The princes were actually not willing to send troops to quell the rebellion, but the Northern Bohou Chonghou Hu sent troops because of his face, and the Eastern Bohou Jiang Huanchu because of his in-laws, and at the same time coerced the Xibohou Jichang together, so the three princes moved together, and the small princes in the north had to move. This is to take advantage of the situation, Sun Ming single-handedly let the princes send troops to attack Yuan Futong, and Yuan Futong is still relatively young, if it were not for Chaoge's new decree, his fief could still stand up, and there was no need to rebel now.

Because of the hardships of life, the peasants had to flee to Chaoge with their families, which caused the population of Yuan Futong's fiefdom to drop sharply, and he had to launch a rebellion in advance. Sun Ming receives a battle report every half a month, Wen Zhong analyzes the content of the war report with Sun Ming every time he comes, and Wen Zhong wants to explain some forms of war, after all, the king must understand this.

"Great King, if it goes on like this, it won't take more than a year for the rebellion of the princes of the Seventy-Two Roads to be put down, how will their fiefs be handled?

"This is natural, but the princes who participate in the judgment need to be rewarded, this needs to be considered by me again, this matter is not in a hurry, although their speed is very fast, but after all, the number of soldiers and horses is actually about the same, and it will take a while to fight. "Sun Ming is very determined to reclaim the land, and he knows too well the problem of land, only by nationalizing and prohibiting buying and selling can the problem of land annexation be cured.

There is also an advantage, give more gold and silver to the ministers and princes, and not give them land, not only can the new currency circulate, so that they will go into business in order to be richer, and when commerce is developed, the country can be rich and strong, and Sun Ming does not intend to collect less business taxes.

Collecting more commercial taxes and less agricultural taxes is a strong criterion for rich countries, and Sun Ming still knows more about this, after all, he is a Chinese, and this practice has been proven and will not be wrong. The only question is whether merchants are very powerful after they have developed, powerful enough to overthrow the rule of a country, but can they really do it in the face of feudal kingship?

The basis of the royal power in China is the peasants, as long as the peasants have land to grow and eat, then everything is not a problem, then the flood is the same here, Sun Ming only needs to stabilize the peasants, then the merchants will not be able to turn over the big waves, and no one will follow them to rebel.

Sun Ming has his own plan, boiling frogs in warm water, without forcing it to a certain extent, it is difficult for the princes to unite and rebel, and his own side needs to appease them, so that they can be constantly weakened in hesitation, and in the end they are just lambs to be slaughtered.

Telling Wen Zhong his thoughts, Wen Zhong thought for a while, "Great King, if you clean up all the princes like this, how can I manage such a large territory?"

"Didn't you let the prime minister train officials in the first place?" Sun Ming said.

"King, it is very difficult to popularize writing now, and most of the hundreds of people don't even know the characters, how to train officials?"

Sun Ming suddenly, it turned out that he had forgotten such an important thing, and now he is only using bamboo slips, and the text is more hieroglyphic, and the text created by Wenzu Cangjie is imitated to the pattern, which is a little obscure for the human race, it seems that he has a long way to go, simplified characters?

There is a desire to introduce simplified characters, but it seems that traditional characters are more suitable, traditional characters, also known as Chinese traditional, the first batch of simplified characters in 1935 called orthographic characters, European and American countries called traditional Chinese. Sun Ming is a student of traditional Chinese medicine, and he has a natural understanding of traditional Chinese characters, and his handwriting with a brush is also good.

"I have my own ideas about this matter, Taishi go find me some craftsmen!" Sun Ming thought of the craftsman again, and also thought of the status of the craftsman, he must face up to the craftsman, although they may not be literate, but their skills are good, the development of civilization is inseparable from them, can not let those scholars suppress the status of the craftsman, what must be done at the beginning.

Wen Zhong left, while Sun Ming got up and looked at the map hanging in the apse of the council hall, a very simple sheepskin map, on which there was the approximate location of the princes, and the fiefs of the princes of the seventy-two roads were connected, and there was a fief of the Northern Bohou Chonghou Hu between them and Chaoge.

It stands to reason that the geographical location of these seventy-two princes is good, in the central part of the north, there is still a long distance from the miasma land on the shore of the North Sea, where the miasma does not affect them, and the land is also fertile, but it is particularly cold in winter.

If these lands are taken back to the central government, then the population can be increased by at least 800,000, right? If the land is divided, the population will inevitably double in less than five years, and although the population cannot be completed, what about another ten years? When these newly increased populations, combined with the population growth of Chaoge, can raise up an army of at least 300,000, and if it is not a problem to squeeze out an army of 500,000.

