The Mo family migrated to Fengyi, and Dai Yan got far more than this benefit in addition to tea, and the handicraft level of Fengyi began to improve rapidly with the arrival of the Mo family. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among the disciples of the Mo family, the most important group of people are craftsmen and farmers from the bottom, among which the handicraftsmen account for the majority of the disciples of the Mo family. In this era, craftsmen were basically passed down from father to son, and there were very few masters and apprentices. And the rulers of various countries pay more attention to the technology of forging swords, and other technologies do not pay attention to it at all. As a result, the technological progress of this era has been very slow.

However, the disciples of the Mo family are the only exception. After all, the Mohists are a school of thought, and they belong to the group of people who have knowledge, and they can definitely be regarded as elites in this poor era of low literacy. Knowledge and practical operation have made the technical level of the Mohists grow extremely fast. Lu Ban is the greatest engineer in the pre-Qin era, it is said that he invented a series of woodworking tools such as drills, planers, shovels, etc., and he built ladders, hooks and other war tools suitable for siege, but in the end he was defeated by the Mozi patriarch Mozi's defense tools.

After the disciples of the Mo family came to Fengyi, the tools they built the most were all kinds of agricultural tools, such as wooden plows and wooden rakes. In fact, Dai Yan wanted to make metal farm tools, and farm tools made of copper and iron would definitely make production more efficient, but in this era, in the Song Dynasty, copper smelting was in the hands of the monarch. Copper can not only be used to make weapons, but can also be used directly as currency, so all the countries in the world are directly controlled by the monarch. Even if Song Jun trusted his younger brother, he would not dare to directly hand over the country's financial and military powers to him. Iron smelting Dai Yan can do it, but he has not found any iron ore in his fiefdom at present, and he is too busy hoarding food during this period of time, and he has no heart to make iron at all.

Although it was only a few wooden farming tools, it still brought a lot of changes to Fengyi, the biggest of which was that more people from all over the countryside began to go to Fengyi. The farm tools made by the Mo disciples were originally distributed to farmers for free, and they used this benefit as a way to attract farmers to join the Mo societies established by the Mo family in various parts of Fengyi. Later, after Dai Yan's suggestion, the Mo family gave up the strategy of being free. In Dai Yan's view, although the new farm tools created by the Mo family are far better than the wooden farm tools built by the farmers themselves in the past, the farmers will definitely not cherish anything that is free. Now that these farm tools are sold to farmers by the Mo family, the Mo family will inevitably need to consider the needs of farmers and create truly suitable farm tools; And because the peasants have spent money to buy better and more labor-saving tools, they naturally cherish these farm tools more and will not waste them at will.

Because of the real consideration of the exact needs, the disciples of the Mo family had the guarantee of interests, and the systematic geometry taught by Dai Yan, these factors created something unexpected. When Dai Yan went to Fengyi for a folk investigation, he found that a disciple of the Mo family named Yu had actually developed a black technology like Quyuan plow.

As an agricultural civilization, the ancestors invented the plough very early, but the structure of the plough has always been relatively simple, and it is not much more complicated than the plow. If it follows the normal development, it will not be until the Han Dynasty in later generations that the straight plow can be invented, and the Tang Dynasty can not invent the Quyuan plow. The emergence of such a complex agricultural tool as the Quyuan plough means that real deep ploughing is possible! According to Dai Yan's own observations, although the structure of the newly made Quyuan plough is still somewhat primitive and not very satisfactory in some places, its efficiency is more than 10 times higher than that of the original wooden plow! In Dai Yan's view, if the plough discs of these primitive curved ploughs can be replaced with copper or iron, then their farming efficiency should continue to improve, and even be comparable to some backward levels of plows before the reform and opening up. What is this kind of product created across the rules of history if it is not black technology?

Dai Yan then asked how he had invented this complex tool, but the result was related to the popularization of geometry and science. After Dai Yan taught geometry and logic, the ideas of induction and proof really received the attention of the Mohists, so at Dai Yan's initiative, all the studies studied with this kind of thinking were called science—which means many subjects and categories of learning. As a result, the disciples of the Mohists began to use the inductive method, knocking on the door one by one based on their own interests, thus establishing one discipline after another. For example, some people began to pay attention to the general laws of the motion of matter and the basic structure of matter, so physics appeared. In physics, there are people who are purely interested in mechanical motion, and so mechanics is born. Some people were interested in the change of heat and cold, and so thermoscience was born. Some people were interested in light, and optics was born. The Mohist disciples who chewed tea and surprised Dai Yan were interested in animals and plants, so with Dai Yan's encouragement, they began to systematically study animals and plants, and biology was born. What Dai Yan did for this kind of behavior was only to assist him in establishing the basic concepts and framework of his discipline, and he allowed these Mohist disciples to study and explore on their own, and he did not directly tell the Mohist disciples the scientific truths he knew. Because in his opinion, if the scientific truths that have been learned in later generations are directly stated now, although Dai Yan's academic authority will be greatly improved, the level of Mohist scientific theories will also be greatly improved in a short period of time. However, in the long run, the spirit of Mohist disciples to explore the unknown and doubt will be greatly weakened, which will inevitably be detrimental to the long-term development of science.

