The Three Kingdoms: Summoned generals at the beginning, shocking Cao Cao

Chapter 308 Reforming Confucianism, Rise of New Learning

"My lord, be careful where you step."

A small official helped an old man to walk in the river valley. They were one of the small teams that went out to search for mineral resources.There are three people behind the two, and they have been out for two days.There has been no harvest, and there is not much dry food with me.If the old man hadn't been persistent, everyone would have been unable to bear it.

They secretly planned that they would have a showdown with the old man if there was no harvest today, and they would go back to the city to rest and go out to explore.The little official helped the old man to walk along the river. Every time the wooden stick in the old man's hand touched the ground, it sank a little, which made the old man feel tired after walking a long distance.

He also knew that there were not many supplies left, and he could only go back to the city to rest if he had no harvest today, but the time given by the court was running out, so it was not a big deal that he was dismissed and investigated.If the industrialization indicators cannot be obtained from the imperial court, the poor lives of the local people cannot be changed.

Not every place is suitable for growing food, and he wants to do something practical for the people.

Over the past six months, under the arrangement of Wei Zheng, all regions have carried out large-scale national resource investigations, and even the various guard houses, feudal states, and subordinate states have carried out investigations of different scales.

Under Liu Bian's guidance, experiments with new rice varieties were carried out in Tianzhu, where the climate is pleasant, and two crops can be harvested every year, and three crops can be harvested every year in the near future.With Tianzhu's vast land and low-cost labor force, the annual food production is very considerable, and the country can focus more on industrialization reform.

Confucian scholars everywhere were very dissatisfied with the coming industrialization, fearing that it would replace their social status and reduce their chances of entering the imperial court.Organized protests broke out in various places. They criticized the imperial court and besieged local state capitals.

At first, Liu Bian sent Yan Baihu to appease them with benevolent thoughts, and even sat down with them to negotiate.However, they only know how to stick to the rules and are unwilling to think about change. They don't care about improving the living standards of the Han people, and only care about their own interests.

An angry Liu Bian scolded them, "If you don't live for the people, you should be executed." '

For a time, fierce conflicts broke out between the common people and Confucian scholars all over the Han Dynasty. Under the intentional guidance of the imperial court, the Confucian scholars retreated and fled.At this time, the imperial army fought back, and they were all annihilated on the charge of bandits, and people were panicked for a while.

Zhang Juzheng launched a new educational concept at the right time, and the people wrote thousands of letters to express the kindness of the emperor.A disaster was suppressed in this way, and preparations for industrial reforms in various places were in full swing.

The old man was Li Fei, magistrate of Chencang County, who had been here less than half a year from Chang'an, and was sent by Wei Zheng himself.In some key areas, people from the Sixth Department sent out on-the-spot investigations. At the beginning, they were staff from Wei Zheng’s headquarters. Later, because the required manpower was too large, they were transferred from the Sixth Department. In addition to on-site inspections, they also conducted training in various state capitals. strict.

Li Fei walked for half a day with the support of several small officials, but after all, he was too old and unable to keep up with his physical strength, so he took two rests during the period, and now it was really difficult to persevere.

After ordering everyone to rest where they were, the clerk filled water from the river to wash away a stone so that Li Fei could sit and rest.

Li Fei looked around. He had traveled upstream for tens of miles, but he still didn't find any iron ore.

The little official couldn't wash the stone clean for a long time, so he led Li Fei to sit on another stone, fetched dry food and handed it to Li Fei.Li Fei broke one half and handed the other half back to him, motioning him to sit down and eat.

The little official was also hungry, with his chest stuck to his back, and without any excuse, he sat down on the stone that hadn't been cleaned just now, but he fell to the ground with too much force.

Li Fei was stunned when he saw the shaking stone, which was dark in color, and after being washed by the little official, there were large patches of crimson red.Isn't this the iron ore that my group is looking for so hard?It's God's will to trick people, the whole group of me lived and slept in the open, and it was hard to hold on, yet I found it so easily.

Li Fei threw away the dry food, hugged the stone and muttered: "I found it, I found it." With tears in his eyes, the people of Chencang can live a better life.

At this time, some of the accompanying officials recognized that it was iron ore, and shouted: "I found it, I found the iron ore. It is exactly the same as what is said in the book!"

The crowd cheered and ate the dry food hastily before continuing to walk upstream along the river.Wanting to find the ore veins quickly, everyone knew in their hearts that there was not much time before the deadline set by the court.Chen Cang's future rests on their shoulders, and Li Fei's fate is also tied to them.

Li Fei has been here for less than half a year, leading the people to build water conservancy projects and improve people's livelihood.He brought advanced planting technology and led the people to raise livestock, but the resources in Chencang were poor and the land was not fertile, so the people suffered too much.

They grew up in Chencang. In the past, many people would starve to death every time there was a disaster.Although things are much better now, who doesn’t want to live a good life?Who doesn’t want his hometown to be prosperous and the people to live and work in peace and contentment?

Li Fei judged that the size of this piece of iron ore was not large, and it was very likely that it was washed by the river. It had just rained heavily a few days ago, and the river was still turbulent at this time. .

I'm afraid that the hill not far ahead is where the ore veins are located, Li Fei greeted everyone: "Go ahead quickly, there is a high possibility of mineral veins on the hills ahead."

Everyone stopped talking and speeded up their pace unconsciously.I fell to the ground several times, got up and kept going.Li Fei's clothes were soaked with sweat. For him, only then did he realize what it was like to run to death while looking at the mountain.

After about an hour, they reached the foot of the mountain, where the river narrowed.The little official used a branch to test the depth of the water to about three feet. The river was icy cold, and the little official couldn't care about himself, so he jumped into the river and threw stones on the bank.

The stones at the bottom of the river are washed clean, and they are all good mines.A few small officials soon found a large amount of ore, which was piled up on the bank.

The iron ore that was discovered before must have been swept downstream by a flash flood. There were a lot of ore at the bottom of the river. My group was unlucky, and I didn't even think about investigating the rocks at the bottom of the river.

The people set up camp here, and the two small officials took out their bows and arrows to find the prey. The remaining two small officials searched around, and Li Fei was in charge of recording.The iron ore reserves here cannot be estimated, but it can be seen that there are a large amount of open-pit ore, which is red.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Li Fei asked a few small officials to pick the right ore to take back, and then asked them to investigate around.

He started to write about Chen Cang's development plan. As an official of an important functional department of the imperial court, he has a deep understanding of industrialization reform.He was very interested in the magical weapons used by the Han army in all battles. When he learned that the industrialization reform would provide a steady stream of amazing weapons and equipment, he was keenly aware that the industrialization reform was related to the country.

(End of this chapter)