warring states careerist

Chapter 888 Leave a Trace
A mother always feels sorry for her little son, and besides, the child who is not close to her is kissed by the child who is far away from her. Hearing the words that he is about to die again, seeing his little son who is so excited and dancing, he gets up and grabs him. Cursed into Shu Guitian's ear, "I don't think you want this eye anymore!"

"Oh, oh, it hurts, it hurts..."

With a cry, she tricked her into letting her go, and Shu Guitian said with a grin, "I'm not afraid if this eye is blind, but I'm afraid that future generations who are not blind will not see my name when they read all over the books. I don’t know that there used to be a man named Shu Guitian in this world.”

No matter what it is when you are outside, as long as your parents are still at home, you will always be a child.

He stepped aside and said: "Brothers, sisters, parents... the world is so big, it's nothing more than eighty thousand miles, it's not endless; there are only so many wills, and the truth is not endless. Neither is it endless After all, someone must be the first. People will always remember the first, but not the second. I want to leave my fame in these endless worlds.”

"I don't do it for the benefit of the world, but only for my own fame. But in other words, I do it out of my heart, but whether the world benefits or not is calculated based on material benefits."

The mother said angrily: "I think you are crazy about fame!"

The father, who was about to find the broom, kept silent all the time, felt that he was too old to understand what the children were talking about, or lamented that the world had changed too much in silence, said: "Forget it. Back then When Juzi named them, he also hoped that they could do many things."

"Well, go to the city tomorrow. I heard that Xiang Xu has made something that can draw people on paper. Although it is quite expensive... But the whole family will ask someone to draw a picture and keep it in mind. "

"Sit down and eat."

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It was said that they would go on the second day, but the whole family was still hungover on the second day. It was not until the morning of the third day that they set off for Peiyi, the third largest city in Sishang.

In the past few years, there have been great changes, there are many more workshops, and there are already many people before they get close to the city.

There are also various workshops on both sides of the river, and ships are sailing, and high dams have been built on some tributaries to drive some hydraulic workshops.

"Now some workshops are in the valleys, far away from the city. Because the valleys have the best rivers that can drive water."

"The workshops there have to arrange accommodation for the hired workers, because it is too far away from the city. However, I heard that the tool factory is researching tools that can be used by burning coal. It may be successful in ten years, maybe fifty years, or maybe a hundred years. At that time, the workshop will be in the city."

"When those workshops move to the city..."

In the car, the second son, who knew more about Sishang's market affairs in these years, told the sisters and brothers some news he had read from the newspaper.

He recalled the contents of the newspaper, and was about to describe those bright futures. The gentleman thought of what his husband, or what he should call his little aunt, said in a cold voice: "At that time, the workers will be more It’s hard, because it will give priority to hiring those who have a place to live, which will save a lot of money. For the same ten dollars a day, those who have a place to live will accept it, and those who don’t have a place to live will find it difficult to accept.”

After pouring cold water, Shu Guitian suddenly remembered what he had heard in the car when he returned home, poked his sister beside him and said, "Sister, I heard that there is no need to burn seaweed ashes now in soda production? How did you do it? "

The gentleman restrained the gloomy feeling that had just passed by and said: "There is a specialization in art, I don't know. If you ask the people in those workshops how to draw, they don't know. Anyway, I heard that they are burning iron ore and making acid. , acid and salt heating, and then use charcoal and lime to burn it back? But it seems that it is okay to use Glauber’s salt directly, but there are few Glauber’s salt mines in Sishang; there is a lot of Glauber’s salt in the north of Gaoliu, but there is a lake there that can directly dry alkali.”

Of course, she can't understand it in such detail, and she is not knowledgeable in her profession, but since she can start a workshop now, the technology is not too difficult now, only the cost requirement.

Make acid with pyrite and clay pot method, then make sodium sulfide with carbon reduction method, and finally react with limestone, precipitate, filter and crystallize.

It was not built originally, because the ashes workshops used by the nobles of Yue to use the forced labor of the people in the land were enough to provide what Sishang needed.

However, with the development of industry and commerce in Sishang and the expansion of foreign trade, alkali is needed in glass manufacturing, dyeing, papermaking, daily food, soap industry, and textile industry. The expansion of various workshops has led to an increasing demand for alkali. It is profitable, so start.

Nowadays, there are many strange workshops in Sishang, and the gap between various professions is getting wider and wider, but for the public, most people have gradually become accustomed to everything produced by these weird workshops.

After the family arrived at the place where it was rumored that portraits could be painted, Shu Junzi looked in amazement at the black and white paintings of doors and cities hanging outside.

