Daqin: Compared with his sons, Ying Zheng is jealous

Under the canopy, after seeing the pedal-operated loom, Emperor Qin Shi Huang immediately turned his head to look at Xiang Liji, the Mohist scholar, behind him.

Xiang Liji seemed to see what the First Emperor wanted to ask him, and he nodded and said affirmatively:

"no problem!"

"There is nothing wrong with making the foot-operated loom on the canopy!"

"I can make it right away and give it to the spinner for testing."

"As long as there are no problems with the feedback from the spinners' trial use, then within five days at most, I can lead a group of Mohist disciples and craftsmen to start mass production of foot-operated looms that are exactly the same as the ones on the sky curtain!"

For Xiang Liji, the production of the foot-operated loom on the sky curtain is also not difficult.

The reason why the foot-operated loom was not produced before was not because of the lack of technical ability, but because of the lack of thinking.

Even if Xiang Liji did not see the specific structure of the foot-operated loom on the sky curtain, if you ask him to transform the current hand-cranked loom into a foot-operated loom.

Then, after getting the specific needs, Xiang Liji and other Mohist disciples can also explore and manufacture a foot-operated loom similar to the one on the sky curtain by themselves!

Not to mention the foot-operated loom, as long as it is still a manufactured product within the scope of traditional handwork, woodworking, and machinery, it will not be very technically difficult for the Mohist disciples. What really shackles the creative ability of these Mohist disciples is not technical problems, but It's a problem of thinking.

Sometimes, imagination is more important than hands-on ability.

Because if your imagination is strong enough, then you can notice what is currently missing, or what can be improved.

Even if you can't do it yourself, at least you can tell your ideas to other craftsmen who can do it and let them make it for you.

But if your imagination is not strong enough, then even if your hands-on ability is strong, it will be useless.

Because you can't think of what is currently missing, and you can't think of what needs to be improved, so naturally you won't improve or make anything.

In this way, what's the use of strong hands-on ability.

But then, Xiang Liji frowned and said:"It's just as I said before, if we make a pedal-operated textile machine on the basis of making a plow and a curved plow, then"

"Then we must allocate some of our current staff to be responsible for making textile machines."

"Without more manpower, the manufacturing efficiency of the original plow and curved plow would have to decline."

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

At the end, Xiang Liji also bowed to the First Emperor.

Before, Xiang Liji was still worried whether Prince Fusu would continue to invent other tools that are more convenient and beneficial to the people after inventing the plow cart and the curved plow.

As a result, Prince Fusu did not invent other tools that are more convenient and beneficial to the people for the time being, but the children of farmers and their Mohist children improved the textile machines very competitively. The significance and role of the pedal-operated textile machines improved by the children of farmers and Mohists on the sky curtain can be said without hesitation that they are definitely not inferior to the previous plow carts and curved plows.

After all, the four most important and indispensable aspects of the daily life of the people of Guizhou are"clothing, food, housing, and transportation." The previous plow cart

The impact of the improved textile machine on the people's daily life is on the food. The improved textile machine on the people's daily life is on the clothing.

Both are an indispensable part of the people's daily life, and neither of them can be despised or ignored.

After all, if a person has no food to eat, he will starve to death, but if a person has no clothes to wear, he will also freeze to death.

Therefore, the pedal-type textile machine must be included in the production and manufacturing of their Mohist Ministry of Industry, just like the plow and the curved plow before.

But in this way, the previous worry about the shortage of manpower will become a real reality.

After hearing Xiang Liji's words, Qin Emperor Ying Zheng was also He could not help but frown.

Although they had briefly discussed the problem of insufficient manpower before, and also ordered that the Mohist School be allowed to recruit an additional 3,000 disciples in the future.

But distant water cannot quench a nearby fire. In the future, the Mohist School will be able to have 3,000 more disciples, but that is a matter of the future, and it cannot solve the current problem of the Mohist School's shortage of manpower.

If the Mohist School is short of manpower, it means that the production speed of the plow cart, curved plow, and pedal-operated textile machine will slow down.

It also means that the time for Daqin to promote the plow cart, curved plow, and pedal-operated textile machine will be further delayed.

It also means that the common people from all over the world can improve their production efficiency through the plow cart, curved plow, and pedal-operated textile machine.

, so that the day when he can have enough food and warm clothes will come one day later.

In the end, the day when the Qin Dynasty wants to completely make the people of the world, especially the people of the six kingdoms, submit to the Qin Dynasty, will come one day later.

This is a little difficult for Qin Emperor Ying Zheng to accept.

After all, he has always wanted to regain the hearts of the people of the six kingdoms as soon as possible, so that the Qin Dynasty in their world will not be in danger of national destruction!

However, even if he is the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, he cannot conjure up a group of Mohist disciples who understand the craftsmanship to help make plow carts, curved plows and pedal-operated textile machines.

So after thinking about it, Qin Emperor Ying Zheng suddenly thought of a strange story recorded in"Liezi·Tangwen", looked at Xiangli Ji with expectation and said:

"I heard that in the past there was a Yanshi who knew how to make puppets, and the puppets he made could sing and dance."

"I wonder if the Mohists understood this technique?"

"Is it possible to make puppets that can make plows, curved plows, and pedal-operated looms by themselves?"

Qin Emperor Ying Zheng had a good idea. If the Mohists knew this incredible puppet-making technique, then they could let the Mohists make these puppets in large quantities.

Then let these puppets be responsible for making plows, curved plows, and pedal-operated looms, so there would be no need to worry about the problem of insufficient craftsmen.

Even if he could think more divergently and let the Mohists change these puppets into puppets who knew how to march and fight.

Then he would be able to instantly have a large number of war machines that were not afraid of life and death, did not need to eat or drink, and did not need rewards.

