Da Qin: Comparing his sons, Ying Zheng was sour.

Under the canopy, after Qin Emperor Ying Zheng saw the pedal-operated loom, he immediately turned to look at the Mohist Prime Minister Li Ji behind him.

Xiangliji also seemed to see what the First Emperor wanted to ask him, and immediately nodded and affirmed:

"no problem!"

"There was no problem in making the foot-operated loom on the canopy!"

"The minister can make it immediately and give it to the spinning woman to test it out."

"As long as there are no problems with the spinning woman's test feedback, in five days at most, I can lead a group of Mohist disciples and craftsmen to start mass-producing pedal-operated looms that are exactly the same as those on the canopy!"

For Xiangliji, the production of a foot-operated loom on the canopy is also something that is not difficult.

The reason why a foot-operated loom has not been produced before is not because of technical inability, but because of the lack of technical ability. It 's because of the unexpected thinking.

Even if Xiang Liji didn't see the specific structure of the foot-operated loom on the canopy, if you asked him to transform the current hand-operated loom into a foot-operated loom.

After receiving specific needs, Xiang Liji and other Mohist disciples can also explore and make a foot-operated loom similar to the one on the canopy!

Not even a foot-operated loom, as long as it still belongs to traditional handicrafts, woodworking, Manufacturing products in the mechanical category are not very technically difficult for the Mohists. What really limits the creativity of these Mohists is not technical issues, but thinking issues.

Sometimes, imagination is more important than hands-on problems. Ability is more important.

Because if your imagination is strong enough, you can notice what is missing or what can be improved.

Even if you can't do it yourself, at least you can tell your ideas. Other craftsmen can do it, but if your imagination is not strong enough, it will be useless no matter how strong your hands-on skills are, because you can't think of what is missing or what needs to be improved. Naturally, he won't improve or make anything.

In this case, what's the use of having strong hands-on ability?

But then, Xiangliji frowned and said:"Just like what I said before, if you are making something. On the basis of the columbine and the curved shaft plow, if we also manufacture a foot-operated loom"

"Then we must allocate some of our current staff to be responsible for making textile machines."

"Without more manpower, the manufacturing efficiency of columbines and curved plows will have to drop."

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

At the end of the sentence, Xiangli Ji also bowed to the First Emperor.

Before, Xiangli Ji was still worried about whether Prince Fusu would continue to invent other more convenient and beneficial things after he invented the columbine and the curved shaft plow. Utensils.

As a result, Prince Fusu did not invent other utensils that were convenient and beneficial to the people for the time being, but the peasants and their Mohist descendants were very successful in improving the textile looms. It can be said without mercy that the significance and function of the pedal-operated loom is no less than that of the previous columbine and curved shaft plow.

After all, the four most important and inseparable aspects of the daily life of the people in Guizhou are"clothing." , food, shelter, and transportation."

The previous columbine and curved plow affected the"food" aspect of the people in Guizhou.

But now the improved textile loom affects the"clothing" of the people in Guizhou. On the one hand, both are indispensable parts of the daily life of the people in Guizhou.

After all, people will starve to death if they have no food, but they will also die if they have no clothes. They were frozen to death.

Therefore, the pedal-operated textile machine must be included in the production and manufacturing of their Mohist Industry Department, just like the previous columbine and curved shaft plow.

But in this way, the manpower that was previously worried would be reduced. The problem of insufficient manpower will become a real reality.

Hearing Xiangli Ji's words, Emperor Qin Yingzheng couldn't help but frowned.

Although they had briefly discussed the problem of insufficient manpower before, they had also given orders. The Mo family is allowed to recruit an additional three thousand children in the future, but the distant water cannot save the near fire. In the future, the Mo family can have three thousand more children. That is a matter of the future, but it cannot solve the current shortage of the

Mo family. This means that the production speed of columbiners, curved plows, and pedal-operated textile machines will slow down. It also means that Daqin's promotion of columbiners, curved-column plows, and pedal-operated textile machines will be further delayed..

It also means that the days when people in Guizhou all over the world can improve their production efficiency through columbuses, curved shaft plows, and foot-operated looms, so that they can have enough food and clothing, will eventually come one day later. , Da Qin wants to completely make the people of the world, especially the leaders of Guizhou of the six countries, come one day later.

This makes Qin Emperor Yingzheng a little difficult to accept.

After all, he has always wanted to recover as soon as possible. It turns out that the heart of the leaders of the Six Kingdoms prevented the Great Qin in their world from being destroyed!

However, even if he was the first emperor of the Great Qin, he could not conjure up a group of Mohist disciples who knew the skills of craftsmen out of thin air to help make columbiners, plows and plows!

So after thinking about it, Emperor Qin Yingzheng suddenly thought of an anecdote recorded in"Liezi Tang Wen", and looked at Xiangli Ji with expectation :

"I heard that in the past, there was a master Yan who knew how to make puppets, and the puppets he made could sing and dance well."

"I wonder if the Mohists understand this technique?"

"And is it possible to make a doll that can make a columbine, a curved shaft plow, and a pedal-operated loom on its own?"

Qin Emperor Ying Zheng had a very good idea. If the Mohists knew this incredible art of making dolls, then they could let the Mohists make these dolls in large quantities.

Then let these dolls be responsible for making columbians, chariots, and musical instruments. There is no need to worry about the shortage of craftsmen such as shaft plows and pedal-operated looms.

Even if the Mo family can change these dolls into dolls that know how to march and fight, he will be able to make more in an instant.

If he can produce a large number of war machines that are not afraid of life and death, and do not need food, drink, or rewards, then who else in the world can resist his Great Qin? Destroy!

