At this time, Yuan Xi took Guo Jia, Tian Yu and others, and returned to the city after inspecting the outside of the city. Yuan Xi told Tian Yu about Xian Yufu.
Tian Yu whispered: "As soon as I arrived in the city last night, Xian Yufu sent someone over and said he wanted to meet me."
"After I learned about it, I sent some people to his residence to protect him. The soldiers who came back said that he reacted very calmly."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi smiled and said, "I'm afraid he will hate you."
Guo Jia spoke up: "Xian Yufu is a smart man, otherwise he would not do such a thing when the young master enters the city. Otherwise, he should wait for the young master to leave and send someone alone to deliver a message to Guorang."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi laughed and said, "It's true that I was wrong. What he is looking forward to most is for me to meet him in person, right?"
After Tian Yu heard this, he smiled and said: "That's exactly what I mean, but I'm just condescending."
Yuan Xi waved his hand and said: "It doesn't matter, if I don't have this bit of sincerity, it will only make him look down on me."
Several people stood on the city wall, looking at the land outside the city. Several intricate rivers flowed through it. Craftsmen were cutting wood next to the river, then peeling off the bark and cutting it with saws to make the spokes of the waterwheel.
Guo Jia said: "When I was in Beixin City, the young master proposed the idea of building a new type of waterwheel. Now it has been realized, which is quite effective and saves a lot of manpower."
"There are many rivers near Quanzhou, and it is inconvenient to carry water manually. After trying the water wheel a few days ago, the response was very good, so we started to manufacture it on a large scale."
Yuan Xi saw the waterwheel rotating rapidly under the wash of the river, and said: "You said this thing is only used to transport water, isn't it a bit wasteful?"
"If a millstone is attached to grind noodles, can it save more manpower and animal power?"
After hearing this, Guo Jia was a little surprised and said: "I pride myself on my wisdom and scheming. Although I feel that I am better than the Young Master in terms of vertical and horizontal manipulation and human planning, the Young Master is a craftsman with unconstrained ideas and unique wisdom."
Yuan Xi thought to himself that the idea of a waterwheel mill was not his own. It first appeared in the Tang Dynasty in later generations and became popular on a large scale during the Song and Yuan Dynasties.
This was slowly developed and improved with the emergence of waterwheel-related technologies. The reason why there was so much lag was because there were many wars in the intervening hundreds of years, and the invention of tools was not taken seriously. Only in the peaceful and prosperous times did craftsmen have the opportunity to carry out their work.
Invention breakthrough.
Now Yuan Xi wanted to fundamentally change this problem. Scholars, peasants, industrialists and merchants were divided into different classes. He began to purposefully improve the status and remuneration of craftsmen, and reward craftsmen who made inventions.
Only in this way can we mobilize the enthusiasm of these people to invent, let the horses run, and prevent the horses from eating grass. In the end, it can only lead to this group being ruined and changing careers, resulting in the loss of technology and the decline of technology instead of progress.
Only after solving the problem of enthusiasm can we face a more fundamental aspect: the imperfect construction of the knowledge system.
During Yuan Xi's days in Beixin City, he met many craftsmen. Many of them had good ideas and ideas, but many of them were limited by the craftsmen's own cultural level and cognition, and could not form a complete prototype.
Relying on craftsmen slowly exploring and accumulating experience during long hours of labor, they finally had a sudden inspiration and made a breakthrough by chance.
And those who can do this can only be outstanding and talented craftsmen.
The most regrettable thing is that the knowledge of mathematics and geometry that craftsmen need most is not in the hands of craftsmen, but in the homes of a very small number of nobles.
After these nobles mastered this knowledge, most of them did not use it for inventions, but devoted themselves to stargazing, divination, rituals and other activities.
It is so difficult to obtain knowledge, so there is a saying that the Tao should not be taught lightly and the law should not be sold cheaply. Not only the nobles strictly guarded against this knowledge, but also the craftsmen were extremely harsh in recruiting apprentices, which invisibly hindered the dissemination and improvement of technology.
What Yuan Xi is doing now is trying to change this situation so that ordinary craftsmen engaged in labor can receive the minimum inheritance of knowledge.
Yuan Xi said: "It's a pity that my knowledge is too limited. I intend to bring the craftsmanship into free learning, but now the people who know the craftsmanship are not literate, and the literate people don't understand the craftsmanship, so it is quite difficult to start."
"And the current method of teaching and inheritance is very problematic. I heard that before the nobles learned numeracy from an early age, they had to learn oracle bones and gold symbols, and then they learned how to use various observation instruments, then astronomy, geography, alchemy and medicine, and finally
Only teach math?"
Guo Jia said: "It is indeed true, because among the hundreds of skills, these are all classified as alchemy."
"The nobles learned these things not to harvest more food or to make more iron, but almost all for the purpose of refining elixirs."
"Ever since Emperor Qin sought the art of immortality, everyone from the emperor to the nobles has taken this as their ultimate goal."
Yuan Xi thought to himself that this was the root of the problem. Alchemy was a waste of manpower and material resources, and it was a waste of precious opportunities for knowledge inheritance. It seemed that he would have to find a way to stop this unhealthy trend and redirect most of the manpower and material resources to something more useful.
place.
He said: "I am now looking for talents who are committed to improving craftsmanship. Unfortunately, in the past two years, most of the craftsmen are illiterate. It is okay to let them make tools, but as officials, it is a bit reluctant to handle affairs."
"Cai Zhaoji does know a little bit about everything. Unfortunately, as a woman, she is inconvenient to do many things."
"I want people who are both literate and proficient in skills so that they can impart knowledge as quickly as possible, and they can also make inventions and improve tools."
