If you haven't come to this era, you won't know what kind of scene it is like when the scarcity of materials has reached its extreme.

As a king, there is naturally nothing lacking in the palace.

But when I went out to the people, my life was really hard.

The old Qin people were in poor combat power before Shang Yang's reforms.

As soon as Shang Yang's military merits were awarded the title, the old Qin people immediately turned into an invincible powerful army.

The fundamental reason is that the Qin people are too poor.

Shang Yang's reforms fundamentally gave the poor old Qin people a chance to get rich and become the best.

Compared to the days when there are Chinese houses and beautiful women, what can I do when I go to the battlefield to fight for my fortune?

When a person reaches a certain level of poverty, he is really not afraid of death. All he is afraid of is not the opportunity to turn over and become rich.

When Wang Xiao left Xianyang City and went north to inspect Zheng Guoqu, he saw what extreme poverty looked like.

The people along the Zhengguo Canal are located on the salted ground.

Eating in daily life is not about pursuing fullness, but about whether you can eat well.

There is a lack of cloth, and many families can only wear one set of clothes, and whoever goes out will wear them. Guoguo works in the fields at night because no one sees them and will not wear the fabric.

My family is poor, let alone luxury goods like iron pots. The tools used are made of stone and wood.

Wang Xiao saw with his own eyes how the people who desperately dig canals to change their destiny in their homes used this tool to dig the earth.

So Wang Xiao decided to increase the product to make the people more active.

In terms of grain, Wang Xiao did not have much solution. At most, he would provide some advice on soil and fertilizers.

However, if this kind of technological innovation is not capable of forced promotion, the old farmers will never easily accept it.

As for forced promotion, Lu Buwei will definitely not do it.

Now he is trying every means to suppress Wang Xiao, so how could he give him the chance to continue to show kindness?

As for Chameng rice, let alone the difficulty of obtaining it. In essence, the rice needs to be south of the Yangtze River to truly play its usefulness.

The current Daqin is simply useless.

Therefore, Wang Xiao began to promote the mulberry fish pond in his own name.

The so-called mulberry fish pond is to plant mulberry trees on or near the pond.

Silks are raised with mulberry leaves, silkworm sand, silkworm pupa, etc. are used as bait, and pond mud is used as mulberry fertilizer. The production structure and production chain of mulberry planting in pond ridges, mulberry leaves are raised in mulberry, silkworm pupa feeding fish, and pond mud is used as fertilizer.

The two use each other and promote each other to achieve the effect of taking both fish and silkworms.

Mulberry trees and leaves can be raised in silkworms to make clothes.

The fruit is mulberries, which can be eaten and made wine.

Wood can be used as furniture, and leaves and skin can be used as medicine.

For fish ponds, a fish pond of dozens of acres can raise tens of thousands of kilograms of big fish.

Fish is a very suitable source of meat for consumption.

Compared with those prey that need to go to the mountains and forests to hunt, it is not only easy to obtain, but also has a low chance of getting sick.

Of course, the premise is that you have to cook well and you cannot eat fish sashimi.

When eating fish sashimi, people who pursue delicious umami flavors are basically not eaten raw.

There is no war in Qin now, and the people have more time to spare. It is a good time to formally do various projects.

At this time in history, we usually dig mountains and build tombs, perhaps building the Great Wall.

Now, Wang Xiao expressed his hope that everyone can get busy with their stomachs first.

Wang Xiao himself opened a place in the palace to conduct demonstration.

However, it is easy for him to do it himself, but it is difficult for the people to promote it.

At this time, Guanzhong did not appear to have severe soil erosion in later generations, but was densely packed with forests and rivers and lakes everywhere.

Even if it is expanded around the small lake, he must have enough tools.

So after going around, we came to the means of production again.

Wang Xiao found the people from the Mo family, provided his own ideas, and then asked the people from the Mo family to work.

New smelting methods include blast boxes, building water trucks by the water to provide stronger power, changing from using wood as fuel to using coal as fuel, etc.

