Chapter 354: Mohist Promotion
"I know what you want me to see!"
"Since the hot steam from boiling water can push the lid of a soup pot, it can also push other things!"
"If we can use this power, we can create a mechanism that does not require Mohist Qi to activate, so that ordinary people can also possess the power of Mohism..."
Li Yun looked at Li Nuo excitedly and asked, "Is that so?"
Li Nuo nodded. After not seeing Li Yun for a few days, he actually figured out the true meaning of making soup.
In the next few days, Li Nuo did not go to the yamen.
Apart from the fixed time he spent with Jia Ren and An Ning every day, he spent all his time in Prince Chun's Mansion.
There is no shortcut for the Legalists at the moment, so it is better to improve the Mohist cultivation first.
The Mohist school is different from other schools of thought in that it places great emphasis on hands-on practical ability. Li Nuo can only be regarded as a Mohist in theory. He has done so many things in Zhao State, but his cultivation level is only at that of someone who has just arrived in the State of Zhao.
These past few days, he followed Li Yun in tinkering with the mechanisms in Prince Chun's mansion, and by personally getting his hands dirty, he finally made up for the lack of practice. His Mohist cultivation increased rapidly, and he even sensed the bottleneck of the second realm.
At Prince Chun's mansion, Prince Chun was about to leave when he glanced at a certain palace and asked in surprise, "Li Nuo is here again today?"
The palace housekeeper smiled and said, "Lord Li has been with the prince these days."
Prince Chun showed a satisfied look on his face and said, "That's right. They were too distant before. They should get in touch more often. I hope Li Yun can learn more from Li Nuo and stop facing a wooden woman all day long..."
He was still upset about Li Yun spending all day with the wooden woman.
When will he be interested in real women like Li Nuo?
Can a wooden woman give birth to a child for him and continue the family line?
He only has this one son. What if Xuan Jing helps him become emperor in the future? To whom will Li Yun pass the throne?
Because of Li Yun's obsession, he also hated the Mohist school.
For this purpose, he also specifically studied Mohism.
Then he realized that the higher the level of cultivation of the Mohist, the more they liked to marry wooden women.
Not only that, in the end, all the Mohists became crazy.
What is said about the weakness of flesh and blood, the eternal existence of the machinery...
He actually wants to abandon his body and entrust his soul to a mechanism to gain eternal life. If he isn't crazy, then what is he?
Li Yun never listens to what he says.
He could only place his hopes on Li Nuo, hoping that he could change his mind...
Inside the main hall.
Li Nuo is using his true Qi to reinforce the materials used in the steam engine. In addition to being able to control the mechanism, Mohist true Qi can also change the properties of the mechanism's materials to make it meet specific usage requirements.
The Mohist school was very good at making weapons. Yiren's sword was made by the Mohist school.
The mortal Mohists, after putting on the armor they made, can withstand the attacks of warriors of higher levels.
It is precisely because of the Mohists that developing science and technology in this world has become very simple. They can overcome some technical difficulties with their bare hands, saving a lot of time and energy.
Thinking of Prince Chun's instructions, Li Nuo asked Li Yun, "Are you really not going to get married?"
Li Yun buried his head in his work and said, "I don't plan to."
Li Nuo asked: "Why?"
Li Yun said: "It is enough for me to have Qingqing."
Qingqing was the name he gave to the woman in the agency. Li Nuo wanted to say something else, but when he saw the woman in the agency next to Li Yun, he swallowed back the words he was about to say.
The woman just looked at her. Although no emotion could be seen in her eyes made of glass, Li Nuo always had a strange feeling, as if she sensed dissatisfaction from her eyes.
Her appearance was no different from that of ordinary people, which made Li Nuo feel uncomfortable.
There is a kind of guilty feeling about destroying someone else's family in front of them.
The Mohists have a special feeling for the mechanisms they created with their own hands.
This kind of feeling is difficult for outsiders to understand.
Throughout history, there have been many powerful Mohist masters who married their own mechanical men.
After reaching the sixth level, they can even make the mechanical people become the same as real women. Except for the inability to give birth to children, they can do everything that normal women can do, and they can do it better.
Li Nuo himself is also a Mohist, so he knows very well that he cannot persuade Li Yun...
Half a day later.
Outside Chang'an City.
On the official road, a horseless carriage, emitting billowing white smoke, roared forward.
This strangely shaped carriage was clearly not pulled by horses, but it traveled much faster than an ordinary carriage.
