At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 585: The Young Man of the Han Dynasty

Chen Mai said with mixed feelings: "Your Majesty's idea is really strange."

Zhang Pijiang thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty has been trying to lead the Han Dynasty into a harmonious world for decades. The pressure and hardship involved are imaginable. Perhaps in your Majesty's mind, the throne of the Son of Heaven is really like working like a cow or a horse for the people of the world, so your Majesty wants to abdicate early and do what he likes to do."

"Pijiang is right." Xu Aimin trembled at the thought of his father being an emperor, and his daily living conditions were similar to those of ordinary people in the Han Dynasty.

But his father could create tens or even hundreds of billions of wealth just by giving his advice to any industry. Perhaps for his father, the identity of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty was really a heavy burden.

The hero smiled and said, "Why should everyone be sad? It is a good thing that your Majesty abdicates and can do what he likes. After that, the prince will ascend the throne, and we brothers can also realize our ambitions."

At this point, the hero said regretfully: "England is in the south, I can't fight with you in Chang'an City."

Yingxiong also wanted to stay in Chang'an City and conquer the world with Xu Aimin and others, but unfortunately he had his own vassal states to manage.

Hearing the hero's words, Xu Aimin was also excited. He had been the eldest son of the emperor for more than 5 years and the crown prince for years. It would be a lie to say that he did not want to become the Emperor of Han and rule the Han Dynasty. Of course, he still felt a sense of panic in his heart. His father had brought the Han Dynasty into an unprecedented prosperity, which was also a huge pressure for him. It was not easy to be a king who maintained the status quo.

June 35, 6th year of the Han calendar, Chang'an City, Mozi Academy.

That day, Xu Aimin brought Zhang Pijiang to Mozi Academy.

Zhang Pijiang asked in surprise, "Your Highness, why did you bring me here?"

Xu Aimin said: "Father wants to see you."

Zhang Pijiang understood and said, "Your Majesty, are you teaching students again?"

Xu Aimin nodded and said, "Father has been retired since half a year ago. He comes to the academy to attend classes and go to the laboratory more often than he goes to the court."

35 years after entering the Han calendar, Xu Fan's mentality became more and more like that of a person who is about to retire in later generations. The main government affairs of the court were handed over to Li Shang, and some things that had to be handled by him were handed over to Xu Aimin, under the pretext of allowing him to accumulate experience in advance. Some ceremonial activities such as visiting veterans and offering sacrifices to heaven and earth were also done by Xu Aimin.

Xu Fan did things he liked to do, such as designing a telegraph system in the laboratory. The telegraph had not yet been developed, but a series of research results such as generators, electric lights, and batteries had appeared. However, the experimental wired telegraph had already been produced and was being continuously improved.

After specialized researchers conducted research, Xu Fan realized that he had made a big joke. The diode he made was actually not needed by wired telegraph at all.

Based on the binary principle mentioned by Xu Fan, the big man's experimenter only needed short contact and long contact for the electrical signal, and the so-called diode was not needed at all.

After the sample was given to Xu Fan, he discovered with embarrassment that the way he guided the experiment was wrong. Wired telegraph only required simple knowledge of electricity.

Fortunately, the principle was correct, and local scientific researchers in the Han Dynasty figured out the wired telegraph based on the principle. Now the first experimental telegraph has begun to be built, which is the telegraph connecting Chang'an to Lantian County, a total of 33 miles. From the experimental results, the signal can be received, and now the Han court is compiling its own Morse code.

After this incident, Xu Fan knew that the scientific research talents of the Han Dynasty had already explored the world beyond his own understanding. If he continued to make random suggestions, he would be like an amateur leading the experts, so he simply let go and let the professionals do their professional work.

