Chapter 6709 Technology Diffusion

Chapter 6709 Technology Diffusion

As the school principal, Kong Rong actually had no other choice. It was fine for other things, but he really had no good solution for this matter. If it were just one or two families, Kong Rong would still be able to swallow his pride and do some magical things, but since all the famous wealthy families were like this, Kong Rong was completely numb.

To put it bluntly, the family of Confucius has been passed down for twenty generations to the time of Kong Rong. This year has seen the most powerful figures come, and each of them was very tough when they came to the door, showing the unique demeanor of the powerful. To put it simply, Old Kong, I won't say anything extra, I'll drink this glass of wine.

Damn, after seeing one or two people like this, Kong Rong agreed. After all, the one who dared to come to this door and say this was an absolute figure. Either he had mastered the relationship knowledge, or he had full hard power, or he had special communication skills. The problem was that they were all like this, what a joke.

Just run away. This job can't be done. Whoever can do it can do it. I recommend the most famous scholar among famous scholars, my brother Liu Yan, Liu Weishuo. Only he can do this.

Kong Rong just left a letter of recommendation and ran away. If it was just Kong Rong who ran away, it would not be a big deal and he could just continue to bother the newly appointed Liu Yan. Isn't that what the relationship science is all about? There's nothing to be afraid of. But the outrageous thing about Kong Rong was that when he ran away, he took some of the outstanding students from the university with him.

Yuan Yang was furious when he received the news, and now he was just about to issue a hunt down Kong Rong.

After all, Kong Rong died, and it didn't matter if he died abroad, but you took away the technical talents we needed. Where did you come from, you beast? Is this what the saint taught you?

"So, how many students did Kong Changshi blackmail?" Chen Xi asked curiously. Chen Xi also paid some attention to the university, but his energy was limited and he had to do it intermittently, mainly relying on others to keep an eye on it. Chen Xi only found out about it recently when something big happened, but he didn't know the exact number.

In the sixth year of Yuanfeng, it was agreed that 29 professional and technical universities would be established, with all the major families and the government contributing manpower and resources, 28 would be established locally, and the elites would be selected and gathered in Chang'an for more advanced technical training.

In other words, the 28 local vocational and technical schools train entry-level workers, while the one at Changan trains technical talents towards becoming engineers.

In order to train this group of people well, Chen Xi even made up his mind to get a few god-level guys from Bingzhou Smelting Company, Yellow River Water Conservancy Forging Plant, Donglai Shipyard and other places to give lectures to this group of people every year. All of them are powerful people with spiritual talents.

Even courses like numerology and physics were taught by big names invited from the Imperial College. If we really want to talk about the level of both sides, although the university has one less teacher than the Imperial College, and there is a slight gap in the social status of the teachers on both sides, but if we talk about the status of both sides in their respective industries, they are actually at the same level.

For this reason, when Liu Tong came to inspect and wrote the inscription as the part-time principal, if Chen Xi hadn't been watching, this guy would have probably written the four words "Hongdumenxue" (Hongdu Gate Learning). It has to be said that sometimes women do things on a momentary basis.

Chen Xi was helpless about this. Even though it was a professional and technical college, all the major families and Kong Rong knew that this was the Hongdu School that emerged from the ground. However, considering the interests, they basically accepted it. However, if they attacked in a frontal manner, both sides would be embarrassed.

But that was the only time. After that, Liu Tong behaved much more normally and did not cause any trouble. Chang'an University continued to operate peacefully until this year, when the first batch of engineers who probably had the hands-on skills and knowledge reserves of high school students in the early 1960s appeared. Then, it became what it is now.

"We took away about two hundred technicians engaged in animal husbandry, covering all disciplines including pharmacy, veterinary medicine, epidemic prevention, quarantine, breeding, feed, training, and management. We also took away more than two hundred technicians related to grain and forage, as well as a small number of people in smelting, mechanical equipment, prospecting, etc. In total, there are more than six hundred people." Zhuge Liang had also finished the work at hand at this time and said calmly.

