Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 823 Chapter 823 The King of Arms

 Paper is an important carrier of modern civilization. Before the emergence of electronic storage, the production of paper could even determine the development speed of a civilization.

Tang's paper production was the largest in the world, and its scale was so huge that other countries were envious of it. The Tang State not only had a full range of paper types, but also had a huge production capacity, so large that even the country began to vigorously promote the use of paper to wipe one's buttocks.

This is not a joke, but a real compliment: for many years, ordinary people were reluctant to wipe their butts with paper.

 Most of the time, I just use a straw stick or the like, or even use my hands directly. All in all, it was a disgusting time to remember, but it was also a tradition that was still continued in other countries.

People in the Tang Dynasty actually rarely abuse their butts with messy things, especially when they discover that toilet paper is actually very cheap.

Although the quality of the cheapest toilet paper made in Tang Dynasty is really not very good, it is still much easier to use than other things: at least you won't accidentally hurt yourself when you wipe your **** with toilet paper.

In addition to toilet paper, the Tang Dynasty also printed a large number of various teaching materials and books, which greatly improved the learning efficiency of civilians.

With the intention of the high-level officials of the Tang Dynasty, various simple literacy manuals were distributed everywhere. Even illiterate people who could not read a single big character could now at least write their own names.

 Tang Dynasty's current schools use more paper for textbooks per year than the amount of paper used to copy classics around the world in the past.

It is precisely because there is so much paper that it is easy to use paper no matter how you use it, which allows civilization to be passed on and spread at a faster pace.

Some of the techniques used in the Tang Dynasty used very large drawings, with length and width far exceeding the specifications of previous paper, which was unimaginable in the past.

 Huge paper not only improves efficiency, but also makes large-scale drawings possible, allowing engineers to convey their design ideas more intuitively.

Color printing is nothing new. It can be combined with color photos to make the dissemination of information and knowledge more accurate.

 Today's primary school textbooks in the Tang Dynasty are all painted and printed, with text and pictures combined, and the images are vivid, which greatly improves learning efficiency.

This was impossible to achieve in the past. The exquisiteness of Tang primary school textbooks has far exceeded the printing technology level of the most important documents in the past.

No joke, it was these advances in paper and printing technology that made Tang Mo's decision to expand the scale of talent training possible. It was also when these books that passed down knowledge began to become popular in large numbers that the world could embark on the fast track of progress. .

imagine that today you can tear up a piece of white paper at will, ball it up and throw it into the wastebasket, just because a certain word is written wrong or a certain question is not solved to your liking. But in the past, only the emperor could afford a piece of paper of the same quality. How can such speed and scope of document dissemination carry progress?

The Tang State did not support any idlers: if they were discovered by the consul and officials on errands below, He Kuai would find ways to arrange work.

Distribute leaflets, sweep the streets... in short, as long as you are capable of doing the work, you must go to work.

Tang officials would not be polite to those who persisted in cheating and cheating. They would really beat them with a whip and then send them to the "exhortation center" to force them to perform more intensive labor.

 Even if you are disobedient, it is easy to send them to a more harsh place: there are also labor camps and slave camps, there is always something suitable for lazy people.

In other words, this is a very strict wartime management system: manage all civilians, teach and distribute them according to the needs of the country, and punish any slightest disobedience.

  Comparatively, going to Siberia to farm seems to be gentler. But for those refugees who could not even have a full stomach before, the life provided by Tang State is already what they dream of.

The so-called starting point is low enough, then the expectations will not be too high: Tang Mo relies on the low expectations of the common people to force them to take action and contribute to the construction of Tang State.

Under this very efficient and cruel system, it is true that idle gangsters are rarely seen in Tang State, and the employment rate is close to 100%.

However, only God knows how many souls who died unjustly behind this, how many unlucky ghosts who were caught in labor camps and complained.

 What is surprising is that under this harsh system, the cities of the Tang Dynasty did not suffer from depression, but instead became pathologically prosperous and lively.

The streets are full of people who come out for recreation after work. As time goes by, the colors of the clothes on the streets have become more and more exciting.

 At the beginning there is some milky white color. Later, brown and dark red began to appear, and then exaggerated pink and red became beautiful embellishments on the streets.

Cars have also begun to become colorful. Bright red and white are very common, and blue or beige are also gradually increasing.

The buildings in the Tang Dynasty were not good-looking at first. Because they were pursuing construction speed, these buildings were basically the same style, and the outside was clean without any decoration.