However, merchants and common people on the official road were not surprised by this.
This is obviously the masterpiece of Mohism. They use Mohist Qi to drive various mechanisms and do not need horses at all.
Ordinary people were used to it, but on the carriage, Li Yun, who was at the fourth level of the Mohist school, looked very excited.
Because he didn't use any true energy.
The carriage just started running.
This proves that even ordinary people can possess the power of Mohism in this way.
He never expected that boiling water could possess such power.
If this power can replace horses, it can also provide power for other mechanisms.
When this thought came into his mind, the Mohist Qi in his body began to grow rapidly.
Last time, with Li Nuo's guidance, he successfully advanced to the fourth level. After that, his cultivation level increased extremely slowly. He thought that this time his cultivation level would at least increase slightly, but he never expected it to increase so much.
The true energy in his body grew rapidly, and within a very short period of time, it reached the peak of the fourth level.
It finally stopped when it encountered a barrier.
One step further, he would be the Grandmaster of Mohism!
It’s not just Li Yun whose cultivation has improved.
In Li Nuo's body, the Mohist Qi also advanced like a hot knife through butter, easily breaking through the second realm, the third realm, and the fourth realm, until it reached the peak of the fourth realm.
Li Yun stared at Li Nuo in a daze, he was completely dumbfounded.
The rate of improvement in his cultivation far exceeded his expectations.
He pursed his lips and asked in disbelief: "I, what did we do, why is this happening?"
This is just a mechanical carriage, why can his cultivation level increase so much?
Li Nuo's cultivation level increased by three realms in an instant, which was equivalent to his ten years of hard practice...
Li Yun looked down at the mechanical carriage.
At this moment, even if he was slow-witted, he could still realize that this was probably not just a mechanical carriage...
He looked at Li Nuo and asked, "This kind of machine can replace carriages, and can also be used for farming, weaving, construction... It can replace a large number of manpower and do many, many things. Is this what you mean by the Mohist Way in a broad sense?"
Li Nuo nodded.
In fact, whether it is doctors, Mohists, or farmers, their abilities are beyond the scope of scientific explanation, but this power is only in the hands of a few people.
What Li Nuo did was to allow ordinary people to cure diseases without the medical qi, to control mechanisms without the Mohist qi, and to grow more food without the agricultural qi.
Among them, the one that could change the world the most was undoubtedly Mohism.
Once the steam engine is used on a large scale, it will allow Daxia and even the entire continent to enter a new era ahead of schedule.
Li Yun was so excited that he couldn't help but say, "If we promote it, won't Daxia usher in a new era for the Mohist school?"
This time, Li Nuo did not affirm him.
At present, Daxia does not have the soil for an industrial revolution and does not have the prerequisites for entering a new era.
Today, the people of Daxia are still at a stage where they cannot even get enough food to eat.
If at this time, we force the advancement of productivity and use a large number of machines to replace manpower, the people will not only not live a good life, but will go from not having enough food to having no food to eat.
History has proven that technological change and scientific and technological advancement do not necessarily lead to social progress.
Without changing the overall social system and resolving the core social contradictions, the continuous advancement of science and technology will lead to further concentration of resources, making the poor poorer and the rich richer.
This is something that cannot be changed no matter how many technological revolutions there are.
By then, it will be nothing more than the exploited and oppressed people who have been transformed from peasants into workers.
Technology has advanced, but people are still suffering.
By that time, the aristocratic families, as the beneficiaries, will become more difficult to deal with than they are now.
This was not Li Nuo's purpose, nor was it the purpose of Confucianism.
So when they were in Zhao State, Li Nuo did not lead them along this path.
Another important reason is that once the door to reform was opened by the Mohists, the outcome would no longer be something they could control.
The Mohist school has an extremely keen sense in this regard, and Li Nuo has already seen this from Li Yun.
Once this door is opened to them, those powerful people at a high level of Mohism may be able to enter the sixth level or even the seventh level faster than them. And in Daxia, those who are capable of practicing Mohism must be powerful families.
Before you have absolute strength, doing this would be cutting off your own path.
The only drawback is that if you just do research on your own and don't use these new theories to benefit the people and promote the innovation and progress of the entire Mohist school, the improvement of your cultivation will be much slower, but this is also a choice that you have to make after weighing the pros and cons.
Li Nuo patted Li Yun on the shoulder and said, "After returning to the palace, destroy this carriage immediately, and destroy those drawings together. Don't leave any traces..."
