All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 392: Solid Foundation
At the foot of Yinshan Mountain, the Xiongnu tribe.

"Chengligutu Chanyu, the Qin caravan is coming."

"it is good!"

Hearing this, Touman Chanyu immediately came out of his tent, his rough face full of smiles, "Finally here!"

The Huns were a tribe that left a profound chapter in the history books of China.

When it was at its most powerful, it could even make a big man breathless.

However, at this time, the Xiongnu tribe was just an ordinary existence on the prairie.

To the west were the Yuezhi, to the east were the Donghu, and to the south were the powerful Qin and Zhao.

Let alone development and expansion, even survival is difficult.

In order to expand the strength of the tribe, Touman racked his brains.

Then, pie in the sky fell.

The Qin people took the initiative to find his tribe and provided a batch of goods for free.

Including tea leaves that can relieve greasiness, rhubarb that can cure diseases, iron pots that can be used to cook food, cloth that can keep out the cold, edible food, and extremely precious iron arrowheads!
Anyone on the grassland would say good things about these things after using them.

Hearing that the Qin caravan was coming to deliver goods again, Touman was naturally so excited that he could hardly control himself.

"Chanyu." The leader of the team was an official of the Dianke (one of the Nine Ministers, in charge of diplomatic relations and reception and communication with border tribes). After handing over the goods, he said to Touman very straightforwardly, "There will be no free things in the future."

Instead of being angry, Touman felt relieved.

He didn't know about other places, but there was no such thing as free stuff on the prairie.

He had always been on guard, wondering what the Qin people wanted by giving him these good things for free. Now he finally knew the answer.

"My king is building a mausoleum recently." The official continued, "He is short of people who can do the work, so I would like to ask the Chanyu to help me and capture some people to do the work, both men and women."

The Huns were not barbaric and ignorant savages. In fact, they had exchanges with various countries in the south and came into contact with civilization.

At the same time, Greek civilization in the west was also constantly spreading here, and they knew a lot.

Of course, only the powerful and wealthy are qualified to know this.

Building a mausoleum is a huge project, and Touman naturally understands this.

"No problem." He nodded immediately. "You can get someone. I'll catch them for you. But these things."

The officer smiled and took out a stack of exquisitely crafted Qin coins. "Pay according to your physical condition. The more you catch, the more you pay."

After taking the Qin coin and examining it carefully, Touman admired the exquisite workmanship, but he was even more puzzled. "What do I need these things for? Can I eat them?"

“You can buy things.”

The subordinate officials enthusiastically introduced, "Food, cloth, ironware, tea, rhubarb, etc. have different prices, and these things can be exchanged."

"Oh?"

Touman was surprised, "Just these little things?"

"Exactly."

"Okay. I'll organize some people to catch him right away."

There are many large and small tribes on the grassland, most of which have not even left their names in history books.

As the grassland people say, "The tribe is like grass, it will grow again after you eat it~"

A similar scene also happened among the Yuezhi, Donghu and other tribes.

They liked goods from Qin and were willing to capture people from other tribes in exchange for Qin's goods.

The Qin State not only gained more heavy laborers, but also expanded the circulation of Qin currency to the grasslands.

Chen Ran was not idle here either. He was squatting in the chemical plant and looking through numerous production catalogs.

In addition to producing fertilizers and explosives, chemical plants also produce another very important category, which is pharmaceuticals.

"Aspirin, anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving."

"Ether and chloroform anesthesia are now available for surgery."

"Sulfa and antibiotics, these things are great, no one will die from an infection from a cut."

"Methoxyphenamine compound, for the treatment of asthma and bronchitis."

"Sildena, cough, cough, this thing is not needed for the time being."

There are so many detailed drug catalogs that Chen Ran took a quick look and found that there are more than tens of thousands of types.

It is impossible to produce all of them, so we can only arrange the production of the important and commonly used ones.

In addition to medicines, we also need professional doctors.

Of course there were doctors in the Qin State, but their number was too small and medical knowledge was already established.

He still went to Ying Zheng and selected a group of young children from the common people to provide them with specialized medical education.

Of course, the prerequisite is to do basic education first.

"Your Majesty."

Chen Ran planned to take this opportunity to promote another matter. "What do you think about compulsory education?"

Ying Zheng was puzzled, "What is compulsory education?"

"To put it simply, going to school and getting an education is like serving in the military. It is the duty of the people and something they must do."

"All children who meet the age requirements must go to school. If they do not go to school, it is a violation of Qin law and they must be punished."

"This," Ying Zheng was somewhat puzzled. "According to Shang Yang, the common people only need to know how to farm and fight. Why do we need special education?"

"So Shang Yang was torn into pieces by five horses."

"You don't treat the people as human beings, you deserve it!" Chen Ran said simply, "Education is to improve the quality of the people. Only when the quality is improved can we better manage the huge world."

