Guo Jin came out of Nan's study and went to the official office of the Ministry of Agriculture. In the corner of the official office of the Ministry of Agriculture, he found Guo Peng who was discussing the improvement of agricultural tools with a group of craftsmen.

Guo Peng asked them to improve the carriage so that while improving the efficiency of the carriage, they must be able to adapt to the complex environment of southern paddy fields and adapt to the sowing needs of various crops.

Now the improvement of the stairs has been basically completed. Because of Guo Peng's efforts, the craftsmen have called the modified stairs [Phoenix Car]

At present, craftsmen are discussing the anti-corrosion problem of wooden farm tools so that they can be used for a longer period of time without changing them after use, which increases the burden on farmers.

After listening to the opinions of several craftsmen, Guo Peng asked them to practice according to their own ideas, and whoever has the best result will use his own method.

While discussing, Guo Jin came.

"His Majesty!"

The craftsmen stood up and saluted Guo Jin.

Guo Jin nodded and bent down to salute Guo Peng.

"Father."

"What are you doing here?"

Guo Peng turned his head and looked at the respectful Guo Jin.

"Father, Xuzhou Governor said that the Huai River was frozen."

Guo Peng was stunned and then frowned.

The craftsmen listened and looked at each other, and they were surprised in their eyes.

“It’s frozen on the Huaihe River…”

Guo Peng stood up, took a few steps, and said slowly: "It was earlier than I expected. It seemed that the situation was not optimistic. Emperor, it was time to test you. I have repaired the Grand Canal for you. How to use it depends on you."

"My son has regarded Nanshu as the official office to deal with this problem, and let Feng Xiaogong take the lead in all Nanshu's attendants and coordinate the matter."

Guo Jin said respectfully: "Thanks to his father repairing the Grand Canal in advance, his son has ordered the transportation of grain in the south and north to be used as a national policy. It should not be neglected. With the transportation of grain in the Grand Canal, even if there is a large-scale grain production reduction, the situation can be stabilized."

"Um."

Guo Peng nodded and said, "This is not enough. Next, we will move the population to Jiangnan and Lingnan, coordinate grain in various aspects, develop Jiangnan and Lingnan on a larger scale, and..."

Speaking of this, Guo Peng suddenly realized that he was no longer the emperor.

"Father? What else?"

Guo Jin looked at Guo Peng who suddenly fell silent.

Guo Peng looked at the unshaven Guo Jin.

"I'm not the emperor anymore. You know what to do next. Don't ask me, go and be your emperor."

After Guo Peng finished speaking, he turned around and returned to his original seat and sat down, asking the craftsmen to continue to express their opinions on the issue of anti-corrosion.

Guo Jin looked at Guo Peng wearing simple clothes for a distance, and suddenly his nose was a little sore.

So he bowed to Guo Peng, turned around and quickly left the Ministry of Agriculture's official deployment.

The two of them looked back to back and never looked back at each other.

Guo Peng is no longer the emperor, and he doesn't want to participate in anything the emperor needs to do again.

After jumping out of that circle, he gradually realized that he was out of place with that circle of power, and even a little rejected the circle of power.

He began to deeply feel why Cai Yong said that Luoyang was a very dirty place.

Now he himself feels that Luoyang is very dirty, and many places are extremely dirty, and there is a stench of power everywhere.

Only when discussing some technical issues with this group of relatively simple craftsmen can he have relatively pure air in his respiratory tract and feel that he lives in the world rather than in the toilet.

The power struggles in the court now seem ugly and disgusting to him. He was obviously happy to fight with his ministers more than ten years ago to seize power and enjoy power, but now he is avoiding it and does not want to get involved in the slightest.

What he is thinking now is how to increase grain yield per mu, how to improve agricultural productivity, how to reduce the burden on farmers, so that they can produce more grain faster and better, and eat more full.

Productivity is the foundation of the ideal. If productivity is not improved, where can we achieve the ideal?

The ideal without productivity is just a dream-like utopia, and technology that can improve productivity is the most fundamental existence.

The Ministry of Agriculture alone is not useful, and more people need to participate.

For this reason, he asked Guo Jin to issue an edict to Gewutang, and went to Gewutang to solicit inventions and creations that would contribute to production activities across the country.

Once it is verified that it is indeed useful, a generous reward will be given immediately. If it is of great use, the reward will not be limited to the reward. The upper limit is that you can be granted two titles below the earl, namely the baron and the viscount.

Guo Jin did not object. This is also a matter of good for improving productivity. If you really want to invent a genius, what if you give a title?

The idea that technological creation is a strange technique has declined under the strong blow of the two generations of emperors Guo Peng and Guo Jin. Technology creation has been officially defined as a necessary existence that can improve agricultural productivity and its status has been greatly improved.

The old scholars cried and thought that this was a sign of destruction of the country, but driven by interests, this direction had inevitably begun to move and refused to return to its initial state.

The idea of ​​strange skills and tricks and Taoist thoughts were deleted from textbooks by Guo Jin, and no one was allowed to mention them. If any invention and creation that is helpful to agricultural production or military is really useful, the court will definitely reward you.