And from the actual effect, Dai Yan's approach has also achieved good results. In the process of Dai Yan's occasional return to Fengyi, he immediately discovered a very interesting phenomenon: the disciples of the Mo family are more serious and normal when they work; However, once they began to study in their spare time, they almost all fell into a state of madness, even the giant Tian Jiu, and everyone was arguing about the truth of the world. For example, the most interesting thing is that in the controversy about the son of the moth, a disciple of the Mo family found that the moth is not childless, but both male and female. This suddenly subverted everyone's concept, because moths have children, and moths are responsible for what everyone thinks is common sense. People think that moths are childless, so they go to catch wild moths and come back to foster them, which is an excellent wish in this era of advocating the prevalence of raising scholars and having children, but the fact has broken this wish, which is unacceptable, so many Mo disciples have joined the debate. This state of vitality in the nascent period of science is impressive, and here Dai Yan sometimes wonders if what he has learned in later generations is really incorrect.

The reason why he was able to invent the quyuan plow was because his job was to build a wooden plow, and he was more interested in mechanics, and he debated with his brothers and sisters many times. He himself somehow opened his brain, thought of an ideal plow should be, and then invented the black technology that Dai Yan saw.

Dai Yan agrees with such a statement. Human beings sometimes burst out of creativity through interaction and influence with others. Just like the Silicon Valley of the United States in later generations, the reason why it is so creative is that there are many top scientists and engineers with all kinds of active thinking there who are influencing each other. Perhaps at some point, a scientist and others speak occasionally in their leisure time, and it immediately opens the listener's mind. Like the famous iPhone, the initial inspiration for Joe's gang leader is said to be the religious feelings of a certain Indian, and in that feeling, it gives people a heart-pounding feeling. Joe accepted the idea and felt that it could be used on mobile phones, so the Apple mobile phone was born, and it was an instant success.

Although only the first black technology has appeared in Fengyi now, in Dai Yan's view, as long as there is such an active atmosphere, the influence of everyone's debate with each other, and all kinds of brain-opening holes, then the Mo family will inevitably come up with more and more things. However, Dai Yan was not ready to let the Mo family waste valuable R&D capabilities in vain, so he then invited the giant Tian Jiu, and under the witness of the giant son, Dai Yan issued a "patent" certificate to the lord of Fengyi. This certificate lasted for two years, during which he could authorize anyone within the boundaries of Fengyi to make the new quyuan plough, but anyone who made a profit from the manufacture of the quyuan plough was to pay 10% of his income from the quyuan plough as a royalty. If someone is unwilling to pay the royalties, they can report the situation to the lord, who will personally go out to collect the royalties! In order to pay for this guarantee, 10% of the royalty was also required as a royalty tax to be paid to the lord.

Because he was the first to taste the sweetness of the patent, the disciples of the Mo family became more and more attentive to the agricultural tools made and researched for farmers. In their opinion, as long as they can get the patent certificate issued by the lord again, isn't this just lying down and making money? The Mo family has always been a more utilitarian school, although the money and belongings of the Mo disciples must also be given to other disciples, but a more capable disciple must be more valued by the giants within the Mo family. As a result, the disciples of the Mohists began to study not only pure theories, but also began to combine the scientific theories they had deduced with practice. In this way, the level of Fengyi's handicraft industry began to rise rapidly. The excellent agricultural tools began to be provided to the farmers in the entire territory from Fengyi City through the Mo family, and the Mo family received rich benefits, and the agricultural productivity of the entire Fengyi also increased rapidly.

