Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

"The meat is only so big. If you have one more bite, I will lose one. Fenzhou is close to Taiyuan. Once this business starts, the Chai family will inevitably have a piece of the pie, right?"

Chen Ying saw that Wang Gui was still frowning, and Chen Ying reminded: "The Chai family in Fenzhou is gone, and the Wang family in Taiyuan can take over all the power of the Chai family. No matter whether it is people or things, only those who are caught Only in your own hands is the safest and most secure..."

Wang Gui slowly opened his clenched fist and nodded thoughtfully.

The few words of Chen Ying, Li Jiancheng, and Wang Gui directly decided the fate of the Chai family in Fenzhou.

Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat dried shrimps, and the weak eat the strong. This is the eternal law of nature.

The Chai family in Fenzhou may be a giant to others, but in front of the Wang family in Taiyuan, Li Jiancheng, and Chen Ying, the Chai family in Fenzhou is just a small shrimp that can be sacrificed anytime and anywhere.

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Chapter 71 Technology is the primary productive force

Chapter 71 Technology is the primary productive force

Chen Ying didn't care how Wang Gui discussed this matter with the Wang family in Taiyuan. As for whether the Wang family in Taiyuan would take action against the Chai family, Chen Ying still didn't care.

Chen Ying knows how much profit there is in coal and steelmaking. The most critical thing now is the direction of technological development.Sometimes Chen Ying also lamented that the working people in ancient China were very smart. The use of steel originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. Due to backward technology, it did not directly replace bronzes, but went through a long process of development.

China's first-generation steelmaking technology adopted the "solid-state reduction method". The so-called solid-state reduction is the product of using a whole piece of iron ore to be reduced by charcoal in a low-temperature solid state. The quality of this kind of steel is very unstable. The output is also low, and it belongs to the category that there is no way to exploit and apply it on a large scale.

Until the Western Han Dynasty, China invented the "Hundred Steelmaking" technology. In fact, Hundred Steelmaking was also an improvement on the technology of carburizing steel in the Spring and Autumn Period. The working principle and operation method are similar.Then in the mid-Western Han Dynasty, the method of frying steel appeared, and mechanical processing technologies such as water blasting and blasting were adopted, which can be regarded as a qualitative leap.During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, China invented the method of pouring steel.

To put it bluntly, in the steelmaking industry or non-ferrous metal smelting industry, China has always been at the forefront of history. Whether it is the Uzi steel or the Damascus knife that has been blown to the sky in later generations, it is actually just carburizing. Compared with forging technology, that is to say, the steelmaking technology invented in the early Western Han Dynasty in China, there is a gap of thousands of years.

However, whether it is carburizing steel, smelting steel or frying steel, or even pouring steel, there is a fatal problem that cannot be avoided, that is, the production capacity is too low, so for a long time, ordinary people in China had to use wooden tools to farm or farm. For production and life, in Chen Ying's eyes, the significance of coal is more than that. This should be the first time in the land of China that people take the initiative to use coal and convert coal resources into power.

When coal can be used to make fire for cooking, for heating, and for steelmaking, when the window paper of "coal is treasure" is pierced, it is conceivable that craftsmen from all over the world will spontaneously study , understand the principle of its coal.Within a hundred years, a large number of coal mines will be mined. With Chen Ying's point, the use of coal may bring some vitality to the trees in the Loess Plateau and Qinling Mountains. As long as the ecological balance of the Loess Plateau is not destroyed, there will be a shortage of resources in northern China. The problem of massive desertification will not appear so early.

I hope these things, if oil is the blood of industry, then coal is the protein of industry, as we all know that when there is a lack of protein, people have no strength at all.Chen Ying's ultimate goal is to develop technology that can liberate more people from heavy labor and gradually change this era.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying looked at Wang Gui, then at Li Jiancheng, and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness, Shuo Zuo, there is no need to worry about it, if you two feel very embarrassed, just pretend that Chen Ying didn't say anything today. "

Chen Ying may not have pinned all his hopes on Taiyuan Wang. The profits of coke and steelmaking are too great. For this huge benefit, there must be many people who are willing to stand up for Chen Ying. Seven cases and five hopes are not monolithic. If it doesn't work, Chen Ying will go to the Li family of Zhaojun, or the Lu family of Fanyang, or even the Cui family of Qinghe.

