At this time, Zhao Kuo didn't know that Gander and Shi Shen were actually trying to calculate the distance from the earth to the sun, if they knew...... Well, I can only endure not telling them.

I can't help it, the numbers blurt out, but it's too cumbersome to explain. Of course, there is some help.

However, before theoretical physics and science and technology reach a certain level, it is impossible to accurately calculate the distance between the earth and the sun, and no matter what you do, there will be a lot of errors.

The hall was staggered, and the monarchs and ministers of Zhao Guo talked while drinking, in addition to the indispensable bronze tripod, it was an iron pot stew.

In these years, iron was difficult to smelt, and the output was low, which was much more expensive than copper, and it was somewhat luxurious to use iron to make pots.

However, this aspect will definitely not limit Zhao Kuo, who is the king of Zhao.

As for the minister, he must have chosen to sit with Zhao Kuo and eat meat.

Exhortation? Zhao Kuo didn't levy iron on a large scale, but just cast a few pots.

If the monarch does something wrong to stop it, it is called a minister, and the monarch wants to stop everything, but it is not a minister, but he finds that something is wrong and plans to run away.

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And...... Some of these people secretly cast iron pots at home.

"It would be nice to have a big increase in iron production so that we can use the extra iron to make pots." Zhao Mu sighed.

"It's up to the craftsmen, we can't count on it." Xunzi shook his head, let him preach and lecture, make laws, govern the country, and even lead troops to fight Xunzi felt that he could try.

As for technology research and development, forget it.

"I suddenly found that the role of these technical talents is no less than ours, the strength of the country, and the victory or defeat on the battlefield depends not only on us, but also on them." Han Fei said.

In the past, he only saw the role of famous generals, and at most saw the contribution of the soldiers and the ministers who governed the country and raised grain and grass later, until today, he found that these craftsmen who have been unknown also determine the victory or defeat of a war.

"This is also the reason why the king has repeatedly improved the treatment of craftsmen, rewarded inventions and creations, and even obtained knighthoods like military merits." Liu Ping said that he has always been by Zhao Kuo's side and knows how much effort Zhao Kuo has made to improve Zhao Guo's technical level.

Qing alone has sealed three, which has never been done in any country. He also improved the treatment of ordinary craftsmen twice, vigorously rectified the workshop, and spoke with technology to avoid the situation where laymen command insiders.

In the past two years, the hardest thing in Zhao Guo is not the soldiers, nor the ministers of civil and military affairs, nor the officials from all over the country, but a famous craftsman in the workshop.

They not only had to ensure the output of armor, bows, crossbows, farm tools, cement, paper, and so on, but also had to find ways to get out the blast furnace, but also to degreas, make repeating crossbows, and make colorless glass.

The colored glass Zhao State has long had, to be precise, it is the Chu State, and the Chu State made this thing out hundreds of years ago.

In terms of science and technology, the state of Chu is still very advanced.

Although these glass products are not very valuable in the local area, they are sold to other places and jade at a price, even more expensive than jade.

In order to sue for peace, the state of Chu once gave the luminous bi to the state of Qin. After Qin received it, he sent troops to beat Chu without saying a word.

If the pillar of Wei was the salt pond in the east of the river, then the pillar of Chu was these glasses.

However, since the loss of most of the western region, the production of glass in the Chu State has been greatly reduced, and it can no longer support the entire Chu State.

Relatively speaking, Zhao Guo's technology in this area is very backward, although it can be made, but it is far inferior to Chu State, and it can't be sold at a price, and then it will not be made.

After Zhao Kuo learned about it, he reopened the kiln and asked everyone to develop on colorless glass, and as for the cost, he naturally bore it.

Since Zhao Kuo became the king of Zhao, these craftsmen have worked harder than before, and they have to rush to the workshop before dawn every day, and they can only go home when it is dark.

However, they are even happier than before, because they have taken several times more money than before, and there are bonuses after breakthroughs, and if they are lucky, they will improve what they invented, and there will be knighthoods.

One person can feed the whole family, and with the addition of the fields, there can be a lot of surplus every year.

They have never complained about the long working hours, they just hope that it will continue like this, not like before, although the working hours are short, but the family cannot afford to support them, and there is no resignation in these years, so they can only work for the office for the rest of their lives.

Therefore, what everyone hates is not actually 996, but 996 who didn't give enough money, or even didn't give money, and they still forced Lai Lai to say that it was a blessing.

It's just standing and standing.

If you give enough money, don't say ninety-nine-six, let me live in the company.

"The right to speak is in the hands of the upper class, these craftsmen don't even have a pen in their hands, where do they have the right to speak, they are oppressed and don't even dare to scold, they can only swallow with the saliva in their stomachs." Zhao Kuo said.

Fortunately, the aristocracy of this era is not rotten to the extreme, and most of them are saved. The scholars of this era have not yet looked down on witch doctors and musicians, people with hundreds of skills.

There were even quite a few aristocratic scholars who studied these.

Everyone was embarrassed, they were the people who "held the pen" in Zhao Kuo's mouth, and it was not an exaggeration to say that as long as they had a unified caliber, black could become white, and white could become black.

But they still have discipline and won't do such things. And it is very difficult to make a group of people, who are still the top group of people in the world, speak in a unified voice.

"The minister saw the division of the craftsman's merit level in the document of the law change, and he didn't care about it before, but now that he thinks about it, it's ridiculous, and after he goes back, he must make it well." Kong Bin said that he had seen that the part he was responsible for had this content before, but he had not paid attention to the craftsman, so he threw it aside, but fortunately found the mistake in time.

"Not only these, but also other places, there are also things that the widow can't think of, and if you have ideas, you can put them forward. One person counts short, two people count long. Zhao Kuo raised his glass and said.

Everyone also raised their glasses, and the hall was a peaceful scene of kings, saints, and sages.

However, Qin Wangji's mood was not so good at this time, and the reason was very simple, the library pavilion that had just been built was burned.

Even if the Qin State reacted quickly and rescued it in time, most of the library pavilion was burned down, and half of the books copied by nearly 100 scholars of the Qin State day and night were destroyed.

What made Qin Wangji even more angry was that the assassin who set the fire had not been caught until now.

Even if he guessed that Zhao Guo sent someone to do it.

No one in the Qin State and the other five countries dared to do such a thing, and it would not do them any good to burn down the Library Pavilion, if the Qin State could build one, it would be able to build a second one.

Only Zhao Guo......

Qin Wangji's hands were clenched into fists, his sharp nails pierced into his palms, blood dripped down his sleeves and fell to the ground, and the eunuch next to him bowed his body, trembling, and did not dare to remind.

Only Zhao Guo will do this kind of thing that harms others and himself!

But Qin Wangji still had no way to deal with Zhao State, and he couldn't even blame it, because this matter was caused by his Qin State's unkindness, and ...... Even the assassin has not been caught, there is no evidence, where to accuse?