Compared with telegraph, Xu Fan prefers to go to the mechanical computer laboratory. This is also a big pit. With the development of the economy and population of the Han Dynasty, more and more data need to be calculated and counted, especially the books of the Han Dynasty's various industries that need to be counted by the government. The abacus can no longer meet the needs of the Han Dynasty's social development. As a result, when the statistics are submitted every year, the students of the School of Mathematics whine. There are too many data and they can't finish calculating them. However, the students who can graduate from the School of Mathematics have become excellent accountants under such training.

More than ten years ago, a student named Babbage was tired of the endless calculation of data and came up with the idea of ​​making a calculation tool that was more powerful than the abacus. He was good at hands-on work and spent half a year to ten years to make a mechanical computer that could calculate three-digit numbers.

This thing made Zhang Cang, the superior at that time, overjoyed, so he asked Babbage to study the difference engine with more powerful computing power, and gave him 30 experimental funds for this purpose. But even Babbage never expected that a more powerful mechanical computer would be much more difficult to make than he had imagined. The mechanical manufacturing level of the Han Dynasty lagged behind and could not meet the precise requirements of mechanical computers. In order to manufacture the computer, Babbage ran all over the Han Dynasty's mechanical factories but could not find many usable parts.

Not only were the 30 coins quickly spent, but the logistics officer Zhang Cang also transferred 40 and coins respectively. However, all he saw was a pile of messy parts, which disappointed Zhang Cang. Although Shangji was an important government office, he could not bear to see the funds being thrown into a bottomless pit.

Later, Babbage went through three science and technology expositions and won millions of dollars from three groups of investors. However, the mechanical computer he imagined was still not designed. Instead, he designed a work that he was not satisfied with, which could support 6-digit calculations. After Xu Fan made this incident, he began to support the development of mechanical computers and invested tens of millions of dollars every year. This made Babbage feel like a fish in water. Now the steam computer he designed is as big as half a house. Because it is too heavy, it can only be powered by steam. However, this large mechanical computer can calculate 30, more than 7-digit data at a time. It is considered the most advanced computer before electronic computers. Of course, the price is also extremely high. Because the parts needed are extremely precise. The polishing is done by the great craftsmen of the Han Dynasty. The price of each part is extremely high. When combined, it is a mechanical computer with a price of tens of millions.

Of course, in addition to going to the laboratory, Xu Fan went to various universities more often. He began to recall what he had learned in the later generations, combined with his practical experience over the years, and tried his best to teach the students of the Han Dynasty what he understood in political economics and materialistic philosophy. Xu Fan was not a top student, not to mention that so many years had passed. He roughly knew some principles of economics and political philosophy, and then wrote them through his many years of practice, which could help future generations avoid detours.

Liu Chang, who was following behind Xu Aimin, said, "I have also listened to the emperor's lectures, but unfortunately they were too profound and I did not understand them."

There was really no threshold to becoming a disciple of the emperor in the Han Dynasty. Zhang Pijiang asked curiously, "What did the emperor tell you?"

Liu Chang recalled for a long time and said, "It seems to be the advantages and disadvantages of the market economy, but I can't remember the specific content. I only remember that the emperor seemed to have said something like a visible hand and an invisible hand."

Xu Aimin said unhappily, "The law of the market is called the invisible hand, and the government's regulation of the market is called the visible hand. You can't forget what you learned once you leave school. You can't be a personal guard for the rest of your life. How can you realize your ambitions if you don't study well?"

Xu Aimin had high hopes for his servants and personal guards. After becoming the emperor, he would certainly make use of these confidants, but the important prerequisite was that these people must have sufficient talents. Otherwise, even if he could promote them, these people would not be able to keep their positions.

Liu Chang said: "Your Highness, I want to be a general, not a governor. What's the point of learning these?"

He plucked up his arms and said, "I train for an hour every day. I guarantee that even if Xiang Yu were to come back to life, I would be able to defeat him."

Xu Aimin said with a headache: "What a reckless man!" Zhang Pijiang laughed and said: "Who uses cold weapons in war now? They all use artillery, mortar bombing, and musket shooting. Artillery is the king of war now. An excellent artilleryman is a fierce general in the cold weapon era. If you want to shoot accurately with artillery, you have to be proficient in mathematics and memorize parameter tables."