"No wonder I heard that Yuan Yang issued a hunting order in private, I thought it was a joke." Guo Jia said with some sarcasm. If Guo Jia was in Yuan Yang's position, he would also have to issue a hunting order and try every means to catch the people taken away by Kong Rong.

"Has a hunt order been issued?" Chen Xi frowned. This was too arrogant.

"The Yuan family paid me a title first." Man Chong said expressionlessly. This was why Man Chong had no choice but to verbally warn them not to go too far. The Yuan family was ready to pay for their crime, so there was nothing to say. Just watch them fight.

"This is too direct. Isn't it a bit bad? It's damaging to the national dignity." Li You smacked his lips twice. He felt that letting Yuan Yang do this, and doing it in Chang'an, was a bit too much. Does the country still have any face? Why are you doing this?
"They are marquises," Chen Xi said helplessly. "Besides, they don't affect people's livelihood. Let them solve the conflicts between the noble families themselves. Hunt them down if you want. From a certain perspective, Kong Changshi did go too far."

Yuan Yang has been hit by an iron fist recently. Although the Yuan family's iron fist came from Rome and the Yang family's iron fist came from the locust sky, the result is the same. Both of them need to engage in animal husbandry.

As for animal husbandry, let's not talk about the Yuan family. They were the first family to engage in large-scale animal husbandry, and they showed other families how to grow a million-level pasture to two hundred thousand, completely eliminating the other families' unnecessary ideas. The Yang family was thinking about the emergence of this wave of professional talents, and to the north of them was the Turan grassland, so no matter how crazy the Xiliang people were, they would not prohibit them from grazing.

As for the Qiang people who are also in the Turan grassland, if you have the guts, come and rob me. I'm not afraid of anything. So the Yang family's animal husbandry plan was put on the agenda. After suffering a wave of iron fists from the locust sky, the Yang family decided to pay attention to both agriculture and animal husbandry.

Of course, the most important thing is that after this wave of locusts, there are no rebels at all in the Yang family's territory, only their own people. As for the two Cuis and the Yuan family of Chenjun, they are all licking their wounds and have no time to make trouble for the old Yang family. Of course, they have to take advantage of this "post-war" period to develop themselves.

In addition, what was exposed by the three families in the Persian Gulf has made the aristocratic families still active in Central Asia feel somewhat uneasy. Far-sighted wealthy families like the Yang family have already begun to prepare for the subsequent problems facing Rome. If they want to fight Rome, they will have to use cavalry!
By the way, there have been many rumors in private recently that the Yang family called the Runan Yuan family bastards and ungrateful to their ancestors. The Yuan family was very angry about this, but it was of no use. The Yuan family did accept the reward from Rome and was still farming for Rome recently. The Yang family cursed very fiercely, so the Yuan family decided to get a marquisate themselves to kill Kong Rong, and expose all the animal husbandry personnel and seed technicians and blacklist them.

That’s right, the Yuan family is also planning to rob each other by dividing the people. How can that limited number of people replicate a large ranch from afar?

To fight Rome, strength is the most important thing, and the king of the army these days is undoubtedly the cavalry. Well, even if Eastern Europe is a plain and chariots can be used to fight, they still have to go to pastures, and chariots need cattle and horses, and pastures are not easy to manage. It is difficult to cultivate a ranch of one million to two hundred thousand people. This is something Yuan Tan has experienced personally, so technical talents are necessary.

Even with a character as amazing as Zhang Chunhua, she alone with dozens of technicians cannot manage a million-level ranch, not to mention that Zhang Chunhua is pregnant and is due this winter. Considering that Zhang Chunhua's spiritual talent will be basically zero in the next three years, the Yuan family has to rely on 35 professional technicians who are capable of running a large ranch with more than 300 makeshift manpower.

Considering that the last time a similar configuration was used to destroy the Yuan family’s ranch, Yuan Tan is now very panicked. They really need those more than 200 professional livestock technical talents.