Faced with the unreasonable request made by the First Emperor, Party A, Xiangli Ji rolled his eyes and said unceremoniously:

"Your Majesty, I have also read"Liezi·Tang Wen"!"

"However, what is recorded in Liezi Tangwen is folklore and mythology, not true!"

"Even if it is true, I and other descendants of the Mo family are just ordinary people and do not know such magical skills!"

As the earliest man in science and engineering, Xiang Liji is also very frank and direct.

Things that can be done can be done, and things that cannot be done can't be done.

He will never make random promises just for the sake of vanity and face. Unreasonable requests.

After all, if you reject some unreasonable requests directly from the beginning, although Party A may be angry, it will only kill you.

But if you know that you can't do it, but still agree in the end, If you really can't do it in the end, then not only will you die, but your whole family and the entire clan may die.

After all, Xiang Liji and other Mo family disciples are facing Party A, who wants to unify the world and dominate Yunei. And Ying Zheng, the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, who decided the life and death of tens of thousands of people!

Faced with such a terrifying Party A, Xiangli Ji would not casually agree to some unreasonable demands made by the First Emperor even if his brain was kicked by a donkey.

Xiangli Ji directly and ruthlessly rejected them. Although Emperor Qin Yingzheng was a little disappointed, he was not angry. He was always very tolerant of capable people, and Xiang Liji and the Qin family behind him were very capable.

Emperor Yingzheng also counted on Xiangli Ji and other Mohist disciples to make him a columbine, a curved shaft plow and a pedal spinning wheel, so he couldn't blame Xiangli Ji even more when he looked at the disappointed look of the First Emperor and then thought about the First Emperor. Faced with the ever-increasing workload of waiting for the Mohist disciples, Xiangli Ji thought about it, and finally reluctantly said:

"Your Majesty can try to recruit the Gongshu family. Their family also specializes in the art of making equipment."

"His skills are slightly inferior to those of our Mohist Xiangli family."

"His Majesty can recruit them to jointly make columbians, curved shaft plows and pedal spinning wheels."

"If they join in to help us, not only will we not have to slow down the speed of making columbines, curved shaft plows and pedal spinning wheels, we can even speed up."

Gongshu's ancestor was Gongshu Ban, also known as Gongshuzi, Gongshupan, Banshu, Luban, etc. He was a top craftsman in the past who was as famous as Mozi, the Mohist school.

After Luban, his descendants It also gradually became a family that specialized in craftsmanship.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, if any family's craftsmanship could be compared with that of the Mohist family, then there was and only the Gongshu family. The relationship between the two clans was not good, and it could even be said that there were conflicts.

The reason was that the Chu State wanted to attack the Song State and invited Lu Ban to make siege equipment for the Chu State, and Mozi, the Mohist family, heard about it. After that, he traveled thousands of miles from Lu Xing for ten days and ten nights to the capital of Chu State, Ying, where he argued with Lu Ban and the King of Chu, and finally persuaded the King of Chu to stop attacking the Song Dynasty.

Of course, the so-called debate was actually an attack between Lu Ban and Mozi. In the competition between the city and the city defense equipment,

Mozi, who finally had the advantage of defending the city, made the King of Chu realize that if the Song Dynasty had the help of the city defense equipment made by the descendants of the Mohist family, even if he could finally attack the Song Dynasty. It also had to pay a huge price, and it was not worth the loss, so he finally gave up attacking Song.

However, in the eyes of outsiders, it was equivalent to Lu Ban's skills, which were not as good as the skills of Mozi, which further damaged Lu Ban's face.

Although Lu Ban himself did not care about this matter, and Mozi also told the Mohist disciples that he was slightly better than Lu Ban because he had the advantage of defending the city.

If the two exchanged identities, Lu Ban would be responsible for defending the city and he would be responsible for attacking the city. If so, it is also unclear whether he can break through the city defended by Lu Ban.

But Lu Ban and Mozi have such broad minds, which does not mean that their descendants also have such broad minds.

At least Gongshu always wanted to do it. The ancestor Lu Ban regained his position, and the way to regain his position was naturally to cause trouble with the Mohist family and compete with the Mohist family again on the level of their skills.

And the children of the Mohist family are not people who accept the situation. After going back and forth, the two sides gradually formed a bond.

If the First Emperor had not arranged too much work for the Mohist disciples, and Xiangli Ji would not have wanted to prevent the people of Guizhou from using the columbine and Quyuan earlier because of the insufficient manpower of his Mohist disciples.

As for plows and treadle looms, then Xiangli Ji would never recommend Gongshu clan to the First Emperor, and Emperor Qin Yingzheng's eyes lit up when he heard Xiangli Ji recommending Gongshu clan.

, he also forgot that there is a family like Gongshu who is good at craftsmanship.

If the Gongshu clan can be recruited into Xianyang, it will at least relieve the current shortage of craftsmen in the Mo family.

Thinking of this, Emperor Qin Yingzheng immediately looked aside. Li Si, the Tingwei, said:

"Li Qing, after the curtain of heaven passes, I will order Duke Zhao to send your family to Xianyang!"

As he spoke, there was no room for the Gongshu family to refuse.

After all, the Gongshu family was not as irreplaceable as the children of the peasant family, and at the same time, they were not like the children of the Mohist family who entered Xianyang early and made great contributions to Qin's unification of the world.

So. Emperor Qin Yingzheng's level of respect and courtesy for the Gongshu family was naturally not as good as that of farmers' children and Mohists' children.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Li Si immediately bowed and responded.