Volume 1 Jiangdong Fengyun Chapter 17 Ideal
When Bai Tu walked out of the county magistrate's office in a dilemma, he found Chen Gong waiting for him outside.
Confused, the white picture is very confusing, this is caused by too many choices!
It is impossible to research too advanced technology . For slightly more advanced technology, with the power of Xiaopei City, it may take several years to produce results. Bai Tu will definitely choose those with extremely high cost performance, such as improved papermaking and movable type printing...
There is no need to worry too much about scientific research at the moment, but Bai Tu has a headache when it comes to military training.
If he asked, with Chen Gong, the brain monster, backing him up, Lu Bu would definitely lend him a group of soldiers temporarily - Bai Tu knew this very well. Although he was a prefect, the entire prefecture was lent to him by Lu Bu's army.
However, the various types of troops completely dazzled Bai Tu, and he was also very conflicted. Troops that were too strong required corresponding technological support, otherwise the equipment would not be able to keep up, and the training cycle would also be long. Troops that were too weak... were no better than ordinary government troops!
Seeing Bai Tu's expression, Chen Gong naturally imagined Bai Tu's dilemma at the moment - he must be thinking about whether or not to give up the idea of living in seclusion.
When Bai Tu saw Chen Gong, he calmed down for the time being and planned to consider other things after efficient papermaking and movable type printing were developed.
"Military Advisor Chen, I have already transferred the necessary manpower and food supplies to the military camp... As for the remaining manpower, I have arranged some corvée labor for them," said Bai Tu.
"Mr. Bai, you don't need to report to me. How can we not trust you in your work?" Chen Gong said quickly.
The so-called manpower is the power extracted from the people every year. If it is extracted normally, about 1 manpower can be extracted from each population every year. Because of the different ages and physical conditions of individuals, there are differences. The elderly and children... cannot be counted as 1 population and there is a conversion!
The people in some areas can draw on special manpower. For example, the elite soldiers of Danyang need local manpower to be "trained". In addition to military service, manpower can also be used as corvée. Farming, construction, city building, road construction... Normally, corvée is used. When overcoming some technical difficulties, corvée at the level of "skilled craftsmen" is needed!
Even real technical difficulties require the craftsmen themselves to develop and break through - for many technologies, Bai Tu must first train or recruit a group of skilled craftsmen before he can start research and development.
After all, the information is not complete, and many of them are just explanations of the principles. Some of the information itself even has errors and flaws...
But Xiaopei now obviously does not have such high conditions.
Fortunately, the information on improved papermaking and movable type printing was very complete, and there were no unmet prerequisites, so Bai Tu could complete them in Xiaopei, and he had no intention of over-drawing manpower.
Manpower can be withdrawn in an overdraft manner, but it will cause a lot of damage. For example, when Cao Cao broke through the city of Xuzhou, he directly withdrawn ten times the manpower - this was also the highest overdraft. In the next ten years, no more manpower can be withdrawn from these people, and it will also greatly affect the fertility rate and the labor efficiency of the people.
Chen Gong only came to see the white map. After replacing the lost official seal, whether his mentality will change, it seems... there is no rush!
Chen Gong walked with Bai Tu for a while, and suddenly his eyes swept to Bai Tu's waist, and a hint of purple caught his eye.
The seal bag on Bai Tu's waist was bulging, obviously filled with something, and a purple ribbon was sticking out from the mouth of the cloth bag and hung on the belt...
The moment he saw the purple ribbon, Chen Gong no longer needed to use his imagination. It could even be said that this was a confirmation of his previous imagination - Bai Tu was indeed a great sage of the time!
"Mr. Bai, what are your plans for the future?" Chen Gong asked in a casual manner.
In fact, Chen Gong has been having trouble sleeping recently. After listening to Bai Tu’s analysis of the situation that “the Han Dynasty is about to fall,” Chen Gong also fell into confusion.
Obviously Chen Gong also did not think that Lu Bu would be the hero who could unify the world!
If I could assist him to become a Huo Guang, I would have accomplished a great feat...but now I'm afraid I don't have the chance to become a Huo Guang.