These black and white paintings are so realistic that they are a little scary.

The founder looked at the expressions of these people and said with a smile, "Isn't it pretty? As long as you spend money, you can leave the appearance of your family."

The gentleman joked, "I've seen better ones in school. The colored ones are almost the same as the real ones."

The person who opened it patted his forehead and said, "That's painting, you need to use a pen. It's different from this one. Besides, how much does that kind of painting cost? Do you know how it's painted?"

The gentleman shook his head, and said humanely: "It relies on a lens and lays paper on the back. Take a map and draw it bit by bit with color, is it still unrealistic? But in that case, it takes three or five people to paint." Yue, apart from those aristocrats wandering here, who will learn? Who can draw? Sitting there every day for several months, no one can stand it, right?"

"So, although this is black and white, the people can benefit. The giant said..."

Hearing that this man was about to say another word from a giant, Shu Junzi quickly interrupted: "Okay, okay. Then, let's draw?"

The man said with a smile: "There are different prices. Some are vague, and that one is cheaper. Some, more clear, are more expensive. Even if it is clear, the price is different."

The common gentleman wondered: "It's all clear, why are the prices different?"

The man pointed to a dark room in the back and said, "This method of drawing people requires light to shine through. The time for light to pass through is different depending on the things used for light."

"To make it clearer, you have to use Kelin tablets and egg whites. But, egg whites can't melt much photosensitive medicine, so you have to sit there for a quarter of an hour or two."

"There are some that don't need to sit for a quarter of an hour or two, but the material used is expensive. It can replace egg white and is more translucent than egg white. It sticks to the Kelin sheet. And it is easy to catch fire and explode when combined. So much more expensive."

"If you can make one that is transparent, can stick to the photosensitive powder, and will not catch fire and explode when you configure it, it will definitely be cheaper. Besides, how much gold will be rewarded for it, and anyone who uses this method in the future will be rewarded I want to give dividends for the production.”

Shu Guitian waved his hand and said, "I want the one that is easy to catch fire and explode quickly."

The man said: "Then I have to ask my husband. To prepare that medicine, I have to come, but I can't. Just wait a moment."

He ran inside, came out after a while and apologized: "Sir, I can't make it today. You should sit longer."

Shu Guitian glanced at the strange wooden box and asked, "You don't need to come here yourself?"

The man bared his teeth and said with a smile: "That's not necessary. The egg white won't catch fire or explode, but it's not very clear, and it sits for a long time. You'd better not laugh."

"why?"

"Hey, think about it. If you laugh for a quarter of an hour, your mouth won't cramp, right? It's just like the expression on your face when you stand in line during the military service."

The whole family thought about it too, if they had to sit there for a quarter of an hour, laughing all the time, it would be really cramp, and it would be ugly.

So the big family tidied up their clothes, the parents sat in the middle, the daughter-in-law and grandchildren who were holding the child sat on the two sides, and the four of them had served in the military or had the drive to travel far and wide, and stood behind.

I didn't see the person on the opposite side picking up a pen, but they just got into a small black felt tent, fiddled with something, and then called them to face the wooden box and waited quietly for a long two quarters of an hour.

Two quarters of an hour is actually not long.

But two quarters of an hour can't speak, chat, or walk, and keep a serious face, which is a bit long.

During the long wait, everyone had their own thoughts.

It's not the first time for the concubine to come into contact with this thing. When their cavalry brigade was reorganized into a cavalry division a while ago, he, the brigade commander, took a photo with his colleagues and division commanders, but that time it was very fast. Professionals dispensed the medicine, neither an explosion nor a fire, and there was no need to wait too long.

He looked at the wooden box, but what he was thinking about was completely unrelated to the wooden box. He was thinking about all kinds of things after the holiday for a while.

This time Sishang's military expansion is not a secret, it must be preparing for a big battle, and Jishui is still building a city fortress.

After returning, his cavalry division will be transferred to the vicinity of Jucheng, and the concubine Mi thought, is it possible to start a war with Qi?The reason is always easy to find, Qi's cavalry is also very weak.

Furthermore, the above has finally decided that even non-armed cavalry cavalry will only be equipped with iron swords, and those who are willing to equip short guns will buy them themselves, but they will no longer be issued, and the cavalry will use short guns. It is a good thing, the opening of the gap is left to the artillery and infantry, what is the matter with the cavalry with short guns.

Shu Guitian thought to himself, this is a good thing, since he is far away from his hometown, he can let his parents look at it from time to time.