As the saying goes, if you leave Zhang butcher, you won't eat mixed-haired pigs.

Hearing what he said, Wang Gui couldn't help but rolled his eyes. He didn't think it was so difficult to destroy a Chai family in Fenzhou, but the Shandong aristocratic groups are all intertwined and intermarried. It is not difficult to destroy the Chai family. The sequelae after that are not easy to digest.But the temptation of coal-fired steelmaking is too great.

Li Jiancheng blinked his eyes, then burst out laughing, and said, "I have a private question to ask Chen Qing. What kind of enmity does Chen Qing have with the Chai family? Is this palace in the Chai family of Fenzhou?" There is still a bit of thin noodles, if Chen Qing is willing, I can speak for Xiang..."

"Hey..." Chen Yingyou heaved a long sigh and said, "Actually, I have no enmity with the Chai family in the past, nor have any grudges in the past."

Hearing this, Wang Gui couldn't help cursing inwardly: "If you don't have any hatred, you still want to destroy the whole family. If you have hatred, don't you want to kill people from the nine clans?"

Li Jiancheng frowned, looking at Chen Ying with thoughtful expression.

"The matter here is not enough for outsiders, please be considerate of His Highness the Crown Prince." Chen Ying smiled embarrassedly at Pei Ju and Wang Gui.

Li Jiancheng's reaction was not beyond Chen Ying's expectations, Li Jiancheng said: "This is my confidant, and there is no secret to keep his words and deeds secret."

Chen Ying could only smile wryly and said: "It's just that the Chai family in Fenzhou is too ignorant of praise. They held on to Princess Pingyang's hall book and insisted on making Princess Pingyang keep chastity for Chai's son-in-law for life."

In Chen Ying's tone, he especially emphasized the words "lifelong observance of chastity". Li Jiancheng's face changed drastically when he heard this, and his face flushed with anger: "How courageous."

Li Jiancheng is a prince, and he is an elder brother.

When Chinese people deal with things, they often have two sets of codes of conduct. They require others to be gracious and generous, but as soon as they involve themselves or their relatives, they immediately switch to another set of codes of conduct. Blood for blood, tooth for tooth.

Wang Gui patted himself on the head and finally realized.

Li Jiancheng's handsome face looked extraordinarily gloomy: "Uncle Jie, Chai family in Fenzhou, you know what to do!"

Wang Gui couldn't help but sit down silently. Li Jiancheng had already spoken, and there was no room for relaxation. Basically, it was a certainty. Wang Gui sighed secretly, why is Chai doing this?

Originally, whether it was Li Yuan or Li Jiancheng, they still had some affection for the Chai family, but the Chai family thought that with Li Xiuning's book, they could keep their family rich and powerful?

This idea is really naive. Now that there is no wealth, it will lead to the disaster of extermination.Now that Li Jiancheng has spoken, it can be said that the overall situation has been settled.Although Li Shimin, King of Qin, and Li Jiancheng are politically incompatible, their brothers have always been consistent with each other when it comes to Li Xiuning's issue. In other words, the Chai family has no one to talk to in the court.

The magistrate of the broken family and the prefect of the Miemen government office.

Even if the Taiyuan Wang family doesn't make a move, there are many people who want to curry favor with Li Jiancheng.It was already impossible for Chai to make any moves.

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Chen Ying did not stay in the East Palace to attend the banquet, he said goodbye to Li Jiancheng on the grounds that Li Xiuning was in a bad mood.Chen Ying returned to Qinglinli from Chang'an on horseback. When he arrived in Qinglinli, it was already time to hold the lanterns.

Li Xiuning simply ate something, and sat in Chen Ying's study, finishing the manuscripts in Chen Ying's spare time.At this time, Chen Ying discovered that most craftsmen in this era were illiterate. Even if they could, they only knew some fragments of "Kaogonglu". The whole book "Jiang Zuo Jing".

Li Xiuning asked very strangely: "The scholar-bureaucrats of the current Qing Dynasty are ashamed of being involved in production, and regard miscellaneous learning and craftsmanship as strange and ingenious skills. Why did Chen Lang compile and annotate such a set of books?"

