Chapter 288: Changing with each passing day
Xia Guo, Yancheng.
In the months after the army that captured the population left, Wang Lang, in addition to teaching in the Great Xia School Palace, was stuffed in his own palace, studying the production of ink.
Today's paper-making process is on the right track, and the production efficiency of paper is much higher than before.
After months of painstaking research. Wang Lang finally made an ink that worked well, which was made from the ashes of pine trees, mixed with fish bleaching glue, and some other materials.
Although this ink is very rudimentary, it can be used for printing and writing.
With this ink, he used movable type printing to print his own textbooks on paper.
Although he compiled only a dozen textbooks, in order to think about the long term and accelerate the enlightenment of people's wisdom, Wang Lang built a library near the Great Xia Palace.
Some of the basic books he compiled were placed in this humble library, although there were only a few books, but with the printing technology, there were quite a few in number, and dozens of copies of each kind were printed, and it seemed that the collection was quite rich.
These books are enough for today's Xia people to come and borrow, of course, the books in the library are only the most basic enlightenment reading.
Books like some smelting processes, and some other chemistry books, he won't put them here.
Since the construction of this library. This place immediately became the most mysterious place for Xia Guo besides the altar.
Most ordinary Chinese people don't have the courage to step here at all, and only those who have written skills go here from time to time to learn the knowledge they want.
Gradually, the people of Xia Kingdom became more and more respectful of these people who could read and break words.
I don't know when it started, in the market of Xia Kingdom. began to circulate such a strange saying, "The Son of Heaven is heroic, the article teaches Er Cao, the young must be diligent in learning, knowledge can stand up, the court is Tian Shelang, and the twilight is in the Tianzi Hall, the official has no seed, and the man should be self-reliant." ”
This kind of patchwork of persuasion poems is easy to understand and catchy, which has inspired countless aspiring young people for a while, and the learning enthusiasm of the students in the Xia Guoxue Palace has suddenly increased countless times.
They all fantasized that one day they would be able to ascend to the court and discuss the affairs of the Xia Kingdom with the officials.
Although Wang Lang attaches more importance to knowledge and culture, in this era, if you want the country to be strong, you can't just have knowledge, and the martial spirit is also not left behind.
If you want to be an official in the Xia Kingdom in the future, in addition to learning to read and write words, you must have enough courage and good martial arts.
Wen Neng picked up the pen and ink, and Wu Neng went into battle to kill the enemy, he didn't want his Xia Kingdom to become a deformed country ruled by martial artists or weak literati.
In the teaching field of the army, Wang Lang designed a lot of fitness equipment, such as horizontal bars and parallel bars, dumbbells made of stones, and other things to boil up energy.
And from time to time, some martial arts competitions will be held in the army.
The victorious soldiers can be received and rewarded by Wang Lang, and this way also allows the people at the bottom to see their opportunities for promotion, as long as they are willing to work hard, they can change their fate at once and become one of the right classes in the Xia Kingdom.
In the past few months, the situation in the Xia Kingdom has changed from bad to worse, and Wang Lang has not only made changes in education and the army.
And it is incarnated into an infrastructure madness, vigorously develop infrastructure construction, all kinds of handicraft workshops have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain in various cities in the Xia Kingdom, the construction of roads has never been interrupted, in the territory of the Xia Kingdom, you can see it everywhere, are busy construction sites.
Yancheng, the capital, has also been expanded, and the new Yancheng is more than twice as large as the previous one, and the city is now large enough to accommodate a population of seven or eight thousand.
With such a large-scale human settlement, it can be said that it is the largest city on this continent, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a super metropolis.
Since the ironmaking workshop has a new forging hammer, iron weapons have been produced in a steady stream, and the weapons produced are mainly knives, and those unrefined iron are basically used to produce agricultural tools, there are rich iron ore resources, and the price of iron agricultural tools is not very expensive.
Most of the peasants in Xia could afford it, and with the rented ceratosaurus, the amount of labor of the peasants was greatly reduced.
The advent of these high-efficiency agricultural tools immediately made people fall in love with this extremely convenient metal.
Wang Lang estimated that with the large-scale use of ironware, bronze would slowly withdraw from the stage of history, and its value would be used as ornaments or currency in the future.
What pleased Wang Lang the most during this period was that most of the pterosaur eggs brought back were successfully hatched, and dozens of quacking pterosaur cubs were listed as key protection objects by Wang Lang.
This large flying beast made Wang Lang see the hope of soaring in the sky.
This group of pterosaurs were kept in a separate cage, and they were carefully cared for every day, and they were quite healthy, Wang Lang believed that as long as these things grew up, he had a way to let these guys be his own mounts honestly.
On this day, Mu Feng, who had been away for more than half a year, returned to Yancheng, and after hurriedly seeing his wife and children, he rushed to Wang Lang's side non-stop and reported his situation for more than half a year.
Seeing Mu Feng, Wang Lang said with a smile: "I heard that Mu Aiqing went straight to the house as soon as she came back, but I have missed my wife and children for most of the year, and the family is still fine." ”
Mu Feng said respectfully: "I really miss it, everything is fine at home, which makes Your Majesty smile." ”
"Where to say, attaching importance to relatives is an emotion that everyone will have, Mu Aiqing went to the beach this time, and it was a year to go, which was really hard." Wang Lang said in a deep voice.
"Being able to serve my Great Xia is something that every countryman should do, not to mention that I am now a scholar, and His Majesty has entrusted me with a heavy responsibility, how can I not do my best, even if it is hard work, it is worth it." Mu Feng replied with great sincerity.
After Wang Lang listened to Mu Feng's words, he could be described as a dragon-faced joy, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Mu Aiqing is worthy of being the pillar of Daxia, I can get your help, it's really my luck, don't worry, Daxia will not treat you badly, and I won't treat you badly." ”
Mu Feng said respectfully: "If it weren't for Your Majesty's discovery of my talent among the crowd, I would have died a long time ago, where would I have today's achievements, all of this was given by Your Majesty, how dare I ask Your Majesty for a reward." ”
Wang Lang waved his hand disappreciatively and said: "Talent will always be reused, this is what you deserve, you better not hold a grudge against Lin Huo." ”
When Mu Feng heard this, he hurriedly said: "Lin Shangshu did the right thing at that time, if it was me who would do the same, how could I hate him, now that I think about it, my original behavior is indeed suspicious." ”
Wang Lang nodded and said: "It's good that you can figure it out, you are officials in the same dynasty, you must work together to make the people of Great Xia live a better life, and you must not affect national affairs for personal matters." ”
"Minister! Remember Your Majesty's teachings! Mu Feng said respectfully.