No one has paid attention to the change in Fengyi, but Dai Yan knows the significance of this change. The level of handicraft industry in Fengyi has risen, and with the ability of research and development, it means that the function of Fengyi city has begun to gradually change. It is no longer just a small town for collecting taxes and a place for farmers to gather for the market, but it has also become a center of technology supply for the whole Fengyi. Sometimes, people often use the urbanization rate as a criterion for the potential and development of a region, but in fact, this is meaningless in Dai Yan's view. A city that only collects taxes, a city that only sucks blood from the surrounding areas, no matter how big and prosperous the city is, is actually just an illusion. Just like the Northern Song Dynasty in history, its urbanization rate reached 12%, and the population of Tokyo Bianliang exceeded one million, making it the most prosperous city in the world in the Middle Ages, but how did the city's prosperity come about? However, a large amount of wealth was transferred from Jiangnan through the Grand Canal, and this wealth was consumed by the princes and grandchildren, and its prosperity was based on the blood sucking of the surrounding areas; And the more prosperous it is, the poorer the area around it.

Dai Yan traveled to this era, with the identity of a nobleman and his own territory, he also had the ambition to change the world in his heart. In his heart, what he likes most is the kind of city that can radiate to the surrounding area and has its own ability to expand, with such a city, it is possible to create a civilization that naturally expands, and from this can establish a true empire. And the ideal model in his mind is the New England of American imperialism.

When the British colonized the American continent in the 17th century, there were roughly three models of British people in the Americas, the Caribbean model of sugar cane, the southern plantation model of cotton cultivation, and the New England model of fishing and industry. Sugar cane and sugar were both lucrative industries in the early days, so the cities formed in such areas were extremely wealthy, but because they had no industry and a single economic model, it had no possibility of evolving into industry, and even if it was, it was in fact nothing more than a fat sheep in British captivity. Because Britain has developed industry, Britain uses developed industrial products in exchange for cheap sugar and cotton, which is actually industrial sheep shearing, and these regions cannot do without the services of industrial products, so they cannot resist the will of Britain itself. In New England, on the other hand, there was only fishing in the early days, so there was shipbuilding, which formed the primitive handicraft industry, which laid the foundation for its later evolution into industry. When England was still weak, it used industry to shear its wool, and it used industry to shear the wool of the southern plantations and the Caribbean. Although it was weak and poor at birth, it was a meat-eating wolf, and it must use the flesh and blood of the weak to strengthen itself.

Sure enough, when it became stronger, it first had a conflict with the old wolf Britain, and the United States became independent and drove Britain out of North America. Then, more than 30 years after independence, it dared to declare that the Americas were the Americas of the Americans. It means that the whole of America is my old beauty, and the Europeans will give me the! It first occupied the richest part of all of North America, and expanded the New England model and spirit from the Atlantic to the Pacific, thus laying the foundation for the territory of the modern United States, and this spirit of New England became the American spirit. And because it is the only industrial civilization in the whole of America, it is unstoppable in the whole of America, and if the southern plantation owners do not obey it, it beats the south to its knees. The people of South America were not satisfied with being sheared and wanted to rebel, so he staged various coups d'état to plunge them into civil strife. So the countries of South America are lamenting: we are too far from heaven, too close to the United States. When Europe fell into strife, it drove European power out of the Americas, and turned its old clubs, Britain and Europe, into its own concubines, and took the opportunity to seize the global market, becoming an unprecedented global empire in human history.

New England was born with imperial genes, and when it was in a privileged position, it grew into a truly global empire. Yet who would have thought that it would have been the poorest colony in the whole of America in the first place? And what are the imperial genes in it? But was it the humble industrial service that it first sold boats to fishermen in the vicinity, farm implements to plantation owners in the south, and high-quality horse-drawn carriages to pioneers in the interior? When it became strong, its developed industrial goods flooded the global market, and it became a truly global empire. Because it shears the wool of the world by developed industry, sucking blood from all over the world, even if you don't want to, you have to obediently obey its will. Today, New England is still one of the most developed regions in the United States, with the best educational environment in the world. The genes of this empire are the genes of industrial civilization. And those urban and agricultural civilizations that rely on administrative orders to suck blood from the surrounding areas, once there is political turmoil, the result is inevitably that the cities fall into rapid decay. Just like Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty, as soon as the Jin army broke the city, the city with a population of millions quickly disappeared, and the city never rose again.

Although Fengyi has only undergone a slight transformation at present, and can only provide basic handicraft services that are so weak that they can no longer be weak, it has the foundation of research and development after all, and has the possibility of evolving to a complete industry, and Dai Yan can also see some of the genes of the empire from it. He believed that it would embark on a path to strengthen itself by devouring the flesh of the weak, and when it finally became strong enough, it would be Dai Yan's ideal empire!