Some people say that the greatness of the Chinese people lies in their courage to resist. Wang Shuhui does not agree with this point of view.

From a historical point of view, it seems that in the 5,000-year history of China, there have been uprisings and struggles one after another. However, this is the result of examining the time dimension of 5,000 years.

The reality is that even for a long time when the feudal dynasty was at the end of its development, no matter how unreasonable and absurd the actions of the decadent and degenerate ruling class were, the common people would always endure such irrationality and absurdity for a long time.

Historically, the Chinese were able to endure intermittent colonial rule by the Yuanmeng, Manchu and Japanese for a total of several hundred years, which shows that the Chinese have a very strong endurance for their rulers.

Objectively speaking, the history of the feudal era in China's history is longer than the history of the feudal era in any other country or region, and this can explain some problems.

Of course, Wang Shuhui himself knows that this view is not very scientific and does not have much theoretical significance. This is nothing more than a reaction to nationalist sentiments. However, as a living person, Wang Shuhui sometimes feels that the pseudo-concept of Chinese nationality seems to have some truth.

Especially after receiving a comprehensive report on Huang Zhouwei's reception work, Wang Shuhui couldn't help but have some very abnormal emotions in his heart.

Wang Shuhui's abnormal mood lies in the fact that the endurance of the Chinese really makes him, a modern person, feel very unbelievable. In the harsh environment of the guard in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the military households of Huangzhou Wei, with a total number of tens of thousands, were so patient with the exploitation of officers at all levels of the guard. Even if they were starved to death due to natural disasters, they did not choose to resist.

Wang Shuhui has a large amount of literature and materials of this era through modern think tanks. He knew that history showed that all kinds of uprisings and mutinies in the last years of the dynasty were very frequent, but in comparison with the huge population base of more than 140 million people, the number of those who took the initiative to resist in the Ming Dynasty was still very insignificant.

The Fuxing Army in Huangzhou Wei only used the most ordinary food, and easily made tens of thousands of Huangzhou Wei soldiers submit to the Huangzhou Wei Army with the conditions of being able to eat enough, and this kind of thing did not make Wang Shuhui feel happy.

Buying Chinese with steamed buns and pancakes seems to have been happening in China all along.

In previous history, the Chinese had submitted to the invaders of barbarian peoples such as the Xiongnu, Khitan, Jurchen, and Yuanmeng in the north; In the later history, the fact that the Chinese submitted to the Manchu Qing, foreign powers, Japanese invaders and other invaders made Wang Shuhui feel very uncomfortable in his heart when he faced the matter of the late Ming Dynasty Chinese easily accepting the rule of the Fuxing Society.

The Manchus ruled China for three hundred years. During the Anti-Japanese War, after the Japanese invaded China, hundreds of millions of Chinese became obedient people under the rule of Japanese devils. Even the history of the little devil building a traitorous puppet army in China that is larger than his own army makes Wang Shuhui have to mutter: Is there really a little slave nature in the bones of the Chinese?

No matter who you are, when you find out that you can really buy your compatriots with steamed buns and pancakes, you won't feel good in your heart!

However, Wang Shuhui's idealistic nationalist sentiment was only in his mind for a short time. Soon, his mind was re-armed with the theories of scientific sociology.

"Military issues, political issues, cultural issues, national issues, and so on, and all other issues, in the final analysis, are economic issues." From this point of view, Wang Shuhui re-judged the smooth progress of the Huangzhou Wei reception work on the basis of the strong agricultural and industrial productivity of the Fuxing Society.

The high-level productive forces and production relations have an absolute advantage over the low-level productive forces and production relations, and this is Wang Shuhui's rational understanding of the fact that the Fuxing Army easily took over Huangzhouwei.

The Ming and Qing dynasties were the peak stage of Chinese feudal society. We can look at this fact that in the history of China's feudal society, the Ming and Qing dynasties have reached the peak of feudal society. No matter what kind of social system it is, it is built on the basis of a certain productive force. In other words, in the feudal era, the technical level of the craftsmen of the Ming and Qing dynasties can be said to have reached the peak stage.

Of course, because the Manchu court, as a feudal dynasty with the nature of a semi-slave society established by a minority minority, its congenital backwardness gene caused a certain degree of regression in the development of China's productive forces. Therefore, the level of craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty should be the highest in feudal China.

In Huangzhou, Huangzhou Weizhang's blacksmith family can be said to be famous far and wide. The reason why a blacksmith can become famous is naturally because Zhang's iron is very good.

Zhang's blacksmith's family is a military household in Huangzhou Wei, and more specifically, Zhang's family is a craftsman household in Huangzhou Weiwei. Of course, in this era, the craftsmen in the local military guard had nothing to do in their own work.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the craftsmen in the local guard were at most doing something to help the old men of the military officers who had become landlords at all levels to repair farm tools or something. Things like building weapons may have been something they didn't do for generations.

The reason why Huangzhouwei's Zhang family is so famous in Huangzhou Mansion is, of course, because his family's iron-making skills are good and they do their work very well. But more importantly, the quality of the iron products produced by the Zhang family is very high, and it can even reach the level of steel.

In fact, the Huangzhou Wei Zhang family summed up a new way of steel production in the generations of iron fighting. This mode of production was recorded in Song Yingxing's more than ten years later. That is to use the method of combined furnace ironmaking, iron ore is smelted into pig iron, and then from pig iron to mature iron, and then from pig iron and wrought iron to smelt into "steel filling".

The Zhang family also discovered a knack for sprinkling plaster on the pig iron of the iron frying furnace, using it as a flux, and then stirring it with a wooden stick to help oxidize the method that could increase the tapping rate.

As a family of blacksmiths for generations, the Zhang family has been engaged in ironwork for hundreds of years. However, in the past hundred years, the craftsmanship of the Zhang family has not made any fundamental leaps.

The Zhang family in Huangzhou was able to become a well-known good blacksmith in Huangzhou Mansion, and it was entirely because of Zhang Zhaohuan, the youngest son of the blacksmith.

Zhang Zhaohuan, the youngest son of Huangzhou Wei Zhang Blacksmith, is a very unusual person.

As a child from a family of craftsmen at the bottom of the society, he actually likes to think very much!

You must know that for the people in the bottom society who are always on the verge of existential crisis, thinking is definitely a very luxurious and incomprehensible thing