Li Yi saw Zhong Xuan and they had a headache, but he didn't know that the latter's head hurt a lot more than his.

Since the winter of the previous year, the army in northern Xinjiang has begun to normalize. Millions of Tuntian soldiers were disbanded on the spot and transferred to Mintun. And the number of regular armies has been largely determined.

In order to ensure that the 600,000-strong army has strong combat effectiveness, Li Yi decided to fully redress the army in the next three years.

However, in the past 193 years, because of various problems in the imperial court, the work of changing the army's outfit was basically paralyzed, and everyone was busy engaging in political struggles, so how could they have the heart to think about the matter of changing the army's outfit?

At the end of the year, Li Yi completely mastered the Jicheng Imperial Court, and this matter was put back on the agenda. He decided that from this year onwards, while Hebei is recuperating and recuperating, its main job will be to change the clothes of the army.

To this end, Li Yi spent a large amount of merit points to exchange a series of military equipment technologies that were hundreds of years ahead of the times from the summoning system, intending to manufacture these things and use them to improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

Li Yi had previously put forward the concept of Shinong Industry and Commerce, preparing to improve the status of craftsmen, introduce standardized management, and abandon the original small workshop model. Zhong Xuan, who was in charge of internal affairs, and others listened to it again and again, and they thought it was true.

However, Li Yi proposed many specifications and processes, but there were no specific practices. Not to mention anything else, just talking about standardized production, the training mode of craftsmen, and various ways to improve work efficiency, Zhong Miao and others all have a black eye. He is good at handling internal affairs and can sort out many tedious and trivial affairs in an orderly manner, but after all, he has not studied industrial management in later generations, where can he meet Li Yi's needs for a while?

Some time ago, the whole court was debating over the "plan to dictate the field system", and Zhong Miao himself was the same, and he didn't put his mind on this matter. Now that the matter of Tian System has come to an end for the time being, he naturally has to pick up this matter again.

Zhong Xuan became the first bird, and the others naturally let go of their courage, only to see Mi Zhu said with a bitter face: "Lord, what you said about Li Jin is also a little troublesome. With the protection provided by the General's Palace, the merchants did not resist the payment of the merchant tax, but the question was, how should this tax be collected? Emperor Wu has been minting five baht coins for nearly 300 years, and there are many types of currency in private circulation, and it is not appropriate to treat everyone equally, and if you use it differently, how to judge the value is also inconsistent, and many merchants prefer to use the way of bartering goods. And different goods have different values in different regions......"

"Coupled with the different tax rates you have set for different goods, this is simply too much to calculate."

Li Yi was very upset by this group of people, and said depressedly: "Didn't you say it last time? Hebei wants to gradually unify the currency......"

Before he finished speaking, Guo Yuan also complained: "My lord, you said that the issue of unified currency also involves a lot!" First of all, there is the problem of gold and silver stocks, which are too small to mint enough gold and silver coins. What's more, to mint so many gold and silver coins, the labor required is also quite large, and now Jizhou is in ruins, and there is a shortage of people everywhere, where can there be enough manpower? ”

Li Yi's face also became full of misery.

It's hard to be a master, and it's even harder to be a master who wants to do something. In order to recuperate, of course, we must not just store grain, but also truly rejuvenate all wastes and create a framework and a rudimentary form for the future system.

In order to ensure the benefits of the participants, several basic regulations need to be determined, such as industrial patent issues, commercial tax issues, and concepts such as equity, etc.

Li Yi doesn't plan to establish a sound system, but although the sparrow is small, it has all the necessary things.

I thought that these embryonic policies were simple, but once they were implemented, there were many problems. For example, if you want to improve the commercial tax system, you must first unify the currency; If you want to unify the currency, you have to have a large reserve of precious metals; Although Li Yi also has relevant ideas for this, his ideas have also been designed to deal with the problems of naval construction and shipbuilding.

These questions are simple to say, but there are too many layers involved, and they go around and around, not only confusing Zhong Miao and other internal affairs ministers, but even Li Yi himself is dizzy.

"Okay, let's talk about it one by one......" Li Yi reluctantly glanced at Jicheng, and continued the meeting with a group of subordinates.

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Li Yi did not plan to use gunpowder in large quantities, nor did he plan to manufacture steam engines, so Hebei's equipment technology did not enter the era of hot weapons.

However, I have to say that with Li Yi's various technologies exchanged through the summoning system, Hebei's weapon technology is ahead of the times.

However, if you want to make a sophisticated weapon, you can't just rely on technological leadership. The quality of the equipment is the foundation of Seiko building. The material naturally needs to be used sufficiently, and when it is built, it is also tempered, rather than being softened with fire and then formed by smashing a few hammers.