Li Yun was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Why?"
He also hoped to spread these things and use them to break through the fifth level, or even the sixth level.
He looked at the woman beside him. By then, he would be able to give Qing Qing a perfect body...
Li Nuo said: "Now is not the time for it to appear. Don't worry, in addition to these, I still have many things for you to practice. I won't let you have any time to spare..."
Li Yun looked at him and saw that he didn't seem to be joking, so he could only nod and say, "Okay..."
After returning to Prince Chun's Mansion, Li Yun had recovered from his excitement.
He sighed softly. Although he didn't know why Li Nuo did this, he decided to listen to him.
He destroyed the treasure that the two had worked so hard to create. When faced with the pile of blueprints, he did not immediately throw them into the fire.
After all, this is his hard work, so let him appreciate it at least twice.
He held Qingqing's hand, sent a stream of Mohist Qi into her body, and said, "I'm going to eat first, you stay here and don't let anyone else in..."
The woman nodded stiffly and stood in front of the desk.
Li Yun kissed her lightly on the face, then turned and left the hall.
Inside the hall, the woman stood in front of the table, her crystal clear eyes suddenly moved.
Then, she slowly reached out her hand and gently flipped through the drawings on the table...
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Chang'an.
People in all major medical clinics were in a panic.
Several managers of Jishidiang were forcibly taken away by the Ministry of Justice and sentenced. Jishidiang was sealed off and a sign of National Medical Clinic was hung up the next day.
At the same time, all the medicinal materials in the Jishidiang warehouse and the medicine fields outside Chang'an were confiscated by the court. It is said that the shopkeepers had to grow medicine for the court in the medicine fields for another ten years.
This robbery-like behavior shocked them all.
Although they survived, they also received a notice from the court.
The court can let bygones be bygones for the last drug price increase, but from now on, the selling prices of some basic medicinal materials cannot exceed the upper limit set by the court.
If they followed the court's pricing, their profits would be extremely limited. The profits that used to be ten or dozens of times were now less than one times.
The good news is that the imperial court has not set an upper limit on medical fees.
But it only costs a hundred coins to see a fourth-level imperial physician at the National Medical Clinic. Even if they have a fourth-level great physician in charge, the hundred-fold difference in consultation fees is enough to make even a fool know where to go.
The court's actions completely destroyed this industry.
All major medical clinics received responses from the family one after another.
The family asked them to act in accordance with the court's decrees and lower the prices of medicine and medical fees, which meant that several major families compromised with the court on this matter.
After all, Da Xia is the world of the Li family. In Chang'an, the major families still have to give some face to the imperial court.
The imperial court only conferred the title of Jishiditang on the Wang family. Wasn't that also giving them face?
Fortunately, the court only stipulated the medical fees and medicine costs.
There aren't many poor people who come to their clinics for treatment. The rich and powerful cannot bear the pain of taking medicinal soups, so they just spend a lot of money to hire high-level doctors to use their true qi to treat them.
The court allowed them to set their own prices for this part of the expenses.
But compared with before, they had to pay more taxes to the court.
They had no choice but to agree to this.
This is the first time that the imperial court has used such unreasonable means in many years. This shows the determination of the three provinces to reform the medical system. If they still dare to obstruct it, the end of Jishiditang will be their end...
The people of Chang'an were pleasantly surprised to find that within just a few days, all the medical clinics in Chang'an had experienced a comprehensive price reduction.
The consultation fee at the traditional Chinese medical clinic is only ten cents.
For example, the consultation fees of Fushangtang and Bencaotang are a little more expensive, but they have been reduced by dozens of times compared to before, and even ordinary people can afford it.
For a time, long queues formed in front of the doors of major medical clinics.
Ningxin Garden.
The medical power in Li Nuo's body quietly increased a little.
Jiahe and Anning are enjoying the flowers in the garden.
Caught off guard, Li Nuo was secretly kissed by Yiren again.
She now really likes to attack him behind An Ning and Jia Ren's backs, and she only chooses when they are at home but not with the two of them.
Li Nuo was about to remind her when someone came from a distance, and his expression suddenly froze.
Although her face could not be seen clearly across the lake, her charming and graceful curves, her swaying gait, and her unique style when she walked made it clear that her identity was no longer a guess...
Song Yiren looked back and immediately abandoned Li Nuo, flying straight over the lake, and said happily: "Sister Fenghuang!"
(End of this chapter)
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