Daqin: Confucianism, Law, and Taoism

Around 350 BC, Duke Xiao of Qin established Xianyang and moved the capital of the Qin state from the old capital Liyang to the new capital Xianyang.

On the southern outskirts of Xianyang City, about a few kilometers away, there is a township called Chang'an Township.

With Chang'an Township as the center, this area is the fiefdom of Huan Wei, the origin of his title of Chang'an Jun, and it is also the location of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty.

As for the location of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, it will be a little further south, but not too far.

If it is in modern times, with the distance between these two places, I am afraid that it can be reached in a few minutes by car.

Even in this pre-Qin period, this distance was not too far, and it was even enough for Huan Wei to go back and forth with his fief Chang'an in Xianyang on the same day.

That is, Huan Wei is the prince of the Qin State, so he will have a fief near Xianyang, and the other marquis are all very far away from the fiefdom, and they will never be so close to Xianyang.

Chang'an is located in the middle of the Guandu Plain and has fertile land, but because it is a fiefdom of Huanwei, the land is owned by Huanwei.

Farmers who cultivate their fields are employed and do not own any land themselves.

And after the Shang Martingale change law, allowing the Qin people to obtain their own land with military merits, so that the land became private, naturally there would be so many old Qin people fighting on the battlefield "047".

Nowadays, there is more land than people, and land can still be divided.

And if we wait until the peacetime comes, the population grows, when the population growth is greater than the supply of land, the phenomenon of land annexation will be frequent, thus bringing huge social contradictions, ushering in the end of a dynasty, waiting for the next distribution.

The history of the feudal era continues to cycle like this, but after all, it will be at least a hundred years later, and there is no need to think about it for the time being.

Although the land in the fiefdom is owned by Huanwei, in theory, Huanwei does not need to pay too much to those landless people at the bottom.

But as a modern person, I don't know what motivation is, and if you want to make people motivated, you must give enough rewards.

Secondly, when Huan Wei really saw these low-level people living in the pre-Qin period, he was silent and sighed.

As the Chang'an Jun of the Qin State, what Huan Wei has seen since he was a child is a luxurious and decadent life, which is brocade clothes and jade food, and drinking and entertainment between princes and nobles.

It wasn't until he really saw the people at the bottom of this era that he understood how lamented the lives of ordinary people with low productivity were.

The people at the bottom were not clothes at all, they were simply coarse linen sewn together to barely cover up.

Whether it is a young child or an elderly person, they are all dark and rough-skinned, and they are all very thin, as if they may die violently at any time.

This kind of physical condition should not be said to be a serious illness, even a minor illness may kill them.

The average life expectancy of ordinary people in this era is only between 20 and 25 years old, which shows how difficult it is to live.

Every time I see these people at the bottom, as a modern person with a conscience, I will feel unbearable.

Although he is ruthless to his enemies, he is a person in the end, and even inexplicably has an idea of wanting to change the world.

Huan did not know that after many royal palace nobles in this era were born, they may not treat these low-level people as people due to the environment.

The thoughts of those people were completely incomprehensible to him, and in his opinion, they were simply humanoid animals.

Naturally, Weiwei could not bear to exploit these people who already had nothing.

As long as the low-level people employed in his fiefdom dare not say how good they live, but as long as they work hard, at least they can have enough rations to survive.

If there are some disasters, Huan Wei will also subsidize some himself, which is such a small favor, which already makes the local people grateful to Dade, grateful, and oral transmission of his benevolence.

No matter what era it is, the powerful people who are above the people are actually worse than rotten, because everyone is rotten, and the few who have a conscience become good people.

And he is not winning, now he only wants to exploit those rich, and he already has ideas!

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The fief Chang'an has a mansion, although it is not comparable to the magnificence of Xianyang Palace, nor can it compare to the luxury of his mansion in Xianyang City, but it is not comparable to ordinary people.

In the empty courtyard of the mansion, many workers are soaking bamboo, making pulp water, etc., which seems to be chaotic but very methodical, and there is no noise.

Among these people, Li Si, who no longer wore linen cloth, but changed into better satin clothes, was overseizing.

Three months ago, he arrived in Xianyang to worship Chang'an Jun Huan Weimen, and became one of his diners, helping Huan Wei deal with some complicated things.

The so-called diners are those who eat in the rich and aristocratic, although they cannot be rich and noble, but at least they will not starve to death in Xianyang.

Otherwise, he, a rootless Chu countryman, came to Xianyang, the capital of the Qin state, and the first thing he wanted to do was how to survive.

And becoming a diner of Chang'an Jun gave him the capital to live, and more importantly, he finally had a channel for promotion.