Seiko is meticulous, and the cost of materials and labor is naturally very high. Even if the income of the Li Chamber of Commerce is amazing, the Northern Xinjiang Army is still in a state of making ends meet.

Of course, the harvest is not without it, and the expansion of territory and population is the most valuable wealth. But it takes time, a lot of time, to digest the spoils. The way it is digested also plays an important role.

Li Yi's original plan was to do it in one step, so he put forward a lot of ideas and stuffed them into the staff, but now he finds that he can't do it quickly, and his expectations for the staff are too high.

After all, some ideas are cross-generational, and ideas can be implemented in one step. But without the precipitation of time, those processes in the middle cannot be crossed at once.

Li Yi looked at everyone and concluded: "The current problems are summarized in three aspects: First, in terms of industrial production, the biggest problem is the lack of talents. There are no people above who know how to do it and are good at organizing to preside over the overall situation, and there is a shortage of craftsmen at the grassroots level......"

Zhong Miao nodded in agreement: "The lord is wise." ”

"It should be easier for the person in charge of the overall situation to solve it, and the lack of craftsmen is a bit troublesome." Li Yi frowned.

Zhong Xuan raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile: "Lord, could it be that there are also masters of this way on your list?" ”

When this topic was mentioned, everyone became interested, forgot all kinds of troubles for the time being, and looked at Li Yi with their eyes to hear how he answered.

"You can say the same thing." Li Yi nodded noncommittally, yes, of course there is, isn't Huang Yueying a master of this way? The question is whether people can come or not, and even if they come, they are inevitably too young to be useful at all.

"I'll solve this problem, and I'll get you people when I get back." Li Yi clapped his hands and said relaxedly. The real Eastern Han Dynasty does not have suitable talents for the time being, and it seems that he has to open up and summon through the summoning system. Who are the inventors who are good at military inventions in history? Li Yi's mind began to spin.

"Uh...... That's fine. When the people saw that the lord had taken this matter away, they were relieved. Although the lord did not specify who to find, the lord never let them down.

"As for the lack of craftsmen, there is no other way but to increase efforts to recruit, and now there are 30 million people in northern Xinjiang, among which there is definitely no shortage of skilled craftsmen." Li Yi said while pondering, "However, this method is relatively passive, it is not enough to count on this, you have to take the initiative to try it." My idea is that, on the one hand, we should recruit a wide range of apprentices to join the workshop, divide the levels within the workshop, improve the salary, and promote the apprentices to learn diligently; On the other hand, in addition to the Yenching University Hall, a technical branch is set up to specialize in learning and further studies of various crafts and technologies. ”

"......" was silent, and everyone was stunned by Li Yi's whimsical idea.

Opened a college to teach technology? What to teach? How to teach? Hebei is currently most lacking in blacksmiths, to build weapons, armor, agricultural tools, you have to rely on blacksmiths, set up a academy to teach blacksmiths? A tinkling hammer in the churchhouse?

"Where did you think of this?" As soon as he saw the expressions of the people, Li Yi knew what these people were thinking, and said angrily, "Forging is practice, just teach it in the workshop." The academy teaches theories, such as how to build better machinery, make better use of waterwheels, how to increase the temperature of furnaces, improve the efficiency of smelting, and so on. ”

Li Yi doesn't plan to do too many things that are ahead of his time, but he might as well popularize basic physics knowledge. Perhaps it should not be said that it is popular, but that it is inductive.

The technical level of the Han Dynasty was not lower than that of the Tang Dynasty.

It can be said that the Chinese civilization has reached a peak during the Han Dynasty. Later, starting from the Western Jin Dynasty, China experienced a period of hundreds of years of Wuhu Rebellion, the culture and technology of the Central Plains once regressed significantly, and until the Sui Dynasty unified the Central Plains, it slowly began to recover, and in the Tang Dynasty, it began to enter the glorious period again.

Although the following five dynasties and ten kingdoms experienced wars, the alien races did not enter the Central Plains, so the Chinese culture and technology reached its peak in the Song Dynasty.

The merchant ships of the Tang and Song dynasties were able to travel to and from the South China Sea and go to Persia, which was not much different from the navigation skills of Zheng He in the Ming Dynasty when he went to the West. The big yellow crossbow of the Han Dynasty and the divine arm bow of the Song Dynasty are also not much different in performance, and the same is true for the horse sword and the Mo knife.

Compared with later generations, the only thing that has not changed in the Han Dynasty is the contempt for craftsmen and the self-cherishing of craftsmen among themselves.

Li Yi plans to use the name of writing books and establishing schools to attract those famous craftsmen hidden in the people, and also attract those masters who have been recruited to contribute their treasured skills. Then, in the way of teaching, mixed with a set of basic physical theories, it is thoroughly promoted.

Of course, in order to do this, patent law is a must. The promotion of this bill will require some effort from the people under him. (To be continued.) )