Although he only saw some lists, Li Xiuning found that Chen Yingjiang had more than 250 sub-items in [-] categories including metallurgy, casting, technology, machinery, and exploration. This is a veritable masterpiece.

Chen Ying secretly sighed that in later generations even a junior high school student could say things like "science and technology is the primary productive force" and "the economic base determines the superstructure".However, in this era, including Li Xiuning also thinks this is a waste of resources.

Chen Ying smiled and asked Li Xiuning: "To put it bluntly, what does San Niang think is the root cause of the inevitable demise of the Sui Dynasty?"

Regarding this issue, Li Xiuning has the right to speak, she said without thinking: "The labor is endless, and the world dies from the labor...

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "It's not that a strong external enemy is difficult to defeat, but that the country's finances are on the verge of collapse, and there is no good way to recover."

In fact, Chen Ying did not tell Li Xiuning the truth. The real reason for the demise of the Sui Dynasty was actually very simple.The Sui Dynasty did not perish due to the peasant uprising, but because Yang Guang adopted the imperial examination system, which broke the foundation of the aristocratic family, so the landlords and wealthy families all over the world rebelled one after another. The remnants of the Southern Dynasties, represented by Liang Shidu and Liu Wuzhou, revolted against the Sui Dynasty.Historians have commented that the separatist rebellion was called "land collapse" and the peasant uprising was "disintegration".

Chapter 72 Who are you defending against?

Chapter 72 Who are you defending against?

The demise of the Sui Dynasty belonged to the irreconcilable conflicts between the ruling class scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor, which eventually fell apart.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty was similar, too. The scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor had conflicts that were difficult to reconcile, and finally it was attributed to "silver". Chen Ying twisted the pages of the manuscript and lost his mind under the lamp thoughtfully.

The 7 miles of fertile soil in Guanzhong seems to be a lot of cultivated land. However, with the increase of population, especially the frenzied annexation of land by the aristocratic families and dignitaries, the Tang Dynasty eventually lost the country's credibility and led to the Anshi Rebellion.In the fifth year of the Sui Dynasty, the population of Guanzhong was as high as 16 million (according to "Tang History Lun Cong" No. 13, edited by Du Wenyu, a professor of history of the Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties at Shaanxi Normal University, and the data are the same below) However, in the 1403th year of Zhenguan, the population of Guanzhong was only 1403 million. However, with this 20 million population, 3201 shi of grain needed to be transported from the pass every year. In the first year of Tianbao, the population of Guanzhong increased to 400 million. "New Tang Shu Shi Huo Zhi" was collected by Tianbao for three years and [-] million stones.

Chen Ying naturally discovered a very funny problem. The cultivated land in Guanzhong exceeded 40 acres in the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, one mu was 580 square meters, and one hundred acres was one square. The number of people is assumed to be 4000 million, and each person still has 400 mu of arable land. With the yield per mu at this time, it is not a problem to maintain normal food consumption. However, in the Tang Dynasty, it became a big famine in Guanzhong, and Shandong provided relief.

The most intuitive reason, in fact, is not difficult to guess. A large amount of land has been in the hands of powerful clans and nobles. They do not have to pay taxes.What is even more tragic is that Guanzhong is the foundation of the Tang Dynasty. Since the imperial court did not have enough land to accommodate the soldiers, the government system established from the Western Wei Dynasty collapsed completely during the Tianbao period.

In the later generations, it was only 150 million hectares in Guanzhong, which was only about 26 hectares, about two-thirds of the Tang Dynasty. However, the grain output of later generations was 930 million tons, feeding more than [-] million people in Guanzhong. But no pressure.Chen Ying secretly thought that even if the food production capacity is only half of that of later generations, it will not be a problem to feed the population in Guanzhong.

If Chen Ying is asked to increase the grain yield to [-] catties per mu, Chen Ying has no confidence. After all, the efficacy of chemical fertilizers is well known. A population of [-] is also possible.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying distractedly and couldn't help asking: "Chen Lang, what are you thinking, Chen Lang?"

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Nothing!"

Li Xiuning looked like she didn't believe it at all, and turned her head away.