There was no big effect for a while, but after a long period of accumulation, one day, the Wei Empire could taste this sweet and beautiful technological fruit.

Guo Peng is happy to see such a situation.

The official guiding political thought of the Wei Empire is no longer just the Confucian hegemony advocated by Dong Zhongshu, but a new ruling idea that was modified by him and integrated into some of the Mohist thoughts.

The foundations of the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues have not been changed, but in this, some of the Mohist ideas were incorporated, and the link of technology was incorporated into the official dominance thought.

Such a change is already an amazing victory for Guo Peng.

In this place, Guo Peng actually lied to Guo Jin.

He also felt a little embarrassed because he buried a thunder.

This part of the content that clamps the development of science and technology represented by strange techniques and tricks and clever thoughts is actually an important part of maintaining the super-stable social structure of ancient China.

Because without substantial technological progress and productivity changes, and without productivity and technological support as a support for progressive ideas, there is no possibility of development.

This super stable social structure is very suitable for rule. The impact of one collapse is the most impact of dynasty changes such as the change of king flags on the city wall.

Therefore, for the past two thousand years, the social structure of ancient China has not undergone substantial changes and is extremely stable.

Guo Peng fooled Guo Jin to delete this idea from the official idea and encouraged the development of science and technology and invention, but in fact, it was to remove the important maintenance force of this super-stable social structure.

Guo Peng once tried to guide people to change themselves ideologically, but this attempt was stopped by Guo Jin.

Guo Peng also realized that it was too dangerous to transform his mind in the short term. At least this ecological environment does not support him in doing this, and Guo Jin would not allow it. Forcibly doing it would be a tragedy.

Then let's change to a roundabout way.

Delete important suppression ideas, untie the hands and feet of technological development, transform the cognition of the ruling class from the textbook level, and make the new generation of rulers think from the bottom of their heart that developing technology is not a mistake.

Just like Guo Peng instilled in Guo Jin's scientific and technological development since childhood, it is not a wrong idea.

Human thoughts are not formed innately. As long as you control education and change a concept, it will take only 20 or 30 years.

Anyway, you can persist as long as you can now. Before technology can develop to a certain level, people will naturally have strange ideas.

At that time, maybe the little geys had already survived.

What kind of changes will occur at that time?

What kind of countermeasures will the descendants of feudal emperors make when they discover that technology will impact the stability of imperial power?

At that time, has it reached an era where change can take place?

Can this super-stable social structure that has bound ancient China for two thousand years be transformed without waiting for it to be broken by the Western ships and cannons?

Guo Peng can't see it anyway.

No matter it is bloodshed and sacrifice or forced suppression, no matter it is accepting change and changing the world, he cannot see it.

Perhaps technology can win, ending the super-stable social structure of ancient China, or perhaps the power of the imperial power is still huge, suppressing technology and bringing China back into a circular circle.

It doesn't matter, it's possible, but in this matter, he will uphold the idea of ​​"even if the flood is overwhelming after I die".

Apart from that, Guo Peng doesn't want to participate in anything anymore.

He spent more time with Cao Lan and several other women, with other underage grandchildren and their great-grandson who were not born, and lived more and more like a normal old man, rather than the once powerful iron-blooded emperor.

He called Cao Lan, Tian Rou Xiahoulin and Xiaoqiao sisters to live in Taishan Hall, arranged a residence for them in Taishan Hall, and took turns to accompany them to rest, so that they could be as close as possible to them.

Get up in the morning to exercise for a while, then have breakfast with the family at a table. After breakfast, women do women's affairs, chat, take their grandchildren, go to the garden, etc.

Then he went to the school department to inspect the work, and then stayed in the Ministry of Agriculture to watch the craftsmen discuss technical problems and do various technical difficulties.

I went back to the palace at noon for lunch with my family, had a break in the afternoon, read the book, and wrote something if I had anything I wanted to write.

If women have something they want, they will disguise themselves from the palace to buy it. Wherever the women want to go, as long as they are within the range of Luoyang, they will disguise themselves and go out to sway, and the whole outfit is complete.

He really had nothing to do, so he ran to the Ministry of Agriculture to spend time with the craftsmen.

I returned to the palace in the evening and had dinner with my family. After dinner, I got together to chat, chatting from all over the world. If it was still early, I would go out of the palace to visit the dusk market together.

Guo Peng has completely let go of the issues of government affairs and military affairs, and he doesn't care at all, and doesn't want to touch them at all.

He just wanted to give more of his remaining time to his family, make up for the mistakes he made at the time, and return to the life that a normal human should have.

At the same time, instead of Guo Jin, he gave Guo Chengzhi more care, and instead of Guo Chengzhi, who was increasingly busy, took care of his son and his great-grandson.

In short, what a normal family needs to do and Guo Jin and Guo Chengzhi don’t have time to do, Guo Peng took over with Cao Lan and several other women.

Guo Jin took some concubines into the palace, and Guo Chengzhi also took two concubines.
To be continued...