Naturally, for his future career, he is conscientious about the work that has not been explained, and does not dare to slack off in the slightest, only hoping to leave a good impression on Yingwei.

And the first thing that Huan Wei handed him was that Huan Wei wrote an article and asked Li Si to make a finished product according to the requirements of the article.

Li Si, as a senior disciple of Xunzi, of course, can understand the article that Huan Wei gave him, and compared to the works of this era, the article is already detailed enough.

But as for what was produced by that production method, Lees did not know.

It wasn't until Lees took someone to make some semi-finished products according to the method he recorded, that he vaguely guessed what the use of this thing was.

It was precisely because he guessed its role that Li Si became more excited in his heart and became more attentive to this matter.

Because he clearly knows that as long as this thing is made, Chang'an Junwei will inevitably be famous in history, and he Li Si can also show his face and leave a name in history.

It's just that the workers' experience is not enough at the beginning, and Li Si is also making it for the first time, and the whole person is confused, and the finished product produced at the beginning is seriously flawed.

But with the three months of experience of the workers becoming more proficient, some wrong problems are also being solved, and finally there is a perfect finished product is about to succeed.

That's right, wei is making paper!

This is something that almost every traverser who travels to the pre-Qin period should have to do, but Huan Wei has never thought about it in the past ten years.

As for why he didn't do it, it's simple, he really can't make paper!

Just ask the vast majority of modern people, everyone knows at most that there is such a thing as papermaking, and the raw materials are generally known, but how many people know the specific process? Few people know how to make paper!

This is also the reason why Huan Wei has never thought about making paper for more than ten years, that is really impossible to make!

Fortunately, the breakthrough of the martial arts realm before allowed him to obtain a golden finger and recall the memory of almost every minute and second of his previous life0...

But even so, he almost couldn't make paper, because few modern people would come into contact with the true process and craft of ancient papermaking.

Huan Wei can only be glad that he had nothing to do during the summer vacation of his school years, and read "Tiangong Kaiwu" again to know the real method of papermaking.

Even so, it took a lot of time to perfect this project.

Mainly in the records of papermaking, many steps are actually omitted, such as some tool molds needed, what those tool molds look like, and Huan Wei does not indicate that he does not know.

So what he can do is just let people try it little by little, anyway, the process is there, this thing technology is not too high, and he does not need to rub superconducting materials by hand, and he can always succeed if he tries more.

Huan Wei is now very regretful, knowing that he will cross, so he read the three major divine books again.

In addition, there are indeed many advanced technologies and processes in Weiwei's mind, some of which are even enough to greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the army.

However, whether these technologies are taken out or not, Huan Wei also needs to be carefully considered.

For example, horseshoes and stirrups, which can indeed greatly improve the combat effectiveness of cavalry, but the Qin army is good at crossbows and not good at riding, and this thing was invented If it was learned by Zhao Guo, it was the behavior of the enemy.

Zhao Guoshan's horsemanship and shooting are mortal enemies with Qin Guo, and it is impossible for Huan Wei to take out this invention now.

In real history, stirrups only appeared during the Wei and Jin dynasties, and although the northern Hu people always invaded the border before this, they were not great enemies for the Qin and Han dynasties.

And after the invention of the stirrup, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry skyrocketed, and after that the threat of the nomads in the north became stronger and stronger.

Therefore, this thing must not be invented now, and even if it is invented, it will not be able to wait until the Qin State unifies the six countries.

Compared with these 1.7 things, papermaking is more important to win, because only when the paper comes out, his plans for the next few decades can begin.

And paper will make decrees pass on faster, even if countries learn it.

Because this is a great enhancement for the war machine of the Qin State, and it has little effect on other countries, especially for the Chu State, this is a weakening in disguise.

Huan Wei couldn't find a credible person to help him do this before, until Li Si appeared, and Huan Wei was relieved to hand it over to him.

Li Si is not from the Qin State, he has no roots in the Qin State, and after he became his own protégé, he broke Lu Buwei's line, and if he wanted to mix well in the Qin State, he must follow him, so loyalty can be guaranteed.

And Li Si is capable, highly knowledgeable, according to the method he taught him, and finally he made a piece of paper.

In orthodox history, the first paper was made of hemp before the Sui and Tang dynasties, then the technology was improved to add skin, and after the Tang dynasty, the technology was improved again, using rattan and bamboo.

But the cost of rattan is too high, the paper is good but not practical, and bamboo is much cheaper, which is suitable for papermaking.

And "Tiangong Kaiwu" is a book in the Ming Dynasty, and our technology is directly ahead of 1800! .