Of course, Chen Gong had no intention of betraying Lu Bu. After all, whether in history or in the novel, although Chen Gong betrayed Cao Cao, he never betrayed Lu Bu until his death. Later generations left him with comments such as "He is not worthy of being judged by gold and stone, and is a waste of his talent", "He has gathered in many places, but I hate Gongtai for not choosing where to stay", which are both regrettable and praiseful.
It is still the same now, but Chen Gong's mentality has shifted from assisting Lu Bu to becoming Huo Guang to how to find a way out for Lu Bu.
Even Chen Gong could not imagine the future of Lu Bu becoming a powerful ruler who unifies the world, so Chen Gong hoped that Lu Bu could become a founding hero like Han Xin... Of course, he was referring to Han Xin before the "finale"!
For a moment, even Chen Gong thought of the two Yuans again. Indeed, these two looked very promising. And like most people, Chen Gong did not think too highly of Liu Bei even after meeting him once.
But he remembered that the idea of surrendering to Yuan Shikai was also rejected by Bai Tu. At that time, Chen Gong himself did not realize the general situation that the Han Dynasty was about to perish, but Bai Tu had predicted it. Therefore, Chen Gong did not dare to make a decision and could only take one step at a time and wait and see.
"Plan?" Bai Tu was stunned when he heard this. Apart from the short-term plan to improve papermaking and movable type printing, he really didn't have any plans.
Moreover, to achieve this short-term goal, he only needs to carry out labor service step by step and activate the technology he already has in mind. He doesn't have to do anything at all.
Bai Tu is the one who should be most confused!
Although this world looks very interesting, but... apart from Cheng Ji's room and some military equipment that seem to be black technology but are actually not very useful, this place is completely "ancient" for Bai Tu.
What do you want to do? Of course I want to go home, order takeout and play with my phone every day, isn’t that nice?
At this moment, Bai Tu suddenly heard a nursery rhyme in his ears: "The candidate for the title of scholar is ignorant of books, the candidate for the title of filial and honest official has a father who lives separately, the poor and honest person is muddy as mud, the high-ranking and good general is timid as a chicken..."
Bai Tu suddenly felt even more annoyed. He walked up to a group of little kids who were clapping their hands, spinning in circles and singing nursery rhymes, and scolded them, "Whose children are you? Why are you fooling around outside at such a young age? Don't you want to study?"
During the reign of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling , the Han Dynasty sold official positions from top to bottom... even the highest positions of the Three Dukes could be sold! Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, once bought the position of Grand Marshal, which was a joke for a while.
In addition, the gentry and aristocratic families were rigid and the poor were marginalized. The Han Dynasty's official selection system, which was mainly based on the system of recommendation, was already riddled with problems . This folk song, which had been repeatedly banned, began to become popular among the people.
Seeing Bai Tu scolding, the little kids were scared - even though most of them were seven or eight years old, they knew that Bai Tu's clothes meant that he could easily control the status of their entire family, and it was impossible for them to be as reckless as the little kids in later generations.
Adults from all around rushed over. Even though they didn't know Bai Tu was the governor, they begged for mercy again and again: "Sir! The child is ignorant. We didn't teach him well and he offended you... Please calm down, please calm down..."
Bai Tu was a little embarrassed when he saw this and said, "Ahem, I mean... you really didn't teach him well. He's so young, why is he yelling outside instead of studying?"
After these words came out, not only the few anxious people, but even Chen Gong looked at the white map in confusion - reading? What was this saying?
What does “studying ” have to do with these peasant kids?
"This... Your Excellency is joking. We are just ordinary people. How can we study..."
"No books to read? No books to read..." Bai Tu reacted after hearing this. He realized that he was distracted just now and forgot that this place was still the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to some extent!
"Hiss... I seem to know what I am going to do... Do you want to not study and not study? You're wishing!" Bai Tu's eyes suddenly lit up.
Chen Gong looked at Bai Tu who was still mumbling as he returned to the government office, and he was puzzled. Even if he was imagining something, he couldn't imagine Bai Tu's idea at this moment...
