Ten years seems to be a long time, but it is actually very short!
Everything Zhiyao worked hard for was very difficult at the beginning, but once the foundation was established, it developed exponentially.
After they inspected the west, they went to "Handan" first and then to "Ye" city.
For the time being, Zhiyao cannot interfere too much in the west. If the action is too small, it will be useless. If the action is too big, it will easily chill the Han family. Once the Han family is chilled, everything is possible.
Appeasing the Han family is what Zhiyao should do now.
Therefore, there are too many legacy classes from the old class, and the integrated families are too powerful, making it more difficult to do many things.
"I will definitely not allow the situation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties to occur!"
What was the situation like in the Northern and Southern Dynasties? The king's flag at the top of the city was frequently changed, and the powerful families were rich and noble forever. Even the emperors above their heads were just elected spokespersons. For example, Yang Jian was elected to replace Zhou Dynasty, and the same situation happened with Li Yuan later.
, you can imagine to what extent those powerful families can influence the country.
If history had not been changed by Zhiyao, or if Zhiyao had not changed much, how many families would have been officials for generations from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period? Not to mention other families that are not famous enough, Zhang Liang's family is the "five generations of Han"
!
"Changing the situation where dragons and dragons give birth to phoenixes is a bit like digging into your own foundation, but if you don't do that, it will be even more harmful to Zhishi!"
Zhiyao did not expect to build a thousand-year empire. He did what he should do while he was alive. At most, he could educate his grandson, and then he could jump out of the coffin?
Therefore, it is very important to produce the Dharma Sutra and even write other works.
A family with one surname cannot last forever, but culture and ideas can be passed down from generation to generation.
Because the various schools of thought have not yet arisen, Zhiyao has come to an era that is almost like a cultural desert. Is this not only the luck of Zhiyao, but also the luck of most people?
At the very least, some of Zhiyao's ideas may not necessarily meet the needs of the times, but those ideas will one day prove their advanced nature.
Take the Qin Empire before or after the reform, which often gouged out eyes, cut off noses, cut off hands, toes or arms, tattooed faces, etc. This is actually a need of the times, that is, imposing heavy punishments and respecting the law, pursuing the rule of law.
Can the ideal be said to be wrong? If the ideal is really wrong, what will be the situation of a society pursuing the rule of law more than two thousand years later?
Previously, Zhiyao went to "Huangfu" to do something. As a monarch, he gave a lecture to nearly ten thousand people. He did not talk about other doctrines, but mainly used the "Dharma Sutra" to explain some of his views on the governance of the world.
Of course it would be abrupt for Zhiyao to do this suddenly, but he began to carry out legal reforms within the Zhi clan during Zhao Yang's lifetime, and the most far-reaching impact was on the treatment of slaves.
In the Zhi family, you don't have to be a slave to get over. Even if you are lucky enough to have descendants, you will be slaves for generations. You can rely on hard work and obedience to gain freedom. This alone is different from other families.
This does not mean that other families will not return slaves to freedom. The only way to redeem slaves is by their relatives or the country spending money to redeem them. There are really no other types.
Doing meritorious service in exchange for freedom? Do you know the identities of the four thugs under Qi Linggong? They fought for Qi Linggong through life and death, made great military exploits, and remained slaves until their death.
During the Jin Dynasty, Jin people were no strangers to "law".
After all, the Jin State was a militaristic country, and managing the country was almost the same as managing the army.
When it's the original country's turn to govern, most people don't notice much change in the change of country name. If there are any changes, they are progressing in a good direction.
The reason why most Jin people do not feel that there has been any change is that we need to know how many people the Zhi family had before they turned their family into a country. The highest proportion accounted for two-thirds of the Jin country's population!
They have been following Zhiyao's system and management methods for a long time, so why do they think there are any big changes?
As for the Han family, the Hu family, the Zhong family and other families, they do not want their own fiefdoms to implement national laws, but they do not dare to compete with Zhiyao.
Compared with being expelled along with the Wei family, they are more accepting of soft knives. They are waiting for the threat from the princes to be eliminated before they have a good fight with the Zhi family.
Why not take advantage of the fact that the original country is threatened by the princes to fight? The situation of the Han family is enough to explain everything. They understand the principle of "if the skin is not there, the hair will not be attached".
"There are more than 30,000 people in this city, and they are all craftsmen?" This was not Han Geng's first visit to Ye City, but he had not dared to show too much prying eyes before.
Zhiyao said: "There are thirty thousand people in the city, about twenty thousand people in the city walls, and sixty thousand people in the suburbs."
Standing in the distance of "Ye" city, you can see black smoke rising slowly. This is not the smoke from cooking, but the smoke column from the iron smelting workshop or other workshops, so that the air in the whole city is really...
not good.
Han Geng and others were stunned.
So that means there are nearly 100,000 craftsmen serving in "Ye" city alone, right?
