Training Tai Sui

"Let's not talk about these for the time being." Qin Feng said with a smile: "Emperor Xuanyuan invented the compass car, which enabled us to distinguish the southeast from the north. Cloth, so that people have clothes to wear, no need to surround them with leaves, they are no different from apes, are they low?"

Yang Guang had some liver pain. He finally understood how those scholars felt when he saw Qin Feng for the first time that day.The person in front of him didn't talk about the emperor or empress, he was directly Huangdi and Leizu. If he dared to say something bad, Yang Jian would be able to skin him alive tomorrow.

"Maybe you said these are too far away, so let's talk about the recent ones." Qin Feng picked up a book casually, and continued: "The Han Dynasty used bamboo slips. The royal family should have those things, and you should have seen them too. They are bulky. Not to mention, one scroll of bamboo slips can’t write a few words, and an Analects of Confucius would take dozens of bamboo slips to record, but now, this small book is all you need.”

"Is it a credit to enable all people with lofty ideals to be able to read and write? Is it more important than Emperor Qin sweeping Liuhe, or Han Wubei chasing the Xiongnu?"

This comparison is not easy to make. After all, they are not the same thing. One is about culture and education, and the other is about military exploits. How can they be compared together?

But Yang Guang also had to admit that making paper is indeed an extremely useful thing.

"Brother Ziyu, papermaking is just one thing. It is impossible to have it all the time, but it is indispensable for the emperor."

"Really?" Qin Feng smiled and said, "Papermaking is the only thing worthy of praise in your eyes for craftsmen?"

Yang Guang was somewhat dissatisfied and said, "What else can be compared with papermaking?"

"Brush, ink, paper and inkstone, which one less can you write? Even though a sage is full of knowledge, what's the use of not writing down his theories?"

"Also, what was the population of the whole country in the Qin Dynasty, the population in the Han Dynasty, the population in the Jin Dynasty, and the current population of the Sui Dynasty if you add Nanchen?"

Yang Guang smiled wryly and said, "Brother Ziyu, you have to go to the palace to check this matter carefully, otherwise I won't be able to give you an accurate answer."

"It doesn't need to be accurate." Qin Feng shook his head and said, "You just answer me, is the population increasing, and why?"

Thinking back for a moment, Yang Guang affirmed: "There are indeed more and more. As for why...does it have something to do with craftsmen?"

"That's right!" Qin Feng nodded his head heavily, and said: "In ancient times, slash-and-burn farming, burning a piece of wasteland, and then spreading the seeds down, it's over. Later, there were bronze farm tools, and now they are iron farm tools, and they can also fertilize. The yield per mu is high. There are naturally more people who can support them. But this improved farm tool, who knows that fertilization can increase the yield per mu, who is the emperor, or the name of which dynasty?"

"This is not only for ordinary people, but also for the army. Craftsmen are extremely important. We Han people are not good at riding and shooting by nature, but the appearance of stirrups and horseshoes makes up for this deficiency."

"Even so, the cavalry of our Han people is still not comparable to that of the Hulu, but as powerful as the Huns, Xianbei, including today's Turks, it is possible to capture all the Han territory and establish a dynasty?"

Yang Guang said with an unnatural expression, "Brother Ziyu, is this also the work of the craftsman?"

Qin Feng nodded, and said: "That's right, the ancient ancestors used stone weapons to hunt, and the Xia, Shang, Zhou and Qin bronzes were unrivaled in the world. Now iron and steel are used to forge weapons and armor, and the most effective against the Hulu's light cavalry is the cavalry. Besides, there is the crossbow, who created this crossbow, did it fall out of thin air?"

"The Great Wall that has stood for thousands of years in northern Xinjiang, the strong fortresses, even the carriage you ride in, the house you live in, the bed you sleep on, and the bowls and chopsticks you use for eating, which one is not made by craftsmen?"

"Without these craftsmen, would it be possible for civil and military officials to sit on wasteland to deal with state affairs, merchants to make money and sleep on silver, and farmers to dig the ground with both hands?"

One question after another left Yang Guang speechless, and in the end he was a little horrified to find that without a craftsman, he really couldn't move a single step.

He never cared about these things, and he naturally thought that they should exist, but after Qin Feng said this, he felt that it was not simple.

Before he could speak, Qin Feng took out a binoculars that he improved and threw it to Yang Guang, casually said: "Take this thing and look outside."

