Li Qi was not satisfied with the development of Jindi and Shanbei in the past two years.

In the vicinity of Jinyang, the Xin Dynasty, and Wuzhou and Ulzhou in the north of Shanxi, the level of development of productive forces seems to have reached the limit of the agricultural era, and the economic development of these places is even hundreds of years ahead of the rest of the Tang Dynasty.

As an emperor, he was still very envious of the economic development speed in the early days of the dynasty in his memory, and established a complete industrial system in more than ten years. It's just that when you think about it, you can't help but laugh dumbly, it was a mature industrial age, and as long as there was a strong official push, that kind of achievement could be regarded as a matter of course, and there was also the technical support of a strong northern neighbor.

Excluding Liangchuan, the population of the area under the control of the Northern Army has exceeded 15 million, which makes Li Qi more comfortable in military choices.

Quelling the "rebellion" in Luoyang is the strategy set this year, and other places are currently focusing on stability.

The Jinyang court's taxes on the people have not been reduced, as heavy as in the past. The strategy of the imperial court was to suppress the landlords and wealthy families in various places, and even the yeoman farmers, and use the wealth looted from them to subsidize the growing military cantonment areas in various places. Li Qi repeatedly instilled in the court that the Tuntian army in various localities was the basis for maintaining the rule, the landlords and wealthy families were potential enemies, and the unorganized yeoman farmers did not do much to maintain the rule.

The imperial court's strategy was to eliminate yeoman farmers first and force them to join the army. If the yeoman peasants in various localities feel that they cannot bear the heavy taxes and forced labor of the government, they can apply to the government to become military cantonment households, and the government will give them a certain amount of compensation according to their original land.

The most important policy to restrict the landlords and wealthy families is to implement the unified purchase and sale of grain in the country, and prohibit private individuals from engaging in grain-related transactions, but meat, poultry eggs, vegetables, and other non-staple foods are not included in the restriction.

The state-owned land is a dream of Li Qi, and it is not the so-called feeling that the world is for the public, but he just wants to simply restore the familiar world in his memory.

As long as he has time, Li Qi will summarize some production technologies that are currently more suitable for promotion, first teach the students around him to pro-army, and then spread them through Jinyang Academy.

The inheritance of knowledge itself is a big problem, and the Chinese nation was originally a nation full of creativity, which once created the most glorious pre-Qin era in the world. In his previous life, Li Qi had always insisted that the Chinese civilization of the pre-Qin era should be at least 200 years ahead of the whole world.

However, since the emergence of such a terrifying species as the emperor, in order to consolidate their rule, the emperors of all generations of China have been tirelessly destroying the inheritance and continuation of this ancient civilization, hoping to return the people under their rule to the obscurantist and obedient state of the slave era in the past.

Since the time of the First Emperor, the emperors of all Chinese dynasties have begun to like the use of book burning and book banning to imprison the minds of the people at the bottom, and many great inventions and creations of their ancestors have been lost in the dust of history.

The severance of the inheritance of the Chinese nation began with the imprisonment of craftsmen, and the status of the public losers and Mohists, who created a very splendid civilization in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, plummeted, because the royal family feared that the weapons they invented would endanger their rule and even their lives. The craftsmen who came from the public losers and the Mo family were imprisoned by the royal family as private slaves, and their status was low, and they were not allowed to read and learn characters. As a result, some inventions and creations could only be passed on by word of mouth, and the thinking became more and more narrow, and craftsmanship became the guarantee of their own lives.

As a result, the inheritance began to be severed, coupled with the destruction of the inheritance of the Han nation by foreign invasions, but the technology of the descendants was not as good as that of the previous generations, for example, the astronomical measuring instruments of the Tang Dynasty were not as precise as the Han Dynasty.

This led to the stagnation and decline of civilization.

How to make the people under his rule more ignorant is the highest state pursued by the emperors of previous dynasties, and Confucianism that conforms to the emperor has become a tool for the ruler to fool the people. What Confucianism pursued was the era of slavery, in which there was a strict hierarchy between the noble and the low, and the ruling class could trample on and dispose of slaves at will.

"Depose the hundred schools and respect Confucianism!" A decadent philosophical system, which was the most worthless to the whole Chinese civilization, continued to grow and develop, imprisoning the minds of the people and corroding the creativity of the whole nation, while the most valuable craftsmen of the nation were regarded as the lowest slaves.

It is this kind of value that completely restricts the spirit of continuous exploration and enterprising of this originally great nation.

Due to the stagnation of scientific and technological development, the rise and fall of prosperity and decline have become the eternal melody of this ancient empire.

The same thing happened on the peninsula where Asia and Europe meet, and the Cult of God appeared, so all inventions and creations were regarded as hereticals, and finally destroyed two excellent civilizations in this world. Arab alchemists discovered sulfuric acid, nitric acid and strong alkali during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and their steelmaking process also stood at the pinnacle of this world.

Advanced metallurgy led to the sudden rise and glory of the Great Food Empire, and then everything was finally reduced to ashes of history under the light of the Cult.

Fortunately, although the scholars in the Tang Dynasty did not attach much importance to science and technology and production, their thinking was quite free.

What Li Qi needed to do now was to cultivate the spirit of reverence and exploration of nature among scholars, and then greatly improve the status of craftsmen in society as a whole, especially to directly appoint some high-ranking craftsmen as technical officials. Human beings themselves are profit-seeking animals, and as their social status increases, more people will flock to them.

In view of the slow economic development of Jindi and Shanbei, Li Qi taught several thermal power courses to the teachers and students of Jinyang Academy last year, but it is a pity that a large group of students specializing in mechanical research have been tossing for nearly a year, and the steam engine he is looking forward to has still not been developed.

After Li Qi returned to Jinyang, he made a special inspection and learned that the research group headed by He Quan, Liu Jiang, and Wang Yuan had made a mistake in the main research direction, and most of their energy was focused on the seemingly simple and easy, but in fact it was even more difficult to succeed in the research of steam turbines.

This made Li Qi feel a little crying and laughing.

There is no law in the development of science, Li Qi does not prepare another time and space for the history of the development of science and technology in the West, if he has time and energy, he is ready to get generators and motors in advance. Later, it was found that the research on insulating materials could not keep up, so the idea was temporarily abandoned.

More than 30 teachers and students involved in the research of steam engines sat in the classroom, Li Qi walked up to the podium, drew a schematic diagram of a simple boiler and a piston reciprocating steam engine on the blackboard, and then said to the teachers and students sitting in the classroom: "We already know that by making a boiler and heating it to continuously produce steam in this closed steam pot, we can obtain a kind of potential energy as a power source, which is the same as the principle of a water turbine, but it can get rid of various natural conditions for installing a water turbine. As you can see, there are two ways to convert the water vapor in the boiler into rotating power, one is the steam turbine you studied earlier, and the other is to feed the steam into the cylinder, let the piston reciprocate, and then convert the reciprocating motion into a rotary piston steam engine through the connecting rod and crankshaft. Comparatively speaking, the manufacture of a piston steam engine is much simpler......"

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