Fearing that the technology is immature and the quality of the work is low, Datang Group’s construction team is unwilling to put any decorations on the outside of the building, which wastes materials and is easily damaged. Therefore, the buildings in the Tang Dynasty were all big, dark and thick rectangular shapes, dotted with windows, and they were as neat as a military camp.

It is impossible for such a building to have any sense of beauty. At best, it only reveals a somewhat helpless sense of order.

However, soon, as time went by, many streets began to pursue a little difference-they laid a few more bricks on the roofs of the buildings to resemble the crenellations of the city wall, in order to increase the beauty.

Soon after, some buildings began to build some vertical strip-shaped decorations on the exterior walls, and then some buildings left some protruding patterns on the outside of each window.

Further to the cement patterns and carved stone animals, the patterns gradually become more numerous. The orderly atmosphere of Tang's cities began to be broken, and the beauty of reinforced concrete began to bloom into beautiful flowers in the corners.

Those foreign artists who had seen the Forbidden City of the Tang Dynasty recognized the existence of artistic beauty in the Tang Dynasty. They marveled at the majesty and magnificence of the entire imperial palace, but dismissed the prosperity of Chang'an City.

 For them, although the reinforced concrete high-rise buildings are shocking enough, they have no "aesthetics" at all.

But they saw another side of the Tang Dynasty in the Forbidden City and Zhuque Street, which was full of literary and artistic atmosphere and antique charm.

In the eyes of these artists, the Tang Dynasty was schizophrenic. Their emperor was simply a treasure in the art world, while other architects "just knew how to build houses."

In fact, in a sense, the art of the Tang Dynasty is indeed fragmented, revealing a chaotic and distinct "weird state".

 According to the normal history of aesthetic development, it is impossible to explain the state of art development in the Tang Dynasty, which was like a chaotic dance of demons. Therefore, these artists who came from afar were basically driven crazy by the beauty and ugliness of Tang Dynasty.

This is actually an inevitable phenomenon, because these beauties that are not dependent on each other were copied directly from another world by Tang Mo, the time traveler.

It's very simple: if you only look at the luxurious lines of Rolls-Royce cars, then there is no doubt that Tang Guo's aesthetics is at its peak.

But if you look at the "People's" brand cars running in the streets and alleys, the straight lines combined with the rough welding technology will directly make people who have just seen a Rolls-Royce vomit blood.

If you have seen the wonders in the Forbidden City and Zhuque Street, and then go back and look at the ten- to twenty-story cement buildings on Chang'an Street... you will probably have the same illusion of schizophrenia.

 In short, this is a pot of random stew. The cheese is making attractive bubbles in the pot. As a result, the green onion and coriander are rolling back and forth with these bubbles, dotted around the beef brisket, exuding the aroma of Marsala.

If a poet saw such a magnificent city, saw the red palace walls, blue bricks and green tiles, and the gray steel and cement forest next door, he would probably write: "The willows in red are soft and beautiful, but the copper and iron walls are cold" or something like that to himself I don’t even know what the sentence is saying.

 In fact, this is nothing. After all, with the air quality in Tang Dynasty...especially Tongcheng, even if Li Bai came, he would probably only be able to write five character quatrains. Seven words... He had to cough for a long time before he could explain it.

It's a pity that Li Bai has never seen a train, nor a high-rise building, and of course he has never seen ballistic missiles and launch vehicles...

Otherwise, his level of bragging must be higher: If he had seen the buildings in Chang'an, he would have guessed that the dangerous buildings must be a thousand feet high...

Although the aesthetic development in the Tang Dynasty was severely fragmented, Chang'an still became a holy place in the minds of many artists.

 Because here, just like Bunas in the past, every flash of inspiration reveals a condensed great wisdom. It's as if the hard work of millions of people has been gathered together, exuding an intoxicating light.

Various art festivals that were already world-famous in the Bunas era were held one after another in Chang'an.

Until this moment, people were surprised to discover that it was not Bunas who was shining brightly, but the genius who founded Bunas.

“He is an artist who has been delayed by the world!” Standing in front of the gate of the Forbidden City, a contemporary sculptor sighed with emotion.

 “You are wrong, he is an engineer whose future has been delayed by art.” A technician on a pilgrimage retorted disdainfully.

“You are blaspheming an educator! You have no idea what he means to the educational world.” Behind the two of them, a man with glasses said quietly.

"Ha...if you had seen white phosphorus bombs, you wouldn't say that." Feng Kezhi said what he said without anyone hearing him. He just stood in the corner, looking up at the top of the Forbidden City: "He is the king of arms!"

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