Chapter 62: The Gap Between Reality and Ideal
The examination has come to an end, and most of the vacant positions in the court and the central government are occupied by the children of the upper and lower families, and only a few of the children of the middle and lower families are not affected by the petition. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info This is also Wen Yong's small compensation for the high-grade family.
Although Yang Shaoping's Yang family has been closed since Yang Yuan's death, it is still in the ranks of the high-grade family, and this incident has not had much impact on him.
Wen Yong appointed him as a regular attendant of the loose cavalry. With Yang Xuan's Yu Yin, Wen Yong has no problem ensuring that he is rich and prosperous in his life, but if he wants to enter the core power circle of the Great Zhou, Wen Yong has to observe for a while.
There were also three people who were also promoted to fill the position of the minister, namely the queen's relative Li Qingyuan as a servant, the clan Wencheng as a servant, Lintao Xue Min as the Huangmen waiter, and Wang Gui was promoted to Zhongshu Ling. Wen Yong has read the test papers of these people, and they are all top-notch talents, so he stayed by his side to assist in government affairs.
The implementation of the examination system has been taken by surprise, and the cunning civilian-official group immediately formed a group after arousing the alarm, so that Wenyong's follow-up reform has a feeling that there is nowhere to go.
Now is not the time to turn around, before the examination system has promoted a large number of new officials as a reserve for the court's blood, Wen Yongzong is not used well, and he still has to rely on these guys to maintain the normal operation of the government.
When the blood reserve was enough, Wen Yong naturally didn't mind letting them know who had the biggest fist in the Zhou Kingdom.
Chang'an ordered Fu Jin to come forward to report, "Your Majesty, there are many cases of missing women in Lingming Temple, and recently the Huang family, Zhang family and other major clans have come to report the case, saying that the daughter of the sect disappeared after incense in Lingming Temple, please ask Your Majesty to investigate this matter thoroughly!" ”
Wen Yong put down the fold in his hand and asked, "How are you going to check?" ”
Fu Jin said: "The minister wants to search the temple. ”
Wen Yong's face sank, and he scolded: "Nonsense, Buddhism is a pure place, how can you be presumptuous!" There will be no such thing under the jurisdiction of Master Yuanping, there is no need to mention this matter again, step down! ”
Fu Jin touched his nose and could only retreat in a gloomy manner.
Wen Yong smiled indifferently and ignored it again. Yuan Ping finally couldn't help but make a move on the nobles, and let him die.
Although Yuanping's fat pig is greedy, it can't meet the requirements for slaughter for a while, and if you want to relieve the financial pressure, you need to think of another way.
Wen Yong put down the fold and called Fu'an and said, "Follow me to the Shaofu examination room to have a look." ”
The best forging technology in the world, the manufacturing industry will be absorbed by the Shaofu, and it can be said that the examination room is the forefront of Dazhou technology.
The steward of Shaofu is a clansman of the Wen family, named Wen Hao, and in terms of seniority, he is still Wen Yong's imperial uncle.
Hearing that the emperor was going to come to the examination room to inspect, Wen Hao lost his government affairs and waited outside the palace gate with the officials early.
"Chen Wenhao and his subordinate officials pay a visit to Your Majesty."
Wen Hao has a fat head and big ears, and Wen Yong even maliciously thought that this guy would make a lot of money in Shaofu.
"Excuse me, Uncle Huang, you are familiar with it, so I will ask you to take me around."
"Your Majesty, please come with your ministers."
Wen Hao got up and led the way.
The periphery of the examination room is some common handicraft industries, the weaving room orders the main weaving silk silk, supplying the court clothes of the Beijing division, weaving and embroidering the suburban temple sacrifice clothes, etc. She Fei Ling, palm to shoot geese, for the sacrifice of the temple. Dongyuan order, the main utensils in the mausoleum, secret coffins, golden jade clothes, etc. Imperial decree, palm of heaven's money, treasures, clothes, etc.
Now most of the production technology is still all manual, and Wen Yong also wants to get a mechanization, but the steam engine was a high school course in the previous life, and the two lives have long been returned to the teacher, and the ghost still remembers what structures are inside.
