Xuande

Chapter 291 Principles of Technical Secrecy

This mutual market lasted a total of five days, and both the Liangzhou government and Shaodangqiang achieved satisfactory results.

Judging from the results, the most purchased salt from Shaodangqiang is Liangzhou fine salt.

In addition to the three thousand catties of fine salt agreed by the two parties for free, they also bought a larger amount of fine salt, so they bought a large amount of fine salt by themselves, as if they were afraid that they would not be enough in the future. Buy out the current inventory of the entire Liangzhou state capital.

On the other hand, the Liangzhou government bought a lot of live livestock, especially good-quality horses. The Liangzhou government also bought a lot to make up for the government's demand for horses.

The exchange of salt for horses has also become a tacit understanding between the Liangzhou government and Shaodangqiang.

During the mutual market transactions, everyone upholds the principle of mutual benefit and discounts the purchase transactions of bulk commodities to a certain extent. They all give in to each other, save face, and accumulate a little human relationship, which may come in handy in the future.

After the first mutual market was a complete success, Liu Bei had a drink with several leading figures in Shaodangqiang.

Everyone had a meal of roasted mutton together, talking and laughing happily, and Liu Bei also talked to them with a few Qiang dialects he had just learned, which surprised them very much.

In the end, the two parties agreed that such a mutual market would be conducted twice a year. If there was any temporary need, Naduo and Liu Bei would contact directly, and the highest level of the two parties would directly communicate with each other to solve the problem in the fastest and most convenient way, saving a lot of trouble.

This exchange is considered a victory.

Liu Bei fulfilled his promise, and Shao Dangqiang also fulfilled their promise. The two sides had a very pleasant cooperation, and the future cooperation must be able to continue.

After finishing the business in Jincheng County, Liu Bei went directly to Wuwei County and inspected the restarted mining work at the new coal mine site in Wuwei County. He was quite satisfied with the new management model.

The new manager of the coal mine workshop is Chen Jun, a former member of the Secretary Department of the Ministry of General Affairs. According to Liu Bei's request, he set the daily working time limit, rest time limit, three meals a day and monthly wages for the mining workers. the rule of.

Compared with the time when I was a slave before, the treatment of being a worker now is completely different.

Liu Bei liquidated the county officials after the former Wuwei prefect ran away, strictly investigated their past behavior, found two-thirds of them had illegal and criminal acts, and punished them all.

The officials who directly participated in the previous miner incident were severely questioned, two main responsible officials were killed, and thirteen murderers were also killed.

The resentment of the local people after being suppressed by the government was also calmed down after the government gave compensation and liquidated the offenders and servants. work, and there is no food left at home.

As a result, the experienced mining workers quickly returned to work and restarted the mining work that had been delayed for a long time.

Carloads of coal mines were transported to the coal factory for processing, and at Liu Bei's request, the original pressed briquettes were drilled many holes and turned into honeycomb briquettes, and then transported to places where they were needed for processing. use.

Most of the raw materials for boiling salt and smelting iron are locally mined coal, which reduces fuel costs.

In terms of iron smelting, iron mines have been discovered and mined in several counties in Liangzhou, including Wuwei County, Hanyang County, and Longxi County and Jincheng County.

There are iron-smelting institutions in these places, but after the war, many of them were abandoned.

After Liu Bei's reorganization, he brought them all under the jurisdiction of the artisans in the Liangzhou State Mufu, carried out unified production, and gave them the titles of the first iron smelting workshop and the second iron smelting workshop, and made important adjustments to the main smelting workshops. Iron mode was improved.

In the middle and late Western Han Dynasty, the method of frying steel began to appear in China, and the subsequent steelmaking technology also began to appear.

However, there are still some defects in the steel frying method and steelmaking technology. For example, the steel frying process is complicated and difficult to master, while steelmaking is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and a lot of useless work has been done during forging. Forged into eight.

Of course, despite this, these technological products can only be enjoyed by high-level people, and they are definitely not popularized to the point where ordinary people can enjoy them.

There is always a gap between the emergence of new technical methods and their complete popularization in every corner.

In the core developed areas of the Central Plains, various technologies are relatively advanced and popularized. Where there is a technological innovation, as long as it is not deliberately hidden, due to the convenient transportation, it will be spread within a few years.

In remote areas, due to the inconvenient transportation and the de facto semi-independent tendency of local governments, remote areas cannot enjoy the benefits of technological innovation, and even use the technology of the previous era.

In developed areas, cattle can be used for plowing and columbine carts. The farms of wealthy and powerful households can use useful iron farm tools for farmers, while some farms in remote areas can only use wooden farm tools, which takes more energy and time to complete simple farm tools. agricultural production.

That's how the gap widened.

The same is true of agriculture, and so is industrial technology. In the core developed areas of the Central Plains in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the original form of pouring steel method even appeared due to the long-term technical summary of the frying steel method, and blacksmiths in remote areas even used the block smelting method to make steel.

Due to the war, the Liangzhou area has suffered serious agricultural waste, but ironmaking technology has been popularized relatively well.

A considerable number of the blacksmiths that Liu Bei recruited after the war had mastered the method of frying steel, and even because of the once-developed foreign trade routes, some blacksmiths passed down the smelting technology from certain countries in the Western Regions.

However, the technology mastered by these blacksmiths is still far from the technology mastered by the blacksmiths brought by Liu Bei from his hometown in Youzhou.

Because the blacksmiths trained by Liu Bei in his hometown in Youzhou have basically mastered the essence of the steel pouring method. Although Liu Bei cannot judge how far this technology has come from an unprofessional perspective, such things as steel making are in his blacksmith system. never happened.

After the blacksmiths from their hometown in Youzhou mastered the essence of the steel pouring method, they even tossed out the double liquid quenching method, which made the forging process after steelmaking more refined, and the quality of the steel used to make weapons was very high.

But because of Liu Bei's strict principle of technical confidentiality, they have never communicated with the outside world.

Others don't know about secrecy, but Liu Bei attaches great importance to things like technology, and the principle of secrecy was developed very early.

He gave good treatment to those blacksmiths under his command who had excellent skills, and took good care of their families. The requirement for this was that they could not contact the outside world at will, and they had to keep their core technology secret and never spread it to the outside world.

These technicians and their family members all live in a fixed area of ​​Liu's Manor, and iron nameplates are required to enter and exit, and special personnel are responsible for the procurement of materials, so as to keep them secret.

At least before Liu Bei reached the pinnacle of power, this kind of physical secrecy was necessary. He didn't want the advanced technology he had spent so much money and resources to be easily taken away by others. That would be too bad.

Like the salt-making and filtration technology, the Guangang method is also a technology that Liu Bei focuses on keeping secret. Even Liu Hui and his intelligence department were first born, part of the reason is to keep the technology secret, secretly monitor and protect the advanced technology. Craftsman of technology.

Although Liu Bei is not too worried about leaking secrets given the contemptuous attitude of people in this era towards technology, but the work that should be done must be done properly, and the attitude of doing things as best as possible is necessary.

They can ignore it, but I can't have the principle of confidentiality.

(End of this chapter)