Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

When Zhao Dan moved his wrist, he suddenly thought of a legend in history.

It is said that Qin Shihuang was extremely diligent and reviewed hundreds of catties of memorials every day, even when he was out on inspections.

Therefore, the reason why Qin Shihuang did not become a long-lived emperor may also be related to such high-intensity physical labor for many years.

Although this is just random thinking, it reminded Zhao Dan of one thing, that is, the improvement of papermaking is imperative.

As we all know, Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty is usually associated with papermaking, but strictly speaking, Cai Lun is not the inventor of paper.

In fact, in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, paper had already appeared.

China is the first country in the world to raise silkworms and weave silk.The working people in ancient China drew silk from silkworm cocoons to weave silk, and the remaining evil cocoons and diseased cocoons were used to make silk floss by the method of flocculation.

After the wadding is finished, some residual wadding will remain on the bamboo mat. If the number of times of wadding increases, the residual wadding on the bamboo mat will accumulate into a layer of fiber sheets, which can be peeled off after drying and can be used for writing.

There are not many by-products of this kind of floating wadding, and it is called Hexu or Fangxu in ancient books, which is the silk that Zhao Dan often used to write secret letters.

But the problem is that the production of this kind of silk is too scarce, and even Zhao Dan can't meet his paper needs, let alone replace the heavy bamboo slips.

The so-called papermaking in history usually refers to the improvement of papermaking by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

After Cai Lun's improvement, paper finally began to become popular on a large scale because of its cheap and easy-to-obtain raw materials, and eventually completely replaced bamboo slips.

Even if it is to prevent himself from being exhausted from carrying hundreds of catties of bamboo slips on and off the table every day at a young age, Zhao Dan also feels that he can tinker with this papermaking technique as soon as possible.

But what makes Zhao Dan feel a little bit painful is that Zhao Dan doesn't know what the papermaking technology improved by Cai Lun is all about, and what are the specific technological processes.

But fortunately, Zhao Dan is not completely ignorant. After racking his brains, Zhao Dan finally remembered that the raw materials of Cai Lun's papermaking technique should be bark and rags. There should be a step called beating in .

Then Zhao Dan couldn't remember.

This made Zhao Dan feel a little bit emotional. Other traversers can know everything well after crossing. As long as they can easily recall everything they read on Baidu, why don't they have such a strong ability?

So Zhao Dan simply left this task to the artisans of Zhao Guo to study and explore slowly.

Judging from the current situation, it is clear that the craftsmen of Zhao State have not found anything decent yet.

This reminded Zhao Dan of a well-known school of thought in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, Mohism, which was also known as "Xianxue" along with Confucianism.

You must know that the Mohists still have a lot of experience in this kind of manufacturing, and they have produced top masters like Lu Ban. With the help of the Mohists, it should be possible to make the improvement of papermaking more smooth.

For this reason, Zhao Dan also quietly sent Hu Yiwei to search for the traces of the disciples of the Mohist school.

However, since the Warring States period, the Mohist school has gradually declined, and it has almost completely disappeared in the end of the Warring States period. Its members are no longer openly active among the countries as before, so they have not been discovered by Hu Yiwei until now.

Of course, since Zhao Dan has only traveled through a few months, and Hu Yiwei's infiltration of the other six countries has just begun, Zhao Dan is not in a hurry.

Things like papermaking and finding the Mohists are actually not too important.

In Zhao Dan's view, what Zhao State urgently needs now is a reform that can make Zhao State stronger.

As we all know, when Zhao Dan's grandfather, King Zhao Wuling, was in power, Zhao Guo once carried out a very famous reform called "Hu Fu Riding and Shooting".

It was precisely because of that reform that Zhao's border cavalry corps rose rapidly to dominate the other countries, and Zhao's overall combat effectiveness also greatly increased, which opened the prelude to Zhao's gradual strengthening in the middle and late Warring States period.

However, King Zhao Wuling's reform of Hufu, riding and archery this time is actually not thorough, because this reform mainly focuses on the military aspect, but rarely involves Zhao's system.

