a problem to squeeze 50 troops.

Of course, I may not need so much. It will depend on the situation at that time. At the same time, improving ordnance is inevitable. So I still have a lot of things to do, and my scientific knowledge is not very rich. After all, I am studying Chinese medicine. There are many things Also know a general idea.

For example, he knows a rough idea of ​​the raw materials needed for papermaking, and he only knows a rough idea of ​​the process. If he wants to produce paper, he can only let the craftsmen experiment along his line of thinking. The craftsmen have to figure out how the process is.Fortunately, he is the king and has absolute power, otherwise it would be very difficult to complete. The craftsmen Wen Zhong found had everything. Sun Ming explained his thoughts and then sent the craftsmen away.

The craftsmen were at a loss. They didn't know what paper was. They only had a brief description by Sun Ming, and a vague material and process. However, the craftsmen were very smart. They decided to make a paper according to what the king said. Outline the general steps, and then slowly fill things in, so step by step, there is no time limit anyway.

Not to mention, these craftsmen first made a rough idea of ​​the process, and then tried to make it a few times. Finally, the paper came out, but it was either too brittle or the color was wrong, but at least they saw hope, so they continued to improve from the raw materials and craftsmanship. Improvement, within a month I really made paper.

And smelting is also progressing rapidly, because Sun Ming gave a high reward, and at the same time, the craftsmen have a grading system.It is divided into several levels: apprentice, elementary, intermediate, advanced, master, and grandmaster. Once the first batch of experiments are successful, all of them will be promoted to grandmaster.A master is equivalent to the status of a small prince, so the craftsmen are like chicken blood, working hard, who doesn't want to have status and status?At the same time, there are generous rewards.

The sudden explosion of science and technology made Chaoge, the center of the Shang Dynasty, suddenly lively, and Wang Shu Bigan began to frequently enter and leave the palace.

"Your Majesty, the iron smelting has been completed. I don't know what to do?" Uncle Wang Bigan's words made Sun Ming's eyes light up, but there are many kinds of iron, and what Sun Ming wanted was steel.

"Then they mix other metals to produce steel. The texture of steel needs to be strong and tough. How to do it is up to them." In a word, the craftsmen below started to work hard again, and this time they were promoted in metal smelting At the level of a master, if you practice the steel mentioned by the king, you must become a master.There is enthusiasm when there are rewards, and the reason for the sudden outbreak is also accumulated.

The human race has developed for tens of thousands of years, but there has never been such a large-scale centralized use of artisans. Many things are passed down from generation to generation, but now, under the stimulation of rewards, many things have been taken out for intensive research. It makes sense.

This is the case on the earth. The Chinese people have always hidden their technology, and never spread it out as treasures, nor have they been concentrated for large-scale research. This has caused a lot of technology to disappear in the long river of history.But now that Sun Ming adopts a centralized method to let the technology explode at once, it is reasonable for the speed of such research to advance by leaps and bounds.

Sun Ming discovered this, so he boldly gave an idea, and then let them study it by themselves instead of using the way of refining weapons to help. After all, people always have to rely on themselves, which is also convenient for technology spread.

When the newest paper was produced, Sun Ming held it in his hand and kept stroking it, "Good stuff, let's raise them all to masters."

"Your Majesty, don't you want to be promoted to Grandmaster?" Wang Shu Bigan was also happy looking at the paper, and deliberately won it over for the craftsmen.

"No, let them continue to work hard. The manufacturing process needs to be simple, convenient, and fast. At the same time, it also needs to make pens and inks." Sun Ming looked at Wang Shu Bigan with a puzzled face, and then explained what pens and inks are. .Then he brought out movable type printing again. Except for ink, the other two of these three are easy to talk about, but Sun Ming probably won't take long.

Sun Ming Paper can spread culture and serve himself at the same time. He wants to make a statement.Why Liyan?It is to summarize what I said, and then spread it out, so that everyone knows what I said and what I did.It is impossible to do good deeds without leaving a name. As a great king, if he wants to strengthen the centralization of power, he must let the people, especially the people in the princes' territories, agree with him. When the time comes to eliminate the princes, he will definitely get support.

The princes often use his name to exploit the people, so his reputation will not be good in the hearts of the people. Now Chaoge knows that he is a good monarch, but he is not sure about other places!

It seems like an industrial revolution broke out in Chaoge, and a lot of new things kept coming out. After a year, Sun Ming's basic technology was ready, and a large number of master-level craftsmen appeared. The craftsmanship has been improved by leaps and bounds, and many things have been produced on a large scale.

(End of this chapter)