Liu Chan supervised the construction of armor soldiers in Linqiong, and Chengdu was not idle.

He has been in charge of preparing for the military martial arts academy, and has made breakthroughs.

After he revealed that the crown prince Liu Chan, Shangshu Ling Fazheng, the military advisor Zhuge Liang, the later general Huang Zhong and others would all be named in the school and take turns to serve as lecturers, the local families in Yizhou expressed their strong support.

This kind of support does not stay in words, the military academy wants to cultivate not only fierce generals and martial artists, but more importantly, grassroots officers with organizational ability, as well as generals with tactical judgment.

Even handsome people with strategic vision.

Grass-roots officers are okay, generals and handsome talents, except for some talented players, they still need a certain level of cultural literacy and knowledge.

Before the spread of culture and education, such seedlings were basically concentrated in the hands of the big clans, which could not be avoided.

Of course, when the final appointment is made, you still have to pass the assessment and perform martial arts.

In addition to rushing to contribute to the outstanding children of the family, each family even took the initiative to contribute to the construction of the school.

Of course, this is also to recruit students in the academy, so that they can have a little more places and improve their political status in Lao Liu's forces.

Recently, Qian Zhou has been busy selecting a site to build a school, and there are many doorways here, not only the environment is quiet, but also pays attention to feng shui and so on.

It seems that it will take some time to prepare for the official start of recruiting people to teach.

In addition, the paper industry also began to rise with the support of the government.

For the popularization of paper, Liu Chan has also made suggestions to Lao Liu, but at this time, Cai Lun paper is still rough and easy to be damaged, and it is not as safe as bamboo slips.

However, Liu Chan also mentioned the shortcomings of bamboo slips at that time, such as heavy bamboo slips and difficult to find and transport, and believed that the potential of paper is still very high, and it will definitely be able to make higher quality paper.

Lao Liu still has little confidence in paper, and when people are older, they don't like to accept new things.

But this did not prevent him from having confidence in Liu Chan, and with the blessing of high favorability, he finally agreed with Liu Chan's idea.

After all, now my son is no longer the foolish appearance of his childhood, and every step has his own intentions.

Anyway, the money and resources consumed by the development of papermaking are not large.

In Liu Chan's thinking, first lighting up papermaking, and then lighting up printing, can lay a good foundation for the future development of culture and education.

But it's a long-term solution, so there's no need to rush.

After Zhuge Liang returned, in addition to helping Fazheng share government affairs, almost all of his spare time was spent on inventions.

Even because Liu Chan restricted his bedtime, Zhuge Junshi is now even drawing pictures during meals......

The first is the improvement of the crossbow, which is divided into two directions, one is the infantry crossbow with the ability to fire continuously, and strives to make the long-range attacks with armor-piercing ability more intensive.

The first is to continue to improve the bed crossbow, the Han Dynasty bed crossbow has begun to be popularized, but although its range is long, the accuracy is poor, and the power is not up to the bottom is also a little embarrassing.

Let's take it to the field, it is very difficult and slow to carry and mount, and it cannot meet the needs of the battlefield at all.

Siege and defense are okay, but it is not as convenient as a stone machine, after all, stones are much easier to get than custom crossbow arrows.

After making the Lei Gong Cannon, the bed crossbow became something that grandma didn't love and uncle, with high cost and low benefit.

However, when Zhuge Liang was studying the repeating crossbow, he felt that the bed crossbow still had room for development.

Since there is nothing to be done about the bulky shortcomings, then simply give up and find a way to maximize the power and accuracy.

After all, the stone flies slowly and is easy to dodge, and if the accuracy of the bed crossbow is improved, at least there will still be a place when attacking and defending the city.

Then there is the armor, the existing iron armor has no sleeves and no collar, and the protection is still a little lower.

In Zhuge Liang's eyes, nothing is worth anything, and if there is an increase in casualties in order to save, it will put the cart before the horse.

Especially those who can wear Xuan armor, they are either officers or elite soldiers, and they die one and lose another.

So he pulled out two more sleeves on the basis of the original Xuan armor, and at the same time designed a stand-up collar to block the neck, and the hem was elongated into a skirt armor.

At the same time, the layered arrangement of the armor pieces has been improved, and the defense power has been further improved.

"If its sleeves are like tubes, they are called sleeve armor."

Compared to the repeating crossbow and the improved bed crossbow, which were still in the process of being studied, the barrel sleeve armor was the first to complete the design.

He didn't know that Liu Chan's side had begun to light up the forging technology by leaps and bounds.

