Iron smelting and forging are the earliest origins of new technologies in Liangzhou, and basically the first batch of technological innovation promoted by Liu Bei was iron smelting and forging.

In order to refine better steel and create tougher weapons, Liu Bei has invested a lot in this regard.

Especially after the improvement of the salt selling business, the finances were more abundant, and Liu Bei threw a lot of money into it, so that the craftsmen had enough spare time to study new technologies.

Huangtian has lived up to the painstaking people, and the forging and smelting techniques of the craftsmen have been constantly innovating, and so far five generations of technology have been innovated, and each generation has made significant improvements.

When Liu Bei took Lu Zhi to see the situation of the forge, he showed him the weapons forged by the steel smelted using the fifth-generation technology.

"This is the ring-head knife created by the fifth-generation technology, this is the ring-head knife forged by the first-generation technology, that is, the ring-head knife when I fought with the Qiang people in the second year of my defense in Liangzhou."

Liu Bei brought two knives to Lu Zhi to see, and Lu Zhi took the two knives, and from the perspective of a semi-professional soldier, he could indeed easily see the difference between the two weapons.

The so-called fifth-generation technology forged ring-head knife does not look very different from the first-generation knife, but after weighing, you can still feel a slight gap in weight.

"Is this fifth-generation technology used in the military now?"

Lu Zhi dropped the first-generation ring-head knife with a surprised face, and stroked the fifth-generation technology ring-head knife with his hand, quite a feeling of not being able to put it down.

"Now the main equipment in the army is still the third generation of technology ring head knife, the interval between the fourth generation and the fifth generation is relatively short, the fourth generation of ring head knife has not been produced much, now the main production of the fifth generation, about half a year to complete the replacement."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "I was the one who wanted to improve the quality of the weapon at the beginning, and I was the one who put forward some opinions, but now, they have spontaneously summarized these forging techniques and iron-smelting technologies, and they have changed from the source, which has made the weapons more sharp and tough."

Although they haven't read any books, they are not classics, and they don't have a high status, but the techniques they have summed up can make the army of the Han invincible, and the reason why I am invincible is that their credit is very important.

Without them working hard for me here, summing up technology and seeking innovation day in and day out, how could I train my army to win victory after victory? How can you make such a famous name? Teacher, what do you think? ”

Lu Zhi stroked the exquisite ring-headed knife in his hand, and felt that he had nothing to say, so he could only nod.

That is indeed the principle, after seeing it with his own eyes, Lu Zhi felt the power of the skill of craftsmanship.

If one side uses this fifth-generation ring-head knife when fighting, and the other side can only use the most primitive standard ring-head knife, then it won't be long before the two armies clash, and after a few sticks of incense, the battlefield will become a slaughterhouse.

How much of a role the advantage of weapons can play on the battlefield of fighting, Lu Zhi is still clear.

At the beginning, when he participated in the counterinsurgency, he also fought with a ring head knife on one side and a wooden stick and bamboo gun on the other, which was almost a one-sided situation.

Looking at this technological innovation from a professional perspective, Lu Zhi can understand why Liu Bei's army has always been invincible and invincible, and has hardly ever failed.

After that, Lu Zhi followed Liu Bei to visit the trebuchet station, the paper factory, and the fierce fire oil station, and found a lot of novel things, and many technologies that have been put into the army or civilian use are still being improved.

For example, in the fierce fire oil institute, the craftsmen are constantly trying to expand the scope and power of the fierce fire oil deflagration, and this is also the largest research place in the entire Gongqiao Research Institute.

"This fierce fire oil was overheard by people when the disciple was serving in Liangzhou, so he took it to see it, and at first glance, he felt that it was of great military significance, so he stored it to study tactics, and now the fierce fire oil tank has become one of the important main battle weapons in the army."

Liu Bei pointed to the explosive fireball and introduced his achievements to Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi looked at the explosive fireball, and suddenly thought of the fortified battles he had fought, if he could use such a weapon, then the difficulty of the fortified battle would definitely decrease correspondingly, and the army's losses would also be correspondingly reduced.

It's a pity that he didn't have anything at that time.

There is no good ring head knife, and there is no fierce fire oil tank, and all of this was born in this Gongqiao Research Institute, from which he saw infinite possibilities and innovation, but also saw the huge uncertainty of the future.

It turns out that in order to win the battle and enhance his strength, Liu Bei has done so much work in private?

How far did he see and how much did he think about the preparations he started several years ago?

When he was confined to sectarian disputes and selfish schemes, how much long-term thinking did this disciple of his make, and where did he set his sights?

