Chapter 84: Liu Xiu's Numbers
Leeches are awesome.
After Xun Ze saw the leech's reply, the whole person's train of thought was instantly opened.
At the beginning, he was limited by Wang Mang's statement that everyone has food, everyone has clothes, and the nobles and commoners are equal to each other, so he tried to think about how to make Wang Mang achieve such a prosperous era.
But in ancient times, no large country could have achieved such an achievement, unless it was a small country.
Because productivity is there, even if you try your best to achieve such a miraculous achievement in a given year.
In a dozen years, the population will explode because of the stable living environment, and the backward productive forces and limited land will inevitably lead to the resurgence of contradictions.
Don't talk about pioneers or voyages.
With the scientific and technological level and development technology of the Han Dynasty, even if all the fertile land in Jianghuai was developed, it would probably take hundreds of years.
And during the development period, the central government must have a strong determination and execution ability!
In order to achieve this condition, the central government must have government agencies with a clear division of labor and unified thinking, convenient communication equipment, and transportation tools and roads that can quickly transport material resources and manpower!
Therefore, after determining that Wang Mang's prosperity could not be completed, Xun Ze set his sights on the reasons why Wang Mang wanted to achieve such a society.
Of course, there is a big meow's flickering in this. But the fundamental reason is that the Western Han Dynasty has come to the end of its life. After defeating the Xiongnu and subjugating the four seas, the class contradictions of the Han Dynasty, which had no foreign enemies, quickly began to appear.
The rich have no land, and the poor have no place to stand. The contradiction between the rich and the poor has reached an extremely acute point, and Wang Mang, as a top wealthy family, saw this and wanted to reform the entire imperial court.
Even, it is very likely that he knew through Da Meow that without his reforms, the Western Han Dynasty would have experienced an extremely cruel internal war in order to clean up the 'excess population' and 'excessive aristocracy', and then achieve wealth redistribution!
Then, what Xun Ze needs to teach Wang Mang is how to let the Western Han Dynasty transition to the Eastern Han Dynasty at the least cost!
How about fighting local tyrants and dividing the land?
He looked at the relevant materials in the late Western Han Dynasty and felt that the main contradiction was still concentrated in the aspect of land, and if a small number of land holders could be eliminated and these lands could be distributed, then the contradiction could be greatly alleviated.
Then, during the détente, the government-led, reformed production methods, introduced high-quality grain and vegetable seeds, and expanded grain production, perhaps to prevent the outbreak of civil war.
Called Xunze to catch up with a historical travel novel some time ago.
The protagonist of the novel, a young man surnamed Yun, traveled to the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to enhance his national strength through similar methods, so as to avoid the situation that the people in the country were overwhelmed and the peasants revolted everywhere because of the continuous wars of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
In ancient times, the people's requirements for life were very low. Basically, as long as you have food and can live, you won't rebel.
As long as the people do not rebel, then with Wang Mang's strength, even if there are nobles and wealthy families who oppose him, they will be suppressed.
Therefore, the reform route designed by Xun Ze for Wang Mang is:
First, centralize power, form a strong central government, and then kill a group of aristocratic and wealthy families who are in the position of vegetarian food, and release a large amount of land to alleviate domestic contradictions.
Finally, if we concentrate on promoting production and ensuring that the land and food growth can keep pace with the growth of population, then at least the peace of the whole country will be guaranteed for nearly 100 years.
As for whether the policy will be deformed after a hundred years, and whether the nobles will fight back, that is not something that Wang Mang and Xun Ze need to consider.
Early the next morning, Xun Ze was asked to prepare breakfast for the three children, and then Zhao Keer complained while eating,
"I've been feeling like I'm answering questions too fast lately, which is a bad habit. Last week, there was a history week that asked Liu Xiu which dynasty the number was invented in. I saw that the first answer said that the Han Dynasty was chosen, but I didn't expect that there was a small parenthesis behind the Han Dynasty with the word Dong, and the second answer was the correct answer Western Han Dynasty. ”
"What number?" asked Xun Ze to be a little stunned when he heard Zhao Ke'er's words.
What the hell is Liu Xiu's number.
"Liu Xiu's numbers. Zhao Ke'er looked at Xun Ze with a confused face, and didn't know why Yu Xun Ze suddenly asked like this. "012345678 that Liu Xiu number. ”
"Oh, I didn't hear you clearly. "Tell Xun Ze to ignore the three-seven-twenty-one and fool Zhao Ke'er first.
After Zhao Ke'er left, he opened his phone and lost Liu Xiu to see what this thing was.
Liu Xiu's number is the current international number, which was invented and popularized by Liu Xiu around 20 A.D., and later spread to all over the world and became an international number
Wait, shouldn't this thing be called Arabic numerals? Although it was invented by Indians.
Called Xunze to read the relevant introduction of Liu Xiu's numbers for a long time, and then remembered that when he was teaching Liu Xiu's cards, in order to make cards for the Warring States Kill, he also taught Liu Xiu Arabic numerals by the way.
So after Liu Xiu went back, he made these cards with Arabic numerals in the Han Dynasty.
At first, the impact of these figures may be small, but as Liu Xiu's power rises, these numbers are gradually promoted.
By the time Liu Xiu became emperor and promoted board game cards, these numbers appeared hundreds of years in human history.
Of course, this time these numbers have a very clear attribution, not like the numbers invented by the Indians are called Arabic numerals, but at the beginning they were called Han numbers.
Then, when the Han Dynasty fell, the rulers of later generations did not want these numbers to bear the name of the previous dynasty, so they changed the name of the Han number to Guangwu number.
With the opening of the Age of Discovery, when European culture began to gradually influence the world, the European name of Liu Xiu number was transmitted back to China, and all people began to gradually call Guangwu number Liu Xiu number.
In modern times, the mythical color of the imperial power was broken, and people gradually dared to call Liu Xiu's name, so Liu Xiu's number replaced the Guangwu number and officially became the name of this number in China, and also became the name of this number in the world.
Well, that's really unintentional.
Called Xunze, he didn't expect that Liu Xiu would promote Arabic numerals while promoting board games, and also turn the inventor of Arabic numerals into himself.
Anyway, this number was not originally invented by the Arabs, so there is no difference between calling Arabic numerals and Liu Xiu's numbers.
cleaned the dishes and chopsticks, and asked Xun Ze to take Liu Xiu and Wang Mang to the classroom.
"Liu Bei, what do you want to learn this week. Asked Xunze to look at Liu Xiu and asked.
"Teacher, will you do anything to save your life? I want to learn. ”
Liu Xiu took the initiative to put forward his own requirements.