Of course, I don't necessarily need so much, it depends on the situation, and at the same time, it is inevitable to improve the ordnance, so I have a lot to do, and my scientific knowledge is not very rich, after all, I am studying Chinese medicine, and I know a lot of things.

For example, he knows a rough idea of the raw materials needed for papermaking, and he only knows a rough process, and if he wants to make paper, he can only let the craftsmen experiment along his lines, and the craftsmen think about this process. Fortunately, he is the king and has absolute rights, otherwise it will be difficult to complete, the craftsman Wen Zhong found has everything, Sun Ming said his own thoughts, and then sent the craftsman away.

The craftsmen were confused, they didn't know what the paper was, only a simple description of Sun Ming, and a vague material and process, but the craftsmen were still very smart, they decided to get a rough step according to the king's words, and then slowly enrich the things inside, so step by step, anyway, there is no time limit.

Not to mention, these craftsmen first made a rough idea of the process, and then tried to make it a few times, until the paper came out, but it was not too brittle or the color was wrong, but at least they saw hope, so they continued to improve the raw materials and processes, and the paper was really made in less than a month.

And the smelting aspect is also making rapid progress, because Sun Ming gives a high reward, and at the same time, the craftsmen have a grading system. It is divided into several levels: apprentice, elementary, intermediate, advanced, master, and grandmaster, and once the first batch of people in charge of the experiment succeeds, all of them will be promoted to grandmasters. The status of the grandmaster is equivalent to that of the little princes, so the craftsmen are like being beaten with chicken blood, and they are doing their best, who doesn't want to have status and status? At the same time, there are also rich rewards.

The sudden explosion of science and technology made the central court song of the Shang Dynasty suddenly become lively, and Wang Shu Bigan began to enter and leave the palace frequently.

"King, the smelting of iron has been completed, I don't know what to do?" Uncle Wang's words made Sun Ming's eyes light up, but there are many kinds of iron, and what Sun Ming wants is actually steel.

"They mix it with other metals to make steel, and the texture of the steel needs to be strong and tough, and they can see how to do it. In a word, the craftsmen below began to work hard again, this time they were promoted to the rank of master in metal smelting, and if they practiced the steel that the king said, then they would inevitably become grandmasters. Where there is a reward, there is enthusiasm, and the reason for the sudden outbreak is also accumulation.

The human race has developed for tens of thousands of years, but there has never been such a large-scale centralized use of craftsmen, many things are passed down from generation to generation, but now under the stimulation of rewards, many things have been taken out for intensive research, and it is reasonable to explode like this.

This is the case on the earth, the Chinese people have always hidden their own technology, regarded it as a treasure and never passed it on, nor have they been concentrated for large-scale research, so that a large number of technologies have disappeared in the long river of history. And now that Sun Ming has adopted a centralized approach, allowing science and technology to explode all at once, it is reasonable that the speed of such research has advanced by leaps and bounds.

Sun Ming discovered this, so he was also relieved to boldly give an idea, and then let them study it by themselves, instead of using the way of refining weapons to help, after all, people always have to rely on their own talents, which also facilitates the spread of technology.

The latest paper was made, and Sun Ming held it in his hand and kept stroking it, "Good things, promote them all to masters." ”

"King, aren't you promoted to a grandmaster?" Uncle Wang was also happy when he looked at the paper, and specially fought for the craftsmen.

"No, let them keep trying, the manufacturing process needs to be simple, convenient, fast, and at the same time it needs to make pens and ink. Sun Ming looked at Uncle Wang with a puzzled expression, and then explained what pen and ink were. Then he took out movable type printing again, and these three things are easy to say except for ink, but Sun Ming estimates that it won't take long.

Sun Ming papermaking can spread culture and at the same time serve himself, and he wants to make a statement. What is a statement? It is to summarize what you have said and then spread it out so that everyone knows what you have said and done. It is impossible to do good deeds without leaving a name, as a king, if he wants to strengthen the centralization of power, then he must let the common people, especially the common people in the princes' territories, agree with him, and when the time comes to eliminate the princes, he will inevitably get support.

The princes often use his name to exploit the people, so his reputation is not good in the hearts of the people, and now the court knows that he is a good monarch, but it is not clear elsewhere!

Chaoge seems to have broken out an industrial revolution, a large number of new things continue to pour out, so after a year, Sun Ming's basic technology is ready, a large number of grandmaster-level craftsmen appeared, they have improved their own craftsmanship by leaps and bounds, and many things have formed a scale and began to produce.