Da Qin: Confucianism, Dharma and Taoism

Around 350 BC, Qin Xiaogong established Xianyang and moved the Qin capital from the old capital Yueyang to the new capital Xianyang.

In the southern suburbs 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 Ying Wei's fiefdom and the origin of his title of Chang'an Lord. It is also the location of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty in official history.

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

If we were in modern times, given the distance between these two places, it would probably take a few minutes to drive there.

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

That is to say, because Ying Wei is the son of the Qin Kingdom, he has a fiefdom near Xianyang. The other princes have fiefdoms far away and will never be so close to Xianyang.

Chang'an is located in the middle of the Guandu Plain and has fertile land. However, because it is Ying Wei's fiefdom, all the land belongs to Ying Wei.

Farmers working in the fields are employedThey don't own any land themselves.

After Shang Yang's reform, Qin people were allowed to obtain their own land with military merit, and the land became privately owned. Naturally, there would be so many old Qin people fighting on the battlefield"Zero Four Seven".

Nowadays, there are more land than people, and the land can still be distributed.

And if we wait until peaceful times and the population grows, when the population growth exceeds the supply of land, land annexation will occur frequently, which will bring about huge social conflicts and usher in the end of a dynasty, waiting for the next distribution.

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

Although all the land in the fiefdom belongs to Ying Wei, theoretically Ying Wei does not need to pay too much to the landless people at the bottom.

But as a modern person, Ying Wei deeply understands what motivation is. If you want people to be motivated, you must give them enough rewards.

The second thing is that when Ying Wei really saw these low-class people living in the pre-Qin period, he was silent and sighed.

As the Lord of Chang'an of the Qin State, what Ying Wei had seen since childhood was a luxurious and decadent life, including brocade clothes and jade food, as well as drinking and having fun among the princes and nobles.

It wasn't until he truly met the people at the bottom of this era that he understood how miserable the lives of ordinary people with low productivity were.

The clothes worn by the people at the bottom cannot be regarded as clothes at all, they are simply materials sewn together from rough linen to barely cover their bodies.

Whether they are young children or elderly people, their skin is dark and rough, and they are all very thin, as if they may die suddenly at any time.

Not to mention a serious illness due to their physical condition, 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. You can see how difficult it is to live.

Every time he saw these low-class people, as a modern person with a conscience, Ying Wei would feel unbearable.

Although he is ruthless to his enemies, he is still a human being, and he even has an inexplicable desire to change the world.

Ying Wei didn't know that in this era, after many royal nobles were born, they might not regard these lower-class people as human beings due to the influence of their environment.

The thoughts of those people were completely incomprehensible to Ying Wei. In his opinion, they were simply beasts in human form.

Naturally, Ying Wei couldn't bear to exploit these people who had nothing in the first place.

As long as the low-level people employed in his fiefdom can't say how good their lives are, but as long as they work hard, they will at least have enough food to survive.

If there are some disasters, Ying Wei will also subsidize some of it himself. Just such a small favor can make the local people grateful and grateful, and spread his benevolence orally.

No matter what era it is, the powerful people who are superior to others are actually competing against each other, because everyone is bad, and the few with conscience become good people.

And now he, Ying Wei, just wants to exploit those rich people, and he already has an idea!

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There is Ying Wei's mansion in the fiefdom of Chang'an. Although it is not as magnificent as Xianyang Palace or as luxurious as his mansion in Xianyang City, it is not something that ordinary people can compare with.

In the empty courtyard of the mansion, many workers are soaking bamboo, making pulp, etc. It seems chaotic but very orderly, and there is no noisy sound.

Among these people, Li Si, who no longer wore linen clothes but put on better silk clothes, was supervising the work.

Three months ago, he arrived in Xianyang and became a disciple of Lord Chang'an Ying Wei. He became one of his guests and helped Ying Wei handle some complicated things.

The so-called diners are the diners who eat in the wealthy and aristocratic families. Although they may not become wealthy, at least they will not starve to death in Xianyang.

Otherwise, when he came to Xianyang, the capital of the Qin State, as a Chu native with no roots and no background, the first thing he had to think about was how to survive.