By the way, Zhang Chunhua was very outrageous. She became pregnant at the beginning of the year, but she had no reaction at all. Vomiting, fatigue, drowsiness, and edema did not appear on Zhang Chunhua. Instead, her appetite increased, her skin became better, and her mental talent did not change much.

She ate well and slept well every day. In the middle of the year, when the locusts were being dealt with, Zhang Chunhua suddenly found that her waist had become rounder. She thought she had gained weight. She returned to Sizhao City and met Wen Shi. She complained to her, and Wen Shi was stunned. As someone who had given birth to a child, she could tell at a glance that Zhang Chunhua was pregnant, and it was almost five months. However, Zhang Chunhua herself didn't feel anything at all.

At that time, Zhang Chunhua retorted, saying that her teacher was Doctor Ji, who taught her not only psychology and incantations, but also a lot of medical skills. She should not underestimate herself, as her medical skills might be ranked among the top 300 in the world. Now, after treating a large number of livestock, her medical skills might even be ranked among the top 200.

In short, Zhang Chunhua was very arrogant, then she took her own pulse and fell into silence. Damn, it’s been five months!

Then the most important technical backbone of Yuanjia Ranch went on strike and went back to take care of the pregnancy.

I'm already five months pregnant, why am I still working? What am I supposed to do? Of course I'm going home to take care of the baby. I'm following the instructions in the book. The book says I need to rest more recently, so I'm going home to rest.
Not only could the Yuan family not make any comments about this, they also had to quickly send Zhang Chunhua a lot of health-enhancing things. Although Zhang Chunhua thought that my physique was so excellent that I didn't need any health-enhancing things at all, the Yuan family still took care of her. Wen even sent all the people who had taken care of her at that time.

In short, the Yuan family's animal husbandry team has collapsed. The development in the past two years was entirely due to Zhang Chunhua's ability to understand the needs of all living things. Now that the super-powered cadre Zhang Chunhua has gone to take care of her pregnancy, the Yuan family's animal husbandry has been directly reduced to its original state, and it can basically be said to have died suddenly.

The original plan of Yuanfeng restoring the scale to one million in ten years and recreating the second and third ranches in the eleventh year of Yuanfeng was like a dead end on the spot. Now there is no need to replicate the second and third ranches, but only to quickly recruit a wave of professional and technical personnel to help stabilize the scale of one million. If the manpower is not in place, let alone the loss of 200,000 people like in the past, the loss of half of them will not be a big problem.

The family is wealthy, but the furry ones don't count. The animal husbandry industry is just so outrageous. Logically speaking, with the essence of heaven and earth, the animals should have stronger disease resistance and be less likely to die, but God knows why the polarization is so serious. Half of them die after a wave of epidemic, and they even have to thank God for their protection.

So the Yuan family is now vigorously searching for Kong Rong. What is the descendant of a saint? Is this what the saint taught? The Yuan family deeply suspected that Kong Rong was a mutant.

"Come to think of it, the Kong family didn't have any fiefdoms, so why did they take those people away?" Jiang Wan asked in confusion, "If there were no fiefdoms, there would be no way to use all these professionals. It would be better to give them to those who need them, and it would be a good thing."

"There is a fiefdom." Chen Xi said with a curled lip. Jiang Wan's words reminded Chen Xi that the people Kong Rong had taken away might have been shipped to New Zealand. No wonder they were all in agriculture and animal husbandry, with only a small number of mining, smelting and mechanical equipment engineers.

Those families that passed down moral traditions and were not very good at fighting went to New Zealand in a group. The Kong family was considered among this group of weaklings at that time, but the Kong family did not have many people at the moment, and Kong Rong had been in the country all the time, so Chen Xi was not sure whether this group of people went or not. Now, the eldest brother-in-law is really snatching food from the tiger's mouth, which is very courageous.

But think about the distance between the Yuan family and New Zealand, which is about 20,000 to 30,000 kilometers. Even if the Yuan family is extremely powerful, there is nothing they can do when faced with this situation.