But after thinking about it again, this is different. I and my second brother actually look very similar. After all, I was born as a compatriot. I was blind in one eye and got tanned a lot, but there was not much difference in other things. What my parents wanted to see It's not about appearance, but about yourself.

Then I thought, if I really died at sea... I have to tell my second brother in advance, if my parents are sick and want to see me, I have to ask my second brother to wear a blindfold, and it is best to keep another set of Xi Liushui master The official uniforms of military officers can also let parents fulfill their wish.

He thought, this matter has to be discussed with his brothers and sisters, this is not a trivial matter.

As the two parents, looking at the wooden box in front of them and the black and white paintings pasted next to them, they felt the most emotional.

Their parents have been farmers all their lives and cannot leave the land; they have experienced everything that the Mo family has experienced in this generation, shed blood, spun cloth, fought wars, dug ditches... no complaints or regrets, just for The original dream of "Promised Land".

Looking at it today, the "Promised Land" poem that seemed out of reach at that time has already been achieved, even surpassed.

At the beginning, I thought that if I had enough food, had my own property and land, and my children could read and write like gentlemen, it was considered a paradise, and it was a paradise that was out of reach.

Thinking about it now, the original poems were so unimaginable. Some people have replaced the grass windows as windows, not to mention many things that were unimaginable before.

Both of them sat quietly in accordance with the rules, even though they were serious when they spoke, there were still satisfied smiles on the corners of their mouths.

The common man is thinking that in the past there will be a saint who knows everything, but in the future there will be no such thing.After studying for so long, even if she is a genius, it is impossible for her to be at the same level as her in surveying, mapping and astronomy just by looking at it.

Just like this art of drawing people, if you learn it yourself, it shouldn't be difficult, but if you want to improve it, it's tantamount to impossible.She is somewhat conceited of her own intelligence, but she also knows that there are many people in Xiangxu Academy who are as conceited as she is, or even more conceited than her. If each learns a share, the gap will only widen if they specialize in skills.

Even if it is Juzi himself, he may know a lot of things in general, just like drawing a picture and calculating, Juzi is not as good as himself; observing the starry sky, Juzi may know which is the Tai Sui star, but let him look at the moon of Tai Sui to know the time, It is definitely not possible, it is all accumulated and calculated with countless hours of time, and the young talents of Sishang and her generation have dedicated ten years or more to the great cause of benefiting the world. It's hard, just like when I was a human being, if the giant knew it, he would definitely write it. Obviously he didn't know...

The only thing is that she didn't expect that the optics involved in the telescope she used all day could be used like this?After reflecting, copying and drawing with ink on paper, I am afraid that only those aristocratic sons who have money to travel and study can do this.

The reason why I thought of those noble sons was because there was a former noble son who had severed ties with the family long ago and was pursuing her.As a woman, I can't help but feel that the six arts that the other party accepted as a child are still a plus, at least in terms of music... It's hard for the generation born in Sishang to compare.

Mohism has changed from non-music revision to non-noble extravagant music. She also went to the theater to watch several dance dramas that combined "propaganda" and Handan tiptoe dance, and heard a few dance dramas that "let the people also hear the nobles' words." Listening to the music of "The Music of Bells and Drums", I have to say that these things are still very beautiful.

After this time, I heard that this group of them will no longer go out, and will rely on newcomers in the future. It seems that I can settle down, and my life will be very good.

"Hmm. It's going to be nice."

I answered the question in my heart softly, turned my eyes to the strange wooden box, bypassed the pedestrians who were in a hurry and smiled on the street, looked at the workshop with thick smoke in the distance, and thought, victory is inevitable, So those who don't need to go to the battlefield can go to live now.

She has traveled to many places, the desolate grassland, the humid South China Sea, the closed Nine Yi, and the vast Yunmeng, so she knows that Sishang is completely different from other places.

Just like this strange wooden box in front of me, it means the reason for the victory of the Mohists; and when this wooden box can also appear in Jiuyi Yunmeng, South China Sea, it probably means that the world has already benefited greatly.

She thought that there are still many places that she has never been to, such as the legendary Kunlun, Sushen in the extreme north, the precipitous Huashan Mountain in Xihe, and the countries recorded in Suo Lu's book.

Some may not be able to go in this life, but some, when the world is united, can go, and when the time comes, they will go just because they want to go, which is really great.

In the reverie, two quarters of an hour finally passed.

A few days later, a few black-and-white pictures, which seemed so lifelike to my eyes at this time, returned home.

One left.

One went to the military camp with the concubine prisoner Mi; one followed the concubine to Xiangxu school;

(End of this chapter)