If you combine his newly designed sleeve armor with the armor created by Liu Chan's latest forging technology, you can put a set of several humanoid Gundams on Ji Han's body...... Tsk tsk.

Zhuge Liang is concentrating on invention and creation, and Fa Zheng is adjusting the salaries of officials according to Lao Liu's instructions.

The impact of the tax reform was too great, and after deliberation, the top management of Chengdu decided to take Nanzhong as a pilot and then negotiate after observation.

So Lao Liu planned to start with the improvement of officials' salaries, how did his son say that...... Closing the gap between rich and poor?

The salaries of officials at all levels, which have been inherited from the old system, are actually very unreasonable.

It is mainly reflected in the fact that the low is too low, and the high is too high.

Although some officials can become officials, they don't care much about this salary.

But there are also people who really rely on these meager salaries to support their families, and it is often these people who are more honest and dedicated.

On the contrary, those who can be in a high position are not inferior to these three or five hundred stones, but they have a high amount of money.

There was once such an incident, there was a small county county Zuo, because his salary was not enough to eat (less than 100 stones), he died of starvation at home in winter.

Afterwards, it was also quoted as a good story praising this person's integrity.

When Liu Chan first heard about it, he thought it was quite nonsense.

Isn't this an institutional disgrace? Is it something to be celebrated?

Could it be that the purpose of praising this kind of misery is to make other grassroots officials follow his example and starve themselves to death?

You've got the knack for praising such pathetic things, so why don't you do something practical.

When Liu Chan and Lao Liu talked about this matter, Lao Liu also thought so.

At present, taking advantage of this window period, it is the time when the prestige of the Liu Central Committee is the highest, and it is a good time for reform.

To put it simply, it is a decrease from the top to the bottom, of course, everyone is now nominally an official of the Han Dynasty, even if it is changed, it is not a change in reality.

That is, the wages payable remain unchanged, only the actual wages are changed.

Most of the high-level people are their own people, and there is no resistance to the implementation, and many of the grassroots are Yizhou locals, so this move also improves the treatment of Yizhou locals in disguise, and further closes the relationship between the central government and local scholars.

Not only Zhuge Liang and Fa are busy, but Liu Ba is also presiding over the continued improvement of Jingyi's economic situation.

Today's society is different from that of later generations, where agriculture is the backbone of the economy, and in the final analysis, it is determined by the level of productivity.

However, this is not to say that other economic production is not important, but the proportion is generally not high.

And Liu Ba's understanding of the low proportion is: the potential is huge.

Before Liu Chan began to control the Zhao family's business, Zhuge Liang had already seen Shu Jin's powerful ability to absorb gold.

And now Liu Ba not only continued Zhuge Liang's strategy, continued to encourage the people to grow mulberry and raise silkworms, but also expanded the scale of Jincheng and standardized the management of Jincheng by Jinguan.

The expansion of production and operation through the two channels of government and private enterprises, coupled with Liu Chan's wine industry, strives to become a fist product of Yizhou.

If you are a nobleman, you have to wear Shu brocade and drink aged wine.

Otherwise, what kind of dignitary is that? What kind of celebrity is it?

How to show your noble temperament? It's a shame, okay.

I don't know when this idea began, but it has spread with the scribes, officials, big families, and merchants who went in and out of Shu.

Gradually, a popular trend was formed, which swept into the upper class of Wei and Wu, and there was a tendency to "sweep away Liuhe and sweep the Eight Wildernesses" in one step.

Most of the brocade clothes and fine clothes and brewed water and wine of Wei and Wu real estate were defeated, and only Du Kang still had the strength to fight in the northern market because of the endorsement of Boss Cao during his lifetime.

At a time when high-grade liquor has not yet appeared, the wines improved by Liu Chan and Zhuge Liang, especially the aged version, have a mellow and long taste, which can be described as outstanding.

Coupled with the conscious propaganda and the attention of the upper echelons as one of the strategies, the situation we have today.

Not only was Shu brocade and wine commercially successful, but also the private circulation of Zhibai money in Wei and Wu.

Since Dong Zhuo indiscriminately made inferior five-baht coins and collapsed the credit of this monetary system, Cao Wei also tried to recover, but ultimately failed.

Coupled with the shortage of materials caused by the war, people have returned to the state of bartering in order not to be affected by inflation.

Unexpectedly, Lao Liu used this opportunity to solve the emptiness of the treasury to create a straight hundred coins, but instead used this opportunity to gradually become popular with his strong commodities.

In addition to military equipment, in other aspects such as economy and system, Lao Liu Group has gradually begun to exert its strength.

And these are even more difficult to detect by opponents......

(End of chapter)