As for really killing Kong Rong, how is that possible? Chasing is hunting, and putting a knife on the neck is just putting a knife on the neck. The title on Man Chong's side is just to create pressure on Kong Rong and deter him. But if you really kill Kong Rong, what's the point of having a technician? The technicians' beloved vice president was killed by you! These days, people really talk about heaven, earth, the emperor, parents, and teachers.

Liu Tong, the so-called principal, only comes a few times a year and doesn't teach anything. He is just a mascot with no sense of existence. Kong Rong, as the vice-principal, basically shoulders everything. All year round, at least he is hanging around in front of the students, helping them deal with various matters. If all else fails, he can get some food and drinks from the palace kitchen to improve students' favorability.

Over the years, even if not much was taught, the students acknowledged Kong Rong as their teacher. After all, he did try his best to solve a bunch of problems. In this case, if the Yuan family really killed Kong Rong, then they would not have any hope for manpower related to animal husbandry, let alone anything else.

"Forget it. Leave them alone. Kong Ming, you just need to take inventory of the people we have on hand. Their level can be a little lower, but the number cannot be less." After going through these things in Chen Xi's mind, Chen Xi looked at Zhuge Liang and reminded him that no matter how high or low their level is, as long as they can graduate, they are employable talents. The gap in ability is more related to future development and does not affect Chen Xi's progress.

The advancement of science and technology may be the result of a flash of inspiration from some bigwigs, but the advancement of the industrial system requires a large group of educated backbones to move forward. Illiterate people? In this process, they are not even considered as primary consumables of the industrial process. They can only be classified as firewood, which is roughly equivalent to the coal used in blast furnaces, and the quality is not very good.

Generally speaking, it takes one or two hundred years for a genius's flash of inspiration to be implemented on industrial workers and realized, unless the other party is not a genius. So Chen Xi is not in a hurry at all. What he wants are industrial workers, as long as they can be used. As for the talents carefully selected by the major families, even if they have been trained with great effort, when the time comes to put them on the industrial level, won't they still have to come to Chen Xi?
To be honest, judging from the things that the major families are playing with now, if Chen Xi does not provide some protection, the Han Dynasty’s industries will rush in and kill them to death.

Therefore, Chen Xi has always been patient, because even if the major families can produce extraordinary talents, the technology will eventually fall into the hands of the Han Dynasty before it can be realized. Unless the large families are willing to hold on to the technology and wait for the neighboring families to develop it, they will eventually be forced to compete with each other to see who can give it to the Han Dynasty first.

Anyway, Chen Xi firmly believes in the ability of these families to influence the mentality of their comrades. Chen Xi has no confidence in future generations as to whether the Han Dynasty can figure out the trump cards of the large families, but Chen Xi firmly believes that other large families will definitely be able to figure it out.

Once this kind of thing is found, of course you have to sell it away. After all, it is not yours. If you can get a lot of benefits in exchange, of course you will take it away.

Of course, if the Han family could be consistent, then it could be guaranteed that the secret would not be leaked. The problem is that if the Han family could be consistent, humans would have already rushed out of the Earth and headed for alien planets. What's the point of talking about this?

So just pick and choose whatever you want, Chen Xi doesn’t care at all!

"I have already recruited the manpower. Large state-owned factories, mines and workshops from all over the country have sent people to connect with us. Moreover, these people were sent to these places to gain experience at the beginning of the year. Although no documents have been signed, most people should have already made up their minds." Zhuge Liang said calmly. In this respect, Zhuge Liang is much more capable than Chen Xi.

"That's fine." Chen Xi nodded when he heard that, then looked at Guo Jia. Guo Jia sighed and handed the information he had collected from the Kushan Smelting Bureau to Chen Xi.

The blast furnace technology of the Han Dynasty has been completely exposed by now. Both the Kushan and the Romans have developed it. Chen Xi spoke very arrogantly when facing Liu Bei, but turned around and found Guo Jia, asking him to call on professionals to evaluate the level of the Kushan's blast furnace smelting technology.

