Since the military meeting in Handan City was held that day, Zhao Dan had a very comfortable time in the next few days.

Because the situation seemed to be very good, Zhao Dan rarely spent the night in Fengtai for several days in a row, which made the ladies in the many palaces in Fengtai who had already been looking forward to it satisfied.

On this night, Zhao Dan stayed in the palace where Mrs. Mi from Qin was located.

This Mi woman, since the last time Zhao Dan handed him the task of making a wool loom, Mrs. Mi has been very enthusiastic, so after some joy, the topic between Zhao Dan and Mrs. Mi naturally talked about this aspect.

Mrs. Mi said to Zhao Dan: "Thanks to the king's concern, the manufacture of the wool loom now has a clue, and the preliminary prototype has been manufactured, and I believe it will be built soon." ”

Since there was already a hand-cranked silk loom at this time, and silk and wool also had commonalities to some extent, it was only necessary to understand the characteristics of wool and make some improvements.

Of course, Zhao Dan didn't know any of the strange terms that popped up in the mouth of this lady that seemed to be related to parts or machines.

But this did not prevent Zhao Dan from being very happy after hearing this, and said to Mrs. Mi: "Madam, don't underestimate this wool loom, it will become a powerful weapon for us to control the grassland in the future." ”

Mrs. Mi blinked, looking at Zhao Dan very curiously, the expression on her face was a little disbelieving, obviously not believing that a small wool loom could burst out with such great power.

Zhao Dan smiled, pinched the cute little nose in his arms, and did not continue to say anything, more than two thousand years of knowledge made Zhao Dan firmly believe that his approach was definitely correct.

After a while, Mrs. Mi said to Zhao Dan again: "King, in fact, there is another problem, that is, the clothes woven from wool always have a very strong smell of mutton, even if they can be spun, I'm afraid not many people can stand that smell." ”

Zhao Dan couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and said to Mrs. Mi in front of him: "Madam, this is actually not a problem. You must know that those nomadic people in the northern grasslands have been accompanied by cattle and sheep every day, and they have long been accustomed to such a taste. So this smell of mutton is not only not a problem for them, but it may even become reassuring. ”

Zhao Dan still didn't say a word, that is, as long as the wool textile develops to a certain point, the businessmen will definitely try their best to reduce the smell of sheep in order to have better sales of wool.

Zhao Dan doesn't need to completely take care of this industry, he just needs to create this road, and let people see that this road is promising, then people will naturally go down this road, and try to eliminate all difficulties and obstacles on the road.

After listening to Zhao Dan's words, Mrs. Mi opened her cherry mouth slightly, and she didn't know what to say for a while. Obviously, as a lady of the Huaxia clan, although she was born in a place like Chu State, which is relatively not too polite, the life of the northern nomads is still beyond the imagination of this aristocratic woman.

Zhao Dan looked at Mrs. Mi's lovely appearance, and suddenly felt that his heart began to move a little bit again, so he coughed and said, "Madam, it's not early, it's better to go to bed as soon as possible." ”

The next day, after fighting for a night, Zhao Dan, who had some backache, received another good news, that is, after several years of study, the first batch of scholars in the Huaxia Academy Palace could finally graduate, and the graduation ceremony was set for the first day of September a few months later.

According to the agreement between Zhao Dan and the hundred schools of the sons of the Huaxia Academy Palace, the great powers of the Huaxia Academy Palace mainly divided the disciples into two kinds when teaching the disciples, the first is the personal disciple, this kind of disciple is the general form of the entire Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The other is called a registered disciple, the so-called registered disciple is actually a name, and then taught by the hundreds of schools of thought for three to five years, and then you can be a teacher (graduate).

These registered disciples were basically scholars of the Zhao State, and they all signed a contract with the Zhao State official before entering the school, and the official was responsible for introducing them to the Huaxia Academy to apprentice, and they had to serve the Zhao State for at least ten years after graduation.

These registered disciples are, to a certain extent, equivalent to the students of later generations.

Since these named disciples being officials in the Zhao State can also enhance the influence of the various schools of thought in the Zhao State, the bigwigs of the Hundred Schools of Zhuzi will naturally not object to this matter.

But Zhao Dan had already told these powerful people of the hundreds of schools in advance, no matter which family the students were, as long as they could not pass Zhao Guo's annual review after becoming an official, then the removal of those who should be removed and the investigation and handling of those who should be investigated will not have any accommodation.