If this were really possible, then who in the world could rebel against his Great Qin? And his Great Qin would surely be passed down for thousands, tens of thousands, and tens of thousands of years!

Faced with the unreasonable request made by the First Emperor, Party A, Xiang Liji rolled his eyes and said bluntly:

"Your Majesty, I have also read"Liezi: Tangwen"!"

"However, what is recorded in"Liezi Tangwen" are folk legends and myths, not true!"

"Even if it is true, we, the disciples of the Mohist School, are just ordinary people and do not have such magical skills!"

As one of the earliest science and engineering men, Xiang Liji is also very frank and direct. What can be done, can be done, and what cannot be done, cannot be done.

He will never agree to some unreasonable requests for the sake of vanity and face.

After all, if you directly refuse some unreasonable requests at the beginning, although it may anger Party A, at most you will die.

But if you know that you can't do it, but you still agree to it in the end, and you really can't do it in the end.

Then not only will you die, but even your whole family and clan may die.

After all, the Party A that Xiang Liji and other Mohist disciples are facing is the Great Qin that has unified the world, dominated the universe, and decided the life and death of millions of people with a single word. The First Emperor Ying Zheng!

Faced with such a terrifying Party A, even if Xiang Liji was kicked in the head by a donkey, he would not agree to some unreasonable requests made by the First Emperor.

Although Qin Emperor Ying Zheng was a little disappointed after being ruthlessly rejected by Xiang Liji, he was not angry.

He has always been very tolerant of capable people.

And Xiang Liji, and the Mohist school behind him, are very capable.

Qin Emperor Ying Zheng also counted on Xiang Liji and other Mohist disciples to make plows, curved plows and pedal-operated spinning wheels for him, so he would not blame Xiang Liji.

Looking at the somewhat disappointed look of the First Emperor, and thinking about the increasing workload that the First Emperor gave to himself and other Mohist disciples, Xiang Liji thought about it, and finally said reluctantly:

"Your Majesty can try to recruit the Gongshu clan, their family also specializes in the art of machine manufacturing."

"His skills are only slightly inferior to those of our Mohist Xiangli."

"Your Majesty can recruit them to jointly manufacture plows, curved plows and pedal spinning wheels."

"If they join in to help, the speed of making the plow, curved plow and pedal spinning wheel will not only not slow down, but can even be accelerated."

The Gongshu clan, whose ancestor is Gongshu Ban, also known as Gongshuzi, Gongshupan, Banshu, Luban, etc., was a top craftsman who was as famous as their Mohist Mozi in the past.

And since Luban, his descendants have gradually become a family specializing in the study of craftsmanship.

If there was any craftsmanship that could be compared with the Mohist during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, then there was only the Gongshu clan.

However, the relationship between the Mohist and the Gongshu clan was not good, and it could even be said that there were contradictions.

The reason for this was that in the past, the State of Chu wanted to attack the State of Song, and invited Lu Ban to make siege equipment for the State of Chu.

After hearing about this, their Mohist Mozi traveled thousands of miles from After traveling for ten days and ten nights, Lu arrived at Ying, the capital of Chu State. He debated with Lu Ban and the King of Chu, and finally persuaded the King of Chu to stop attacking Song.

Of course, the so-called debate was actually a competition between Lu Ban and Mozi on siege and defense equipment.

In the end, Mozi, who had the advantage of defending 927 cities, was better, and made the King of Chu realize that if Song State had the help of defense equipment made by Mohist disciples.

Even if he could eventually conquer Song State, he would have to pay a huge price, which was not worth the loss, so he finally gave up attacking Song State.

But in this way, in the eyes of outsiders, it was equivalent to Lu Ban's skills, which were not as good as those of Mozi of the Mohist School, and thus damaged Lu Ban's face.

Although Lu Ban himself was not very concerned about this matter Care.

And Mozi also told the Mohist disciples that he had the advantage of defending the city, and his talent was slightly better than Lu Ban.

If the two exchanged their roles, with Lu Ban in charge of defending the city and him in charge of attacking the city, then it is still unknown whether he could break through the city defended by Lu Ban.

However, the fact that Lu Ban and Mozi have such broad minds does not mean that their descendants also have such broad minds.

At least Gongshu has always wanted to get back the place for their ancestor Lu Ban, and the way to get back the place is naturally to make trouble for the Mohist school and compete with the Mohist school again. The

Mohist disciples are not people who accept things passively. After a few times, the two sides gradually developed a big hatred.

If the First Emperor had not assigned too much work to the disciples of the Mohist School, and Xiang Liji did not want the people of the world to be unable to use the plow cart, the curved plow and the pedal-operated loom earlier because of the lack of manpower among his disciples of the Mohist School, then Xiang Liji would never have recommended Gongshu to the First Emperor.

When Qin Emperor Ying Zheng heard Xiang Liji recommend Gongshu, his eyes lit up. If Xiang Liji had not said it, he would have forgotten that there was such a family as Gongshu who was good at craftsmanship.

If Gongshu could be recruited to Xianyang, then at least it would be able to alleviate the current shortage of craftsmen in the Mohist School.

Thinking of this, Qin Emperor Ying Zheng immediately looked at the court judge Li Si and said:

"Li Qing, after the curtain falls, summon Gongshu Shi to Xianyang for me!"

In his words, he did not give Gongshu Shi any room to refuse.

After all, Gongshu Shi was not as irreplaceable as the sons of farmers, nor did he enter Xianyang early like the sons of Mohism and make great contributions to the unification of the Qin State.

Therefore, Qin Emperor Ying Zheng's respect and courtesy for Gongshu Shi was naturally not as good as that for the sons of farmers and Mohism.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Li Si immediately bowed and saluted and responded.