As for Rome, did Rome still use spies? Not to mention the Duke of the Eastern European Border County sending people to inspect the Italian Smelting Department. Rome was able to enter the Han Dynasty Smelting Department, so it wouldn't be a big problem for the Han Dynasty to send someone to Rome to take a look. Respect is mutual, right?

However, judging from the intelligence Guo Jia has collected from the Kushans, the Kushans have already broken through a lot of technical barriers and have made much more rapid progress than Rome. It should be said that the Brahmans' technical division of labor is indeed quite capable, and they already have considerable experience in steel casting, which can now be realized.

"They're all using coke." Chen Xi looked at the secret mirror that Guo Jia handed to him. It was a recording of the situation at the Kushan Smelting Department. They were no longer using coal, but the same coke as the Han Dynasty.

"How did the technology leak out? Have you verified it?" Chen Xi looked at Guo Jia and Fa Zheng and asked.

"You may not believe it, but the Kushans really did get some coke and then piled it up themselves." Guo Jia said helplessly.

It would be fine if the technology was really leaked from the technical staff of the Han Dynasty, but Guo Jia and Fa Zheng checked it carefully, and compared it with the results from Xun Qi, and finally confirmed that this thing was really cracked by the Kushans after they obtained the actual coke. There is no way to do this, because coke is impossible to block because of the huge amount used.

Chen Xi was silent for a while, with a look of helplessness on his face. It was said that traditional coking was extremely difficult, especially in those days when there were no mechanical equipment. The separation of gangue and clean coal in the coal washing process alone was an outrageous physical job. Considering the huge amount of coal consumed by traditional coking, the manpower demand alone was enough to make the Kushans suffer.

However, even if the Kushans could handle the above, the actual coking process would be fatal. Well, fatal in the physical sense. Not to mention the third century, even in the 20th century, people would be burned to death, poisoned to death, smoked to death, or even exploded to death by traditional coking methods...

Well, he probably won't be killed by the explosion this time, but being burned to death, poisoned to death, or suffocated to death is too normal. Especially when this thing kills people, they don't even feel it, they just become dizzy, and their life is over. In short, it's very outrageous.

As a result, with such an outrageous difficulty, the neighbor got the real coke, and then used coal to replicate it and actually made it. Chen Xi found it a bit outrageous.

It is said that the verification process of coking alone would require the deaths of at least a thousand people to figure out, and considering that the Kushans are currently using coke, they must have opened several lines for verification. Chen Xi didn't dare to imagine how many people would have died.

"Dead." Fa Zheng's face became quite gloomy. Even though he didn't care much about human life, let alone non-citizens of his country, after seeing this accurate information, Fa Zheng was still extremely shocked by the Brahmin system.

From the time Vasudeva I obtained the actual coke and asked the Brahmins to do reverse engineering to come up with the complete technology, a total of more than 7,000 Brahmin varnas died. That is, the people of the Vaishya caste who were blacksmiths. There was no technical content, but they just piled human lives in groups and finally piled out a path.

"More than 7,000 blacksmiths died in the Brahman reverse engineering." Guo Jia also said with some emotion, "Many blacksmith families have been wiped out because of this."

Chen Xi's expression was somewhat bad. Although he knew that the Brahmin was a pervert, to be perverted to this extent was indeed somewhat inhumane. Even Chen Xi didn't know how to describe it.

“Forget it. If we really pile it up like this, those small technologies behind will not be able to stop us.” Chen Xi sighed. It was fortunate that the people at the Iron-Carbon Phase Diagram could not compile it in hundreds of years. Otherwise, Chen Xi would have to consider whether his internal circulation would lead to the rise of the other two empires.

There is no way, war is indeed an important factor in promoting technological progress.

Zhang Chunhua's story is a true story. It proves that people's physiques are completely different. I am convinced.