As for the plan to open up the imperial examination system, Zhao Dan actually does not have it at the moment.

Although there is a big gap in the current officials of Zhao State, but in fact, the system of electing officials is already quite perfect, there are a total of six kinds of systems that have been in good operation for hundreds of years, such as recommendation, self-recommendation, recruitment, merit, origin, and shadow, etc., and the current situation is just a temporary shortage caused by the expansion angle of Zhao State too fast, and this problem will be slowly solved with the passage of time.

In addition, Zhao Dan mainly cares about another point, that is, although the imperial examination system is powerful, its disadvantages are not small.

First of all, let's talk about the benefits, the biggest advantage of the imperial examination system is undoubtedly that it can break the monopoly of education on education by the clans and nobles, so that knowledge can be popularized at the grassroots level, so that more citizens can participate in the selection of the entire official.

But the imperial examination system is not flawless, and its disadvantage is that although the imperial examination system can smash such things as gate valves and families, it will create monsters such as the scholar class.

Considering that the Song Dynasty and the middle and late Ming Dynasty dominated by the scholar class were relatively weak periods for the entire Huaxia Dynasty, and the Han and Tang dynasties dominated by the gate lord aristocracy were relatively expansive periods, which had to make Zhao Dan take a cautious attitude towards the imperial examination.

The most important point is that, according to Zhao Dan's personal research and deduction of history, he felt that if there was no such thing as the Manchu Qing Dynasty entering the customs at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the scholar class rooted in the southeast would have hoped to completely empty the imperial power and then come up with a system similar to the Western parliamentary system, after all, the germ of capitalism at that time had taken root in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhao Dan was a member of the scholar class, then he would definitely raise his hands to welcome the arrival of the parliamentary system, but Zhao Dan is now the emperor, which leads to his lack of welcome to the generation and growth of scholars.

Moreover, the material basis of the imperial examination system, printing and papermaking, is far from being able to supply the whole of China.

With the continuous progress of printing and papermaking in Zhao State, Zhao Dan has opened an official printing factory and an official paper mill in the suburbs of Handan, and now the output is quite considerable, which can be regarded as being able to supply the requirements of the central system of Zhao State.

But even so, for the tens of millions of people in China, the current paper production is still a drop in the bucket, let alone for universal education.

On the other side, the craftsmen of Zhao led by Bao Zhen made a new surprise for Zhao Dan, that is, according to Zhao Dan's description, Bao Zhen once again improved the Eight Bull Crossbow, and made a prototype of the true form of "one gun and three swords and arrows" of the Eight Bull Crossbow.

It's just that this eight-bull crossbow reinforced version is too expensive to manufacture due to the cost of materials, and because all of it needs to be built by hand, the manufacturing time is also a very big problem.

Judging from the proficiency of the craftsmen in Handan in Zhao Guo now, it will take at least half a month to produce a strengthened version of the eight-bull crossbow, which is simply too slow.

However, in view of the feedback from the soldiers on the front line, this thing can play a great role in siege warfare, so Zhao Dan still ordered the craftsmen of Zhao State to work overtime to get as many such things as possible as soon as possible. After all, practice makes perfect, and as long as you do more, the quantity will always go up.

As for the gunpowder, although it can be exploded now, according to Zhao Dan's personal observation at the scene, the effect of the explosion is really unsatisfactory, at least there is still a long way to go from the effect in Zhao Dan's mind.

And now that Zhao Guo's military is strong, he doesn't really need such a thing as gunpowder, so Zhao Dan just ordered to continue researching.

In general, at present, all aspects of Zhao State's preparations are aimed at war, as for those messy things such as steam engines, at present, Zhao Dan does not have the mind or the manpower and material resources to invest in it, so he can only wait until after reunification.

But before that, Zhao Dan had a small goal.

In the last war, the state of Chu ceded a piece of land to the state of Zhao, allowing the state of Zhao to have access to the sea for the first time and became a coastal state.

"Maybe after this battle, the widow should start trying to cultivate a Zhao State Water Master?" Zhao Dan thought to himself in his heart.

The "Armada" that appeared 200 years BC, a full 1,700 years before the historical Spain?

Just thinking about this kind of thing seems very exciting.

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