Daqin: Compared with his sons, Ying Zheng is jealous

Under the sky, Emperor Qin Ying Zheng turned his head and looked at Xiang Li Ji and other Mohist disciples behind him.

Not only Emperor Qin Ying Zheng, but other civil and military officials also focused their attention on Xiang Li Ji and other Mohist disciples.

Xiang Li Ji and other Mohist disciples did not say anything. They looked at each other, then glanced left and right, and then took out wire saws, rope saws, sharpeners and other tools from somewhere on their bodies.

Then they removed the windows and the railings, as if they were going to tear down the palace of the First Emperor.

In this regard, Emperor Qin Ying Zheng, who knew what Xiang Li Ji and other Mohist disciples wanted to do, and other civil and military officials did not say anything to stop Xiang Li Ji and other Mohist disciples from thinking, and let them do what they wanted.

At the same time, a Mohist disciple took out a finger-length iron bar from somewhere, and then did not know how to combine it, and then combined it into a finger-thick, but three-foot-long small iron stick.

Then he started to pry the floor of the palace with this small iron rod. After a few sucks, he successfully pried open a floor tile.

The other two Mohist disciples worked together to lift the floor tile and put it on the other side.

Qin Emperor Ying Zheng, who saw this scene, couldn't help but twitch his eyelids, and the corners of the mouths of other civil and military officials twitched.

On the side, Shangqing Meng Yi began to think, how did these bastards of the Mohist"Eight, Nine, and Seven" escape the body search of the palace guards and bring these"dangerous" items into the palace?

Logically speaking, since the incident of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin, the body search in Xianyang Palace has been greatly strengthened.

Meng Yi's doubts did not affect the work of Xiang Liji and other Mohist disciples.

You are responsible for making a hoe leg, I am responsible for making a hoe bucket, and he is responsible for making a hoe frame, and they divide the work and cooperate with each other.

In less than a moment, Xiang Liji and other Mohist disciples made a two-legged plow cart that looked crude, but its basic structure was exactly the same as the"plow cart" on the sky.

Then one of the Mohist disciples untied his belt, tied it to the two-legged plow cart, and stood in front to pull it.

Another Mohist disciple held the plow cart and stood behind to dig furrows and sow seeds.

At the same time, Xiang Liji took out a small bag of lime powder from somewhere and put it in the plow bucket.

Finally, under the observation of Qin Emperor Ying Zheng and other civil and military officials, he immediately used the plow cart on the ground where the floor tiles were lifted to imitate digging furrows and sowing seeds.

The two Mohist disciples in front pulled and held the plow cart respectively, and Xiang Liji and other Mohist disciples in the back dug up the soil with their hands and feet to observe whether there was white lime powder in the soil that was planted as seeds.

Finally, Xiang Liji and other Mohist disciples gave a positive answer after their own practice:

"The soil under the floor tiles has been specially leveled and compacted. It is definitely more difficult to dig trenches and sow seeds on it than for ordinary people to dig trenches and sow seeds on their own fields."

"However, using the plow invented by His Royal Highness, it is easy to dig furrows and sow seeds at the same time."

"Therefore, we Mohists all agree that the plow cart invented by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is completely fine."

"In addition, if there are oxen to assist in pulling, we can achieve the efficiency of planting one hectare a day as mentioned on the sky curtain, which I think is also feasible."

Qin Emperor Ying Zheng immediately asked:

"Is it complicated and difficult to make?"

"How many plows can the Mohist disciples of the Ministry of Industry make in one day?"

Xiang Liji shook his head and replied:

"The production is not complicated or difficult. I guess folk craftsmen can basically make it after repeated production and experimentation."

"If the Mohist disciples of the Ministry of Industry were responsible for making the plow, we could simplify the plow into standard parts."

"Then let ordinary craftsmen make these parts according to these standard parts, and finally assemble them as a whole."

"With the current manpower of the Ministry of Industry, once ordinary craftsmen have gained initial familiarity, and with sufficient raw materials, at least 1,000 plows can be assembled in one day."

"If we want to increase production, Your Majesty will need to send us additional craftsmen."

The Mohist disciples are best at splitting each piece of equipment into standard parts and components.

Then let the ordinary craftsmen below be responsible for producing a part, and finally have people assemble them together.

To put it bluntly, their Mohist school has adopted a unified and standardized assembly line production method.

Through this assembly line production method, any complex equipment will be optimized, simplified, and mass-produced by the Mohist school.

As the saying goes,"The strongest bows and crossbows in the world all come from Korea."

Korean crossbows can be shot more than 800 meters away, and can break shields and split armor within 800 meters.

However, it takes ten days and half a month to make a Korean crossbow, and even one or two months at most.

Even if there are hundreds or thousands of craftsmen making Korean crossbows at the same time in Korea, On average, only dozens or a hundred Han crossbows are produced in a day.