Becoming Chang'an Jun's diner gave him the capital to survive, and more importantly, he finally had a channel for promotion.

Naturally, for the sake of his future career, he worked diligently on the work Ying Wei had assigned him and did not dare to slack off at all. He only hoped to leave a good impression on Ying Wei.

The first thing Ying Wei gave him was to write an article and ask Li Si to make a finished product according to the requirements of the article.

As a disciple of Xunzi, Li Si could certainly understand the article given to him by Ying Wei. Compared with the works of this era, the article was written in enough detail.

But Li Si didn't know what the production method was.

It wasn't until Li Si led people to create some semi-finished products according to the method he recorded that he vaguely guessed what the use of this thing was.

Precisely because he guessed its function, Li Si became even more excited and became more and more concerned about this matter.

Because he knew clearly that as long as this thing was completed, Chang'an Jun Yingwei would definitely be famous in history, and he, Li Si, could also show his face and leave his name in history.

It's just that the workers didn't have enough experience at the beginning. It was Li Si's first time making it, so he was completely confused. The initial finished product had serious flaws.

However, as the workers became more and more experienced over the course of three months, some mistakes were also solved, and finally a perfect finished product was about to be successful.

That's right, Ying Wei is making paper!

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

As for why he doesn't do it, it's very simple. He really can't make paper!

Just ask most modern people. At most, everyone knows about papermaking and the raw materials. But how many people know the specific process? Not many people know how to make paper!

This is also the reason why Ying Wei has never thought about making paper for more than ten years. It is really impossible to make paper!

Fortunately, his previous breakthrough in martial arts realm allowed him to obtain a golden finger and recall almost every minute and every second of his previous life. 0...

But even so, Ying Wei almost couldn't make paper, because few modern people have access to the real process and technology of ancient papermaking.

Ying Wei could only be thankful that he had nothing to do during the summer vacation one year when he was in school. He read"Tiangong Kaiwu" and learned the true method of making paper.

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

Mainly because in the records of papermaking, many steps are actually omitted, such as some required tools and molds. Ying Wei said that he did not know what those tools and molds looked like.

So all he can do is let people try it bit by bit. Anyway, the process is there, the technology of this thing is not too high, and he does not need to rub the superconducting material by hand. He will always succeed if he tries more.

Ying Wei now regrets it very much. If he had known that he could time travel, he would have read the three sacred books on time travel.

In addition, Ying Wei does have many advanced technologies and craftsmanship in his mind, some of which are even enough to greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the army.

However, Ying Wei also needs to carefully consider whether to use these technologies.

For example, horseshoes and stirrups can indeed greatly improve the combat effectiveness of cavalry, but the Qin army is good at crossbows but not good at riding. If this invention was invented and learned by Zhao, it would be an act of supporting the enemy.

Zhao Guo was good at riding and shooting in Hufu, and he was a mortal enemy of Qin. There was no way Ying Wei could come up with this invention now.

In real history, stirrups only appeared during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Before that, although the northern Hu people always invaded the border, they were not considered serious enemies to the Qin and Han dynasties.

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

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

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

Paper will allow government orders to be delivered faster, and it doesn't matter even if all countries learn how to do it.

Because this is a great enhancement for the war machine of Qin, it will not have much effect on other countries, especially Chu. This is a disguised weakening.

Ying Wei couldn't find anyone trustworthy to help him do this. It wasn't until Li Si showed up that Ying Wei felt relieved and left it to him.

Li Si was not from Qin and had no roots in Qin. After he became his disciple, he cut off Lu Buwei's line. If he wanted to get along well in Qin, he had to follow him, so loyalty could be guaranteed.

And Li Si was capable and knowledgeable enough. According to the method he taught him, he finally got the paper out of his hands.

According to orthodox history, the first paper was made of hemp before the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Then the technology improved and leather was added. After the Tang Dynasty, the technology improved again and rattan and bamboo were used.

DandoThe cost is too high and the paper produced is good but impractical. Bamboo is much cheaper and suitable for paper making.

And"Tiangong Kaiwu" is a book from the Ming Dynasty. Our technology is 1800 years ahead!.