83: Chapter 83 Only the weak submit to their environment

"Understood."

Elder Mo, Elder Liu, and Elder Yang all nodded and cupped their hands in salute.

"In teaching, if simplified chinese characters can be used, then use simplified chinese characters."

Zhao Fusu gave another instruction.

Zhao Fusu's meaning was for them to teach these simplified chinese characters to the apprentices.

"Understood."

Elder Mo, Elder Liu, and Elder Yang nodded again and cupped their hands in salute.

Looking at the design blueprints of the Steam Engine every day, they had also learned some simplified chinese characters.

Zhao Fusu nodded in satisfaction.

Although Great Qin all used lesser seal script, Zhao Fusu didn't like writing it; the characters were too cumbersome.

In the time it took him to write one Small Seal character, he could write several simplified chinese characters.

Rather than having him accommodate Great Qin, it was better to have Great Qin accommodate him.

He would gradually popularize simplified chinese characters in Great Qin.

This was the same as not wanting to learn English and instead making foreigners learn Chinese.

Only the weak conform to the environment; the strong transform the environment and set the rules.

If foreigners didn't work hard to learn Chinese, it was only because the Eastern Great Power hadn't put enough pressure on them.

"Prime Minister Li Si."

Zhao Fusu looked at Li Si again and said, "The Congress will establish a Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. The main responsibility of this department is to register every student who enters a technical school and record them in the archives."

"For example, the student's name, gender, place of origin, and academic performance."

"For students entering technical schools, a background check covering three generations of their ancestors must be done, as well as their social relations. Their backgrounds must be thoroughly investigated, and political vetting must be conducted to ensure our students are not spies sent by the Remnants of the Six States!"

"Yes!"

Li Si responded in a deep voice, "I will have people conduct strict reviews!"

He also knew this matter was of great importance.

Why did the First Emperor want to completely eliminate the Mohist School?

Besides the Mohist School having reactionary thoughts, it was because they also possessed advanced military industrial productivity.

The bronze swords forged by the Mohist School were not at all inferior to those forged by Great Qin.

The Mohist School could also forge controlled weapons like bows and crossbows.

In modern society, the Mohist School would be like terrorists who could manufacture guns; the First Emperor had directly sent troops to wipe them out.

After the Mohist School was destroyed, some people surrendered to the First Emperor, such as Elder Mo and his group.

Another part, led by the Six-Fingered Black Knight, escaped.

Now, the military industrial technology mastered by Elder Mo and his group was ahead of the Mohist remnants led by the Six-Fingered Black Knight.

If Mohist remnants like the Six-Fingered Black Knight sneaked into the Great Qin Empire Academy of Sciences and learned the technology for forging steel blades...

...then Great Qin would be unable to suppress the Remnants of the Six States technologically!

Zhao Fusu looked at the people from the Great Qin Empire General Administration of Press and Publication and said, "Publish the introduction of the steam thresher and steam rotary tiller in the newspaper. If anyone wants to order, register them and collect a fifty percent deposit."

"For every steam rotary tiller sold, I will give you one hundred coins."

"For every steam thresher sold, I will give you twenty coins."

Such a good thing existed!

The people from the Great Qin Empire General Administration of Press and Publication had originally intended to just go through the motions.

Now that Zhao Fusu had offered a share of the profits, it was directly related to their own interests.

They would transform into sales experts, crazily boasting in the newspaper about how good and impressive the steam thresher and steam rotary tiller were, turning the 'awesome' filter to the maximum.

Then they would promote the steam thresher and steam rotary tiller to their relatives and friends.

As long as they told their relatives and friends that by buying a steam rotary tiller, they could slaughter their plow oxen and eat beef...

...they believed their relatives and friends would definitely be tempted.

Once their relatives and friends purchased a steam rotary tiller, they could get a cut!

The people from the Great Qin Empire General Administration of Press and Publication were extremely excited.

"Legislative Chief Wang Xia."

"Judicial Chief Meng Yi."

Zhao Fusu's gaze fell upon his wife and Meng Yi.

"His Majesty the Head of State!"

Wang Xia and Meng Yi said in unison.

In public, Wang Xia still addressed Zhao Fusu by his official title.

"Your Legislative Yuan and Judiciary Yuan should each set up a Public Judicial Opinion Solicitation Section and a Judicial Promotion Section in the Great Qin Empire Weekly to collect public opinions on the qin law and promote the qin law to the people."

"Understood!"

Both Wang Xia and Meng Yi accepted the order.

Zhao Fusu suddenly said to the civil and military officials in the court, "Most of you probably haven't seen a Steam Engine yet."

"Shall we all go visit the largest Steam Engine we've made ourselves in Great Qin?"

What Zhao Fusu was referring to was the Steam Engine that Elder Mo's Team had recreated one-to-one based on the one he had obtained through his check-in.

"This Steam Engine of ours has sixty-four horsepower, which is equivalent to the pulling force of one hundred and twenty-eight horses weighing three hundred kilograms each."

The reason Zhao Fusu wanted the participants of this meeting to see this Steam Engine was that saying it ten thousand times was not as good as letting them experience for themselves the sense of shock brought by the Steam Engine when it was running.

"Understood!"

The civil and military officials, including great figures like General Wang Jian and Wei Liao, all agreed to see Great Qin's largest Steam Engine. They were all curious about what a Steam Engine looked like.

And whether it really had the pulling force of one hundred and twenty-eight horses weighing three hundred kilograms each.

"Hmph!"

Seeing the expressions of the people in the Xianyang Palace, who looked like they didn't believe a Steam Engine could have the pulling force of one hundred and twenty-eight horses weighing three hundred kilograms each, Elder Mo was quite displeased.

What he was dissatisfied with was not that these people questioned the Steam Engine he had assembled, but that these people were actually questioning the Steam Engine invented by His Majesty the Head of State!

He spoke up, "You'll know once you see it!"

No one spoke, but their curiosity only grew.

They left the Xianyang Palace in a grand procession and headed to the Forging Workshop of the Great Qin Empire, or rather, the Great Qin Empire Academy of Sciences.

Led by Elder Mo, the group of three to four hundred people arrived in front of that massive Steam Engine.

Great figures like General Wang Jian and Wei Liao looked curiously at the Steam Engine, which was as large as a house.

They had never seen such a peculiar object.

The entire Steam Engine was full of metallic luster, with a huge flywheel, crankshaft connecting rods, an incredibly large cylinder, and a safety valve on top.

The two old men, General Wang Jian and Wei Liao, were more composed, merely sizing up the massive Steam Engine with curious eyes.

Others were pointing and gesturing at the Steam Engine.

Some even reached out to touch it.

Some old ministers gathered together, discussing it.

"What was this thing called again? Steam... what machine?"

"Why don't you go ask Prime Minister Li Si?"

"Alright."

Li Si replied, "Steam Engine."

"Oh."

After that official walked back slowly, he reported to the officials gathered with him, "Gas... what gas machine?"

"Go ask Prime Minister Li Si again."

"Alright."

"Steam Engine!"

Li Si rolled his eyes.

"Oh, oh!"

After the old minister returned, he said to the other old ministers waiting for him, "Gas... steam what machine!"

The other old ministers were completely bewildered. What on earth!"}],