Chapter 225: Being a National Master in Daqin and Offering a Map
Chapter 225: Being a National Master in the Qin Dynasty and Offering a Map
Although he had imagined the wealth of the First Emperor before, when Hao Shuai first walked into the treasure house of the Qin Palace that specially collected rare treasures and precious spiritual medicines, he was still blinded.
Compared with the collection of the First Emperor, the collection of the palace in his own Lu Ding world was weak.
Or there might be more exquisite objects than the Qin Palace, but in terms of spiritual medicines with years, his collection was left behind by several streets.
Looking at the spiritual medicines placed in jade boxes on the shelves, Hao Shuai's saliva almost flowed out. These spiritual medicines are almost all less than a thousand years old, and each one is more than a thousand years old.
Hao Shuai knew that the reason why there were so many spiritual medicines with years was related to the era in which the Qin Dynasty was in. At this time, there were dense primitive jungles everywhere, and many spiritual medicines had grown for thousands of years without being picked. Even if they were picked, they would be tributed to the palace by the people below.
After wiping his saliva, Hao Shuai waved his hand and took away all the spiritual medicines over a thousand years old, leaving only the hundred-year-old medicinal materials that he didn't care about.
When he came out of the treasure house happily, thinking that there would be a steady stream of spiritual medicines to be sent later, Hao Shuai suddenly felt a little guilty about fooling the First Emperor.
After thinking about it, there is still more than a year before the arrival of Tianxing, and I'm idle anyway, so I'll use this time to help the First Emperor develop the Qin Dynasty!
After all, there is a saying circulating in the world of time travel: If you travel through Qing, you will rebel, and if you travel through Qin, you will help Qin!
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The next day
After Hao Shuai finished guiding the First Emperor to practice, he took out a thread-bound book from the space and handed it to the First Emperor.
"Is the national teacher going to teach me a new immortal method?" The First Emperor took the book curiously, and according to previous experience, he opened the first page and read it carefully.
"This, this, this..." The First Emperor was surprised after reading the first few pages.
"This is papermaking!"
Hao Shuai said calmly: "Writing on bamboo slips is too cumbersome, and it consumes a lot of energy. It is too expensive, not easy to carry, not easy to preserve, and very inconvenient. This paper is different. A thin page is extremely convenient for writing or carrying. The book about the future and this book I showed you before were written on paper."
"Master, this... this is simply a fairy art. If this paper is really made, it will have a completely different meaning for Daqin! Incredible, really incredible!" The First Emperor was excited, his face was red, and he was incoherent.
He could fully imagine that the emergence of paper would bring a huge sensation to society. The wealth it brought was secondary. What really helped Daqin was the great convenience it brought to the dissemination of knowledge.
In this era, knowledge was monopolized by the gentry or the nobles. It was basically impossible for ordinary people to obtain knowledge. With this papermaking technology, it is possible to manufacture knowledge on a large scale at a very low cost and publish it to ordinary people, so that ordinary people can learn to read and write.
Why after Qin unified the six kingdoms, the government orders still could not be fully implemented in the six kingdoms?
It was because the officials who governed the territories of the six kingdoms were still the officials of the six kingdoms, big and small.
They secretly obeyed the orders and obstructed the government orders.
The First Emperor also knew this, but there was no way to solve it.
Because he could not find so many people who knew how to write to govern the local areas, he had no choice but to continue to use them.
Therefore, the First Emperor understood the usefulness of papermaking for the Qin Dynasty in an instant, no wonder he was so excited.
"Your Majesty, there is no need to be so excited, keep reading." Hao Shuai said calmly.
The First Emperor continued to turn down as he was told, "Printing? That's it~~"
After reading the instructions about printing, the First Emperor found three seals, used different arrangements and stamped several seals in turn, and asked: "Master, this printing is so simple and clear, why didn't anyone think of it before?"
"This should be the so-called blindness! Keep reading~~" Hao Shuai said.
"Salt making method~~"
"Iron smelting method~~"
"Glass making method~~"
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As he continued to flip through the pages, the Emperor Qin Shi Huang's expression became more and more excited, and he felt that the books in the book were the real immortal methods.
When the Emperor Qin Shi Huang finished reading the last page, he breathed a sigh of relief, put the extremely precious book into his arms, and solemnly bowed to Hao Shuai, saying: "I would like to thank the State Master here."
"You are thanking me now? I have something good for your Majesty. Please ask your Majesty to call a few farmers from the Hundred Schools of Thought to come over." Hao Shuai gave way to the Emperor Qin Shi Huang's gift and said to him.
The reason why the farmers were called here is that the farmers among the Hundred Schools of Thought were a school that focused on agricultural production in the economic life of the pre-Qin period. The Farmers School advocated the implementation of the farming and warfare policy in social and political aspects, rewarded the development of agricultural production, and represented the interests and demands of farmers.
At the same time, they also focused on studying agricultural production issues, exploring and summarizing agricultural science and agricultural production technology.
Simply put, farmers are professional planting technology talents.
After a while, the eunuch led a few people in. After greeting each other, Hao Shuai handed a book to the middle-aged man in the lead.
"How to grow sweet potatoes? What are sweet potatoes?" The middle-aged man took the book made of silk and asked in confusion after seeing the words on the cover.
Faced with this question. Hao Shuai, who had been prepared for a long time, took out a bag of cooked sweet potatoes and gave one to each person. While eating, he said: "This sweet potato is a kind of food that my master brought back from the distant America after traveling across the ocean. It can be cooked directly and eaten, or it can be dried and ground into powder to make food like us...."
Hao Shuai explained in detail to the people present what sweet potatoes are, focusing on the characteristics of sweet potatoes that are easy to plant, durable in storage, and high per-acre yield.
When the Emperor Shi Huangdi and his men heard that this thing had a yield of more than ten stones per mu, they all showed an expression of disbelief. You know, for ordinary grain crops, a yield of three or four stones per mu is already a high yield.
"Your Majesty, I believe that with these things, the national strength of Daqin should be able to increase rapidly. Then it will be time for Daqin's chariot to start." Hao Shuai looked at the Emperor Shi Huangdi and said.
"But I have unified the six kingdoms, attacked the Xiongnu in the north, and conquered the Baiyue in the south. I am already invincible in the world. I really don't know who to fight against!?" The Emperor Shi Huangdi said complacently.
Looking at the self-satisfied First Emperor, Hao Shuai directly took out a globe and gave this emperor a geography lesson.
The First Emperor was not too surprised when he knew that the earth was round, but he was a little surprised when he saw the countries on the globe and the proportion of his own Qin on the globe.
Hao Shuai saw ambition and fighting spirit in the eyes of the First Emperor. At this moment, the First Emperor seemed to be reborn.
"Your Majesty, with these technologies and crops I provided, I hope that Daqin can achieve the goal of 'wherever the sun and the moon shine, it is the territory of Daqin' as soon as possible under your Majesty's leadership."
"National Master, please rest assured! I will definitely achieve this goal as soon as possible."