Guo Jia thought about it, and suddenly her eyes lit up, "It's not like there aren't people like the young master mentioned."
"I heard that the Fufeng Ma family has many disciples studying alchemy."
"The Ma family in Fufeng is a wealthy local family. It is not a problem for their children to read and write since they were young. Moreover, Jia heard that there are outstanding ones among them who invented and improved the keel waterwheel, which is very good at competing with the Young Master's runner waterwheel."
Yuan Xi heard this and was surprised: "There is such a person, what is his name?"
Guo Jia thought for a while, "What does it seem to be called Ma Jun?"
After hearing this, Yuan Xi couldn't help but stand up, "Ma Jun? Which Ma Jun?"
Guo Jia spoke up: "Ma Jun and Ma Deheng, I heard that his family was poor and he made a living by making tools for others in the countryside. His reputation gradually spread, but it was only limited to the Fufeng area."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi suddenly realized, wasn't this an extremely famous inventor who was known as Qiao in the world for his achievements in both civilian and military inventions?
He said excitedly: "Send someone to look for this person and try our best to bring him back!"
Guo Jia immediately agreed, and Yuan Xi couldn't help but praise: "I didn't expect that Sir not only focuses on the general trend of the world, but also pays attention to things like Fufeng. Sure enough, he is sitting in the room, but he is strategizing for the world."
Guo Jia's face turned red, "Sun Li's mother is from the Fufeng Ma family. I was interested in her that day, so I learned some things about her family, but it was of no use later."
Yuan Xi was stunned: "You want to attack Sun Li's mother?"
Guo Jia saw a look of disdain on Tian Yu's face and coughed quickly, "I never force anyone!"
"Furthermore, Mr. Ma was not interested in me, so in the end the matter was settled."
Yuan Xi became interested in gossip and said with a smile: "Mr. Fengxiao is also quite charming. I'm afraid Sun Li's mother is very strict about keeping integrity, so she hit a wall."
Guo Jia said angrily: "Forget it, she scolded me at that time, saying that she was not a chaste and martyr woman, but she just looked down on weak scholars like me."
"She said that the people of the Ma clan are all powerful and brave. When they get on their horses and raise their spears, and when they dismount their horses and raise their swords, they are considered real men."
"She doesn't even look at me, who is so helpless. This makes me so angry."
Yuan Xi and Tian Yu couldn't help laughing after hearing this.
Guo Jia was angry, thinking that Ma did not lie to him, and that he and Qu Yi were flirting with each other. How sad!
At this moment, Yuan Xi was thinking about something else.
During the Han Dynasty, the imperial court divided and managed three areas close to the capital, thus forming three auxiliary areas, namely Jingzhaoyin, Zuofengyi, and Youfufeng. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Right Fufeng was changed to Fufeng County.
Since the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Sanfu area has always had a wide range of folk customs. "Book of the Later Han·Biography of Wang Yun" records: "In the beginning, Yun took Song Yi of the same county as Feng Yi on the left, and Wang Hong as Fufeng on the right. At that time, the people of Sanfu were prosperous, and the military was
Tani Fumi.”
However, it is a pity that the current Sanfu area is in dilapidated state after the brutal rule of Li Jue and Guo Si.
"Book of the Later Han·Biography of Dong Zhuo" records: "At the beginning, when the emperor entered the pass, the three assistants had hundreds of thousands of households. They attacked each other from Jue and Si. After the emperor returned eastward, the city of Chang'an was empty for more than forty days. The strong were scattered, and the weak were scattered.
Eat. After two or three years of leisure, there will be no trace of anyone in Guanzhong."
The nobles of Fufeng were forced to flee to various places, and some of them were quite famous in later generations.
Ma Chao, Sheyuan, Fazheng, Meng Da and others all came from Fufeng.
Yuan Xi thought it was a pity. If Youzhou was adjacent to Sanfu, he would definitely find a way to recruit talents, but now there is Bingzhou in the middle.
The two forces in Bingzhou, the Southern Xiongnu and the Montenegrin Army, are always a big problem. If they are not solved, they will not be able to expand into the Sanfu area.
The situation in Xuzhou is now stable, and it is estimated that there will be no major changes in a few years. Focusing on the surroundings of Youzhou, it is time to find a way to remove these two nails in Bingzhou.
Thinking of this, Yuan Xi became a little irritable. He always felt that there was not enough time left for him. Every time he wanted to plan something, he realized that the power in his hands was still too weak, so that he always had to take risks in order to
Xiaobo is big.
In soldiers, the weak defeat the strong with the strange, and the king uses the strong to bully the weak. Everyone knows that the king is the way to win in an upright manner, but the key point is that Yuan Xi does not have this strength now.
Therefore, he could only recruit helpers secretly to strike a balance between several parties to deal with the common enemy.
When planning to annex the state, Yuan Xi did not count on Yuan Shang from Jizhou, and if Yuan Shang was allowed to intervene, Yuan Xi would not be able to get even a piece of the pie.
Not only was Yuan Tan in Qingzhou far away, he also had to deal with the Taishan bandits, and he couldn't get away for the time being.
So Yuan Xi is looking for help this time.
The first person he was looking for was people like Yan Rou and Xian Yufu.
The second thing to look for, and the most critical and difficult to predict, is Lu Bu who is currently in Hanoi.
Lu Bu's power is more critical than Yan Rouxian Yufu.
Because even if the Black Mountain Army is defeated, Youzhou cannot be separated from the Sanfu area by Hanoi County.
Hanoi County is an extremely critical place. In Yuan Xi's vision, the situation in Hanoi County in the next three years will determine the direction of the entire world!
The number of chapters in today's two chapters is wrong. It's the same as the one the day before yesterday. But I can't change it due to the lock. I'm sorry.