"Ah!" Liu Chang was stunned.

So they came to the classroom. There were already quite a few students inside. Xu Aimin and the other two found a seat at the back and sat down.

Because the emperor was giving a class, quite a few students came, and soon the place was filled with students.

Soon Xu Fan came to the classroom wearing a pair of reading glasses and said to the students in the following row: "The law of contradiction of things, that is, the law of the unity of opposites, is the core of dialectical materialism. When we study this law, we have to involve a wide range of aspects and many philosophical issues. If we can figure out these issues, we will fundamentally understand dialectical materialism. We must know the universality of contradictions, the particularity of contradictions, the principal contradiction and the principal aspect of contradictions, the identity and struggle of the various aspects of contradictions, and the position of antagonism in contradictions."

Zhang Pijiang was somewhat surprised and asked, "Is the emperor talking about new knowledge again?"

Xu Aimin said: "This is a book written by my father based on his practical experience."

Zhang Pijiang said: "There are some ideas in Laozi's Tao Te Ching, but the emperor's explanation is more simple and easy to understand."

Xu Aimin smiled and said, "I am only a historian of the Zhou Dynasty, but my father is a teacher. Naturally, my father is better at teaching students."

They listened to the lesson carefully, but Liu Chang seemed to be shaking.

After the class, Xu Fan asked Xu Aimin and others to go to a secluded pavilion, and then asked: "What is the current situation of the countries in Daqinzhou?"

Xu Fan was also curious about the situation of Daqinzhou in this era. Judging from the intelligence obtained by the Han Dynasty, the current Daqinzhou is not a country unified by Rome at all. Carthage still exists. He knows that Ptolemy is the ancient Egyptian dynasty. There are Greece, Macedonia, Seleucid Empire, Pergamon, Iberia, etc. There are so many countries in this circle that even Xu Fan was surprised. He originally thought that Daqinzhou was fragmented in modern times, but he did not expect that it was so fragmented two thousand years ago. The place is not big, but there are many countries.

Zhang Pijiang said: "In Daqinzhou, there are three great powers: Rome, Seleucid, and Ptolemaic. Of these three countries, Rome is the strongest, with clear politics and strong military. Its national strength is still on the rise, and it can be said to be the hegemon of the Mediterranean. The court should focus on Rome and suppress it when necessary.

The Seleucid Empire had a large population and rich cultural heritage, but it was already in a period of national decline and had lost the battle for hegemony in the Mediterranean to the Romans. Ptolemy was the most corrupt of the three kingdoms. Its king used divine power to confuse the people and called himself the King of Gods. This was intended to deceive the people, but for some reason, King Ptolemy really believed it. Its inheritance system was also extremely backward. Both men and women had inheritance rights. There were countless gods in the country, the nobles were greedy and incompetent, and the people were ignorant.

As for the rest of Greece, Macedonia and other small countries, they are living in the face of Qin and Chu. Another point is that most of the countries in Daqinzhou are slaves, and slaves account for the majority of their countries, which is similar to the three dynasties of our Han Dynasty. However, they have no opportunity to reform. Daqinzhou cannot change the slave system, and they still have no future. "

Xu Fan shook his head and said, "Slavery is also a tradition of the Great Qin Continent. It's hard to change it!"

This is not a problem of productivity. Even in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties of Chinese civilization, slaves did not constitute the majority. At least the main contradiction of that era was not between slaves and slave owners. Just look at one point. There were very few slave uprisings in Chinese history. At least there was no such thing in Xu Fan's memory.

But the situation in Daqinzhou is different. Rome was a slave empire. There were serfs in the Middle Ages, black slaves even in the industrial age, and even in the information age, they still had private prisons. They did not solve the slave problem like the Han Dynasty did. This problem has always accompanied their civilization. The most important thing is that no matter whether it is the upper class loyal ministers or even the lower class of their civilization, they don't think there is anything wrong with it. This is the biggest problem.