As a time traveler, Zhao Dan knew very well that the reason why Qin was able to finally unify the world was the system established since Shang Yang's reform.

In the whole system established by Shang Yang, although the military merit system is an important part, it is not the whole.

When Zhao Wuling Wang Hufu reformed riding and shooting, although Zhao Guo also borrowed and basically copied the military merit system of Shang Yang and Qin, but that's all.

In fact, even the copied military merit system, Zhao Guo's implementation is far less thorough than Qin Guo's.

Since time travel, Zhao Dan has been trying to find a way to solve this problem.

Obviously, Zhao's system is lagging behind that of Qin's.

To explain it with the words of the high school political textbook in the so-called "Three Great Books of the Traveler", it is that "Zhao's current superstructure and productivity relationship can no longer meet the needs of the growing productivity."

Today, the six countries in Shandong, including Zhao, are still stuck in the social structure of the slave system, but Qin, after completing Shang Yang's reform, has stepped into the structure of the feudal landlord system first.

In the current era, Qin's system is undoubtedly extremely advanced and leading.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten, Zhao Dan remembers this sentence very clearly.

Don't look at Zhao Guo's victory over Changping and claiming the same hegemony with Qin Guo, but as long as the disadvantages of the system are here, then Zhao Guo will naturally suffer some disadvantages in wrestling with Qin Guo, which is undoubtedly Zhao Dan can't bear of.

Therefore, after resolving the crisis of the Battle of Changping that he faced after crossing, Zhao Dan finally set his sights on reforming the system and improving the law.

As for Zhao's hope of reforming the law and becoming stronger, Zhao Dan felt that it should be put on the body of Xunzi Xunkuang, one of the great masters who will meet him soon.

Chapter 187 Why Xunzi? (first update)

After a while, Gou Kuang appeared in front of Zhao Dan with two disciples, and bowed respectfully to Zhao Dan: "I have seen you, Your Majesty."

Zhao Dan looked at Gou Kuang carefully, and couldn't help feeling a little excited.

This is Xunzi, Zhao Dan finally met one of those legendary schools of thought.

Xunzi, named Kuang, styled Qing, a native of Zhao State, a thinker, scholar, statesman, and Confucian powerhouse at the end of the Warring States Period, served three times as a sacrificial wine in the Jixia Academy Palace. It is the order of Lanling.

Xunzi is not only a famous Confucianist in this era, but also his teaching skills are quite good, and the three apprentices he taught are all famous.

Some people may ask, as a time traveler, who is Zhao Dan not good to use, and actually went to use a Confucian scholar to reform the law?I'm afraid I haven't learned the history well.

In fact, that is not the case.

Xunzi, even within Confucianism, is a very controversial person.

What is the controversy?It was on the two young men in front of Zhao Dan.

The black-crowned scholar saluted Zhao Dan with a respectful tone: "Li Si has seen the king."

The green-robed scholar also saluted: "Han, Han Fei sees, sees the king."

Zhao Dan nodded with a smile and said: "There is no need to be polite, let's all sit down."

Although these two young scholars are still not well-known in this era, Zhao Dan can describe them like thunder.

Li Si, a powerful legalist, Xiangbang of Qin State in the period of Queen Qin Shihuang, once wrote a very famous book of exhortations and chasing guests, assisted Qin Shihuang to complete the great cause of unifying the world, vigorously promoted the same track of cars and books, and unified the weights and measures system, which was the great unification in 2000 one of the founders.

Of course, Li Si also has black spots. The biggest black spot is that after Qin Shihuang's death, he was coerced by the eunuch Zhao Gao to tamper with the imperial edict and make Hu Hai the second emperor of Qin.

But in general, if you look at the black spots aside, Li Si, the prime minister, is undoubtedly a very good legalist official, and also a very good prime minister.

But in terms of reputation in future generations, Li Si couldn't even compare to the senior brother standing beside him.