Although the Qin crossbow may not have as long a range as the Han crossbow, the production speed of the Qin crossbow is fast.

Through a unified and standardized assembly line production method, the Mohist disciples of Qin State led a group of craftsmen under their command to produce hundreds or thousands of Qin crossbows in a day, and the standard error between each Qin crossbow was almost negligible.

Relying on the huge number of suppression, the Han crossbow, which was once the best in the world, was killed by the Qin crossbow produced by their Mohist school.

And after destroying the Kingdom of Korea and absorbing the advantages of the Han crossbow, what the Han crossbow could do originally, their Qin crossbow can now do the same.

And the title of the best crossbow in the world was also transferred from the Han crossbow to the Qin crossbow.

Qin Emperor Ying Zheng nodded slightly and gave an order directly:

"Well, after the curtain falls, the Mohist disciples of the Ministry of Works will be responsible for supervising the production of plow carts. The number of plow carts produced per day must reach more than three thousand!"

"How many extra people are needed? They can be temporarily transferred from the Mohist disciples and craftsmen in charge of military equipment!"

With the plow cart, it will no longer be difficult for the common people to dig ditches and sow seeds, the sowing efficiency will be greatly improved, and the number of fields owned by Daqin will increase significantly.

If the common people in the world can receive the plow carts issued by Daqin, they will naturally be more grateful to Daqin and his first emperor, and the people's hearts will be more consolidated.

Therefore, the plow cart must be built vigorously. Not to mention that each household should have a plow cart, but at least each village should have a plow cart.

In this regard, Xiang Liji bowed his hand without any hesitation:

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

For the disciples of the Mohist School, the plow cart is not a technical thing.

As long as there is a rough sketch, or even no sketch, as long as someone tells them the function and appearance of the plow cart, any disciple of the Mohist School can make it successfully by making it twice.

The real difficulty of the plow cart is that it is hard to imagine, not to make it........

He estimated that at this moment, folk craftsmen from all over the world should have started making their own plow carts.

In fact, as Xiang Liji thought, after the sky curtain showed the great effect of the plow cart, the people from all over the world were also talking about the plow cart.

Whether the Daitian method can increase grain production, they cannot verify it for the time being, and it is unknown.

But whether the plow cart is useful or not, they can see it at a glance.

And is the plow cart useful for their farming?

That's so useful!

Furrowing and sowing are carried out at the same time, and two or three furrows can be opened at the same time, and two or three seeds can be sown, which greatly saves their time and energy for furrowing and sowing.

And more importantly, if they can make a plow cart now, then they can use such an advanced plow cart on the spot!

In addition, they don't know that the First Emperor has ordered the Mohist School of the Ministry of Industry to make plow carts for the people of the world.

Moreover, even if they knew about this, it was still unknown when the plow carts made by the Qin government would be issued to them.

Instead of waiting for the Qin government to send them plow carts, it was better to make them by themselves.

Of course, most of the people in the Qianshou area were not craftsmen, and the plow carts were considered to be tools with no technical content in Xiangliji's eyes.

But for ordinary people in the Qianshou area who had no experience as craftsmen, this was still a tool that was difficult for them to make independently.

As a result, the people in the Qianshou area all over the world turned their attention to the nearby craftsmen they knew, and went to their own craftsmen in the villages. They asked these craftsmen to make a two-legged plow cart or a three-legged plow cart that was exactly the same as the one on the canopy.

And the production of the plow cart was indeed not difficult, as Xiangliji said. Even if it was a folk craftsman, he could successfully make it after a few more attempts.

But the problem was that most of the folk craftsmen were alone, and even if they counted the apprentices they brought, there were only three or five people.

On average, not to mention a village, even a township may not have one craftsman.

And now the people of the whole village, even the 1.8 million people of the whole township, and the people of the surrounding villages have come to him and asked him to help make a plow cart.

Of course, this must be paid.

However, even if it is paid, they are too busy.

With just one person, or a small workshop like a master and apprentice, if they can make ten plow carts a day, it is considered very good.

And if all their current plow cart orders are added together, it will be no problem to say that they will be scheduled until next year.

It can't be finished, it can't be finished, it can't be finished at all. This is the painful and happy thought of a group of folk craftsmen now.......

PS1: According to the complete crossbow unearthed in the burial pit of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum in 2015, the range can reach 800 meters, which is comparable to the distance of the Han crossbow recorded in"Strategies of the Warring States".

"Xizi, Shaofu, Shili, and Julai all shot at targets six hundred steps away."——《Su Qin persuaded the King of Han to join the Chu Alliance.

During the Warring States Period, one step was about 1.3 meters long, and 600 steps was about 780 meters.

PS2: Crossbows and bows and arrows are not the same thing. Bows and arrows can be shot by pulling the bow with both hands. However, crossbows should be called crossbow machines. The crossbowman's arms, hands, legs, and feet are used as the axis of the waist, and the whole body strength is used to raise the bow before it can be shot.