Zhang Pijiang said: "These countries are ignorant and backward, which is not good for our Han Dynasty. Now our Han Dynasty and the countries in Qinzhou have no other goods except gold, silver and slaves. The massive loss of gold and silver will definitely lead to chaos in these countries. They will definitely choose to close their borders to protect themselves. I probably need to allocate some industries to these countries to form a positive cycle of trade."

This is another problem that Xu Fan is not familiar with. This is a trouble that only the world overlord has. It seems that Xu Fan also encountered this trouble in his era, but is this method good?
But it is not possible not to allocate industrial chains to these countries. The trade imbalance means that these countries are forced to close their doors to the outside world, or the Han Dynasty has to use force to open the doors of these countries. But the experience of the colonists has told Xu Fan that where there is oppression, there is resistance, and cruel oppression will only bring more intense resistance.

The most important thing is that these countries are small countries. With the size of the Han Dynasty, even if oil is squeezed out of these countries, it will not get much profit. How much wealth can a slave country have?

As for excluding these countries from the global trade system, that is an even more insane operation. Is the bald eagle engaging in globalized trade because he is kind-hearted?
It’s because globalized trade is beneficial to him. If others make 1 dollar, he can make more than ten dollars.

The same thing is now being applied to the Han Dynasty. Because they are worried that Rome will make 1 dollar from them, they don't even do business worth 10 dollars. They are worried that Rome will learn the industrial technology of the Han Dynasty, so they don't even sell goods to there and simply close the country to the outside world.

How insecure do you have to be to do something like this? You want to be the boss of the world, but you are not willing to share even a sip of your soup with your little brothers. You are so stingy, who would recognize you as the boss?

Even if it was a bald eagle, it had two dogs and was given a lot of dog food at first. Of course, it later killed a lot of dogs and ate their meat, only because the bald eagle itself was weak and needed to kill dogs to replenish its energy.

Xu Fan asked: "What do you think?"

Zhang Pijiang said: "First, we need to spread the values ​​of our Han civilization. Slavery is too backward and can't produce much wealth, so naturally there won't be much trade. We, the Han, must guide these countries to abolish slavery."

"The second is to divide a part of the low-end industrial chain and give it to them, such as cotton planting. Ptolemy and Seleucid Empire can plant it. The Roman region can give them some tea industry and help them build mulberry gardens. We will then buy the silk they have nested, weave it into silk and sell it to them. For every 1 penny of value they create, my Han can earn pennies. The most important thing is that if we control these industrial chains, we can control these countries and make them obey my Han. As long as they don't obey, my Han will cut off trade with them and stop importing their silk, tea, cotton and other cash crops. These cash crops are not food. If they don't trade with my Han, their value will plummet, and their country's economy and fiscal revenue will be unstable. At that time, in order to maintain their country, they will have to obey my Han."

Xu Fan looked at Zhang Pijiang with a strange expression. He was indeed a commoner of the global overlord. Hearing this, he felt inexplicably excited.

But the lack of confidence is still the mainstream of the whole society. This kind of thing happens too often.
Even on the Internet, few people dare to say so confidently that they want to spread the values ​​of the Han Dynasty. To some extent, Zhang Pijiang's self-confidence is even higher than Xu Fan's.

Looking at young people like Zhang Pijiang and his son, he once again felt that he was old. On the issue of how to make the Han Dynasty rule the world, he could no longer compare with the young people of the Han Dynasty. It was time to give up his position and let these young people do it themselves.

Xu Fan said with a carefree smile: "In the future, the problems encountered by the Han Dynasty will be handed over to you to solve. You are the hope of the Han Dynasty, and the future of the Han Dynasty is handed over to you. I hope you will not forget your original intention and lead the Han Dynasty into a world of great harmony."

The young men in my country are not bad either.

(End of this chapter)