The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 958 The Zhu Family's Troubles [Subscribe*Monthly Ticket Request]

Master Ban's compromise and Zhu's stepping down the stairs made this informal meeting end in a mutually beneficial way.

However, Master Ban, who returned to the Mohist residence, felt a little confused. Did he really take the wrong path all these years?
Master Ban's spiritual heart was on the brink of collapse.

He is recognized as the world's number one master of mechanical engineering, there is no doubt about that, even his mortal enemy Gongshu Chou admits it.

But now, Zhu Jia told him that he had deviated from the Mohist concept of mechanical engineering, which made it difficult for him to accept it for a while.

"What's wrong with Master Ban?" Jing Ke looked at the dazed Master Ban and was a little surprised. This optimistic old man actually had something on his mind?

The Mohist leader who was traveling with us explained in detail the process of today's meeting at the Prime Minister's Mansion.

"..." Jing Ke looked at the group of people speechlessly, "Do you think so too?"

The leader of the Mohist school did not answer, but silence was the best answer.

"Idiot, you don't even know you've been tricked!" Jing Ke rolled his eyes.

"My Mohist School is a prominent school of thought in the world, with a large number of members. Everyone has their own duties and tasks. Master Ban is the world's number one master of mechanical devices, so he is naturally responsible for the manufacture of the most sophisticated mechanical devices to fight against the Gongshu family. Therefore, Master Ban's mechanical beasts tend to be war weapons."

"But this doesn't mean that my Mohist mechanical arts have gone astray!"

Jing Ke's words were like a wake-up call, waking everyone up.

Mohist disciples may not be in the hundreds of thousands, but there are at least several hundred or several thousand.

It is impossible that all mechanical beasts were made by Master Ban, and it is also impossible that Master Ban is the only one responsible for the research of Mohist mechanical arts.

"Over the years, haven't we created enough mechanical devices that benefit the people?"

"Let's not talk about the distant past. The Bingzhou Liuli Factory has made the once unattainable Liuli enter thousands of households. The construction of Beiye Royal City has settled many grassland people, so that they no longer need to wander around. The improvement of papermaking, the emergence of paper books, and the cashmere fur coats to keep warm, aren't these all the result of my Mohist disciples' painstaking efforts, day and night thinking, and continuous deduction and creation?"

Jing Ke was helpless. These people were too biased and actually ignored the Mohist art of debate. They were led by the Zhu family, who generalized the whole thing and almost broke Master Ban's faith in Taoism.

Everyone suddenly realized that, yes, their Mohist mechanical skills were not deviated, they just had their own specialties and responsibilities.

They have created many technologies that benefit the people over the years, and many of them are unprecedented and will go down in history.

"However, the Zhu family is right about one thing. Mechanical beasts like the white tiger and the four-clawed iron spider should not appear on the battlefield. They should have a wider range of uses!" Jing Ke still agreed with the Zhu family's statement.

The Mohist School studied military equipment and battlefield weapons in order to counter Gongshu School's overbearing mechanical techniques, with the goal of stopping the war!
But this does not mean that these things can only appear on the battlefield. The mechanical white tiger is very powerful and can be castrated for civilian and agricultural use. After all, driving a tiger to plow the land is still a bit scary and it also loses the dignity of the tiger. If the white tiger is changed to a cow or a horse, the power and flexibility do not need to be so great. Why do you need such great power and flexibility to plow the land?
As for the four-clawed iron spider, if you adjust the height, it can be used to mow the lawn.

"Also, the farmers don't have their own foundry halls. What's the point of the Chiyou Hall? My Mohist family can modify the mechanical white tiger to plow the land, but they should also design the blueprints for the plows. Otherwise, my Mohist family provides the power, but it breaks when pulled. What's the point of having them here?"

As a great figure of the Mohist school, Jing Ke is not one to suffer losses. He wants the Mohists to sacrifice the Mechanical White Tiger and castrate and transform it, but the farmers are just going to sit and watch?

The plow used to plow the land is a farm tool and a farmer's specialty. If farmers don't do it, who will do it?

"Also, due to the climate problem north of the Daling River, many crops are not suitable for growth, which is also their main business. So before my Mo family designs new agricultural and civilian mechanical beasts, they'd better cultivate crops suitable for planting north of the Daling River!"

Jing Ke said in a cold voice.

Machinery, I, the Mo family, can handle it, but I made it, and you tell me that you can't cultivate seeds suitable for planting, then don't blame me, the Mo family, for getting angry.
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The Zhu family on the other side also had a headache. It was a fact that there were six halls in a farming family and each of them had their own ideas.

As the head of Shennong Hall, their heritage is to taste hundreds of herbs and identify plants. They can be said to be pioneers of botany. This is why the Zhu family was able to discover that the soil was fertile and suitable for planting as soon as the Bingzhou Military Intelligence Bureau spies brought back plants north of the Daling River.

However, cultivating grains is the main job of Kuiwei Hall. Kuiwei Hall is also the best in the world at cultivating plants and growing grains. But the current head of Kuiwei Hall is a woman named Tian Mi.

If one wants to develop the area north of the Daling River, among the six farming halls, one needs at least the Kuiwei Hall that is good at growing grains, the Chiyou Hall that is good at making farm tools, the Gonggong Hall that is good at building water conservancy projects, the Lieshan Hall that is good at observing weather and climate and deducing the calendar, as well as one's own Shennong Hall. In other words, except for the Siyue Hall that plays music, the other five halls must participate.

"Tian Hu from Chiyou Hall is easy to deal with. If we explain the reason, he will fully cooperate with our Shennong Hall. But Tian Meng from Lieshan Hall, Tian Mi from Kuiwei Hall, and Mr. Jin from Gonggong Hall..." Zhu Jia held his forehead with his hand. They are all troublesome people.

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Lieshantang Tian Meng was competing with him for the position of the chief knight, so it was naturally impossible for him to watch him achieve such great achievements.

Simply put, if Shennong Hall really reached an agreement with Bingzhou, Mohism, and Gongshujia to help Bingzhou develop the area north of Daling River, then it would be a foregone conclusion that he, the head of Shennong Hall, would become the leader of the heroes.

Therefore, Tian Meng will definitely not cooperate!
"To understand the calendar, we don't necessarily need Lieshan Hall!" Zhu Jia thought about it. At least the Gan and Shi families brought in from Bingzhou were the invincible ones in this field. However, if the six elders knew that he deliberately excluded Lieshan Hall, the disciples from other halls would also have opinions.

After all, the hero comes from the Six Halls, but he is the general manager of the Six Halls and is based on farmers.

"Let's wait and see. If Tian Meng doesn't cooperate, don't blame me for abandoning him!" Zhu Jia thought to himself. To develop the area north of Daling River, Lieshan Hall is not the key.

The key is still the farm tools of Chiyou Hall, and the most important thing is the grains of Kuiwei Hall.

Other halls can find alternatives in Bingzhou, and even the Mohist School can make up the difference. The only thing is growing grains. Except for the Kuiwei Hall, there is no one in the whole world who is more proficient than them.

But Tian Mi is a very difficult woman to deal with.

(End of this chapter)