They suddenly understood why it took Zhishi less than a year to complete the armor design and outfit change for a full legion.
The powerful families all have their own various workshops. Suddenly, they feel that their own workshops are nothing compared to those in "Ye" city.
Zhiyao is taking them to visit the armor-making assembly line.
The semi-open factory building does not look stuffy because of the ventilation from all sides. You can see many people standing on both sides of a large stone slab, hammering hard and hammering rivets. Rows of armor plates are fixed and then sent to the next one.
The place where the process is carried out is then stitched together and inspected by other craftsmen, and then sent to the next place.
Their ears were filled with the sound of metal clashing, but they only felt envious. They even felt that they had a workshop of the same size, and they were willing to be deafened by the noise.
Hu You watched cart after cart pulled by horses and loaded with gleaming armor pieces in baskets. He was very curious about how almost every piece of armor with similar specifications was made and how much manpower was used.
How to make armor? They didn't know that Zhishi had already used water-powered forging hammers three years ago. Even if they sent spies to spy on the workshops by the river system, they could not figure out what the wheels that kept spinning in the water were.
What is it used for?
Just because Zhiyao is willing to take them to visit "Ye" city does not mean that everything will be shown.
The hydraulic forging hammer will not be displayed.
The mold filling process for making arrowheads will also not be shown.
In fact, there are many gadgets that are too advanced for the current era and cannot be shown to others casually.
Han Geng initially thought that Zhiyao was selling to him from his own inventory. After looking at some workshops in "Ye" city, and guessing the production speed, he realized that the craftsmen were working enthusiastically and were stepping up their efforts to produce the armaments they needed.
"Ye city alone has nearly a hundred thousand craftsmen. The Zhi family is still in Yin, and the Lu family has similar cities. How many craftsmen do they have?" Han Geng had an idea just by thinking about it.
A deep sense of powerlessness.
What you see here in "Ye" city are either semi-finished products or parts, which are sent for processing and turned into finished products.
Then, there must be a place to make semi-finished products and parts!
Even after visiting the city of "Ye", people including Han Geng were still in a state of ignorance.
It took Zhiyao nearly thirty years to build a series of "support facilities" to its current scale.
Take the production of a piece of armor as an example. The smelting of the metal, the reheating and forging during processing, the indispensable leather or cloth, and finally the finished product are actually a scientific system.
There are many families with similar systems. Except for the Zhi family, other families make a set of armor, which is usually completed from scratch by one or several masters and apprentices. However, the Zhi family divided the labor and did just that.
Plant an assembly line system.
Assembly line? How can we not establish standards, that is, what are the specifications of a certain component? They must be that standard, otherwise the next process will not be able to pass.
Hu You picked up a piece of armor leaf and was stunned when he saw that there were incomprehensible words on the armor leaf.
"This is a 'smart number'." Zhiyao glanced at the numbers on the armor leaves and saw numbers like 1046-789-111. She was in a great mood and helped Hu You learn literacy skills.
Is there a number? That means that in addition to the hydraulic forging hammer, Zhishi has made new technological progress.
Behind each group of numbers represents a group. The first number is the person, the second row is the code of the location, and the third row is which set of molds or machines it comes from.
Hu You listened very detailedly, but he could understand each word separately, but couldn't understand it when put together.
Although he didn't understand, Hu You was still shocked and asked: "So, the city of Ye can build more than a thousand armors in just one day?"
Of course it doesn’t work that way!
To put it bluntly, it means adjusting production capacity flexibly based on needs.
For example, if the Zhi family is in desperate need of armor, the craftsmen will be adjusted and work overtime with the appropriate number of manpower; if there is a shortage of weapons, the craftsmen will be transferred to make weapons.
Here we can understand that Zhiyao is extremely serious about professional training.
Furthermore, every time a craftsman learns one more craft, they can get more and learn more spontaneously.
"With this 'city', the princes will unite to attack, so why be afraid?" Han Geng said with a complicated mood.
It doesn't work that way either.
If we enter the era of hot weapons, military production capacity will become more important.
In the era of cold weapons, food production is the top priority!
Of course, food is very important in any era, but the proportion is different.
As a visitor, Wei Junqian is the one who feels the most relaxed.
Whether the Zhi family is strong or not, and to what extent, Weiguo is unable to resist it anyway.
What Wei Junqian loves to observe most now is Han Geng's face. Every time he sees Han Geng frowning or his face becomes gloomy, he feels happy in his heart every time.
"Let them recognize the gap as early as possible. They should restrain their little thoughts, right?" Zhiyao brought them here specially to visit. Showing off is secondly, and more importantly, to further demonstrate their strength.
Bringing an extra Wei Junqian was because Zhiyao wanted to use Wei Junqian's mouth to intimidate the princes. But it was quite doubtful whether Wei Junqian dared to say anything casually. He should have given some hints, right?
Intimidating the princes is only one aspect, Zhiyao is still very willing to see the princes make mistakes in their haste.