It is said to be an improvement, but in fact it is to dismantle the original telescope, and then put a wooden tube on it, so that this thing looks like a product of this era.

Yang Guang didn't know this thing, but out of trust in Qin Feng, he still followed Qin Feng's instructions, put the telescope in front of his eyes, and then looked outside.

"Brother Ziyu, what's the use of this thing, I can't see anything clearly."

"impossible!"

Qin Feng was a little panicked, did he fix something wrong?

Impossible, after finishing it, he has tested it, and there is obviously no problem, otherwise he would not be able to take this thing out, how could...

"Bring it to me and see."

When Yang Guang turned his head while maintaining his long-sighted posture, Qin Feng slapped his head and said angrily, "Close the other eye and look again."

"Oh."

Yang Guang felt aggrieved and had to close his eyes, because you didn't say anything before.

"what!"

With a cry of surprise, Yang Guang was completely stunned, his hands holding the binoculars trembled a little.

From the window of the study, he could clearly see Wei Zheng outside the gate who was recording the growth of the piglets with banknotes. Due to his posture, he couldn't see what Wei Zheng was writing.But he even saw a pimple on Wei Zheng's young face, which glowed slightly red under the sunlight.

"This...this...Brother Ziyu, what is this?"

Qin Feng snatched the telescope from his trembling hands, fearing that he would smash it.After all, although there are quite a few in the binoculars warehouse, he dare not take them out unscrupulously, otherwise how can he explain it?

"This is called a telescope, made by the craftsman you despise the most."

Qin Feng patted the binoculars casually in his hands, Yang Guang felt his heart beating with Qin Feng's movements, and was afraid that he would smash this treasure.

"Think about it, if your scouts have this thing when the army is marching on the vast grassland, but the enemy's scouts don't, the consequences...do I need to say more?"

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Yang Guang said with some embarrassment: "Brother Ziyu, can you show me this telescope again?"

When Wan'er came in from the outside to deliver tea, what she saw was Yang Guang staring blankly outside with a binoculars, while her young master looked helpless.

Slowly putting the tea on the table, Wan'er snickered and asked in a low voice: "Master, is he stupid? What are you looking at with a wooden tube?"

"Stop talking nonsense." Qin Feng slapped Wan'er's small buttocks, looked at her flushed face, and whispered: "Quickly order Chun Niang to prepare lunch."

Wan'er lowered her head and ran out quickly, Yang Guang realized later: "Brother Ziyu, this thing is so ingenious, where did it come from?"

"Da Qin."

Qin Feng was a little guilty. He didn't know if the ancient Roman Empire was still called by this name in this era, but he could think of it as the only famous country in Europe, so he brought it up without hesitation.

Yang Guang immediately said after hearing the words: "But Ban Dingyuan sent envoys, the Great Qin in the far west?"

"That's right, it's there."

Although he didn't know whether what Yang Guang said was the same as what he said, Qin Feng still agreed. After all, he really didn't know anything about the West in this era.

"Not only this, I heard that they also made something that is only the size of a human head, but it can make a city wall collapse. One day, when the land of the Sui Dynasty expands again and borders those countries. Aying, you Tell me, with the city of Sui, it is possible to block them?"

Gunpowder was indeed a good invention during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but the explosives that could be put into use had to wait until the middle and late Ming Dynasty at least, but this did not affect his bragging at all. After all, if he didn’t brag a little bit scary, how could Yang Guang believe it? ?

Yang Guang looked at the telescope in his hand in a daze, and asked a little puzzled: "What is that, is it the method of the immortal family?"

Qin Feng didn't want to explain explosives to him, but said quietly: "Some things may not be impossible to exist. More than a thousand years ago, our ancestors were only active in the Central Plains, and the south of the Yangtze River was a barren land, but later there were horse-drawn carriages and fast boats. , so that the barren land in the south of the Yangtze River has become a land of fish and rice. How do you know that there will be no convenient things in the future to make travel faster?"

"At that time, the population will inevitably increase, and the territory will also expand. One day, if we become neighbors with Daqin, there will be a war between the two big countries!"

"You think that thing can't exist, but have you ever thought about the existence of telescopes before?"

After sending away the preoccupied Yang Guang, Qin Feng was a little helpless to find that the dignified King Jin had acted as a thief for a while and took his telescope away.

Chapter 68 Crossbow