If you use coal directly, it will lead to excessive carbon content and become brittle.

However, this is not worth mentioning compared to increasing metal production.

These things cannot be accomplished overnight, and Wang Xiao has not taken power in charge yet. There is not much power to use rightly.

So the stall was very big when it was spread out, but the progress was not fast.

Lu Buwei's various stumbling blocks have never been interrupted. The most legitimate reason is to ensure the construction of Zheng Guo Canal, so as to continuously draw the power in Wang Xiao's hands.

Wang Xiao’s advantage is that the things he made are all very popular and good things.

Even if Lu Buwei wants to make trouble, he can only use some small tricks to drag him back. He can't even deny it at the decision-making level.

It was only after several years that it was initially achieved.

In terms of mulberry fish ponds, nearly half of the large and small lakes in Guanzhong have been rebuilt. A large number of mulberry forests and fish ponds provide massive fish and sericulture resources.

The first two items of the four major life essentials of food, clothing, housing and transportation have been strongly supplemented.

In terms of iron smelting, the application of new technologies has been fully verified and benefited, and finally achieved promotion throughout the Daqin Workshop.

The most direct change brought about is the significant improvement in the production and quality of Daqin metals.

However, after these metals came out, most of them were intercepted by the powerful military. The amount left for civilian use was not very large.

Fortunately, the large-scale increase in total volume, even a small part of it is an jealous improvement compared to the past.

Not to mention anything else, there are basically no more stone and wood farm tools in the villages and towns around Xianyang City.

Even every household can have an iron pot to use.

Don’t underestimate the iron pot, this is a real strategic weapon.

Among the items that have been prohibited from exporting grasslands in all dynasties, iron pots are always among the best.

With an iron pot, you can eat hot food at any time. It has unimaginable benefits for marching and fighting or daily life.

With Wang Xiao's efforts, the national strength of the Qin Dynasty has become so strong that the people around Xianyang City can use iron pots at home. This is definitely an amazing good policy.

In Wang Xiao's opinion, this level of improvement is not much gain.

After all, compared with the industrial era he experienced, such a little increase in output was not even wasted waste materials in the industrial era.

Of course, in the eyes of the old Qin and the Mo family, the output of thousands or tens of thousands of kilograms of iron tools is an extraordinary harvest.

So much iron material is enough to create many tens of thousands of agricultural tools, hoes and plows.

In terms of papermaking, because the technical content is too low, it is the earliest result.

As soon as the paper came out, it became very popular, and even exported it to the countries and made a lot of money for Wang Xiao.

Wang Xiao is not short of this money, and cultural popularization is not something that can be done in a short period of time.

So, he made a brilliant move with paper.

That is the release of the newspaper.

The Dibao actually appeared very early and it came out during the Western Han Dynasty.

At that time, all counties had offices in Chang'an City and had permanent representatives stationed. The residences of these people were called mansions.

Their job is to regularly write official documents such as emperor's decrees, edicts, memorials of ministers, and political information related to court affairs on bamboo slips or silk, and then carry them by messengers to the chiefs of each county through post roads.

This form is the earliest newspaper.

Of course, this is just a summary of information and will not be targeted to the public.

Therefore, the earliest newspapers in the true sense originated from the Tang Dynasty. The name Dibao started from the Song Dynasty.

Modern brags advocate how good the West is, but in fact, those things are left over from our ancestors.

For example, money that everyone loves in the modern world, we have already made it many years ago.

If it weren't for the destruction of the barbarians, we would have been at the peak of the world.

Wang Xiao made the mansion report, and as soon as it came out, he made it according to the rhythm of a regular newspaper.

The genuine version is full of major events in the Qin Dynasty, such as the construction progress of the Zhengguo Canal, the transfer of a certain county magistrate, etc.

On the secondary board are some hot topics and foreign current affairs.

For example, the queen of King Zhao was a technician, and which powerful girl in Xianyang City ran away with someone or something.

Wang Xiao also specially added a supplement to publish it.

The first article comes out of the famous List of Gods.
To be continued...