After roughly turning the entire Gongqiao Research Institute, standing at the door of the printing office at the beginning, Liu Bei asked Lu Zhi the previous question again.

"Teacher, now, are you willing to promise me?"

Lu Zhi looked at the line-bound Zuo's Spring and Autumn Book in his hand, flipped through a few pages, and smiled bitterly.

"Your Majesty, does the minister have the right to say no?"

"Of course, you are my teacher, and you have power that others don't have."

"Xuande, I promise you."

Lu Zhi stuffed the book "Zuo's Spring and Autumn" in his hand into Liu Bei's hand: "This thing is useless, you can do what you want, I now understand that the future of the Han Dynasty is in this Gongqiao Research Institute, not in Zuo's Spring and Autumn." ”

"Why did the teacher say that?"

Liu Bei hooked the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "Obviously, the Spring and Autumn Period of the Zuo family is also very important. ”

"It's not that Zuo's Spring and Autumn is important, but your existence makes some people mistakenly think that Zuo's Spring and Autumn is important."

Lu Zhi shook his head and said: "The Spring and Autumn Period of the Zuo clan has never allowed people to win battles, and everything here can make people win battles, and now that it makes no sense for me to continue to insist on these things."

Xuande, you look too far, compared to you, I am just a frog at the bottom of the well, I can't see the real thing, but the only thing I'm curious about is Xuande, how far do you see? What do you see? ”

Lu Zhi looked at Liu Bei with curious eyes, as if he wanted to get this answer from Liu Bei.

But Liu Bei couldn't give him this answer, he couldn't tell Lu Zhi that he had seen two thousand years later, seen the rise and fall of history, and watched the farce of the human cycle.

He could only say some ambiguous words.

"What I see is something that ordinary people don't pay attention to, teacher, I can only say that what I want to do in the future is to make the Gongqiao Research Institute stronger, and then it is to go out, to keep going out, and constantly looking for new places to explore unknown areas.

Among all the ways that can bring about change, only the Gongqiao Research Institute and going out can actually bring about change, and the others are nothing, just the death of people, so I will definitely go in these two directions, and everything I am doing now is to lay the foundation for these two goals. ”

"That's ......"

Lu Zhi seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to understand much, and he could feel the depression in Liu Bei's words, which made his mood even more depressed, because his students were not willing to talk to him too much.

Could it be that his students don't think that he, as a teacher, can help him in this regard?

Thinking about it like this, Lu Zhi felt that this was also his own problem - he hesitated in the option of the portal's private plan just now.

Maybe it's this hesitation that makes students stop believing in themselves?

Lu Zhi was a little sad, a little self-blaming, and a little helpless.

But in any case, he promised Liu Bei, and he decided to hand over the inheritance of "Zuo's Spring and Autumn" belonging to the Lu family, and from then on, let the Lu family of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, return to its original ecological niche, and bid farewell to the status of the home of the Valve.

This is the end of the existence of the last valve reading family.

In contrast, he has only one request.

He wants to come to the Gongqiao Research Institute from time to time to see the development of the latest technology, and he wants to see what kind of changes this place full of vigorous and upward atmosphere can bring to Dahan.

Liu Bei agreed to him and gave Lu Zhi the right to freely enter and leave the Gongqiao Research Institute.

As a result, Liu Bei succeeded, and he successfully eliminated the last Valce Reading House.

On December 11, the fifth year of Jian'an, Liu Beiming issued an edict to the world, announcing that with his own family as the head, the three major valve reading families of the Liu family of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, Fufeng Maoling Ma, and Zhuo County Lu will give up the inheritance of "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period" at the same time and return the inheritance of family learning to the state.

In the edict, Liu Bei clearly put forward what happened after the White Tiger View Conference and the White Tiger View Conference, talked about the birth of the Valve Reading family with his own understanding, and then announced that the Valve Reading family would give up everything and return what originally belonged to the Son of Heaven and the country to the Son of Heaven and the country.

The outflow of academic power caused by the young and weak Son of Heaven came to an end here for Liu Bei.

In the midst of more than ten years of changes, the valve reading family in the world has died and died, depreciated, and actively gave up, and in the end, it has gone to a complete demise.

Since then, there has been no Valve Reading family in the Third Han Reich.

The royal family has taken the lead in giving up, who else can hold on?

All the family inheritance is stripped from the family, and all are included in the big collective of Taixue, and from then on, the academic will return to the public and belong to the world's schools, allowing the world's students to learn freely, and there is no more portal and family law inheritance.