Even if Wen Yong groped for a steam engine based on his impression, he still needed machine tools and other equipment measures, and the physical foundation of this era was still very weak, and it was necessary to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to build this thing, and the investment in lighting up new technology has always been a bottomless pit. In today's era of Confucianism, these craftsmen are reprimanded as obscene skills, and Wen Yong still has a long way to go to change the atmosphere and cultivate creative craftsmen. This matter has to be pressed until the economic reform is completed and there is enough national strength to store and cultivate professional talents, so that Wenyong can use it to smash science and technology points.
These are not a day's work, and after resting the idea of taking off directly into industrialization, Wen Yong turned his attention back to making money.
As a traveler, the first way to make money is, of course, to make paper or glass, and to make soap.
But reality dealt Wen Yong a heavy blow. Unfortunately, Wen Yong wouldn't do it at all, so if he knew that he would cross, he would have asked Du Niang. The only thing I know about papermaking has not come in handy, but I found that the paper here is already there, and it is white and smooth and durable.
Wen Yong asked Wen Hao: "Why hasn't this paper been popularized because it's so wonderful?" ”
Wen Hao replied: "Ordinary people don't know how to read big characters, and it's useless to buy paper. As for the dignitaries, it is only because the paper is susceptible to moisture and insects that most of the letters are exchanged with silk and less with paper. Only the aristocracy used paper when copying books. ”
The spread of paper as a carrier of knowledge has also hindered the use of paper, which is now difficult to transcribe, and families regard their collections as treasures and refuse to show them easily.
Wen Yong immediately thought of movable type printing, which could solve the problem of difficult book transcription. However, it takes a little effort to deceive the unique secret book of the family.
Before education is popularized, Wen Yong does not plan to promote this technology, and after having light and easily available books, I am afraid that more people will take risks and resell them to the Hu people. I heard that the northern land has reached the price of a thousand gold, and Confucianism and Buddhism are nothing, but the war book, the strategy of power and strategy, and the iron smelting method are the techniques of slaying dragons, just like the nuclear bomb drawings of later generations, Wen Yong doesn't want these to be exiled to other countries, and he will shoot himself in the foot.
Putting the matter of movable type printing down for the time being, Wen Yong continued to follow Wen Hao's footsteps to inspect.
In the middle of the examination room is the most important thing - weapons.
When it comes to weapons, Wen Yong's first thought is naturally firearms, so he asked: "Do you have firearms in our army?" ”
Wen Hao replied: "Yes, Your Majesty, please come with your ministers." ”
Wen Yong was surprised, he never realized that Da Zhou was so good, and he even had firearms, and began to wonder if he had crossed the wrong place.
Coming to the gunpowder workshop, Wen Hao took Wen Yong to visit the firearms reserves of Da Zhou: rockets, firetle, terrestris, etc., although they are somewhat primitive, but they can still see some shadows of later generations.
After asking the craftsman about the ratio of gunpowder, Wen Yong has nothing to say, it is very close to the black powder of later generations, and if it continues to develop, it will have to make nitroglycerin, which Wen Yong will not get.
As for muskets and cannons, Wen Yong can only YY once, the current process can not standardize the production of exquisite bullets and barrels, I still remember the previous life of the movie Shangqing government carried the shells can only be loaded after being frustrated, this is the hard wound of the industrial gap, not two or three strokes can be done. If you make a musket team and go into battle, and it turns out to be blown up, the joke will be bigger, and the crude earthen spear is not as powerful as the current bow and crossbow, and it is useless to build it.
Wen Yong asked Wen Hao, "Why didn't I see that my Great Zhou army was equipped with these things?" ”
Wen Hao replied: "Your Majesty, although this firearm is powerful, but the defects are not small, the first is that it cannot be damp, and the second is that it cannot be stained with a little spark. ”
The development and development of hot weapons still have to spend money, and the use of firearms has just sprouted, in this era except for himself, I am afraid that no one knows that the development of firearms is an inevitable trend, Wen Yong put the matter of firearms back to his heart, and turned his eyes back to cold weapons.