He walked to the world map he had drawn and continued to persuade, "My king, the world is so big. You don't want to conquer it but not be able to occupy it, and there will be rebellion everywhere."

Ying Zheng was still young and inexperienced, so he thought that what the immortal master said must be right, so he agreed.

If it were Ying Zheng decades later, he would definitely not agree.

After all, for rulers, it is easier to manage the people if they are stupid.

Compulsory education is very expensive because it requires building school buildings, hiring teachers, providing teaching materials, and gathering children who can work for their families into school buildings.

However, with Chen Ran's assistance, all these difficulties became simple.

Renovating a school building is just like building a house, and building a house is not difficult at all no matter what era it is, as long as there are people who can do it.

Not to mention teaching supplies, bamboo is sent to a daily necessities joint venture and comes out as paper.

Just make a printing template and print as many books as you want.

Raw materials such as oil were sent in, and all kinds of plastic products such as stationery and school bags came out.

As for teachers, there is no way to industrialize their production. Chen Ran can only select people and train them as part-time teachers, and then they will continue to train others.

When it comes to how to get every household to send their children to school, they can only rely on Qin Law.

Chen Ran is really busy, and spreading knowledge is a very tedious job.

Not only do I have to attend classes during the day, but I also have to attend night school to continue teaching.

In addition, he also has to take care of the production of various factories, give lessons to Ying Zheng from time to time, and find time to fill in for Zhao Ji to prevent her from causing any trouble.

The prerequisite for doing all these is to let Ying Zheng finalize the text first.

Chen Ran didn't waste any words and directly gave Ying Zheng a copy of "Complete Simplified Chinese Characters".

"The biggest advantage of simplified Chinese characters is that they are easy and convenient to write, and suitable for rapid promotion."

Some things can be decided while Ying Zheng is young, so that it won’t be difficult to push them forward when he matures.

Ying Zheng didn't care too much about it and quickly agreed.

For the Qin State at that time, promoting knowledge and changing the used characters was not as difficult as imagined.

The reason is simple: these days there are too few people who can read and write.

The vast majority of people are illiterate in the true sense, and it is naturally much easier for illiterate people to accept new characters.

As for the voices of opposition, there are naturally some.

However, there were no powerful families in the Qin State at that time. After all, it was a system of aristocratic fiefdom, and there was no chance for powerful families to emerge.

It seems that the Qin State has not fought many wars in recent years, but in fact its national strength is advancing by leaps and bounds.

Especially as grain production increases, the people are willing to have more children.

Most people in Qin State supported sending their children to school, and they thought it was a good thing.

Due to transportation reasons, there are basically only a few school buildings in a county, and children who live far away have to walk a long way to go to school.

Chen Ran pushed for the arrangement of a horse-drawn carriage and designed a route that would pass through each village to take the children to the schoolhouse and then send them back before dark.

Naturally, we have to eat lunch in the school building.

Originally, the common people of Qin State could only eat two meals a day.

Now that food production has increased massively, three meals a day has become the norm.

After the news spread, people from various countries in the Guandong region often came to Run with their families. The Qin State also accepted everyone who came and accepted them as its own people.

Chen Ran proposed to Ying Zheng to provide free lunch for the children in the school.

At that time, the Qin treasury was full, so Ying Zheng agreed without much thought.

However, Chen Ran still specifically instructed, "These grains must be delivered to the children, and cannot be embezzled by others."

Ying Zheng was immediately furious and said, "Whoever dares to do such a shameless thing will be torn into pieces by five horses!"

For the time being, these things are only being implemented around Xianyang City.

However, as more and more teachers are trained, it will naturally be promoted to various places until the whole world has such an arrangement.

Chen Ran’s recent production focus is still on the chemical plant.

This time he began to increase the production of phosphate and potash fertilizers.

The so-called phosphate fertilizer is fertilizer containing phosphorus, which can not only increase yield but also improve quality.

It has a particularly good effect on fruits and vegetables.

Natural phosphate fertilizers mainly consist of bird droppings and bone meal.

There was once a small island country in the Pacific Ocean that made a fortune because of guano, but as soon as the guano was mined out, the country immediately returned to hard times.

Natural collection is too slow and in insufficient quantities.

The chemical plant produces superphosphate, phosphate rock powder and other products that can be produced in large quantities.

As for potash fertilizer, its natural potash fertilizer is the wood ash that everyone is familiar with.

Chemically synthesized products include industrial products such as potassium chloride and potassium sulfate.

Its main function is to promote photosynthesis and enhance the vitality of plants, which is the foundation of plant activities.

With the three fertilizers released together, Qin's grain output naturally soared like a rocket.

With a solid foundation laid, the next step is to start the process of unifying the world.

(End of this chapter)