All interpretations, all dissenting opinions, will come to an end here in the imperial court, and the views of the gateway will forever become history, and will no longer be a shackle that restricts scholars from further their scholarship.

This news is actually quite shocking, because with the disclosure of this news, an important social phenomenon that has accompanied the Eastern Han Empire for more than 100 years is about to come to an end.

Protégés are all over the world.

Without the inheritance of family education, there is no one who is qualified to recruit protégés.

If there is no protégé, where are the protégés all over the world?

In the case of academic return to the public, it means that only the official institutions run by the government have the power to teach students, and the teachers in the official institutions always have a layer of official status.

They preached and taught in an official capacity, and the occasions on which they taught their disciples were in official institutions, and it was impossible to form a system of protégés and former officials as close as that in the era of family studies.

This is public, not private.

Liu Bei made it very clear that from now on, all individuals, including him Liu Bei, will no longer recruit protégés and disciples as personal identities and family heirs.

Everyone should study in an official school headed by Taixue, and follow the official teacher to study the classics freely, and should not go to any private teacher to be a private protégé or disciple.

In the edict, Liu Bei also clearly stipulated that after the classics were returned to the public, Liu Bei would participate in the compilation of the "Five Classics of Justice" as a scripture teacher, and sort out all the differences in the Confucian classics that everyone had debated for hundreds of years.

All the different glyphs, pronunciations, understandings, and different sayings will all be explained in the "Five Classics of Justice", and in order to make it easier for everyone to read, Liu Bei also announced that he would create punctuation marks for sentence breaking.

He will use punctuation marks to complete the sentence break of the most suitable text jointly identified by the imperial court and scholars in the world, and then promulgate it to the world, so that people in the world can read books without learning sentences, eliminating this learning link and reducing the difficulty and threshold of learning.

It can be said that wherever the issuance of this edict spreads, the literate community is shocked and shocked.

Even before the release, when Liu Bei held an internal meeting, it caused a collective shock among the participants.

It can be said that this thing is the most important thing to distinguish between a literacy player and a serious reader in this era, and only by learning to read sentences and mastering sentence reading can you become a reader, otherwise you are a simple reading and writing player, and you do not have the ability to learn by yourself.

And once a public, universally accepted way of breaking sentences is created and used in books, the gap between literacy and literacy is bridged.

In the terminology of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the distance between literate commoners, Haoqiang and scholars was artificially smoothed.

Then everyone is a reader.

Even the difference between ordinary scholars and scholars with family support will begin to narrow, the difficulty of learning various knowledge will be further reduced, and the further expansion of the group of scholars will become a fact.

Originally, there were only three and a half million scholars in the Han Dynasty who had mastered enough knowledge, but once punctuation became widespread and sentence reading became history, this number would expand tenfold in a short period of time, and more and more such people would increase over time.

In the end, reading and writing may become a basic skill that every Han can master, and the reader will no longer be so proud.

Sensible officials were surprised and worried.

Kuai Yue, who had just followed Liu Bei not long ago and was serving in the cabinet, expected this, and then raised a little concern.

"Your Majesty, this is naturally a good thing, and it is also a good thing now, but in ten or twenty years, or thirty years from now, there may be people who have mastered knowledge all over the Han Dynasty, so many people who have mastered knowledge, and will the Han Dynasty have so many official positions that can be provided to them?

People without knowledge are the best to rule, people with knowledge are very difficult to rule, once there is dissatisfaction, a group of people get together, it can bring huge trouble to the Han, so the minister suggested that it is better to think about this matter in the long run. ”

Kuai Yue's idea is also the idea of some officials.

They have proposed that it is indeed a good thing for Liu Bei to reduce the difficulty of learning, but from the perspective of governance, it will only bring more uncontrollable factors, which is not necessarily a good thing for maintaining national stability.

It is true that Liu Bei must admit that their purpose is not only for themselves and their family, but also for the stability of the Han Empire, and even at this time, the consideration of the stability of the Han Empire exceeds their own interests.

However, Liu Bei looked at their anxious appearances and knew that his previous speculation was right.

The end of the troubled times and the arrival of the rule of the world will bring people a stable life, but at the same time, it will also be accompanied by the strengthening of the ruling power and the suffocation of free thought and creation.

Because rulers only want to maintain stability, and everything is for the sake of stability.

And this is almost a knee-jerk act, a subconscious action of a group and a class, even if he has only been emperor for a few months, this situation has appeared.

He remembered a story he had read in the Huainanzi written by Liu An, who was also a member of the Han royal family, and his disciples.

It was a very interesting and fascinating story.

(End of chapter)